I Think We Better Split Up. December 2nd — January 6th.

Press Release   |   Artist's Bios   |   Download Media Kit   |   Opening Photos

   

Artist Biographies

 

Miki Amano

Miki was born in 1979 and raised in Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Parsons School of Design in New York City with a BFA degree in IIllustration. Miki’s textiles have been distributed worldwide in stores such as Spiral, Journal Stadard, Mitshukoshi (Japan), Harvey Nicholas (UK), Biffi (Italy), Fred Segal, and Calypso (USA). Her fashion illustrations have been published in several magazines including Jane, Bust, Cosmo Girl and YM. Her editorial work has been comissioned by Random House, Gakken, Poketo, Executive Update and others.

mikiamano.com     |     back to top

 

Taku Anekawa

Taku Anekawa, born in 1970, lives and works as an artist in Japan. He won the Best Award for the Sony Digital Entertainment Program in 1996, and he is currently the art director with design company, Kanikapila

anekawa.com     |     back to top

 

John Casey

John Casey is a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art. Several years ago he relocated to the Bay Area with his lovely wife Mary, where he is proud to be an Oakland resident.

www.bunnywax.com     |     back to top

 

Mark Todd and Esther Pearl Watson

estherwatson.com     |     marktoddillustration.com     |     back to top

 

Susie Ghahremani

Susie Ghahremani is an illustrator, musician, and stuff maker who just moved to California. She went to the Rhode School of Design and loves ice cream and her finches

boygirlparty.com     |     back to top

 

Tim Gough

Tim Gough is a illustrator/designer based in Philadelphia, PA. In between a 9 to 5 and sleep he is usually drawing, wearing flip flops, and trying to convince his girlfriend that he is allergic to cats. Tim publishes a limited edition zine called 'Cut and Paste' a collection of drawings and things.

timgough.org     |     back to top

 

Stella Im Hultberg

Stella is an artist living in New York City. When she’s not drawing or painting, she likes to explore new nooks in the city; search for the perfect cupcake; and sit anywhere and watch people go about their lives.

stellaimhultberg.com     |     back to top

 

Caitlin Keegan

Caitlin Keegan is a designer, an illustrator, and generally just likes making things. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with a collection of model hands and a tiny dachshund.

caitlinkeegan.com     |     back to top

 

Aya Kondo

Kondo was born in 1978 in the Chiba Prefecture of Japan. Her horoscope sign is Virgo and her blood type is AB. Aya’s birthday falls on the same day as Queen’s Freddy Mercury and Shiro Munakata. Her main art form is woodcarving and her work is strongly influenced by rock music. Her work strikes a chord with the Japanese urban youth.

kick-n-roll.com     |     back to top

 

Kazumo

Tomomi Kazumoto (Kazumo) is a silk-screen artist. She uses cute accents and pop colors to create scenes from a made-up fairy tale. She is currently working with Comme des Garcons and lives in Tokyo, Japan

kazmo100.com     |     back to top

 

Frank McCauley

The paintings of Frank McCauley investigate the distortions of language and logic, by looking at ways in which technology can influence perception. They do this by exploring instinct and irrational comprehension. When he takes the everyday person as his subject it is put through a process in which its features are distorted, suppressed, or intensified in the service of expressing something beneath or behind the observable surface. That is, something that is best implied in the slippage between the recognizable and what is unexplained or mysterious. Frank McCauley currently lives and works in central New York where he is pursuing an MFA in Painting. He is also the director of Spark Contemporary Art Space.

frankmccauley.com     |     back to top

 

Ogi

Ogi is a painter and illustrator born in Japan. He exhibits internationally, moving between two bases in Oakland and Tokyo.

ogigraphics.com     |     back to top

 

Eamon Ore-Giron

My name is Eamon Ore-Giron, I live in Los Angeles. These pieces are small fetishes, contemplations, examples of passing the time away. I find comfort in painting and drawing.

