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 term “ukiyotile” in which groups of like-sized tiles organically grow to fill the forms they represent. He was inspired by Japanese ukiyo-e prints from the 1800’s and Spanish modernista architecture.

His evolution as an artist has been largely driven by a desire to distill sensual beauty out of simple forms and thoughtful repetition of patterns. Vladimir’s work has been exhibited in a variety of galleries and private collections along the East and West Coast.

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 investigation make up the artistic dialogue.  I marvel at nature’s patterns, from the microscopic way glass molecules flow or crystallize to the macroscopic way of how the negative space around a tree can flatten out to identify the object. Pattern seeking is my artistic impulse.

BIO
BS Art & Design, MIT, 1973
MArch, U. Colorado, Boulder, 1977

Starting out as an architect Cha-Rie has expanded her interests and expertise to include graphic design, ceramics and glass.  Her public art commissions include a series of  murals for the City of Mission Viejo, the Exposition Park Library for the City of LA, the Customer Service Station at the Executive Office at the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration for the County of LA, the ARTS bus for the City of Pasadena, a bus stop for the City of Santa Clarita, and up coming Monrovia train station for the Gold Line Extension for the MTA. She is especially interested in the patterns of nature and how they are expressed through the materials of glass and ceramics.

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 of study I have decided to look to the past and see if something overlooked may be placed into a new context. My work seeks to make color the subject. I try to paint to that part in each of us that existed before the joy of birth, and will endure after the tribulation of death. I would like to think that I paint to the collective soul of all humanity. I believe that whatever ability that I have is a gift, and often feel that I am little more than a vessel through which a higher creative power expresses itself. I am also very thankful to the many accomplished painters who have steadfastly guided me along my journey. I prefer to paint in oil upon linen, canvas, or birch panels. I try to stay in the plane, striving for little to no texture. My desire is that the painting should exhibit resonance and float in space. John Stuart Robertson September 2010

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, and dolphins.  Five months since the explosion this story has moved out of the newscycle.  People are already starting to forget.  The fact is the ramifications of such a disaster will be felt for years to come.  The local economy that relied on the Gulf may never bounce back and alarming amounts of poisons have been spread into our oceans to help disperse the oil so it is out of sight, out of mind.  Carcasses of local wildlife will continue to wash ashore and be quickly disposed of.  No one knows how much oil really spilled and no one knows just how many animals were killed (most, likely, sank to the ocean floor).  The saddest part of this whole mess is that it will happen again.  Corporations will continue to drill in places they shouldn’t and will continue to cut corners in the name of cost-cutting.

“From the Deepwater Horizon Gift Shop” is my response to this atrocity.  The feather, turtle, and alligator you see are just toys, but they are also an innocent reminder of what happens when business as usual is allowed to go on unregulated.  These are the souvenirs we will be left with at the end of the day.

BIO
Meghan Quinn is a fine artist best known for her photographic narratives, which occasionally utilize self-portraiture and doll based concepts.  Her work is activist art frequently highlighting civil rights and women’s issues.  Quinn has exhibited all over Southern California, New York City, and Washington, D.C., where she honed her documentary shooting style while growing up on the Virginia side of the Potomac River.  Her work has been highlighted in various art and culture magazines and annuals both national and international. In 2003 Quinn graduated with honors from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in Photography.  Quinn lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

