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Susan Crile grew up in Cleveland Ohio. After graduating from Bennington College in1965, she moved to New York City. Since then, she has had over fifty solo exhibitions. Ten of these have been museum or university museum exhibitions: The Phillips Collection (1975), MOCA Cleveland (1984), The Saint Louis Museum of Art, The Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, and The University Art Museum at CA State, Long Beach (all in 1994). In 1995, she had an exhibition at The Herbert Johnson Museum at Cornell University and The Middlebury College Museum of Art. In 1996 her exhibition, The Fires of War, took place in Kuwait City at The National Council for Culture, Art and Letters, a temporary replacement for the destroyed Kuwait National Gallery. In 2003, she had an exhibition at The University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson AZ. Crile is scheduled for an exhibition, Abu Ghraib: The Abuse of Power, in September of 2006 at the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College, CUNY in New York City.
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Danh has invented a technique for printing found photographs (digitally rendered into negatives) onto the surface of leaves by exploiting the natural process of photosynthesis. The leaves, still living, are pressed between glass plates with the negative and exposed to sunlight from a week to several months. Coined "chlorophyll prints" by the artist, the fragile works are encapsulated and made permanent through casting them in solid blocks of resin. By conjoining his process into his conceptual ideas so completely, Danh is also able to reference the history and technical developments of photography.
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Fady Hadid, a Producer on Hometown Baghdad, has held various production positions during his career including executive producer, cameraman and sound engineer. He is a member of the Najeen Group, an Iraqi artists’ initiative that supports and produces theater, art and films such as the first postwar theatrical production in Baghdad “They Passed by Here,” and “Underexposure.” Fady holds a Bachelor of Science in Information and Communication Engineering from the University of Baghdad. He is currently working on upcoming film and television productions and volunteers with youth empowerment projects and NGOs.
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Ronald Lopez was born in 1974 in East Los Angeles. He attended East Los Angeles College and later received a minority scholarship to Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Early in his career Mr. Lopez collaborated with early forerunners of the Chicano Art Movement, Wayne Healy and David Botello, also known as East Los Streetscapers. During a 7-year apprenticeship with ELS, Mr. Lopez worked on murals such as the World Cup in 1994 to projects for MTA (Metropolitan Transportation Authority in Los Angeles), LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) and various City Marquees. Mr. Lopez has been the recipieint of artist-in-residencies with Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia Avenue Park’s Teen Center, Mosaic (a faith based community of artists) and the City of Los Angeles, Department of Recreation and Parks For the first half of Mr. Lopez’s art career, he stayed connected to the community on a very grassroots level, which served as a learning field and an inspiration for his works in social justice and internal human conflict. Mr. Lopez’s series entitled Flesh vs. Spirit, mixed media (collage, pencil, acrylic and sign enamel) on cut medium density fiberboard shaped into human skulls, represents the fleshly desires of men that, if left unattended, could lead to a state of mental catharsis. In 2003, Mr. Lopez’s War and Hate skull was selected to be in a group show called “What’s Missing?”, presented by Karsi Sanat (Against Art Gallery) in Istanbul, Turkey as a response to Dan Cameron’s 8th Istanbul Biennial. Two years later, in 2005, Mr. Lopez’s conceptual and social art project entitled “Does Religion Kill?” was held as a parallel project with the 9th Istanbul Biennial. In 2006, Mr. Lopez would revisit this theme, “Does Religion Kill?” at 18th Street Art Center. Currently Mr. Lopez is working on an installation project/video documentary that explores the United State’s interest and “unobtrusive presence” in the Congo during the mid 1960’s in a military campaign that was classified as “Operation Bonnie Birch”. This work will be exhibited for the first time in War As A Way of Life.
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Stacy Peralta (born October 15, 1957) is an American director, as well as a former professional skateboarder, team surfer and entrepreneur. He is one of the original Z-Boys.
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Predock Frane Architects was established in Santa Monica, California in 2000 as a collaborative research and development architecture studio. For the past five years, the firm has attempted to weave together a series of explorations that deal with oppositions, analogues/site specificity, the erosion of traditional boundaries and environmental intelligence. They feel that these areas are present in the current world landscape, ripe with potential, yet under explored in the build world.
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Cathie Opie is one of Los Angeles premiere photographers and image makers. For “War As a Way of Life” she is contributing a new series of photographs she has taken of demonstrations. In these images she stood in the street and photographed waves of marchers coming towards her. |
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David Reeb is an Israeli artist who lives and works in Tel Aviv. His video work, last seen at the Herzliya Museum investigates the cultures which occur around the presence of restraining walls. Reeb studied at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, and has received numerous prizes in Israel for his prints, paintings and conceptual work. His work has recently been exhibited at Hasenclave Gallery, Munich; Haifa Museum of Art; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast; and has been in numerous group shows including the Drawing Center, New York City; Kunsthaus, Zurich; Documenta X; and the 7th Havana Biennale.
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