Take Me to the River

PRINCIPAL ARTIST MEMBERS
John Brown-USA
David Carlson-USA
Richard L. Dana-USA
Ashraf Fouad-Egypt
Mansoora Hassan
-Pakistan/USA
Judy Jashinsky-USA
Donna Kukama- South Africa
Ivana Panizzi-Brazil
Patricia Secco-Brazil
Ruza Spak-Germany
Betsy Stewart-USA
Andres Tremols-Cuba/USA

CURATOR
Cohn Drennan -USA

ASSOCIATE ARTIST MEMBERS
Neno Belchev-Bulgaria
Y. David Chung
-USA/Germany/Korea
Billy Colbert-USA
Sherman Fleming-USA
Abrie Fourie- South Africa
JeanNette Gaussi
-Germany/Afghanistan
Suguru Hiraide -Japan
Sadik Incesu-Turkey
Maggie Michael -USA
Randall Packer-USA
Jose Ruiz-Peru
Lars Torres-USA

ARTIST PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS
Turan AksOY-Turkey
Svetozara Alexandrova
-Bulgaria
Liz Yarosz Ash-USA
B.C. Gilbert-USA
Khaled Hafez-Egypt
Nicholas Hlobo-South Africa
Sharlene Khan -South Africa
Claudette Lopez-Jamaica
Churchill Mandikida
-South Africa
Hassan Meer-Oman
Nur Muskara-Turkey
Moataz Nasr -Egypt
Shady El Noshokaty -Egypt
Guntac Ozdemir-Turkey
Hossam Sakr-Egypt

El Mar y El Cielo, 2006, video

Jose Ruiz (Peru)

José Ruiz was born in Lima, Peru, in 1975. He received a BA from the University of Maryland with a major in Painting along with a minor in Latin American Studies. Ruiz received a MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute's New Genres Department in 2004. Recently, he has served as a visiting artist at Napa Valley College, Marcia Wood Gallery and Whittier College and was also nominated to be an Alumni Representative for the San Francisco Art Institute during the 2005–2006 academic year. He has won numerous awards such as the Workspace Program Residency in Queens, NY, the Trawick Prize's Young Artist Award, a Visual Artist Fellowship from the DC Commission on the Arts, and a Merit Fellowship from the San Francisco Art Institute. His work is represented by G Fine Art in Washington, DC, and Steven Wolf Fine Arts in San Francisco, CA. José Ruiz lives and works in New York, NY.

www.joseruizart.com