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Ippolita ROSTAGNO & ANNA STUMP TREVOR ELD YUKI MIYAZAKI JANA REIJO China Morbosa Lord Russ nicolas silberfaden Michael Rippens Valeria Cordero Jeff Musser Ted Meyer Jose Luis “Zuno” GEORGE MACGREGOR
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Los Angeles was founded in 1781 by Felipe de Neve, a Spanish governor who christened the fertile territory El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles del Río de Porciúncula. Later, it became part of Mexico and was only snatched back by the incipient state of California in 1850. At its core, the town has a fiery Latin spirit — not to mention the best taco trucks this side of Guadalajara. Órale. Hollywood doesn’t even begin to define the allure of this angelic city. Equal parts glitter and noir, it’s been muse to the likes of James Ellroy and Joan Didion, Tony Oursler and Ed Ruscha, Beck and X. I think by now we’ve laid to rest the “cultural wasteland” snark. Sure, you can still get that half double decaffeinated half-caf with a twist of lemon, but now you’ll find more medical marijuana retailers than Starbucks. Real art will continue to live and die in this city just like it always has. L.A. is, without question, ready for its close-up. Laura Chávez Silverman -
born Los Angeles, California
Ippolita ROSTAGNO & ANNA STUMP Anna Stump is an artist and arts educator living in San Diego. She was a Senior Fulbright Scholar to the Fine Arts Department at Anadolu University in Eskisehir, Turkey. Anna’s blog of three years, “Kloe Among the Turks,” examines the art scene in Southern California and Turkey, as well as issues of arts education. She recently curated an exhibition of 100 artists from Southern California and 100 artists from Turkey, which was shown in San Diego, Los Angeles, and Istanbul. Anna is the founder of the San Diego Women’s Figurative Group. Anna and Ippolita have been collaborating since 1984. Their first project was “Rime, A Company of Poetry and Dance” with poet Paul Vangelisti. They have since collaborated on mail art and video installation projects. Ippolita lives and works in New York City. Her eponymous jewelry line may be viewed at fine stores across the nation.
TREVOR ELD trevor eld born in laguna beach, ca. 1975 trevor eld 1 yr old moves with 2 parents to boston trevor eld stays 17 years. draw on paper and spray paintings onto public properties. trevor eld bored now, go live in london and do more murals. trevor eld in US bored of boston again so san francisco to sell sneakers. 1994 trevor eld poor and hating everyone. feelings mutual. boston with tail between legs. trevor eld sick of pizza every day. trevor eld must go college for real jobs. new england school of art & design. trevor eld paints houses for college $. 1999 graduation. realish job now and shave head. trevor eld move to new york city as creative direction. trevor eld liking new york and not bored. beard now. trevor eld in LA for weekend with (t)here magazine.
YUKI MIYAZAKI Born in Kumamoto, Japan, Yuki came to Los Angeles as a girl deeply interested in continuing her families tradition of creating art. Yuki’s paintings have been described as “Eastern pop culture meets classic Western children’s book illustrations.” Recently selected to appear in the Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage 2008 Calendar and Cultural guide, she continues to explore her childhood influences with western culture and expresses them through her paintings.
JANA REIJO Jana has moved forty-two times, but currently lives and works in Solvang, CA. She studied Graphic Design in Hawaii and received a Masters from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
www.janaireijo.com | jana@janaireijo.com
China Morbosa I am an artist currently residing in Los Angeles. I was raised in New Mexico. My family traveled the state working in the agricultural industry, doing seasonal farm work, landscaping, and horticulture. My upbringing instilled a strong belief in questioning authority, stemming from being completely immersed in the direct effects of capitalism on the agricultural system, the government’s misuse of land and unequal distribution of funding - the heart that was missing between the people and the system that governs them. I have no formal training. I learned about different mediums and how to obtain a desired china.morbosa@gmail.com
effect from working in an artist supply store. I began using graffiti and street art as a rebellion against the feelings of powerlessness I had as an individual. My street art roots became the foundation of the style and ideas currently reflected in my work. All of my canvases are found or stolen objects. The life in their wear and tear is part of the visual effect I work to achieve. I also use glass as a medium because of its transparency and the illusion of space it creates. I contribute to the already existing text, graffiti, or other visuals of the signs or other found objects to create a juxtaposition between a written law or pre-existing system and the commentary of the affected society governed within. In many of the subjects I paint, I try to express some of the feelings of isolation, fear, confusion, and/or betrayal that are current in the modern American lifestyle. The ongoing battle between heart and capitalism.
