Dream So MuchDream So Much is the brainchild of brother-sister tandem Richard Chang and Alexandra Chang. These two founded Dream So Much as an artists’ collective on the principal of promoting and aiding emerging artists, notably of urban backgrounds. The collective’s first major group show, “Dream So Much 2” (2003), garnered praise from The New York Times’ Holland Cotter, who called the exhibition “attractive and promising.” In 2004, Dream So Much collaborated with Japanese bicycle manufacturer Be.BIKE on an exhibition featuring eight limited edition artist-designed city bikes. The collective has been featured in publications from New York to Japan to Europe.

Richard Chang is a writer living in Brooklyn. He has written both fiction and non-fiction pieces for several publications, including The New York Times, Columbia: A Journal of Art and Literature and The Tulane Review.

Project to Surface is an arts writer, filmmaker and independent curator. She is currently writing a book on Asian American Art forthcoming in 2008 with Timezone 8 Art Books and project partner Asian / Pacific / American Institute at New York University, where she currently works. She is also producing a film on Asian American Art and is the art columnist for Asiance magazine. She has served as the managing editor for Art Asia Pacific magazine and has earned a Master’s in Asian American Art History from NYU.

SELECTED PRESS: The New York Times, Art Asia Pacific, Art Prostitute, The Clash (France), Quest (Japan), City Magazine (Hong Kong), amNewYork, Bang (Taiwan), Lowdown (Germany), The Village Voice.

Grainworks is a design collective founded by Ben Krone which aims to explore relationships between architecture and graphic arts through the use of computer-aided, precision manufacturing processes. Ben has worked on a range of scales from furniture and exhibition design to full building construction, and has been featured in Metropolis, Architectural Record, and Interior Design magazines and on HGTV.