June 17 - August 20, 2006

Selected by Aimee Chang and organized by Arthouse

The twenty-first in a series of annual juried exhibitions, New American Talent features the work of emerging national artists working in a variety of media including sculpture, painting, photography and new media. Each work on view was selected by New American Talent juror Aimee Chang, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California, and former Exhibition Coordinator and Assistant Curator, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. This year’s New American Talent showcases the work of fifty-nine artists from the United States, twenty-two of whom currently live and work in Texas.

Participating Artists:

Noelle Allen (Chicago, IL)
Juka Araikawa (Los Angeles, CA)
Neil Bernstein (Bucks County, PA)
Michael Berryhill (Austin, TX)
Ashley Blalock (Crestline, CA)
Susan Bonfils (Baton Rouge, LA)
Si Jae Byun (New York, NY)
Rebecca Carter (Dallas, TX)
Christine Catsifas (Long Beach, CA)
Phil Chang (Los Angeles, CA)
Michael Hsin-Ju Chang(Los Angeles, CA)
Meggie Chou (Austin, TX)
Cat Clifford (Vashon, WA)
Martha Colburn (New York, NY)
Jonas Criscoe (Austin, TX)
Hunter Cross (Austin, TX)
Sasha Dela (Houston, TX)
Andrew Demirjian (New York, NY)
Emilie Duval (Beaumont, TX)
Adrian Esparza (El Paso, TX)
Joey Fauerso (San Antonio, TX)
Carol Flueckiger (Lubbock, TX)
Christoph Gielen (New York, NY)
Eben Goff (Butte, MT)
Tim Harrington (Brooklyn, NY)
Portia Hein (Los Angeles, CA)
Jenny Heishman (Seattle, WA)
David Herbert (Richmond, VA)
Shannon Hill (Chicago, IL)
Katie Hinton (Pontiac, MI)
Rebecca Holland (Santa Fe, NM)
Tom Hollenback (Austin, TX)
Dane Larsen (Provo, UT)
Christine Lee (San Diego, CA)
Elisa Lendvay (Brooklyn, NY)
Karen Liebowitz (Los Angeles, CA)
Mason Wells (Coupland, TX)
Galen McQuillen (San Antonio, TX)
Kurt Dominick Mueller (Austin, TX)
Andrea Myers (Chicago, IL)
Lori Nelson (New York, NY)
Stephen G. Nyktas (Chicago, IL)
Mark Pease (Minneapolis, MN)
Dominic Quintana (Loveland, CO)
Matthew Roberts (Austin, TX)
Kyle Riedel (Long Beach, CA)
Howard Sherman (Denton, TX)
Polly Lanning Sparrow (Austin, TX)
Benjamin B. Stern (St. Louis, MO)
Traci Tullis (Brooklyn, NY)
Robert Lee Vanderpool (Austin, TX)
Michael Velliquette (San Antonio, TX)
Monica Vidal (Houston, TX)
Rebecca Ward (Austin, TX)
Christine Willcox (Minneapolis, MN)
Jeff Williams (Los Angeles, CA)
Mike Womack (Brooklyn, NY)
Audrey Worster (The Woodlands, TX)
Brenna Youngblood (Los Angeles, CA)

With regard to her selection process, Amy Chang states:
Reviewing the thousands of submissions confirmed my sense of the openness prevalent in work being made by artists in the U.S. and abroad. The works in the New American Talent exhibition range in media from the traditional—painting, photography and drawing-to the extraordinary—serape and crochet thread, a re-vamped microwave, gasoline containers, cast sugar, tape, and broken umbrellas. Video art plays a prominent role and one work utilizes the Internet and highlights the pervasiveness of satellite images of all corners of the world. The division between art and craft, widespread in past decades, is ridiculously anachronistic in today’s wide-open art world.(May 2006)

Aimee Chang is the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California, and former Exhibition Coordinator and Assistant Curator, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Recently she organized Hammer Project: Ryoko Aoki and co-organized Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles at the Hammer, and organized New Balance Frontier at the Soap Factory in Minneapolis. She has written on the work of Edgar Arceneaux, Rodney McMillian, and Song Dong for exhibition and collection catalogs, as well as on Olu Oguibe’s book, The Culture Game, for the NYFA Quarterly.