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Amos Mac

dingroff — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:22:28 +0000

Amos Mac is a San Francisco based photographer and writer. He documents diverse members of the queer community through a vibrant lens. His work has been shown in galleries in Atlanta, New York, San Francisco and Melbourne. www.amosmac.com

Jenny Yurshansky

dingroff — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:21:25 +0000

Jenny Yurshansky was born in Rome and lives in Los Angeles. Her upcoming exhibitions include the Laguna Beach Art Museum, MAK Center, and LAXART. Past exhibitions include S1F Gallery in Los Angeles, the 7th Istanbul Biennial, the Hammer Museum, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art in Malmö, and the Toyota Museum in Tokyo.

Elonda Billera

dingroff — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:39:05 +0000

Elonda Billera’s sculptural configurations bring together appropriated household items that cast both light and shadow on the relationship of time and distance to intimacy. She received her MFA in Drawing and Installation from Claremont Graduate University in 2007 and her BFA in Ceramics from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 1999. She has shown work in Houston, St. Petersburg (FL), Philadelphia, Richmond, Newcastle-upon-Tyne as well as the Los Angeles area. Recently, Elonda has been a co-organizer of Summercamp’s Project in El Sereno.

Lia Lowenthal

dingroff — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:39:49 +0000

Lia Lowenthal lives and works in Los Angeles. She graduated from UCLA in 2006 with a degree in Fine Art and German, and attended the Mountain School of the Arts in 2009. This is her first solo show and first show at Workspace. She has been in group shows at Five Thirty Three, the Barnsdall Art Center, and High Energy Constructs.

David Gilbert

dingroff — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:31:37 +0000

David Gilbert is an artist whose photographic and sculptural investigations of objects examine the intersection of melancholy, beauty, and absence. He has exhibited in North America and Europe, including shows at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Exile, Berlin; PlaySpace, San Francisco, CA; Goff + Rosenthal, Berlin; The Bronx Museum of Art; and Art Metropole, Montreal. He received his BFA in 2004 from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU and will (hopefully) graduate in 2011 with an MFA from UC-Riverside He is also the recipient of a 2009 Tierney Fellowship, which will culminate in a solo exhibition in New York in 2010.

Dan Plaza

dingroff — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:58:38 +0000

Dan Plaza has been making and performing eco-pop since the beginning of 2008. When crafting his pre-recorded accompaniments on Apple’s Garageband music software, Dan takes inspiration from Southern California, the Gaia Hypothesis, and Coors Light brand beer. Bring your laser pointer and follow along with the lyrics on the overhead projector! All of Dan’s best songs are always free (ask him for a cd!) and available for listening on myspace at www.myspace.com/danplazamusic

Margaret Wappler

dingroff — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:57:23 +0000

Margaret Wappler is an arts and culture reporter at the L.A. Times and has been published in The Believer, LA Weekly and Black Clock. She is finishing a novel, “Neon Green,” that navigates the themes of the real vs. the unreal, alien vs. natural, and the family network.

Tamara Sussman

dingroff — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:03:41 +0000

Tamara Sussman combines visual art with a fiction writing practice. Her work takes the form of installation, photography, collage, letter-pressed works on paper, lenticular postcards and anything else that gets her ideas across. The aforementioned ideas are often concerned with the way that people understand and misunderstand each other, and how they try to relate (to others, and to the world around them) despite inevitable failures. Her works has been shown in Los Angeles and New York. Her first solo exhibition opens on October 17 at Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Santa Monica.

Malisa Humphrey

dingroff — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:27:40 +0000

Malisa Humphrey received her BA from the University of California,
Berkeley in 1996 and her MFA from the University of California, San
Diego in 2004. Her work has been screened and exhibited at the Armory
Center for the Arts, Sandroni.Rey, Bonelli Gallery, the UCLA Hammer
Museum, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, The Museum of Contemporary Art, San
Diego and the Musuem of Contemporary Art, La Jolla. Malisa Humphrey
lives and works Los Angeles, CA.

Christine Ellison

dingroff — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:26:44 +0000

Christine Ellison graduated from Goldsmiths College, London in 2006
and has sinced worked primarily with sound and performance. Ellison
aka Polly Fibre has performed and exhibited internationally; most
recently at The Bannf Centre, Canada, Dublin Electronic Arts Festival
(DEAF), Ireland and Kaunas Art Biennial, Lithuania. Originally from
Dublin, she lives and works in London and currently teaches Fine Art
at the University of Reading.