Marc Fischer's series of photo binders are assemblages of clipped photos that he has gathered for over fifteen years. Fischer has collected mainly from public media such as magazines, newspapers and television. He utilizes a wide variety of images that seem not to relate but on closer examination are of deprivation in its many forms from war to poverty to crass advertising sequenced without moraljudgment or classification.
Carla Gannis's work consists of fragments, seamlessly woven together and digitally engineered to re-create a "whole" picture. A broad cast of characters appear in her work in conflict or in accord with structures of power, class, technology, or sexuality. By questioning and re-positioning their context, Gannis exposes the flip side of preconceived ideas about these structures.
Marc Lepson's print installation "Summer" is part of an ongoing series called "The Four Seasons" which is a document of public and private events that are intertwined and interrelated. "Four Seasons" examines the political and emotional influence of the current climate of official wars and terrorist attacks on the individual and the public psyche.
Nina Levy's figurative sculpture and photography is hyper-realistic and anxiously disturbing. Levy creates portraits of herself and others that capture that individuals conflicted inner psychology. Levy is often the central subject of her work and she exaggerates her features into something grotesque and shows the contrast between her inner and outer person. Similarly her portraits of others are equally bizarre and monstrous.
Conor McGrady's large-scale drawings explore the impact of military control on domestic and public space, and the latent residue of fear or disquiet that resides in seemingly innocuous buildings and spaces. In McGrady's drawings violence becomes a form of omission, referring to the removal or containment of unwanted or subversive populations or individuals.
Pierre St-Jacques series of videos titled "Itches" focuses on human curiosity as it becomes potentially dangerous and humorous. Itches sets up scenarios where the central character can't help but set things in motion that signal impending harm.