Artist Bios
Andrea Bowers
Andrea Bowers has an MFA from CalArts and lives and works in Los Angeles.
Recent solo shows include "The Weight of Relevance" at the
Secession, Vienna and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; "Vows" at
Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg; "Nothing Is Neutral" at
REDCAT, Los Angeles and Artpace, San Antonio. Recent group shows include "Tanzen,
Sehen" at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany; "Personal
Affairs" at the Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen, Germany; "Particulate
Matter" at the Mills College Art Museum, Oakland and the "Whitney
Biennial 2004", Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
She is represented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Mehdi
Chouakri in Berlin, Galerie Praz-Delavallade in Paris, and Van Horn in
Düsseldorf. Bowers is currently a Visiting Artist at CalArts.
John Divola
John Divola (b. 1949, Los Angeles) BA, 1971 California State University, Northridge; MA 1973: MFA 1974, University of California, Los Angeles. Since 1975 he has taught photography and art at numerous institutions including California Institute of the Arts (1978-1988), and since 1988 he has been a Professor of Art at the University of California, Riverside.
Since 1975, Divola's work has been featured in more than fifty solo exhibitions in the United States, Japan, Europe, Mexico, and Australia, including Galerie Marquardt, Paris, 1990; Seibu Gallery, Tokyo, 1987; the University of New Mexico Art Museum, 1982; The Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, 2000; and Janet Borden Gallery, New York, 2001. Since 1973 his work has been included in more than one hundred and fifty group exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and Japan, including: "Mirrors and Windows," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 1978; "1981 Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York. 1981; "California Photography: Remaking Make-Believe," Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York. 1989. "The Photographic Condition," The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California. 1995; "Photo Binennale, Enschede (Obsessions. From Wunderkammer to Cyberspace)," Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enchede, Netherlands. 1995 "Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, , 2000; "Architecture Hot and Cold," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2000, Los Angeles 1955-85, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2006.
Among Divola's Awards are Individual Artist Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1973, 1976, 1979, 1990), a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1986), a Fintridge Foundation Fellowship (1998), a City of Los Angeles Artist Grant (1999) and a California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship (1998). Four recent books by John Divola are, "Continuity" art work and preface by John Divola. Ram Publications/Smart Art Press, Los Angeles, California. October, 1997. 72 pages, "Isolated Houses," with Essay by Jan Tumlir, 48 pages with 24 color plates, Nazraeli Press, 2000, "Dogs Chasing My Car In The Desert," preface by John Divola, 48 pages with 20 duotone plates, Nazraeli Press, 2004, and the Aperture book (upcoming) "Three Acts," essay by David Campany, interview by Jan Tumlir, 109 duotone and 54 color plates,144 pages, May, 2006.
John Divola works primarily with photography and digital imaging. While he has approached a broad range of subjects he is currently moving through the landscape looking for evidence of existential desire.
Judy Fiskin
Judy Fiskin is a photographer and video maker. She had a retrospective
of her photographs at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles
in 1994, and in 2006h her photographs were featured in "Los Angeles
1955-1985: Birth of an Art Captial," at the Pompidou Center in
Paris. Her films have been shown worldwide, including screenings at
MoMA in New York, and in Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin and Madrid. She has
been teaching at CalArts since 1977. She is currently represented by
Angles Gallery.
Charles Gaines
A 1967 MFA graduate from the Rochester Institute of Technology, Charles
began his professional career in 1972. He has had over 50 one-person
shows and several hundred group exhibitions in the US and Europe. In
the early 70s he was included in 1975 Whitney Biennial. He has been
represented by Leo Castelli Gallery, John Weber Gallery, Margo Leavin
Gallery, Young Hoffman, Chicago; Richard Heller, Los Angeles; Lavignes-Bastille,
Paris. He is presently represented by Susanne Veilmetter Los Angeles
Projects; Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart; Steven Wolf Gallery, San
Francisco. He is in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art in New York; Whitney Museum, New
York; Los Angeles County Museum; Lentos Museum, Linz, Austria; Galerie
der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen, Germany; Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany.
Group exhibitions include the 2007 Venice Biennale, Venice Italy; the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, LA; Lentos
Museum, Linz, Austria (two person show); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; Kunsthalle
Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas;
Redcat, Los Angeles (two person show). He was a recipient of the1977
National Endowment for the Arts. He has recently been awarded the 2007
US Artist Fellowship Grant. Additionally, he will be on the faculty
of Skowhegan, summer 2008. Charles has published several essays on
contemporary art including, “Theater of Refusal: Black Art and
Mainstream Criticism,” (Univ. of Calif., Irvine, 1973). He currently
resides Los Angeles where he has been teaching full time at the California
Institute of the Arts since 1989.
