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About the Artists

Fia Backström is a Swedish artist living and working between New York and Stockholm. Investigating the conditions of cultural production with a critical eye on the social and political aspirations of contemporary art practice, Backström’s project spans the spectrum of materials and presentation methods of contemporary art to reveal its parameters and question its evolving role in society. Recent exhibitions include the Whitney Biennial, White Columns, New York, Wilkinson Gallery, London, and Andrew Kreps, New York.

Andrew Dadson is a Vancouver-based artist. Challenging the conditions of society by questioning the definitions of legislated and social activities, Dadson’s art comes from his distinct and personal cultural voice. Often originating in apparently deviant acts, his monochromatic painterly actions documented in historically scaled photographs and objects made from toys and childhood art supplies infiltrates the language of modernism. Recent exhibitions include those at Franco Noero, Turin, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, and Murray Guy, New York.

Matthew Higgs is a British artist and curator based in New York. Extrapolated from his ongoing immersion in printed matter, Higgs’ art appropriates typography and book design, largely from contemporary art publications, which he isolates as individual images. In these small gestures Higgs establishes a profound economy of means, not merely in his project of recycling printed material but also through a reductive isolation that allows images to form an able critique of the language and presentation of art. Recent exhibitions include those at Wilkinson Gallery, London, Murray Guy Gallery, New York, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Colter Jacobsen is a San Francisco-based artist. Jacobsen’s work forms poetic connections between the various found images and objects which become the visual vocabulary for his art. Notably, Jacobsen is an astonishing draftsman, often re-imaging complex and detailed images on found material. These works evoke poignant and emotional portraits of human yearning and interaction. Recent exhibitions include those at Wattis Institute, San Francisco, Corvi Mora, London, and Jack Hanley, New York and San Francisco.

Frances Stark is a Los Angeles-based artist. Erudite, literate, and self reflective narratives shape the conceptual basis for Stark’s art. Working largely in collage and typography, Stark works to fracture and reform fragments of text and images into highly experiential, often domestic, scenes. Celebrated for their strong yet subtle composition, the work gives way to opened ended stories rich with historical materialism. Recent exhibitions include Porticus, Frankfurt, Vienna Succession, and the Whitney Biennial.