Matthew Barney was born in San Francisco in 1967 and was raised in Boise, Idaho. He attended Yale University, receiving his BA in 1989, then moved to New York City, where he lives today. From his earliest work, Barney has explored the transcendence of physical limitations in a multimedia art practice that includes feature-length films, video installations, sculpture, photography, and drawing. In his first solo exhibitions, Barney presented elaborate sculptural installations that included videos of himself interacting with various constructed objects and performing physical feats such as climbing across the gallery ceiling suspended from titanium ice screws. In 1992, Barney introduced fantastical creatures into his work, a gesture that presaged the vocabulary of his subsequent narrative films. In 1994, Barney began work on his epic Cremaster cycle, a five-part film project accompanied by related sculptures, photographs, and drawings. He completed the cycle in 2002. Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle, an exhibition organized by the Guggenheim Museum of artwork from the entire project, premiered at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, in June 2002 and subsequently traveled to the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in October 2002 before its presentation in New York.
Barbara Gladstone established the Barbara Gladstone Gallery in 1980. Based in New York, the gallery specialises in contemporary art and represents 24 artists who work in a variety of media, including photography, video, film, installation, painting, and sculpture.
www.gladstonegallery.comBorn Cincinnati, Ohio 1957
Resides in Sausalito, California
Ohio Institute of Photography 1977
San Francisco Art Institute 1988
2003
Flirt
Director of Photography
Editor
2002
Cremaster 3
Sundance
Director of Photography
Editor
2D, computer effects
Black Cat
Director of Photographer
Editor
Skinned Deep
Director of Photography
2D, computer effects
Horror film
2000
Cremaster 2
Director of Photography
Editor
Vanessa Beecroft #42/ Intrepid
Whitney Biennial
Vanessa Beecroft #43
Director of Photography
London
1999
In the Shawdow of the Moon
Sony High Definition Demo Reel
Director of Photography
Vanessa Beecroft #39
San Diego, CA, Museum of Contemporary Art
Director of Photography
1997
Cremaster 5
Porticus Frankfurt am Main
Hugo Boss Award
Director of Photography
Editor
1996
Cremaster 1
Lincoln Center, 1996
Museum of Modern Art, 1996
Director of Photography
Editor
Venessa Beecroft #16
Director of Photography
Editor
Pool of Darkness
Director of Photography
Gabe Bartalos, Director
1995
Albert Peter Strietmann III
Born July 16th, 8Lbs
Clown Tape
Museum of the Moving Image
Director of Photography
Rick Groel, Director
Times Past, Catalog No. BR-08
Here Gallery
Video installation, computer animation
1994
Cremaster 4
1994
Director of Photography
Editor
Kingsway Trilogy
P.S. 1 Museum, NY
Director of Photography
Audible Line
Anthology Film Archives
Infrared video projection collaboration
Frances Whitney and Norman Ballard
Vortex 2
Saint John the Devine Cathedral
Film installation
1993
Drawing Restraint
Whitney Biannual
Venice Biannale
Director of Photography
Editor
No Holes Barred
Venice Biannale
Director of Photography
Editor
Desktop Video
Knitting Factory, NYC
Creator of various computer animations
Vortex
Image de Future
Infrared video projection, collaboration
Frances Whitney Sculptor, Norman Ballard Laser
1992
Otto Shaft
Documenta 9, Kassel Germany
Director of Photography
Editor
The Pool
Paula Cooper Gallery
Editor
Light Houses
DIA Foundation, NYC
Film from computer animation installation
Collaboration with various artists
1989
Bread and Butter
Performance
San Francisco Art Institute
Eat
Interactive virtual environment
1989, Mill Valley Film Festival
1991, Triennale di Milano
1988
Experienced Negation
Interactive video installation
San Francisco , Ca.
Sound Cloud
Group show, interactive audio performance
Market St. financial district San Francisco, Ca.
Current History of the United States
Two books, sculptural, interactive
May, 1988 1989. Ann Bremmer library San Francisco, Ca.
Raw
Group video show
Opera Plaza Cinema San Francisco, Ca.
1987
Man Arts
Video installation
Bay Model, Sausalito Ca.
Too Much for T.V.
Half hour program for community television
San Francisco Bay Area
Space Limited
Installation
The Art Store, San Francisco, Ca.
1986
U.F.O.
Video installation
Julia Morgan Theater, Berkeley Ca.
