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ARTIST BIO: JOHN DILLON

I spend a lot of time trying to learn and grow as an artist and musician- yep. Travel is a great source of inspiration. These paintings were created the last week of June to July 4 of 2018 after returning from a trip to Europe using Paris as the setting. I’m going to continue exploring this theme for a while.

I have been fortunate to have been able to make a living as an entertainment industry professional since 1990. I didn’t always find work. So, I learned new skills to adapt quickly at a professional level for various roles such as: Animator, Storyboard Artist, Illustrator, animatic artist, editor, director, studio partner, and college professor. I’ve enjoyed working with some great and talented people. It’s been rewarding and fun.

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ARTIST BIO: ADRIANA R DOS SANTOS

When I was a young girl, I always dreamt of what I could find if I was able to explore the world. Traveling and the curiosity of learning about other cultures had always motivated me to seek more in life. I came to the U.S as immigrant from Brazil in my early 20's and being away from family and friends was very hard for me at times. But through art I was able to use those deep feelings of loneliness and reform them into a creative energy reflecting all the emotions that transpire through my art. Being able to express myself through sculpting has rejuvenated my spirit, giving me a new found purpose in life and in all actuality it has saved my life. This is the one thing I found in my life that I can pour all of my heart and soul into .

I always had a love for art throughout my life but didn't discover my talent until a couple of years ago when I decided to pursue what has now become my passion. Not having the privilege of attending an art school and only having a few technique classes under my belt, I was forced to learn on my own and become a self-taught sculptor. After the first time of running my fingers through the clay and letting the magic of formation take place is when I knew this was my calling and fell in love with sculpting.

A dream and goal of mine in the near future is to create an non-profit organization that will give myself and others the platform to inspire people in need of inspiration to find and develop their passion for art. Art is my healer and I would like to share and encourage others to find and pursue an art that heals them.

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ARTIST BIO: ZOEY BOYADJAIN

 Zoey has been practicing art for over 14 years. She takes ordinary places from the human realm and looks at them through a fantastical light. Her art leaves room for each individual to weave their imaginations with hers to create their own unique experiences. "If my work transports someone back to a time or place dear to their heart, that connection is when I know I have done my job." Her preferred mediums include oil paint and digital media.  

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ARTIST BIO: ALEX QUE

 I sleep,

I wake up and DRAW

And the rest of the day

Is just blurry in-betweens

Of me riding a pentacorn.

 To sum up my world,

-Alex Que

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ARTIST BIO: SEAN STREETER

Sean Streeter studied at the prestigious escalator and elevator manufacturing firm located on the easternmost runway of LAX.  Sometimes, he draws things.  He has worked in games, advertising, and animation in Seattle and LA.

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ARTIST BIO: TAYEN KIM

 Tayen Kim is an illustrator and "story-teller," whatever that is, and feels uncomfortable writing about herself in the third person.  She has done storyboarding and designing for Nissan, Ford, Microsoft, AT&T, and Adult Swim, and eats as many tacos as she can in a given week.

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ARTIST BIO: MIKE CEDENO

 Mike Cedeno is an artist, animator, character designer and educator with extensive animation experience. During the 27 years that Mike worked for Disney Feature Animation Mike animated characters known to everyone, including Mickey Mouse, Belle, Aladdin, Prince Eric in Little Mermaid, Phoebus in Hunchback, Simba in Lion King, Young Herc in Hercules, and countless others.  His work appears in many of the “Making of” Art books from Disney.

 In addition to fine art commissions, gallery shows of his Plein air paintings, and creating large scale murals for homes and business, Mike continues to freelance as a character designer and he teaches animation, drawing, character design and art classes, primarily at OTIS College of Art and Design from 2012 to present. Mike is a frequent guest speaker at local high schools, grade schools and colleges, a true evangelist for the practice of daily drawing for artistic development and personal expression.

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Mike is a vested member of The Animation Guild, an active member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Shorts and Animation branch. Mike studied at Cal Arts before being hired at Disney in his senior year.

