A UAM WIDE ANGLE EVENT

Lot 1. Nick Agid / Jeanne Patterson
Value: $9,500

Left: Agid, Growth Convergence, 2008 , post cast carved and colored polyester resin 23.25 x 11.25 x 2.87 inches, Courtesy of artist and Imago/Studio Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
Right: Patterson, Flowersphere, 2008, mixed media, 29 inches diameter, Courtesy of the artist

Nick Agid received his B.A. from California State University, Dominguez Hills and his M.F.A. from Claremont Graduate University. Since 2002 he has taught at the Art Center. He worked in Pietrasanta, Italy at the Cooperativo Studio, and for Bob Shanks and David Wolper, NBC, and Alan Landsberg, ABC. Solo shows include: Bess Cutler, N.Y.; Greg Kucera, Seattle; Catherine Clark, San Francisco; B1 & Robert Berman, Santa Monica; and Stuart Katz, Laguna Beach. Agid is the recipient of the Marvin B. Meyer Award, and his public works include: the San Francisco 49ers & De Bartolo Corporation. Nine of his pieces are in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Jeanne Patterson has shown her work widely, both locally and internationally since the early 1990’s. She has an art gallery called Domestic Setting, originating in 1993, and has shown many Los Angeles based artists; and hosted guest curated shows. Jeanne attended California State University, Northridge. She is a Los Angeles based artist and curator. Her work may be found in the collection at the Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, and she has been awarded the artist residency at Stiching Kaus Ausralis, Rotterdam. Recent exhibitions include the Brewery Project, Los Angeles, Santa Monica Museum of Art, and Ruth Bachoffner Gallery, Santa Monica.

Lot 2. Lita Albuquerque / Rebecca Norton
Value: $14,000 LIVE AUCTION ITEM

Left: Albuquerque, Auric Field (Gold), 2009, Pigment on panel, 23k gold leaf on resin , 24 x 24 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Peter Blake Gallery
Right: Norton, Curfew Call, 2008, Oil on canvas, 60 x 60 inches, Courtesy of the artist

Lita Albuquerque is a pioneer in Process, Environmental, and Earth Art and part of the California Light and Space Movement. She received a B.A. in Art History from UCLA. She is the recipient of the 6th International Cairo Biennale Prize; NEA Fellowship and Art in Public Places awards; the Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship,Italy; City of L.A. Cola award, and a grant from the National Science Foundation. Her commissions include the California State Capitol East End Complex, the University of Tokyo Library, the Evo De Concini Courthouse in Arizona, the All Faiths Chapel at Chapman University, and the Gateway Pool at the L.A. Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. She is on the Faculty at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Rebecca Norton is a painter who lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her B.F.A. from the University of Louisville, KY, and is an M.F.A. candidate at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at the WOW Storefront Gallery and Bamboo Lane Gallery, both in L.A., and in a solo exhibition, Simplistic Narrations, in Louisville, KY. Norton also continues to work individually with private collectors for commissioned projects. Recently, Norton received the Art Center Scholarship for Graduate Studies.

Lot 3. Dawn Arrowsmith / Roni Feldman
Value: $7,200

Left: Arrowsmith, Being Blue-Violet, 2008' Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Jancar Gallery
Right: Feldman, Christmas Shoppers, 2009, Acrylic Air brushed on panel, 48 x 36 inches, Courtesy of the artist

Dawn Arrowsmith’s paintings, sculptures, and installations have been exhibited in the United States and abroad. Arrowsmith received her M.F.A. in Visual Arts at Claremont Graduate University. Exhibition sites include the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; the Armand Hammer Museum of Art; the L.A. County Museum of Art; the L.A. Municipal Art Gallery; the Clark Humanities Museum Gallery in Claremont; the Riverside Art Museum; William Turner Gallery, Venice; the Eli Broad Foundation in L.A.; the Lidovy Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic; the Palace Ducale in Gubbio, Italy; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Minsk, Belarus. Arrowsmith is represented by Toomey-Tourell Gallery in San Francisco and JANCAR Gallery in Los Angeles, CA.
Roni Feldman lives and works as a painter and curator in L.A with a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and M.F.A. from Claremont Graduate University. His paintings were shown at Toomey-Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, and Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont, CA. Feldman curated Political Disco, Santee Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, and was awarded an MFA Now Prize as well as a Walker/Parker Memorial Fellowship. He has participated in multiple group exhibitions: Concrete Walls, L.A.; Canvas Gallery, Seattle; See Line Gallery, Santa Monica; and Duncan Miller Gallery, Culver City. In 2009, a collection of his new paintings will be shown at Wilson Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia.

Lot 4. John Baldessari / Jamie Vasta
Value: $9,850 LIVE AUCTION ITEM

Left: Baldessari, Two Sunsets (One with Square Blue Moon), 1994, 10 color screenprint, 48 x 32 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Gemini G.E.L.
Right: Vasta, Unravel, 2008, Glitter, stain on wood panel, 16 x 20 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco

John Baldessari attended San Diego State University and did post-graduate work at Otis and Chouinard, and U.C. Berkeley. He has taught at Cal Arts and University of California, Los Angeles. Baldessari’s art has been featured in more than 200 solo exhibitions and over 750 group exhibitions. His projects include artist books, videos, films, billboards and public works. His awards include the Americans for the Arts lifetime achievement award, the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, the Governor’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts in California, the Oscar Kokoschka Prize, and the Spectrum-International Award for Photography. Exhibitions include; Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht in Maastricht, Netherlands; Marian Goodman Gallery, NY; Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels; Museum Haus Esters in Germany, Fondazione Prada in Milan, and the Tate Modern in London in 2009.
Jamie Vasta, from Rochester, New York, attended Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, before earning her B.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston / Tufts University. Shortly thereafter, Vasta earned her M.F.A. from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Most recently, her paintings were seen in “The Other Mainstream II,” Arizona State University Museum, Tempe, AZ. Her work is represented at Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA; and has been seen at dc Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; The Rhys Gallery, Boston, MA; and Playspace, San Francisco, CA.

