The Artists

Gretchen Andrew
Gretchen Andrew (born in Los Angeles, 1988) is a search engine and internet imperialist artist.  She trained in London with the artist Billy Childish from 2012-2017. In 2018 the V&A Museum released her book Search Engine Art. Starting in 2019 she became known for her vision boards and associated performative internet manipulations of art world institutions of Frieze Los Angeles, The Whitney Biennial, The Turner Prize, and The Cover of Artforum. Gretchen’s work has recently been featured in Flash Art, The Washington Post, Fortune Magazine, Monopol, Wirtschaftswoche, The Los Angeles Times, and The Financial Times. She is represented by Annka Kultys Gallery who will be hosting her next exhibition in February 2021.

Zeina Baltagi
“An artist and educator, raised between California and Lebanon. My work reveals intimate transformations in relation to lived experiences with physical, emotional, economic and cultural mobility. I hold a B.A. from California State University, Northridge, and an M.F.A. degree from University California,  Davis. I have exhibited my work with; Basement Gallery, LADOT, Union Station, Los Angeles Road Concerts, PØST, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, bG gallery and Klowden Mann. As well as numerous University galleries including; University of Southern California, Claremont Graduate University, California Lutheran University and California State University, Northridge.”

Derek Boshier

Dhiren Dasu
Dhiren Dasu, aka ‘Shapeshifter 7’, has been making art since 1996. He works in photography, collage, film, animation, music, and figurative art. He makes artworks that echo and recompose the locations he photographs, turning them into immersive spaces while exploring the nexus of symbols and perception.His current project titled Simulacre is a synthesis of his photography practice, collage, and character design. The work draws on his extensive catalog of photos from his worldwide travels over the past decade. He is currently working on an immersive presentation of this series for virtual reality, 360 domes, and traditional gallery shows.  All the source material in this series comprises his photos of a location, usually taken on a single day. These images are then collaged into a representative simulacrum that expresses the vibe, history, architectural features, and whimsy of these spaces. 

The two works submitted are both of downtown Los Angeles.

Jason David
JASON DAVID  born in Los Angeles,  is a Los Angeles based artist. First started painting in Florence, Italy at La Scoula Lorenzo De Medici.  He  holds an BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Later studied with local sculptors in The Bush residency outside Johannesburg, South Africa. David’s work has been exhibited nationally, including at Flowers Gallery, New York, Jail Gallery, Sabina Lee Gallery, Arturo Bandini, Harris Gallery, 16:1, The Lodge Gallery Los Angeles, The Muse Gallery Arizona, Internationally Flowers Central London and Mário Sequeira Gallery Portugal. 

Adam de Boer
Adam de Boer graduated with a BA in Painting from the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara (2006) and an MA in Fine Art from the Chelsea College of Art, London (2012). Recent exhibitions include Gazelli Art House, London (2021); The Hole, New York (2021); ISA Art + Design, Jakarta (2020); Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles (2020/2018); Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2020); World Trade Centre, Jakarta (2018); and Art|Jog, Yogyakarta (2018/2015).

In 2017, de Boer was awarded a Fulbright research fellowship to Indonesia. Other grants include those from Arts for India, The Cultural Development Corporation, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and The Santa Barbara Arts Fund.For the past ten years de Boer has travelled throughout Indonesia to investigate his Eurasian heritage. His recent work employs imagery and traditional crafts from the region as a way to connect his artistic practice with those of his distant cultural forebears. He currently lives in Los Angeles.

Tami Demaree
Tami Demaree was born in Huntington Beach, California. She received an MFA from Otis College of Art and Design in 2003, and a BFA from The University of California in 2000. Her work has been presented extensively in the US and internationally including Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Budapest and Israel. Solo exhibitions include Las Cienegas Projects, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, University of San Diego, Meliksetian Briggs and LACMA.
https://www.oddarkla.com/tami-demaree

In this day and age of digital technologies, such as CNC routing and 3D printing, Demaree’s decision to shape and carve wood by hand imbues the material with a resonance of time spent and personal investment. Although the works reference Japanese woodcuts, they were never made to print from. Instead Demaree has placed the importance on the original source of the image rather than a reproduction of the image. The works in Pictures of the Floating World function as a physical testament and evocation of ephemeral memories and the weight of cultural heritage. 

