2012
Karole Armitage, United States
Frank Benson, United States
Karl Haendel, United States
Ester Partegas, Spain
Amy Sillman, United States
Dirk Stewen, Germany

2011
Rob Fischer, United States
David Fenster, United States
Justin Almquist, United States
Nick Herman, United States
Bill Morrison, United States
Erin Shirreff, British Columbia

2010
Ellen Altfest, United States
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, France/Belgium
Marc Ganzglass, United States
Steve Roden, United States
Bill Saylor, United States
Melanie Schiff, United States

2009
Rita Ackermann, United States
Adam Davies, United States
Folke Köbberling & Martin Kaltwasser, Germany
Mischa Kuball, Germany
Sarah McEneaney, United States
Alex Schweder, United States

2008
Mark Flood, United States
Erik Göngrich, Germany
Monika Grzymala, Germany
Charline von Heyl, United States
Jason Tomme, United States
Jeff Zilm, United States

2007
Joanne Greenbaum, United States
Adam Helms, United States
Claudia Hinsch, Germany
Annette Kisling, Germany
Michael Krumenacker, United States
Paul Lee, United States
Daniel Sturgis, United Kingdom

2006
Oliver Croy, Austria
Mikael Levin, United States
Brian Kirk Nelms, United States
Jesus Palomino, Spain
Petra Trenkel, Germany
Christopher Wool, United States

2005
Mai Braun, Finland
Shane Huffman, United States
Maureen Gallace, United States
Isa Melsheimer, Germany
Wilhelm Sasnal, Poland

2004
Gail Peter Borden, United States
Christian Freudenberger, Germany
Matthew Day Jackson, United States
Corinna Schnitt, Germany
Monique van Genderen, United States
Heike Weber, Germany
Michael Yoder, United States

2003
Ariane Epars, Switzerland
Lies Kraal, The Netherlands
Thomas Müller, Germany
Avery Preesman, The Netherlands
Erwin Redl, Austria
Judi Werthein, Argentina

2002
Gudrun Flach, Germany
Jaroslaw Flicinski, Poland
Hlynur Hallsson, Iceland
Graciela Hasper, Argentina
Nestor Kruger, Canada
Albrecht Kunkel, Germany
Katherine Merz, United States

2001
Susan Chorpenning, United States
Julian Dashper, New Zealand
Howard Goldkrand, United States
Christina Hejtmanek, United States
Emi Winter, Mexico

2000
Margrét Haraldsdóttir Blöndal, Iceland
Andrea Claire, United States
Katharina Hinsberg, Austria
Michael Meredith, United States
Andreas Schmid, Germany

1999
Alexander Braun, Germany
Katharina Grosse, Germany
Ann-Michele Morales, United States
Makato Sasaki, Japan
Claudia Schmacke, Germany
Richard Wearn, New Zealand

1998
Degenhard Andrulat, Germany
Igor Antic, France
John Beech, United States
Jeff Elrod, United States
Kumiko Kurachi, Japan
Valérie Mréjen, France

1997
Bernhard Härtter, Germany
Leonard Kemp, United States
Ulrike Kessl, Germany
Kathranne Knight, United States
Polly Lanning Sparrow, United States
Jennifer Siegal, United States
Daniela Steinfeld Rau, Germany
Karien Vandekerkhove, Belgium

1996
Angela Ferreira, Portugal
Jutta Glöckner, Great Britain
Mary Ellen Latas, United States
Sigrun Paulsen, Germany
Kate Shepherd, United States
Jurek Wybraniec, Australia

1995
Jim Malone, United States
Elizabeth McBride, United States
Carina Plath, Germany
Richard Schwartzwald, United States
Gwendolyn Smolka, Germany

1994
Rupert Deese, United States
Anders Kruger, Denmark
Joost van Oss, The Netherlands
Regina Stralka, Germany
Karen and Jörg Berg, Germany

1993
Stephan Baumkötter, Germany
Daniel Göttin, Switzerland
Andreas Karl Schulze, Germany
Sonny Thorbjirnsdottir, Iceland

1992
Ingólfur Arnarsson, Iceland
Nadja Nanopoulos, Greece

1991
Brian Wendleman, Sweden

1990
Ragna Hermannsdóttir, Iceland

1989
John Wesley, United States

Michael Krumenacker

Michael Krumenacker makes sculptures out of cast-off, scavenged, and cheap, commercially available materials: scrap wood, concrete, fabric, carpet, tile, plaster, and other items that catch his eye. He has worked construction jobs for many years and regularly makes off with bits of job-site rubble and debris, as well as trawling for materials on the streets of Brooklyn, where he lives.

Krumenacker uses junkyard bric-a-brac to make his sculptures somewhat resemble home furnishings or décor. Rather than sleek stylings or a high-end finish, however, his works display a deliberately homemade look, and are often deceptively crude in appearance. Planks of wood are banged together. Electrical cords snake haphazardly. The concrete is slathered, the plaster smeared. Krumenacker uses simple tools and doesn't try to dress up his materials. This gives the sculptures an ad-hoc, slaphappy look, as though they might revert to their previous state at any moment.

Krumenacker's Locker Plant exhibition included a large outdoor sculpture, a sort of living room set created from scrap and cozily installed in the back room, and a number of freestanding and "shelf" works in the front. The sculptures' titles, and sometimes their forms, occasionally reference politics, pop culture, and illustrious art-historical predecessors. But the works always steer clear of easy classification. Some resemble models. Some look like shelves, or tables, or maybe just a plank with a series of objects lined up. The forms don't resolve into function; it's hard to identify a precise context where these bibelots would be at home. They ape the mannerisms of fashion and décor and display a command of color and form, but it's as if the fabricator was working with primitive means and a lot of guesswork. The end effect is sly, as the pieces scramble ingrained visual notions of style, privilege, and taste. They operate in a zone that is at once primitive, sophisticated, and somewhere in between.

Michael Krumenacker was born in New Hampshire and has a BA from Castleton State College in Vermont and a MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. He has participated in many group shows in New York at venues such as Goliath Visual Space, Taxter and Spengemann, S1 Gallery, Morsel, and the Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts. In summer 2005 he was an artist in residence at the Edward Albee Foundation in Montauk, New York. Krumenacker lives in Brooklyn.