Josh Gosfield lived on farms in Vermont and Massachusetts. Later he became a carpenter and renovated homes and then moved to California where he published cartoons in local papers. He became the managing editor of the Daily Californian in Berkeley and then moved to New York, working at various places
Not long before Teiji Furuhashi succumbed to AIDS, his video "Lovers" was selected by New York's MoMA for an exhibit that included works by the famed Gary Hill and Bill Viola. This artistic feat, while impressive, would hardly be earth-shattering -- if it wasn't for the fact that "Lovers" was Teiji's
Kara Walker uses the silhouette, that old parlor craft practiced by bonneted ladies, to create installations, prints, and paintings that stir intense controversy. The body of her work focuses on the antebellum South and the iconography and stereotypes surrounding African Americans, especially the ima