Project Birch Forest | Participants

Director

Tatyana Stepanova (painter, installation artist)

Tatyana Stepanova is a Russian born painter, installation artist and computer artist. Her art integrates various styles, including Conceptualism, Figuration, Pop, Minimalism and Abstraction. As an artist Stepanova was educated at the Pushkin Museum of Art, Moscow, and at Westminster University, London, where she took classes with Cecil Collins, a respected art teacher and artist whose paintings hang in London’s Tate Museum. Stepanova taught history of Russian art at the City Literary Institute in London. Her first exhibitions were in Moscow’s Gallery A3 and the medieval city of Yaroslavl outside Moscow, followed by a solo exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

Tatyana’s contribution to the exhibition, besides organizational and curatorial, will be:

1. “Birch Forest” conceptual installation
2. Paintings
3. Computer art photo projection
4. Lighting

www.tatyanastepanova.30art.com

Video artists

Irina Margolina (producer / director of animation and documentary films)

Irina lives and works in Moscow, Russia. She is the head of Studio MIR, affiliated with the Film Directors Guild and the Cinematographers Union of Russia. Irina is a script writer, director, playwright and an inspirational force for her colleagues. Under her direction and supervision, Studio MIR has created short videos, documentaries and animation films. Many of the videos and films have received international awards, diplomas and prizes.

Irina’s son Gosha Likhovetsky is an artist with unique talent. Together they have created poetic and humanistic animation films that will be included in this exhibition.

Irina’s contribution to the project will be a collage of videos, documentaries and animation films from the Studio MIR archive.

www.studio-mir.ru

Painters

Gosha Likhovetsky

Gosha lives and works in Moscow, Russia.
His works are full of purity, joy, and optimism. His sense of color and composition are striking and original.
Gosha participated in the exhibition dedicated to the opening of the World Animation Festival “Krok-98” held at the Moscow Cinema House where his work became the festival's logo.

www.gosha.biz

Michael Manning

Throughout my life I have been attracted to the stories I have encountered in mythology and religion, and this has been expressed in much of my work. At an early age I questioned the meaning and purpose behind these stories and the messages they were imparting. Initially I rejected them, but through exploring them more deeply in my work and in my life, I came to truly appreciate the diversity of how one can choose to live one's life. In addition, I developed a very clear, open sense of how people should treat one another.

www.michaelmanning.net

Svetlana Kalistratova

Lives and works in Moscow. Since 1990 she has taken part in numerous exhibitions in Russia and abroad. Member of the 'Moscow Union of Artists and the "Creative Union of Russian Artists.' Works are parts of the collections of the Moscow Modern Art Museum, the New Jerusalem Museum (Russia), the Tula Art Museum (Russia), the Yaroslavl Art Museum (Russia), the World Bank (Moscow office), the Novosibirsk Art Gallery, the Plains Art Museum (Fargo, ND, USA), as well as private collections in Russia, France, Austria, the Netherlands, Israel, Germany and the United States.

Photographers

Alex Harsley

Alex Harsley expresses visual and metaphorical composition through the use of light and a sharp sense of timing. His early small hand held camera was expertly used as an extension of his journalistic eye; many of his early shots based in documentation and surveillance photography use the photograph to speak about information in a specific moment in time. Throughout, his works have showcased the city’s changing social landscape economically as well as politically.

www.junekellygallery.com/harsley/harsleybio.htm

Installation artists

Richard Humann

Richard Humann is a contemporary conceptual American artist. He lives
and works in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and has received national and
international attention, and was chosen for inclusion in the 2003
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. Other major exhibits include DIA Art
Foundation, New York, NY; Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland; Museum
of Contemporary Art, Sonoma, CA; Museo Cristóbal Gabarrón, Murcia,
Spain; Lance Fung Gallery, New York, NY; Gallery St. Gertrud Malmo,
Sweden; Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Canada; Project Row Houses,
Houston, TX; Gasworks Gallery, London, England; Kemi Art Museum, Kemi,
Finland; Planet Art Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa; Samzie Space,
Seoul, Korea; Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY; Voorkamer Gallery,
Lier, Belgium; and Corridor Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland. His work has
appeared and been reviewed in the following publications: The New York
Times, The Washington Post, The Village Voice, Dwell, New York Arts,
ArtReview, The New Yorker, Sculpture, American Craft, Flash Art,
Artforum and Art in America. His current bassword miniatures are
featured in American Craft Magazine (2007) and Sculpture Magazine
(2009). Richard has received awards from the New York State Council on
the Arts and the Brooklyn Arts Council.

