Britt is as enigmatic as she is revered and is considered one of the important Norwegian artists of this century. Steeped in the early influences of abstract expressionism, she studied painting and sculpture under Ellen Christensen and Ferdinand Lunde in Oslo in the late 1950’s. Her earliest work debuted in Paris at Galerie de L’ Université in 1965 at the same time that Niki de Saint Phalle joined her onto the Paris art scene. Britt participated in the Abstract Expressionist movement in Europe in the 1960’s and 1970’s, and is still driven by these early influences.

Britt has exhibited internationally throughout her career. Her work is widely collected in both public and private collections worldwide. In 1996 Britt was awarded the Saint Olav’s Order, the highest Norwegian honor given to an artist, by King Haakon of Norway, for promoting Norway through her art abroad. Edvard Munch is the only other artist to have received this honor during his lifetime.

Britt was born in 1937 in Svolvaer, located in the northern most part of Norway where the saturation of light in the summer clashes with the total lack thereof all winter. Her early years were overcome by the harsh weather and daunting pressure of the Second World War. This powerful backdrop provided a fertile landscape for her bursting, colorful and emotional work.

In great contrast to her beginnings, Britt has spent the last 35 years in Egypt. Her studio is a barge on the Nile, which serves as a place of abundance—not only for local artists and eccentrics to meet, but also for people who travel from afar to see and collect her work. The many years spent in Egypt’s rich, colorful and exotic culture and environment has greatly influenced her work.

As a multi-media artist with a strong background in metal design, I am seduced by the limitless potential of sterling silver, bronze, and steel. My enthusiasm for the techniques and traditions of metalwork is rivaled only by a wild preoccupation with mechanical toys and the discrepancy between the public’s perception of an imagined techno-future and that future that we now inhabit.

My zoetropic works consist of a cast of solid inflexible characters engaged in repetitive motions, which conjure dreamy cinematic operations and allude to a modern life characterized by escapism, frenzy, and consumption. With these installations I intend to mesmerize and enchant the viewer through optical illusion and sound; possessed silhouettes in flickering shadow figure prominently throughout my kinetic compositions while juxtaposing merriment and exhilaration with apprehension and bewilderment. This carnivalesque world illuminates social disparities – studies in deviance and spectacle that reflect the conflicting dynamics of attraction and repulsion.

The juxtaposition of humor and charm with iconic memory and craftsmanship lures viewers into a playful state where magic is encouraged to linger. Using plush and tin toys as metaphors, I create installations and videos highlighting the societal penchant for over-consumption and over-production. I deconstruct grossly abundant supplies of forgotten toys to reveal not only the function of minute inner mechanisms, but also the unseen beauty of design and alternate personas.

Driven by a fascination with the fleeting value placed on low-priced multiple objects farmed out of factories in record numbers, I take unstuffed, discarded, mechanical rejects and introduce new identities. The underlying plastic object embodies more potential for my imagination than the stuffed object layered with intricate marketing identities. It is these unstuffed plastic oddities that I reinvent in precious metals. This contrast between the discarded forgotten object and the cherished one underscores societal contradictions and reintroduces us to the magical quality of flipping frogs, drumming monkeys, and slowly turning carousels.

Education

1997    MFA, University of Washington

1995    BFA, Texas Tech University, Cum Laude

Exhibitions

2009, Remains, Design Miami, Moss, Miami, FL

2009, Remains, Moss Gallery, New York, NY

2009, Poncho Invitational, Western Bridge, Seattle WA

2009, Zoetrope; Circus and Robotic Animals, Nassau County Museum, Roslyn Harbor, NY

2008, The Toy Show, Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, Manchester, CT

2007, Menagerie, Neuhoff/Edelman Gallery, New York, NY

2006, Wired Forest, Kirkland Arts Space, Kirkland, WA

2006, A Raucous Look at the Persistence of Vision, MUSA, Seattle, WA

2005, People Doing Strange Things With Electricity ll, Dorkbot, SID Inc, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA

2005, Persistence of Vision, MUSA, Seattle, WA

2005, Obsessions, SID Inc, Thread For Art, Seattle, WA

2005, Outside In, SID Inc., Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA

2004, Labor Lines, Thread for Art, Seattle, WA

2004, Hindsight: Frozen Moments, SID Inc, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA

2004, Domesticity, SID Inc., Thread for Art, Seattle, WA

2003, Meet George Jetson, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, WA

2003, Coupling, SID Inc, CMA Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2003, The Last Judgment Project, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, WA

2003, Dorkbot, SID, Inc, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA

2003, Fashion is Art, Runway Performance/Exhibition/Publication, Curated by Thread for Art, Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA

2003, Speak and Spell, SID Inc, SOIL, Seattle, WA

2002, Outside the Box, Downtown YMCA, curator, Seattle, WA

2002, First War of the New Millennium, Soil, Seattle, WA

2002, LAVA 2002: Seattle Contemporary Art, Noodleworks, Seattle, WA

2001, Here I Am, Entertain Me! Commencement Art Gallery,

2001, Pop Mechanics, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA

2001, Pop Mechanics, Milton Hershey Museum, Hershey, PA

2001, Here I Am, Entertain Me! Commencement Art Gallery, Tacoma, WA

2001, Fuseball, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA

2001, Independent Exposure, Vital 5 Productions, Seattle, WA

2001, Public Dedication Day Performance, Bellevue Art Museum, WA

2001, First Light, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA

2001, Domesticity, Donut Shop 3, Portland, OR

2000, Pacific Northwest Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, WA

2000, Art and Technology-Media for the New Century, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA

2000, Donut Shop Two, Donut Shop, Portland, OR

2000, Art & Technology: A Marriage for a New Millennium,Bush Barn Art Center, Salem OR

2000, East of Eden-Splendor in the Bash, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA

1999, Team works, New Kinetic Sculpture, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

1999, Le Quai Fete, residency exhibit, Quai de la Gare, Paris

1998, Carnival of Life, Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle, WA

1998, Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition, Meydenbauer, Bellevue, WA

1998, Betty Bowen Award Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle

1998, Home Alive Benefit, Richard Hugo House, Seattle, WA

1997, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA

1996, Scissor Kick, Ceramic Metal Arts, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

1996, The Box, Gallery of Fine Woodworking, Seattle, WA

1996, Works in Progress, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

1996, Spiral, Highland Park Gallery, Dallas, TX

1995, Works on Paper + Small 3-D, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

1995, FOVA Eighth Annual Student Competition, FOVA Gallery, Texas Technological University, Lubbock, TX

1994, North American Juried Student Exhibition, Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR

1994, New Statements in Sterling. National Student Sterling Design Competition, Coeur d’Alene Resort, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; Lever House, NY; The NY Merchandise Mart, NY; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA

Publications

Pilar Vilades. Now Showing I Stuffed Animals, Cuddly No More, New York Times, November 18, 2009

Patti Payne, Puget Sound Buisiness Journal, Page 21, October 9-15, 2009

Sanchez, Marisa. Betty Bowen Award Thirty Years, catalog, 2009

Kobasa, Stephen Vincent. Playing For Real – Reconsidering childhood things, Hartford Advocate, February 28, 2008

Baker, R.C. Best In Show – Cathy McClure Menagerie, Village Voice, November 20, 2007

Hackett, Regina. In the Galleries, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 2. 2006

Samantha Scherer, First War of the New Millennium, SOIL, catalog. 2005

Seekings, Kate. People Doing Strange Things With Electricity II, DORKBOT, art using tech/tech making art, 62-63,catalog, 2005

Wagonfeld, Judy. Hindsight and foresight at play when Frozen Moments evolve. Seattle Post Intelligencer, May 21. 2004

Graves, Jen. ”The Arts: fashion Is…eclectric, individual-and certainly, Fashion Is Art.” Tacoma News Tribune, August 31, 2003

Visual Art Picks Frozen Moments. Seattle Weekly, June 9. 2004

Fahey, Anna. Fashion Is Art, Thread for Art, Page 26, catalog. 20

Parvez, D. Fashion statements, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 29. 2003

Syme, Chad. Get Me Off This Crazy Thing, Bumbershoot Seattle, catalog, 2003

Catalani, Stefano. The Last Judgment Project, Seattle, Pages 32-33, catalog, 2003

Farr, Sheila. Exhibits show a fashion sense you’ll want to devour>, Seattle Times. 2003

Dorkbot. The Beat, NPR , November 2003

Curtis, Molly Norris. Bumbershoot Visual Arts Preview, Art Access, July/August. 2003

Fahey, Anna. The impulse for First War of the New Millennium, Art Papers, September. 2002

Farr, Sheila. In words that chill, in a haunted stare-the impact of Sept. 11, Seattle Times, May 10. 2002

Fahey, Anna. LAVA 2002, Thread for Art, Pages 82-85 Artist book reproduced images. 2002

Hall, Emily. Pay Attention, Please. Artists Before the Eruption, The Stranger, May 30, 2002

Christopher, Brian M. Fighting Gravity, Sci-Fi art exhibit pushes envelope, Intelligencer Journal, January 19. 2001

