Announcing The 2008 AIR Artists!
April-June
Laura Torres is a Boston based conceptual artist whose work explores ideas of networks, interconnectivity, boundaries and paths. She holds an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, as well as a Masters in Library Sciences from Simmons College. Her last project was a grafitti ased installation at the Montserrat School of Art.
July-September
Jesse Kaminsky is a Boston-based sculptor who makes process-oriented sculptures and sculptural installations, creating complex systems from simple materials. Often identifying several simple rules for the creation of a piece, Kaminsky explores variation within a system, referencing organic growth and adaptation. Simple, non-traditional materials such as rebar tie wire, staples and balloons are transformed by their repetitive use in an attempt to understand the essential nature of these materials and the way the brain interprets the world. In this way, many of these sculptures can be seen as experiments, where multiple variables are limited in order to explore specific, unexpected aspects of materials and processes. Kaminsky's work has within it a certain amount of both chaos and order, calling into question the very nature of this distinction. Jesse Kaminsky holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Kansas City Art Institute and has lived in Boston since August 2001.
October-December
Nathalie Miebach holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Chinese from Oberlin College and a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Master of Art Education from Massachusetts College of Art. Originally from Germany and France, she has spent many years living and traveling in Southeast Asia and the United States. Recent exhibit highlights include the Sculpture Center 2006 Outstanding Student Sculpture Award at Grounds for Sculpture, the DeCordova Annual Exhibit 2007 and an upcoming solo show at the Nielsen Gallery in Boston. One day she hopes to go to Antarctica to record weather and make sculptures with 24 hour sunlight.