www.ghost-trails.com

China Blue (a multi media artist)

China Blue is an internationally exhibiting artist who was the first person to record the Eiffel Tower in Paris France and a recipient of a NASA/RI Space Grant. She pursues the intersection of sound and architecture. Her work has been shown, galleries and non-profit spaces in Finland, Sweden, France and the US. She was the US representative at OPEN XI, Venice, Italy, an exhibition held in conjunction with the Architecture Biennale. Her work has also been shown at the Melbourne International Arts Festival in Australia and the Armory Fair in New York. Reviews of her work have been published in the New York Times, Art in America, Art Forum, artCritical and NY Arts to name a few. She has been interviewed by France 3 (TV), for the film “Com-mu-nity” produced by the Architecture Institute of America and was the featured artist for the 2006 annual meeting of the Acoustic Society of America. She has been an adjunct professor and Fellow at Brown University in the United States. Her work is represented by Galerie Barnoud, Dijon, France and Art Currents, New York, NY.

www.chinablueart.com

David Opdyke

In Odyke’s own words, “My goal is to present scenarios whose formal integrity makes them believable and whose bullheaded complexity reveals the grandiose absurdities and ambiguities that lie below the surface.”

Born in Niskayuna, New York, in 1969, David Opdyke lives and works in Brooklyn. He received a B.F.A. degree in painting and sculpture from the University of Cincinnati in 1992. His work has been exhibited at, among other venues, Fabbrica del Vappore in Milan, Ronald Feldman Gallery, Roebling Hall, and BravinLee Programs in New York City, the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He is the recipient of the Aldrich Emerging Artist Award from the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut and The New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture.

www.davidopdyke.com

Performers

Charles Morrow (sound poet, state of the art sound installation)

Charlie Morrow(b 1942 Newark, New Jersey, USA), is a conceptualist and maple syrup maker whose music work ranges over many styles and forms, from events for media and public spaces to commercial soundtracks, new media productions. museum installations and programming for broadcast and festivals. Assembling expert project groups, Morrow employs a collaborative style that fuses arts, artists, and environment; technological expertise creates the basis for a significant portion of his work, much of which utilizes a combination of the newest and very old technologies. He is president and creative director of Charles Morrow Productions, LLC On the other side of the hat is Charlie's homepage.

www.cmorrow.com

Galina Panova (ballet dancer, choreographer)

Panova, a bright, spunky lady has had quite a career. Before dancing with the Kirov, she'd won the Gold Medal at the Varna International Ballet Competition in 1968. The Varna jury included the famous Galina Ulanova, Alicia Alonso and Birgit Culberg. In 1991 she won the award for best performance and interpretation of Igor Stravinsky's "Pulcinella" in Varona, Italy.

Some of the greats of the 20th century have partnered Panova, including her husband, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Fernando Bujones and Rudolf Nureyev, and she danced in many countries. George Balanchine, artistic director of the New York City Ballet, selected her to star in the Broadway musical "On Your Toes," which he choreographed. Panova did a straight run of over 500 performances. She has been on television in Russia, the U.S., New Zealand, Sweden and England.

