Authors
A. Moret
A native Angeleno A. Moret seeks solace in the hum drum hiccup of the worn and familiar streets that she calls home. Moret co-founded Installation Media, the first all digital contemporary arts publication in print and digital formats, which juxtaposes the intimacies of creation in the studio with critical analysis, rich design, and lucid photography. Currently Moret serves as editor-in-chief of Installation Magazine.
Craig Stephens
Australian born Craig Stephens has resided in the US since Jan 2000. His work has appeared in a spectrum of global titles, including Artweek, The, Dart, Fabrik, LA Weekly, LA Times, Daily Beast, GQ, Esquire and others . More about him at www.craig-stephens.com.
Diane Calder
Among Diane Calder’s earliest published works are “Motherheard” and “None of the Above,” 1970’s performance based musing on a woman’s place in the art world written before earning her MFA degree at Cal Arts. While teaching contemporary art at Cal State Northridge and UCLA Extension, she wrote for various publications, including High Performance and ArtScene. X-TRA magazine chose Calder’s photographic series, “Looking Out,” for the Artist’s Project presentation of fall 2009.
Inez S. Bush
Inez S. Bush is co-founder, CEO and Creative Director of Gramercy Partners, an award-winning marketing communications firm. Co-creator of Debating Through the Arts: Performance Art, Bush is a strategist, facilitator and consultant to the non-profit, business and education sectors specializing in the arts. She teaches part time at Otis College of Art and Design and is currently coordinating the Otis K-12 Teacher Retreat on Media Arts, a Professional Development program. She holds an M.A. in Education, Leadership and Change from Antioch University LA and BFA in Graphic Design from SUNY Purchase.
Jayme Odgers
With a B.A. from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, Jayme Odgers is the recipient of numerous awards including a Fulbright Scholarship to Switzerland and over one hundred awards of excellence in graphic design. He was also selected to create an official poster for the 1984 XXIIIrd Olympiad held in Los Angeles along with such distinguished artists as David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Jonathan Borfosky, and John Baldasari.
Jayme has successfully taught at many renowned art departments in the Los Angeles area including Art Center College of Design, California Institute of the Arts and Otis College of Art and Design. At the invitation of the Tokyo Gakuin, he has recently toured Japan as a guest speaker, lecturing in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka.
In addition to his studio practice Jayme also has completed a public art commission designing two water fountains for the Metropolitan Water District’s Headquarters Building at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles.
Numerous books and articles have included Odgers’ work, most significantly “The 20th Century Poster. Design of the Avant Garde” (Abbeville Press, New York). His work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, The San Francisco Museum of Art, Arco Center for the Visual Arts, The Albright Knox Museum and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts,with inclusion in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York City and The White House in Washington, D.C.
Jayme Odgers lives and works in downtown Los Angeles.
John Seed
John Seed is a professor of art and art history at Mt. San Jacinto College in Southern California. Winner of a 2002 Society of Professional Journalist's award in art and entertainment writing, he has written about art and artists for Harvard Magazine, Maui No Ka Oi, Honolulu, Christie's Hong Kong, Yerevan, and Stanford. Seed is also an art broker who assists his clients in selling fine paintings. Email him at: johnseed (at) gmail.com or visit www.paintingbroker.com or www.huffingtonpost.com/john-seed
Jonathan Brown
Jonathan Brown is a gallerist and both founder and president of LEADAPRON. Brown studied philosophy and architecture, directed theatre and worked in the field of neuropsychology before opening his gallery in 2005. Brown purchases the libraries of notable photographers, artists, collectors and dealers and curates libraries and art collections for many of the worlds most eminent collectors.
Mark A. Johnson
Mark Johnson has been a collector and dealer of traditional Asian and tribal art for more than 35 years. He has traveled throughout Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Burma, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and other regions of Asia searching out rare and interesting art and artifacts. He is dedicated to acquiring and offering only authentic tribal art and antiquities of the highest quality and condition and guarantees all sales as described.
Today, Mr. Johnson is considered one of the principal authorities in the United States on the Tribal Arts of Indonesia and Southeast Asia, specifically the arts of Borneo Island. Through extensive travel, years of research, and study of important collections, he has gained significant experience and expertise on the material culture and history of the tribal peoples of this region. He has lectured at galleries and museums, provided information, and loaned many rare objects from his collection to important exhibitions of Indonesian Tribal Arts in this country.
He is the official advisor for the Indonesian tribal art collection at the Mingei International Museum in San Diego, California. He is a founding member and first director of LOS ANGELES TRIBAL (formerly: Asian & Tribal Art-Los Angeles), an organization of Los Angeles based dealers working together to promote the local community of museums, collectors, and sources specializing in Tribal Art (for more information, please go to www.latribal.com). He is a board member and editor for the e-newsletter of the Los Angeles based Ethnic Arts Council (EAC), an organization of collectors, dealers, and academics dedicated to advancing the knowledge and appreciation of ethnic arts (for more information, please go to www.ethnicartscouncil.org).
Mark A. Johnson Tribal Art is currently based in Marina Del Rey (Los Angeles), California. He exhibits annually at the highest caliber Tribal Art Shows in the United States (New York, San Francisco, & Los Angeles) and was an early pioneer on the internet for marketing Asian and Tribal Art via his website at www.markajohnson.com.
Peter Clothier
Peter Clothier is a long time observer of the contemporary art world and a widely published writer. His publications include fiction, poetry, and a memoir, as well as David Hockney (a monograph), and a collection of political essays, The Bush Diaries. His newest publication, PERSIST: IN PRAISE OF THE CREATIVE SPIRIT IN A WORLD GONE MAD WITH COMMERCE, addresses the predicament of the creative individual in a culture in which celebrity and money trump talent and quality of work.
A graduate of Cambridge University, Clothier came to the U.S. in 1964 for the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa. Graduating with a PH.D. in Comparative Literature, he came to L.A. in 1968 to teach at USC. He became Dean and Director of Otis Art Institute, and was Dean of Fine and Communication Arts at Loyola-Marymount University before leaving academia in 1986 to devote full time to writing. He has been happily unemployed since then and describes himself as a recovering academic.
He received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and was honored for his contribution to the arts at the L.A. Artcore 17th Annual Awards. He has appeared on numerous radio and television shows, and has served in a leadership capacity in The ManKind Project.
Phil Tarley
Phil Tarley is a Fellow of The American Film Institute and an artist member of the Los Angeles Art Association. He posts regular stories on The WOW Report as its art and pop culture critic and writes about art and photography for Fabrik Magazine. He is currently working on a book of narrative non-fiction travel stories and a variety of art projects.
Sean Aldrin
Sean Aldrin is a Gonzo philosopher, artist and writer working at large since the late 1980’s. Aldrin’s art has been exhibited extensively across the United States and abroad, and his published works have been sought after by the best of the legendaries. Aldrin’s recent Idea solo show at Ace Gallery Los Angeles demystified the language/ image slam dance conundrum. Sean Aldrin holds the record for the most MFA units of any accredited art student including units from Art Center College of Design, Rhode Island School of Design, and his alma-mater Otis College of Art and Design.
Shana Nys Dambrot
LA Canvas Arts (and Books) Editor Shana Nys Dambrot is an art critic, curator, and author based in Los Angeles. Her writing has appeared in regional, national, international, and online publications including LA Canvas, The LA Weekly, Artkrush, Daily Dose, Modern Painters, Art Review, Artweek, Art Ltd, ARTnews, The Believer, tema celeste, Angeleno, Art Asia Pacific, Coagula, THE Magazine LA, and Juxtapoz. She was the Managing Editor at Flavorpill.com until late 2010, and where she continues to contribute to its LA, NYC, and London editions, and is currently LA Editor for Whitehot Magazine. Her monthly blog, Urban Scrawl, lives at Createfixate.com, and a full account of her activities is periodically updated at sndx.net.
Steven P. Harrington
Steven P. Harrington is editor-in-chief of BrooklynStreetArt.com and co-author (with Jaime Rojo) of Brooklyn Street Art and Street Art New York, both by Prestel Publishing. He and Jaime Rojo are also contributing writers on street art for The Huffington Post.
Tracey Harnish
Tracey Harnish, a native Angelino, attended Otis College of Art and Design. In addition to writing about art for the Huffington Post and CultureMob.com, she blogs about the LA art scene on her blog, LAArtDiary.com. Her art has been shown in various group shows and was recently awarded First Prize at LBA's California Open exhibition. Tracey's business, ArtWhiz.biz, helps artists with individual artist promotion.
Tyler Stallings
Tyler Stallings is the director of Sweeney Art Gallery and artistic director of Culver Center of the Arts, University of California, Riverside. He was chief curator at Laguna Art Museum from 1999 to 2006. His curatorial projects focus on contemporary art, with a special emphasis on the exploration of identity, technology, and urban culture. In the past, he has organized CLASS: C presents Ruben Ochoa and Marco Rios: Rigor Motors, Whiteness, A Wayward Construction, Conceptual Photography from the Permanent Collection of Laguna Art Museum, Surf Culture—The Art History of Surfing, Desmothernismo: Ruben Ortiz Torres, Simon Leung: Surf Vietnam, and Kara Walker: African’t. For UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, he has organized: Intelligent Design: Interspecies Art, Your Donations Do Our Work: Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy, Absurd Recreation: Contemporary Art from China, Truthiness: Photography as Sculpture, and The Signs Pile Up: Paintings by Pedro Álvarez. He will be a guest writer and co-curator for the forthcoming book and exhibition, Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945-1980, organized by Palm Springs Art Museum as part of the multi-institutional Getty Research Institute initiative, Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A., 1945-1980. For more information on other exhibitions and writing, see tylerstallings.com.
William Bush
William Bush is Publisher of Artweek.LA. Prior to Artweek.LA, Bush was Publisher of THE Magazine, a monthly tabloid covering art and artists in Los Angeles. He joined THE Magazine from Art Ltd. where as Director of Sales he help to transition Art Ltd. from Lifescapes, a lifestyles magazine, to a leading magazine in the regional art scene.
In addition to more than 25 years in publishing with many leading companies including Ziff-Davis, Inc., CMP Media, and Cahners Publishing, Bush founded Gramercy Partners, Inc., an award-winning marketing communications firm specializing in publishing, technology, education, and non-profits, with a client list that includes Intel, UCLA, HBO, Avnet, Project Angel Food, and Aids Project Los Angeles (APLA), among others.
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