Ken Gonzales-Day
Ken Gonzales-Day lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his MFA
from UC Irvine, and his MA in Art History from Hunter College (C.U.N.Y).
He was a fellow in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent
Study Program. Other fellowships include the Rockefeller Foundation
Study and Conference Center in Bellagio (Italy), and the American Art
Museum and National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution,
where Gonzales-Day was a Senior Fellow in Latino Studies. His book,
Lynching in the West: 1850-1935 was published by Duke University Press
in 2006. Gonzales-Day is an Associate Professor, and Chair of the Department
of Art at Scripps College.
Solo exhibitions include: Wonder Gaze, SPACE, Portland, Maine; Memento Mori, LAXART, Los Angeles; Lynching in the West, CUE Art Foundation, NYC; Hang Trees, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont; Project Room, Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles; Dysmorphologies, Deep River Gallery, Los Angeles; Cristinerose Gallery, NYC; White Room, White Columns, NYC. Group exhibitions include: Viva Mexico, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Polland; Past Over, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles; Crimes of Omission, ICA Philadelphia; Exile of the Imaginary: Aesthetics, Politics, Love, Generali Foundation, Vienna; Civil Restitutions, Thomas Dane Gallery, London; An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life, REDCAT at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles; Log Cabin, Artists Space, NYC; Picarte , Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ; Made in California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Cyborg Manifesto , Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach; Reimaging the West, SF Camerawork, San Francisco; FotoLatina, Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara and Five Continents and One City, Mexico City; among others.
Connie Samaras
Connie Samaras is based in Los Angeles and has exhibited her work extensively
both nationally and internationally. Working with a wide range of subject
matter, ongoing interests include charting the variable membrane between
fiction and real world, mapping political geographies and psychological
dislocation in the everyday, and approaching the practice of art in
relationship to various methods of cataloguing history. Her most recent
body of work V.A.L.I.S. (vast active living intelligence system), photographs
of the South Pole and videos shot on the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica
(funded by a National Science Foundation Grant for Artists and Writers),
was exhibited this past October at Gallery de Soto, Los Angeles and
is currently on exhibit until early January at the Pitzer College galleries,
Claremont as part of a traveling three person exhibition, Antarctica
which includes the work of New Zealand photographers Anne Noble and
Joyce Campbell. The next upcoming solo show of V.A.L.I.S. will be April
2008 at UNAMs Galería Metropolitana, Mexico City. One of her
next projects, After the American Century, will be a photographic series
shot in Dubai and other locations in the U.A.E. Samaras is also a writer
and a Professor in the Departments of Studio Art and Womens Studies,
UC Irvine.
James Welling
James Welling was born in Hartford CT 1951 and he attended Carnegie Mellon
University, the University of Pittsburgh and Cal Arts where he received
his MFA in 1974. In the early 1980's Welling exhibited at Metro Pictures
in New York and his work was closely identified with post-modern appropriation
work. Since the late 1980's Welling has explored the dicotomy between
abstration and photographic process in his work. In 1999 he received
the Forder Prise from the Sprengel Museum in Hannover Germany. In 1995
Welling became head of photography at the UCLA Department of Art. On
February 29, 2008 an exhibition of Welling's new work opens at Regen
Projects in Los Angeles.
Charles White
Charlie White lives and works in Los Angeles California. Over the last
decade, internationally recognized artist White has created some of the
most arresting and trenchant images in contemporary photography. Through
an extensive process that entails casting actors, creating characters,
and building sets to construct scenes both disturbing and familiar, White
dissects the violence, desires, and social anxieties that trouble the
American collective unconscious.
His photographs have been exhibited at institutions throughout the world,
including the Center of Contemporary Art in Salamanca, Spain; Oberösterreichische
Landesmuseen in Linz, Austria; The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York;
and Bergen Kunsthall in Bergen, Norway. White is the author of three
monographs.
Mark Wyse
Mark Wyse (b. 1970) received an MFA from Yale University School of the
Art in 2001. His work has been featured in publications including Art
in America, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Art on Paper, Blind
Spot, The Los Angeles Times, and The Village Voice. His first monograph,
18 Landscapes, is published by Nazraeli Press. Wyse’s work is
in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Yale University
Art Museum and the La Salle Bank Photography Collection in Chicago.
He is represented by Wallspace in New York, NY. Wyse lives and works
in Los Angeles.
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