Yeon Jin Cho was Born in Seoul, Korea. She was an art director in the film and advertising world before turning her attention to fine art. Her installations includes everything from drawings and projections to found objects and time based elements. Cho’s work desires to explore the innocent, beautiful time before adulthood.

Watanabe Tadashi is an artist based in Japan. He often does performance, making conceptual paintings, so that viewers can observe the passage of action within his installations. Recent solo exhibitions of his work have been presented in the Sharjah International Biennial 6, ‘United Arab Emirates and TRIBES Gallery and GALAPAGOS in New York.

Short Description

Therefore space influences who we think we are, our very spirit.
So I began by questioning: Is there anyone who understands the real nature of space?

The question ‘what is the power of space?’ started to intrigue me. I have used my work to express and explore my curiosity with space and emptiness.

Using ordinary spaces, I fill them with a material (such as concrete or
plaster) and once it hardens, I remove it having captured in some way the
essence of the space. I would like to express ‘space = emptiness’ by using
different material with the same spaces, to show some common concepts of emptiness.

However, I have discovered that only using one material, the nature of the
object is stronger than the space. Thus, I use many different materials to
fill the space, and when they harden it compares to the space. It conveys an image of the nature of the space.

Ted Stanke was born and raised in Wisconsin and from an early age he was encourage to focus his time on making art. At the age of 23 he dropped out of college and started his own gallery in downtown Lacrosse, a small town on the Mississippi River. A few years later, he was offered a position in the MFA program at the University of Delaware where where he spent 2 years focusing on large-scale sculpture. After graduation, he moved to Brooklyn and have constantly sought fresh avenues for his work. Most recently, he have functioned as the coordinator of an artist-in-residence program sponsored by One Arm Red in DUMBO.

Vanya Polunin was born into a family of performers in 1986 in Russia.
Vanya has always been on the road with his family performing and participating in his fathers shows and projects in over 30 theaters around the world. Ever since he first started doodling as a child he had a dream of becoming a painter. Never having a permanent place of living it was hard for him to fulfill his dream. But now, he spent a year in New York not traveling. He started taking art courses, was performing in an off-Broadway show “Slava’s Snow Show” that he was part of for the last 11 years, was chosen to be an artist-in-residency for three months at CAVE, Brooklyn New York and was accepted into London’s Central Saint Martins College of Art And Design.

Kaname Moriya was born in 1936, Kyoto Japan. He graduated with honors in 1962 from the Kyoto University of Fine Arts. Since 1963 his work has been exhibited in numerous galleries in Japan, USA and in Europe. His work has received various honors such us the 1974 Competition Winner from the Kyoto Design, 1978 from the Tokyo Nichido Garou and to 1983 from the Chiba Fine Art Museum in Tokyo. Moriya’s work is inspired by the Japanese kimono. Moriya, is one of the most distinguished kimono designers in Japan, pushing kimono design into the realms of geometric minimalism.

Kaname Moriya lives and works today in Kyoto (Japan). He creates work to manifest understanding, the spirit under the feeling, the worlds agreement in a painting. Abstraction and Figuration unite. Its colors are strongly and tenderly at the same time. Longings, feelings of the joy and satisfaction, magic with all its nostalgia, with all its humility, these are only some associations one feels when observing how works.

“the picture surfaces created by Kaname Moriya push and pull at the same time, reveal, reveal deep layers, as if on them finger marks of a magnificent spirit would stay.” – Jeff Wright, ‘Cover magazine’ – New York

Christine Coleman in a nut shell: Began studying butoh in 2001, performs with Tanya Calamoneri – SO.GO.NO Anemone Dance Theater,Corinna Brown (Hiller)-Dean Street FOO Dance, Chris Ferris and Dancers, and Celeste Hastings – Butoh Rockettes. Christine’s choreography was shown at CRS in June 2008.

Throughout her painting career, HELEN MITCHELL has most consistently been inspired by the changing landscape of her surroundings and the subsequent exposure to varied and diverse cultures. Spending her formative years in England, she established a penchant for dark colors and monochromatic tones, but extended periods of time spent in Africa, Los Angeles and New York as well as frequent trips across the globe has had varying influences on her palette. The most prominent theme in Helen’s work is the concept of cycles, expressed primarily through her use of decaying texture; two dimensional with flat paint and plastic; three dimensional forming a sculptural ebb and flow; and multi-dimensional by directly using the largest influence in first world culture today news media. Helen has a BA Honors in Fashion and Fine Art from Trent University, England, and has spent considerable time in the media and entertainment industries, her biggest influences to date. She has exhibited as a painter in both England and Los Angeles.

