Paula Brandel grew up in rural Minnesota, and her work frequently deals with the geography that was her formative visual milieu. Her abstract paintings reference structures that humans impose on the landscape, but she softens the rational geometry of…
Britta Urness grew up in Black Earth, WI and received her BFA in studio art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004. She is currently in her second year of the graduate painting and drawing program at the University of Iowa.
Mgbore Okore is finishing her MFA in sculpture at the University of Iowa. Okore's work, which often employs ordinary magazine paper, brings a critical focus to bear on American consumer culture. She often utilizes materials which are disposed of in…
About the artwork, Oleson and Lesperance write: the Off the Grid project of performance-based large format photographs was initiated in 2001. As collaborators, we want to explore the gestures and performances of survival by setting up open-ended…
James Kaufmann is a freelance writer and artist living in Iowa City. He has written for <i>The American Scholar, the New York Times Book Review, Afterimage, Camera Arts,
Jason Moore is completing his final year in the MFA program in printmaking at the University of Iowa. His work frequently incorporates animals as stand-ins for humans as he examines the frailty and shortcomings of humanity.
Shawn Reed received his BFA from the University of Northern Iowa in 2003. He is currently a graduate student in the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History's Intermedia program.
