Photograph by Samuel Monkarsh

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Louis Eisner was born in 1988 and grew up in Los Angeles, California. His solo exhibition, Cover Artist, is currently on view at Ritter / Zamet in London. He has exhibited in Los Angeles, Venice, and in New York at Mark Fletcher, National Exemplar Gallery, half gallery, Marianne Boesky and The Explorer’s Club, among others. Eisner is a founding member of The StillHouse Group, started in 2007 and currently based in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Eisner received a B.A. at Columbia University 2010.

Photograph by Samuel Monkarsh

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Alex Da Corte was born in Camden, NJ in 1981 and currently lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. He received his BFA from the University of the Arts and his MFA from Yale University in 2010. Da Corte has recently mounted solo shows and presentations at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Artspeak, Vancouver; mother’s tankstation, Dublin; and Nudashank, Baltimore. His work has been shown at MoMA PS1, the Museum of Modern Art, and the deCordova Museum, and he has participated extensively in gallery and non-profit exhibitions in New York, Philadelphia, and internationally. In 2012, Da Corte was named a Pew Fellow in the Arts by the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, Philadelphia, PA. Da Corte will present a solo booth of new work at NADA New York in May 2013. He is represented by Joe Sheftel Gallery in New York City.

At Julian Schnabel's outdoor studio in Montauk, Summer 2012

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Bill Powers is a co-founder of Exhibition A and runs half gallery in New York. Last year, Karma published his novella, What We Lose in Flowers, for which Richard Prince created original cover art. He has written periodically for The New York Times since 1998 and his writing has appeared in Muse, Details, W, Vanity Fair and The New York Post. He was a judge on Bravo’s competition series Work of Art for two seasons along with Jerry Saltz and Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn.

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Nick Farhi was born in 1987 and works in New York. He exhibited his drum top paintings along with his steering wheel paintings in a solo show curated by Erin Goldberger in early 2013. He will be featured at Steve Cannon’s salon on the Lower East Side alongside work by David Hammons in May. Nick has also exhibited at Family Business Gallery, the former Chelsea Art Museum, The Old School House on Mott Street, 5 Beekman Atrium, and has been the key holder to the mysterious Oh Wow Book Club since 2010. His zine of drawings was displayed in the New Museum’s store window in a collaborative setting for Maggie Lee’s “She’s Crafty” installation in 2012.

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Daniel Heidkamp was born in Wakefield, MA in 1980 and earned his BFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. We first encountered Heidkamp’s work at the White Columns booth at the most recent Miami NADA Art Fair in 2012. Heidkamp has shown with Freight+Volume in New York, Champion Gallery in Austin, and Marianne Friis in Copenhagen, and Galerie Mikael Anderson in Berlin, among others. His work will be featured in Brooklyn gallery 247365′s booth at the upcoming New York NADA Fair during Frieze week in May. Heidkamp lives and works in Brooklyn.

Photograph by Peter Fleissig

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Christopher Astley has recently exhibited with Leo Koenig Gallery, New York City, 2012, The Margulies Collection, 2010-2011, and in “Groan Hall” at the APF Lab, Art Production Fund, New York City. His work has also been included in exhibitions at the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL; Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; H&R Block Artspace at Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO; and the Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. Astley lives and works in New York City.

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Born in San Juan in 1967, Enoc Perez‘s work can be found in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, British Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, among many others. Perez is best known for his paintings of modernist buildings that capture the utopian ambitions and optimism that inspired their construction. Inspired by the influence of Andy Warhol and his silkscreens on the New York art scene, Perez developed his own innovative method that mimicked the process of color printing. Embracing art’s potential for pleasure and beauty, Perez paints sensuous nudes, still lifes, tropical resorts, and modern architectural icons in a sleek aesthetic with dazzling, vibrant colors. In early 2013 he had two back-to-back solo shows at the Corcoran in D.C. and Acquavella in New York.

