While speaking about contemporary architecture, Richard Serra once compared "industrial space," defined by grid and frame, with what he calls the "looser, smoother, faster" nature of contemporary space. Artists as well as architects explore this shifting sensibility, in which information comprises physical volume and surface connotes motion.

artist profiles

Eric Hongisto earned a BFA at the Maine College of Art and an MFA at Yale University. Among his numerous awards are a Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a NYFA Fellowship; he has recently exhibited at the Queens Musueum, PPOW Gallery, and the Drawing Center. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of San Francisco.

Shoji Kato was born in Japan and attended the Amsterdames Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in the Netherlands before graduating summa cum laude from SUNY-Purchase in 2000. He is currently enrolled in the MFA program at the Kuvataideakatemia in Helsinki, Finland and has exhibited his work in New York, Tokyo, Seoul, and Oaxaca.

Matt King is a graduate of the Cooper Union, the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, and the Milton Avery Graduate School of Art at Bard College. He has recently exhibited work at PS122, Stefan Stux Gallery, Luhring Augustine, NADA Art Fair Miami, and Kunsthalle Wein in Vienna. He teaches sculpture at the Cooper Union.