Panova credits her teachers and coaches for her success. A teacher herself since 1987, Panova is currently Assistant Professor of Dance, East Carolina University (ECU), Greenville, North Carolina, Ballet Mistress and Choreographer for North Carolina, Academy of Dance Arts, Greenville, and guest teacher for the North Carolina Ballet, Raleigh, under the artistic direction of Robert Weiss.

http://danceruniverse.com/stories/issues/200303/mar-galona/

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Director Video artists Painters Photographers Installation artists Performers	Director Tatyana Stepanova (painter, installation artist) Tatyana Stepanova is a Russian born painter, installation artist and computer artist. Her art integrates various styles, including Conceptualism, Figuration, Pop, Minimalism and Abstraction. As an artist Stepanova was educated at the Pushkin Museum of Art, Moscow, and at Westminster University, London, where she took classes with Cecil Collins, a respected art teacher and artist whose paintings hang in London’s Tate Museum. Stepanova taught history of Russian art at the City Literary Institute in London. Her first exhibitions were in Moscow’s Gallery A3 and the medieval city of Yaroslavl outside Moscow, followed by a solo exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Tatyana’s contribution to the exhibition, besides organizational and curatorial, will be: 1. “Birch Forest” conceptual installation 2. Paintings 3. Computer art photo projection 4. Lighting www.tatyanastepanova.30art.com Video artists Irina Margolina (producer / director of animation and documentary films) Irina lives and works in Moscow, Russia. She is the head of Studio MIR, affiliated with the Film Directors Guild and the Cinematographers Union of Russia. Irina is a script writer, director, playwright and an inspirational force for her colleagues. Under her direction and supervision, Studio MIR has created short videos, documentaries and animation films. Many of the videos and films have received international awards, diplomas and prizes. Irina’s son Gosha Likhovetsky is an artist with unique talent. Together they have created poetic and humanistic animation films that will be included in this exhibition. Irina’s contribution to the project will be a collage of videos, documentaries and animation films from the Studio MIR archive. www.studio-mir.ru Painters Gosha Likhovetsky Gosha lives and works in Moscow, Russia. His works are full of purity, joy, and optimism. His sense of color and composition are striking and original. Gosha participated in the exhibition dedicated to the opening of the World Animation Festival “Krok-98” held at the Moscow Cinema House where his work became the festival's logo. www.gosha.biz Michael Manning Throughout my life I have been attracted to the stories I have encountered in mythology and religion, and this has been expressed in much of my work. At an early age I questioned the meaning and purpose behind these stories and the messages they were imparting. Initially I rejected them, but through exploring them more deeply in my work and in my life, I came to truly appreciate the diversity of how one can choose to live one's life. In addition, I developed a very clear, open sense of how people should treat one another. www.michaelmanning.net Svetlana Kalistratova Lives and works in Moscow. Since 1990 she has taken part in numerous exhibitions in Russia and abroad. Member of the 'Moscow Union of Artists and the "Creative Union of Russian Artists.' Works are parts of the collections of the Moscow Modern Art Museum, the New Jerusalem Museum (Russia), the Tula Art Museum (Russia), the Yaroslavl Art Museum (Russia), the World Bank (Moscow office), the Novosibirsk Art Gallery, the Plains Art Museum (Fargo, ND, USA), as well as private collections in Russia, France, Austria, the Netherlands, Israel, Germany and the United States. Photographers Alex Harsley Alex Harsley expresses visual and metaphorical composition through the use of light and a sharp sense of timing. His early small hand held camera was expertly used as an extension of his journalistic eye; many of his early shots based in documentation and surveillance photography use the photograph to speak about information in a specific moment in time. Throughout, his works have showcased the city’s changing social landscape economically as well as politically. www.junekellygallery.com/harsley/harsleybio.htm Installation artists Richard Humann Richard Humann is a contemporary conceptual American artist. He lives and works in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and has received national and international attention, and was chosen for inclusion in the 2003 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. Other major exhibits include DIA Art Foundation, New York, NY; Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sonoma, CA; Museo Cristóbal Gabarrón, Murcia, Spain; Lance Fung Gallery, New York, NY; Gallery St. Gertrud