Sigrid Burton, who lives and works in SOHO, in New York City, was born in Pasadena and came of age in the LA art scene of the 50's and 60's. She gained early inspiration from the paintings of Morris Louis, Ken Noland and other color field paintings in the Robert Rowan Collection. She later studied at Berkeley and Bennington, with a faculty including such luminaries as Helen Frankenthaler, Jules Olitski, as well as Noland and Louis. Burton studied in Italy in 1985 on a Rockefeller residency, and in India as a Fulbright Fellowship recipient in 1994-95. Both cultures have left lasting impressions on her intriguing palette and hue combinations.

Burton's work is probably best described by the moniker of lyrical abstraction, although it is alos clearly color field painting. The work could be called pure abstraction, if the natural forms that seem to be unearthed in the archaeology of Burton's compositions did not exist, in some cases floating beneath the lucid waters of her blues and greens, and in others, shining forth from the depths of rich jewel-toned fields of color, anchoring the work delicately to the figurative, as if by a nearly invisible thread.

Burton's work is contained in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the Palm Springs Desert Museum, and a wide variety of private corporations including Merck (commissioned), Coca-Cola, Steelcase, Loews Theater Corporation NYC, Citicorp NY and LA, Prudential Insurance, and the Rockefeller Foundations, among many others. To view more of Burton's work visit www.sigridburton.com.

Gillian Brown and Inga McCaslin Frick, although they are each artists in their own right, enjoy collaborating on video projects. EACH/OTHER is one such installation, remarkably beautiful and filled with longing and loss. In a completely blackened room, a single swimmer becomes three figures slowly swimming toward one another to the rhythm of a calm voice reciting text by Merleau-Ponty. When the swimmers finally converge, they disappear and the process begins anew. Futility and separation are partners in this haunting piece.

Brown was educated at Brown University (BA), Rhode Island School of Design (MAE), and University of California, Los Angeles (MFA), and currently teaches at Maharishi University in Fairfield, Iowa. She is a painter and photographer as well, and has recently become involved in the creation of small sculptures that integrate video projection. FLATFILEcontemporary exhibited two such pieces in its inaugural exhibition. Brown, who has shown thorughout the country in numerous solo and group exhibitions, has work in the permanent collections of the Bibliotheque National and The Centre George Pompidou in Paris, Cal Arts, NIU, Princeton, and the Seattle Art Museum among others. Brown's work has been critiqued in a vast number of publications over the past 21 years.

Inga McCaslin Frick studied at the University of California, Santa Cruz (BA, BFA), and earned two MFA's, one from the University of Pennsylvania and the other from the University of Maryland. She has garnered many awards and grants, among them a Bunting Fellowship to Harvard. Her work has been shown across the US in numerous solo and group exhibitons and she has been extensively reviewed in a variety of publications including Art in America, Art Papers, and repeatedly in The Washington Post and the Boston Globe. Frick is currently a professor at Stateson University, where she teaches in the Digital Audio/Video department.