Lord Russ “Lord Russ is a pigeon-holer’s worst nightmare! His songs are as varied and far-out as his influences. One moment gliding effortlessly over the cosmic waves of a mellotron drenched Moody Blues ocean, the next moment out-raunching liquor, drug, sex, and adrenaline junkie Iggy Pop and his Stooges. And Lord Russ’ lyrics range from the heavy melancholy and dark poetry of Leonard Cohen, to the acid soaked whimsy of Syd Barrett. With influences from the gentle obscure psychedelic pop of the Peppermint Trolley Company, to the familiar and classic mighty power riffs of Led Zeppelin, and the catchy melodic prowess of the Beatles... the nostalgic earthiness of Paul Simon to the over the top glam of Roxy Music and David Bowie. Part Glam-Rocker, part Crooner, part Indie-Rocker, part Classic Rocker, Part Singer/Songwriter, and part Performance Artist, Lord Russ has wowed audiences from New York to Hawaii, Miami to Seattle, and all points in between. He has shared the stage with Elvis Costello, Roger McGuinn (The Byrds), Aimee Mann, Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, Fountains Of Wayne, Hot Tuna, and even Kurt Vonnegut Jr. With his band of nearly fifteen years, The Aloha Steamtrain, and as a solo artist, Lord Russ has released numerous albums filled with provocative and lush musical landscapes. His live shows are renowned for their wild, spontaneous, and impossibly exciting energy! Recently Lord Russ has migrated south, leaving behind his home and roots in Northampton, Massachusetts opting for the warmth and sunshine of Delray Beach, Florida. Perhaps it was his years spent in Hawaii swimming with wild dolphins, studying with an Amazonian shaman, and living off the land that prompted this exodus from the shivering timbers of New England to a tropical paradise. Whatever the reason, he continues to write, record, and perform his songs to eager Floridian crowds.”
Walter Fayette, music critic —
nicolas silberfaden Freelance photographer born in Buenos Aires and based in Los Angeles. Works for editorial and commercial clients. Has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in Europe and the USA.
www.nicolassilberfaden.com
Michael Rippens Originally from South Pasadena, CA, Michael Rippens graduated with a BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY and has exhibited his paintings, murals and installation work throughout Los Angeles and New York City as well as internationally. Highlights include solo shows at Pehr Space in Echo Park, New York’s School of Visual Arts and gallerie in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Group exhibitions include shows at Cynthia Broan Gallery and Artists Space in New York City, Fountain Art Fair in Miami, FL and Lifebomb Gallery in Berlin, Germany. While living in Brooklyn, Michael began the emerging artist collective, 4EmArt, and joined the Open Ground Gallery in Williamsburg. He also worked for the non-profit www.rippens.com | michael@rippens.com
art education organization, Studio in a School, and organized numerous exhibitions promoting other emerging artists living and working in NYC. Additionally, Michael was a founding member of the Brooklyn-based collaborative art team, D.e.M.O. In 2005, Michael received a scholarship to attend the Vermont Studio Center and went on to become an artist-in-residence at the nomination-only Acadia Summer Art Program in Bar Harbor, Maine. Michael currently lives, works and rides his bike in downtown Los Angeles.
Laura ChĂĄvez Silverman is a freelance writer living in Sullivan County, New York. She is at work on her first novel and also has a blog, www.gluttonforlife.com.
www.gluttonforlife.com
Valeria Cordero 03.25.83 Caracas, Venezuela Valeria Cordero is a visual artist based between NY and Caracas. Cordero obtained a BFA from The School of Visual Arts in 2005. V has been showing her work steadily nationally and internationally in such venues as Exit Art and The White Box in New York, NEW LIFE SHOP in Berlin and La Carniceria in Caracas to name a few. Cordero was www.valeriacordero.com
invited to participate in an Artist in Residency program at the Starke Foundation in Berlin in 2006. Her work has been reviewed by The New York Times, Time Out NY and the Village Voice among other publications. V mainly works in audiovisual mediums, with a nonfigurative and conceptual approach, subtlety addressing society, technology and communications. Cordero interweaves ideas of the self, identity, human behaviors and interaction in the era of Technology.