Lot 5. Walead Beshty / Eriea Maneros
Value: $10,500

Left: Beshty, 2 Sided Picture (RY), January 12th, 2007, Valencia, CA, Fujicolor Crystal Archive, 2007, Color photographic paper, 24 x 20 inches, Courtesy of the artist and China Art Objects Galleries
Right: Maneros, Untitled #8, 2007, India ink on paper, 36 x 24 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Redling Fine Art

Walead Beshty is an artist and writer living and working in Los Angeles. Beshty holds a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Yale University. His solo exhibitions include: Walead Beshty: Legibility on Colored Backgrounds, The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; Pulleys, Cogwheels, Mirrors, and Windows, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; Industrial Pictures, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium; Hammer Project: Walead Beshty, The Armand Hammer Museum, L.A.; and Walead Beshty, P.S.1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, Long Island. He serves as faculty of the Graduate Art Department of Art Center College of Design.
Erlea Maneros Zabala lives and works in Los Angeles. She received a B.F.A. in drawing and painting from the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, and her M.F.A. from Cal Arts. Recent solo exhibitions include: Fellows of Contemporary Art, L.A.; Redling Fine Art, L.A.; Seamen’s Art Club, Hamburg, Germany; and Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Basque Country. Maneros was awarded a residency at the Platform Garanti, Instanbul, Turkey, and has been a guest lecturer at the University of California, San Diego; and Cal Arts. She was also the Co-founder of Art 2102, a Los Angeles based non-profit.

Lot 6. Joe Biel / Carrie Yury
Value: $6,900

Left: Biel, Either/Or, 2007, Watercolor and Latex paint on panel, 16 x 16 inches, Courtesy of the artist
Right: Yury, Untitled (Christmas Study), From the Room series , 2006, Chromogenic prints, 16 x 16 inches each, Courtesy of the artist and Sam Lee Gallery

Joe Biel has long been a L.A.-based artist. Biel earned his B.F.A. from Drake University in Des Moines, and his M.F.A. in Painting from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Biel has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including recently at the Galerie Kuckei + Kuckei, in Berlin, Germany, and at the Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle, Washington. His work has been shown at the Acuna-Hansen, Los Angeles, CA; Goff and Rosenthal Gallery, New York, NY; Hammer/Sidi Gallery, London, England; and Mjellby Art Center, Halmstad, Sweden. Among his many awards and honors, Biel received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Award as the Featured Artist in “New American Paintings: 2003 West Coast Edition.”
Carrie Yury earned a B.A. at U.C. Santa Cruz in Fine Art and Literature. She holds an M.A. in English from the University of Chicago, and an M.F.A in Studio Art from the University of California, Irvine. Yury is a published writer and a multi-media artist, working in photography, drawing, performance, and sound. In May 2008, Yury exhibited her solo show My Performance Anxiety – a series of 35 drawings at Sam Lee Gallery, Los Angeles. This exhibition was reviewed by the L.A. Times. Yury’s photographic series Room – diptychs featuring images that display and disrupt the classic ideal of the female nude – will open in May at Sam Lee Gallery.

Lot 7. Paul Cherwick / Jodie Mohr
Value: $16,500

Left: Cherwick, We can what we do
2008
Polychromed wood
30 x 29 x 9 inches
Courtesy of the artist

Right: Mohr, Untitled, Foul Series
2008
Oil on panel
15 x 47 x 2.5 inches
Courtesy of the artist

Paul Cherwick earned his B.F.A. at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. He received his M.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles where he continues to live and work as a sculptor. He has been awarded two grants and a study scholarship from the Manitoba Arts Council, and the D’Arcy Hayman Award in Sculpture. Solo exhibitions include Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA and the Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA. Most recently, he has participated in the group exhibitions Inevitable Continuum, Locust Projects 10 year anniversary exhibition, Locust Projects, Miami, FL; The Unruly and The Humorous, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; and Life is Fragile, BolteLang Gallerie, Zurich, Switzerland.
Jodie Mohr was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and received her B.F.A. in painting from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her most recent solo exhibition was held at Black Dragon Society in Los Angeles, CA, while numerous group exhibitions include: Hotel California, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale; Christmas In July, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles; WivesHusbands, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles; The Homies Show, The Dianne Pruess Press, Los Angeles; and BLACK DRAGON SOCIETY, Apex Art, New York.

Lot 8. Bryan Crockett / James Adams
Value: $9,100

Left: Crockett, Gluttony
2002
Cultured marble, stainless steel, nylon
Edition of 3 with 2 AP’s (Edition # AP1)
12 x 16 x 20 inches
Courtesy of the artist

Right: Adams, daughters
2008
Digital c-print on aluminum
20 x 16 inches
Courtesy of the artist

Bryan Crockett earned his B.F.A. at the Cooper Union, New York, and his M.F.A. at Yale University. He is recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, and was included in the 1997 Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He has had solo exhibitions at Artists Space and Lehmann Maupin Gallery in New York, and has been included in group exhibitions at the Tang Teaching Museum, the Des Moines Art Center, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Kunsthalle Mannheim, the Kunsthalle Basel, the Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Tate Liverpool. Before joining the California State University, Long Beach faculty, Bryan taught at the School of Visual Art in New York.
James Adams lives and works in downtown Los Angeles. He received his MFA from California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) in 2008. He also holds a degree in biochemistry from the University of Iowa with postgraduate studies in molecular biology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His work spans across media and disciplines from video and sound to sculpture, photography, printmaking, and painting. Adams has exhibited throughout Southern California at venues including The Constant Gallery, Kellogg Art Gallery; i-5 Gallery; and Soundwalk at the University Art Museum at CSULB. His single channel videos have screened at the Experimental Edit International Video Festival in Auckland, New Zealand.