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Slater Bradley’s work is in the collections of MoMA, the Guggenheim, LACMA, and the Whitney Museum. His work often deals with identity in the contemplation of icons found in pop culture, music and film, and tragic figures who all-too-often embody the collision of beauty and horror. Bradley was born in San Francisco in 1975 and he received a BA from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1998. In 2005 he was awarded The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award in Video. In Fall 2013, he will have a show at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca, NY, marking his forty-third solo show to date since 1999. Bradley lives and works in New York and is represented by Max Wigram Gallery in London, Blum & Poe in Los Angeles and Galería Helga de Alvear in Madrid.

Photo courtesy Annabel Mehran

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Steve DiBenedetto was born in the Bronx, New York in 1958. He is best known for his thickly layered paintings and prismatic pencil drawings populated by organic and mechanic forms. Common motifs include octopi, helicopters, Ferris wheels and, more recently, architecture. DiBenedetto has held several solo exhibitions in the United States and abroad, recently including “Steve DiBenedetto: Who Wants to Know?” at David Nolan New York (2010-2011), “Steve DiBenedetto: Edge Dwelling” at the University Art Museum, Albany, NY (2008), “Remote Viewing” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2005), “Curious Crystals of Unusual Purity” at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, Queens (2004).

Photo courtesy Lauren Ward

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Eric Yahnker (born 1976 in Torrance, California) studied journalism at the University of Southern California, before transferring to CalArts’ famed Character Animation Program, where upon graduating, he worked on projects including South Park, MADtv, and Seinfeld, as well as a host of hand-drawn animated commercials. From 2007 onward, he shifted focus to explore personal work, which has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe. Describing his work as “long-form, visual, comedic poetry,” and “glorified political cartooning,” Yahnker continues to use his unique background to create heroically-scaled installations, most often anchored by wall-sized, photorealistic drawings utilizing charcoal, graphite and colored pencils. Leaning heavily on pop-culture imagery combined with cinematic, political and historic references in order to magnify broader social truths, he was recently described by The New York Times’ Ken Johnson as “an exceptionally imaginative satirist [who] is also an ambitious, prolific and technically impressive draftsman.” He is currently represented by Ambach & Rice in Los Angeles.

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A graduate of UCLA and the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, Kim McCarty lives between Los Angeles and New York City, where she is represented by Morgan Lehman Gallery. Her ephemeral watercolors are painted with the impossible-to-control “wet on wet” technique, creating transparency and immediacy in her subjects. These portraits evoke longing and loss and reflect the tenuousness of human experience. McCarty has upcoming projects at Santa Monica Museum of Art and Galerie Sho, Tokyo, in Spring 2013.

Photo Courtesy of Ruediger Glatz

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German-born Sandro Kopp started drawing and painting at a young age. After obtaining degrees in Fine Art and English he immigrated to New Zealand, where he lived in a creative collective. In 2005 he left New Zealand to travel between Italy, New York, France and the UK. Recently, Sandro has lived in the Highlands of Scotland and worked primarily on portraits painted from Skype conversations. He has exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery, London, and Lehmann Maupin, New York, among others.

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Filmmaker and photographer Andrew Zuckerman produces minimalist work that is systematically executed, conceptually based, and democratically presented. Zuckerman aims to create atmospheres of clarity and neutrality to facilitate the viewer’s access to the material. He has employed this approach in five acclaimed multi-media projects which have been realized as books, films, and traveling exhibitions: CREATURE (2007), WISDOM (2008), BIRD (2009), MUSIC (2010), and FLOWER (2012). Zuckerman’s 2007 short film, “High Falls,” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

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Born in Poznan, Poland, photographer Kava Gorna has worked commercially with New York Times T Magazine, Vogue, Rolling Stone and brands such as Calvin Klein, Urban Outfitters and J.Crew. She has shown internationally with Tiny Vices, Monster Children and in New York at the Museum of Art and Design. Currently she lives in New York City and is working on a new portraiture project inspired by Lee Friedlander’s work.

