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artists

Anoush Abrar.
Christopher Davison.
Maureen Gubia.
David Ostrowski.
Margaux Williamson.
Melanie Bonajo.
Jasper de Beijer.
William Lamson.
Nicola Pecoraro.
Nick van Woert.
John Copeland.
Erica Eyres.
Bas Louter.
Sandrine Pelletier.
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//works available.

Thomas Berger.
Joshua Callaghan.
Robert Gutierrez.
Susanne Mewing.
Körner Union.
Marie Blanchard.
Frédéric Fleury.
William Hundley.
Emmanuelle Pidoux.
Vivian Wong.x
Isabelle Boinot.
Peter Freitag.
Steven Le Priol.
Frédéric Poincelet.
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Eelco Brand.
Stefan Guggisberg.
Katja Mater.
Helmut Smits.
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Ami Tallman.
 
 
 
biography.

Born 1979, California.
Lives and work in Los Angeles, CA.

education
2006 Master of Fine Arts, Art Center College of Design
1999-2000 Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, Graduate Philosophy Department, New School for Social Research
1999 Bachelor of Fine Arts, The San Francisco Art Institute

exhibitions
Against the Grain, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, curated by Christopher Russell
2007 Le Flâneur, fette's gallery, Culver City
2007 No Jerks Allowed, Rental Gallery, New York
2007 Juvenilia, Koo's Art Center, Long Beach
2007 Rainbow Goblins, Advocate Gallery, Los Angeles
2007 Timeline, Seeline Gallery, Santa Monica
2007 Memoriam for our Gentle Friends (solo), Trudi Gallery, Los Angeles
2007 Paper Bombs, Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles
2007 re draw, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, New York
2006 Braveland, See Line Gallery, Los Angeles
2006 Naïve Set Theory, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
2006 Chainletter, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles
2006 Boat Show, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles
2006 Supersonic 3, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles
2005 Urban Birds II, Hang, San Francisco
2005 Bedwetter Show, Paxico Gallery, Los Angeles
2004 Dark Side of the Sun Wight Gallery, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
2004 Pulp: Works of Paper, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley
2004 Urban Birds, Balazo Gallery, San Francisco
1998 17 artists, 35 works, 500 guests, 976 Valencia, San Francisco, Ca

bibliography
2007 Artweek, "Braveland," review, March 2007, Shana Nys Dambrot
2007 Artweek, "Naïve Set Theory," review, February 2007, Charlene Roth
2006 ArtUs, "Boat Show," review, Issue 14, July-September 2006, Christopher Russell
2006 I Heart Darkness, interview, 2nd Cannons Publications, Natascha Snellman
2004 Mission Arts Monthly, "Urban Birds at Balazo Gallery," review, September 2004, Leena Prasad
2004 ArtWeek, "Urban Birds", Volume 35, Issue 8, Alison Bing

publications
2007 There Weren't Many Girls Around, So We Dated Ideologies. This Left Us Always on the Brink of War. We Often Discussed That a Likely Result of Battle Would Have Been More Girls to Go Around Amongst the Survivors, but We Quibbled Rather Than Acted, & Slept Alone in Our Cold Beds Dreaming of Glory. Artist's book from 2nd Cannons Publications
2005 After Such an Outburst of Emotion as is Represented by these Landscape, er, Renderings, We May Find it Necessary to Avoid all Future Contact with You (for the sake of some semblance of dignity) Artist's Publication with Christopher Russell
2005 Portfolio #3, Analogue Press
2004 Bedwetter Magazine, Issues 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11
2001 Flash Art Magazine, The NY Decency Panel, Volume 34, Issue 218
2001 Flash Art Magazine, Aperto San Francisco, Volume 34, Issue 217
2001 Flash Art Magazine, Ultrabaroque, Volume 34, Issue 215

 
selected works.

Untitled, 2007, oil on paper, 11.75x8.25 inches.

 

Our Host Laughs Calmly, Flinging an Oath, 2007, ink, watercolor and enamel on paper, 14x11 inches.

 

As Muddles and Stodgy as His Apartments, 2007, ink, watercolor and enamel on paper, 11x14 inches.
 

Contemptuous of The Distant Cry, 2007, enamel, watercolor and ink on polypropylene, 11x14 inches.
 

A Very Vivid and Obvious Vacuum, 2007, oil, ink, watercolor and enamel on paper, 11.75x11.75 inches.
 

A polite and Emasculated Drawing Room, 2007, oil, ink, watercolor and enamel on paper, 11.75x11.75 inches.
 

Humble, Polite, Curt and Disagreeable, 2007, oil, ink, watercolor and enamel on paper, 11.75x11.75 inches.
 

Pride in Dappled Sunlight, 2007, watercolor on paper, 11.75x11.75 inches.
 

50 Cent Fan, 2'31, 2006.
 

Bluster, Bark and Bray, 2007, ink and oil on etching, on paper, 8.5x9.75 inches.
 

He Was A Good Lion, 2007, ink and pencil on paper, 9x12 inches.
 

Our Lamb Of God, 2007, ink and pencil on paper, 9x12 inches.
 

General Man, 2007, ink and pencil on paper, 9x12 inches.