Cesar Trasobares
Untitled Bills , 2001-2006
Dollar bills, ink
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The artist uses dollar bills to comment on social issues. By inscribing images from the media and art on the dollar bills, Trasobares questions assumptions about cultural values and ideas. He also prints words and messages on the bills.

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Cesar Trasobares

Cesar Trasobares is interested in the symbolism of currency across cultures. As money is used as a vehicle of trade and exchange, his art extends beyond these practical applications by promoting the cultural implications of his work. His work also interacts with culture in a direct sense, as many of his stamped bills are in circulation and are still used as money.

The messages printed onto dollar bills are often a celebration of cultural symbols, such as the printed images of beans to represent Latin American culture, or marijuana in reference to money’s ties to drugs.

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Wendy Wischer
Untitled, Rain Series, 2003
Photograph
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The artist creates conceptually based work in a variety of media ranging from photography to sculptural objects, to site-specific installations and public works. Much of the work is based on blurring the separation between the spirituality of working with nature and the cutting edge of “New Media”. She exposes the sacred within the mundane, the monumental within the minute, unraveling boundaries created by culture and language and revealing common ground in the “in-betweens” of established categories.

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Christian Duran
The Speaker Number Two: Mid-Sagittal, 2006
Acrylic on Paper
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The Speaker Number Two: Mid-Sagittal uses the profile of a human face, punctuated and outlined by the ambiguous arteries or roots, to examine the role of these connections with mankind and how we view ourselves. Not only is the head made up of these fibers, but they also extend further than the face, suggesting an interaction with something beyond itself.

Christian Duran, born 1976 in Hialeah, FL has had his works featured in numerous exhibitions in Florida, as well as in Spain. Studying at New World School of the Arts in the early 90’s, he then went on to the Kansas City Art institute to receive his BFA in 1999. His paintings deal with themes related to the connections between people and nature, plants and animals, as well as the common structures that unite them and their interactions. By illustrating his perception of this continuity, Christian invites the viewer to blur the “…boundaries between chaos and order, realism and spirituality- as observed in life, death and consciousness.”

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