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| Patterson Beckwith | Natalie Shriver | ||
| Matthew Jordan | Whitney Stolich | ||
| Elad Lassry | Lee Thompson | ||
| José Álvaro Perdices | Brenna Youngblood | ||
| Jeff Sheng |
| Patterson Beckwith (Born 1972, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Beckwith received a BFA from The Cooper Union, New York, in 1994 and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2006. In the intervening years, his editorial photography appeared in such publications as Artforum, Vice, Jane, Details, Index, and Domino magazines. He has organized "portrait studio" performance events at Photo New York and Photo San Francisco; the Hammer Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles; E.S.L. projects, Los Angeles; and at American Fine Arts, New York. From 1992-2000, he was a member of a collaborative art group, Art Club 2000, comprised of seven Cooper Union students, which exhibited in Mexico, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, England, Scotland, and the United States. He has been teaching photography at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles since 2002. |
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 "Untitled (Albertson's II, 2005)" 2005 ed. 1/3 C-Print 30x40 inches click for full image |
| Matthew Jordan (Born 1975, Portsmouth, Ohio) Jordan received a BA in 2001 from Yale University, where he was the recipient of the Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Arts, and an MFA in 2004 from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has received numerous accolades, including the Graduate Opportunity Fellowship in 2002 and the Louise Berman Fellowship in 2003. Since his MFA exhibition, he has been included in recent exhibitions at Western Project in Los Angeles and The Photography Institute in New York. Jordan's work has been acquired by private collectors on both coasts, and in 2006, he joined the photography faculty at Pasadena City College. |
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 "I Will Love You Until My Dying Day" 2004 C-Print 40x50 inches click for full image |
| Elad Lassry (Born 1977, Tel Aviv, Israel) Lassry received a BFA in 2003 from California Institute of the Arts, with dual majors in studio art and film, and received an MFA from the University of Southern California's Roski School of Fine Arts. His work in film, installation, and photography is an ongoing, lens-based investigation of the object through a reconsideration of established cultural ideas, events, perspectives, and visual tendencies. He is the recipient of the 2006 Fotokem film grant. |
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 "A Balanchine episode in four sections" no.3 ELGB 2006 Lightjet print in wood frame 15x20 inches click for full image |
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José Álvaro Perdices (Born 1971, Madrid, Spain) Perdices studied at Universidad Complutense, Madrid; California State University, Los Angeles; and attended graduate school at the University of California, Los Angeles. His work has been exhibited in numerous international venues, including the Riga Triennial, Latvia; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; the Marcelino Botín Foundation gallery, Santander; and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. He has developed works in photographic installation and film, turning images, actions and narratives into highly charged psychological performances that address cultural and personal visibility. |
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 "Untitled (Created it and Held it)" 2001 C-Print 85x68 inches click for full image |
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Jeff Sheng (Born 1980, Santa Barbara, California) Sheng received a BA in visual and environmental studies with an emphasis on filmmaking and photography from Harvard College, graduating magna cum laude. He is currently the recipient of the Paul and Daisy Soros New Americans Fellowship and has received an MFA with an emphasis in Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. His photographs have been published in The New York Times Magazine and have appeared in group exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, Boston, and Arles, France. Sheng has also exhibited at Rice University, Houston, and the University of Florida, Gainesville, as part of an exhibition series related to his activist-inspired project, Fearless, about openly gay, lesbian, and bisexual athletes on high school and college sports teams in the United States. |
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 "Hangzhou, China: My Grandfather's Memory of his Childhood (the bridge that goes neither forward nor back)" (detail) 2004 C-Print 15x96 inches click for full image |
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Natalie Shriver (Born 1979, Baltimore, Maryland) Shriver received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2001 and an MFA from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles in 2004. She has exhibited in Chicago at Gallery 312 and The Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, and in 2004 at the Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles. She is currently working on a new photography project and a situation comedy entitled Deadbeat Dad. |
