Neighborhood: Clinton Hill
Summary: Elise Tak's work is a representation of a representation, THE symbol of fiction: Cinema! Tak meticulously chronicles the lives and careers of 10 world-famous movie actors. All are pure fiction. The artist LIES!

Neighborhood: Bedford-Stuyvesant
Summary: Since leaving Osaka, Japan in 1997, I have been translating my personal vision of New York City into photographs and videos. The candy-colored, saturated playground of images that I create is how I have imagined America would look like.

Summary: Sachiyo Takahashi is an artist, composer and musician whose work centers around storytelling.

Neighborhood: Gowanus
Summary: Traci Talasco creates interactive installations that use architecture as a social / political space addressing female identity, balance and imbalance, and unnecessary struggles.

Neighborhood: Flatbush
Summary: My history paintings reflect life experiences of Brooklyn communities; immigrants, mom and pop shopowners, war veterans and 'ordinary people' who all have stories are the subjects of my colorful, expressionistic images.

Neighborhood: Gowanus

Neighborhood: Bay Ridge
Summary: Design for Performance

Neighborhood: Sunset Park
Summary: Somewhere between eye candy and mind candy is where I want my work to live, and my process is all about maintaining that balance.

Neighborhood: Clinton Hill
Summary: Peach Tao loves creating whimsical illustrations inspired by her travelings around the world, using various mediums including printmaking and mural painting.

Neighborhood: Greenpoint
Summary: Biomorphic sculpture that distill essence into form.

Summary: Symbolic constructions about life, death, and the passage of time.

Neighborhood: Midwood

Neighborhood: Williamsburg
Summary: I free myself the conventions of nomenclarure, subject matter and composition to experience the raw extacy of color. The visceral impact of color and composition are paramount in my work.

Neighborhood: Flatbush

Neighborhood: Gowanus
Summary: I blow glass into a collage of sculptural typography and Oriental decorative motifs.

Summary: Camera-based work about emptiness and space, with a focus on transcendence and the sublime.