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Self-taught and based in Melbourne, Australia, Riley Payne makes detailed pencil drawings centered around a single piece of text that address the challenge of organizing everyday, mundane information. Payne’s work places the classical alongside the vulgar and acknowledges the technical merits of photorealism without being over-serious. His recent exhibitions include “John Kleckner & Riley Payne” at Tristian Koenig, Melbourne, “Mad Deep Thoughts” exhibition & book launch at The New Fair, Kalimanrawlins, Melbourne & ‘Circle Work’ at Block Projects, Melbourne. His work will be included in “Drunk vs Stoned III” this February at Neon Parc, Melbourne.

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David Aron was an important part of the legendary Alleged Gallery in New York City and showed alongside artists such as Chris Johanson, Barry McGee, Shepard Fairey, Thomas Campbell, and Mike Mills. His current work, which includes delicate assemblages made from bits and pieces of former works and found objects, reflects the joy of spontaneity and serendipity learned from a longtime practice of gestural mark making. Aron currently lives in the Hudson Valley and rides his skateboard on special curved surfaces as much as possible.

Brooklyn-based artist Elliott Arkin designed the Andy Warhol Jewelry Collection for the Warhol Foundation and exhibited in the 2010 and 2012 Brucennials. Arkin got his start designing window displays for Tiffany’s and building a special effects models and 3D animation character designs. These early experiences continue to inform his art, which operates in the spaces between high art and popular culture. His work is in the collections of the Louvre Musee des Arts Decoratifs, The New York Historical Society, and The New York Public Library.

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From Justin Bieber to Prince Charles, Mark Flood’s work leaves no cultural touchstone unturned. Flood examines ideas about beauty and society through a wide variety of mediums, including his signature lace paintings to his grotesque reimaginings of celebrity head shots. Flood had a busy year in 2012, with solo exhibitions at Luxembourg & Dayan and Zach Feuer. His LIKE signs are intended to externalize the act of “liking” content via social media. They were seen all around Miami during the 2012 art fairs from NADA to A-Rod’s house. He lives and works in Houston, Texas.

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Kon Trubkovich was born in Moscow, Russia in 1979. His videos, paintings, and works on paper often deal with the technological transfer of information, and the lines, blips, and anomalies that occur from disruption, interference, and distortion. Trubkovich will be exhibiting new paintings in Art Basel Miami Beach with Marianne Boesky and is included in the final installment of  “It Ain’t Fair” organized by OHWOW Gallery. His first print with Exhibition A, “Alexandra Dreaming,” is a drawing of a paused video of his wife.

Photo Credit: Jesse Frohman

Scott Lenhardt grew up in southern Vermont. In addition to numerous works on paper, paintings, and sculpture, Lenhardt’s work can be seen inside a stone hut on a mountain in New Zealand, on Burton Snowboards (he recently created his 50th graphic with the company), in the pages of VICE magazine, and on album covers for Trey Anastasio of Phish. Last month, Lenhardt’s portrait of Michael Jordan golfing was included in an exhibition at the basketball legend’s 50th birthday party held at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, TX. His 2013 desk calendar piece, “TwentyFour Hour Woman,” is in effect until January 1st of next year.

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Marc Quinn’s sculptures, paintings, and drawings explore the relationship between art and science, and the human body and the perception of beauty. Quinn, who is based in England, came to prominence in the 1990s as part of a loose group known as the Young British Artists. He is best known for his sculpture Self (1991); a cast of the artist’s head made from his own frozen blood, and Siren (2008) a solid gold sculpture of Kate Moss which was displayed at The British Museum.

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Ed Templeton is a professional skateboarder and artist based in Southern California. He has exhibited his artwork worldwide, including the Palais de Tokyo, SMAK Museum, Kiasma Museum, the historic Art in the Streets exhibition at MOCA, Los Angeles, and the seminal Beautiful Losers exhibition and feature film. In 1993 he founded a skateboard company called Toy Machine Bloodsucking Skateboard Company, which has produced some of the most legendary skateboard videos in Welcome to Hell (1995) and Good and Evil. (2004) In 2008 a book of Templeton’s photographs, Deformer, was published in Italy and won first prize at the International Festival of Photography in Rome. A museum mid-career retrospective of his work, The Cemetery of Reason, toured in Belgium, Italy, and Hungary in 2010. Templeton is represented in the United States by Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Culver City, California, and in Europe by Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium, and Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Photo Credit Josh Wright