Nguyen Thi Chau Giang is one of Vietnam’s most interesting young artists. She produces paintings and installations, which often have self-portraiture as a core element. She is fascinated by the idea of a “woman’s beauty,” and wishes to develop a deeper understanding of the nature of a woman’s spirit through her artistic exploration. Already blossoming in her young career, Chau Giang has held numerous exhibitions in Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam, including a show in the prestigious Blue Space Gallery in Ho Chi Minh City and in the Asian Contemporary Art Show held in London. Chau Giang is the 2nd artist to participate in CAVE’s Vietnamese Artist-in-Residence Program; from, October 11th, 2004 – December 28th, 2004.

Kent Anderson Butler is a Los Angeles based artist working in a variety of mediums including video installation, performance and photography. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions throughout the country including work in Florence Italy, and Post Gallery in Los Angeles. His video work is also in the video art library at Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.

Artist’s Statement

What’s the difference between Thomas Wolski and God?

God doesn’t tell anyone he’s an artist.

These are self portraits of Thomas Wolski. I have become Thomas Wolski as identities are being stolen today in this world. I see Mr. Wolski; I paint Mr. Wolski; I have become Thomas Wolski. As soon as I get bored, I might become Thomas Krynski or Thomas Dickson.

–Thomas Billings

Afruz Amighi was born in Teheran, Iran in 1974 and immigrated to the United States in 1979. Her family arrived in the midst of the hostage crisis when many Iranians were pretending to be Italian, French or Pakistani. Discouraged from applying to art school, she studied political science at Barnard College and immersed herself in the history of the Middle East.

A few years after graduating, Amighi gravitated back towards the arts and taught herself how to make mosaics. She enrolled in the summer painting program at the School of Visual Arts and went on to study sculpture with Lorrie Goulet at the Art Students League for two years. Currently, she resides in Astoria and has a studio in the Crane Street Building in Long Island City. The exhibition “Sleep” is Amighi’s first solo show.

Mar Aige was born in Tarragona, Spain in 1974. In 1997 she concluded studies in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. In 2000 she finished a Masters in Humanities at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. She has held 6 solo exhibitions across different cities in Spain. She has also participated in over 30 shows across Europe. In addition, Mar has received art grants in Spain and France. Currently she resides in New York City where she pursues a career as a painter and in Art Education.

FUMIHIRO MATSUZAKI was born in 1971 in Kanagawa, Japan.  In 1995, MATSUZAKI moved to New York City and currently resides in Brooklyn.  After attending the Art Student’s League,  MATSUZAKI worked for Matthew Barney for  the “Cremaster 2” and “Cremaster 5” projects as an assistant.  Currently, MATSUZAKI works out of his Brooklyn studio in Brooklyn and exhibits mainly in NYC and Japan.  

Exhibited in Solo and group exhibitions at museums, galleries, and festivals throughout the United States and abroad including the Irish Film Institute. DIVA Festival, 2002 Blur Conference at Parsons School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Huntington Museum of Art, Rhode Island Foundation, Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, and New York University. His artwork has been reviewed by such publications as The New York Times, trace Online Writing Centre, and Block Magazine. He has lectured about his artwork at such institutions as the Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival and Pre/amble; Festival of Art and Psychogeography. Derr has been a recipient of a number of grants, fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council and stipend from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Using a variety of artistic vernacular in his work, Derr employs photographs, video, new media, and performance. It can be said that he often times puts himself literally in the center of a barrage of questions about life and making art. Derr is an assistant professor in the Ohio State University’s Department of Art photography program.

Artist Statement ; I question the role of my masculinity by empowering the feminine aspects of my personality. The duality between my wife as the thrower and me as the sitter demonstrates my psychological battle questioning social roles of gender and sexuality, which have become blurred in contemporary society.

Claiming ancestral heritage and taking responsibility for ones history has become a heated debate. By claiming my Dutch heritage, I engage the subjectivity of the images in The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus created by Peter Paul Rubens. The image projected on my body portrays a contextual marker. My questioning and rejection assault my ancestry as well as masculinity.

Robert Clark is an internationally exhibited artist based in the Northern England city of Sheffield. His recent multiple-piece, multi-media installation The Nether Edge Story has been exhibited throughout the UK, Europe and the USA: New York (CAVE). Robert Clark is a widely published writer on the visual arts and music and lectures in Universities throughout the UK and Europe.

Daisuke Nishimure is an artist in residence at the Cave gallery, where he presents paintings, drawings and music. Nishimura graduated from a doctoral course in Neuroscience at Tokyo University. He has worked as a junior lecturer on information science at Teikyo University, done web design and programming for several Japanese Corporations and is the Japanese text editor of Tokion magazine in New York.