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 "Choate Chrome Mine" 2004 Inkjet Print 25x30 inches click for full image |
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Whitney Stolich (Born 1975, Monterey, California) Stolich obtained a BA in urban planning from Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, in 1997 and an MFA from Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, in 2004. Stolich's recent body of work, Landuse, focuses on her intense interest in urbanism, through a conceptual approach. Utilizing real images of various land uses in Southern California, she forces the viewer to question whether these images are real or fiction. Since finishing Landuse, she has been working on a new body of work, Third Space, which is built around 16 twin cities situated on the U.S./Mexico border and their independent cultures, which the artist believes are fusing together because of their proximity and similar urban cultures. |
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 "Worker Houses/Third Space #3" 2005 C-Print 32x77 inches click for full image |
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Lee Thompson (Born 1980, Oil City, Pennsylvania) Thompson received a BFA in fine art photography in 2003 from the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. He is currently enrolled in the MFA program at the University of California, Riverside, where he has taught classes in photography and digital art. He has also taught at the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts in Erie, Pennsylvania. Thompson's photographs have been exhibited in Columbus, Ohio; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Los Angeles, California, and his work was most recently shown in Southern Exposure at the New Wight Gallery at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2005. |
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 "Lost Foundations" 2006 Lightjet print 36x24 inches click for full image |
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Brenna Youngblood (Born 1979, Riverside, California) Youngblood received a BFA in 2002 from California State University, Long Beach, and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, in June 2006. Her photographic collages were included in Handmade at Wallspace in New York and in State of Emergence: Unsuspected Cracks in the Art World Infrastructure at Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, both in 2005. She also presented a solo project at the Hammer Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2006. |
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 "Hybrid" 2006 Mixed media 13 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches click for full image |
| Marya Alford | Yaniro Paramo | ||
| Andres Janacua | Ephraim Puusemp | ||
| Annie Lapin | Marco Rios | ||
| Christopher Michlig | Carly Steward |
| Marya Alford (Born 1979, Pascagoula, Mississippi) Alford received a BFA from the Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles in 2003 and an MFA from the University of Southern California Roski School of Fine Arts in 2005. She has exhibited in Southern California for several years and has recently screened her film, Bouvier and Prusakova, at various festivals, including the Images Festival in Toronto. Currently, she is producing a permanent public artwork for a new park on the site of the Ambassador Hotel and Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles. It is scheduled to open in the fall of 2008. |
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 “and a female canary fluttered into mine (Annebel)” 2006 C-Print 29x22¾ inches click for full image |
| Andres Janacua (Born 1982, Los Angeles, California) Janacua received his BFA in 2004 from the University of Southern California and his MFA from Claremont Graduate University in 2007. He received the Claremont Graduate University Fellowship in 2006 and the Walker & Parker Memorial Fellowship in 2007. He attended residency programs at the Galeria Perdida in Michoacan, Mexico in 2006 and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 2007. He exhibited at Track 16 Gallery in Los Angeles in 2006 and Shotgun Space in Los Angeles and at Galeria Perdida in Mexico and Berlin in 2007. |
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 “Uniform Black” 2006 Graphite on paper 22x30 inches click for full image |
| Annie Lapin (Born 1978, Washington, D.C.) Lapin graduated cum laude from Yale University with a BA and obtained an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2007. She has exhibited in Los Angeles at Daniel Weinberg Gallery in 2007, Angles Gallery in 2005 and 2007, and Taylor De Cordoba in 2006. She has received many awards and fellowships for excellence from the Art Institute of Chicago, UCLA and Yale University. |
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 “Achronologic Portrait” 2007 Mixed media and collage on paper 30x23 inches click for full image |
