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FIRST THURSDAY

Monica Canilao attended the California College of Arts and Crafts, where she received her BFA in illustration. She was born in Redwood City, California, 23 years ago, and is proud to have lived the last six of them in the City of Oakland.

Artist Statement:
My interests lie in the imprint people leave behind them. I have always felt that things made by hand have a life in them. That if you care to take the time to make something by hand, that it will last longer and be worth passing on. Living in Oakland the last five years has played a major role in building who I am, and what I make. I appreciate the life that people draw out of old, broken down buildings and discarded things. The way abandoned furniture and artifacts disappear in the night and trade places into other parts of the city, from one home to another. I try to do the same with the materials I am afforded. I am interested in the energy people invest- in raising their young, turning a house into a home, how they interact in their communities, and how what they do in life affects those around them. Everything is made up of pieces, stitched and interwoven. I work on paper because it is expendable to most people, often disregarded, and portable when all you have is a bicycle or feet to carry you. Taking something as ordinary as wood pulp or cloth and passing thread through it can make simple things beautiful or useful. I have always been attracted to things that age has worn because they have seen life already, and most of the time, are not ready to die. Everyone here is connected in some way, and everywhere else. I use found paper, collage, sculpture and fabric in the exploration of all this. Everything I make, my methods and materials, rely heavily on reuse, and the human capacity to adapt and grow through good, bad, and worse.

Ogi was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. After graduating high school, he decided to move to Denver, CO to study English and snowboard. He then moved to the Bay Area to attend California College of the Arts (formally known as CCAC - California College of Arts and Craft) where he studied illustration and graduated in 2004.

Ogi currently lives in Tokyo.

Deth P. Sun was born in Long Beach, California in 1979. He received his BFA in painting and drawing from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 2002. His work has been shown extensively through out the US and abroad. He currently resides in Oakland, California.

Australian design and art collective RINZEN is best known for the collaborative approach of its five members, forming in 2000 as a result of their visual and audio remix project, RMX.

RINZEN's work, created both individually and as a collective, covers a wide-range of styles and techniques, often featuring utopian alternate realities, bold, geometric designs or intricate, hand drawn studies.

The group's posters and album covers have been exhibited at the Louvre and their large scale artwork installed in Tokyo's Zero Gate and Copenhagen's Hotel Fox. They recently designed the inaugural issue of Paul Pope's Batman for DC Comics and graphics for a bicycle released by Japanese company, Bebike.

Members of the group are variously based in Sydney, Brisbane and Berlin.

Rinzen is:
Steve Alexander (Berlin), Rilla Alexander (Berlin), Adrian Clifford (Brisbane), Karl Maier (Sydney), Craig Redman (Sydney)

Jack Long grew up in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2002. Painting in oils on wood, his work shares a dream like palette with the Northern Renaissance painters Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Hieronymus Bosch . His paintings also draw heavily upon the tradition of storytelling, utilizng motifs and imagery found in mythology and fairytails.

Jack says "I feel like people think of their lives in this way, relating moments in their lives to fairytails or mythology. My paintings have grown out of this, they illustrate how deeply rooted in storytelling, mythology and mysticism our lives are."

After living in Providence, RI for many years, Jack recently moved to Los Angeles, CA. Aside from his fine art work, he is also at work on a Childrens Book project with his brother Rob.

Bio coming soon