Lewis, Zachary. Art Museum’s Side Show Geared to Mechanical, Patriot News, January 21. 20011

Kelly, Sara. Perfect collaboration. Tacoma Reporter. March 22, 20011

American Craft, April/May. 2001

Hall, Emily. Tinkerer’s Toy-Cathy McClure’s Nagging Animation Obsession, The Stranger, August 10, 2000

Row, D.K. The rough edges of high art. The Oregonian, September, 2000

Kangas, Matthew. Last call at the mall, Installations outshine paintings in museum’s last show, Seattle Times, August 11. 2000

Hackett, Regina. Art in Progress: BAM’s Pacific Northwest Annual, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 11. 2000

Fredrickson, Eric. Look at Me! Young and New in Bellevue, The Stranger, August 12. 2000

Maclay, Catherine. The Illusions of Zoetrope, Silicon Valley News, June 13.1999

Bonetti, David. Art as team effort, Solo works grab attention at Yerba Center, San Francisco Examiner, July 6.1999

Kumi Yamashita, Cathy McClure, Bay Guardian, June 8, 1999

Im, Soyon. The Hit List. The Seattle Weekly, March 19, 1998

Spencer, Kelly. Bellevue Arts Commission Indoor Exhibition Catalog, Page 10, July 17, 1998

Halper, Vicki. Betty Bowen Award Twentieth Anniversary Edition, Page 26, catalog, 1998

McClure wins Bowen award, Artweek, January. 1998

Artweek. Art News, January. 1998

Updike, Robin. McClure’s magic circus, Intricate Installation by Young Artist Well Worth a Look, Seattle Times, March 12, 1998

Fredrickson, Eric. Zoetroparific! March 13, The Stranger. 1998

Johnson, Lara. Cathy McClure’s Carnival of Life, The University Daily, February 23, 1998

Hackett, Regina. Craft Values Dominate in Pioneer Square shows, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 13. 1998

Updike, Robin. A shadow reality in a trick of the light. Artist Cathy McClure’s creations spin chaotic illusions, Seattle Times, Nov 30,1997

Nakane, Kazuko. Where Do They Go After School? Artweek, August. 1997

Collections

2007, Asher Edelman, permanent collection, New York, NY

1999, The Pace Collection, permanent collection, Dallas, TX

1994, White House, Blue Room, permanent collection, Washington, DC

Honors

2009, Merit Award, Poncho, 2009 Invitational, Seattle, WA

2000, Best in Show, Pacific Northwest Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, WA

2000, People’s Choice Award, Pacific Northwest Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, WA

1999, Quai de La Gare, residency recipient, Paris, France

1997, Betty Bowen Memorial Award, grand prize, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

1996, Marsh Scholarship, School of Art, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

1995, Gonzales Scholarship, School of Art, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

1995, Gonzales Scholarship, School of Art, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

1995, Teaching Assistantship, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, TN

1995, HYPrice Merit Scholarship, TexasTech University, Lubbock, TX

1995, Arts Alliance Scholarship, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

1994, HYPrice Merit Scholarship, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

1994, Art Memorial Scholarship, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

1994, Friends of Arrowmont Scholarship, Arrowmont School of Art, TN

Christopher Winter is a member of the Artists Group Special X

Education

Oct. 1996 – June 1998 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
under Professor Fritz Schwegler
Sept. 1987 – June 1990 Camberwell School of Art, London
BA (Hons) Fine Art (Painting)
Sept. 1986 – June 1987 Hastings College of Arts
Hastings, UK
Pre BA Foundation Course in Art and Design

Scholarships

Oct. 1993 – June 1994 Artist in Residence of the city of Mannheim, Germany

Solo Exhibitions (Selection)

