IFSC open studios

So I get home one evening this week and noticed a sign in the elevator: "Mini-Open Studios 7th and 8th Floors." Woohoo! Head up there, have a glass of wine and look at art without leaving the building my own studio is in! I'm not sure what IFSC stands for, but I'm pretty sure the "I" is for international since the artists were really coming from some exotic spots. The work ranged the gamut too, from new digital media to video, sound, painting, photo, etc. Identity was a popular theme, with Lala Rascic of Croatia (who is an amazing actor in her monologues where she plays alll the parts) and much talked about up-and-comer Tomoko Sawada of Japan. Sawada's ID400 consists of 400 different identities she assumes. Much is made of her NOT taking the photos (instead opting for photo-booths and other photographers) and the intimation of Japanese arranged marriages (?). Still, the Cindy Sherman reference is inevitable. Here's some:
http://www.zabriskiegallery.com/Sawada%202003/ID400.htm
There was also Maori artist Reuben Paterson, whose glitter paintings definitely play on what we consider chintzy in the West. He can be found here:
http://www.gowlangsfordgallery.co.nz/artists/reubenpaterson/
And then JBK Ransu, from Iceland (also into gaudy colors) whose paintings reverberate through the color/value shifts and fluorescent paint. He's most interested in combining the impulsive sensuality of Abstract Expressionism with geometric, hard-edge painting- kind of a Vistor Vasarely/Pollock stepchild. Find him at:
www.this.is/veransu/ransu
Here's my pic.s (in the order I've mentioned artists above, excluding Sawada)