Lot 9. Michael Davis / Christie Frields
Value: $5,000

Left: Davis, T.D.T.E.S.S. (The Day the Earth Stood Still)
2009
Archival digital print A/P
15 x 58 inches
Courtesy of the artist

Right: Frields, Anytime, Anywhere, Anything
2004
India ink on paper
48 x 18 inches
Courtesy of the artist

Michael Davis was born in 1948 in Los Angeles, California. He has been exhibiting and creating public art since 1978, and has received the AIA Award and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Davis works independently and with teams to produce large-scale, site-specific national works in public spaces. His sculptures can be found in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., and San Jose. He is adept at working with elements: light, water, metal, and stone, and creates smaller scale sculptures in his studio. Davis lives and works in San Pedro, California.
Christie Frields is a Los Angeles-based artist. She earned her B.F.A. at California State University, Long Beach, and her M.F.A. at Art Center College of Design. She has been a visiting artist lecturer at Cal Arts, the University of California, Los Angeles, and Art Center, and has been awarded a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant. Frields’ work has been included in group exhibitions at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Miami Art Museum; Art Gallery of Ontario; PLUG in ICA; Barnsdall Art Gallery; and Kellogg Art Gallery. Her solo exhibitions include: David Patton Projects, Los Angeles, and CRG Gallery, New York.

Lot 10. Linda Day / Church Tran
Value: $12,000

Left: Day, Pulse (Between/Beyond) #12
2008
Acrylic on panel
60 x 60 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Jancar Gallery

Right: Tran, Kaleidoscope/New Wave
2008
Oil on canvas
50 x 58 inches
Courtesy of the artist

Linda Day received her B.A. in English Literature from Colby College, Waterville, Maine in 1974 and in 1978 was awarded an M.F.A. from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. She received residency fellowships to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony. Day received a National Endowment for the Arts Award in Painting. Day has exhibited her work nationally and internationally and is represented by Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles and JayJay Gallery, Sacramento. Her current series, PULSE (Between/Beyond), embraces the tradition of geometric abstraction and is inspired by “the ether that surrounds us.”
Church Tran earned his B.F.A. from CSU, Fullerton, and his M.F.A. from California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). He has held teaching assistantships at CSULB and taught at Golden West College in Huntington Beach. Tran has had solo exhibitions at CAA in Los Angeles, and at the Max Gatov West Gallery, Long Beach. Group exhibitions include: Union Art Space, Santa Ana; The Brewery, L.A.; and Golden West College, Huntington Beach. As a surfer, Tran cites that impetus for his work is derived from the mystifying events that happen above and below the ocean’s surface; the unceasing change and malleability of liquid, its textures, and reflective characteristics make the ocean seem impenetrable.

Lot 11. Kirsten Everberg / Darren Hostetter
Value: $7,550 LIVE AUCTION ITEM

Left: Everberg, Tate Birches #7
2009
Oil and enamel on paper
22 x 30 inches
Courtesy of the artist and 1301 PE

Right: Hostetter, Fertile
From In Our Nature series
2008
Acrylic on aircraft aluminum
19.125 x 20.5 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Sam Lee Gallery

Kirsten Everberg was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, and received both her B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Her tactile oil and enamel paintings draw on diverse sources, from depicting historic interiors, to landscapes, to contemporary politics. In 2004, she was included in Undiscovered Country at the Hammer Museum. Everberg’s recent and upcoming solo shows inclue: 1301pe Gallery, L.A.; Galerie SE, Norway; Galerie Hussenot, Paris (May 2009); and Art Cologne’s Open Space program. Public collections include the Hammer Museum, MOCA, Musee Des Beaux Arts, Nancy, France; and Le Consortium, Dijon, France.
Darren Hostetter - Having grown up with a father in the aerospace and defense industry, Darren Hostetter finds himself in the “peculiar position of loving the machines, fearing what they do, and despising what they stand for.” The artist, who holds a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. from California State University, Long Beach, continues to investigate military armature and defense in the shadow of 9/11. He has received awards from the City of Long Beach and the California State Assembly, and most recently, the Werby Memorial Scholarship. Hostetter’s recent solo exhibition, In Our Nature, at Sam Lee Gallery was favorably reviewed by the L.A. Times. He has exhibited extensively throughout California, Miami and France.

Lot 12. Todd Gray / Brenna Youngblood
Value: $9,500 LIVE AUCTION ITEM

Left: Gray, Double Con
2006
Archival dye print and acrylic
17 x 12 inches
Courtesy of the artist

Right: This story has a great ending
2009
Color photograph, acrylic paint, spray paint, and paper collage on panel
30 x 24 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Margo Leavin Gallery

Todd Gray received his B.F.A. in 1979 and M.F.A. in 1989 from the California Institute of Arts. His work is in many notable permanent collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, and the University of Parma, Italy. He has an impressive exhibition history in prominent museums such as the Smithsonian, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Gray’s photo-based work is driven by introspection and is steeped in issues of cultural politics and iconography. He is currently on the faculty at California State University, Long Beach.
Brenna Youngblood currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her M.F.A. from University of California, Los Angeles. She has had solo projects at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and the Wignall Museum at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga, CA. Youngblood’s work was also seen in Aspects of Mel’s Hole, curated by Doug Harvey, at the Grand Central Art Center, California State University, Fullerton in 2008. She was included in the California Biennial, organized by the Orange County Museum of Art; and the University of California, Santa Barbara’s University Art Museum. Youngblood collages and combines her own photographs in painted grounds to create richly layered panels of fractured and elusive narratives.

