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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.
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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. At the age of 19, Peralta became the highest-ranked professional skateboarder. Soon after, he joined with manufacturer George Powell to form the Powell-Peralta skate gear company. With the financial backing of Powell-Peralta, Peralta formed the seminal Bones Brigade, a skate team comprised of some the best skaters at the time, many of whom revolutionized modern skateboarding. He also began directing and producing the first skating demo videos for skaters such as Tony Hawk. In 1992, Peralta began to direct and produce for television full-time. His still-lingering love of the board manifested itself in the film, Dogtown and Z-Boys, a documentary film regarding the legendary skateboard team known as the Z-Boys, and Riding Giants, a 2004 documentary of the history of modern big wave surfing and tow-in surfing. Dogtown won an award at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. Peralta also wrote the screenplay for the dramatic retelling of the Dogtown days in Lords of Dogtown (2005). For the past two years he has been producing and directing a film about gangs in Los Angeles.
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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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