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Sandra Chevrier Solo Show at Galerie C.O.A | October 2017
Sandra Chevrier Vernissage | Thursday, October 19th, 5-9 PM
See the artworks in the exhibition!
+ View the vernissage photo gallery
+ Take a virtual tour of the exhibition!
At Galerie C.O.A, Fall 2017 is female. After the powerful Pussylluminati show by Miss Me which kicked off our year, we have the pleasure of presenting our very first solo exhibition of Sandra Chevrier's work right here at her home gallery.
As of October 19th, 2017, Quebec artist Sandra Chevrier will present "The Cages; Between the Bars", a solo exhibition of her most recent work, at Galerie C.O.A.
The cage motif is at the heart of Sandra Chevrier's œuvre. Made of comic book fragments which the artist collages onto her models' faces, the cages act as masks, but also allow to peer inside and observe what they conceal. Beneath the pop facture and the flashy colours, the precision and lustre of her portraits, Chevrier's masked models (all from Montreal) act like prisms and allow us to peer at the dance between power and fragility; between liberty and captivity. Despite all the colourful playfulness and the "CRASH! BAM! POW!," superheroes are also fragile. After all, we are merely human, and we are entitled to our flaws and errors.
Although her artwork is internationally acclaimed, Sandra Chevrier's name remains relatively unknown in her home country. Sandra Chevrier has presented solo exhibitions in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and Norway contemporary art galleries. She has participated in many art fairs across the world, notably in London, Miami and New York. Her artwork is currently on display at the Urban Nation Museum in Berlin, and in 2018, she will present an exhibition at the Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH), in California.
Brasserie Les 2 Frères, Romeo's Gin, and Rouge Gorge wines are generously sponsoring the vernissage, along with Panache tonic water.
CONTEXT New York | 2016
Booth C-35
Sandra Chevrier, Alejandro Carpintero, Alexandra Levasseur, Eric Nado, Zoltan Veevaete
SCOPE Miami | 2015
Booth C-01
Sandra Chevrier, Isaac Cordal, Alexandra Levasseur, Eric Nado, Russ Noto, Spazuk, Zoltan Veevaete
[...] MUTE
September 17th to October 17th, 2015
17 artists, 1 size only (24" x 20")
[CA] Sandra Chevrier, Eric Godin, Alexandra Levasseur, Robert Mathieson, Spazuk, Zoltan Veevaete [US] Benjamin Cook, Max Kauffman, Kindah Khalidy, Will Kurtz, Jay Miriam, Russ Noto, Wendelin Wohlgemuth [ES] Roger Sanguino [NO] Line Osmundsen [IR/NO] Nina Ghafari [CO] Johan Barrios
When it comes to admiring artistic beauty, there is a widely acknowledged common ground. Definitions can only fade into the background and give way to the notion of perception. More than any other form, artistic beauty can leave its viewer at a loss for words. The artists taking part in this exhibit drew inspiration from the information overload we are subjected to on a daily basis. Beyond the state of contemplation brought on by these artworks, they cast a colourful reflection that is muted yet outlined, offering themselves to observation. Galerie C.O.A is also proud to announce their latest collaboration with Alexandra Levasseur and Zoltan Veevaete and to present their work, by way of this exhibit.

