"New York, New York..." is also centered upon concepts of cultural exchange as a means of dialogue toward further understanding. As a guest of my friend Roberto Pinto, this show is also hopefully one interesting installment in the bigger series of exhibitions (Atmosfere Metropolitane). Having worked in Milano for two years and knowing Roberto in this time, it is a pleasure to be able to present these artists who may now live in New York. Like the series of lectures at the Triennale di Milano Roberto has been working on over the last five years, the artists presented here represent a diverse range of contemporary art from the colorful graffiti inspired works of the Mexican artist Mosco to the Minimalism of Kira Lynn Harris' (Los Angeles) installation Shimmer. Boston-born Nicole Agbay Cherubini creates color saturated photographs of composed yet jarringly ironic scenes. The video works of Colombian artist Ariana Arenas Ilian picture video as a form of contemporary painting, an examination of the frame of the ubiquitous screen. Nadia Cohen was born and raised in Zimbabwe and has been working in New York since the early 80s. Jennie C. Jones and Jeffrey Hargraves hail from the American South but both have come to New York were they both have shown regularly in the past two years. Jones's site-specific installation goes to the heart of the matter of moving in on the Big City, while Hargrave's paintings are often reminiscent of a plethora of stereotypical images that have been associated with the southern United States. Nigerian-born Donald Odita, like Kira Lynn Harris, also uses minimal means to explore hidden information. Shaped like home plate in baseball or a traditional house form, his painting Home represents the ambiguity of this word.