Jeff Musser Born and raised in Sacramento California, Jeff Musser attended The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and earned his B.F.A in early 2000. Upon graduation, he thought that his daytime job, designing Happy Meals for McDonald’s, would leave him plenty of time to paint in the evenings. But once the economy tanked after 9/11, he was another face in the sea of jobless Americans with tons of free time. One the upside, he now had all day and all night to paint. On the downside, he now had to deal with issues of rent, bills, supplies, food and how to overcome the much-romanticized notion of a starving artist. Emerging from their unsavory, often times unjustified reputation of the recent past, tattoos have gained increasing prominence in the past decade. Life magazine estimated in 1936 that 10 million, or approximately 6% of the American population had at least one tattoo. A Harris Poll done in 2003, nearly triples those numbers and estimates that 16% of Americans now have one or more tattoos, with as many as 40% of the 26 to 40 year old age group with at least one. “People are now realizing the power tattoos have. I feel the art of tattooing has the power to bring one a fresh sense of purpose; the faith in the possibility of making a new harmony out of the tragedy of life. I am intrigued as to why people express themselves in such a permanent manner, why they u`se the symbols they use, and how I can learn from that language to express issues I have about my life,” says Jeff Musser. With classical technique and one particular painting entitled, “Maybe now my paintings will be weird enough for you pseudo art intellectual assholes,” the artists work might be described as, what author Donald Kuspit calls, “Art that is neither traditional nor avant-garde, but a combination of the two. Work that brings together the spirituality and humanism of the Old Masters with the innovation, humor, and criticality of the Modern Masters.”
Jose Luis “Zuno” Jose Luis “Zuno”, a multi-disciplined artist, was born in Mexico City in 1968. He is a self taught artist with an insatiable appetite to create. His six dimensional approach of seeing art through various perspectives and mediums, grasps his true nature of creativity and thought. At the age of 27 he began to express himself through painting. In his path to self discovery, he approached different painting styles and mediums such as photography, found object assemblages, prints, and collages. Zuno’s creations are “a quest to unravel his own truth”. His paintings are figurative and often abstract sets of soothing colors and furious brush strokes. These deliberate brush strokes unveil his true chaos with calculated results. The end reveal past, present and future iconic images that convey a solemn depiction of life around us. Photography through his eyes, is a pursuit of single intermissions of multiple cinemas that “play out life’s endless struggles of conformity and the monotony of daily life”. He creates found object assemblages to restore the beauty and treasures he sees in all the residue of our consumer driven society. His artwork -”the only thing that gives me sanity in this irrational world”-speaks volumes of our complicated lives and brilliance.
Ted Meyer Ted Meyer won his first art show at age 6 after copying a flamingo that one of the older kids drew. The guilt of this image appropriation has followed him ever since. Ted started painting 1987 when a friend gave him some paint for Christmas with a card that read, “You keep saying you are an artist, paint!” Seven months later Ted sold 8 of the 11 paintings exhibited in his first show. Since that first show Ted’s work has been displayed in museums on 3 continents. Much of Ted’s paintings have been influenced by his dealings with the health care system and his own health problems. Born with Gaucher’s disease, often his earlier works depict contorted, pained and highly designed skeletal images. This series titled “Structural Abnormalities” was initially created in the months before his first round of hip replacements. In recent years with his work has shifted from “Ted-centric” to images that highlight other people’s health problems. His “Scarred for Life, Mono prints of Human Scars” series chronicles those events that suddenly changed people’s lives. Ted added photography to his skill set about 7 years go after a double hip replacement operation. Finding it too painful to stand and paint he started creating images in photos that mirrored his paintings, focusing on contours in multi-figure compositions. His current photo series “Girls on a Black Chair” again goes back to his painting and requires all his subject to express themselves within the confines of a single shape, this time a tall high backed black chair. Ted is also a freelance designer, writer, photographer and illustrator. He has written and illustrated 4 books. “Shrink Yourself: The Complete do-it-Yourself Book of Freudian Psychoanalysis”, “The Butt Hello - And Other Reasons My Cats Drive Me Crazy”, “Cats Around the World” and “Good Things You Can Learn from A Bad Relationship”. Ted was recently named Artist in Residence at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, DC. He has held teaching positions at Brooks College in Long Beach, CA and California State University at Northridge. He is the owner of Art Your World, a full service design studio (www.artyourworld.com). Ted also speaks to patient and Doctor groups on the effects of health on art. He is guest curator at the UCLA School of Medicine.
GEORGE MACGREGOR was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He has lived his whole life in Cleveland OH, Chicago IL, and now Los Angeles. He is a champion slam poet, actor, wine steward, professional waiter and ordained initiate of traditional IFA culture and practice.
IPPOLITA ROSTAGNO & ANNA STUMP UN D E R G ROUN D
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YUKI MIYAZAKI S EX
JANA REIJO P ORTR A IT
China Morbosa Y OUT H
Seemingly cohesive systems of laws could be purely formal, political, and economic rather than being legal and made to preserve justice. The spiritual emptiness and moral inadequacy of capitalism. The relationship between producer and product has been abolished and the human being made into an independent consumer object. The relation the human beings to their social function has been stripped of qualitative aspects to assume a purely quantitative, commercial value.
