Berglind Agustsdottir
 Gino (Digital Prints, Line Drawings)
Description: i work with fairytale of my life. flavors.me/berglind

Rahne Alexander
Simoom  (Video, 4:42)
Description:  Communication breaks down in the wake of disaster. Based on “MS. Found in a Bottle” by Edgar Allen Poe, commissioned for 24 Frames of Madness- A Cinematic Celebration of the Works of Edgar Allan Poe at the Baltimore Museum of Art, December 2009, Baltimore MD.
Bio:  Rahne Alexander is a writer, musician and multimedia artist from Baltimore. Her video art has screened across the US, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, MIX (NYC) and Freewaves (LA) and she was featured in the 2010 rockumentary Riot Acts with her queer art rock power trio, The Degenerettes. The second Degenerettes album, Philosopher Queens, was released in January 2012.  www.rahne.com


Kristen Anchor
Mise-en-Kitschen (Video, Rotoscope Animation)
Description: Animated hand-drawn kitchen disasters, rotoscoped from kitchen accident scenes in Hollywood films (from the 1970’s forward)  create a tense world of domestic unrest, trapped in the space of the kitchen with accidents, danger, and death at every turn.
Bio: Kristen Anchor is an audio visual artist and musician. She plays drums with The Degenerettes Her work has screened at film festivals, events, and galleries throughout the U.S. She’s currently working on her MFA at UMBC’s IMDA program. kristenanchor.com


Michael Farley
Untitled (diptych) 2011
Description:  The diptych aims to evoke a sense of nostalgia for something lost; my response to the loss of physical queer cruising space and the gay dive bar in Baltimore. What killed the gay bar? Economic conditions? Competition from the sex-on-demand internet dating world? Gentrification? This portable shrine to sleazy reminds the viewer that the city has lost something.
Bio: Michael Farley is a Baltimore artist, performer, designer, and curator. His work spans a broad spectrum of media and subject matter in response to context. He has exhibited and performed across the Northeastern United States, Canada, and Miami. He received a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculptural Studies from MICA and is working on anMFA at University of Maryland Baltimore County.


Joseph Faura
Clash of the Titans (Digital Animation)
Description: Clash of the Titans is a series of hand-made and digital collages of human-animal hybrid creatures. They are made of fragments of photographic images and objects, all of which are collected from print magazines. They blur the line between the beautiful and the grotesque, and between the symbolic and the unexplainable. In turn, these collages are turned into animations and installation pieces through digital manipulation.
Bio: Joseph Faura lives in Baltimore, Maryland where he recently received a Master in Fine Arts degree in Visual Arts from the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He is interested in how our modern worship of celebrity, youth and beauty is mythologized and ritualized. mavienrose.com


Kati Green
David Wojnarowicz (Burning House) (Scratchboard)
Description: This is a portrait of the artist and outspoken activist David Wojnarowicz, who died too soon and had so much more to say.
Bio: Kati Green is an illustrator, fine artist, aspiring drummer, and future tattooer living in idyllic Portland, OR. She received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD in 2005. Since then, she has been winning at life. www.katigreen.com


Hafsteinn Hafsteinsson
Hrafns hlátur (Ink on Paper)
Artist Statement: I am fascinated with nostalgia and how one image can convey a story and history. The mystery of Icelandic nature piqued my curiousity and imagination when I was a child and ever since then I have been trying to capture this feeling and convey it into a image where the sense of normality and the bizzarre meet as one and tell a long history.


