A Room of Ones's Own : Intimate Art in Contemporary Space :

ARTISTS

HECTOR HERRERA			INFINITE LAB

Hector Herrera currently resides in Toronto, Canada. After graduating from the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico city with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Graphic Communication Design he began his career as a graphic designer in Editorial Televisa, where he formed part of the design team for 'Eres' magazine (Mexico's premiere youth lifestyle magazine at the time). During this time he began his career as an illustrator for several high profile magazines such as ELLE, Men's Health and Harper's Bazaar. Hector continued his career jumping into the world of advertising as a senior art director for Leo Burnett Mexico, where he developed various campaigns and commercials for The Coca Cola Company. After his stint in the advertising world, Herrera jumped into motion graphics by heading up the newly formed broadcast design department in Virgin Studios Mexico. Developing his broadcast design skills on various commercial and broadcast projects.			Meet Dr. C.W.C. (Cuddles With Cats) a possible cat/human hybrid that is in love with YouTube star, "Cute With Chris." She goes to an undisclosed location, The Infinity House at the Art Complex, to hang out with two "Kool Katz," Chance and Shadow.While there, she meets Dr. Niku (a human with doll tendencies) and Dr. Hueso (the bone collector.) They invite Dr. C.W.C. into The Infinity Lab, the space where they develop and create their projects, S.E.W.: Suburban Earth Works. Full of curiosity and creativity, Dr. C.W.C. accepts their offer to document their latest research, eventually finding herself in front of the camera being interviewed and exposed.Inspired by the comedian, Kathy Griffin, TheInfinityLab have become the whistle blowers of the elite art world. Follow these infinitists as they attempt to get off the Avant-Garde D-List, respond to other YouTubers and artists, gain friends on Myspace, and make videos for your confusion and entertainment.

D.A.L: Carmen Gonzalez + Leslie Garcia			JORGE TELLAECHE

We work to achieve decentralized relational spaces trough the internet with the objective of create communication links between the spectator and the online pieces. We are a team that works offline with analog creative processes, building projects targeted to electronic media, establishing the unconscious as the work zone. Located in the border zone of northern Mexico and with online communication with the rest of the planet. DreamAddictive.com / bitacora / Low Electrónico			Born in Mexico City in 1982, Jorge Tellaeche called several cities around Mexico home before finally settling in Tijuana, where he currently lives and works. It was while studying French and painting in Luxembourg that he discovered his passion for nature, a core fundamental of his artistic style. His landscapes invoke a chaotic yet calming use of color to create living, breathing organic forms – clouds, flowers and trees – that capture the complex relationship between life, love and pain in the simplest of nature's imagery. An engineer in graphic design, Tellaeche also operates Twig, a clothing and functional art project, and is cofounder of Adapta Project. http://www.tellaeche.com

JOHN BRINTON HOGAN			LOS ILEGALES / Kinsee Morlan y Derrik Chinn

John Brinton Hogan is an American-born artist working in the western U.S. He is particularly interested in examining the impact humans have upon their environment, and the strategies they employ to survive in within it. He is currently based in San Diego, California. www.johnbrintonhogan.com			We live in Tijuana by choice. We live in Tijuana for love. And we live in Tijuana illegally. Undocumented aliens whose true identities reside in faceless high rises on the other side of the border, we are paperless ghosts who chose to float south while a wave of migrants roars north. Our lives have become political statements, but we're not trying to prove a thing. We call this city ours because here, among her people, her pockmarked streets, her anarchy, her gritty Technicolor, her humble innovation and inexhaustible persistence to grow and thrive against all odds, we feel more alive than we have anywhere else in the world. Our official status brands us as outsiders, but what we see through the camera proves the city has indeed invited us to be one of her own. Welcome to our Tijuana.

MERLIIS NEWSOME			KATIE GRACE MCGOWAN

Marliis Newsome was born in Estonia on April 06, 1981. Growing up in a farmhouse in Eistivere that was the scene of many Russian and German battles in WWII, her isolated family home is still surrounded by bomb holes, live rounds, and abandoned farms. Her work is layered with samples of Estonian culture, beliefs, objects, and instincts before our recent entry into the global community.			Katie Grace McGowan is an interdisciplinary artist concerned with dissecting contemporary political and social constructs. Inspirited by the society of the spectacle, she is engaged in genre bending performance, writing, installation, and working as an amateur private eye. She is currently an M.F.A. candidate and teaching assistant at the University of Iowa in the Intermedia Area.

