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Lisa Adams
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Lisa Adams
Visual Artist
Los Angeles, California, USA
Web: lisamakesart.com
With a B.A. in painting from Scripps College in Claremont, California and an M.F.A. from the Claremont Graduate University, Lisa Adams is the recipient of numerous awards including a Fulbright Professional Scholar Award, a Brody Arts Fund Fellowship and a Durfee ARC Grant.
She has successfully taught at many renowned art departments throughout the Los Angeles area and abroad, including the University of Southern California, the Claremont Graduate University and Otis College of Art & Design. In 1999 she authored “FM*,” a how-to book about painting based on her teachings at the Santa Monica College of Design, Art and Architecture between 1997-1999.
In addition to her studio practice, Lisa works on special projects as an independent curator. In 2000, she co-founded Crazy Space, an alternative exhibition space, in Santa Monica, California where she curated both local and international exhibitions. She has been an artist-in-residence in Slovenia, Finland, Japan, Holland and Costa Rica and was commission by BMW of North America to paint an ArtCar.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in the public
collections of Eli Broad, the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, the Laguna Museum of Art and the Edward Albee Foundation.
From 2007 to 2009 Lisa was the lead consultant of the Fine Arts Division at Christine Anderson and Associates Public Relations and remains an outside resource for that firm.
She currently blogs on Los Angeles art for the Huffington Post.
12 files, last one added on May 27, 2010
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Jane Castillo
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Jane Castillo
Installation Artist
Los Angeles, California
Web castillofineart.com
Jane Castillo was born in Los Angeles, California to a Colombian immigrant family. Exposed to two cultures simultaneously, her interest in family and cultural history was sparked. Her lineage also includes that of Pilipino, African, Spanish, and Indigenous Colombian which has had a profound influence on her work as an active artist in her community.
Professionally, she goes by her last name Castillo. By doing so, she pays homage to her ancestors, family and friends (all the same to her) who are often the helping hands behind her work. This way, everyone involved with seeing her pieces to fruition is credited with the family name Castillo on wall labels, catalogs, and press releases.
She attended California State University at Fullerton, graduating in 1993 with a bachelor’s degree in Art Education. She later earned a Master of Fine Arts from Claremont Graduate University in sculpture.
Castillo enjoys the exploration of materials and their identity. The definition, purpose, and typical perception of materials inform her work. Presenting materials in a new way that embodies layers of meaning, while not denying their identity remains a fascination.
Her love of art and artists have led her to pursue curatorial projects in addition to her own growing art exhibition schedule.
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Ismael Castro
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Ismael Castro Garcia
Artista Plástico
Mexicail, BC, Mexico
Web ismaelcastro.com
ismaelcast@hotmail.com
Born in September of ‘77, Ismael is one of Mexicali’s most prolific emerging artists. As a Visual Artist, he relentlessly exploits unconventional mediums, surfaces and metaphors. His is an attack on the culture of mass consumption of American products and exploitation of the laborer with whom he identifies.
Visually, Ismael’s work is earmarked by a playful, non-confrontational and loose figurative style, coupled with a color pallete with which Matel toys would be proud. His utilitarian subjects are seemingly benign house hold items that he employs as metaphors for the working class: invisible, inanimate, functional and disposable. In place of canvas he has used degutted car seats, chair cushions, and 60″ intact jeans.
Among Ismael’s influences are Rauschenberg, Warhol, as well as his modern day contemporaries.
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Heriberto Castro Morales
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Heriberto Castro Morales
Artista Plástico
Mexicail, BC, Mexico
TEL. CEL. 6862318186
cabayohorse@hotmail.com
Dirección. Paseo del agua, San Marcos # 823, Mexicali Baja California, México.
Fecha de nacimiento. 3 de agosto de 1981. Mexicali, México.
Estudiante de la Licenciatura en Artes Plásticas, UABC. Y tallerista en Mejibo, Centro del Saber. IMACUM. Impartiendo clases de introducción a las Artes. Diez años dentro de la producción plástica, con treinta exposiciones colectivas y tres individuales, miembro actual de la fundación WANNA WINNI, (grupo interdisciplinario) y del taller colectivo de grafica, (AFCM) el Autentico Frente Cínico de Mexicali. Invitado a cursar talleres de pintura y dibujo experimental por la maestra Patricia Soriano, y gravado por E. Maguey Nava, varias participaciones como ilustrador grafico dentro de lo formal y en proyectos Experimentales de la localidad, Producciones mixtas en performance, actuación en video experimental (CHICALI RANGERS Y SOUR SWEET), producción de video animación, realización y participación en distintos murales obteniendo en 1999 el primer lugar en el concurso estatal las tecnologías y la educación, organizado por el CBBC.
Escenografía (arte urbano) y utilería en distintos eventos culturales, danza, teatro y cine (ministerio de intendencia de las californias, edificio LARVA, Guadalajara Mex. (running into the political equator.) (Fiesta pánica 686), (Show inaugural de las Olimpiadas Nacionales Juveniles 2009.) Entre otros.
