Avantika Bawa is an artist living in Portland, OR and New Delhi, India. She has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India. She has been a resident of Skowhegan, Vermont Studio Center and Jentel Residency programs. Bawa has exhibited at The Drawing Center and Smack Mellon, NY; SAVAC, Canada and the South by East Biennial in Boca Raton, FL. among others. Noteworthy solos include shows at – Disjecta, Portland, OR; Lalit Kala Academy and Nature Morte, New Delhi; Gallery Maskara, Mumbai, and Saltworks and the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA. She is Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Washington State University, WA.
avantikabawa.net, avantika@drainmag.com
Jodie Cavalier is a Masters of Fine Art candidate in Visual Studies at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR. Her research explores ideas of function, value, and the body through a combination of video, photography and installation. jodiecavalier.com, jodie@drainmag.com
Craig Drennen is an artist living in Atlanta, GA and is a faculty member at Georgia State University. He is represented by Samsøn Gallery in Boston and has shown in the NEXT, Scope, MACO, and Art Basel art fairs. He was a 2006 participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and now serves as dean at Skowhegan. He organizes his studio practice around Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens.
craig@drainmag.com
Celina Jeffery is an art historian, curator and educator. She received a Ph.D. in Art History and Theory from the University of Essex (2002), and is Associate Professor of Art History and Theory at the University of Ottawa. She is the co-editor (with Gregory Minissale) of Global and Local Art Histories (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007). She has curated numerous international exhibitions, including Afterglow, (featuring Ghada Amer, Alfredo Jaar & Bill Viola, among others) Lacoste, France, Wangechi Mutu: The Cinderella Curse, ACA Gallery, GA, USA; Hold On, Gallery Maskara (co – curated with Avantika Bawa), Mumbai, India; and the forthcoming Preternatural exhibition in Ottawa, Canada 2011-12.
celina@drainmag.com
Gregory Minissale is an art historian with wide ranging interests in critical theory, philosophy of mind and postcolonial studies. He is author of Framing Consciousness in Art: Transcultural Perspectives (Rodopi: 2009) and (forthcoming), The Psychology of Contemporary Art (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011). Greg is currently lecturer in contemporary art and theory at the University of Auckland.
greg@drainmag.com
Owen Mundy is an artist, designer, and programmer who investigates public space and its relationship to data. His artwork highlights inconspicuous trends and offers tools to make hackers out of everyday users. He has an MFA in Visual Art from the University of California, San Diego and is an Assistant Professor of Art at Florida State University.
owenmundy.com owen@drainmag.com
Adrian Parr is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Interior Design and the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati, OH. She has published several books including Hijacking Sustainability (MIT Press, 2009), Deleuze and Memorial Culture (Edinburgh UP, 2008), The Deleuze Dictionary (Columbia UP, 2005), and with Michael Zaretsky, New Directions in Sustainable Design (Routledge, 2010).
adrian@drainmag.com
Alex Young is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in New York, NY and Troy, NY. His practice forms an investigation of the utopian impulse as well as the motivating factors, end-results, and the subsequent potential for disconnection between the two in the construction of the built environment. Recent exhibitions include Dwell at the Contemporary Artists Center at Woodside, Space Was the Place at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Gallery 51, Worldshaving at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Precious Cargo at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, and the 2010 Beyond/ In Western New York Biennial amongst others.
alex@drainmag.com