Hakon Hildibrand
Keeper of Spiritus (Video, 20min)
Description: Special ambassadorial introduction of Icelandic culture in the narration of Mrs. Malfridur Markan, the Fjallkona and founder of Icelandic hospitality.
Bio: Malfridur Markan is a performer in Iceland. A caring countryside grandma with passion for keeping up spirits. Malfridur is keen on cooking/foods in general, traveling and is completely fascinated with cocks. She has taught over 3000 Icelandic women the basics in house- and husband-keeping, including the art of deep throating. Malfridur traveled iceland a whole summer as a tourist in her own country to see the best of what Iceland has to offer. www.malfridur.is 


Kate Huh
My Queer Heart (Digital Slideshow)
Description:  These are photos from queer cultural events and spaces in NYC. These images focus on various communities in this city and the experience of love we have when we find ourselves together in a common place.  Locations include; Coney Island Mermaid Parade, The Annual Drag March, Bay One Riis Beach (a queer public beach since the 1930′s), Queer House Field Days, Le Petit Versailles Community Garden, The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History, MIX Queer Experimental Film Festival and several house parties.
Bio: Kate Huh is a NYC based artist/activist. She has exhibited her visual art, installations and films throughout the United States and Europe since 1982. Her work appears in the following books; “Time Capsule, a Concise Encyclopedia of Women Artists” Creative Time 1995, “Caught in the Act” Aperture Foundation 1996, “A Girl’s Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings from the Girl Zine Revolution” Macmillan 1997, “Dangerous Families” Hawthorn Press, 2004, “Positively Nasty” LTTR 2006, “Queer Zines” Printed Matter 2008. Reviews of her work include: New York Times, Art in Review, July 2008 and Art Forum Magazine, December 2008. Selected films and artwork are in the collection of the Bildwechsel Archive, Hamburg, Germany.


Cyriaco Lopes
Celestial Bodies: A Sci-Fi Adventure (Video, 5min)
Description: Celestial Bodies: A Sci-Fi Adventure is a dreamy travelogue through deep space where the world inside and outside collapse inside out and the body becomes site and stage. While getting farther and farther into space, into love, into memory, the narrator realizes that there is no return.
Bio: In the U.S., Cyriaco Lopes’ work has been seen at The Contemporary Art Museums in Baltimore and Saint Louis, at El Museo and at Apexart in NYC. In his native Brazil his work appeared at the National Museum of Fine Arts, The Museums of Modern Art in Rio and Salvador and the São Paulo Art Museum (MASP). His work appeared in art institutions in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Chile, Portugal, and since 2009 it was seen in Guent, Nantes, Belfast, Florianópolis and Genoa. His work has been curated by such artists as Lygia Pape, Janine Antoni, Ryan Trecartin and Luciano Fabro, as well as by art critics such as Paulo Herkenhoff.  He is a professor at John Jay College/CUNY in NYC. cyriacolopes.com


Cyle Metzger
Discrete Entrance (Drawing on Paper)
Artist Statement: We are constantly making decisions about how much of ourselves to show to each other, and we use various architectures to control how much we are seen or not seen by those around us. In my most recent drawing and installation work, I bring the discomfort and complication of negotiating boundaries of privacy into physical architecture, giving physicality to a largely informational experience.  Bio: Cyle Metzger is an artist and writer raised in southern California. His work is inspired by inaccessible spaces and experiences of negotiating social barriers. Since receiving his MFA from MICA in 2010, he has been granted residency fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center and New York State’s Salem Art Works, and a number of exhibition opportunities in California, New York, Maryland and Delaware, and the opportunity to teach at Towson University in Maryland. He currently lives in Baltimore. cylemetzger.com


Madsen Minax
Untitled Alterations (Photo Prints)
Description:  Untitled Alterations is current performance and photography project wherein I perform permanent interventions on project participants by outlining in tattoo form, with tattoo ink, the shapes of their pre-existing stretch marks. This project is concerned with the nature of intimacy in communities and subcultures, personal agency, bodily transgressions, transformative processes, and challenges the idea of an ‘audience’ in contemporary art practices. To date I have completed 9 of these performances/tattoos, and will continue these interventions for an undetermined amount of time as participants continue to volunteer.
Bio: Madsen Minax is a creating connoisseur obsessed with agency, vaudeville, intimacy, werewolves, parting, self construction and a slew of other stuff. Madsen’s works are integrations of moving images, story and text, songs and music, pop and sub cultures, drawing, absurdity and love.  Madsen’s films and videos have screened widely across the United States and abroad.  His first feature film, Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance, completed in 2010, is set to air on the cable television channel Free Speech TV, in 2012.  madsenminax.com