Christina Bothwell
Christina Bothwell creates fantastic and strangely compelling figurative sculptures, which range from fascinating to disturbing. She studied painting under Will Barnett at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, but gradually moved to working three-dimensionally using ceramics and cast glass as well as antique toys, taxidermy animals or small furniture parts. Bothwell’s pieces are often a union between her own mythology and lucid dreams. They allow us to enter into a fertile subconscious and reveal a vulnerability we may recognize as our own.
Bothwell has won numerous scholarships and grants including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and a Virginia A. Groot Foundation award for excellence in sculpture. Her work is held in permanent public collections such as the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning NY; Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI; Shanghai Museum of Glass Art, Shanghai, China; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs, CA and the Alexander Tutsek – Stiftung foundation, Munich, Germany.
Jamison Carter
Jamison Carter (b. 1973, Winston-Salem, North Carolina) received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2001, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Carter’s primary focus in his work is sculptural, but bodies of work often function across two and three dimensions. Conversations begin in drawing, resolve in sculpture, and vice versa. Taking root at the meeting points of sight, science and space and the body, he often uses universal archetypes and grounds them in material form. Non-specific abstract forms of cast resin whose surfaces are embellished with vibrant marker transfers evoke thoughts of celestial bodies, symbols of life and death, and fragmented forms of light. This allows beauty to share space with that which repels us, and humor to sit in the same room as awe.
Carter’s work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Los Angeles including Klowden Mann, California State University Northridge, Specific Merchandise, MorYork Gallery, and La Sierra University’s Brandstater Gallery in Riverside, CA. He has exhibited in group exhibitions at galleries and public institutions throughout California, at SLAG Gallery in New York, Helzer Gallery in Portland, and in Italy at the Museo Archeologico in Amelia. His work was featured in the exhibition We Must Risk Delight: Twenty Artists from Los Angeles with Bardo LA as a collateral exhibition of the 56th Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy. He has exhibited at art fairs in Brussels, Chicago, San Francisco, Houston, and Miami. His 2018 exhibition at Klowden Mann was reviewed in the Los Angeles Times, and his 2020 exhibition was reviewed in Artforum. Past exhibitions have also been featured in ArtNowLA, New American Paintings, LA Weekly, Artsy, KCET’s Artbound and elsewhere. Along with private collections internationally, his work is held in the permanent collection of Weatherspoon Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He currently teaches Sculpture and 3D Design at Los Angeles Valley College.
Jacy Catlin
Jacy Catlin is a comedian and comedy writer from Ashland, Wisconsin. He is currently a Staff Writer for ClickHole and has worked for The Onion, Comedy Central, and Funny or Die.
Jacy suffered a total loss house fire at his remote log home in rural Wisconsin in 2021. Jacy’s short comedy film about the experience, Everything I Learned When My House Burned Down, was screened at several international film festivals and won multiple awards.
“In my writing, I’ve always been interested in surreal and absurd topics, and walking through the charred remains of the house where my kids had been watching TV less than 24 hours prior was the most surreal and absurd day of my life. My furniture was thrown outside, shards of broken glass screamed under my feet with every step, and my house had taken on the appearance of a cave. Still running on endorphins from my recent amateur firefighting efforts after a sleepless night, I did my best to document this nightmarish funhouse mirror version of the home where I’d just spent months remodeling the kitchen.
“I captured these photos while my house was burning down and the following day. The photo of the house on fire was taken immediately upon seeing my house for the first time after sitting across the road watching smoke rise above the trees for hours without a clear view of my house or any idea how bad it was. The 2 interior photos from the following day show water from the firefighting efforts which had formed into stalagmites and stalactites throughout the house by the meeting of extreme heat and cold.
“As sad and stupid as the entire experience was, it did look sorta cool.”
Margaret Griffith
Margaret Griffith (b. 1972 Winston-Salem, NC) is a visual artist and educator based in Los Angeles. Griffith’s largely abstract installations, sculptures, public art, and works on paper explore both the physical presence and psychological manifestations of boundaries and barriers found in the built environment. Griffith frequently uses paper and sheet metal as sculptural material. She received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI in Sculpture and her BFA from The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland in Painting.
Griffith has shown at the Craft Contemporary Museum, Western Project, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Jancar Gallery, Carl Berg Gallery, Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, NY, Long Beach Museum, Long Beach, Occidental College, Diverse Works, Houston, TX, Vertigo Art Space, Denver, Colorado, The Los Angeles International Airport, the Museo Archeologico di Amelia, Amelia (TERNI), Italy, and many other institutions and galleries both nationally and internationally. She is the 2023-24 recipient of the Los Angeles DCA Trailblazer Award and the 2017 recipient of the Davyd Whaley Mid-Artist Career Grant. Griffith is currently represented by CMAY Gallery, Los Angeles, CA and BCMT Art Gallery, Kingston, NY.
