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| Leigh Adams | Leigh Adams is a multimedia artist specializing in glass and glass processes. She also works with kids and loves teaching them how to do installation work with glass and ceramic mosaics, gourd art, basketry and Native American folk arts. Currently a nominee for the National Endowment of the Arts Folk Artist of the Year award and Artist in Residence at the LA County Arboretum, Leigh's favorite activities are working outdoors and playing with color and light! |
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| William Crite | William Crite fell in love with photography at the age of seven it was his grandfather’s hobby. That led to a professional career in photography that includes working in television for 8 years, magazines, fashion and photojournalism. Painting and print making (silkscreen) have also been a part of this journey and most recently exploring mosaic tile and glass fusing. His work is in the permanent collection of The Museum of African American Art (Los Angeles, CA), Museum of Rock and Roll (Cleveland, OH), Alvin Ailey Dancers (New York), Rockwell International (Long Beach, CA), University of Santa Fe (New Mexico) and The Martin Luther King Collection (Atlanta, GA). Also his art has been on the following television shows: Living Single, Martin, E.R., The Jamie Fox show, Parent Hood, Chicago Hope, Cold Case and Good Morning America. |
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| Dave Lovejoy | I’m intrigued by ancient ritual vessels; the urns, decanters and amphorae which supported the rites and traditions of the ages. I envision these forms and their weathered patinas as I work in my home studio, striving to create an unknown history, a relic of an unknown past. Using clay to create a familiar form, I deny the intended purpose of that form – making containers that can’t contain. Teapots filled with machine parts, perforated pitchers - these frustrated forms challenge traditional perceptions of utility and function. To conjure these ancient surfaces, and to emphasize the contrasts of shape and texture, I use more primitive firing methods like Raku, Anagama and pit firing. I seek processes where I continue to be involved with the work, yet the work is truly surrendered to the fire. No matter how I have envisioned the finished piece, the fire always adds its own signature. |
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| Domingo A. Rodriguez | Domingo A. Rodriguez was born and raised in East Los Angeles. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Cal State University, Los Angeles and began his photographic apprenticeship at Anthony Loya Studio in East Los Angeles. Hea teaches at Rio Hondo College, Whittier California. His most current and completed work focused on women who have been or are representative of women he has known as “homegirls” in East Los Angeles. In this suite of photographs he completes his long commitment of capturing the “other” side of the homegirl. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in Southern California, Mexico City, New York City, Spokane WA, Pittsburg PA and Midland TX. |
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| Richard Valdez | My art work is of beauty and love, and the love of life at the moment. The love of a beautiful wife that I have taken for granted, because I believe, to put up with an artist, takes a lot of patience. Sure I could have become a plumber, electrician, or something that brings in the cash. But my art teacher in high school introduced me to art properly, so here I am today. One person changed my life. I grew up in two areas of East Los Angeles, California, one area is Aliso Village , in an area very close to Boyle Ave. After my parents broke up I had no role models to look up to. So, I believe that we should inspire young artists so that they can make a difference, "the world needs your Art", this is what I would tell a young up and coming artist! |
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| Andres Montoya | Andres Montoya was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Mr. Montoya studied Graphic Design and painting at Los Angeles City College. Since the early nineties, Mr. Montoya dedicated himself to finding a voice in his painting. The act of creation is a daily necessity for me, it has become a language, an elixir that nurtures and motivates me to paint. In this recent body of work I have delved into the deep crevasses of my experience, memories, dreams, emotions such as love, melancholy, loneliness are prevalent throughout, and embodied in the figurative as well as the landscape, My goal in this series of paintings is to create a psychological and aesthetical bridge where all of us can look and hopefully connect. Andres Montoya moves inward into an emotional realm… his paintings form a pattern of color and composition of portraits and figures in quiet moments. |
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