Kim Abeles

Kim Abeles’ art crosses disciplines and media to explore biography, geography and environment. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts, California Community Foundation and Pollack-Krasner Foundation. She has created artwork with a unique range of collaborators including California Bureau of Automotive Repair, California Science Center, Department of Mental Health, and natural history museums in California, Colorado and Florida. In 1987, she innovated a method to create images from the smog in the air, and Smog Collectors brought her work to international attention, and were recently exhibited in New York at the United Nations Headquarters. Abeles’ journals and process documents are archived at the Center for Art + Environment, Nevada Museum of Art. Her work is in public collections including MOCA, LACMA, CAAM, Berkeley Art Museum, and National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. NEA-funded projects involved a residency at the Institute of Forest Genetics; and Valises for Camp Ground with Camp 13, a group of female prison inmates who fight wildfires. Her public art includes Citizen Seeds along the Park to Playa Trail, and Walk a Mile in My Shoes, based on the shoes of Civil Rights marchers and local activists. Recent articles about her projects are published in New York Times, Hyperallergic, and Social Practice: Technologies for Change (Routledge Press).

Taylor Griffith

Taylor Griffith is a multi-disciplinary artist from Oakland, California. Currently he is living and working in Los Angeles. He received his BA in photography with a minor in studio art from the University of La Verne. Taylor recently graduated from the Graduate Art MFA program at Art Center College of Design. His work calls into question the relationships between natural systems and changing human interactions with the landscape. Taylor takes a multi-medium approach to the interdisciplinary nexus of art and ecology. He works in photography, sculpture, time-based media, and printmaking. He collaborates with scientists, artists, and organizations to get out in the field, collecting imagery, audio recordings, notes, and samples that then come into the studio to be distilled down into a body of work. His work aims to continue conversations about the challenges that face our planet and act as a place to start conversations about moving towards a more ecologically minded future.

Taiji Terasaki

Based in Honolulu, Hawai’i, Japanese American artist, Taiji Terasaki, creates innovative photographic and sculptural forms and immersive, large-scale installations. For Terasaki, art is the medium to explore our interconnectedness, the ecological promise of rewilding, the fragility of the natural environment, and the textures of the human experience. From the global impact of climate change to immigration and nature’s capacity for regeneration, Terasaki inspires us to believe in our power to engage in the conservation, preservation and restoration of our planet and our creative spirit.

Terasaki studied in the MFA programs at Hunter College, New York and California State University, Long Beach, and holds a BFA from UC Irvine, Irvine, CA.

For more information about the work of Taiji Terasaki please visit www.taijiterasaki.com and follow the studio on Instagram (@taijiterasakistudio).

Larry Lubow

Larry Lubow is a Los Angeles–based sculptor whose four-decade career bridges maritime heritage, sustainability, and contemporary art. Trained at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University (BFA) and California State University, Fullerton (MFA), his work has been exhibited internationally in galleries, public spaces, and large-scale architectural installations. As a resident artist at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles, he operates The Boneyard, an outdoor harbor workspace where salvaged nautical materials are
rescued from obsolescence and reimagined as metal and mixed-media sculptures rooted in circular economy principles. His practice centers on what he describes as “an intimate exploration of the relationships between shapes and patterns, and the positive and negative spaces they create,” spanning intimate works to immersive environments. With public installations across the U.S., work held in notable private collections, and features in film and television, Larry’s work elevates found maritime objects into enduring forms that reflect both material history and a forward-looking vision of environmental stewardship.