David Eddington
Born Bedfordshire, England, resident in Venice, CA, since 2000

 “..when I paint I look for the reality of the work, removing my thought from everything other than the nature of the work itself, a contained research. Although the subconscious resulting work bears reference to art historical they are far from objects of science, or solely political, or as the gallerists looks to the market; Since the creation of a painting today is almost by definition multi-faceted, I accept that these phonemes happen, though I am not concerned for these considerations when I make work. So where does my work belong? When I paint, it belongs within its-self, a unique area that as I paint the resulting image leads me further along. I am interested in what makes a collection of objects or a painting a work of art, as relating to that element that makes a simple surface or object become more than the material from which it is constructed and presented, where the most important element of the work, isn’t the ‘thing’ at all, but where it takes you, a search for the truth in ‘being’. “

Patricia Gonzalez
Born in Columbia she moved to London with her family at the age of eleven. She studied art at the  Central School of Art & Design here and went on to earn a BFA at the Wimbledon School of Art. She returned to Cartagena and taught art and English in Colombia. In 1981, she moved to Houston and in 1987, she received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and, in 1989, held an exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Her work has also been exhibited in Los Angeles, New York City, Austin, Washington  and Cartagena. She lives in Los Angeles, CA.

Colin Fraser Gray
Colin Fraser Gray is an English artist, living in Southern California. He attended Leeds Polytechnic in the early seventies when the Fine Art department was considered the most experimental in Europe. oriented works. He has numerous influences other than fine art, including architecture, photography, the philosophy of Albert Camus, NASA, Ruskin, working as a dustman, a long distance art trucker, a handler of Carravagios and Leonardo’s, working in a gherkin factory, working in museums, and as a scenic painter in Hell (Dubai). He also taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara for a number of years. He has several Public Art projects around Southern California, and is the founder of 'Wiki Drawings' which is an ongoing community art project. He is also the executive director of “The Society of the Appreciation of Shadows’ & co-directs the artist run VITA Art Centre in Ventura CA with partner Mary Perez.

Steven Hull
Steven Hull was born in Lakewood, California in 1967. He received his B.F.A and M.F.A from the California Institute of the Arts; the latter in 1997. He lives and works in Los Angeles and has exhibited at Rosamund Felsen Gallery since 1998. He has also shown at Galeries Schmidt MacZollek and Rolf Ricke in Koln, Germany and been included in group exhibitions at the Neues Museum in Nuremberg, Germany. He organized Las Cienegas Projects in Los Angeles, a collaborative artists and writers space and workshop, 2009-2011.

Hull has compiled and edited numerous artist publications including Blind Date (1998), a catalogue of 31 artists and writers’ collaborations; I’m Still In Love With You (1998-99), an album and catalogue in which visual artists and writers respond to the 1972 album by Al Green; Song Poems (2000-01), a catalogue with 3 CDs of 43 original lyrics, songs and album art contributed by numerous writers, artists and musicians; and Nothing Moments (2007), a publishing and curatorial project consisting of 24 limited edition books and over 400 original drawings. He is a recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for painting.

Greg Jezewski

Jonathan Mills
These two works (for Images of LA) were made with Japanese brush paintings from the 14th Century as starting points. I find my focus is aimed more and more on the Pacific Rim and particularly with interest in Japan and China. I mostly work in watercolor and charcoal at the moment with a very specific place in mind, usually journeys in landscape, from travels and domiciles in the southwestern United States and South Eastern England where I was raised. I was born of American parents and have lived in the States since 1985, Los Angeles area since 1995 with long familial links to the country.

