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Drawing/Illustration |
 Alejandro Gehry
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 Bert Wood has had over twenty years of experience as a professional freelance artist. An expert in both Mac and IBM computer graphics, he is an accomplished illustrator in styles ranging from photo-realism to cartoons. He has worked for the past seven years as a graphic artist for Radio and Record in Century City and for six years as the art director for the Journal of the California Dental Association. In addition, he has also worked as a production foreman for Verdugo Newspaper and the Herald Examiner. He won the American College of Dentists’ “Golden Pencil” first place and honorable mention awards for design five years running and was a finalist for Western Publications’ MAGGIE award for design five years in a row. In addition, he has been a volunteer for the Haven House shelter for battered women and children since 1984 and currently serves as President of the Board. He helped to create the “It’s Not O.K.” poster contest to create a growing awareness of teenage dating violence. He was also a volunteer artist for the annual Absolut Chalk Festival sponsored by the LightBringer Project, a fundraiser for the homeless, since 1993. |
 David Schoffman, a New Yorker by temperament and birth, settled under the balmy palms of Los Angeles in 1993.
Known for his ebullient energy, erudition and wit, David has been on the LACHSA faculty for the past three years. An accomplished painter, David’s teasingly hermetic works have been widely exhibited from Jersey to Jerusalem. As a recipient of a Surdna Foundation Arts Teacher Fellowship, David has spent the better part of 2005 obsessively drawing the figure, hoping to acquire an appointed sureness he can ultimately share with his students. A writer as well as an artist, he is currently working on an evaluation of the life and influence of the iconoclastic French artist Currado Malaspina. In addition to LACHSA, he is currently on the faculty of The Ryman Program for Young Artists, The Brentwood Art Center, The California State Summer School of the Arts at CalArts, The Ragan Academy and the education department of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. |
 Gabriel Gigliotti |
 Eulalia Halloran studied at Studio Art Centers International; Florence, Italy, completed her BFA at University of California; Los Angeles and earned a MFA at Yale University. Her works have been exhibited at Art Space, Yale, New Haven, CT.; faculty show, California Institute of the Art; A&A Gallery, Yale, New Haven, CT.; Brand New at LA DI DA Art Cafe, Half Moon Bay, CA; Dynamo Punchat Wight Gallery, UCLA; Therefore I am; East Central Gallery, Los Angeles; Stupid Cupid; Disposable Doodles, Sex/Religion; and Future Fantastic at East Central Gallery, Los Angeles; Mandare at Kerchoff Art Gallery, UCLA; Mani Mario at Chiostro dell'Ammannati, Florence, Italy, Fine dell' Anno MostraandMostra dei Fotographia at Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy; Aesthetic Confinement; MFA Thesis Exhibition, Yale, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT. Ms. Halloran won scholarships for her MFA at Yale University, the Wener Hirsch Award for Drawing, UCLA, and the Studio Art Centers International Scholarship to Florence. |
 Vally Mestroni earned her BFA with distinction from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. She moved to Los Angeles in 1987 and began to work on art direction for theme park attractions and entertainment architecture. She was also an art director and production designer for independent films, such as Ginger-ale Afternoon-directed by Rafal Zielinsky for Neo-Modern Entertainment. At Walt Disney Imagineering, Ms. Mestroni was a show designer for Tokyo Disney Sea, a Disney theme park based on the major harbors in world history. She was the art director for the Aquasphere main entrance icon, responsible for field art direction, art glass design, set decoration and colorboard production. She was color stylist for Disney’s California Adventure: Limousine Ride in Anaheim, and Mickey’s Starland and the New Tomorrowland at the Magic Kingdom in Florida and for MGM Studios at Disneyland, Paris. She was lead color stylist for Landmark Entertainment Group’s Ceasar’s Palace in Las Vega, Harmony Land in Kyushu and Sanrio’s Puroland in Tokyo. She did design work on the Yerba Buena Entertainment Center in San Francisco and for Sony Development in Burbank. She earned her MFA from Otis College of Design and worked as a teaching assistant in figure drawing, experimental drawing and painting classes. Her work Transport was shown in a solo exhibit at the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College, and Generate at Bliss in Pasadena. Selected group exhibitions of her work include Medium Rare at the Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School For The Arts and Sciences, True Bliss and Trip Wire at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Detours ‘96, at the Gingerbread Court, The Verdict at Loyola Law School, In Site Out of Site at the Platt Gallery, University of Judaism, and Faultline at the Sales and Rental Gallery of Los Angeles County Museum of Art. |
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