Light My Life

Ali Cavanaugh was born in St. Louis, Missouri on September 5, 1973. Learning to sew at the age of 7 opened up a world of creativity for her. By the age of 14 she was painting commissioned portraits. In 1993, she attended Parsons School of Design in New York City and in 1995 earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Kendall College of Art and Design. In 1996, Cavanaugh co-founded the New School academy of fine arts in Grand Rapids Michigan. Through the mid to late 90s she established an enormous following of students and collectors, becoming one of West Michigan’s most sought after private instructors. Cavanaugh is best known for her "little girl" paintings. Fields of alluring color, rich in texture, accentuate quietly provocative adolescent girls. Thought provoking hand cut text, which is a trademark of Cavanaugh’s work, reveal engaging messages. Her poetic words bring to light the complexity within contemplation. Thoughts of envy, loss, and doubt unfold and suddenly the viewer discovers something highly spirited and playful. This vibrant contrast and push and pull of emotions are what make this work so desirable. Cavanaugh’s work has an infectious energy and her collectors are devout. Her work has won numerous awards, received countless recognitions, and is featured in over 200 private collections. She currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with her husband and two children, and is very active in its world-renowned art scene.

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My mind wanders back to a time when thoughts were green is this my wonderland?

Oil on wood panel • 30" x 36"

Infinite sky full of light …i surrender

Oil on wood panel • 36" x 36"

Here, take one… there are two, one for me and one for you

Oil on wood panel • 24" x 24"

Dreams of you, moment of quiet

Oil on wood panel • 12" x 12"

Your essence surrounds me and i breathe you in (behind this curtain)

Oil on wood panel • 24" x 24"

When you find me …i will be different than you remembered

Oil on wood panel • 24" x 24"

David Maisel was born in New York City in 1961. He received his BA from Princeton University, and his MFA from California College of the Arts, in addition to study at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He has been the recipient of an Individual Artist’s Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and will be a Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles in Fall 2007. Maisel lives and works in the San Francisco area, where he has been based since 1993.

Maisel’s practice has focused primarily on environmentally impacted sites, in a multi-chaptered series called "Black Maps". His large-scaled photographs show the physical impact on the land from industrial efforts such as mining, logging, water reclamation, and military testing. Because these sites are often remote and inaccessible, Maisel frequently works from an aerial perspective, thereby permitting images and photographic evidence that would be otherwise unattainable.

Maisel’s photographs, multi-media projects, and public installations have been exhibited internationally, and are included in many permanent collections, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; the Santa Barbara Museum of Art; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others. His work has been the subject of two monographs: The Lake Project (Nazraeli Press, 2004), and Oblivion (Nazraeli Press, 2006). A third monograph, Library of Dust, will be published by Chronicle Books in Fall 2008.

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Mario Pardal Monteiro Belem, born August 14th, 1977, resident in Lisbon, Portugal. Graphic Design course at Ar.Co- Centro de Arte e Comunicação- Oct 1997 to Jun 2001. Model drawing at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, in 1997. Attended the 1st and 2nd years of the Curso de Arquitectura do Design da Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, from 1995 to 1997.

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Artist David Choong Lee was born in 1966 in Seoul, Korea. He moved to the USA in 1993 in pursuit of gaining the skills to be a traditional fine artist. He found that he was very interested in the art of young people after his graduation from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, in 1997. After seven years of focusing on the figure, he began to explore different concepts, such as mixed media, sculpture and graphic design. He’s been influenced by such diverse sources as Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Sukdo, and underground music DJ scenes. He ended up creating his own artistic style that is a combination of graffiti, collage, portrait, and classical realistic skill with bold graphic elements. As you can see by the release of his products, he has combined many different forces to create his own, distinctive style. David’s work has shown at many galleries in San Francisco such as 111 MINNA GALLERY, BUCHEON gallery, CULTURE CACHE gallery, LEVI’S as well as other places in the US and also in South Korea. He has self-published a number of art books– God made dirt, and dirt don’t hurt, 4 WORDS, DIRT– and some of his books are distributed by Gingko Press and 2nd round productions to Europe and Asia. He’s been teaching figurative art at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco for last 8 years(from 1998), and he lives in downtown San Francisco with his wife, Sori Kim.

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