DEVA MAITLAND received her MFA at the University of Illinois, Chicago in 2002. She recently had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art as part of the 12x12 series and has been in a number of group exhibitions including; When Darkness Falls at Gallery 400, Chicago, IL and Midway Contemporary Art, St. Paul, MN; What an Art Life at Stadtgalerie Gallery, Bern Switzerland; The Stray Show 2003 and 2004 in Chicago, IL; Room for a Revolution at Deluxe Projects, Chicago, IL; Bad Touch at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL; among others. 

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SIEBREN VERSTEEG Siebren Versteeg received his MFA at the University of Illinois, Chicago this past spring and will be attending Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture this summer. Siebren will be part of a show at Exit Art in New York this summer and will exhibit in The New Collusion, a group show at the Chicago Cultural Center opening June 5, 2004. This year he also exhibited at The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH. and Drunk vs. Stoned at Gavin Brown_s Enterprise.

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BEN GILL is an artist and writer living in Chicago. He received a BFA from SAIC in 2000. He has been working for some time on a life obtrusive installation piece in his home. His work has been shown around Chicago, including with curatorial collective Law Office, and Force Field Exhibition Space, and his writings appeared in the zine FGA.  

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KRISTEN VANDEVENTER is an artist, curator and writer living in Chicago. Her work was most recently exhibited in What an Art Life, 2003, stadtgalerie, Bern Switzerland, curated by Beat Engle and at the Renaissance Society in 2002, video screening curated by Jennifer Reeder. A forthcoming exhibition at Suitable Gallery with Melanie Schiff will take place this summer. Her curatorial projects include When Darkness Falls, 2003, at Gallery 400, Chicago and Midway Contemporary Art, St. Paul, MN (curated with Melanie Schiff) and Room for a Revolution, 2002, Deluxe Projects, Chicago, IL (curated with Lisa Williamson).  

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PHILIP VON ZWECK received his BFA from the SAIC in 1995 and is currently a MFA student at UIC. His work, which frequently uses sound, has been exhibited at D>Amelio Terras, NY; Soil Gallery, Seattle; Columbia College, Chicago; Dogmatic Gallery, Chicago; the Art Boat, Chicago; International Center Gallery, San Antonio; as well as in group exhibitions and festivals in Canada, the UK, Australia, the EU and India. His performances have been presented around Chicago, including the MCA and the Cultural Center.  Since 1995 he has hosted and produced Something Else, a weekly radio program dedicated to radio art, experimental sound and avant-garde music on WLUW.   

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The Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center (MDAC) at Little City Foundation (LCF) exists to support the creative expression and artistic culture of people with developmental disabilities through a variety of artistic media, including video, visual and performing arts. Recently artists from the MDAC and Die Schlumper in Hamburg, Germany, collaborated on "Coming Together", presently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Chicago Cultural Center. More information about this project can be found at www.artistical.org

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VINCENT DERMODY'Srecent solo exhibition at Suitable Gallery, Chicago is currently featured in the October 2003 issue of Artforum. Other recent exhibitions include New American Talent 18, curated by Dominic Molon at the Arthouse, Austin, TX, Bill Thelen's Bad Touch V.5. at the Rose Museum in Boston. Dermody is a former member of the artist collective, Law Office.

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JOHN NEFF'S multi-media work uses formal, self-reflexive structures to present psychological, social and historical narratives. His precisely conceived and realized works are dense, but do not forfeit visual beauty. This summer Neff curated Hysterical Pastoral at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, Illinois and five of his collages and one photograph from a 2002 show at Chicago's Suitable gallery were acquired by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Recent exhibitions include Here and Now at the Chicago Cultural Center (2002), Accidental Sublime, The Bower, San Antonio, Texas (2002) and Tasty Dogs, Atelier Top 25, Krems, Austria (2002). Neff graduated with an MFA from the University of Illinois-Chicago in 2001 and recently re-located to Oakland, California. Neff is represented by Western Exhibitions in Chicago (http://www.westernexhibitions.com).

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MICHAEL WOLF came to Chicago from St. Paul, Minnesota to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since graduation, the artist may be found roaming about the city, winning the hearts and minds of Chicago>s most devoted art enthusiasts. His work is presently featured in Hysterical Pastoral: Landscapes and Text, a group exhibition at the Ukranian Institute of Modern Art, on view through August 17.

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RENA LEINBERGER is a Chicago-based artist and 2002 MFA graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited in several group shows and also one-artist shows at 1R Gallery, Gallery 400 as part of the At the Edge: Innovative Art in Chicago series, and Zg Gallery; as well as an upcoming exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 12x12: New Artists, New Work. This summer she will be collaborating with Ben Butler on Waiting, part of the Evanston Art Center's Sculpture on the Grounds program. Her inteview of Helen Mirra appears in Bridge Magazine, Winter/Spring 2003. She is a recipient of a 2002 Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant.

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ANDY HALL grew up in Kansas and, over the past decade, has seen his interest in sustainability grow. While living in Vermont as a potter, he met a renewable energy engineer who was putting a straw-bale built addition onto his house. He started researching the history of sustainability, renewable energy, and appropriate technology as related to building and architecture, art and life. One way to promote sustainability in building things is to use materials that can naturally reproduce their same volume in shorter and shorter periods of time. For example, the farmer who grows the straw used in a strawbale building will harvest the same amount of straw one year later. On the other hand, milled lumber (the most traditional material used in building) takes years to replace - or sustain - itself and therefore depletes the earth of its natural resources at a much more rapid rate.

Andy currently lives in Chicago, Illinois developing programs on 3Land Use Interpretation on Small Urban Lots.2 He teaches at S.A.I.C. His ongoing project: HallreMfg., continues to be at the forefront of improvisational and experimental production and design. Another project, Academy Records, with Steve Lacy, will show new work in Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art, 12 x 12, in September of 2003.

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PEDRO VELEZ utilizes the creative curatorial process as his artistic practice. By generating loose associations between people, places, and ideas, the artist merges disparate personas together to form a hypothetical meeting — one that would result in humorous, strange, insane and even scary scenarios. As a curator, Velez has organized exhibitions in rental spaces, abandoned buildings and marginal galleries. As an artist, he recently exhibited in Law Office's Fountain of Youth at Locust Projects, Miami; Cute Girls, Sports and Hope at Museo de las Americas, Puerto Rico; TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago; Pretending to Pretend at The Soap Factory, Minneapolis; Pedro Velez and Juana Valdes at the Bronx River Art Center, New York; Tasty Dog at Atelier 25, Krems; and Lingo at ONI Gallery, Boston. His work has been reviewed in Frieze, Boston Phoenix, New Art Examiner, Miami Herald and The San Juan Star. The artist recently re-located to Puerto Rico. He is represented by Western Exhibitions, Chicago.

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Images, review and other stuff from Pedro's show at Locust in Miami
Pedro's article/interview in Arte al Dia

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