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Other highlights from the exhibition include: a new site-specific installation of beer can butterflies by New York artist PAUL VILLINSKI whose works deal with the concept of transformation. Two large charcoal india ink and BP spilled oil drawings by Portland, OR artist BRIAN BORRELLO whose work comments on the man vs. nature and the environmental consequences of man's actions. New York artist Maximilian Toth presents to large scale oil on canvas works that address the issues of rites of passage and adolescent rituals. Chilean artist Sebastian Preece presents a new series of photographic works entitled "Libros" from a recent excavation project of his grandfathers ancestral home, an installation of these books were presented at The Arsenale at the 2011 Venice Biennale. Philadelphia artist and 2008 Pew Fellow Matthew Cox unveils a new suite of embroidered X-rays; Spanish artist Daniel Canogar will present a large-scale photograph from his Entredos series where his subjects appear to float in tangle of brightly colored wires and ropes.

Several artists in the exhibition have exhibited across the globe, been reviewed in international art publications such as Art In America, ARTNews, Art Forum and The New York Times and are in numerous museum and private collections including The Whitney Museum of American Art (Dan Tague), 21C Museum (Michael Combs), MFA Houston (Ken Matsubara), Museum of Arts and Design (Paul Villinski) Reina Sofia Contemporary Art Museum, Madrid, Spain (Daniel Canogar), The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation (Gina Phillips) and Cisneros Foundation (David Buckingham).