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, Santa Monica, California.
2000 “POLAGRIDS 1998-2000” Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
1999 “NATURE REVISITED”, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
1998 “POLAGRIDS 1995-1998”, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
1997 “ROADSCAPES”, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
“FIRE AND WATER”, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
1996 “AMERICAN ICONS”, David Floria Gallery, Aspen, Colorado.
“ROADKILL”, O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1995 “ROADKILL”, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
“DECOMPOSITIONS”, Walter Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland.
1993 “ROADSCAPES”, Floria/Brown Gallery, Aspen, Colorado.
“ROADSCAPES”, Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities,
Ketchum, Idaho
1992 “RECENT PHOTOGRAPHY”, Spirit Arts Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1986 “AMERICAN TOURISTS IN THE NATIONAL PARKS AND
MONUMENTS: TAKE NOTHING BUT PICTURES LEAVE NOTHING
BUT FOOTPRINTS”, Hampshire College Main Gallery,
Amherst Massachusetts.
SELECTED COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2009 “OPEN YOUR ARMS TO THE SUN”,
Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, New York.
2007 “WINTER SOLTICE SHOW”, David Floria Gallery, Aspen, Colorado.
“FERRAGOSTO”, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, New York.
2007 “THE TOY SHOW” Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa
Monica, California.
2003 “OCEAN VIEW: THE DEPICTION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
COASTAL LIFESTYLE”, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, California.
2001 “THE GREAT WIDE OPEN”, Huntington Museum, San Marino, California.
2000 “REARVIEW MIRROR”, California Museum of Photography,
Riverside, California.
1999 “CALIFORNIA: A SECOND GLANCE, California Center for the Arts
Museum, Escondido, California.
1998 “ILLUSION: TROMP L’OEIL AND SLEIGHT OF HAND”, Riverside Art
Museum, Riverside, California
“BLOOD”, Historic Cork and Cap Warehouse, Baltimore, Maryland.
1997 “OCEANVIEW: THE DEPICTION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
COASTAL LIFESTYLE”, California Museum of Photography, Riverside,
California.
“CALIFORNIA CURRENT: THE PHOTOGRAPHERS’ PERSPECTIVE”,
Armand Hammer Museum of Art ARSG, Los Angeles, California.
“ROMANTICISM AND CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPE”,
Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California.
“THEN AND NOW”, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado.
1996 “WEDDING DAYS: IMAGES OF MATRIMONY IN PHOTOGRAPHY”,
G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica, California. Traveling Exhibition:
Osaka, Tokyo, Fukushima, Aichi, Aomori, Kagawa
1995 “CONFRONTING NATURE: SILENCED VOICES”, Guggenheim Gallery,
Chapman University, California.
“TWO PHOTOGRAPHERS”, David Floria Gallery, Aspen, Colorado.
“FUZZY”, Janet Borden Gallery, New York, N.Y.
“P.L.A.N.”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California.
“DUCK”, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, N.Y..
1994 “WESTERN LANDSCAPES”, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica,
California.
“L.A. MAIL”, Jose Freire Fine Art, New York, N.Y.
1993 “A SELECTION OF NEW PHOTOGRAPHIC TALENT IN LOS
ANGELES”, Turner/Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1992 “EIGHT PHOTOGRAPHERS”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
ARSG, Los Angeles, California.
1991 “THREE PHOTOGRAPHERS”, Timothy Brown Fine Art, Aspen,
Colorado.
“RECENT PHOTOGRAPHS”, Kneeland Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho.
“LANDSCAPES”, Hampshire College Main Gallery, Amherst,
Massachusetts.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts, Photography
Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1986
Chairpersons, Jerome Liebling / Sandra Matthews

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 “art”.

Exhibitions
2010
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery – Los Angeles, CA
Copperwood Art Gallery – Orange, Ca
Bistango Gallery & Restaurant – Irvine, CA
Northern Kentucky University – Highland Heights, KY
Aquarium of the Pacific – Long Beach, CA
Viva Art Center – Sherman Oaks, CA
Fort Wayne Museum of Art – Fort Wayne, IN
Orlando Gallery – Tarzana, CA
Beverly Arts Center of Chicago – Chicago, ILL
Encino Terrace West – Encino, CA
ZieherSmith Gallery – New York, NY

2009
Blue 7 Gallery – Santa Monica, CA
Encino Terrace West – Encino, CA
United Nations NGO Conference, For Peace and Development: Disarm Now! – Mexico City, Mexico
American Jewish University – Bel Air, CA
Elverhoj Museum – Solvang, CA
St. John Hospital Art Wall – Santa Monica, CA
The Finegood Art Gallery – West Hills, CA
Gotthelf Art Gallery – La Jolla, CA

2008
Paesaggio Fine Arts – Hartford, CT
City Art Gallery (Circle of Care Foundation Charity Auction) – Van Nuys, CA
Marina Del Rey Library – Marina Del Rey, CA
Los Angeles International Airport – Los Angeles, CA
H. Kazan Fine Arts – Los Angeles, CA
Blue 7 Gallery – Santa Monica, CA

