18th Street Art Center

 
 
Arzu Arda Kosar received her MFA from the University of Southern California and completed her undergraduate work in Studio Arts and Art History, with a minor in Philosophy and Women’s Studies, at the University of Pittsburgh. Her art focuses on topics related to inter-group relationships and balkanization. Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, [...]

Luciana Abait  is an Argentine painter and photo-artist who has lived and worked in Miami and now lives in Los  Angeles. She draws inspiration from these tropical surroundings. Her latest series are underwater shots of swimming  pools, doing for them with photography what David Hockney did with painted canvases. The artist presents her works  like [...]

 
 
Lita Albuquerque emerged on the California art scene in the mid seventies as part of the light and space movement and has since won numerous grants and awards including: three N.E.A. Art in Public Places awards; N.E.A. individual fellowship; the Cairo Biennale prize; and an Arts International award. Her work ranges from intimate objects to [...]

Michael Barnard has been making films, artworks, and music for over thirty years. He has published poetry and other writings in a variety of journals and books, including most recently an essay in the McGraw-Hill book “Wisdom from the East” edited by Susan Suntree.
For the past several years Michael has also been actively creating and [...]

 
 
 
Campbell’s  work as an artist is a conceptual practice that bridges studio work and public organizing of artist projects, actions, and interventions. This multi faceted practice is consistent with a generation of practitioners who challenged existing power structures found in our governmental and cultural institutions which were discriminatory. The process of revisionism, wide use of [...]

 
 
 
Marina is a visual artist focusing on mixed media and collage. She is a psychotherapist specializing in addiction and conducts workshops on creativity. She serves on the Board of the Clare Foundation, Vermont Studio Center and Carl Forstmann Foundation.
1629 18th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90404
marinaday@adelphia.net
www.marinaforstmannday.com

 
 
 
Bernadette Fox experiments with Art and Architecture and explores the relationship between space, boundaries, infinity and limits. She is working with the latent energy of structure and is looking for ways to express the transformation of energy at its moment of release or change.
1629 18th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90404
bernadettefx@yahoo.com

 
 
Born in Tokyo and raised in Los Angeles, Ichiro Irie received his B.F.A. from University of California, Santa Barbara and his M.F.A. from Claremont Graduate University. In 2001, Irie went to Mexico City on a Fulbright fellowship, and has maintained an active relationship with the visual art community in Mexico. Irie has exhibited his work [...]

 
 
Award-winning performance artist, writer and teacher. Kwong draws upon his own life experiences to explore the personal, the historical, the social and the unspeakable. His solo works combine autobiographical storytelling with multimedia, dynamic physical movement, martial arts, and music. His work has been presented in Thailand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Cambodia, China, Canada, England, Mexico, and [...]

 
Suzanne Lacy is an internationally known artist whose work includes installations, video, and large-scale performances on social themes and urban issues. One of her best-known works to date is The Crystal Quilt (Minneapolis, 1987) a performance with 430 older women, broadcast live on Public Television. During the nineties she worked with teams of artists and [...]

 
 
 
Henriëtte Brouwers is a performer, teacher and director. Born in the Netherlands, she completed work at the Academy for Expression by Word and Gesture in her native country and studied corporeal mime with Etiènne Décroux and theatre of the oppressed with Augusto Boal in Paris. She was invited to perform in the US by the [...]

 
David McDonald is a sculptor and painter although  he sees his activity as one single entity. Both his sculpture and paintings are constructed objects that are assembled one line, one material, one square at a time. They are accumulations that function both on a micro scale of detail and individual lines and units, and macro [...]

 
 
This young, emerging artist plans to use his residency as a time to experiment with the artist practice he started in college, referred to as his “ink blot” style, in which he created abstract murals meant to stir up cultural conversation and celebrate people’s diverse visual perspectives. Doerrer is a recent college graduate from Rutgers [...]

 
 
Yvette Gellis has studied abroad at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Aix-en-Provence; at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts; and has recently received her MFA from Claremont Graduate University’s School of Art. The artist lives and works in Los Angeles.
Gellis’s first solo exhibition at Kim Light/LightBox Gallery focused on works in mixed media [...]

Asuka Iida, Untitled, mixed media on canvas, 16 x 20″,2007 (courtesy of artist)

 
Born and raised in Japan, Asuka Iida completed her BFA at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking “La Esmeralda.” She uses a variety of material including beads, buttons and sequins on a painted surface to create fantastic landscapes and portraits that [...]