Lot 13. Iva Gueorguieva / Claire Baker
Value: $12,700

Left: Gueorguieva, 19th Century Parisians Worshiping a Tongue
2008
Acrylic on canvas
47.5 x 55 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Angles Gallery

Right: Baker, Field
2008
Acrylic ink on Arches paper
18 x 24 inches
Courtesy of the Artist

Iva Gueorguieva’s paintings are collected throughout the United States. Her residencies include the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in New York, and the Kaus Ausralis, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Gueorguieva earned her B.A. from Goucher College, Baltimore, and her M.F.A. from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia. Her solo exhibitions include: Stichting Outline, Amsterdam; The Pomona Museum of Art, Claremont; Carl Berg Gallery, L. A.; Angels Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; Stephan Stux, New York; and the Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans. Recent group exhibitions include Looky See, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College, Los Angeles; I-35 Biennial, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas; and No Coast, No Sea, Western Exhibitions, Chicago.
Claire Baker received her bachelors in painting at Brown University and her M.F.A. from University of California, Los Angeles. Her exhibitions include participation in three varied group exhibitions in L.A., including New Wave at Carl Berg Gallery, Crossroads at Ruth Bachofner Gallery, and Heavy Corner at Creative Artists Agency. She participated in the LA Weekly Annual Biennial at Track 16 Gallery. Upcoming projects include a split-solo exhibition at Swarm Gallery in Oakland. As well as cultivating her own studio practice, in the Fall of 2008 she taught Introduction to Painting as a visiting instructor at California State University, Long Beach.

Lot 14. Roger Herman / Doug Harvey
Value: $5,500 LIVE AUCTION ITEM

Left: Herman, Kitchen
2000
Woodcut monoprint
48 x 36 inches
Courtesy of the artist

Right: Harvey, Chien TK (Dog is Coming)
2009
Acrylic and oil on paper
50 x 38 inches
Courtesy of the artist

Roger Herman received his M.F.A. from the Akademie der Kuenste, at Karlsruhe. He serves as Professor of Fine Art at the University of California, Los Angeles. Herman was a recipient of two National Endowment of the Arts Grants for Painting, and the DAAD Grant from Germany. His works are housed in collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; and the Eli Broad Collection. Recent solo exhibitions include the Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University, Orange; Scape Gallery, Corona del Mar; the Santa Monica Museum; and Galerie Gordon Pym & Fils, Paris, France.
Doug Harvey - Since receiving his MFA in painting from the University of California, Los Angeles, Doug Harvey has written extensively about the L.A. art scene, as art critic for LA Weekly, as well as in Art in America, The New York Times, Modern Painter, and numerous catalogue essays. Curatorial projects have included surveys of the work of Don Suggs and Rick Griffin, the Annual LA Weekly Biennials, Aspects of Mel’s Hole exhibit, sound art, programs of sound and performance events, and artist’s comic books and zines. Harvey exhibits his painting-based multimedia art locally and internationally, and participates in experimental sound, radio, and film communities. His work was recently exhibited at L.A. Valley College, Untidy: The Worlds of Doug Harvey.

Lot 15. Salomon Huerta / Ruby Osorio
Value: $10,200

Left: Huerta, Study for Anna
2008
Pencil on paper
22.5 x 30 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Patrick Painter

Right: Osorio, Lover Upon Entry
2008
Gouache and watercolor
20 x 13 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Cherry and Martin

Salomón Huerta, based in Los Angeles, is best known for his enigmatic portraits of anonymous subjects who sit or stand with their backs to the viewer. His work was included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial, and has been exhibited in the United States, Mexico, and Europe. Huerta received his B.F.A. from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, and his M.F.A. from University of California, Los Angeles. He has exhibited in group shows at the Santa Monica Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; and the San Antonio Museum, TX. Solo shows include: the Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica; Studio la Citta, Italy; and the Gagosian Gallery, London.
Ruby Osorio lives and work as a painter in L.A. She earned a BA in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and also studied at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico City. Her residencies include the ARCUS Project 2005 in Japan and the Painting’s Edge Residency in Idyllwild, CA. Osorio’s works have been exhibited at venues including Cherry and Martin, L.A.; Vamiali’s, Athens; Proyectos Moclova, Mexico City; Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago; and De Chiara Gallery, N.Y. Her work was also featured in a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri. Published work includes Such Wayward Whimsies, a suite of four prints in an edition of 25 by Arcanum Editions, N.Y.

Lot 16. Martin Kersels / Jed Lind
Value: $7,200 LIVE AUCTION ITEM

Left: Kersels, Whirling Mara
1999
Cibachrome print (AP)
31 x 45 inches
Courtesy of the artist and ACME

Right: Better to Burnout no. 2
2008
C-print
41 X 33 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Jessica Bradley Art + Projects

Martin Kersels is a Los Angeles-based artist working on the fringes of sculpture, performance, and photography. His work ranges from the collaborative with the group SHRIMPS to large-scale sculptures such as Tumble Room to intimate musical instruments for his “Orchestra for Idiots.” Kersels’ work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Pompidou Center, MOCA Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Kunsthalle Bern and in many national and international galleries. He is the recipient of both Fellows of Contemporary Art and Guggenheim Fellowships. Currently he teaches at Cal Arts.
Jed Lind, using sculpture and photography, focuses on economic patterns and their reworking through forms of counter culture. His photographs are formed by spinning his cameras and throwing them out of focus for extended periods to create unique records of time and space, and abstractions of varying hues. Lind is represented by Jessica Bradley ART+PROJECTS in Toronto. Lind has exhibited at the Wignall Museum, L.A.; Shoshana Wayne Gallery. Santa Monica; Vault 14, Malta; Gallery G18, Helsinki, Finland; Comic Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia; and One Night Gallery, Havana, Cuba. Jed Lind received his M.F.A. from Cal Arts, and his B.F.A from Concordia University, Montréal.

