Claire Wolf Krantz will premier a new body of work entitled Meditations on Ruin. Krantz, who is well known for her paintings, mixes processes and elements in her digital images, creating a hybrid of painting and photography about, in her own words, the fictions we create. Religions of the world abound in the nooks and crannies of Krantz's landscapes; elements drawn from her travels and given new life through the combination of media in this multifarious work. This is work about and by a citizen of the world. Krantz has been shown and widely reviewed around the globe, and counts The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art, Franklin Furnace Archives, NYC, and the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, among the collections her work is to be found in.

Arlene Becker studies the scenes of the everyday, and then, using digital tools, highlights or alters only certain meaningful elements within the scene to create almost eerie tableaux that signify issues of identification and individuation. Ordinary Icons in America is the theme of Becker's haunting imagery. Such diverse venues as fast food restaurants, churches, and public festivals are the settings for these narratives of solitude, longing, alienation, and connection. Social interaction and lack thereof is the motif that repeats itself in Becker's estranged, Hopper-like landscapes. Becker has been widely shown, reviewed and collected across the US.

Note: After choosing the two women to show together in DIGITAL VISION 2004, Susan Aurinko, the exhibit's curator and Director of FLATFILE, discovered that Becker, who lived in Chicago until the mid 90's, shared a studio with Krantz 20 years ago! Aurinko found a similarity between the women's' sensibility and expression of sociological phenomena and decided to show them together, and only upon speaking to them, learned of the coincidence.

Marlena Novak and Jay Alan Yim, aka localStyle, have been creating work together since founding localStyle in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 2000. The piece which will fill FLATFILEphotography's project room for this exhibit, DANCING CRANES, has been shown in The Davis Center in MA*, The Museum Het Domein and Mondriaanhuis-Museum for Constructive and Concrete Art*, both in the Netherlands, and Klein Art Works and Columbia College's A&D 11th Street Gallery, Chicago. Other works of localStyle have been shown in Poland, Australia, and across the US. LocalStyle is represented in Chicago by Klein Art Works. (*venue purchased work for collection)