The Artist Salon will engage cross-pollination and exchange of ideas, approaches and practices to strengthen the collective contemporary artistic community. It is a gathering for stimulating people of artistic quality. The Artist Salon shall increase knowledge through conversation, readings and like-minded interaction

"Jeff's work presents the various personas that develop in the mind of a sentient being in the modern world. The historical/religous contexts of his figures convey his own inner turmoil by presenting them in familiar contexts. The interplay of light and the liberties of form, as well as the repetition of himself, show that his photographs reflect an internal space as opposed to a physical space."

-Michael Shaw, 05'

Burgess is an internationally renowned artist and educator who created the first official art payload taken into outer space by NASA in 1989. His pioneering work has extended beyond conventional gallery venues, involving sites that crisscross the globe and even extend to outer space. The visionary qualities that motivate his work also inform his teaching and classroom interactions.

Golan Levin is an artist, engineer, and composer interested in developing artifacts and events which explore supple new modes of interactive expression. His work focuses on the design of systems for the creation, manipulation and performance of simultaneous image and sound, as part of a more general inquiry into non-verbal communications protocals in cybernetic systems.

Clayton Merrell's painting, at least that of recent years, has consistently shown an affinity for the land -- not through realistic representation but by depicting a landscape of locale informed by past and present visual and remnant imprints of human activity and of nature. ... The works' dreamy surfaces are underscored with low-key intensity; they're subtle yet powerful.

Mary Weidner's work in recent years has frequently focused on the complex dynamics of our most fundamental social unit, the family. This is the unit that forms and molds us, that provides for and provokes us; the unit which is applauded and maligned, idealized and disparaged. While sociologists may analyze the changing nature of family and politicians may expound family values, I am more interested in examining the shared histories, intimacies and layers of emotion which form our understanding of family.

Lance Winn's work focuses on reproductive processes to investigate the types of distortion that may occur as information is translated and multiplied. By building images out of smaller images and words I make transparent the process used to construct what might look like a solid image from a distance. What I hope to explore, through what I think of as a genetic or architectural method of image-making, is a more destabilized understanding of identity and meaning; as the way we identify things is influenced and in flux due to our physical positioning and the accumulation of individual histories.

Each painting takes unrepentant refuge in the touch, the individual stroke or placement, as well as in the Benjaminian conception of aura. The importance of uniqueness is further intensified, despite a coolly classist precision, through a self-conscious materiality. The work dissects and calls attention to the historical and cultural associations of its constituent parts.

Encyclopedia Destructica presents unfinished work from artists and writers to build a forum for a primordial dialogue within the pages of a unique zine. Each issue is hand bound in unique format best suited to the content. The Encyclopedia Destructica project is organized into volumes.

SUZIE SILVER is an artist working primarily in video and performance. In recent years, Silver?s work has been based on her fascinations with gender, sexuality, and visual pleasure; blurring genres of video and performance art with mass media forms. Currently, her interests carry her long-standing engagement with popular culture and spectacular beauty of all kinds into projects exploring fantasy, notions of the paradisical, and the allure of imaginary landscapes.

Art is no longer today merely an aesthetic experience, but has become a means for many to learn about the world. Prior to this era of Post-Modernity--an age of transition in which the rebuilding of all facets of civilization's foundation is under scrutiny--the rationalist mind has traditionally abhorred the non-linear, the imprecise and the unpredictable. Contrary to Modernist thought, Postmodern art embraces chaos and is characterized by pastiche. Art in a Post-Modern world neither belongs to a unitary frame of reference, or to a single project. The plurality of perspectives leads to a fragmentation of experience, with the collage becoming a key artistic technique of our era.