2010 Wild Life, Reiss Engelhorn Museum, REM, Mannheim (October2010)
Evolution, Edelman Arts at Traffic Art Space, New York (September 2010)
Black Ghosts, Galerie Nord Kunstverein Berlin
2009 Tales of Trust, Lehr Zeitgenosiche Kunst, Cologne
Postcards from the Edge, Malkasten, Düsseldorf
2008 Spook-a-rama, Edelman Arts, New York
Big Small Works, Edelman Arts, New York
2007 Hitzefrei, Drive Thru Gallery, Aschersleben Project, Aschersleben
Songs of Innoncence, Neuhoff Edelman Gallery, New York
2006 Virgin Forest, Salander O’Reilly Gallery & Edelman Arts, Inc., New York
My Ambition to Get High…. Videos, Kino International, Berlin
2005 If Things Get Real, Galerie Jaspers, Munich
2004 Passion, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne
Things to Come, Basilika von St.Bonifaz, Munich
2003 Innocent Spaces, Artax, Düsseldorf
Heimat, Forum in Dominikanerkloster, Frankfurt
2002 Bavarian Heaven, Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen
Winterwonderland, Oberwelt, Stuttgart
2001 Amazing Stories, Enders Projects, Frankfurt
2000 Holiday, Galerie Neue Kunst, Mannheim
1999 Kindergarten, , Enders Projects, Frankfurt
Bavarian Bus Tour Massacre, Onomato Video Archiv, Düsseldorf
Alien Sex Invaders, Raum X, Düsseldorf
1998 Buzz, Altes Tabakkontor, Mannheim
1995 Witness, Academia, Mannheim
1994 Ice Houses, Galerie Säule, Mannheim
1993 Illuminations, Städtisches Reiss-Museum, Mannheim

Special X Exhibitions

2005 The Manifesto Show, Special X, Fleisch, Berlin
The Gothic Corner, Special X, Glue, Berlin
2004 We Love Art, Special X, Künstbüro, Düsseldorf

Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2010 Cover-Up Curated and exhibited, 19 artists (Olaf Breuning, Thosten Brinkmann, Leigh Bowery)Tape Modern, Berlin
Drucksachen,, Lehr Zeitgenosiche Kunst, Cologne
Film Winter, Film Festival Mixed-Media, H7 Raumaufzeit, Stuttgart
Tape No. 13, Tape Modern Berlin
2007 Summer, Neuhoff Edelman Gallery, New York
2006 Surrealism: Then & Now, Paul Kasmin Gallery & Edelman Arts, Inc., New York
Winter Show, Galerie Gmurzynska, St. Moritz
Trees, Salander O’Reilly, New York
2005 Origins and Nations, Galerie Nord Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin
Me, myself and I, Gutleut 15, Frankfurt
2003 Small Formats, Galerie Neue kunst, Mannheim
2002 Der Berg, Heidelberg Kunstverein, Heidelberg
Saar Ferngas Förderpreis, Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen
Event Horizon, Lothringer13, Munich

2001 Filmbar, Video Programm, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Sommeraustellung, Galerie Neue Kunst, Mannheim
Miscellaneous, Enders Projects, Frankfurt
Action Disco, Plus, Düsseldorf
Videoprogramm, Projektraum, Berlin
1999 Videoprogramm, Voges und Deisen, Frankfurt
une légende à suivre…., le Crédac, Centre d’art d’Ivry, Paris
Networking, P-House Gallery, Tokyo
Fliegen eröffnet, Städtische Galerie, Moers
1998 Dessins, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
Terminal, Musashino Art University, Tokyo
From Here, High Street Project, Christchurch, New Zealand
toi toi toi, Die Werkstatt, Düsseldorf
1997 Picture Stories, Victoria Miro, London
003 Blondes (Too Young To Die), Gasworks, London
Too Young To Die, kj Galerie, Cologne
1992 Chlorine, Second show with Bank, Marshall Street Baths, Soho, London
1991 Bank Show, First show with Bank, The Bank, Lewisham Way, London

Museum Collections

2007 Vassar College, New York, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, USA
2009 Wilhelm Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany

EXHIBITIONS (Museums, Galleries, and Television):
“American Roadside Architecture,” an exhibition organized by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State, and circulated worldwide from 2003-2006. “Seaside Madness,” The Building Centre Trust, London, UK (2001). Guest curator of the exhibition, “See the USA: Automobile Travel and the American Landscape,” National Building Museum, Washington, DC (1999-2000). “Ticket to Paradise: American Movie Theaters,” The Building Centre Trust, London, UK (1996); National Building Museum, Washington, DC (l995); School of Architecture, University of Arkansas (l994); Fort Wayne, IN, Museum of Art (l993); the Stamford, CT, Museum and Nature Center (l99l); and 24th New York Film Festival, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC (l986). “Atlantic Coast Resorts: Bar Harbor to Key West”: Virginia Beach, VA, Museum of Modern Art (l988); and Daniel Wolf Gallery, NYC (l986). “Miniature Golf”: The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY (1983). “The End of the Road”: originated by the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY (1981), and circulated to museums throughout the United States from 1982 to 1984. “Resorts of the Catskills”: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, NYC (1980). “Morris Lapidus: Architecture of Joy,” The Architectural League, NYC (1970). “Highway Hangouts,” three two-hour television specials about roadside architecture, design and social history, have been shown on The History Channel and the A & E Network in 1997, 2001, and 2003.