Existe en su producción artística, una relación directa con personajes o personas de su comunidad cercana, como entes regionales y universales, en retrato, en video y en producción plástica. Creando imaginarios silenciosos y triviales, preponderando la existencia y la reflexión en si de los personajes y su realidad., Como en MERLUZA RURAL, pieza fotográfica, donde los habitantes en colaboración, construyen un escenario en una localidad de referencia entre estos y la apropiación de este espacio en la zona valle de Mexicali, participando en las decisiones finales de la pieza y teniendo la experiencia de la producción estética.
14 files, last one added on Jan 19, 2010
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Graham Goddard
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Graham Goddard
Conceptual Artist
Los Angeles, California
Web: GrahamGoddard.com
graham@grahamgoddard.com
Graham Goddard (born April 12, 1982) is a Trinidadian-American conceptual artist making visual statements about the environment, spirituality and commodification through painting, sculpture and site-specific land art installations. Goddard's work has been exhibited at the Skirball Museum, the California African American Museum and numerous art galleries in the United States and abroad.
In 2003 Graham Goddard developed the Rotating Canvas, which allows the viewer to turn the painting 360 degrees, exposing inverted images within his work while exploring the nature of viewer interaction. He first introduced the concept in the exhibition "Flip" at the Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery in 2004. Today, as viewers insert themselves into the evolution of the imagery featured in the Rotating Canvas, the process viewing and interacting with the work can be seen as demonstrative of the continually transforming relationships between content and context in contemporary art. Goddard states, "The notion of dualities within the spectrum of dynamic relationships that emerge when the image is turned and disrupted is particularly interesting to me. I believe that the viewer participates in a pure and direct manipulation of the image, consequently unveiling a variety of aesthetic perspectives that inhabit the multidimensional landscape of the canvas."
Graham Goddard's interest in site-specific land art led him to create Paradigm, which is designed to investigate its surrounding environment as an object consisting of a process of ongoing relationships between man and nature, while addressing our ecological responsibility towards a healthy environment tomorrow. Graham Goddard places Paradigm in multiple locations that are at risk and affected by pollution, such as mountains, deserts and watersheds. The California African American Museum featured Paradigm in its exhibition, "An Idea Called Tomorrow," in 2009. Goddard designed plans for the installation of Paradigm in the Ballona Creek, a toxic watershed in Culver City, California. Paradigm aspires to ensure that sites such as Ballona Creek are no longer seen as a “thing-in-themselves,” but instead as physical regions consisting of layered evidence of multiple issues that need attention and support so that they could become cleaner and healthier environments.
Goddard’s interest in spirituality and its connection to self worth and individual value led him to create the series “The Investigation of Purpose, Faith & Identity." The series addresses text from the Book of Revelation in the Holy Bible while exploring the ideas of destiny, social exclusion, and faith in God.
6 files, last one added on Oct 11, 2010
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Mary Heepner
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Mary Heebner
Visual Artist
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Web maryheebner.com
mary@maryheebner.com
Through my practice over the past 35 years, I’ve sought connection with the oldest made things and the soil from which they are shaped. Acknowledging the power of ancient presences and landscapes is integral to the creation of my drawings, paintings, collages, photography, and fine art books. Through assignment-driven travels with my husband, photographer Macduff Everton, I’ve learned that travel increases my sense of humanity, makes me take risks, reveals and undermines my prejudices, and stretches my conceptions about art. Physical place has been a wellspring.
I find that an intense experience in a natural site — the smells, feel touch and cultural memory — imbues a place with a sacredness that demands something of me. I employ various media and processes as a means to touch the nerve of being alive and connected to land and people across time. I try to notice what is vivid and link that with a sensual, well-crafted process. My work bears witness to the evidence of time and impermanence, the nets of translation and the holes through which meaning slips.
My media is earth and water: mineral pigments, and anything that can be dissolved or created through water — paint, powdered pigments, the clouds of pulverized pulp I form into sheets of handmade paper. I consider language to be an essential medium as well. I draw, paint, make mixed media collages, alter photographs through drawing and over-painting, write, and also create limited edition fine press books under my imprint, simplemente maria press.
The inspiration for my current exhibit, Intimacies/Intimismos, is twofold. It explores the connection between figure and ground – literally, we carry landscapes within us. The land and how we care for it, or despoil it, is a reflection, a reminder, of beauty and loss. Second, this exhibit is animated by the exchanges between word and image, since this collection of paintings is directly inspired by the poetry of Pablo Neruda and the Chilean landscape in which he resided.
9 files, last one added on Apr 04, 2010
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Daniel Marquez
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Daniel Marquez
Artista Plastico
Baja California, Mexico
My visual art experience started in the border town of Cd. Juarez, Chih. Mexico. When I started painting I was only interested in making beautiful traditional landscapes and portraits of Elvis and Rock and Roll legends on black velvet. Then I moved to L.A. As I evolved as an artist I became interested in many techniques such as airbrush, silkscreen and monoserigraph. My surfaces changed; I worked with metal, paper, canvas, fiberglass mesh, synthetic panels and ceramic tiles, My intention has become to create art works that draw the viewer into contemplation and engage them in finding a meaning.
