Tracey's Thirteen
13 Questions for Brian Bress
Wed, May 16, 2012
Brian Bress is an artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, USA. Recent solo shows include: Cherry and Martin, LA; New Museum, New York, USA (both 2012); and Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, USA (2011).
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13 Questions Julia Haft-Candell
Wed, May 09, 2012
Julia Haft-Candell was born in 1982 in Oakland, California. She received a BA from UC Davis in 2005 and an MFA from CSU Long Beach in 2010. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, and will start as the first Joan and David Lincoln Visiting Artist in Ceramics at Scripps College and Claremont Graduate University in the fall of 2012.
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13 Questions for Eric Johnson
Wed, May 02, 2012
Eric Johnson attended Art Center, LA College and received his MFA at UC Irvine. He has had solo shows at William Turner Gallery and the Torrance Art Museum in addition to participating in group shows at Scott White Contemporary and the Armory Center for the Arts, to name just a few.
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13 Questions for Mara De Luca
Thu, Apr 26, 2012
Mara De Luca received a BA in Visual Arts from Columbia University in 1995 and her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2004. As a painter, De Luca's practice poetically engages with tensions between abstraction and figuration. Her recent work gestures toward the natural landscape and visual culture of Los Angeles: atmospheric paintings that mimic digitally generated imagery. Generated through heightened painterly processes and evident mark-making, these works might be described as "hyper-analog" representations of light and space. De Luca has been included in numerous group exhibitions at venues including Galerie Chromosome, Berlin; AbstruseSpace, London; and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, among others. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.
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13 Questions for Laura Krifka
Sat, Apr 21, 2012
Laura Krifka received her MFA from UC Santa Barbara and recently had a solo show at CB1 Gallery.
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13 Questions for Kristen Morgin
Tue, Apr 10, 2012
Kristen L. Morgin was born in 1968 in Brunswick, Georgia. She is the eldest daughter of Lowell and Lucille Morgin. Kristen moved from Georgia to California when she was 6 months old and lived in San Jose, Ca. for much of her youth. Kristen began formally studying and making art in 1986. Currently her work incorporates aspects of ceramics, sculpture, painting and illustration. She graduated from California State Hayward with a BA degree in 1993. Kristen received her MFA degree from Alfred University in 1997. She began teaching ceramics at California State University Long Beach in 1999. She was an associate professor of art at California State University Long Beach for ten years. In 2010 she left her teaching position to devote all of her time to her studio practice. Kristen lives and works in Gardena, California.
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13 Questions for Kristin Calabrese
Fri, Apr 06, 2012
Kristin Calabrese: Born in San Francisco, Kristin Calabrese is a Los Angeles-based painter who received her MFA from UCLA in 1998. She works figuratively with oil on large-scale canvases that frequently feature domestic interiors, while in other works people are prominent. Elsewhere it is Calabrese’s bold and blunt use of text, writ-large atop the canvas that captivates us, as in “It’s not that I have been a saint, but I regret not sabotaging that bitch when I had the chance.” Calabrese has exhibited with Gagosian, Leo Koenig, Saatchi Gallery, Susanne Vielmetter and Brennan & Griffin. She also curates provocative group shows with her partner, painter Joshua Aster.
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13 Questions for Laurie Frick
Fri, Mar 30, 2012
Laurie Frick draws from neuroscience to construct intricately hand-built works and installations to explore the nature of pattern and the mind. She completed an MFA from the New York Studio School, and studied summers at NYU’s ITP technology and arts program. Formerly an executive in high-technology, she also holds an MBA from the University of Southern California. Using her background in engineering and high-technology she explores self-tracking and compulsive organization. She has been awarded numerous fellowships and residencies and has exhibited at Robert Steele Gallery in New York and Edward Cella in Los Angeles.
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13 Questions for Heather Gwen Martin
Wed, Mar 21, 2012
Heather Gwen Martin’s second solo exhibition at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, "Recreational Systems", garnered impressive critical reviews and was singled out as one of the top exhibitions in Los Angeles in 2010. Her work was recently featured in the survey exhibition "Here Not There" at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and is included in that Museum's permanent collection, as well as in numerous private collections in Los Angeles and throughout Southern California, New York, Baltimore, and Chicago. Heather Gwen Martin was born 1977 in Saskatchewan, Canada, and studied at the University of California, San Diego (BA with Honors, 1999) and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2001).
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13 Questions for Suzan Woodruff
Wed, Mar 14, 2012
Suzan Woodruff began her career as a printmaker, sculptor and painter. Over a dozen years ago while on a four month residency in India, Woodruff began developing her signature style, what Hungarian mathematics professor Zoltan Suhajda defined as "natural fractal pour paintings."
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13 Questions for Jack Reilly
Wed, Mar 07, 2012
After receiving his MFA in 1978 from Florida State University, Jack Reilly moved to Los Angeles. In 1979 the Molly Barnes Gallery debuted his abstract paintings in a one-person Los Angeles exhibition and by the 1980s his work was exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States.
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Thirteen Questions for Ali Smith
Tue, Feb 28, 2012
Ali Smith (born 1976, Newport Beach, CA) received her MFA from California State University, Long Beach (CA), and has since had solo exhibitions in New York, Houston and Los Angeles. She has been included in numerous group shows, including those at the Laguna Art Museum (CA), Irvine Fine Arts Center (CA) in addition to shows in Boston, Tokyo and Basel. Her work is included in the collections of the Laguna Art Museum (CA), Frederick R. Weisman Foundation (CA), Progressive (OH) and the Chaney Family Collection (TX). Smith lives and works in Long Beach, CA.
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13 Questions for Lisa Adams
Mon, Feb 20, 2012
Lisa Adams is a painter and public artist, who has a B.A. from Scripps College and an M.F.A. from the Claremont Graduate University. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and has been an artist-in-resident in Slovenia, Finland, Holland, Japan and Costa Rica. Her many accomplishments include a Fulbright Professional Scholar Award and her work is in the public collections of Eli Broad, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, the Laguna Museum of Art and the Edward Albee Foundation.
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13 Questions for Phyllis Green
Wed, Feb 15, 2012
Phyllis Green was trained as a ceramic artist and while she uses that medium in unpredictable ways, she always creates installations that include video. Her work has been shown internationally, at LACMA and MOCA, and last year a survey exhibition of her work was presented at Otis College of Art and Design. Her practice is a combination of feminist politics and classic Modernist themes.
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13 Questions for Bonita Helmer
Sun, Feb 05, 2012
13 Questions is a new interview process that I am starting with LA artists. Rather than do time super consuming live interviews, I decided on this new format which will give artists the opportunity to be more in control of the questioning. All artists will be asked the same questions and they are free to answer each question as long or as short as they desire. This week we start with 13 Questions for Bonita Helmer a long-standing artist based in LA, she has been exhibiting her work for the past 20 years.
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