back to top

 

Nick Paparone

Nick Paparone was born in Stuttgart Germany in 1980. He received his BFA in 2002 from the Art Academy of Cincinnati . Currently, he is living and working in Philadelphia as an artist, a designer and curator of Black floor Gallery of which he is a co-founder.

printliberation.com     |     back to top

 

Nathalie Roland

Nathalie Roland has been printmaking since 1992. She shares a wood chip littered San Francisco treehouse full of records with a benevolent cat and a man called MC Rice Dream.

mochicat.org     |     back to top

 

Casey Jex Smith

Casey Jex Smith graduated in 2003 from Brigham Young University with a BFA in painting and in 2005, received an MFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. He now works and resides in the East Bay where rent is more cheap.

caseyjexsmith.com     |     back to top

 

Ryan Jacob Smith

Ryan Jacob Smith lives in Portland, Oregon where he enjoys collecting old science books and ephemera from thrift stores, skateboarding and buying records. He was raised in Orange County where he passed his early days rock collecting, bmx riding, skating and cub scouting. He graduated, with honors, from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California (2001). His narrative work explores themes ranging from the earth and its environment to consciousness, the human body, survival and hurt and healing. Incorporating the traditions of illustration, painting, and collage, his work is a mingling of intention and improvisation. His innovative pieces bear the marks of their own history; fragments, mistakes and unconscious marks are incorporated into the composition such that each work represents an honest account of its own development. Combining acrylics, spray paint, silk-screen and graphite, Ryan's work is as much informed by the street culture of his youth as his formal fine art training.
-Jennifer Armbrust of Motel Gallery

ryanjacobsmith.com     |     back to top

 

Steve Smith

Steve Smith is proof that an adolescence diet should consist of more then comic books, punk rock, and cheap beer. Now hes all grown up, and his life is a shambles. There was an art school education in there somewhere too, but that’s neither here nor there.

drunkingham.com     |     back to top

 

Hannah Stouffer

San Francisco-based illustrator and designer Hannah Stouffer constantly strives to define the term “classic” and explores how it relates to our modern attractions. She draws inspiration from traditional notions of luxury and elegance, and engages them as the basis for her work. Her self-taught design sense and style of illustration, combined with her themes of Victorian imagery, royalty and pop culture, distinguish her as a definition of classic contemporary.

grandarray.com     |     back to top

 

Nakao Teppei

Teppei was born in 1975 in Osaka, Japan. He graduated from Osaka University of the Arts, did a stint in an advertisement company, then entered and graduated from the specialty school, Setsu Mode Seminar. Since graduating, he has worked as a freelance illustrator. He works all year; 24 hours a day, seven days a week. His motto is, “NO ILLUSTRATION NO LIFE!”

nakao-teppei.com     |     back to top

 

Paul Urich

Born in South Carolina, 1974, lives and works in San Francisco

receivergallery.com/artists/paulurich.php     |     back to top

Opening Photos

back to top

Artists

• » Miki Amano
• » Taku Anekawa
• » John Casey
• » Mark Todd and Esther Pearl Watson
• » Susie Ghahremani
• » Tim Gough
• » Stella Im Hultberg
• » Caitlin Keegan
• » Aya Kondo
• » Kazumo
• » Frank McCauley
• » Ogi
• » Eamon Ore-Giron
• » Nick Paparone
• » Nathalie Roland
• » Casey Jex Smith
• » Ryan Jacob Smith
• » Steve Smith
• » Hannah Stouffer
• » Nakao Teppei
• » Paul Urich

Featured Artists

Click for Art + + + + + + + + + + + + + Caitlin Keegan Chris Pew Hannah Stouffer Henry Lewis Jake Watling James Gibson Kelly Tunstall Matt Furie Maya Hayuk Ogi Paul Urich Ryan Jacob Smith Veronica De Jesus

© Since 2005 Receiver | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy