Abira Ali was born in
Pittsburgh in 1961 and began reinventing her environment thereafter. She
has painted herself into a corner on more than one occasion.
JC Brown came to Echo
Park after a 20-year residency in Tokyo, Japan. There he became a master
of hentaigana, a thousand-year old form of calligraphy.
Andy Doherty is a
freelance artist and art instructor in Los Angeles, and her figurative
work has been featured in exhibitions in the Los Angeles area.
Aaron Donovan’s
work features odd creatures and characters roaming through a disjointed
urban scene or frozen against backgrounds that erupt with color and
texture. SEE SPOKEN WORD.
Karen Emmett’s mixed
media works have been featured in exhibitions in Los Angeles and her
native Massachusetts, and are included in a number of public
collections.
Mia Farrell is a Los
Angeles-based writer, painter and performance artist. Her full-length
plays and solo works have been produced in Southern California and San
Francisco.
Richard Frasier’s work
is steeped in the culture of Southern California. His work has been
featured in exhibitions in Los Angeles and Mexico.
Alice Hayward
boldly explores the relationship between cognition and passion, using
forms and colors to portray the relationship between creativity and
intelligence. SEE SPOKEN WORD.
Amy Hoffecker has spent
the majority of her life in Texas and photographed many club-nerds and
bands at sweaty bars for cash.
Marlene Hutchison’s
recent work is in photo documentary and videography. Her teaching
includes these media as well as English as a Second Language for adults.
Michael Javier’s new
sculptural works are the treasures he found walking home from school.
He is proud to be the "Fred Sanford" of Echo Park.
John Kilduff’s
paintings of local neighborhood views have been featured in many group
and solo exhibitions. SEE SELF-GUIDED TOUR.
Nicholette Kominos
explores the benign poetic forms of common place objects - a spoon, a
cup, a simple flower.
Art La Touf enjoys
painting in his Echo Park family home. La Touf is the most senior
artist represented in the EPAF this year, his first appearance.
Stephen Laufer is a
graphic artist living and working in Echo Park, a far cry from his early
days as staff photographer at Tiger Beat magazine.
Terri Lloyd is a
self-made, self-taught, self-employed graphic designer and art school
drop-out.
Jacqueline McCardle’s
work in paint explores the juxtaposition of color, challenged by time,
nature and man. In 1997 she began making mobiles.
Ricardo Mendoza’s mural
work is socially responsive art that engages its audience with content
that gives testimony to the work’s investment in a broader community
vision.
Cynde Miller, a woman
of illness, struggles with an oppressive and derogatory world of bags
and holes to express revolution and pleasure through a sublimated voice.
Merrick Morton’s
documentary works include Southern California street gangs, men’s and
women’s prisons, death row, psychiatric hospitals and tent revivals.
Merry-Beth Noble has
received acclaim for her set design and decoration. Recently, her work
has shifted to the traditional forms of drawing and painting.
Jenifer Palmer-Lacy’s
work is featured in galleries and festivals all over the East Side.
Look for her books of poetry, also featured at this year’s Echo Park
Arts Festival, penned and
spoken by Lalo Kikiriki.
Nancy Popenoe’s images
show the neighborhood at night under the soft glow of a porch light, a
street lamp or a neon sign.
Reine River’s love of
travel eventually brought her to the wide-open plains of the Great
American West, where she discovered the rich fabric of "life on the
range."
Barbara Romain has been
a teacher and programmer for ‘at-risk’ youth. Recently, Romain expanded
her practice to include performance art. The artist is legally blind.
Lee Romney has created
mostly hand-built ceramic sculptures. Recent pieces are mono-prints
which focus on organic themes and ideas.
Della Rossa, a
long-time resident of Echo Park, creates sensitive portrayals of local
residents which have been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Victor Santoyo
has painted in the abstract and surreal as well as neo-impressionism.
His atelier, Impressions Limited, is highly regarded as one of the
finest and most trusted in serigraph printing.
SEE SELF-GUIDED TOUR.
Maestri Smith, a
self-described Surrealist photographer, has for nearly two decades
explored the spiritual realm of natural and cultural objects.
Dorit Thies uses Black
& White photography in her exploration of feminine icons. It has taken
her from Los Angeles to the New Mexico wilderness.
Elizabeth Tobias blends
abstract expressionism with experimental photography. Her works have
been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions nationally, recently at
Fototeka Los Angeles.
Cooper Tomlinson’s
paintings expand line, shape, color and texture to create a subjective,
yet abstract whole - a visual language which is open to the viewer.
Jean Torre is indebted
to the beauty, inspiration and presence of nature she found as a young
person, and still sees today, in Echo Park.
Rene Trujillo has
contributed to nationally prominent murals. His paintings have been
exhibited at a number of local galleries and every Echo Park Arts
Festival.
Kelly Witmer took up
painting after years of working in photography and photo-based
printmaking. Her works explore the vulnerability and power in women’s
sexuality.
Victoria Zurkan works
in psychology. Her paintings reflect her travels and ideas about the
world and are produced at her new home in Echo Park.
Malaika Zweig has
exhibited in Los Angeles for several years. She has taught painting and
drawing to adults and children in Los Angeles, Pasadena and Paris. |