Lynn Aldrich is an artist who lives in Los Angeles and works primarily in
conceptual sculpture and installation. Her work has been exhibited in galleries
and museums such as the San Francisco Art Institute, the Santa Monica Museum
of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Annie Chu is an architect who has practiced in New York and Los Angeles.
Her focus is the interrelationship between architecture, landscape and interior
as well as making and materiality. She has lectured and taught at various
schools of architecture including UCLA and Southern California Institute
of Architecture (SCI-Arc) .
Dana Cuff, an Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA,
studies and writes about the social production of the built environment.
She is also an affordable housing activist. Dr. Cuff will spend the 1996-97
year as a Getty scholar working on a project titled 'Temporary Permanence:
Excavations in Post-World War II Los Angeles.' She is the mother of two
young children, the daughter of an elderly father, and active in the local
community.
Born and raised in Richland, Washington, Michelle Finkeisen holds a Bachelor
of Arts in architecture studies from the University of Washington and is
currently finishing her Master's degree from the Southern California Institute
of Architecture.
Amy Gerstler is a writer of fiction, poetry, and journalism living in Los
Angeles. Viking Penguin will publish a book of her poems, Crown of Weeds,
in early 1997. Her previous books include Nerve Storm (Viking Penguin)
and Bitter Angel (Northpoint Press).
Amelia Jones is a professor of contemporary art history and theory at the
University of California, Riverside. She has published extensively on feminism
and art history, including essays in Art History, Oxford Art Journal,
and Art + Text and the books Postmodernism and the En-Gendering
of Marcel Duchamp (1994) and Body Art/Performing the Subject
(forthcoming). She has organized the exhibition "Sexual Politics: Judy
Chicago's Dinner Party in Feminist Art History" at the UCLA/Hammer
Museum (April-August 1996).
Karen Lang is currently finishing a dissertation for the art history department
at UCLA. Her essay "Monumental Unease: Monuments and the Making of
National Identity in Germany" will appear in the forthcoming volume
Imagining Modern German Culture (National Gallery of Art, Washington,
D.C.) She has taught at UC Riverside and the California Institute of Technology.
Betty Lee's photographic images have been exhibited throughout the country,
most recently at the P.L.A.N. (Photography Los Angeles Now) show at the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She is collaborating with two other artists
on "Access All Areas," an exhibition for late summer, which includes
the production of billboards, a Web site, and a CD-Rom and is funded by
the Fellows of Contemporary Art. Her work is featured in Reframings:
New American Feminist Photographies, edited by Diane Neumaier (1995).
Lauren Lesko is an artist who lives in New York.
Catherine Lord is a writer living in Los Angeles who drives to Irvine to
teach.
Christine Magar is an architect, artist and educator. She currently teaches
at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles
and at Iowa State University. She has a studio in Los Angeles where she
produces art and designs for commercial, institutional and residential clients.
Her publications include the art books: The Cosmetic Case and The
Wandering Whole, and the essay "The Project Manual for the Glass
House," in the Yale Journal of Architecture and Feminism. (forthcoming,
Princeton Architectural Press).
Kathleen McHugh teaches film and critical and cultural theory at the University
of California, Riverside. She has published articles on feminism, film,
domesticity and alternative media in journals such as Screen, Cultural
Studies, JumpCut, and Semiotica. She is currently completing
a book on constructions of femininity entitled Swept Away: The Uses and
Abuses of Domesticity.
Laura Meyer is studying for her Ph.D. in Art History at UCLA. Her M.A. thesis
"The 'Essential' Judy Chicago: Central Core Imagery vs. the Language
of Fetishism in Womanhouse and The Dinner Party" examines Chicago's
role in the 1970s feminist art movement. She has published essays on feminist
art history, including an essay for the catalogue Sexual Politics: Judy
Chicago's Dinner Party in Feminist Art History.
Born in South Korea at the end of the Korean War, Yong Soon Min immigrated
to the U.S. at the age of seven. A 1989 recipient of a Visual Artists Fellowship
Grant in New Genre from the National Endowment for the Arts, her works in
diverse media have been exhibited in the U.S. and abroad. She is Assistant
Professor in the Art Department at the University of California, Irvine.
Alessandra Moctezuma is an artist and a founding member of ADOBE LA (Architects,
Artists and Designers Opening the Border Edge of Los Angeles), a collaborative
group that investigates the Latino presence in Southern California. Her
video "Andale, Andale" was exhibited at the Los Angeles Museum
of Contemporary Art in the "Urban Revisions" show. She works in
the MTA Public Art Program.
Pat Morton is an architect, historian and theorist. Her research and writing
focus on issues of race, gender, modernity and their intersection in architectural
and urban production. She is writing a book on the 1931 Colonial Exposition
in Paris and has written extensively on postcolonial theory and modern and
contemporary architecture. She teaches at UC Riverside and SCI-Arc.
Harryette Mullen is the author of four books of poetry, the most recent
one Muse & Drodge. She teaches African-American Literature and
Creative Writing at UCLA.
Susan Narduli is principal in charge of design at her Venice, CA architectural
firm, Narduli/Grinstein, and won the 1995 AIA Honor Award for her design
for a project at California Institute of the Arts. Other projects include
a 300-seat theater for experiemntal work for the Mark Taper Forum, a Hollywood
cabaret, the Mirror, a political broadside, and public art commissions at
the American Airlines terminal at Los Angeles International Airport and
the Sonsbeek international exhibition in the Netherlands.
Mary-Ann Ray received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the University
of Washington. She went on to receive a Masters degree in Architecture from
Princeton University in 1987, and the Rome Prize of 1987-1988. Ms. Ray is
a principal, along with Robert Mangurian, at Studio Works in Los Angeles
where she has been involved with projects ranging from furniture, buildings,
publications, and urban design to a major work of archaeology- an in progress
new plan for Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli. Ms. Ray has lectured widely, has
taught at Rice University as Visiting Wortham Professor and Yale University
in the Visiting Saarinen Chair, and continues as a full time graduate design
studio and seminar faculty member at the Southern California Institute of
Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles.
Joanna Roche is writing her dissertation "Collecting and Recollecting:
The Making of Memory in Joseph Cornell" for her Ph.D. in art history
at UCLA. She teaches contemporary art history at UC Irvine. In addition
to her work on Cornell, she has a strong interest in cross-cultural artistic
practices.
Susan Silton's photographic and installation work has been exhibited at
venues including Craig Krull Gallery (Santa Monica), San Francisco Camerawork,
the Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena), and the California Museum of
Photography (Riverside). She recently received a James D. Phelan award in
photography and has designed numerous books and catalogues, including Sexual
Politics: Judy Chicago's Dinner Party in Feminist Art History.
Lynn Spigel writes on television and film. She teaches at the University
of Southern California.
Erika Suderburg is an artist and writer who works in film, video, bookworks,
installation, and photography. Her work has been exhibited internationally
at venues including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Museum of Contemporary
Art (Los Angeles), the Kunstlerhaus (Stuttgart), and the International Video
Festival (Bonn). She is the co-editor of Resolutions: Contemporary Video
Practices (1996) and is currently working on a video project entitled
Los Angeles: Topographies, Histories and Remnants.
A participant in the original Womanhouse project, Faith Wilding is a multi-media
artist interested in pursuing the labyrinthine intersections of post-feminist
trans-body performativity in art and everyday life. Currently, she is a
visiting artist at Carnegie Mellon University where you can e-mail her at
>>fwild@Andrew.CMU.EDU>>.