I work with different styles in a combination that represents my point of view. I paint my vision of the environment using the experience of the past, to create a conversation with my reality.
Images in my artwork are from my feelings of confusion, struggle and faith. Elements of repetition to express the continuing occurrence of similar events. Memories of the past… Visions of cosmic future.
-Daniel Marquez
7 files, last one added on Dec 30, 2009
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Dominique Moody
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Dominique Moody
Visual Artist
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dominiquemoody@gmail.com
My eyes speak to the Art of life as an experience through which the constructive form of assemblage thought and the collage fragments of dreams are intertwined. From this perspective, I am inspired by stories of people, experiences of places and the mysteries of nature. I developed my skills by looking at the worn texture of an object and how it tells its story. Throughout my life, I've been in search of places where my creative spirit and my day to day practices of life could coexist. In this pursuit of my happiness I've embraced my "nomadism" as a way of seeing, living and creating. In the process, I've conjured up images by articulating my challenges with altered eyesight, bringing my artistic vision into a heightened level of creative intuition.
Reflecting the role of an urban archeologist in search of answers to the mysteries of life, I find my materials by scavenging the streets and flea markets for things that many would consider "trash". From the poetic to political, I collage layers of text and old photographs onto the surfaces of weathered wood and metal, constructing components into architectural forms as extensions of the figure form. These elements are intertwined to give these structures an organic narrative iconography. As I see it, I've created a form of language, which evokes a dialogue inviting a response to call upon the viewers own storytelling and thus, expand the vocabulary of our collective "mother tongues", to visually speak to the Art of Living.
Dominique Moody 2010
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Brandon Walls Olsen
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Brandon Walls Olsen
Artist
San Francisco, CA
www.brandonwallsolsen.com
b@brandonwallsolsen.com
In Brandon Walls Olsen's first fully realized exhibition, he begins with the subject of his family's recently passed pet cat, to which he constructed an elaborate memorial. Its focal point is an altered model train that rotates clumsily, but continuously around a tight circle, mimicking the cat's movements after an apparent stroke late in its life. To provide a private space for viewing the memorial, Olsen designed a fully decorated interior within a pre-fabricated storage shed. Located in his parents' yard, this unit is totally disguised, complete with a zippered curtain inset in the doorway that has been painted to match the riding mower and garden equipment pictured in the shed's online image for suggested use.
Documented in a home video, this intimate site will be carefully presented in Rotated Views amongst projects in a number of media. The exhibition as a whole will highlight Olsen's interest in making highly personal works accessible by methods such as reframing their media or context, placing them alongside other objects that use disparate techniques or question authorship, and directing the visitor's experiences and perceptions through installation tactics. All of these decisions consider honesty and original intent with highest priority, but strive to be playfully absurd as well.
This is Brandon Walls Olsen's first solo exhibition. He received an MFA from California College of the Arts and BAs in Art and Psychology from UC Berkeley.
12 files, last one added on Aug 11, 2010
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Raphael Noz
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Raphael Noz
raphaelnoz.wordpress.com
My work deals with the ancient conflict of Europe and America, as played out in the drama of the fall of Mexico at the hands of the Spanish Conquistadors. This ancient history produced the Mexican 'mestizo' race of people who are not just indigenous and not just Spanish.
As an adult, I became very interested in my Mexican heritage, and began using the inspiration of its artistic expressions to explore my own themes.
I attended California College of the Arts in San Francisco, receiving a Masters Degree in Fine Arts in 2009. Having explored many new avenues including performance work during my time at CCA, my focus is shifting now to the printed word, and to constructions of shaped sheet metal.
I am finding inspiration in the mexican tradition of 'hoja de lata', or hammered tin, and am coming up with wall mounted shaped constructions of vessels and domestic objects.
My most recent inspirations for my work has been the finding of a very old letter by a friend, which arrived at his house many many years after it was sent. I became fascinated by the idea of a message being lost somewhere only to find its place years later. I have been creating 'antique' letters using a very old typewriter and leaving them at galleries.
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Leopoldo Peña
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Leopoldo Peña
Photographer
Los Angeles, CA, USA
leopoldo@leopoldopena.com
Web: leopoldopena.com
Leopoldo Peña is native of Michoacán, Mexico. He has lived in Los Angeles since 1992. After graduating from South Gate High School in 1997, he attended East Los Angeles College where he studied photography. In 2008, he graduated from Cal State University Long Beach with a bachelor’s degree in Spanish literature and a minor in journalism. After graduation, he interned at the Daily Pilot in Costa Mesa, CA. Currently, he works on personal photography projects while finishing a master’s degree in Spanish literature at CSULB.
One of his major interests is the creation landscape photography in and around urban spaces. In such locations, by focusing on individual objects, the combination of natural and human-made elements is captured to project, through a simple image, a harmony of coexistence. For the most part, he works around beaches, lakes and public parks, for it is in these spaces that such combination of elements can be illustrated more explicit and less chaotic. His final images are all hand printed on fiber base paper and toned to archival standards.
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