Lord Russ SI L E NC E
THE LONG AND SILENT STARE OF THE WOMAN I LOVE
SILENCE
nicolas silberfaden BO D Y
Michael Rippens M O D E RN
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Valeria Cordero FA M E
JEFF MUSSER V I E W
Jose Luis “Zuno” CONSTRUCTION
Nature I’m sitting here watching a gentle rivers flow
With no tree to climb he walked
Hitch hiking he saw the
And yet i wonder why we are so slow.
Without a crime.
Tasmanian devil
With salmon swimming upstream
Upon a tree line he came
Standing straight and leveled.
And floating homes in a tv dream.
With instant joy and blinded fame.
Without an abode
Bubbles burst of discontent
On his early arrival followed
They rode together
And a breeding cycle of death and content.
The bear sloth and the swallow.
To find better weather.
With limited trees
Upon a city they came
They felt a breeze
Which they saw was the same
Swimming slow within the oceans life
And the yellow canaries
Started a lodge and burrow
On a narrow path without any strife.
Sang then to freeze
Got beat up, complaint to the bureau.
The cycle begins with life and death on top.
As a battered eagle flew
And a life code.
Out of it’s own decay and it’s life portray. It begins it’s quest without any guest.
With a rat for a stew.
Ignored twice They rolled the dice.
Soaring high above the sky A feast is near even if it didn’t try.
Upon a pond they gathered
They jumped in the dodge
A bounty to be near
And it didn’t even matter
And sped away with the new judge.
Without any fear.
With the turtles arrival A jackals cry started the a rival.
On the outskirts of town
A bald eagles courtship begins.
While a beavers trial misleads
They let him go without a frown.
Limb by limb it picks
The white hyenas gable and dead.
On his return He sets it burn
To build it’s abode with sticks. On the second judgement
Then he planted a seed
Perched high above the sky
They introduced
Which set his deed.
With no others to pry
The eagles deduce.
It descends not
Now perched high above the sky
And so they went speeding on
For it is on the spot
With tree limbs that don’t sigh
Their dodge
An elephant with yellow hair.
They came to another city built a
Sits on top with nothing to stare
Burrow and lodge.
Below a beavers dam at rest
Got thrown in jail
With salmon jumping at their best. And a bears claw waiting instead
Burrows to the left
Without a pail
It leads it’s young with their own stare.
Ant trails to deft
Lost their dodge
A bounty to be near instead
With burrows to the right.
New burrow and lodge.
of tin and rear.
Proceedings begin into the night
Upon delight of sight
Working hard all night
Six months at steady pace.
A donkey challenges a fight.
Fireflies give them light.
With new judge in place
On his own demise he see’s
When finished they’re sent to the mines
Their set free
And sets path through the tree’s.
To help vacate moles without any dimes.
On a uniting spree.
And now they face
With a friends judge
Upon a trail he stops With a turtle that was on top.
On they’re return
They steal a new dodge
A daylight burns As the donkey went on tired he saw
Eternity in it’s urn.
Out of laughter it came .
In every city they saw pity They were clean but seen as gritty.
A slaughtered forest that made him crawl. With nothing to bear
They planted their seeds and waited
And a courtship’s lair.
As ant trails began to appear fated.
As an elephant jumped on his cross
A slave to one’s love
Without any shame because he’s the boss.
A hornet and a dove.
Upon a new pond they gathered For the only way was now fathered.
Upon their delight they embraced The delicate nature of their disgraced.
At first light a donkey slept
And the bosom of it’s mother
Blind folded it seem
In his wet lodge.
With liberty and justice holler.
As a monkey walked before them,
Vacant from genus castor
Liked they dreamed.
Who left in his dodge.
Ted Meyer BO D Y
I feel the evil in me but the look in your eyes when you’re lost for a moment is more than words and feeling in your thought that touched mine because each time you look at me beauty dies and becomes reborn with new conception of breadth in the moment because this is what life is everything we wanted but never could touch everything we could feel but never describe everything everything I feel the evil in me but to look in your eyes and get lost for a moment is to go to sleep and never wake up and I want to open up and tell you all the hurt and tell you all the bliss and tell you something so much fucking more that would describe the affection and passion with the intensity that makes me want to feel nothing and everything about you and be evil in you because when I talk to you I want to fucking die I know that I felt something more beautiful than anything anybody could put their mother fucking finger upon
George Macgregor A RTISTS ’
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