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Christopher Michlig (Born 1976, Girdwood, Alaska) Michlig received an MFA from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California in 2007. He was featured in the 2006 L.A. Weekly Biennial MFA WMDs, which was curated by Holly Myers and Tom Christie of the LA Weekly. He recently exhibited work at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, Schalter Gallery in Berlin, and the City of Brea Gallery in Orange County. Upcoming exhibitions include Yellow curated by Lia Trinka Browner at Fellows of Contemporary Art and a solo show at Jail Gallery, both in Los Angeles in 2008. He has been the recipient of fellowships and residencies in California and New York. |
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 “Olympic and Alameda St.” (Reduced) 2007 Found poster collage 22x28 inches click for full image |
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Yaniro Paramo (Born 1982, Joliet, Illinois) Paramo obtained a BA from the University of St. Francis, Illinois in 2004 with a double major in public relations and advertising and an MFA from CalArts, Los Angeles in 2007. His exhibitions have included Lost Streams: The First Frontier Was The Waters Edge at Estación Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico in 2006 and Departure, a group show at the Steelworkers Building in Joiliet, Illinois in 2004. |
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 “Ya mero/Almost (Detail)” 2006 Red ink on paper 3x3 feet click for full image |
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Ephraim Puusemp (Born 1976, Salt Lake City, Utah) Puusemp received a BA from The University of Utah in 1999 and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2007. He exhibited at the Cordell Taylor gallery in Utah in 2000 and was included in The University of Utah’s alumni exhibition in 2004. Most recently, he was included in Compass 2007: New Art from the University of California’s MFA Programs at the UCR Sweeny Gallery in Riverside, California curated by Ciara Ennis and Tyler Stallings. |
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 “Photographs of Pinholes (Orion)” 2007 Lambda print on di-bond 48x62 inches click for full image |
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Marco Rios (Born 1975, Los Angeles, California) Rios was the recipient of a scholarship to Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, where he obtained a BFA in 1997. He received an MFA at the University of California, Irvine in 2006, where he was the winner of the Chancellor’s Fellowship. In 2006, he had several solo shows in California including Embrionic Loop at LAX><ART gallery in Los Angeles, Disruptions at 4-F Gallery in Los Angeles, Disruptions at the Queens Nails Annex in San Francisco, and Rigor Motors at the Laguna Art Museum. His group shows in Los Angeles have included: ACME in 2004, Luckman Gallery and the L.A. Design Center in 2005, Acuna-Hansen in 2006, as well as an upcoming show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2008. |
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 “Untitled (from the ‘Disruptions’ series)” 2005 Archival inkjet print 40¾x30¼ inches click for full image |
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Carly Steward (Born 1979, Redlands, California) Steward received a BFA at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles in 2003 and an MFA at CalArts, Los Angeles in 2007. She has exhibited in many group shows including: De Pasada Por Los Angeles at Atelier als Supermedium in The Hague, the Netherlands; Photo Femmes at Caren Golden Fine Art in 2006 in New York; Speakeasy at Upspace, L.A. Design Center in 2005; Disquieted at 4-F Gallery in Los Angeles in 2004; and, Always Already Passe, curated by Chivas Clem at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise in New York in 2004. |
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 “Cradle Mount with Build Up” 2007 C-Print 40x30 inches click for full image |
| Lindsay Brant | John Sisley | ||
| Cal Crawford | Jim Skuldt | ||
| Marie Jager | Greg Wilken | ||
| Vishal Jugdeo | Rosha Yaghmai |
| Lindsay Brant (Born 1973, New York, New York) Brant received a BA from Yale University where in 1995 she was also awarded the Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize. She received her MFA from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California in 2004. Brant had two solo shows in New York in 2005 and 2006 at the now-closed Haswellediger & Co. Gallery. Her work has been in many group shows in Los Angeles, New York and Berlin. In 2006, she was featured in "Ridykeulous" at Participant in New York. The following year, Brant's work was featured in "Shared Women" at LACE. |
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 “Renascent Brave” 2007-2008 Stained glass, kyanite, artificial fur, epoxy putty, copper, zinc and lead 28x22½x2½ inches click for full image |
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Cal Crawford (Born 1979, San Diego, California) Crawford received a BFA from Concordia University, Montreal in 2004 and an MFA from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California in 2007. He was awarded a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship in 2004. Crawford has published several audio works and has performed in international sound festivals, including Mutek and the electroacoustics festival PRÉrien at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. Recently, he has exhibited video and sculpture works in several group exhibitions including "Start," curated by Christof Migone at the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal; an exhibition juried by Jorge Pardo at Treehouse Gallery, Los Angeles; and a three-artist exhibition at Richard Telles Fine Art gallery, Los Angeles. |