Malmo, Sweden; Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, Canada; Project Row Houses, Houston, TX; Gasworks Gallery, London, England; Kemi Art Museum, Kemi, Finland; Planet Art Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa; Samzie Space, Seoul, Korea; Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY; Voorkamer Gallery, Lier, Belgium; and Corridor Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland. His work has appeared and been reviewed in the following publications: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Village Voice, Dwell, New York Arts, ArtReview, The New Yorker, Sculpture, American Craft, Flash Art, Artforum and Art in America. His current bassword miniatures are featured in American Craft Magazine (2007) and Sculpture Magazine (2009). Richard has received awards from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Brooklyn Arts Council. www.ghost-trails.com China Blue (a multi media artist) China Blue is an internationally exhibiting artist who was the first person to record the Eiffel Tower in Paris France and a recipient of a NASA/RI Space Grant. She pursues the intersection of sound and architecture. Her work has been shown, galleries and non-profit spaces in Finland, Sweden, France and the US. She was the US representative at OPEN XI, Venice, Italy, an exhibition held in conjunction with the Architecture Biennale. Her work has also been shown at the Melbourne International Arts Festival in Australia and the Armory Fair in New York. Reviews of her work have been published in the New York Times, Art in America, Art Forum, artCritical and NY Arts to name a few. She has been interviewed by France 3 (TV), for the film “Com-mu-nity” produced by the Architecture Institute of America and was the featured artist for the 2006 annual meeting of the Acoustic Society of America. She has been an adjunct professor and Fellow at Brown University in the United States. Her work is represented by Galerie Barnoud, Dijon, France and Art Currents, New York, NY. www.chinablueart.com David Opdyke In Odyke’s own words, “My goal is to present scenarios whose formal integrity makes them believable and whose bullheaded complexity reveals the grandiose absurdities and ambiguities that lie below the surface.” Born in Niskayuna, New York, in 1969, David Opdyke lives and works in Brooklyn. He received a B.F.A. degree in painting and sculpture from the University of Cincinnati in 1992. His work has been exhibited at, among other venues, Fabbrica del Vappore in Milan, Ronald Feldman Gallery, Roebling Hall, and BravinLee Programs in New York City, the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He is the recipient of the Aldrich Emerging Artist Award from the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut and The New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture. www.davidopdyke.com Performers Charles Morrow (sound poet, state of the art sound installation) Charlie Morrow(b 1942 Newark, New Jersey, USA), is a conceptualist and maple syrup maker whose music work ranges over many styles and forms, from events for media and public spaces to commercial soundtracks, new media productions. museum installations and programming for broadcast and festivals. Assembling expert project groups, Morrow employs a collaborative style that fuses arts, artists, and environment; technological expertise creates the basis for a significant portion of his work, much of which utilizes a combination of the newest and very old technologies. He is president and creative director of Charles Morrow Productions, LLC On the other side of the hat is Charlie's homepage. www.cmorrow.com Galina Panova (ballet dancer, choreographer) Panova, a bright, spunky lady has had quite a career. Before dancing with the Kirov, she'd won the Gold Medal at the Varna International Ballet Competition in 1968. The Varna jury included the famous Galina Ulanova, Alicia Alonso and Birgit Culberg. In 1991 she won the award for best performance and interpretation of Igor Stravinsky's "Pulcinella" in Varona, Italy. Some of the greats of the 20th century have partnered Panova, including her husband, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Fernando Bujones and Rudolf Nureyev, and she danced in many countries. George Balanchine, artistic director of the New York City Ballet, selected her to star in the Broadway musical "On Your Toes," which he choreographed. Panova did a straight run of over 500 performances. She has been on television in Russia, the U.S., New Zealand, Sweden and England. Panova credits her teachers and coaches for her success. A teacher herself since 1987, Panova is currently Assistant Professor of Dance, East Carolina University (ECU), Greenville, North Carolina, Ballet Mistress and Choreographer for North Carolina, Academy of Dance Arts, Greenville, and guest teacher for the North Carolina Ballet, Raleigh, under the artistic direction of Robert Weiss. http://danceruniverse.com/stories/issues/200303/mar-galona/
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