Contributors
James Adams is an MFA student in Sculpture/Intermedia. He is the editor of StudioTalk.
Victoria Bryan is a graduate student in Art History.
Dana Doyle is a graduate student in art history. She currently lives in Long Beach.
Brian W. Evans was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and spent most of his youth in a small rural town. After ten years as a professional consumer electronics technician, Evans graduated from Arizona State University with his BFA in Sculpture and is currently attending California State University, Long Beach for his MFA. For the last five years, Evans has incorporated his knowledge of electronics into his studio practice using technology to discuss technology. He lives and works in Long Beach, California where he currently teaches art students about electrons and other things.
Flounder is a graduate student in photo at CSULB. He received his BFA in photography from the University of Florida. His work includes video, sound, sculpture, performance, rabblerousing, and even some photography. You can find his work at www.photoflounder.com
Jeff Foye is a native Californian who took an eight year detour to the east coast for school and performance. He now lives in Long Beach and attends school at CSULB getting his masters in sculpture and intermedia. Jeff's work ranges from performance art to conceptual toast and shows regularly with his artist collective, Santa Ana Seven.
Jocelyn Schneider Foye recieved her MFA in Sculpture and Installation from CSULB. Her interests are rooted in understanding cultural configurations of biological and medical subject matter with an underlying impulse of attraction and repulsion. These impulses are responses to alienation of the disease and decay prevalent in the current political climate.
Tommy Freeman is an artist and freelance writer based in Los Angeles. His reviews regularly appear in Artweek and artUS magazines. He holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from California State University Long Beach.
Todd Gray, Professor of Photography and Digital Imaging, has been teaching at CSULB since 1997. He received his MFA from CalArts, and his work has appeared in galleries and museums around the world.
Nicole Hartshorn is completing her MA in Art History, with an emphasis in Classical & Non-Western Art. She currently team teaches an Art Appreciation course at CSULB.
Justin Izbinski is working on a BA in art history and is an aspiring art theorist/critic who hopes to open a gallery in the future.
Sarah Jaffray is a graduate student in Art History. She is interested in everything from the Renaissance to Contemporary art, but her heart belongs to Modernism.
Kevin Patrick Lee is just a guy trying to figure it all out. He loves music, but doesn't have the patience to create his own, so he just listens. He doesn't think there is anything much better than a film he can only watch once, because it is way too disturbing, an album that defies convention and a poem that isn't afraid. Kevin edits and publishes a small press poetry mag that you can find out more about at www.rvlitmags.com.
Ryan Longacre is currently working towards his MA in Art History. He is interested in 20th-century Latin American art, particularly work from Mexico, Uruguay, and Brazil. He lives in Ladera Ranch.
Leslie Markle is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles and is an alumnus of CSULB. His work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions in California including at the Gallery of Functional Art at Bergamot Station; the Muchenthaler Cultural Center in Fullerton California; the University Art Museum at Cal State University at Long Beach; the Brand gallery in Santa Ana; the Media City Gallery in Burbank; Space 47 in San Luis Obispo; California Medical Arts in Santa Monica; and Fullerton College Gallery in Orange County. In addition, his artwork is in the public collection of the City of Long Beach. Currently, he teaches studio art and art history at Fullerton College and Chapman University.
Tim Oberst was in the right place at the right time... with a camera.
Shinichi Ono received his MFA in New Media/Installation at Claremont Graduate University. He works across media from drawing to video. He is not the editor of StudioTalk, not a BFA student in sculpture at CSULB (although perhaps he once was), nor is he the king of Iceland... yet .
Claudia Pederson is a graduating MA student in Art History with a focus on contemporary electronic and performance art.
Sharon B. Robinson is currently working toward her MA in Art History. She lives in Long Beach with her husband, Glenn.
Jean Robison is a Los Angeles based artist whose videos, photographs and installations incorporate popular music and imagery to address serious themes such as sex, death and transformation. Charged absurdity and humor are unifying threads in her work. She received an MFA in Intermedia at CSULB and has exhibited in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York and Mexico.
Christen Sperry-Garcia is a “quasi” Californian, born in San Diego but, attended school and lived in Wisconsin for 20 years. She recently moved from San Diego to Long Beach, and is currently an MFA student in sculpture and intermedia at CSULB. Christen uses the moving body and ironic “play” in juxtaposition with video and performance art.
Alice Tseng-Planas received a BA in History/Art History from UCLA and for a while dreamed of a career of studying dead artists. While living and working in Los Angeles, she unwittingly got herself mixed up with contemporary art and has been trying (without success) to shake the habit ever since. She unabashedly and shamelessly embraces everything with or without an 'ism' (including the occasional kitchen sink) and still has the gall and senselessness to think herself of critical thinking abilities. Alice was StudioTalk's webmaster, but has gone on to better things at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program.
