Then and Now shots from Ultra Kate Bingaman-Burt

You have two days to get yourself into the jb to see the Hey, Hot Shot! ne plus ultra annual. The work of Ultras Ian Baguskas, Kate Bingaman-Burt, Alison Grippo, and Joseph O. Holmes is up and on the walls through Saturday for your viewing pleasure. It’s a fantastic show, if I can say so myself, and if you are in NYC you absolutely do not have an excuse––see the show!

A little motivation in Ultra updates, facts, and fun:

Ian is busy, busy, busy––working on a book and getting his prime portfolio together. I take it as a good thing that he doesn’t have time to respond to my emails full of silly requests. We are, of course, expecting nothing but ultra-goodness.

Kate, busy as ever, spends her days as Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Mississippi State University. If you’re in the Milwaukee area, Kate’s got a show up at the Paperboat Gallery through March 29. And she will be a presenter + panelist for Art For Consumption: the 36th Annual Pop Culture Conference in Atlanta on April 13.

Alison is applying for grants and waiting for warmer weather. Her work can be found in this month’s edition of the UK magazine Digital Photographer, her boxing work is to be featured in a magazine based in the Ukraine later this Spring, and she has an article and photo essay on New Orleans heading to press. In her free time, Ms. Grippo has been donating her photography skills to Henry Buhl’s Project Comeback. And we can expect to see some new and fabulous work, she shot her first pro-fight last week in Lancaster, PA and apparently L-O-V-E-D it.

Joe continues to consistently produce excellent work and plans to give over his spring to just that. To keep your interests piqued, some random facts from Joe’s past: For twelve years Joe was a criminal appeals lawyer in the Legal Aid Society’s offices on Park Row. As an aspiring screenwriter, Joe was represented for a time by a Los Angeles literary manager. For another bit of time, he built and maintained the site Space Age Bachelor Pad Music. And he was a Contributing Editor at MacAddict Magazine from the very first issue in 1996 until it turned into Mac|Life magazine last month. For fun, his high school band Ozone did an amazing cover of “All the Young Dudes.”

I’ll leave it at that. You have Friday and Saturday to see the work live––go!

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