John Knuth
John Knuth’s creative conjurings challenge traditional notions of art making, even in this millennium. His paintings force extreme tension between the sacred and the profane, creating stunning works by way of indelicate techniques. Knuth’s mission is to take something traditionally regarded as base and to make it into something magnificent, where the materials feel secondary to the radical result. Knuth’s approach is alchemical. Like an art world diviner, he calls upon the elements, from making burn paintings with distress flares and metallic space blankets to using fly regurgitation to make the most incandescent, shimmering paintings. He has perfected his process using flyspeck, which can be said to fall within the art historical continuum that includes the Pre-Raphaelites’ Mummy Brown or Chris Ofili’s elephant dung.
Knuth devised a truly unique process to create his latest works, one that begins with mail-ordering hundreds of thousands of maggots. These are placed in a specially built enclosure consisting of two facing canvases encased in netting and are allowed to develop into mature houseflies. Knuth’s flies feed on a steady diet of sugar water infused with acrylic paint, which they continually ingest and regurgitate over the course of two to three months. These tiny regurgitations cover the canvases in a pointillist haze inspired by the smog of Los Angeles. The artist relishes the unpredictable outcomes of these fly works, likening the flies’ organic chaos to the hectic nature of the modern urban environment. The works are landscapes that explore the boundary between beauty and decay, and the line between attraction and revulsion.
John Knuth was born in 1978 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He received a M.F.A. from the University of Southern California and B.F.A. from the University of Minnesota. Recent solo exhibitions include The Carnegie, Covington, Kentucky; New Studio Gallery, Minneapolis; Epicenter Projects, Indio, California; and Marie Kirkegaard Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark. His works have recently been included in group shows at Season’s LA’s The Summer, Los Angeles; The Orange Advisory, Minneapolis; Odd Ark, Los Angeles; Wilding and Can, Los Angeles; Marie Kirkegaard Gallery, Berlin and Copenhagen; International Print Center, New York; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; MassArt, Boston; Self-Titled, Tilburg, The Netherlands; China Art Objects and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Minneapolis Institute of Art.
His works can be found in multiple private art collections and is featured in the permanent collection of the Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
linn meyers
Known for her intricate mark-making and immersive drawing installations, linn meyers’s work has been the focus of solo exhibitions at prestigious museums, including the Hirshhorn, (DC), the Hammer, (LA), and the Phillips Collection, (DC), among others. With studios in Los Angeles and Washington, DC, meyers has established a distinctive voice in contemporary drawing and painting.
meyers’s works have been exhibited internationally at institutions including the AmorePacific Museum of Art in Seoul, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in DC, the Drawing Center in New York, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. The British Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art are among the many institutions that have acquired her work.
meyers’s artistic practice has been recognized with numerous honors, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, several DC Commission on the Arts fellowship awards, and the Anonymous Was a Woman Award. A graduate of The Cooper Union (BFA) and the California College of the Arts (MFA), linn meyers creates paintings and drawings that invite viewers to explore the profound physical and temporal dimensions of visual art.
Catherine Ruane
Catherine Ruane is an artist based in Southern California. Ruane earned her BA from San Diego State University and her MFA from Otis Art Institute of Art. She was awarded a scholarship to pursue extended study in drawing and printmaking in Florence Italy at Santa Reparata International School of Art. Catherine’s work has been exhibited internationally including; the Villa Donata in Naples Italy, Grafiska Sallskapat Gallery in Stockholm, Sweden, Gallery Antena in Kyoto, Japan, The Palazzo Della Provincia in Frosinone, Italy, as well as in Estonia.
Ruane’s drawings have been included in Museum shows including the Oceanside Museum of Art in Oceanside, CA. the Museum of Art and History in Lancaster, CA, The San Luis Obispo Art Museum, San Luis Obispo, CA. Also in California, the Redlands Museum, The Riverside Museum and the University of Arizona Art Museum in Tucson, AZ.
Catherine’s work is included in many private and corporate collections including; CBS Television, Walt Disney CO. Turner Broadcasting Network, Harley Davidson, Lincoln Financial as well as many others.share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Camilla Taylor
Camilla Taylor is recognized for their monochromatic and intensely introspective works on paper and sculpture, which utilize figurative and architectural forms. Taylor’s artworks reflect the viewer’s internal lives as well as collective issues we experience as a society.
An accomplished artist exhibiting in traditional gallery spaces, they also create installations in intimate and unusual locations, such as site-specific works in a swimming pool, desert garden, and other locations. She is represented by Track 16 in Los Angeles and Kanda & Oliveira in Tokyo.
Raised in Provo, Utah, Taylor attended the University of Utah and received a BFA in 2006, and an MFA from California State University at Long Beach in 2011.
Taylor lives in Los Angeles, CA, with their partner and 4 cats.