 Mike’s approach to painting is a bold “California Expressionist" style of Plein air painting which emphasizes strong colors, brilliant plays of light, value and contrast, and his passionate, emotional love of the artistic painting process.  A prolific artist, Mike paints and draws on a daily basis. 

 www.mikecedeno.com

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ARTIST BIO: KATHLEEN QUAIFE

 Kathleen Quaife has worked in the animation industry for over three decades and created 2d effects animation on 25 feature films, and hundreds of commercials, direct to video projects and other special venu projects, including animated   Disney Theme Park attractions. Kathleen worked for the Disney studio for seven years designing and effects, and for many other studios including Don Bluth Productions, Turner Feature Animation, Universal Cartoons, Warner Brothers, Kroyer Films, Nickelodeon and more. Her credits include supervisor of animated effects on two animated feature films.

 An early adapter of 2d digital drawing for animation, Kathleen works with many 2d animation programs. She completed her MFA in Computer Arts and New Media in 2013. She holds a BFA degree from Virginia Commonwealth University and since 2004 she has been teaching as an adjunct lecturer, life drawing and animation instructor at universities in California.

 Kathleen is a vested member of The Animation Guild and a member of the California Faculty Association.

 Kathleen’s love for drawing the human figure in motion derives from her preference for the quick sketch, gesture drawing and organic sensual forms of life and nature.

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ARTIST BIO: PAM FARKAS

Pam Farkas has a diverse background.  She received her B.A. in education from UCLA and her M.S.W. in social work from USC. Her occupations have included teaching elementary school, business owner, fund-raiser, and for the last thirty five years a licensed clinical social worker.  She studied ceramics at the Berman Ceramic Art Studio in North Hollywood for the past twenty years from two mentors with different approaches.  This diversity merged into Pam’s unique individual creative style.

Pam’s love and talent for self-expression and freedom coalesce into her striking ceramic artistic creations.  Her process encompasses the notion of working “with” the clay, rather than “on” the clay as she forms her sculptural pieces.  She accepts that the fire of the kiln will have the final say in her glazed endeavors.

Her pieces in The Figure: Motion & Emotion are powerful sculptural figures in their slender grace, with a palate of colors and a hard edge of jaggedness from their underlying shapes.  Each sculpture is partially glazed and high-fired to capture the emotion of transcending past to present.

Pam’s work will be found among many private and public collectors in the United States and abroad.

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ARTIST BIO: SU JEN BUCHHEIM

Su Jen Buchheim was born and educated in Germany but received her art education at Otis College of Art and Design. She started out as an illustrator and has worked on a variety of projects ranging from board games, logos and children's books as well movie poster art. She lives in Los Angeles and currently freelances as a sketch artist and storyboard artist.

my website is www.sjbillustration.com

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ARITST BIO: JOHN JOSEPH

There is a legend of a most dreamy little one, Alysianala was her name. A wonderland she found of such enchantment it was. She would visit there often. And such grand adventures she would have exploring it's realms.  A treasure she collected of special trinkets she brought back from her journeys into this wonderfulland.  

There was the song from the most beautiful bird who sings the sweetest sound ever heard. 

Eye lashes that have fallen from a mystical unicorn snail.

From the shire of chesha a kitty smile, to name a few.

She kept these precious valuables in a broken Cada Cada egg, from the most magnificent giant Cada Cada to be exact.

   Now into this picture came snorting and wheezing a huge most horrendously terrible beast.  He pounce upon Alysiana's precious egg with intent to devour it. As he chopped down and crunched the egg, to him, it left a most bitter and disgusting taste in his mouth. So awful and upsetting to him it was that he hurled plop splat onto the floor. This regurgitated goo started to sizzle and bubble and a big bubble slowly began to form a cocoon.  Now within this chrysalis I felt myself coming into being. Finding that i could not breath, i gasped for air. I must have air. As i anxiously struggled i ripped open this cocoon and collapsed into the goo with very heavy breathing.

   And there i am. Yep this is me.

   Oh, and i like to draw too.   

