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Cai Guo-Qiang's fireworks explosions%u2014poetic and ambitious at their core%u2014aim to establish an exchange between viewers and the larger universe. For his work, Cai draws on a wide variety of materials, symbols and traditions including elements of feng shui, Chinese medicine, gunpowder, as well as images of dragons and tigers, cars and boats, mushroom clouds and I Ching. Cai Guo-Qiang is featured in the Season 3 episode "Power" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century". For more

Laurie Simmons stages photographs and films with paper dolls, finger puppets, ventriloquist dummies, and costumed dancers as 'living objects', animating a dollhouse world suffused with nostalgia and colored by an adult's memories, longings, and regrets. Her work blends psychological, political and conceptual approaches to art making, transforming photography's propensity to objectify people, especially women, into a sustained critique of the medium. Laurie Simmons is featured in the Season 4 episode "Roman

Mark Bradford transforms materials scavenged from the street into wall-sized collages and installations that respond to the impromptu networks%u2014underground economies, migrant communities, or popular appropriation of abandoned public space%u2014that emerge within a city. Bradford's work is informed by his personal background as a third-generation merchant in Los Angeles and by the traditions of abstract painting developed worldwide in the twentieth century. Mark Bradford is featured in the Season 4 epis

Art:21-Art in the Twenty-First Century is the only primetime national television series in the US to focus exclusively on contemporary art and artists. Through in-depth profiles and interviews, the series reveals the inspiration, vision and techniques behind the creative works of some of today's most accomplished contemporary artists. For more information please visit http://www.art21.org � 2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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