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Imminent Disaster’s work, now on view at the Poets of the Paste show at Ad Hoc Art, emits a flurry of stories. The woman behind the street art talks with NYAB about culture jamming, her feminist and historical proclivities, and how it feels to sell her first works of art.

Berlin-based artist Jay Gard sits down with NYAB to talk about his first U.S. solo show DoubleGard running at Half Gallery through July 10, 2008.

CAVE is an artists’ collective, gallery-performance space and arts organization. Founded in 1996 and organized as a non-profit organization in 2004, CAVE is now one of the longest running experimental art spaces in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, NY.

“The feedback I really take to heart comes from the audiences who come to my show and talk to me there. I feel like I’ve been going around collecting these opinions on an individual basis, because personal thoughts are what I remember the most.”

“Beyond the fragmented and broken structures, the easiest way to affiliate myself with Brooklyn, and my neighborhood, is my choice of color. A lot of grey and metal, silver, fake gold and neon spray paint.”

German born artist Pia Dehne has a zeal for taking cultural artifacts from her past and transforming them into work that is relevant and fresh.

Based in Brooklyn, New York, Keiko Uenishi, a.k.a. o.blaat is a sound artist, composer, and core member of SHARE. She is known for her sound works formed through experiments in restructuring and analyzing one’s relationship with sounds, through kinesthetic response as well as aural cognition.