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Christopher Sperandio (born 1964) is an American artist known for his collaborative work with British artist Simon Grennan.[ citation needed ]
Sperandio was born in Kingwood, West Virginia, and attended West Virginia University, receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking in 1987. He pursued graduate coursework at the University of Illinois at Chicago receiving a Master of Fine Arts in painting in 1991. Both Grennan and Sperandio were classmates of Tom Friedman. Sperandio is an assistant professor at Rice University in the School of Visual and Dramatic Arts.[ citation needed ]
The "We got it!" bar was the result of the artists collaboration with the unionized workforce of a suburban Chicago chocolate factory for Sculpture Chicago's Culture in Action exhibition.
Grennan and Sperandio were commissioned to make new work for the international contemporary art survey Traffic, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, and their works have often been exhibited with other "Relational Art" practitioners, such as Rirkrit Tiravanija and Maurizio Cattelan.
Grennan and Sperandio have produced 18 comic books for museums with Fantagraphics Books, DC Comics and under their own imprint Kartoon Kings. Typical of these is the "Invisible City" project for the Public Art Fund and "Modern Masters" produced for PS1/MoMA. Kartoon Kings: The Graphic Work of Simon Grennan and Christopher Sperandio, a monograph collecting images and information on their collaborative practice was published in 2007.
Sperandio is credited as creator and executive producer of ARTSTAR, an eight-part unscripted television series set in the New York art world of Deitch Projects airing on American television (Voom) in 2006. [1]
The New York University Tisch School of the Arts is the performing, cinematic and media arts school of New York University, and is among the most competitive film schools in the world for admissions. Founded on August 17, 1965, Tisch is a training ground for artists, scholars of the arts, and filmmakers; the school merges the technical training of a professional school with the academic resources of a major research university to immerse students in their intended artistic disciplines. The school is divided into three Institutes: Performing Arts, Emerging Media, and Film & Television. Many undergraduate and graduate disciplines are available for students, including: acting, dance, drama, performance studies, design for stage and film, musical theatre writing, photography record producing, game design and development, and film and television studies.
Brian Alfred is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York.
Wendy W. Jacob is a multidisciplinary artist. She is best known for works in the areas of sculpture, public art and urban intervention.
Harry Bliss is an American cartoonist and illustrator. Bliss has illustrated many books, and produced hundreds of cartoons and 21 covers for The New Yorker. Bliss has a syndicated single-panel comic titled Bliss. Bliss is syndicated through Tribune Content Agency and appears in over 80 newspapers in the United States, Canada and Japan.
Milton Horn was a Russian American sculptor and artist known for work that, according to a 1957 citation of honor from the American Institute of Architects, demonstrated "the truth that architecture and sculpture are not two separate arts but, in the hands of sympathetic collaborators, one and the same".
Liam Gillick is a British artist who lives and works in New York City. Gillick deploys multiple forms to make visible the aesthetics of the constructed world and examine the ideological control systems that have emerged along with globalization and neoliberalism. He utilizes materials that resemble everyday built environments, transforming them into minimalist abstractions that deliver commentaries on social constructs, while also exploring notions of modernism.
Artstar is an unscripted reality television series set in the New York City art world, considered to be the first in the visual arts. Selected from an open call of over 400 applicants, eight artists participate in a group exhibition at Deitch Projects with the opportunity for a solo exhibition as well. The program documents the selected artists as they interact with leading critics, curators, collectors, and artists in New York, while making new works as part of the collaborative exhibition.
Suzanne Lacy is an American artist, educator, writer, and professor at the USC Roski School of Art and Design. She has worked in a variety of media, including installation, video, performance, public art, photography, and art books, in which she focuses on "social themes and urban issues." She served in the education cabinet of Jerry Brown, then mayor of Oakland, California, and as arts commissioner for the city. She designed multiple educational programs beginning with her role as performance faculty at the Feminist Studio Workshop at the Woman's Building in Los Angeles.
Chet Catherine Pancake is an American filmmaker and musician. They are a co-founder of the Red Room Collective, the High Zero Foundation, the Charm City Kitty Club and the Transmodern Festival. They are currently an assistant professor in the Film and Media Arts Program at Temple University and director of the Black Oak House Gallery. Their documentary film Black Diamonds (2006), an examination of mountaintop removal mining, has received a number of awards.
June Claire Wayne was an American printmaker, tapestry designer, painter, and educator. She founded the Tamarind Lithography Workshop (1960–1970), a former California-based nonprofit print shop dedicated to lithography.
Marion M. Bass, known as Pinky Bass or Pinky/MM Bass, is an American photographer, known for her work in pinhole photography.
William T. Williams is an American painter. He is Professor of Art at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, whose faculty he joined in 1971.
Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel are a contemporary American artist team. Both Jones and Ginzel pursue independent careers in the arts, but they are best known for their collaborative, large scale public art projects, installations and exhibitions in museums and galleries internationally.
Traffic is the title of a group exhibition of contemporary art that took place at CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, France, through February and March, 1996.
Louise Odes Neaderland is an American photographer, printmaker, book artist and founder of the International Society of Copier Artists (I.S.C.A.) and the I.S.C.A. Quarterly, a collaborative mail, book art, and copy art publication. She was the organizer of ISCAGRAPHICS, a traveling exhibition of xerographic art.
Mark Nelson is an artist whose work is exhibited internationally. Nelson's style has been described as "socially critical, prolific, and satirically expressive."
John David Brcin was an American sculptor and artist.
Culture in Action was an art exhibition that took place in Chicago from May to September 1993. It was a landmark event in the development of public art.
Jason Simon is an American artist who teaches at The College of Staten Island, City University of New York.
