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NEW YORK - Sarah Chuldenko and Jenna Gribbon have two things in common: Jeff Koons and Album Co.'s upcoming art salon.
Both women worked for Koons. Gribbon spent a year painting for the artist; Chuldenko now logs 40-hour weeks in the vast Koons studio, which she likens to "Santa's workshop with aprons and time cards."
Chuldenko and Gribbon will be the featured artists at Album Co.'s second art salon this evening, at 515 West 29th Street, and their work couldn't be more different. Chuldenko paints large canvases of historic explosions, such as the Challenger accident in 1986; she replaced the smoke with images of gastrointestinal cancer. Gribbon's work is tiny. She places renderings of empty New York spaces inside small cedar boxes and populates...