BIO Vladimir Sierra is a Colombian-born artist formally trained as an orbital analyst. Vladimir’s ability to visualize object motion in three dimensions led him eventually to pursue a career in animation. Sierra’s body of work ranges from hand-drawn animation to mosaic and digital installations. Currently, Vladimir creates a type of mosaic which he came to [...]

ARTIST STATEMENT Seeking patterns is human nature, from the caveman distilling the mysteries of the hunt, the child seeing animals in the clouds, the naturalist studying tree formation, to the abstract painter correlating colors with musical rhythm. Entropy, death, or the destruction of pattern, is the antithesis of life. The depth and scale of the [...]

ARTIST STATEMENT “Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again; what you saw is no longer there, and what you see later is not yet.” Leonardo da Vinci There once was a generation of American artists who completely revolutionized the essence and design of abstract painting. In my course [...]

ARTIST STATEMENT “From The Deepwater Horizon Gift Shop” Two weeks into the disastrous oil spill caused by the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico photos of animals covered in crude oil had begun to surface.  Daily we were inundated with heart-wrenching photos of dead or near death pelicans, turtles, fish, [...]

BIO John Huggins Born, 1961, Los Angeles, California. SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2008 “THE IMBUE PRINTS” Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, New York. 2007 “WAVES AND SLOPES” Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California. 2006 “ONCE” Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California. 2004 “POLAGRIDS 1997-2004” Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, New York. 2002 “POLAGRIDS 2000-2002” Craig Krull Gallery, [...]

ARTIST STATEMENT I have been working with collage/mixed media since 1997. I have been inspired by the work of Kurt Schwitters, regarded by most as the 20th Century master of collage. I find my material everywhere because by working in this medium, I believe one learns to “see” the beauty of the discarded and into [...]

ARTIST STATEMENT Trained as a cell biologist, my main interest has always been in pattern formation and self-assembly – the ability of simpler parts to assemble into a complex whole through combination’s of their basic behaviors. Glass is like this. It starts out hard and inflexible, but through its behaviors, inherited from the solid phase [...]

ARTIST STATEMENT Sometimes, when the conditions are right, I find it possible to embrace an understanding wherein all notions of construction and destruction are just diversions–diversions of perception and of mind, intermingled with an infinite and endless series of diversions in the physical world as it perpetually co-arises interdependently.  This is like this because that [...]

ARTIST STATEMENT This body of work focuses on recycled materials as functional art. The light fixtures incorporate the use of solid materials such as glass, copper, steel and other recyclables.  The materials are intuitively manipulated through processes including welding, cutting, drilling, & heating. This manipulation does not obscure the natural properties or identification of the [...]

COLOR•PATTERN•MATERIAL art exhibit. Guest curator Robert Silva has set forth a dynamic survey of work exploring the visual impact of divergent styles and the common threads of self-expression. Each artist communicates their artistic expression through a personal language  of media, palate, and composition to relay universal truths and cannons of beauty. While contemporary work moves [...]