Laura Marchetti was raised in Ocoee, Florida, and currently lives and works
in Los Angeles. She makes paintings and sculptures about growing up steeped in Southern Baptist rituals and lexicon, asking the viewer to consider the residual aspects of indoctrination. Her latest series of paintings and comic books were created at the Hambidge Artist Residency Program after researching abroad in Cluj, Romania. She binds books, curates shows, and makes comics. She graduated from California
Institute of the Arts in May 2009, with a BFA in Art and is currently the Director of Education at Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock.
John Martin is a wildlife enthusiast usually living in the Los Angeles area. He has volunteered with various animal welfare projects throughout the United States and South America. In his work he attempts to explore and heal the relationships between humans and animals.
John P. Hogan lives and works in Los Angeles. His work incorporates the ethos and aesthetics of cartoons, illustration, rock music, and amateur theater production. He has staged a rock musical based on a fictionalized history of the state of Florida at Machine Projects in L.A. and released a limited edition vinyl soundtrack album for that play, entitled The Island of Florida: A Foundation Myth with his band, Ponce de Leon. Hogan recently produced a musical-miniseries as an audio podcast called Heretics Lost. He manages the art studios and teaches drawing and exhibition strategies at CalArts. For more information on John P. Hogan please visit johnhoganstudio.com
Adrian Chi Tenney is a Canadian-American comic book artist, musician, and cactus-gardener. She spends her time tyring to learn a little bit about a lot. She works as a kid’s art and music teacher during the day, but at night, plays fast sloppy heart-churning music for grown-ups. Her favorite thing in the world is looking up at the night sky and seeing the Milky Way Galaxy. Someday she would like to have a job that allows her to travel around the world, but for now is happy impersonating robots and Yetis in Los Angeles.
Sar Shahar is a cartoonist living and working in Los Angeles with a BFA in Fine Arts from the California Institute of the arts. In addition to making comic books he also teaches art. His newest work can be viewed at www.sarshahar.com.
Anthony Rodriquez is a young fracturing destroyer with is efforts focused on your very subjectivity, also I think he likes you.
Weronika Stepien is a Polish-American interdisciplinary artist who often works with animation and illustration. Her art experiments with different forms of story telling while incorporating themes of symbolism and mythology. She lives with her cat in Vancouver, B.C, Canada. contact: weronikastepien@gmail.com
Marcos Siref received his BFA at the California Institute of the Arts
in 2008. His practice uses humor to address the fallacies within
contemporary society. Similar work can be seen at his defunct blog:
http://smiracles.wordpress.com/
David Weldzius is an artist based in Los Angeles. He works primarily in photography. Weldzius began self-publishing diaristic comic books in 1995, at the age of fifteen. Some of those works are still available for check out at the Denver Public Library.
Andrew Cox grew up in an abandoned resort in a remote region of northern California. He graduated CalArts in 2009 with a BFA in Art. He works for Hydra Head Records. He makes enormous cardboard robots, tiny comics, and regular sized videos. He is soft spoken, but makes loud music.
Andrew Fairweather was born and raised in Los Angeles. In May 2010, he graduated from CalArts with a Bachelors in Fine Arts. He is currently interested in complicating the closed system of visual language in punk/goth sub-culture through a variety of mediums.
