Sisyphus the Tank Pusher- Tiger Chengliang Cai (NYC/Shanghai)
Tiger Chengliang Cai is a video artist, filmmaker and photographer based in both New York City and Shanghai. He was initially trained as an art historian, but later devoting himself into fine art practice. His works include video arts, experimental films, photographs, drawings and installations. Through his artwork, Tiger focuses on topics like politics, history, city, revolution, Sci-Fi, also the boundary between dreams and reality, and more important, how individual human deals with all these challenges. His video arts and films have been frequently exhibited in museums and festivals in Asia, Europe and North America.
Cats Under The Skin – Angela Lopez (Chicago, IL)
Angela Lopez is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago. Her work investigates the human condition through corporeal, psychological, and animal relationships. Her work explores touch as a way to try to physically grapple with what cannot be seen or touched, such as, the murky parts of ourselves that we repress. These explorations are a way of trying to understand the visceral, the uncanny, and the self. Lopez has exhibited her drawings, videos and sculptures in solo exhibitions at Charlotte Street Foundation (KS) and the Howard L. Schrott Center for the Arts at Butler University (IN). In addition she has taken part of group exhibitions at art spaces across the Midwest and in South America, including the Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Defibulator Gallery, and Centro de Produccion y Edicion Grafica de Buenos Aires in Argentina. She holds an MFA from Northwestern University, and a BFA from The Kansas City Art Institute. Lopez currently teaches art at Carthage College in Kenosha. lopezangela.com
Climb- Laura E. Dickey (Spruce Head, ME)
Laura E. Dickey grew up amid conifers within the historic town of coastal Searsport Maine. She studies Art and New Media with a focus in Animation at the University of Maine at Farmington. Once she has earned her Bachelor’s degree, Laura wishes to attend Graduate School, and beyond that she hopes to find her place within the animation industry.
Laura uses her work to explore the development of meaning as it occurs through childhood, the systems and structures that manipulate that development, and the affect this development of meaning has on our perception of and interactions with the world and people around us.
See Memory – Viviane Silvera (New York, NY)
After receiving her B.S. from Tufts University in Cognitive Psychology and Political Science, Silvera went on to receive her MFA at the New York Academy of Art.
Recent exhibitions include solo exhibitions at the Edward Hopper House, the Cell Gallery and 511 Gallery and group exhibitions at Marymount California University, the Albright Knox Gallery, The Dahesh Museum, The Masur Museum and the Museo de la Cuidad – Mexico. Her work is held in the Clinton Presidential Library & Museum, Tribeca – Flashpoint Media Academy and The Ziff-Davis Corporate Collection in Hong Kong and has been written about in the Art Daily, The Wall Street Journal, Time Out New York, Fine Art Connoisseur magazine and The New York Times. She received the Award of Excellence in Painting at the Edward Hopper House in 2013.
