Dina Kelberman, born in 1979, has shown in every major gallery in the United States. She owns 3 houses and lives in all of them at the same time. She is a founding member of the Wham City collective. Her main focus is miniature comic books and illustration, although she has in many other mediums including film, fashion design, and playwriting. She webs at importantcomics.com and whamcity.com. God I hate writing these things.
As an artist Kim Miller moves across the fields of video and performance. Employing forms borrowed from performance art, modern dance, theater, and film, multiple forms of address and shifting subject articulations build and collapse. Mapping an intersection or interstices between public space and private, political and social, associative and didactic, questions are structured around a radical democratic model. What is possible within a democratic viewing situation? Does such a thing exist, and what does it look like? What’s at stake is our positions in relation to culture and to one another. These shifting, surfacing and submerging connections are unstable and fleeting, deliciously and infinitely now. Maybe working towards the existence of a democratic subject, hopefully and enthusiastically, without ever reaching this place. Or else, when I say you, I have called a you into being.
Melissa Scherrer grew up in Milwaukee, WI and attended the Milwaukee High School of the Arts where she studied Theatre Arts and mime. After receiving her BFA from UW-Milwaukee in 1999, she worked collaboratively with Milwaukee artists and performed as a mime in the traveling musical “Chaza Show Choir”. During her MFA studies at the University of Illinois Chicago she created a body of photographs narrating her experience of the Midwest landscape. In Chicago she also ran a small gallery out of her living room called “The Greenhouse”. Scherrer now lives in Brooklyn, NY with artist Mike Pare and teaches art and design. Her work has been exhibited at several museums and galleries in the United States and is part of the permanent collection at The Ulrich Contemporary Museum of Art. Currently she writes, makes videos, and takes photographs of the spiritual geography of towns in America. Her latest video piece, Genesis, can be seen at www.mscherrer.com and http://www.myspace.com/melissascherrer