FELLOWSHIIPS AND GRANTS:
In 2003 Mr. Margolies was named The Josephine Patterson Albright Fellow in photojournalism from the Alicia Patterson Foundation, and in 1978 he received a fellowship in architectural criticism from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His projects have also been funded by federal, state, and private sources, including The National Endowment for the Arts, the Wyeth Endowment for American Art, and the Howard Gilman Foundation.

She has exhibited solo projects in Europe and New York at spaces including
the New Museum, New York, Power Plant, Toronto, and the Jeu de Paume, Paris.
Her work is in public collections including the Guggenheim Museum
Collection, the Dikeou Collection, the Saatchi Collection, and the
Zabludowicz Collection

Recently Snow participated in group exhibitions including: New York Minute
at the Macro Future Museum, Rome; Abstract America: New Painting and
Sculpture at the Saatchi Gallery, London; SAND: Memory, Meaning, and
Metaphor at the Parrish Art Museum, New York; The Whitney Biennial at the
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; In Practice at Sculpture Center,
New York; Three for Society at 303 Gallery, New York; Beneath the Underdog
at Gagosian Gallery, New York; Dimes of March at Reena Spaulings Fine Arts,
New York; and Concrete Castle at Le Confort Moderne, Pointers, France.

Snow has been featured in Artnet, V Magazine, i-D Magazine, Papermag,
Interview Magazine, The New York Times and Visionaire 57: 2010.

Michael Mundy is one of the great interior and portrait photographers of our times. His work taps
into the soul of everything from architectural spaces to noted personalities, as well as fashion.
He has worked for some of the world’s most prestigious brands, including Kohler, Frette, Calvin
Klein, Nautica, Grey Goose Vodka, and Morgan Hotel Group (The Delano, The Hudson, The
Mondrian), and Andre Balaz Hotels (The Mercer Hotel, Sunset Beach and Chateau Marmont), as
well as W, Travel and Leisure, Architektur, German Vogue, Tatler and more.

This is the first in our artist series of exhibitions at the Traffic Art Space, a new and exciting
ground floor show space located at 136 East 74th Street in Manhattan.

Traffic is a creative management agency representing photographers, illustrators and industry
creatives in the field of advertising and publishing.

HOLIDAY

Exhibition includes surveillance photographs by Yasmine Chatila, iconic colorful works by Carter Kustera, extraordinary hand-sewn fashion illustrations by Paula Sanz Caballero, sumptuous photographs by Michael Mundy, a menagerie of cast silver ‘bots from Cathy McClure (widely collected amongst the art elite), works on paper by renowned fashion illustrators IZAK, Amelie Hegardt and Anja Kroencke, AND a masterpiece by James Nares.

Izak has created international advertising, promotional and editorial for a wide range of clients—delighting them with his unique sense of charm and wit, as well as his ability to express the essence of their brand through the stroke of his hand. For the past 2 years, Izak has worked closely with Celine to produce a series of 7 scarves. In 2005 he was commissioned by Guerlain to produce the packaging for a limited edition fragrance. He continues to be the face of Henri Bendel, New York’s source for original fashion and leading style.

Books include Billy Joel’s “A New York State of Mind” by Byron Preiss Publishing (a book for adults and children due out this fall featuring beautiful New York cityscapes); Bohemian Manifesto by Bullfinch Press; Cooking For Mr. Latte, a Crimson Books series by Amanda Hesser; a six book series by Carole Matthews, Harlequin; The Nanny Diary series, Parachute Publishing; 2 Lilly Pulitzer books and calendars on lifestyle and entertaining. We are excited about Izak’s forthcoming coffee table book, slated for Christmas 2006.

Izak has had five consecutive solo shows since 1999 at Printemps, Japan, where he has reached a near cult status, as well as numerous solo exhibitions in New York at A Taste of Art Gallery and at Henri Bendel.

Magazines: Mme Figar, Elle, Officiel, American Vogue, French Vogue, Vogue Spoza, Vogue Bambini, Australian Vogue, German Vogue, English Vogue, Marie Claire, InStyle, Fidget, New York Times Magazine, Shop Etc.

Clients: Bally, Berryl Shoes, Bergdorf Goodman, Biotherm, Catherine Malandrino, Chanel, Celine, Eileen Fisher, Frank et Fils, Henri Bendel , Lancome, Lilly Pulitzer, L’Oreal, Monoprix In France, Nordstrom, Naf Naf, Neiman Marcus , Nordstrom, Printemps Ginza, Le Printemps, Revlon, Saks Fifth Avenue