Graham Moore
”After graduating from school in London, my first job was working in a small print shop in Covent garden, then onto The Hugo Organisation, a boutique design studio also in London. After a brief visit to New York, i headed down to Dallas and 2 design studios and various freelance gigs later my creative career path as a graphic designer and art director took me to the west coast. Since 1991 Los Angeles has been home. In 2003 i was given the opportunity to teach an evening class in the Art Center at Night program, employing traditional techniques (non- computer). Teaching those techniques led me to begin creating hand-made work of my own, using every kind of mixed-media, including collage, cut n paste, using pop culture imagery, found ephemera, etc. and other random sources. Since that initial class, i have taught Graphic Design, Typography, Art + Design classes at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Woodbury University in Burbank, The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in downtown Los Angeles, UCLA Extension program and The Art Institute in North Hollywood. I have also taught in the Art Center at Night and Saturday High programs at Art Center and am a mentor. Otis College of Art and Design Summer of Art program for high school students. I participated in 2 study abroad programs in London, various hand-technique/analog workshops including USC School of Art and Design and the University of Monterrey in Mexico. My artwork has been shown in numerous group shows as well as 2 solo shows. My art is represented by FRESH PAINT in Culver City, California

I have won 3 design awards, Certificate of Excellence, Print Design Annual, 1990, Outstanding Achievement, How Design Annual, 2004, and Print Regional Design Awards Annual, 2016. My freelance clients have included Neiman Marcus, Pier1 imports, JC Penney, USC School of Social Work, Art Center College of Design design office, Creative Domain, The Cimarron Group, SRC Advertising, Teleflora, Asian Ceramics, Wise USA, Samsung Records, Quango and Resonance records, Evolution Music.”

Ry Rocklen
born 1978
Ry Rocklen is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles, working primarily in sculpture. Rocklen was born in 1978 and attended UCLA. He is represented by Honor Fraser gallery in Los Angeles and Praz-Delavallade in Paris/Los Angeles. ‘Known for wryly imbuing the mundane with theatricality, absurdity, and grace, Ry Rocklen turns culturally resonant found objects into Marcel Duchamp-inspired readymade sculptures. Examples include a sleep-themed 2010 mixed-media installation aptly titled “ZZZ’s” and a floor made from painted-over thrift store paintings speckled with sculptures such as a tree composed of copper pipes, concrete, a hay bale, and VHS tape (Believe You Me, 2011). Due to its narrative quality and use of visual puns, Rocklen’s work has been described as nonverbal comedic performances. The Harborer (2005), for instance, evokes the misadventures of a sea captain through a pair of yellow wellington boots, filled with cast-resin “ice” and “worn” by a pair of fishing net-entangled crutches—by extrapolating objects from their familiar contexts, Rocklen renders them poetic.’

Matthew Rosenquist
Matthew Rosenquist was born in Baltimore, MD in 1972.  He studied art at George Washington University in Washington, DC and received his MFA in Painting from Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, GA. He has had solo shows at Vita Art Center in Ventura, CA in 2019, The Lodge in Los Angeles, CA in 2016 and 2018 and The Lux Art Institute in Encinitas, CA in 2017. He has work in collections throughout the United States. Matthew currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Annie Sabroux
“I have been making murals on ceramic tiles for about 30 years, mostly for private clients and designed repeat patterns for tiles.I have never tried to pursue exhibiting, although it happened twice at the “Craft and Folk Art Museum” in Los Angeles,  and at a local Santa Monica school where we were mixed with upcoming artists. I still have the poster! I used to live in England, after I left France where I was born. My first job in London was as a Disc Jockey in a French club in Soho. For my second job I worked for Quorum with Ozzie Clark and Alice Pollock, which was a fashion house at the time. Then I became a photographic model, until I moved to Los Angeles, where I did my last modelling jobs with Albert Watson, when he was living here. My first big job on ceramic tiles was an installation in the home of Lily Tomlin.”

