Temme Barkin-Leeds

While “shooter” style video games are intended for entertainment for a young audience, they are especially addictive and tend to BIND the player to the console. I make them unable to operate in this way. I use their images as source material and put them on a 2-D surface. I abstract them, flatten them, and introduce images of Americana—baseballs, ice cream cones—to highlight the absurdity of using real war scenes as game material. I bind the images to counteract the games’ ability to bind the player.

Mariona Barkus

Do You Know Too Much? Archival digital print. 20 x 20 inches. 2012

Dread the daily onslaught of text messages, emails, tweets, or status updates? Yeah, but who can resist their siren song for very long? Do You Know Too Much? depicts modern day techno-bondage.

Mariana Barnes

We are a nation of immigrants. Our ancestors put their lives on the line in their quest for a better life. We reap the benefits, but sometimes forget that others ought to have the same rights. We are all united by a common goal: the pursuit of the American Dream. We all bring a piece of the world to share with each other every day. We bring together our cultures, our colors, our beliefs and our spirits. Let our nation be a place where the world meets without borders.

Aileen Bassis

Prisoners. Photopolymer etching. 8.25 x 11.5 inches. 2009

My work is based in photography and often includes text. I am interested in content in art and in particular, reexaminations of the world; the reality around us. Like many, I was intensely involved in the 2008 Presidential election, which started me thinking about the legacy of slavery in the United States shaping racial relationships. The realities of race in America are like a scab that never heals, and keeps bleeding anew. This work combines urban street images with fragmented historical texts and legal decisions.

Jacqueline Bennett

Fragile Capacity. Water based oil on canvas. 24.5 x 24.5 inches. 2012

Fragile Capacity explores the mysterious beginning place: the vanishing marker, making the meeting-point where our connections begin; binding us to this earth, ourselves, each other, and the human experience. Capacity to see through the subjective time layers is fragile. Formed over shifting circumstance, we make the nuanced, subjective picture we call our story.