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.

Larry Lubow

For over 30 years as a sculptor and collector, I’ve dedicated myself to exploring the relationship between art, design, nature, and architecture. As an alum of Alfred University, I started creating art with clay and metal, showcasing my work in galleries and design showrooms worldwide. Most recently at Yard 227 and House 1002, I merge design, materials and vintage treasures together to create new works. Now, I’m thrilled to embark on an exciting new project— the creation of the new Bone Yard at Alta Sea.  

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).