James Scott

Penny Slinger
‘The provocative practice of London-born, LA-based artist Penny Slinger spans photography, collage, film and sculpture. Active from the late 1960s, Slinger emerged into a maelstrom of political protest, social change and sexual freedom. She graduated from the Chelsea School of Art in 1969 having developed a visual language she described as 'feminist surrealism', influenced by her study of European Surrealism, her friendship with Roland Penrose and association with Max Ernst. Slinger quickly began exploring and investigating the notion of the feminine subconscious and psyche, using her own body to examine the relationship between sexuality, mysticism and femininity.’

 The work of Penny Slinger has featured in numerous exhibitions, including most recently ‘House of the Sleeping Beauties’ at Sotheby’s S|2 Gallery, London, UK (2019); ‘Visible Women’, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, UK (2018); ‘Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings’, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK (2018); the major touring exhibition ‘Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s: Works from the Verbund Collection’ at the Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK (2016–2017) and Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany (2015); ‘History Is Now: 7 Artists Take on Britain’, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (2015); ‘Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism’, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK (2009); and ‘The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art’, Tate St. Ives, UK (2009).

Dave Smith
British born artist (1944), attended Derby College of Art & Hornsey College of Art (Post Graduate). Lived in the Bahamas 1973-1990 with frequent shows in Nassau & Miami, FL. One of principal artists featured in 2008 documentary 'Master Artists of the Bahamas'. Moved to U.S in 1991, currently living in Los Angeles, CA. Much of work comments on contemporary American society, but frequently draws on Caribbean experience.

Jay Stuckey
Primarily working with painting and collage, Jay Stuckey creates compositions of familiar images using representational and abstract elements. The humour and accessibility of Stuckey’s work is counterbalanced by each piece’s hidden intricacy and purpose. Referencing his own subconscious and the confessional nature of Jungian psychoanalysis, Stuckey intends the immediacy of his work to present a line of inquiry and revelation to the viewer instead of imposing ideas. Stuckey intends his works to reveal themselves with subtlety and action, instilling the perseverance of his ongoing process.

Jay Stuckey (b. 1968, Washington, D.C.) lives and works in Los Angeles. Stuckey received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute Chicago, and BFA from Brown University. He has exhibited internationally at venues including The Cedars, Texas; Abel Raum für Neue Kunst, Berlin; Institut Franco-American, Rennes; Eric Firestone Gallery, New York; Palmetto Center for the Arts, San Antonio; Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco; Deutscher Kunstlerbund, Berlin; Blank Projects, Cape Town; Goethe Institute, Johannesburg; Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila; Pøst Gallery, LA, 16:1 Gallery, Santa Monica and Axis Gallery

Philip Vaughan
Philip Vaughan was brought up in France the son of English parents and went to boarding school in England at the age of 9. There he met Gordon Taylor, an extraordinary art teacher and modernist, his first mentor at Brighton College who started him on a lifelong love of architecture and painting and sculpture. Philip studied architecture at Cambridge and then transferred to art school graduating from Chelsea School of Art.  While doing graduate research at Northumberland Polytechnic art school, Philip Vaughan completed his first large public kinetic sculpture, the Neon Tower erected on the Hayward Gallery in 1972 on London’s South Bank Art Centre.

He worked for some years teaching at the City of London University while he experimented with inflatables and kinetics. While he was there he built a 42ft ocean-going sailing boat in Rotherhithe, in east London. In 1979 he sailed that boat across the Atlantic. Shortly after landing in Florida he started working for Walt Disney Imagineering designing animatronic dinosaurs, rides and sets for theme parks. Philip lives in Altadena, Los Angeles, working on sculpture, drawings, paintings and public art commissions. He continues to plan and build public sculptures, using light and other media. Most recently he has been working a lot in gardens and using natural materials like bamboo.