Heidi Cody ::

Heidi Cody (Brooklyn, NY) creates slick seamless outsized lightbox sculptures of abstracted logos such as Tide, Jell-O, and Exxon that resemble glowing totems of corporate identity.

Cody holds an MFA in Printmedia from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited in solo exhibitions in San Francisco, CA; Brooklyn, NY; Portland, OR; London, England; and Chicago, IL. Cody has been featured on ABC News 20/20, Advertising Age, Art in America, NY Times and Flash ART. She has also participated in group exhibitions from New York to Germany and South Korea. Cody has been a visiting artist and lecturer at such places as Brooklyn College, Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR; and the School of Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA.

Jennifer & Kevin McCoy ::

Bandrider l: Jennifer Lopez Installations with found objects (2002-2007)

In this series, the McCoys create contemporary portraiture projects by visualizing music industry contract requirements for celebrity appearances. Taken from internet sources such as The Smoking Gun, these contracts call to mind Andy Warhol's famous observation that one can in fact drink an exact replica of the same can of Coca-Cola that Elizabeth Taylor might enjoy.

VIDEO: big box - a photoset on Flickr

The McCoys have been exhibiting as a team since 1996, integrating sculptures and projections. They have had solo exhibitions in New York, Switzerland, the UK, Belgium and Italy and numerous group exhibitions in galleries all over the globe. They have received Fellowships and Grants from the Colbert Foundation, Creative Capital, the Experimental Television Center, and the Alternative Museum. They both hold MFA's from Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute in Electronic Arts. The McCoys are represented by Postmasters Gallery, New York, Gallerie Guy Bartschi, Geneva, and 1000eventi, Milan.

Vandana Jain (Brooklyn, NY) is driven by a desire to comprehend and personalize Western capitalist culture. "I reconfigure logos, slogans, wrappers and packaging to create individualized meanings that are distinct from intended functional meanings", says Jain.

Jain recently exhibited work in the Jersey City Museum, NJ; Soap Factory in Minneapolis, MN; Toronto Free Gallery in Toronto, Canada; and many locations in Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan. She received the Artists in the Marketplace Award in 2004 from the Bronx Museum for the Arts. She holds a BFA from New York University's Steinhardt School.

Pierre Obando ::

Pierre Obando's (Queens, NY) appropriated imagery comes from his direct personal encounters with products that have made an impression on him. His paintings and drawings of Coca-Cola and Evian trademarks without the text reminds us how desensitized we are from the persistent media image bombardment.

Obando was born in Belize. He received a BFA in Painting from the New World School of the Arts in Miami, FL; and an MFA in Painting from Hunter College in New York. Obando has exhibited at the Queens Museum of Art in Queens, NY, and Sixty-seven in Brooklyn, NY. His work will next be seen as part of a group exhibition entitled "Things Fall Apart" at Rush Arts Gallery in NYC.

:: Liz Prince

Liz Prince (Nyack, NY) designed costumes for her own performance art work throughout the 1980's and then gradually began designing for dance and theatrical productions. Prince will be applying her entertaining point of view to a sculpture that she has created for RoCA's JiffY PoP.

She has worked extensively for choreographer Bill T. Jones since 1990. Other collaborations include: Doug Varone, Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project, Pilobolus, Marta Renzi, Jane Comfort, and Mark Dendy. Prince's costumes have been exhibited at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art and Snug Harbor Cultural Center. She received a 1990 New York Dance and Performance Award for costume design.

Peter Artin ::

Peter Artin (Nyack, NY) is an emerging artist whose silk screening technique produces a spontaneous and painterly surface. "The GE and Westinghouse logos are, in my mind, two of the most beautiful and timeless trademarks in America" says Artin. His work is meant to celebrate the contradictory nature of the duality and singularity of these two iconic entities.

Artin is familiar to the NYC and Hudson Valley art scene for his excellence as a gallery installation specialist. He has extensive experience with audio and video production, including work as a set designer and lighting technician for the Provincetown Theater Company in MA, and as an Audiovisual Technician at Alfred University. He has worked for several years as a freelance art gallery preparator, managing all aspects of installation and de-installation of exhibits and performances.