Michele Abeles is an artist who lives at works in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been exhibited at Bellweather, NY; Prague Biennale 4, Co-Lab Gallery, PPOW and V-1 Gallery and will be included in a White Room exhibition at White Columns, NYC in 2010. She received her MFA from Yale in 2007.

Brooklyn based Artist and Designer Shabd Simon-Alexander creates limited edition collections based on simple feminine shapes with attention to fabric combinations and compositions. Her approach to working with fabrics draws from minimalist art, quiltmaking, and the folk costume tradition of beginning one dress with the remnants from the last.

Slow and Steady Wins the Race is a New York based clothing label, presented as a bimonthly clothing diary, cataloguing ideas that are focused on a specific and fundamental characteristic of clothing design. With each issue, Slow and Steady Wins the Race intends to slowly open the cap on a more democratic dissemination, promotion and appreciation of clothing.

Maggie Peng is an architect and sculptor based in Brooklyn, NY. She has an M. Arch. from UC Berkeley and a B.A. in Environmental Studies from UC Santa Cruz. She has an independent architecture practice and has worked on the design of exhibition spaces for the past 5 years. “Perpetual Chime”, a sculpture series done in collaboration with Noah Sheldon has been exhibited at D’Amelio Terras in New York and Cherry and Martin in Los Angeles.

Anicka Yi is a New York based artist, perfumer and writer. Her work has been shown in various project spaces in London and Los Angeles. Her writing has been published in Big Magazine, Pacemaker and The Face Magazine. Recently, she has produced with Circular File, three half-hour television shows that will premiere new artist videos, interspersed with in-studio interviews, discussions and performances for Performa 09.

Amy Yao received her MFA in Sculpture in 2007 from Yale University School of Art, and BFA with Honors in 1999 from Art Center College of Design. Group and solo exhibitions include B’L’ing HQ, Art in General, New York, NY (2008), Into Infinity, DubLab, Los Angeles, CA (2008), Fake Space Space is a Place, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR (2007), and High Desert Test Sites (Curated by Andrea Zittel), Joshua Tree, CA.

Tatiana Hamilton lives and works in New York, NY. In 2006 she received an MFA from the Bard/ICP Program in Advanced Photographic Studies, where she was a recipient of the Lisette Modell Foundation scholarship. Since then her work has been featured in a number of New York City and Brooklyn venues. Her video “Cooking Chanel” was screened as part of the Circular File Channel project during the Perfoma ’09 biennial.

Anne Eastman lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She has had two solo shows in 2009 at Claudia Groeflin Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland and ATM Gallery, NYC. Her work will be exhibited in two upcoming exhibtions at Friedrich Petzel, NYC and White Flag Projects, St. Louis. She is also a member of B’L’ing, a bootleg video art and rare media trading post. She received her MFA from Yale in 2006.

Ylva Ogland and Snöfrid, her Mirror Twin born in Umeå, Sweden 1974 and lives and works everywhere; Snöfrid born in Treriksröset, Lives inside the mirrors. Her work has been exhibited extensively internationally with solo show at ShugoArts, Tokyo; Smith-Stewart, New York and Brändström & Stene, Stockholm. Ogland received her 1998 Master of Fine Arts, Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm. 179 Canal is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions in behalf of 179 Canal may be made payable to Fractured Atlas. Any contribution above that amount is tax-deductible, less the value of any items you receive, to the extent permitted by law.

No artists were asked for donations for this fundraiser. A contribution not only supports 179 Canal but also all the participating artists in raising funds to continue their own artistic endeavors.

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