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ARTIST BIO: JOHN C. LIU

John C. Liu grew up in Harbor City, CA, where he enjoyed living in a colorful, diverse culture, within several of LAUSD's finest encampments. He somehow found his way into TV animation, providing background layout for the talented animators & fellow skilled contemporaries. John currently resides in a headspace which believes, “A comfortable coffin is still a coffin,” meaning one’s viewpoint of the larger picture of their time here can be skewed by the pursuit of monetary gain. John’s school of thought toward his paintings is, “Art is in the doing of it. So just do it.”

He further dreams of joining an Indian tribe's Powwow, living closer to nature, and adopting a smaller town mentality. He belongs to the I.C.U. movement, whereby the act of observing other people is one of its fundamental precepts. But in the mean time, he creates what is on his mind whenever given the chance. Freedom is left to the imagination. Peace.    

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ARTIST BIO: MARK KIRKLAND

At the age of 17 Mark Kirkland enrolled studied animation and earned a BFA degree at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).  He began figure drawing under Morris "Moe" Gollub former Disney story artist and then president of The Animation Guild, Local #839.

In 1977, at the age of 20, Kirkland started working as an apprentice layout artist and assisting Gollub at Hanna Barbera Productions. The following year he was promoted to journeyman layout artist and ultimately to layout supervisor. Kirkland continued to study figure drawing, under Gollub, at the #839 Guild evening drawing classes.

After four-years with H&B Kirkland worked in the special effects and advertising industry for several years. In 1990 Kirkland joined The Simpsons as a director where he continues to work today. He has directed more than 80 episodes and has won three Primetime Emmy Awards for directing. Kirkland served as the Animation Peer Group Governor of The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

This year, 2018, Kirkland celebrates 41 years working in the animation industry. He continues to study figure drawing under Karl Gnass at #839 drawing classes and he enjoys Tuesday night figure drawing with his fellow Simpson artists Cyndi Tang and Paul Wee.

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website:  http://www.mark-kirkland.com

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ARTIST BIO: TAMI TSARK

 Tami Sloan Tsark is a San Francisco painter who also works in a variety of media including sculpture and mixed media. Her work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. She received her BA from UCLA in Film/TV, where she specialized in animation and minored in English. She attributes to movement in her paintings to her background as a figure skater. Thematically, she loves to incorporate reclaimed objects & complex surfaces in her work. She has worked on The Simpsons, Rugrats, the Duckman Pilot and the Edith Ann Pilot.

 Artist’s Statement:

Sometimes, I find things: More often, those things find me. The Finding -- things or ideas--is where I begin. My work is a process of discovery, derived from a desire to deconstruct and assimilate a sense of our condition, one that is mostly human. Work takes shape if our minds can recognize both history and potential. Let there be seams, let there be edges. Let the record be one of process, of marks …and of materials. It is from this world of forgotten things that I find beauty. --Tami Sloan Tsark (This 11th of January, 2017)

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ARTIST BIO: PAUL WEE

Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Paul Wee grew up obsessed with comics, Sci-Fi, art and monsters. Moving from Hawaii to Los Angeles in 1984, he found a city full of cool stuff and great art. He completed art study at Otis/Parsons, where he earned his BFA in Illustration, and also studied at The California Art Institute, Associates in Art, and The LA Academy of Figurative Art. He also studied with a great many Jedi Masters such as Glenn Vilppu, Mark Westermoe, Steve Huston and the late John Watkiss. Paul is currently working on and won an EMMY award for an obscure, short-lived television series called The Simpsons for a really long time.

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ARTIST BIO: DEMI CHEN

 Demi Chen currently an art department production coordinator at DreamWorks Animation. There's nothing more rewarding to her than working with artists and nurturing the filmmaking process! On the side, she enjoys drawing. Her love of fairy tales, fashion, and art history greatly informs her work.

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ARTIST BIO: SAM GRINBERG

Sam Grinberg is a NYC born cartoonist who lived most of his life in the woodsy suburbs of New Jersey before relocating to L.A. He currently works on The Simpsons by day but spends most of his nights making comics, stickers and band flyers. You can find him selling all this stuff at comic shows across the country. @samgrinberg www.samgrinberg.com