ALDO GUERRA			MELY BARRAGAN

Aldo Guerra. (Monterrey, Mexico. 1978) Lives and works in Tijuana, Mex. Obtained his B.A. in Visual Arts at the Escuela Superior de Artes Visuales in the city of Tijuana, in 2006. He studied photography and film production as an international student at the South Western College in San Diego, CA, in 2002. His work in video, performance art and photography has been recognized in national and international forums, such as Qwartz Awards (acknowledgments for the electronic arts, Paris, France), the festival of electronic art MAGMA (Tenerife, Spain) and the National Biennial of Experimental Video, in Mexicali in Baja California. He directed the video clips 'Ulysses' and 'Rostro' for the music project ‘Murcof’. He was awarded first prize at the International Banner Biennal 2006 for the piece “the idiot (self-portrait)", and received a fellowship from Mexico’s National Endowment for the Arts as a Young Creator in 2007. He continues to develop his work in various disciplines, mainly experimental video and photography.			Currently my work reflects the restlessness over the traditional roles of woman in modern society, specifically their obligations that have been assigned. Part of my work has been to make the spectator question about its pre established concepts about the woman. Exploring with images, traditional icons and certain visual elements i look for a reflection on the individual genre and its emotions.

DAMIAN GASTELUM			DANIEL RUANOVA

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FRANKLIN COLLAO			CLAUDIA ALGARA

Interested in pop culture and the differences between the public and the private, Franklins work is charged with chic elements that try to create a very personal ambiance full of emotions combined with rejection and self identification. The frivolity, narcissism and the stereotype of an Artist there are found in the frail poetry of recognizing oneself as a young man, a product and an artist.			I work with different dimensions of writing (visual, sound, conceptual and performative) to write on different surfaces and spaces, and to publish my poetry in other ways, different from the book. This way, I have produced different kinds of work, from performance art to music, video, intervention, sound art, installation and electronic art. My work points towards interdisciplinary practice and intervention in everyday life, as well as interruptions of systematic rythms in public spaces like streets, clubs, parties, or Internet. Linguistic changes come with social transformations. I work to get closer to the complex mechanisms of poetry in our thinking and its effects on our perception of a more accordable language for today’s context.

CARMEN GARCIA NUNEZ			TANIA CANDIANI

he daily things, the routine, sex in the life of a woman, are the subjects that she approaches in her artistic production. The Desire to carry on an alternate life, a double life, is redefined in these compositions. Putting daily scenes as background and the using erotic drawings of herself as foreground layers is as well the language or speech that she projects through a supposed duality of life. It is not necessarily a feminist and social statement. It's her own speech, intimate, introspective language of a woman who can undergo a crisis of identity roles. To be a mother, a career woman, a housewife, an artist, a lover or any typical role that a woman can take. There is no moralistic statement or any sense of protest to these roles. The same roles that have prevailed. The visual essay resides in her own reality, which she confronts in a sense of self-criticism and self-analysis, added to a question with several answer. What am I and what I want to be."			Her work is a reflection on the aesthetic of contemporary patterns. Taken further than just a reflection about the body, her statements have more to do with the emotional state of a characters and their context, at the same time proposing an exploration throughout the materials and structure utilized. Currently, her projects are urban interventions where she combines fabric and architectural drawing inspired by the dreams and stories of people who live in them. She changes actual living spaces into works of art by projecting or covering the space with her work.

SEBASTIAN BELTRAN			INGRID HERNANDEZ

Born in Ensenada, B.C. México 1972. He is a extensive and versed artist. In his creations simplicity and esthetic become a fusion from where the extroardinary emerges. His art pieces derive from a natural environment of light, sound and water; Nevertheless, Juan Sebastián accomplishes to convert with enormous sensitivity, and evolve the state of raw materials into the most delightful experience to the human eye.			I grew up in a space where public life framed every moment of my private life: my grandmother’s restaurant, located in front of the Tijuana racecourse, where we welcomed patrons from every social strata of the city. From been a spectator of the social life in my grandmother’s restaurant, I felt the need to create a register of the spaces where such social exchanges occur. I thought of the photographic medium as an instrument to engage in the reconstruction of memory and a vehicle for self-representation and the recreation of experience. I use photography as a medium and method through which I explore and create new constructs for representation, reality, images, and above all, our relationship with the world.