Jonathan Bepler was born in Media, Pennsylvania and resides in Brooklyn. He graduated with an M.F.A. in Music composition, improvisation, voice, and multiple instruments from Bennington College in 1993. He was introduced to Matthew Barney that year through Peter Streitmann, the director of photography for the Cremaster films, with whom he had collaborated several times. His collaboration with Matthew began with some original music for Cremaster 1, and continued with increasingly ambitious scores for Cremasters 5, 2, and 3. In addition to these scores, he does music for film, theater, and dance. He has directed and played title roles in several operas, designed computer-controlled sound installations and taught voice and composition. He was a member of the Glenn Branca Ensemble for several years. He has recently been performing live to his prepared multi-channel compositions and has done a 'mobile soundtrack' for an outdoor art show in Japan. He has released Soundtrack albums for Cremasters 2,3, and 5. More info is available at www.jonathanbepler.com
b. Nashville, TN
Lives/works NYC last fifteen years
MFA, Painting, Hunter College, New York City
BFA, Painting (Art History minor), Virginia Commonwealth Universtiy, (University of TN, L’Universita di Stato, Milano)
Matthew Barney Studio 1996 – 2005
Associate Producer, DRAWING RESTRAINT 9 –in progress
Associate Producer, DE LAMA LAMINA (and played the Lead Character Julia Butterfly)
Associate Producer, CREMASTER 3, 2002
Associate Producer, CREMASTER 2, 1999
Line Producer, CREMASTER 5, 1998
Production Assistant, CREMASTER 1, 1995
Museum of Modern Art, New York City 1989 - 1996
Education Department
-Certificate to Teach, NYC Board of Education
-Studio In A School (teaching art to kids): Brooklyn 1995
-WCVE/WCVW: Camera Operator, Public Television (& Lighting Director, selected series): 1987 - 1989
Amateur Mountaineer, summitted:
Mount Kilimanjaro, 19,344 ft, Tanzania
Mount Cotopaxi, 19,347 ft. Ecuador
Mount Rainier, 14,452 ft , Washington State, US
Other things she likes: the daffodil, to paint, intricacy, horsemanship, being right, income, scuba, discovery, travel, junk, animals, the sun hitting objects indoors.
Matt Ryle began working with Matthew Barney in 1996, fabricating sculpture for CREMASTER 5 and serving as Production Designer on CREMASTER 2 and CREMASTER 3. When not working on the films, he is Production Manager of the Barney Studio, overseeing the manufacture and installation of all sculptural elements and exhibitions. Obsessed with materials and processes, Ryle has a background in plastics and large-scale architectural fabrication. An avid drummer, he lives with his wife and 3 dogs in Brooklyn, NY.
As long as he can remember, 37 year old Special Effects Make-Up artist Gabe Bartalos has had a healthy fascination with fantasy and horror. Starting with painting, then sculpture, Bartalos was able to put these talents on display by filming them in his own graphic Super-8 films. "The perfect blend of art and storytelling".
Gabe was able to sharpen his skills by working on a string of N.Y. independent films and then eventually moved to Los Angeles to start his own effects company, Atlantic West Effects. Bartalos was quick to leave his mark in the horror genre by teaming up with Director Frank Hennelotter on horror classics such as BRAIN DAMAGE, FRANKENHOOKER, BASKET CASE 2 + 3. This was followed by a long relationship with Trimark/LionsGate with the LEPRECHAUN films and all its sequels (5!), SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK and FROZEN.
Bartalos' skills were sought out for the massive T-Rex creation in Doug Trumballs ambitious IMAX film, BACK TO THE FUTURE- THE RIDE, then more carnage in BLOODRUSH, FREEJACK, PLAYING GOD, and DEADSPACE. Gabe then teamed with director, studio head, Jim Glickenhause for his grisly needs in the Scott Glenn thriller SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS, and TIMEMASTER.
Always sticking close to the East coast, Gabe contributed the elaborate make-up effects for artist/filmmaker Matthew Barneys lush CREMASTER cycle, multiple ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE photo shoots with celebrity photographer Mark Seliger, (including the now infamous Marilyn Manson 'Dark Feather Fantasy') and then back in LA, the disturbing disintegration effects with IMAGINARY FORCES, for the on-going ANTI-SMOKING campaign.
Currently Bartalos has come full circle as he puts the finishing touches on his directorial debut, SKINNED DEEP, an over-the-top horror opus that he scripted as well.
I moved to NYC from Las Vegas, New Mexico in the spring of 1991. In the winter of 1992 I met Laurel Katz and worked on two projects for her. The design and execution of a "Cool Suit" for an exhibition at Postmasters Gallery in 1992, and all aspects of her installation for an exhibition at Postmasters Gallery in the Fall of 1994. It was through Laurel that I met Matthew Barney.