Lot 17. Ed + Nancy Kienholz / Kris Chatterson
Value: $12,995 LIVE AUCTION ITEM

Left: Kienholz, The Block Head
1981
Pumice construction block, frensel lens system, wood, leather, transistor AM/FM televison/recept.
12.5 x 8.5 x 12.25 inches
Courtesy of the artists and Gemini G.E.L.

Right: Chatterson, Silent Fury
2006
Acrylic on canvas
78 x 72 inches
Courtesy of the artist and
Western Project

Ed + Nancy Kienholz - After Edward Ralph Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz met, Ed made a statement that all works from 1972 onwards would bear the signature of both artists—a situation that continued until Ed’s death in 1994. Group exhibitions include: Documenta 4 and 5, Kassel, Germany; Whitney Biennial; New York; the Biennial of Sydney, Australia; and the Biennale di Venezia, Italy. Their first retrospective was organized in 1996 by the Whitney Museum of American Art, which traveled to MOCA, L.A. and Berlinsche Galerie. The Kienholz’s work can be found in collections worldwide including Centre Pompidou, Paris; LA County Museum of Art; The Menil Collection, Houston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Stedelijk, Amsterdam; and The Whitney Museum.
Kris Chatterson is a painter living and working in New York City. He is represented by Western Project in Los Angeles, where he had his debut solo show in June 2006. Kris received a B.F.A. from Ringling School of Art and Design in 2002 and an M.F.A. from Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, in 2004. He has been granted multiple awards, including the Karl and Beverly Benjamin Painting Fellowship and the Claremont Graduate University Fellowship. His most recent exhibition of new paintings was at Greene Contemporary, New York, NY. His upcoming exhibition will be shown at Western Project, Culver City, CA, in 2010.

Lot 18. Nathan Mabry / Tia Pulitzer
Value: $8,500

In Your Face 16 (Witch), AP1
2007
C-print, mounted on cintra
33 x 20 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Cherry and Martin

Head
2006
Fired clay, glaze, eyelashes, mdf, wood veneer
61 x 9 x 9 inches
Courtesy of the artist

Nathan Mabry lives and works in L.A. Trained as a ceramicist, he earned his B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute, and his M.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Solo exhibitions include two recent shows at Cherry and Martin Gallery in Los Angeles, and many group exhibitions, most recently at the Las Vegas Art Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Haunch of Venison, NY; the Hammer Museum; and Galleria Zero, Milan, Italy. Mabry creates “pieces that combine forms associated with hard-core Minimalist sculpture with the erotic shapes common in pre-Columbian Peruvian ceramics.”

Tia Pulitzer earned her B.F.A. in 2001 from the Kansas City Art Institute, and her M.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. A ceramics artist, Pulitzer’s debut solo show was at Black Dragon Society, L.A., in 2007. She has also participated in many recent group shows including those at Haunch of Venison, New York; Peggy Phelps Galleries, Claremont; Angels Gallery, CA; House of Campari, Los Angeles; and Track 16, L.A. Her sculptural practice includes human and animal figures formed from clay, achieving their fine, lustrous surface finishes with automotive paint.

Lot 19. Tony Marsh / Dave Hicks
Value: $15,150 LIVE AUCTION ITEM

Left: Marsh Flora Paradisio
2009
Ceramic on metal stand
13 x 25 x 13 inches
Courtesy of artist

Still Life (Flora and Filter)
2008-9
Terracotta, steel, cable, shrink tube, and paint
72 x 32 x 13 inches
Courtesy of the artist

Tony Marsh earned a B.F.A. from California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) in 1978 and an M.F.A. from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1988. He traveled to Mashiko, Japan, to study at Shimaoka Pottery with Tatsuo Shimaoka, named a Living National Treasure. Respecting the fundamental uses of pottery—holding, storing, preserving, commemorating, and beautifying—Marsh creates pieces that explore and allude to the human experience. His work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He currently teaches at CSULB, and serves as Chair of the Ceramics Department.
Dave Hicks specializes in ceramics with a B.F.A. from California State University, Long Beach, and his M.F.A. from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. His work is in collections worldwide, including: the American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona; the Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Icheon, South Korea; and the Schien-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, New York. His solo exhibition venues include the Cross Mackenzie Gallery, Washington, DC and Ventura College Art Gallery, Ventura CA. Hicks won Honorable Mention at the 4th World Ceramic Biennale, in Icheon, South Korea. Presently, he is preparing for the 5th World Ceramic Biennale, scheduled from April through June 2009.

Lot 20. Christopher Miles / Mimi Lauter
Value: $11,000

Left: Miles, Untitled (Noggin #6)
2009
Glazed stoneware, stainless stell
78 x 18 x 16 inches
Courtesy of the artist
Right: Lauter, Paradise Below Us
2008
Oil pastel, soft pastel, oil paint, coloroed pencil on paper
78 x 96 inches
Courtesy of the artist

Christopher Miles is a L.A.-based artist, curator and critic, and presently serves as faculty at California State University, Long Beach. Miles completed his B.A. at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his M.F.A. at University of Southern California. He received a 2004 Penny McCall Award for his work as a writer/curator. His writings have appeared in Artforum, Flash Art, Frieze, L.A. Weekly, L.A. Times, X-Tra, and other publications. His current sculptural works are influenced by expressionist sculpture, abstract expressionist ceramics, postminimalist investigations of phenomenology and materiality, and recent artistic considerations of the abject. In these works, sculptural form that is heavily abstract and materially, viscerally charged crosses the line into referentiality and implication.
Mimi Lauter lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. from the University of California, Irvine, and is currently an M.F.A. candidate. She was awarded the Idyllwild School of Arts Residency in 2005. Her work has most recently been shown at the Black Dragon Society’s Last Show, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles; and at GLAMFA, California State University, Long Beach. Additionally, Lauter’s paintings have been exhibited at: Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles; Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles; Addison Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC; and Anna Helwing Gallery, London. In 2008, Lauter was awarded the Medici Scholarship.

Lot 21. Kristen Morgin / Julie Schustack
Value: $10,500

Left: Morgin, A Cautionary Tale, 2009, Unfired clay, paint, and ink, 0.50 x 16 x 12 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Marc Selwyn Fine Art
Right: Schustack, Piano Chair, 2008, Wooden chair, music box pieces, copper, vellum, clamps, 24 x 15 x 12 inches, Courtesy of the artist

Kristen Morgin was born in Brunswick, GA in 1968. Was raised in San Jose. Is the eldest daughter of Lowell and Lucille Morgin. Has three younger sisters: Jennifer, Heather and Megan. Has never been married. Has never had any children. Earned her undergraduate B.A. from California State University, Hayward in 1993. Earned her M.F.A. in ceramics from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1997. Currently lives and works in Long Beach, CA. Teaches ceramics at California State University, Long Beach. Makes work year-round.
Julie Schustack received her B.F.A. from California State University, Long Beach, and her M.F.A. from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI. She has been a lecturer at Loyola Marymount University and CSULB, specializing in three-dimensional art, and was the art director for the Living Love Foundation. She has been awarded the Cranbrook Merit Award, as well as numerous other honors. Schustack’s recent solo exhibitions include “Domestic Structures,” Long Beach, CA, and the upcoming “Dinner’s at Seven,” Ventura College Art Gallery, Ventura, CA. Schustack’s work may also be found in private collections in Seattle, Washington and Bethesda, Maryland.

Lot 22. Robert Olsen / John McGuire Olsen
Value: $7,300

Left: Robert Olsen, 2008, Oil on panel, 9 x 16 inches, Courtesy of the artist and , Susan Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Right: John McGuire Olsen, Red Space (shades), from Occupied series, 2008, Oil on MDF panel, 10 x 10 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Sam Lee Gallery

Robert Olsen is a painter who lives and works in Los Angeles. He earned his B.F.A. from the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA, and his M.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has exhibited frequently in solo and group exhibitions, including Plane Space, NY; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles; Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, Canada; G Fine Art, Washington D.C.; and Fundacion IAC, Monterrey, Mexico.
John McGuire Olsen received his B.F.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, graduating with Honors and multiple scholarships and grants. He has participated in three art fairs: Aqua Art Miami, Red Dot Miami Beach, and AAF in New York with Sam Lee Gallery. His most recent solo exhibition Occupied was shown in September 2008 at Sam Lee Gallery, L.A. He transcribes photographic images onto wood panels. He states, “This tension between system and improvisation runs parallel with the negated humanism of the original photographs; in both the paintings and the photographs I am interested in the space that exists between apparently contradictory elements.”

Lot 23. Jon Pylypchuk / Maeghan Reid
Value: $7,200

Left: Pylypchuk, As Soon as these Pills Get on their Legs I'm Going to Kick Life in the Balls, 2009, Mixed media, 11.5 x 8.5 x 12 inches, Courtesy of the artist and China Art Objects
Right: Reid, Untitled, 2008, Collage on paper, 12 x 8 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Chung King Project

Jon Pylypchuk’s work may be seen in many public collections, including: the L. A. County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Pylypchuk received his B.F.A. from the University of Manitoba and his M.F.A. from the UCLA. His mixed-media works and installations have been exhibited most recently in Münster, Germany, but has also been seen in Los Angeles, New York, Paris, and Tokyo. He has shown in group exhibitions at the Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX; Aberystwyth Art Gallery, Aberystwyth, Wales; and the Fundament Foundation, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Maeghan Reid is from Santa Cruz, CA, and lives and works in Los Angeles. She earned her B.A. from Hampshire College, during which time she spent a year studying at Melbourne University, and completed her M.F.A. in 2005 from Claremont Graduate University. In the same year, she was awarded the Juror’s Award from the Holter Museum of Art. Recent exhibitions include: Chung King Project, Solo, Los Angeles, CA; Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin, Germany; Site LA, Los Angeles, CA; and Little Tree Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

Lot 24. Roland Reiss /Rachel Warkentin
Value: $12,500

Left: Reiss, Wet, 2005
Acrylic on acrylic, 64 x 48 inches, Courtesy of the artist
Right: Warkentin, Off Grid, 2008, Egg tempera and collage on panel, 24 x 72 inches, Courtesy of the artist

Roland Reiss is a painter and has exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad. Reiss studied at the American Academy of Art, Chicago, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He joined the faculty at Claremont Graduate College, where he was Chair of the Art Department for 29 years. His work has been seen at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Documenta in Kassel, Germany, with further exhibitions held in Brazil, Mexico, China, Canada, Italy, Japan, and Taiwan. He is the recipient of four National Endowment for the Arts grants and more than forty prizes and awards. He has served as Director of the Center for the Arts, and his most recent solo exhibition was held in 2007 at Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA.
Rachel Warkentin is a Los Angeles-based artist and painter. She earned her B.F.A. from Oregon State University, and is, at present, an M.F.A. candidate at Claremont Graduate University. She has also studied the methods of egg tempera with Ophrah Shemesh, which she uses in her practice. Warkentin has been awarded numerous fellowships and grants, including: the Claremont Graduate University Fellowship, the Walker Parker Memorial Fellowship, and the Hillcrest Transdisciplinary Grant. Solo exhibitions include: Take One, Leave One, Installation, Portland Building, Portland, OR; Family Portrait, West Gallery, Oregon State University; and the upcoming M.F.A. Thesis Show, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont.

Lot 25. Tony de los Reyes / Brian Sharp
Value: $10,000

Left: de los Reyes, Whaling In The Atlantic As We Know It, 1994, Red bister on paper, 43.5 x 64.75 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Carl Berg Gallery
Right: Sharp, Untitled, 2008, Oil on canvas, 28 x 22 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Norma Desmond Productions, Image credit Joshua White

Tony de los Reyes earned his B.F.A. from CSU, Northridge, and his M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. His installations include works on paper, as well as three-dimensional pieces made of resin, acrylic, and bronze. His solo exhibitions include Carl Berg Gallery in Los Angeles in 2008, Rio Hondo Art Gallery, CA; Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ; Howard House, Seattle, WA; and Artplace, Los Angeles, CA. DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY. Group shows include those at the Weatherspoon Museum, NC; the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA; Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA; and White Columns, New York, NY.
Brian Sharp is a Los Angeles-based artist. He earned a B.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from The Ohio State University, Columbus, and an M.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle, also in Drawing and Painting. His most recent exhibitions include: “Bucks Chase Does,” Norma Desmond Productions, Los Angeles, CA; “Psychogeometry,” Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA; “Warhol and… ,” Kantor Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; “The Neo Show,” Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; and “Paul’s Myth and Other Lore”, Projects Gallery, Meyers School of Art, University of Akron, Akron, OH.

Lot 26. Steve Roden / Brad Eberhard
Value: $8,700 LIVE AUCTION ITEM

Left: Roden, The Silent World, 2004, Oil, acrylic and wax on linen, 9 x 9 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Photo Credit: Gene Ogami
Right: Eberhard, Carrot Cloud, 2007, Oil on canvas over panel, 24 36 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Thomas Solomon Gallery

Steve Roden is a visual and sound artist from Los Angeles. His practice includes painting, drawing, sculpture, film/video, sound installation, and performance. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions, including Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects; Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NY; Studio la Citta Gallery, Verona, Italy; and the San Francisco Art Institute, CA. Roden has performed his sound works at various arts spaces and festivals worldwide, including the Serpentine Gallery in London, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Roden received his B.F.A from Otis Parsons in Los Angeles, and his M.F.A. from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. His many grants include: the Nimoy Artist in Residency, COLA from the City of Los Angeles, the California Arts Council Grant, the City of Pasadena Artist’s Grant, and the Durfee Foundation.
Brad Eberhard is from Anaheim, California, and continues to live and work in Los Angeles. He received his B.A. in Studio Art from Occidental College in Los Angeles, and his M.F.A. from Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California. While at Claremont, he was awarded the Karl Benjamin Painting Award, and was a Joan Mitchell Foundation M.F.A. Grant Nominee. Most recently, Eberhard has exhibited at the Las Vegas Art Museum, NV; Thomas Solomon Galery & Cottage Home, L.A.; Galeria Perdida, Houston, TX; Center for the Arts, L.A.; and Sister, L.A.

Lot 27. Mark Ruwedel / Peter Holzhauer
Value: $5,400

Left: Ruwedel, Caberzon, 2008, Archival inkjet print, 24 x 30 inches, Courtesy of the artist
Right: Holzhauer, Schumacher MRL5030, 2005, Archival inkjet print, ed. 5, 23.5 x 30 inches, Courtesy of the artist

Mark Ruwedel, faculty at California State University, Long Beach, works primarily with large format cameras and has been investigating the landscape for over 25 years. With major awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ruwedel has exhibited and published extensively. Recent solo exhibitions include Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica and Yossi Milo Gallery, New York. His work is included in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum; the L.A. County Museum of Art; the National Gallery of Australia; the National Gallery of Canada; the Metropolitan Museum, New York; the San Francisco MOMA; FNAC, Paris; and the Library of Congress, among others. A monograph, Westward the Course of Empire, was published by the Yale Art Gallery in 2008.
Peter Holzhauer lives and works in Los Angeles. He studied at Pratt Institute and Massachusetts College of Art before receiving his B.F.A. from the Art Institute of Boston, and his M.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. His photographs are held in the permanent collections of the Boston Public Library, the Boston Athenaeum, and the George Eastman House. Holzhauer has received the D’Arcy Hayman Award, the Bill Muster Foundation Award, and the Hoyt Scholarship. He is currently an instructor of photography at Cerritos College. Recent group exhibitions include: New York Photo Festival, Brooklyn; Piero Gallery, Orange, NJ; Phantom Gallery, Pasadena; and the Portland Museum of Art, in Portland, Maine.

