Category: Artists

Robert Atkins is an art historian, educator, curator and writer. He grew up in  Los Angeles and attended, as an undergraduate, the University of California Riverside and London School of Economics. He completed his doctoral coursework in art history at UC Berkeley and cut his professional teeth in San Francisco. He moved to New York […]

Assunta Sera was born in Ceprano, Italy and came to America when she was eight. She received a BFA at Center for Creative Studies in downtown Detroit in 1980. In 1986, Sera enrolled in the Masters in Fine Arts program at Brooklyn College with a concentration in painting; she was awarded a Graduate Fellowship and completed her studies in […]

Eva Davidova is a Bulgarian/ Spanish new media artist working in New York. Her work has been exhibited at the Bronx Museum in New York City; Everson Museum, Syracuse; Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo; Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, CAAC Sevilla; Instituto Cervantes, Sofia; and many others. She received the 2008 M-tel Award for Contemporary Bulgarian […]

Danielle Adair (b. 1981, Traverse City, MI) is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles. Adair uses performance as her methodology. She produces work via inhabiting particular roles and/or institutions. She is the author of From JBAD: Lessons Learned (Les Figues Press) based on her time as “embedded media” with US Forces in Afghanistan and for which she has […]

Suzan Woodruff was born in Phoenix, AZ. From an early age, she began exploring the southwestern desert first on foot then on motorcycle, immersing herself in infinite spaces and spectacular natural vistas that would later become essential to her art. She was raised by her gold-prospector grandparents who taught her how to “read” rocks and by her […]

My first experience that awakened my enthusiasm for acting and theatre was at 11. “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest“ came on television. A scene stiuck in my memory. Nurse Ratched forbids the patients to see the live broadcast of a basketball game. McMurphy/Jack Nicholson does not give in, he simply imagines the whole game before his eyes. Cheering at […]

Tyler Stallings is the UCR ARTSblock interim executive director at University of California, Riverside. He was chief curator at Laguna Art Museum prior to his arrival at UCR in 2006. His curatorial projects focus on contemporary art, with a special emphasis on the exploration of identity, technology, photo-based work, and urban culture. Exhibitions that he […]

Kal Spelletich was born in 1960 in Davenport Iowa. He worked at his father’s construction company when still a child. At the age of nine, he started experimenting with chemistry, electricity, fire, alchemy, constructing tree houses and boats to launch on the Mississippi River. Kal left home at 15 and has worked at countless jobs […]

Doreen McCarthy is a sculptor who works with inflatables, Plexiglas and Lenticular plastic. Her work is akin to engaging in conversation about the history of art. There are sly references to a number of influential movements and her creations illustrate her facility with a broad scope of rigorous conceptual and formal languages. The color and […]