In the spring of of 1995 I worked on an edition of flags to be displayed at The Barbara Gladstone Gallery for the premiere of Cremaster 4. In the summer of 1995 I began work on the costumes for Cremaster 1, followed by another edition of flags for the Fall 1995 exhibition in Rotterdam. Over the past 8 years I have worked on four of the five films of the Cremaster Cycle. When not working with Matthew I did work for other artist, designing and building costumes for their sculptures. Jose Gabriel Fernandez and Keith Edmier are two of those artists.
At the same time, I attended F.I.T. on a part-time basis and received my associates degree in May of 1998 in Textile/Surface Design with a specialization in weaving. In the summer of 2001 I opened The Yarn Tree. It is my weaving studio, a teaching facility and a retail store.
www.theyarntree.comMatthew Wallin has worked in computer graphics and special effects since 1992, when he began his career at George Lucas, Industrial Light & Magic. He first worked for Matthew Barney in 1997 on Cremaster 5 digitally placing ice in the Danube River. He moved to New York City in 1999 and formed Mantron Corporation with Adam Martinez (www.mantroncorp.com), to provide high-end, low cost 3D computer animation and compositing services for artists and independent filmmakers.
His film credits include, Cremaster 5, 2 & 3, The Mummy, Star Wars: Special Editions, Twister, 101 Dalmatians, Woody Allen's Celebrity, Matrix: Reloaded & Matrix: Revolutions. Wallin was also the director of the forthcoming feature documentary on the making of Matthew Barney's The Cremaster Cycle, which will be completed Spring 2003. He and his wife, the painter Chrissy Baucom (www.chrissybaucom.com), currently live in the San Francisco Bay Area with their overwieght cat and their weinerdog.
Born 1963 Newark, NJ
BFA SUNY Purchase 1988
Chris Winget started working in commercial photography after graduating from SUNY Purchase in 1988. He has done a wide variety of work in fashion, portrait, still life, architecture, music, and corporate fields. His photos have appeared in Elle, Time, Raygun, Bomb, Paper and other magazines including industrial publications. He resides in Old Greenwich, Connecticut with his wife Wendy Dye, the Landscape Designer and painter, and their three Children.
www.chriswinget.com
He trained at Yale under Walker Evans in the seventies and taught for two years at Kenyon College in Ohio.
Michael James O'Brien has built a career as a commercial and editorial photographer for such magazines as The New Yorker, Newsweek, Io Donna, Elle Décor, Rolling Stone, Departures, The New York Times Magazine, L'Uomo Vogue and clients like illy caffe, Piazza Sempione, Bergdorf Goodman, Cristiano Fissore, Badgeley Mishka, Polo Ralph Lauren, Saks Fifth Avenue, Nautica etc.
From 1993, he has produced the still photographs for Matthew Barney (Drawing Restraint 7, Cremaster 1, 2, 4 and 5). These photographs were shown most recently at the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
He has written, published and performed poetry from 1990 until the present and he is editor at large of the poetry fanzine Verbal Abuse printed in the 90's and existing now online. He is the co-auther, with journalist Holly Brubach, of Girlfriend: Men, Women, and Drag, published in 1999 by Random House.
He owns, with partners, the Moroccan restaurant, Chez Es Saada in the East Village.www.michaeljamesobrien.com
Born in Australia, Tony Morgan studied Graphic Design at the Swinburne Institute of Technology in Melbourne. He moved to New York in 1988, and designed books on Medardo Rosso, Francis Picabia, and Richard Prince for Kent Gallery, New York. In 1989, Mr. Morgan established Step Graphics, Inc., and continued to design books for Kent Gallery, including John Heartfield: AIZ/VI 1930-38, as well as books on Eugène Carrière, Myron Stout, and Dennis Adams.
In 1990 he designed The Rome Studio, published by Brown University in conjunction with Barbara Gladstone and Thea Westreich. Other limited-edition art books that he designed for Thea Westreich include Sophie Calle's La Fille du Docteur and Jack Pierson's All of a Sudden. From 1991 to 1994 his clients included Gagosian Gallery, for which he designed numerous books. Max Beckmann: The Self-Portraits won the American Institute of Graphic Art's 50 Best Books of 1993 award.
