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Susan Crile grew up in Cleveland Ohio. After graduating from Bennington College in1965, she moved to New York City. Since then, she has had over fifty solo exhibitions. Ten of these have been museum or university museum exhibitions: The Phillips Collection (1975), MOCA Cleveland (1984), The Saint Louis Museum of Art, The Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, and The University Art Museum at CA State, Long Beach (all in 1994). In 1995, she had an exhibition at The Herbert Johnson Museum at Cornell University and The Middlebury College Museum of Art. In 1996 her exhibition, The Fires of War, took place in Kuwait City at The National Council for Culture, Art and Letters, a temporary replacement for the destroyed Kuwait National Gallery. In 2003, she had an exhibition at The University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson AZ. Crile is scheduled for an exhibition, Abu Ghraib: The Abuse of Power, in September of 2006 at the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College, CUNY in New York City.
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Danh has invented a technique for printing found photographs (digitally rendered into negatives) onto the surface of leaves by exploiting the natural process of photosynthesis. The leaves, still living, are pressed between glass plates with the negative and exposed to sunlight from a week to several months. Coined "chlorophyll prints" by the artist, the fragile works are encapsulated and made permanent through casting them in solid blocks of resin. By conjoining his process into his conceptual ideas so completely, Danh is also able to reference the history and technical developments of photography.
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Barry Frydlender Barry Frydlender is Israel’s premiere photographer. He recently completed major exhibitions of his photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Jewish Museum in Paris. His work is represented by the Andrea Meisel Gallery, New York, and in 2007 he was artist in residence at 18th Street Arts Center.
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Cindy Kane Cindy Kane is exhibiting for the first time at 18th Street Arts Center. Ms. Kane has most recently completed a project called "Mapping Writers," in which she created collages out of maps and notes of manuscript writers. The Helmet Project is her first three-dimensional installation. A resident of Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, she has exhibited in numerous galleries including Cheryl Pelavin, New York; Wilford and Vogel, Santa Fe; and Francine Ellman, Los Angeles.
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Hometown Baghdad Hometown Baghdad, has held various production positions during his career including executive producer, cameraman and sound engineer. He is a member of the Najeen Group, an Iraqi artists’ initiative that supports and produces theater, art and films such as the first postwar theatrical production in Baghdad “They Passed by Here,” and “Underexposure.” Hometown Baghdad holds a Bachelor of Science in Information and Communication Engineering from the University of Baghdad. He is currently working on upcoming film and television productions and volunteers with youth empowerment projects and NGOs.
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Marty Horowitz Martin Horowitz is a master gilder, well known in the United States for his ability with this exacting craft. He has rediscovered the art of water gilding smooth surfaces with sturgeon glue and liberally applies this craft to the witty but politically charged objects he conceptualizes. His relief sculptures and objects have a lightness belying their material formed by the play of light on their metallic surfaces. Horowitz lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He attended the School of Visual Arts in New York and his work is exhibited primarily in New Mexico, most notably the Linda Durham and Peyton Wright Galleries.
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Mr. Lopez' new video work created for War As a Way of Life focuses on former soldier George Torres' plight as a result of the United State’s interest and “unobtrusive presence” in the Congo during the mid 1960’s in a military campaign that was secretly classified as “Operation Bonnie Birch”. Following a five year civil unrest, Joseph-Desire Mobutu, overthrew Kasavubu in 1965 with the support of the Central Intelligence Agency backed coup d’etat. For the next few years the US maintained a military operation there to secure natural resources, diamonds and ore, and aid Mobutu in thwarting off the Communists. Fast forward to the mid ‘80’s and Mr. Torres who served on this campaign was told by the US government that such factions never occurred, or if they did, he was never there, or he was misclassified. Conflict is often characterized by deceit, lies, and corruption of individuals by the state. The strange underground world of covert operations is a tactic the United States has historically employed to advance its agenda of national interest and security. George Torres is Mr. Lopez uncle.
