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TODD ScHORR

61 Todd Schorr was born in New York City and grew up as a child in Oakland, New Jersey. Showing a compulsion for drawing at an early age, his parents enrolled him in Saturday morn€ ing art classes when he was five years old. Deep€ ly affected by fantasy movies such as the 1933 film classic King Kong and the early animated cartoons of Walt Disney and Max Fleischer, their influence along with comic books such as Mad would have a lasting effect on Schor€ r’s developing visual vocabulary. While visiting the Uffizi gallery in Italy on a trip to Europe in the summer of 1970, Schorr be€ gan to formulate his idea of combining his love of cartoons with the painting techniques of the Old Masters. He entered the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of The Arts) in 1972 wanting to be a painter but was advised by his first year painting instructors that he would be better suited in the illustration de€ partment. Being invited to par€ Schorr began getting professional illustration ticipate in the 1986 work while still in college, and soon after landmark exhibition graduating in 1976, he moved to New York City American Pop Cul€ where he provided work for a wide variety of ture Images Today projects including album covers for AC/DC, which took place at movie posters and covers for Time magazine. the Laforet Museum By 1985 Schorr had become increasingly frus€ in Tokyo, proved to be trated with the creative restrictions imposed a galvanizing experi€ by commercial assignments and began to make ence. This launched a concentrated effort to break away from ad him as a professional agency halls and move on to art gallery walls. artist.

KRISTIN

FARR Kristin Farr is an artist and journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She interviews artists for print and web media for Juxtapoz Magazine and KQED Public Media. She has had the pleasure of in - terviewing hundreds of artists, including Barry McGee, Miranda July, Daniel Clow - es, and David Shrigley, among others. She is also an artist, creating work in different mediums that often address nostalgia, humor, and relationships between colors.

Cheyenne Julien (b. 1994, Bronx, NY) lives and works in The Bronx. Julien received her BFA in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2016. She was a partic- ipant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2016. Julien has also participated in artist residencies at the OxBow School of Art in Saugatuck, MI in 2016 and with the Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Johnson, VT in 2016. She was awarded the Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) Grant from the Bronx Council on the Arts in 2017 and the Florence Leif Award from RISD in 2016. Her work is currently on view with Smart Objects in Los Angeles and with American Medium, curated by Freeman Gallery in New York, and her work will be included in the upcoming survey Dreamers Awake at White Cube Ber- mondsey in London.

“My work is based on personal narratives. Race is something that is inherent in all of my painting, but some works repre sent it more overtly than others. I think there is power in clarity, and I also think there’s power in nuance,” Julien says.

Cheyenne Julien