Space, Time | Repeat

Artist Bio

Max King Cap is a visual artist from Chicago who now lives in Los Angeles. His work has been seen in galleries and museums in Vienna, New York, Stuttgart and numerous other cities in Europe and the US. He is also a writer whose work has appeared in The Racial Imaginary, The Puritan, Threepenny Review, Shenandoah, and Hippocampus. He earned his MFA from the University of Chicago, his doctorate from the University of Southern California, and has taught at Columbia College Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology, and Pitzer College.

Artist Statement

NLB stands for Negro Leagues Baseball. There were many leagues. Often unsteady ventures that followed the warm weather and the patronage of a smaller segment of the population, they were founded, collapsed, merged, changed names, and transferred cities. Yet their shoestring budgets and changeable rosters managed to create a brand of segregated baseball that was equal and often superior to major league baseball, to White segregated baseball.

These painted abstractions are based on photographs and uniforms of the teams that made up the Negro Leagues. Their variation parallels the often inconsistent record keeping (statisticians cost money that these teams often couldn’t spare) that has produced a historical record of Negro Leagues Baseball that is often constructed substantially of word of mouth, faltering memories, and fable.

Website: https://maxkingcap.com/home.html

Artist Bio

Carole grew up in Southern California with a family tradition of musical excellence, playing piano by age five, but her primary interest was always visual arts. An avid traveller, she lived in many US cities as well as London, England; always seeking out art museums and galleries. After a lifetime of supporting the arts, continuous studies in art and a twenty-year banking career she decided to pursue her passion in visual arts on a traditional academic level by enrolling at Laguna College of Art + Design.

Artist Statement

This series of paintings is inspired by the tension between Nature and today’s consumer society. Our insistence on paving paradise* intrudes into the most benign scenes.

Website: https://www.caroledaley.com

Artist Bio

Mark Leysen has a BA and MA from California State University, Fullerton. He has lectured and taught studio art at CSUF, University Cal State Long Beach, Irvine Valley College, Santiago Canyon College and Santa Ana College.

His art has been exhibited throughout California and Mexico in various group and one-person exhibitions, including; the UCLA Hammer Museum, the San Bernardino Museum, the Laguna Art Museum, Orange County Museum of Art, Chapman University, Museo de Arte in Queretaro, Mexico, Long Beach Museum of Art, Irvine Fine Art Center, California State University at Fullerton, the Los Angeles County Museum ARS Gallery, Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana and Orange County Center for Contemporary Art.

Website: https://markleysen.com

Artist Bio

• MFA, Painting and Drawing, Ohio University
• BA, Painting and Printmaking Humboldt State

Don Ray McKinney was born in Chicago in 1950 and has resided on the West Coast of the United States for most of his adult life. He has been an active artist for over 50 years and has created works in several medias including paint-ing, drawing, printmaking and sculpture. Over his long career in the arts, Mr. McKinney has participated in dozens of solos and hundreds of group exhibitions. He has also been honored with exhibiting work in several American and international museums. Don has taught or lectured at numerous universities and colleges both internationally and nationally, he is currently teaching art in Southern California.

Artist Statement

My work begins with the use of intuitive line drawings, which are created as a daily ritual. They are stored for years and readily available as a reference. My recent paintings have emerged from groupings and manipulations of these drawings. Thus, bringing together related thoughts, movements, and expressions that can evolve over a period of many years. It is only then that scale and material become a factor. I create several series of works with different mediums, simultaneously, and they ranged from twelve by twelve feet to three by three inches.

Website: https://www.facebook.com/DonRayMcKinney

Artist Bio

A native Californian, Ron & his wife Birgitta have lived & worked in Corona del Mar, California for the past 58 years. His CdM architectural practice has consisted primarily of cultural/recreational projects along with outstanding custom home designs. He is now 95% retired and has converted his architectural office into an ART Studio.

Ron has always had an interest in Art and feels that art cannot be separated from architecture, landscape, city planning and nature. He was chairman of the Newport Beach Arts Committee from 1970 to 1972 and President of the Orange County Arts Alliance in 1980-81.

Ron is an admitted "collector" & can’t stand tossing anything away. He is probably best known for saving left over ceramic tile from his various building projects and re-using them in a variety of public rest room projects.

He enjoys making a variety of items out of leftover stuff. Recently he has developed a series of interesting ART projects out of re-cycled bottle caps, tossed out used items and abandoned "beach treasures"

Website: https://www.yeocapart.com