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Christina McPhee Christina McPhee, new media artist and theorist, engages a psychogeography of environmental risk and traumatic memory in layered, baroque visual and media suites. Via abstract drawing, structuralist video and photomontage, Christina makes performative forays at generative 'moment-tensors' where biological systems clash and meet with technological. and often security-challenged, landscapes at the urban edge. Her work slips past the indexical to trace dynamic loops between biological and technologically emergent states, making connections between human traumatic memory, disturbed terrains, and bare life. Born in Los Angeles, she studied at Scripps College, Kansas City Art Institute, and later with Philip Guston at Boston University for the MFA. She is currently a visiting artist/lecturer in the DANM (Digital Arts and New Media ) graduate program at UC-Santa Cruz. Her work is included in the forthcoming 2008-2009 exhibitions "Being There: Mapping the Contemporary' at Bildmuseet Umea, Sweden;
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Catherine Opie Cathie Opie is one of Los Angeles premiere photographers and image makers. For “War As a Way of Life” she is contributing a new series of photographs she has taken of demonstrations. In these images she stood in the street and photographed waves of marchers coming towards her.
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Stacy Peralta (born October 15, 1957) is an American director, as well as a former professional skateboarder, team surfer and entrepreneur. He is one of the original Z-Boys.
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David Reeb is an Israeli artist who lives and works in Tel Aviv. His video work, last seen at the Herzliya Museum investigates the cultures which occur around the presence of restraining walls. Reeb studied at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, and has received numerous prizes in Israel for his prints, paintings and conceptual work. His work has recently been exhibited at Hasenclave Gallery, Munich; Haifa Museum of Art; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast; and has been in numerous group shows including the Drawing Center, New York City; Kunsthaus, Zurich; Documenta X; and the 7th Havana Biennale.
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Sinan Leong Revell Over the past several years Sinan Revell has pursued an unusual project: reinventing the "images of our time" by assuming the roles of those images ' protagonists. There is plenty of precedence for Revell's activity, both photographic and performative, and the reflection she proffers on the meditation of contemporary perception is by now a traditional argument in social and cultural discourse.
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Daniel Ruanova Tijuana artist Daniel Ruanova is an emerging artist whose pointed and playful political works have been seen at Galeria H & H in Tijuana; Tropico de Nopal Art Space, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego; and the Luckman Art Gallery at Cal State LA. This is his first showing at 18th Street Arts Center.
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Larry Scarpa The work of Lawrence Scarpa has redefined the role of the artist/architect to produce some of the most remarkable and exploratory work today. He does this, not by escaping the restrictions of practice, but by looking, questioning and reworking the very process of design and building. He has taught and lectured at the university level at numerous schools including UCLA, University of Florida, Mississippi State University and SCI-arc. He is the 2008 Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor at Washington University Sam Fox School of Visual Art and Design, the 2007 Eliel Saarinen Visiting Professor at the Alfred Taubman College of Architecture at the University of Michigan, 2005 University of Michigan Max Fisher Visiting Fellow, and 2004 Freidman Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. Over the last seven years Mr. Scarpa has received forty two major design awards including eleven National AIA Awards, and was a finalist for the World Habitat Award, one of ten people selected worldwide. His work is currently on exhibit at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.
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Mark Spencer Born in Boston, Mark Spencer is a painter and visual artist who has exhibited in galleries, museums and exhibitions throughout the United States including the Frye Art Museum in Seattle and Gerald Peters in Santa Fe. He was an 18th Street Arts Center visiting artist at the West Walls Studios, in Carlisle, England. His work manipulates time, suspending linear thought, leading the viewer into contemporary imagery and archetypes. Spencer forthrightly infuses his works with meaning, narrative and a sense of the joy and frailty of human existence. Spencer believes his “art is about transformation and rites of passage. It’s about the ineffable mystery underlying what we take for granted. It’s about the constant, unrelenting change and growth of our time. It’s about the Divine in the mundane.”
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