2007
The Source on Lake – Pasadena, CA
H. Kazan Fine Arts Gallery – Los Angeles, CA
Blue 7 Gallery – Santa Monica, CA
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery – Los Angeles, CA
Gallery C (Habitat for Humanity Charity Auction) – Manhattan Beach, CA
Gallerie Lakaye – Los Angeles, CA
Mar Vista Arts Gallery – Culver City, CA

2006
The Source on Lake – Pasadena, CA
A Gallery – Wimbledon, England
Capelli d’ Angeli Foundation – Canton, CT
Peninsula Museum of Art – Belmont, CA
Work in Film and Television

2005
Bones (FOX)

2004
Mr. & Mrs. Smith – Starring: Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie
News To Me (ABC)
Gramercy Park (ABC)
Heisler and Heline (NBC)
Two and a Half Men (CBS)

2003
Bernie Mac Show (FOX)
Platonically Incorrect (ABC)
NYPD Blue (ABC)
Hollywood Homicide – Starring: Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett
Articles and Publications

2010
Masters: Collage (Book) – Artist Profile

2005
3rd Street Villager – Artist Profile

2003
World Of Art (Magazine) – Artist Profile
work IN MOVIES & TELEVISION

2005
BONES (FOX) – -

2004
MR. & MRS. SMITH – Starring: Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie
NEWS TO ME (ABC) – -
GRAMERCY PARK (ABC) – -
HEISLER AND HELINE (NBC) – -
TWO AND A HALF MEN (CBS) – -

2003
BERNIE MAC SHOW (FOX) – -
PLATONICALLY INCORRECT (ABC) – -
NYPD BLUE (ABC) – -
HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE – Starring: Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett

2002
SIX FEET UNDER (HBO) – -
MY WIFE AND KIDS (ABC) – -
GRANTS

2006
Capelli d’Angeli Foundation – -
ARTICLES & PUBLICATIONS

2010
Masters: Collage (Book) – Artist Profile

2005
3rd Street Villager – Artist Profile

2003
World Of Art (Magazine) – Artist Profile

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 with its varied configurations, and rearranged and combined by heat, it passes through a molten phase and expresses elements of both. Most of my work is multi-layered, formed when plates and fragments of solid join as a liquid.  Processes of extension, retraction, and accretion combine to form emergent patterns, and in this process become an organic entity.

BIO
B.S MIT, 1973
M.S. U. Colorado, Boulder 1977 – Molecular Neurobiology
Ph. D. Caltech, 1979

Bruce’s career as scientist, engineer, and educator has always been linked with his artistic sensibilities. The deep investigation into the nature of materials and the systematic methods he employs reveal the similarity between science and art.

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 is like that.  I see things as growing or dying, coming or going, rising or falling, beautiful or ugly and so on, because I experience them from a point of view.  A viewpoint.  A place of solidity and permanence that I believe I occupy.  But this is not true.  My place in the world is ever changing.  I inter-am with the world and I change as it changes. There never exists a locked-in spot from which to make these distinctions.  I might say, this lovely flower is beautiful, fresh and growing and that ugly branch is rotted and dying.  But when I stop and look deeply I can see that the flower and the branch inter-are.  The flower is because the branch is and the branch is because the flower is.  Conditions are such that the beautiful flower manifests in the now and the rich soil created by the branch nourishes that beauty.  They co-arise.  No soil, no plants and flowers. No plants and flowers, no soil.  When I am at peace, and I can see clearly my eternal place in the noumenal world, and the phenomenal world as ever changing and interdependent, I am open to the heart of compassion. All the physical world inter-is.  It exists in equanimity and the distinctions we make are mere matters of thinking.  To help me see things this way, sometimes I enjoy contemplations of the sub-atomic world, the world of wavicles and light.  I can see in this micro-world that all is springing forth from a holy and unknowable realm. To be moved by the rich beauty in what was, is and will be a piece of trash, is to connect with the divine–to live life non-attached to notions, a gift.

