Jessie Henson (from Cincinnati, now lives and works in New York City)
Through repetition of both material and hand, Jessie Henson (New York) establishes a sense of time and space in her installations and embroidered works. Her works distort the comfort of interior space with the vastness of landscape in ways that evoke longing.
Denise Burge (lives and works in Cincinnati; has been on sabbatical and several residencies outside of Cincinnati)
Originally from North Carolina, Denise Burge teaches in the Fine Arts Department of DAAP (Design, Art, Architecture and Planning) at the University of Cincinnati. She has been the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Grant, and has spent time at many residencies including Headlands in San Francisco, and Provincetown in Rhode Island. Denise also has experience working in theater as well as quilting, and works in painting, music, and film.
Carmel Buckley (lives in Cincinnati, teaches and works in Columbus, Ohio)
Carmel Buckley is an associate professor in the Department of Art at Ohio State University where she teaches in the sculpture and foundation programs. She has exhibited her work nationally, primarily in art venues in New York and Ohio, including The Drawing Center, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Spaces and the McDonough Museum, Youngstown. She has shown internationally, most recently at the Economist Building in London in 1999. Professor Buckely has been awarded artist fellowships from both the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. Often compared to Tony Cragg, Anish Kapoor and Richard Deacon, Buckley has also been deeply influenced by Eva Hesse, Louise Bourgeois and her own generation of feminist sculptors. She shares their belief in the investiture of form with emotion and intuition, in the beauty of the utilitarian, in the dignity of the quotidian. This sensitive, quietly satisfying show lingers in the mind, an homage to the unsung women who have made, made use of and made do with; who, with infinite care and grace, have given shape to daily life.
Mark Fox (former Cincinnati based artist; now living and working in New York City)
Mark Fox received an MFA in painting from Stanford University and a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis. For the past fifteen years, Fox has been creating multimedia installations as well as performances in contemporary puppet/ object theater. In 2003 Fox created DUST, a multimedia exhibit commissioned for the inaugural exhibition of the new wing at the Cincinnati Art Museum (CAM) that featured an installation of over 2500 separate cut-out drawings of the artist’s personal belongings. One of the four videos from this exhibit, Forty Days (Elegy for the Great Hall), is currently showing at The Speed Museum of Art in Louisville, KY. Fox’s multimedia work has also been exhibited in solo and group shows at Cincinnati’s Contemporary Art Center, New Rathaus Gallery (Munich), Jeleni Gallery (Prague), The Detroit Institute of Art, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, The Headlands Center for Art, Miami University (Oxford OH), Kent State University, Weston Gallery of Art (Cincinnati) and various commercial galleries in the Midwest. In 2000, Fox’s single-frame animated puppet film, Toy, was selected for the Super Super Eight 2000 Film Festival, touring cities throughout North America, Europe and Japan. Fox has received fellowships and project support from the Ohio Arts Council, The Jim Henson Foundation, The Puffin Foundation, The Headlands Center for the Arts, The Kultureferat in Munich, and The Center for Contemporary Art in Prague. His work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art as well as many other public and private collections. He currently lives and works in New York City.
Tony Leunsman (lives and works in Cincinnati)
Tony Luensman’s work exists in an unclaimed space between discrete object and installation. It is responsive to a space in very specific ways, but can also be read in more general terms. He points us toward themes that have universal implications such as growth, interdependency, overlapping histories and student-teacher relationships. If the viewer chooses to scratch the surface of these objects, more deeply personal histories are revealed. His generative impulses are layered in such a way as to suggest a strategy more substantive than pastiche or simple, cathartic personal revelation. Instead, Luensman’s projects represent an active, thoughtful and open-ended collaboration with his past. Tony has been the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Grant and has been an artist in residence at several international art residency programs including Thai Pei Artist Village, and Headlands in San Francisco.
SIMPARCH (Cincinnati, Ohio and Chicago, Illinois)
SIMPARCH is an American artist collective that was founded in Las Cruces, New Mexico in 1996. Presently this group is organized and maintained by Matthew Lynch in Cincinnati and Steve Badgett in Chicago. Their practice involves large-scale, usually interactive installations and works that, as the group's name suggests, examine simple architecture, building practices, site specificity and materials that may be salvaged, recycled or generally brought together with a kind of d.i.y. attitude. Often collaborating with other artists, builders, art critics, graffiti artists, filmmakers, skate boarders, and musicians, SIMPARCH works at providing sites which allow for social interaction and experimentation with design and materials. SIMPARCH’s drawings will premiere in the Homecoming: A Local Perspective exhibition.
Nathan Tersteeg (lives and works in Richamond, Va.; attended graduate school in Fine Arts, DAAP at the University of Cincinnati.)
Nathan is a native of northeastern Pennsylvania, having grown up in Factoryville and graduated from Keystone College. He now resides in Richmond, Virginia. He also graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art with a BFA and the University of Cincinnati with a MFA.
