Johanna Heldebro was selected from hundreds of artists by Judges Priska C. Juschka (Priska C. Juschka Art), Kelsey Keith (Flavorpill) and CK Swett (Christie's). Her compelling body of work To Come Within Reach of You (Gunnar Heldebro, Hässelby strandväg 55, 165 65 Hässelby, Sweden) chronicles the life of her father who disappeared two years prior.  After searching his name on the internet, Heldebro traveled to Stockholm, Sweden to obsessively follow him, creating a series that refigures comfortable notions of adult identity. Her work is at times as coldly detached as it is uncomfortably personal.

http://www.johannaheldebro.com/



Our first International Solo Show Artist, Netherlands native, Pim Palsgraaf, turned our gallery into an apocalyptic aftermath with a taxidermied raccoon, pheasant and deer each sprouting buildings made from found objects.  These dispirited creatures were accompanied by dark canvases depicting the distentigration of buildings in eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

www.pimpalsgraaf.nl/

Our fourth Solo Show Artist presented The New World, a part fact, part fiction visual retelling of history through historical-documents-turned-30 ft.-panoramic-collage. In this world, church spires become stalactites, a Native American poses as the Greek God Pan, and stone lions are swept downstream. Plus portraits of merged and hybrid faces; half parlor game, half grotesquerie.

www.selenakimball.com

Judges Clay Rockefeller & Anita Durst selected Sean from hundreds of applicants to 3rd Ward's Fall Open Call. In November of 2008, Sean Fader presented pieces from his collection I want to Put You On, Tell Me How to Put You on, in which he appears zipped into the bodies of people whom he admires & covets.

www.seanfader.com

In June of 2008, 2008 Spring Solo Show Winner & Brooklyn local, Jeremy Leichman presented Suits, a reconstruction of the “corporate machine” with sculpture, lights and motors, from the perspective of an unfamiliar civilization.

www.jeremyleichman.com