BIO

Selected Exhibitions

2010 Diverted Destruction #3, group exhibition, The Loft at Liz’, Los Angeles

2010 Contraction #201, 202 & 203, Kenise Barnes Fine Art at Red Dot Art Fair, NYC

2009 Industrial Constraints Transformed…Whimsical Ponderings Meander KBFA, NY

2009 Corporate Thinking Transformed…Whimsical Ponderings Manifest KBFA, NY

2009 Diverted Destruction, group exhibition The Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, CA

2009 Dive-in, collaborative performance/installation with Christopher Smith, ? Stueben Gallery West, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2009 Rubbish-Art and the Ecosystem, group exhibition, Artswestchester, White Plains, NY

2009 gregg hill: SMASHED, solo exhibition, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2008 Material Color, group exhibition, The Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ

2008-Day laborers to do the work for us, with Christopher Smith, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2008 Inside The Grid, group exhibition, Serrano Contemporary, Chelsea, NY

2008 gregg hill: SMASHED, solo exhibition, Serrano Contemporary, Chelsea, NY

2008 gregg hill: SMASHED, solo exhibition, 3rd Rail Studio, New Rochelle, NY

2006 Ridgefield Guild of Artists Annual Exhibition, Ridgefield, CT

2006 What You See is What You Have, 3rd Rail Studio, New Rochelle, NY

Audio Productions

2004 Smell the Huf, Produced by Gregg Hill and Peter Denenberg, Acme, Mamaroneck, NY

2003 Between the Lines, Co-writer with Sloan Wainwright

2001 The Sparrows, with John Bruce, Produced by Peter Denenberg, Acme, Mamaroneck, NY

1999 Monkeys, Co-writer for Lackey on Capitol Records

1998 Milo, with John Bruce, Marengo Records, Nashville, TN

Publications

2009 Catalog for Corporate Thinking Transformed…, with essay by Gregg Hill

2009 Material Color, exhibition catalog, The Hunterdon County Art Museum, Clinton, NJ.

2009 Catalog for gregg hill:SMASHED for Marcia Wood with essay by gregg hill, February.

2008 Catalog for gregg hill:SMASHED for 3rd Rail and Serrano Contemporary with essay by Mark Daniel Cohen.

2008 ArtExit Magazine, Review of SMASHED, June.

2008 The New York Optimist, Review for SMASHED, June, vol 1 issue 1

2008 Chase-Gulden, Amy,

Review of SMASHED, Apartment Therapy, June 5.

2006 Sank, Adam “What You See is What You Have” The New York Times, June 17.  Photo.

Education

2004… …Study of Buddhist practice with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh

2008  SUNY Purchase, NY

1997-98 The University of Chicago

1980-85 Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ, B.A.

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 materials.

BIO
June Diamond has been a practicing artist for over 30 years. After relocating from the East Coast, she received her B.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts, with a full merit scholarship and an accelerated graduation. During her studies she worked in many media such as paint, pastels, resin, latex, leather, wire and various fibers, earning critical acclaim from the faculty at CalArts.

June subsequently opened a glass studio in Southern California where she developed expertise in the medium. Over the years she has created and exhibited an extensive body of work, and hundreds of her pieces are held in private collections worldwide. She has taught hot glass techniques privately in her studio and off-site for the last eight years.

In recent years June has expanded her use of materials to also include metals such as copper, brass, and steel. Her current work often involves the use of recycled materials such as glass and metals, manipulated through processes including welding, cutting, heating and painting. She also creates functional art pieces such as lighting fixtures & windows. June currently resides and maintains her studio in Southern California.

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 us forward with new ideas it can also connect us back  to earlier concepts of the aesthetic.

Opening reception is 11, September 2010,  7:00pm to 10:00pm at the LOFT AT LIZ’S  and an Artist Panel Discussion moderated by the curator, Robert Silva, on  25, September 2010 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm. Show closes on Monday, October 18, 2010.

Featuring art work from John Huggins, Cha-Rie Tang, Vladimir Sierra, Launa D. Romoff, Bruce Hubbard, Vernon Hadden, John Robertson, Meghan Quinn, June Diamond and Gregg Hill.