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Business • Startups • Venture
Atlanta-Based OneTrust Raises $210M Series B, More Than Doubles Valuation To $2.7B
OneTrust, an Atlanta-based privacy, security and third-party risk technology platform, announced this morning it has raised a massive $210 million Series B. The financing more than doubled its valuation to $2.7 billion.
Coatue and Insight Partners led the round.
The investment comes just seven months after OneTrust raised an also massive $200 million Series A at a $1.3 billion valuation. It brought the company's total venture raised to $410 million since its 2016 inception. (Insight Partners led that round as well.)
I hopped on the phone with OneTrust chairman Alan Dabbiere, who said the company has been seeing explosive growth. By explosive we mean its headcount and customers surged from 600 and 2,000, respectively, in February 2019 to 1,500 employees and 5,000 customers today (including half the Fortune 500).
While he declined to provide growth metrics for 2019, the Atlanta Business Chronicle previously reported that OneTrust had seen a staggering 22,000 percent revenue growth from 2016 to 2018.
There's no doubt that much of that growth is related to the fact that it helps organizations comply with global regulations like General Data Protection Regulation and now in California, the California Consumer Privacy Act that went into effect on Jan. 1.
"Certainly, the concern for privacy is driving our business," Dabbiere told me. "We're seeing the transition from companies being fearful or scared of compliance issues to every CEO wanting to get closer to their customer.
"The challenge they have is wanting to get a lot more data about customers so they can serve them better," he continued. "But every CEO is also scared of ending up on the front of The Wall Street Journal because someone on their team overreached."
Customers include Aetna, Akamai, American Cancer Society, Marketo and Oracle.
So much, so soon
I was curious why OneTrust, if it was seeing such remarkable growth, felt the need to raise its Series B round so soon after its Series A financing. According to Dabbiere, the majority of the funds from OneTrust's Series A are still available. But more capital gives the company "dry powder" to go after what it sees as "significant opportunities" for growth.
"We want to move fast on any organic and inorganic growth opportunities we may see in the market," he told Crunchbase News.
Dabbiere said the doubling of the company's valuation is indicative of OneTrust's recent success.
"When a VC invests in a company, they have certain growth expectations built into the number they give you," he said. "In the last seven months, our valuation went from $1.3 billion to $2.7 billion. That tells you that we knocked it out of the park even relative to some lofty expectations. We had a really fantastic back half of the year."
Standing out in a crowded market
While there's a slew of companies focused on the data privacy space, as our own Gene Teare reported yesterday, OneTrust does appear to have a strong foothold in the market. (In December I covered a new entrant to the market, Austin-based Osano.)
But despite all the competition, OneTrust stands out, according to a recent analysis of the privacy market by research giant IDC.
In that report, IDC said: "OneTrust continues to dominate the privacy management market through exponential growth, organic growth as well as acquisitions. … They are growing horizontally into the governance, risk, and compliance space as well."
Indeed, OneTrust has acquired four companies over its lifetime, and plans to continue buying more with its new capital, according to Dabbiere. This is a strategy that the company believes will make its offerings even more valuable to customers.
Dabbiere believes that part of what sets OneTrust apart from its competition is that it continues to develop new modules that are important to customers.
"As our existing 5,000 customers continue to buy more and more modules from us, we expect our growth to only continue," Dabbiere told me. "In a fairly short amount of time, we have made the transition from a handful of products to a fully integrated platform with a broad suite of products that responds to the trust and risk needs of our customers."
Investor POV
Richard Wells, managing director at Insight Partners, which led the deal, said the OneTrust team has exemplified the saying: "Skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been."
"Kabir [Barday] and team founded the business at such an opportune time, recognizing the looming privacy regulations globally," he wrote via email. "When GDPR went into effect in May 2018, the product was market proven and the team, which we had previously backed at AirWatch, was ready to hit the ground running."
As mentioned above, GDPR's U.S.-based successor, CCPA, went into effect last month and OneTrust is already seeing massive demand from the market, Wells added.
"The pace at which OneTrust has been able to release new modules and partner integrations is a testament to their innovative technology," he said. "They are building a true platform that we believe will be embedded in the privacy officer's workflow for businesses of all sizes."
For more on the surprisingly robust Atlanta startup scene, check out my in-depth look at the market here.
TagsAetna AirWatch Akamai American Cancer Society California Consumer Privacy Act coatue fortune IDC Insight Partners Marketo OneTrust Oracle Osano The Wall Street Journal
Business • Public
Dating App Bumble Files For IPO, Revealing 42M Monthly Users
Sophia Kunthara
Bumble, the dating app geared toward women, has publicly filed its S-1 registration document with the Securities and Exchange Commission.


Google just announced that it has invested $75 million in a 50 MW wind farm in Rippey, Iowa, a small town an hour outside of Des Moines. This is Google's second wind energy investment in the state. In 2010, Google entered a long-term contract to buy green energy for its Iowa data center, but this is the company's first direct investment into an Iowa wind project.
The wind farm, Google notes, is already in operation and has been contracted to sell all of its energy to the Central Iowa Power Cooperative, which will use it to provide electricity to about 15,000 homes. It looks like none of this electricity will be used for Google's local data center.
With this investment, Google has brought its total committed investment into green energy projects to just over $990 million. The company's other wind energy investments include a $157 million investment in a Southern California wind energy farm and a $100 million investment into a wind farm in Oregon that is anticipated to be the world's largest at 845 MW. Google's first wind energy investment was worth $38.8 million and involved two North Dakota wind farms. Besides the wind farms themselves, Google also owns a 37.5 percent stake in the Atlantic Wind Connection backbone, a project that aims to build transmission lines for green energy along the mid-Atlantic coast.


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Q: Call java swing controls and container from other class I have a question about how to call Java controls and containers from another class. I have 2 ideas.

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*Encapsulate containers in order to use GET method.

*Switch property from Private to Public

Which is the best? Or is there another one?
Thanks in advance

A: When considering the options of "providing getters" vs "making properties public", "providing getters" is definitely the better option.
However, in this particular scenario, I think we can do even better. That is, instead of exposing internal details of container, we can provide meaningful operations (methods) in container. I'll try to explain this concept with below example.
Here I recommend setCustomer operation over getNameField and getContactNumberField getters.
(To keep this code snippet simple, I've put everything in one class here. But in a real scenario frame and customerPanel would have their own separate classes.)
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;

public class CustomerPanel extends JPanel
{
  private JTextField nameField = new JTextField(20);
  private JTextField contactNumberField = new JTextField(20);

  public CustomerPanel()
  {
    add(new JLabel("Name:"));
    add(nameField);
    add(new JLabel("Contact number:"));
    add(contactNumberField);
  }

  // Recommended approach
  public void setCustomer(String name, String contact)
  {
    nameField.setText(name);
    contactNumberField.setText(contact);
  }

  // Inferior approach. Hence commented out
  //public JTextField getNameField()
  //{
  //  return nameField;
  //}

  // Inferior approach. Hence commented out
  //public JTextField getContactNumberField()
  //{
  //  return contactNumberField;
  //}

  public static void main(String[] args)
  {
    // Recommended approach
    CustomerPanel customerPanel = new CustomerPanel();
    customerPanel.setCustomer("Kevin James", "72362282");

    // Inferior approach. Hence commented out
    //customerPanel.getNameField().setText("Kevin James");
    //customerPanel.getContactNumberField().setText("72362282");

    JFrame frame = new JFrame("Customers");
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    frame.getContentPane().add(customerPanel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
    frame.pack();
    frame.setVisible(true);
  }
}

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