Douglas Fogle is Curator of Contemporary Art at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh where he is organizing the 2008 Carnegie International.  At Carnegie Museum of Art, he has curated a series of Forum exhibitions, including Forum 60: Rivane Neuenschwander and Forum 59: Phil Collins. Prior to coming to the Carnegie, Fogle spent 11 years as a curator in the Visual Arts Department of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. During his tenure at the Walker, he initiated a series of exhibitions with emerging artists, solo exhibitions with Catherine Opie and Julie Mehretu, as well as a number of group exhibitions such as Stills: Emerging Photography in the 1990s (1997), Painting at the Edge of the World (2001), and The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982.  His exhibition Andy Warhol/Supernova: Stars, Deaths, and Disasters 1962-1964 opened at the Walker Art Center in November 2005 and traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Fogle has published widely in exhibition catalogues and journals such as Artforum, Frieze, Flash Art, and Parkett, and has contributed essays to many books, most recently including “Loving the Alien,” published this year. 

Former Dean of College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University, Martin Prekop is photographer, painter and sculptor whose work has been shown worldwide. His most recent exhibitions have included shows in Santiago, Chile; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Chicago, Illinois. His work appears in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art – Chicago, University of Illinois – Evanston, the City of Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Carnegie Mellon University – Pittsburgh, along with the corporate collections of Mellon Bank and The Gap Corporation. As an arts administrator, Mr. Prekop has served as a consultant to the Fulbright Commission, the Museum of Fine Arts – Boston, the Interior Design Institute – Denver, and the US-China Arts Commission – Columbia University. Additionally, he has served Professor and Dean of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Visiting Artist at Carlisle University – England and the Glasgow School of Art – Scotland, and President of the Board of Directors of the OxBow Summer School of Painting. He collaborates in exhibition with the Ghandi Group.

Martin Prekop
House

Installation with 200 photographs, mirrors and also 68 glass sculptures made by Ron Desmett and Kathleen Mulcahy.  The photography, made between 1993 and 2007, document my house and garden in O’Hara Township.  Included are views of the furniture, decorative objects, paintings, sculptures and installations made during the many phases of the project.

Rosamond Purcell is an internationally recognized artist who has photographed for many years in natural history and anatomical collections. Her published works include three books with the late paleontologist and writer Stephen Jay Gould, and one with sleight-of-hand artist, Ricky Jay. Her book Owls Head (2003), a meditation on the nature of dissolution of objects, is also a biography of William Buckminster, owner of a scrap-metal and antiques yard in Maine. Bookworm (2006), a retrospective of her photography, includes collages based on writing and books in derelict condition. Purcell's installation called 'Two Rooms' included displays of her collected ruined objects and constructions from her studio as well as a reconstruction of the Seventeenth-century museum of the Danish collector, Ole Worm, as based on a well-known engraving of that room. ‘Two Rooms’ appeared at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, at Mount Holyoke College, Tufts University and Harvard University. Worm’s room, as re-constructed by Purcell, will now be permanently installed at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Currently Purcell has been commissioned by Harvard University to document the world-renowned collections at the Western Foundation for Vertebrate Zoology in Camarillo, California. A comprehensive book from this project, tentatively titled Egg and Nest, is scheduled for publication by Harvard University Press in Fall 2008. Silver Eye plans to present an exhibition of these incredibly detailed and fascinating studies in the winter of 2008. Our show, titled "Taking Chances" will reveal Purcell’s unparalleled attention to the patterns of eggshells, the strategy of weaving and nest building, and the texture of plumage. It will include approximately sixty exhibition quality, archival Iris inkjet prints.

A presentation called Knowing the World Through Pictures: The Photographs of Rosamond Purcell will be at Carnegie Mellon University on Friday, November 7th at 4:30 p.m. This is being sponsored by the Pittsburgh Medieval Consortium and is scheduled to coincide with the Society for Photographic Education Regional Conference hosted by Carnegie Mellon University that week-end.

Rosamond Purcell,
Bell's Vireo
Western Foundation of
Vertebrate Zoology, 2007

Rosamond Purcell,
Cassowary Eggs
Western Foundation of
Vertebrate Zoology, 2007

Chris Borkowski is a media maker from Buffalo, NY that is now living and working in New York City. He has worked professionally as video editor, network administrator, media arts center Technical Director, and University instructor in digital arts. He is a co-founder of the video art portal Perpetual Art Machine [PAM]. He has shown work internationally at various galleries and media festivals and has also performed a number of real-time audio and video pieces. He like sunsets and long walks in the park, the shape of pixels, social climbers, hackers, misfits and charlatans. His favorite colors are RGB and finds name dropping and writing his own bio the biggest turn off.