Lot 28. Maya Schindler / Rabbia Sukkarieh
Value: $5,300

Left: Schindler, Stacked Rifles, 2006-07, Watercolor on Mylar, 40 x 30 inches, Courtesy of the artist
Right: Sukkarieh, Black, White, Orange, 2008, Clay, glaze, Approx. 11 inches diameter/each, Courtesy of the artist

Maya Schindler lives and works in Los Angeles. She earned her B.F.A. from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem and her M.F.A. from Yale University. She has held artist residencies in Israel, Texas, and the French West Indies. Schindler’s installations have been shown internationally, including Seeing Is Believing, Zaum Projects, Lisbon, Portugal; PRESENT PROGRESSIVE University Art Museum, CSULB; BLAH BLAH BLAH REVOLUTION, Claremont Art Museum; Wishful thinking Wishful, (part of Plastic poetics), Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh; WE MAKE IT HARDER THEN IT HAS TO BE, The Glass Pavilion, Berlin, Germany; and HAPPY ENDINGS, Me?di?um Gallery, St. Barthlemy, French West Indies.
Rabbia Sukkarieh completed her B.F.A. at the Fine Art Institute in Beirut and her M.F.A. at Art Center in Pasadena. She lives and works in L.A. She was the first Lebanese artist to present performances on the firing lines between East and West Beirut. Her installations include: Scheherazade at the National Museum of Women in the Arts at Washington DC, 99 Drums and Banners, Federal Building, Westwood, California; and Super Sex, Los Angeles. Upcoming exhibitions include an installation, Shelter, at the Sanskriti Kindra Museum in New Delhi. Sukkarieh’s work is held in the private collections of active members of MOCA and LACMA in Los Angeles, as well as by corporations in the U.S., Europe and Lebanon.

Lot 29. Don Suggs / Kristi Lippire
Value: $4,900

Left: Suggs, Primary Concentric, 2001, Oil on panel, 14 x 14 inches, Courtesy of the artist
Right: Lippire, Standing Goose with Stationary Head, 2007, Stainless steel vegetable steamer baskets, screws, nuts, threaded rod, hinges, and cement, 26.5 x 30 x 17 inches, Courtesy of the artist

Don Suggs was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 1967-1972, during which time he earned his B.A., M.A., and M.F.A. His work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, and sculpture, and is included in public collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA. From 1983 to the present, Suggs has been a lecturer at UCLA.
Kristi Lippire has shown with Den Contemporary Art in Culver City, Ace Gallery in L.A., and had a solo show last year at the Riverside Art Museum. She has also participated and organized multiple gorilla art projects in Los Angeles and Mexico. She is currently embarking on a new body of work, a collaborative project at the Claremont Museum of Art and group show at the Luckman Fine Art Gallery at California State University, Los Angeles. Lippire got her undergraduate degree from California State University, Long Beach and Graduate degree from Claremont Graduate University. Lippire lives and works in Los Angeles.

Lot 30. Robert Walker / Hadley Holliday
Value: $5,600

Left: Walker, Talking to A Parrot About YOur Drinking Problem, 2008, Carved acrylic on wood panel, 20 x 17 x 1.5 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Solway Jones
Right: Holliday, Untitled, 2008, Acrylic on canvas with silver and copper leaf, 48 x 36 inches, Courtesy of the artist

Robert Walker received his M.F.A. from the University of California, Irvine, and works in Los Angeles. He exhibits regularly in the U.S. Walker is on the faculty at College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita. A long-time social activist in the L.A. arts community, he founded the first program for homeless artists in the city and he pioneered a program for artists with HIV. He is currently the president of the board of L.A. Artcore. Walker’s work will be found in many distinguished collections including Arco, Prudential, Atlantic Records, Sheppard, Muller, Richter & Hampton, AT&T, the Salk Institute, Dior, Cedars Sinai, Bank of America, Loyola Law School, and IBM.
Hadley Holliday lives and works in Los Angeles. She began her studies at the Rhode Island School of Design, but completed her B.F.A. at the University of Kansas, followed closely by an M.A. In 2004 she earned her M.F.A. at Cal Arts. Holliday was awarded the Painting’s Edge Artist in Residency in Idyllwild, California in 2003, and her most recent work has been shown internationally, including Gallery G18, Helsinki, Finland and C.A.G. Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Other recent exhibitions include: Remy’s on Temple, L.A.; College of the Canyons, Valencia; CUNY, New York, NY; Kristi Engel Gallery, L.A.; and MonteVista, L.A.

Lot 31. Daniel Wheeler / Nancy Baker Cahill
Value: $4,800

Left: Wheeler, GULP #072 33° 03'21.91" N 117° 17' 32.95" W 10:08 PM, 2008, Acrylic pigment print, acrylic on sintra, 40 x 40 inches, Edition 2 of 8, Courtesy of the artist
Right: Baker Cahill, Reverse Poppy Bullet Blossom, 2008, Gouache on wood, shot from behind with .45 caliber handgun
24 x 24 inches, Courtesy of the artist

Daniel Wheeler was born in 1961 in New Haven, Connecticut. He earned his B.F.A. from Brown University in 1984, and has been exhibiting ever since in spaces such as Gallery +1 in Tokyo, Japan; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Armory Center, Los Angeles; and Otis College of Art, Los Angeles. Wheeler’s work is politically charged, yet also poetic: he refuses to cleave to a certain viewpoint but is magnanimous when dealing with his subjects, which allows for open interpretation by his audience. He is a resident of Los Angeles, California.
Nancy Baker Cahill is an artist living in Los Angeles. Since 2001, she has co-curated fresh stART, an exhibition benefiting art therapy programs for at-risk youth. Currently, she serves on the Hollywood Community Redevelopment Agency’s Public Art Advisory Board. She graduated from Williams College with a B.A. in Fine Art. Her latest solo exhibition was in 2008, entitled Spring-loaded, at Tinlark Gallery, Hollywood, CA.