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 “IT/THEY/WE/YOU” 2008 Frame, poster, vinyl 26x16 inches click for full image |
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Marie Jager (Born 1975, Copenhagen, Denmark) Marie Jager received an MFA from the University of Southern California Roski School of Fine Arts in 2004. Her work has been presented in venues such as Artists Space and the Swiss Institute (NY), Elizabeth Dee Gallery (NY), China Art Objects Galleries (LA), the MAK Center (LA), Croy Nielsen (Berlin), Jeffrey Charles Gallery (London), among others. She was included in the 2006 California Biennial and recently organized a series of film screenings ("The A to Z of cinema with Gilles Deleuze") at the Mandrake in Los Angeles. Her work has been included in a DVD compilation “compiler 2” curated by Daniel Bauman and written about in Art Forum, Flashart, C Magazine and The New York Times. |
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 “They were traveling with their landscape (Oldest Known Shipwreck)” 2007 Digital print on museum board 40x27½ inches click for full image |
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Vishal Jugdeo (Born 1979, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada) Jugdeo received a BFA from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC in 2003 and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2007. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine in 2005. Jugdeo has exhibited in Canada and the United States, including a solo exhibition at the Western Front in Vancouver, and group exhibitions at The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California and Leslie Tonkonow gallery, New York. His first solo exhibition will take place at LAXART in Los Angeles in spring 2008. |
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 “Grad Kit (after and for Geoffrey)” 2007 Wood, styrofoam, found and made objects 41x53½x6 inches click for full image |
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John Sisley (Born 1975, Sacramento, California) Sisley received a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1998 where he studied art and English literature, and an MFA from the University of California, Riverside in 2007. Recent selected group exhibitions include: "Is that all there is to fire?" at High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles (2007); "Compass 2007: New Art from the University of California's MFA Programs" at California Museum of Photography and UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, California (2007); and "Southern Exposure" at New Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles (2005). |
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 “The Locked Room (#1)” 2007 Inkjet print 42x30 inches click for full image |
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Jim Skuldt (Born 1970, Minnesota, USA) Skuldt received his MFA from CalArts in 2005. He attended the Triangle France residency (Marseille) in 2006 and was awarded the California Community Foundation Emerging Artists Fellowship and the Durfee Foundation ARC Grant the following year. His work has appeared in venues including Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LA), the Museum of Contemporary Art (LA), Art in General (NY), the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NY), the High Desert Test Sites, and Friche la Belle de Mai (Marseille). Skuldt lives in Los Angeles and will participate in the upcoming 2008 California Biennial. |
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 “michele_clouds.jpg” 2008 Digital Image click for full image |
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Greg Wilken (Born 1980, Los Angeles, California) Wilken received his BFA from the Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles in 2004 and an MFA from the University of Southern California Roski School of Fine Arts in 2006. He received USC's Kathleen Neely Macomber Travel Award in 2005. He has shown work in numerous group shows in Los Angeles. Currently, he is at work on a large film and drawing installation based on the allegorization of the history of television transmission technology in Los Angeles. |
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 “August 8, 2005. Cultivation of the endemic species Robinsonia berteroi, Isla de Robinson Crusoe, Juan Fernandez Archipelago, Chile” 2006 C-Print 60x75 inches click for full image |
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Rosha Yaghmai (Born 1978, Los Angeles, California) After studying at the School of Visual Arts, New York, Yaghmai received both her BFA (2001) and her MFA (2007) degrees from CalArts, Los Angeles. During this time she also ran the exhibition space 507Rose in Venice, California. Yaghmai has exhibited widely in Southern California, including at the Riverside Art Museum as well as at Transmission in the United Kingdom. |
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 “my driver's license and some rubble” 2007 Graphite and light jet print on paper 30x22 inches click for full image |