Eamon Ore-Giron (b. 1973, Tucson, USA) blends a wide range of visual styles and influences in the brightly colored abstract geometric paintings for which he is best known. Referencing indigenous and craft traditions as well as 20th-century avant-gardes, his paintings move between temporalities and resonate across cultural contexts. Ore-Giron also works in video and music, and his interdisciplinary projects—as a solo practitioner and as part of collaborative endeavors—explore the interrelationship of sound, color, rhythm, and pattern, and make manifest a history of transnational exchange. He has exhibited nationally and internationally and has been selected to realize major public commissions in New York and Los Angeles. Ore-Giron received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Website: eamonoregiron.com

Kip Fulbeck has been featured in The New York Times, Voice of America, CNN, MTV, The TODAY Show, and numerous NPR programs. A Distinguished Professor of Art at UCSB, he is the recipient of the Faculty Diversity Award and Distinguished Teaching Award, and has been named an Outstanding Faculty Member five times. A complete overachiever despite being only part-Asian, Fulbeck is also an avid surfer, guitar player, ocean lifeguard, and multiple-time national champion in U.S. Masters Swimming.

Website: kipfulbeck.com

Amir H. Fallah received his BFA in Fine Art & Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA in painting at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions across the United States and abroad. Selected solo exhibitions include The Fowler Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson; South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings SD; Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland OR; San Diego ICA; and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland KS.
In 2009, the artist was chosen to participate in the 9th Sharjah Biennial. In 2015, Fallah received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. In 2019, Fallah’s painting Calling On The Past received the Northern Trust Purchase Prize at EXPO Chicago. In 2020, Fallah was awarded the COLA Individual Artist Fellowship and the Artadia grant. In addition, the artist had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, accompanied by a catalogue, and a year-long installation at the ICA San Jose.

The artist has works in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama; Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Miami; Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo; Deste Foundation For Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece; Xiao Museum Of Contemporary Art, Rizhao, China; McEvoy Foundation For The Arts, San Francisco; Nerman Museum, Kansas City; SMART Museum of Art at the University of Chicago; Davis Museum, Massachusetts; The Microsoft Collection, Washington; Plattsburg State Art Museum, NY; Cerritos College Public Art Collection, CA; Los Angeles County Department of Arts & Culture, CA; and Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, UAE.

Website: amirhfallah.com

Rebecca Campbell received her MFA in painting and drawing in June 2001 from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at L.A. Louver Gallery, Ameringer-McEnery-Yohe, Gagosion Gallery, the Phoenix Art Museum, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, among other galleries and museums.

Professor Emeritus at California State University, Fullerton, she has also taught at Art Center College of Design, Claremont Graduate University, Vermont College of Fine Art, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and the Idyllwild Arts Academy. Campbell’s work is regularly presented at art fairs including Frieze LA, Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, ARCO Madrid, and ADAA: The Art Show. Her work has been featured in publications including ARTnews, the Los Angeles Times, ART PAPERS, X-TRA, ARTWORKS Magazine, art ltd., The Huffington Post, and Artnet. She is represented by L.A. Louver Gallery.

Website: https://www.rebeccacampbell.net

Gajin Fujita, a native of East Los Angeles (b. 1972), received a BFA from Otis College of Art and Design and an MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he studied with renowned art critic Dave Hickey. He first gained recognition in the L.A. graffiti scene with crews KGB and K2S. Influenced by his father, a painter, and his mother, a conservator of Japanese antiques, Fujita blends Japanese iconography with urban graffiti and Western pop culture.

Fujita’s works feature gilded surfaces with graffiti tags, traditional East Asian motifs, and contemporary elements. His art is held in numerous public collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Getty Research Institute, Hammer Museum, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Toledo Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He is represented by L.A. Louver in Venice, CA.

Website: https://www.gajinfujita.com/

Laura Krifka (b. 1985, Los Angeles) lives and works in San Luis Obispo, CA. She received her MFA from UC Santa Barbara in 2010 and BFA from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, with earlier studies at Newbold College in England and Avondale College in Australia. Her work has been exhibited in venues including Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Torrance Museum of Art, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, CB1 Gallery, and Beacon Arts in Inglewood, as well as BravinLee Programs in NY and Vast Space Projects in Las Vegas.

Her paintings are included in collections at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum, Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UCSB, Xio Museum (China), Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, and the Pizzuti Collection. Her work has been featured in publications such as the Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, and Artillery Magazine.

Website: laurakrifka.com

Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin is a composer, Professor of Media Arts and Technology and Music at UCSB, and Director and Chief Scientist of the AlloSphere Research Facility. Her research focuses on creative computational systems, multimodal media, and innovative facility design. She created and led the UC Digital Media Innovation Program (1998–2003), leading to the AlloSphere instrument—a 30-foot, 3-story sphere for immersive data visualization.

She earned her Ph.D. in Composition from the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. The AlloSphere, housed at CNSI, supports cutting-edge interdisciplinary exploration through scientific and artistic practices.

Website: https://allosphere.ucsb.edu/kuchera-morin/

Gabriel Ritter is Director of the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UCSB and Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture. He holds a Ph.D. in art history from UCLA, where he also earned his MA. Ritter specializes in modern and contemporary Japanese art and has held curatorial positions at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Dallas Museum of Art.

His curatorial focus includes expanding collections with greater representation of women, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ artists. At UCSB, he leads museum programming and pedagogy connecting campus and community through contemporary art.

Website: https://www.museum.ucsb.edu/people/gabriel-ritter

Originally from Southern California, Katherine Love is an artist, curator, and educator based in Honolulu since 1995. She currently serves as Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA), where she has curated over 40 exhibitions, including David Hockney: Perspective Should Be Reversed, Forward Together, and Satoru Abe: Reaching for the Sun.

Love’s artwork has been exhibited throughout Hawai‘i and the mainland US, including The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu Museum of Art, and San Francisco’s Togonon Gallery. Her work is in the collections of the Honolulu Museum of Art and the Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. She holds a BA from UC Santa Barbara and an MFA from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

Website: https://www.katherinelove.com/