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Rachel Howard is a London-based painter whose work was most recently featured in Freedom: Works from Damien Hirst’s Murderme Collection at the Pinacoteca Gianni e Marella Agnelli in Turin, Italy in 2012. Howard, who got her start as a studio assistant for Hirst in the early 1990s, is known for using common household paint to portray profound subjects like religion, sexuality, and death. Her paintings and drawings often appear to be shrouded in a veil of water, as though suspended at the bottom of a pool. Her work has been exhibited at Gagosian Gallery, Haunch of Venison, White Cube, among many others.

Photo Credit: Aaron Stern

Having released seven solo albums in eight years Adam Green is already renowned around the globe as one of music’s most unique and prolific song writing talents.

A New York native, Green was just 17-years old when he recorded and released his first album. As part of the downtown antifolk scene at the end of the nineties he made up one-half of The Moldy Peaches, the acclaimed duo with Kimya Dawson that enjoyed belated mainstream success via the Grammy-winning soundtrack of the 2007 Academy Award-winning movie Juno.

As a skinny and effervescently articulate teenager he was a regular fixture at East Village music clubs. His poignant and idiosyncratic song writing was matched by a contagious excitement and enthusiasm for his craft.  Since then, the former troubadour wunderkind has become a notable figure to indie-pop fans around the world, making regular appearances in arts and culture magazines, television shows, music clubs and festivals. In Europe he established himself as a bone fide pop star with chart hits like “Jessica”, “Emily” and “Morning After Midnight”. When The Moldy Peaches belatedly found their place at #1 on the Billboard Charts, via the Juno soundtrack, Green had already enjoyed a string of successful albums under his own name and was deep into the creation of his films and visual art.

Recently his almost eruptive bursts of creativity have led him into the world of movies and visual arts, with writing/producing/directing and acting in The Wrong Ferarri,- a feature length “screwball tragedy” shot entirely on the iPhone and starring Macaulay Culkin, Alia Shawkat, Devendra Banhart, BP Fallon and Sky Ferreira – as well as the staging of four visual art exhibitions in New York City.

While on tour for his album Gemstones in 2005 Green exhibited a series of drawings called Animal Dreams at Loyal Gallery in Stockholm, Sweden.  Following his debut NYC art show Teen Tech in 2010 Green became the first artist to show at Dustin Yellin’s Red Hook space, The Intercourse, with his Cartoon And Complaint exhibition. Cartoon And Complaint, inspired by such disparate characters as Garfield and Aladdin, was quickly followed by another solo exhibition, Houseface, at The Hole gallery in downtown NYC in August 2012. Most recently he has formed an art collective 3MB with Macaulay Culkin and Toby Goodshank. Their first exhibit Leisure Inferno opened at Le Poisson Rouge Gallery in October 2012.

While creating visual art and film has become a fully realized passion for Green, his boundless energy for creative arts has most recently resulted in a  brand new musical project. Adam Green & Binki Shapiro’s debut eponymous album will be released in January 2013. The bi-coastal friendship-turned-musical-partnership is one of tender duets, written by the pair in the wake of coincidentally simultaneous romantic disappointments.
Of his now multifaceted career Green, says: “You know how people are always looking for a unifying theory? I was looking for a unifying theory of artistic expression. I was trying to create some kind of fluidity within my music, art, writing. If you listen to my songs, you see they’re kind of cartoonish. I try to make songs like my paintings. When creating my movie, I tried to create more of a song.”

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Salon 94 celebrates its inaugural show with artist Nicolas Party as they unveil “Dinner for 24 Dogs” at their Freemans Alley space downtown starting November 11th. Diehard art lovers may have caught a preview at the Frieze Art Fair in London this month. We first met him last March at his brilliant Swiss Institute exhibition “Still Life, Stones and Elephants” where he blurred the line between public and private spaces with brightly colored wall drawings and boulders painted like fruit.  He lives in Scotland, but we hope he’ll stay in New York.