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September 17, 2005

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Yoshiaki Asai

Yoshiaki Asai focuses his attention on a series of character, from a sinister, yet wise old dog named Yatsu, to Sushe: a socially confused and very spoiled high school girl. Asai's characters live in a flat world, maintained by angular patterns and irregular edges. His palette is primal, and his narratives reactive or specific to his characters.

Chaval

Chaval's two main, post chemical war mutants are Pipu, a miraculous mutant butterfly, and Pepo a happy-go-lucky subservient walking pet. These two creatures play out numerous, vaporous fantasies that take the viewer through every emotion from love to lamentation; to peril and peace. Chaval's objects, which run the gamut from punching bags to shaped canvases, are true and focused, and maintain a certain David Lynch-like feel.

Patrick Dorian

Art serves as a record of events, or a diary for Patrick Dorian. He situates the narrative in an adventurous story of pirates going after gold, somewhat similar to modern life. His pirate characters are named after his friends and people who have affected him, like Loi, Pete, Sally, etc. , and they act as heroes or villains, and sometimes clowns. This allows him to accommodate his search for beauty in the grotesque and humor in the depraved.

Charles Glaubitz

Inhabiting both sides of what he calls the “paradox” of the border world (he’s the son of an American father and a Mexican-born mother), Glaubitz’s art is a vibrant mix of influences, from Hello Kitty to Tijuana billboards. He utilizes and combines iconography, symbols, metaphors, allegories, stealing, discarding, and experimenting with images from "La línea". His influences include lowbrow art, the subculture, comic books, and art anime.

Jeremiah Ketner

Jeremiah's paintings are an assemblage of muted tones, non-dimensional forms, flower like shapes, and charming little characters navigating through a sort of cotton candy landscapes. The paintings are created with no preliminary drawing; a composition is formed haphazardly and then outlined through the building process of layers. Ketner draws influence from pop-culture, such as Japanese aesthetics, packaging design, magazine ads, and urban graffiti.

Joshua Krause

Joshua draws from a fascination of popular culture, evolution, and myth and then adds something very personal to it: his daydreams, fears, inspirations, frustrations, wit, and humor. Using mainly acrylics and collage, his illustrations find their way onto a versatile array of surfaces: tattered book covers, wood, canvas, and found objects.

D. Dominick Lombardi

D. Dominick Lombardi's approach, which often takes on a cartoonish, Pop Surreal appearance, provides Lombardi with a somewhat universal language to express his concerns with human mutations. "We are always mutating," Lombardi says. "Extrapolating a bit, looking some 5,000 years in the future, I've created characters who bare the extreme modifications in their biology caused by man-made contaminants: tainted water, poplluted air, transgenetic food."

Tim McCormick

Born into the simultaneously mundane and surreal climate of sunny Southern California, artist Tim McCormick's work reflects a unique perspective on issues of fame, pop culture, and self.

Ninko Ouzou

Ninko Ouzou goes after the ultimate in cute. She sets her sights on a kinder, gentler kitsch, and turns it inside out. Ouzou's distilled palette and understated environments only intensify the gaze of her subjects, making them appear oddly forceful and controlling, while the heavily worked, painted and drawn surfaces compel onlookers to take a closer look.

Hisao Sakai

Hisao Sakai makes altered, anxiety riddled self portraits. They suggest a sequential narrative, which forms a continuous saga of a small soulful world. The simplicity in Sakai's work does cause havoc, however - like a thorn on a rose. But like the promised scent of a rose, Sakai's characters compel viewers to come into their world, to experience a life filled with quirky, quiet eccentricities.

Savako

Savako makes bold, free standing sculptures which profess a retro, mid twentieth century futuristic view. Her subjects are aliens, living in an imagined Utopia, on a planet the artist has named Pajamaja. Her sculptures are humorous, curious and more than a bit suspicious. Their edginess creeps up on you, while their rich colors, and their sinuous and seductive surfaces prompt the most hardened, veteran gallery goer to smile.