Mr. Morgan's first collaboration with Matthew Barney was Drawing Restraint 7 in 1995. Since then he has helped design and produce books for Cremaster 1, 2, 4 and 5, as well as soundtrack CDs, posters and other Barney contributions for Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin and Point d'Ironie. Mr. Morgan produced Matthew's first web project, www.cremaster.net, which was launched in March 2003, and followed by www.drawingrestraint.net in 2006.
Mr. Morgan lives and works in New York. www.stepgraphics.com
Born in San Francisco on November 2, 1939, Richard Serra studied at Yale University (1961 through 1964), where he received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. He then spent two years traveling in Europe before settling in New York, where he continues to live and work. In the following year, he began showing in museums and galleries in New York, and since then has exhibited extensively throughout the world, including a 1986 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. His recent group of works, the torqued ellipses, were shown at The Dia Center for the Arts in New York (1997-98), The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (1998) and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain (1999). Serra has created a number of site-specific sculptures in public and private venues in both North America and Europe.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Richard Serra. Hal Foster, editor. Cambridge Massachusetts and London, The MIT Press, 2000
Richard Serra Sculpture 1985 - 1998. Exh. cat. Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998
Richard Serra. Writings Interviews. Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 1994
Richard Serra: Sculpture. Exh. cat. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1986
SELECTED ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS:
Richard Serra: Mostra di sculture. Area archeologica dei Mercati di Traiano, Rome. December 6, 1999 - March 5, 2000
Richard Serra Sculpture, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain, April 27 - October 17, 1999
Richard Serra, The Geffen Contemporary at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, September 30, 1998-January 3, 1999
Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, September 24, 1997 - June 14, 1998
Richard Serra: Props, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany, January 16-April 3, 1994; traveled to National Gallery of Contemporary Art - Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland, September 23-November 20, 1994
Richard Serra: Weight and Measure, Tate Gallery, London, September 30, 1992 - January 15, 1993
Richard Serra: Running Arcs, For John Cage, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, September 12-December 13, 1992
Richard Serra: The Drowned and the Saved, Synagoge Stommeln, Pulheim, Germany, April 23-September 13, 1992
Richard Serra, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, January 28 - March 23, 1992
Richard Serra: Skulptur, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden, March 23-May 5, 1991
Richard Serra: Threats of Hell, capc Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, June 29 -October 25,1990
Richard Serra: The Hours of the Day, Kunsthaus Zürich, March 8-April 26,1990
Richard Serra: 10 Sculptures for the Van Abbe, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, September 4-October 30, 1988
Richard Serra: 7 Spaces,7 Sculptures, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, November 26, 1987-February 28, 1988
Richard Serra: Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 27 - May 13, 1986
Richard Serra, Musée nationale d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, October 26-January 2, 1984
Richard Serra: Elevator 1980; The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NewYork, November 1980, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, October 11-November 16, 1980
Richard Serra: Sculpture, Films 1966-1978, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany, March 10-April 16, 1979
Richard Serra: Arbeiten/Works 66-77, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Germany, March 8-April 2, 1978 traveled to Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, April 22-May 21, 1978
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, California, February 28-March 1, 1970
Leo Castelli Warehouse, New York, December 16, 1969- January 10, 1970
Marti Domination has portrayed a cavalcade of characters on the late-night stages of New York City -- from Queen Elizabeth I, Marlene Dietrich, and Meg Myles, to Sable Starr, Dusty Springfield, and Candy Darling. She has performed extensively with the Jackie 60 dance troupe THE HOUSE OF DOMINATION, and continues to work in their Jackie FURTHER projects. Under the alias Lost Forever, she spent 3 years as a member of the lurid Blacklips Performance Cult, writing, directing, and acting in weekly midnight plays at Avenue A's Pyramid Club. She currently sings with the musical group BEAUT. She can also be seen cavorting in solo novelty dances at the tiny salon CABARET MAGIQUE.
Marti has starred in several other films besides Cremaster 1, including DIRTY (1992), based on George Bataille's The Blue of Noon, and JACK THE RIPPER (2002), a black-and-white horror feature.
CREMASTER RELATED:
Marti appeared as "Goodyear" for Matthew Barney's parade and film March with the Anal Sadistic Warrior at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (1995). She collaborated with electric guitarist Paul Twinkle in an evening of 1930's-showgirl-inspired song and dance, The White Dahlia, for the opening of Cremaster 1 at Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland (1998). During the recent Guggenheim Cremaster Cycle exhibit, she sang in an event conducted by Jonathan Bepler as part of the Works and Process series (with 15 other musicians including Paul Brady, Will Rahmer, and a small container of live bees).
www.soundofbeaut.com/band/band.html