Distinguished Visitors

Current Visitors	Past Visitors

Artists, Critics and Designers \| Fashion Mentors	Artists and Designers \| Critics \| Fashion Mentors

Visiting Critic

Diedrich Deiderichsen, 2012 Visiting Critic in Fine Arts

Diedrich Diederichsen (b. 1957, Hamburg) is a German author, journalist, cultural critic, and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. His articles and texts have been printed in a variety of periodicals and publications including Texte zur Kunst, Die Zeit, die tageszeitung, Der Tagesspiegel, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Theater heute, Artscribe, Artforum, and Frieze. He will present a public lecture at LACMA on Nov. 8 entitled “OUR KIND OF VENUE - SUBCULTURES, INSTITUTIONS, AND HISTORIOGRAPHY.”

Visiting Designer

Shashi Caan, 2013 Donghia Designer

Shashi Caan, 2013 Donghia Designer in Residence, will teach a master class to Architecture/Landscape/Interiors students, and present a public lecture on March 13. Born in India, educated in Scotland and N.Y., Caan promotes green materials and products in her work, including “Fractalis,” the environmentally friendly architectural finishing product developed for an Italian company. She is founding principal of The Collective US/UK and the President of the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers.

Visiting Artist

Jeff Guess, 2012 Visiting Artist in Graduate Fine Arts

Paris-based artist Jeff Guess was guest artist in Graduate Fine Arts in November. His residency was partly supported by Ceci n’est pas… a project initiated by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S. in association with the Institut Français, with the support of the Alliance Française of L.A.

http://www.guess.fr

Visiting Filmmaker

Brad Pruitt, 2013 Visiting Artist in Graduate Public Practice

The Emmy Award-winning, Milwaukee-based filmmaker Brad Pruitt will be artist-in-residence in Graduate Public Practice from January-April 2013. Pruitt's documentaries explore issues such as gun violence and new approaches to public education, finding new voices and ideas to help develop solutions for seemingly intractable challenges. He will co-teach a course on education, community engagement and the value of social change work by artists. in collaboration with Watts House Project and MKE<->LAX, he will present two free public screenings in Culver City and Watts. Otis faculty member and director of MKE<->LAX, Sara Daleiden, will lead discussions following the screenings.

Bending Towards the Light:February 2 at 7PM, Otis Grad Studios, 10455 W Jefferson Blvd, Culver City 90232

Mark my Words: March 7, 7 PM, Watts House Projects, 1726 E. 107th St, Los Angeles, 90002

Visiting Artist

A.L. Steiner, Visiting Artist and Curator in Fine Arts

A.L. Steiner, who has been described as “a skeptical queer ecofeminist androgyne hustling as a cultural worker in a late-capitalistic economy,” creates politically charged, provocative photographs, videos, and collages. Often drawing on feminist and queer themes, she is perhaps best known for her 69 minute “sociosexual” film, Community Action Center, made in collaboration with artist A.K. Burns. In addition to her individual art practice, Steiner is involved with several collaborative activities, including the band Chicks on Speed, the curatorial partnership Ridykeulous (with painter Nicole Eisenman), and the organization WAGE (Working Artists in the Greater Economy), which she co-founded. Her work has been exhibited at venues including the Tate Modern, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Sofia, the New Museum, MoMA PS1, and the Centre Pompidou.

Visiting Critic

Joshua Clover, Visiting Poet and Critic in Fine Arts

Joshua Clover is a poet, critic, journalist and author. He has appeared in three editions of Best American Poetry, is a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize, and recipient of an individual grant from the NEA; his first book of poetry, Madonna anno domini, received the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. A graduate of Boston University and the Iowa Writer's Workshop, Clover is a Professor of English Literature and Critical Theory at the University of California, Davis, and was the distinguished Holloway poet-in-residence at the University of California, Berkeley in 2002-2003.

Visiting Artist

David Ratcliff, Visiting Artist in Fine Arts

David Ratcliff uses appropriated digital imagery in his large-scale paintings. He received his BA from Pratt Institute. He has had solo exhibitions in N.Y., Brussels, Tokyo, Kyoto, L.A., and London, and his work is included in the Jumex Collection, LACMA, and Saatchi Collection. He lives and works in L.A.

Visiting Artist

Delia Brown, Visiting Artist Fine Arts

Delia Brown is an L.A. based artist. Her work explores desire as an individuated experience that connects the personal to the collective unconscious, often mediated through advertising and commercial culture. Referencing early bourgeois painting genres, she paints herself and friends enacting their own fantasies of being part of the leisure class, with props from snacks and beverages to million-dollar artworks. She received her BA from UC Santa Cruz and her MFA from UCLA. She has had solo exhibitions in N.Y., L.A., Seoul, Venice, Paris and Athens. Her work is in the collections of the Seattle Art Museum and the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive. Brown lives and works in L.A.

Visiting Artist

Erik Frydenborg, Visiting Artist in Fine Arts

Erik Frydenborg merges elements of collage, sculpture, and display architecture to construct his installations. He received his BA from Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA from UCLA. He has had solo exhibitions in L.A., Chicago and Baltimore.He lives and works in L.A.

Visiting Artist

Liz Glynn, Visiting Artist Fine Arts

Liz Glynn employs objects and actions to consider the ambition of empire, the pleasure of ruin, and the possibility of a new way forward. Her practice seeks to embody dynamic cycles of growth and decay by creating works which evidence process, encourage participation, and incite future action. Her work has been exhibited across the United States at venues including at LACMA, MOCA/Los Angeles, Armand Hammer Museum, LACE, Machine Project, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, the REDCAT Lounge, Paula Cooper Gallery, John Connolly Presents, and the New Museum in New York City. Reviews of Glynn’s work have appeared in the Los Angeles Times Art Lies, among others. She has attended residencies at O'Artoteca in Milan, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. Glynn received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts, and her BA from Harvard College. She is the recipient of a Fellowship for Visual Artists from The California Community Foundation.

Visiting Artist

Erlea Maneros Zabala, Visiting Artist Fine Arts

Erlea Maneros Zabala is a mixed media artist, creating wall paintings, drawings and image-based work in which the material processes intersect with museological and news media sources. The artist has exhibited extensively internationally, including at Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; Carreras Múgica, Bilbao, Basque Country; Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles; and Seamen's Art Club, Hamburg, Germany. She will have a solo show at the Guggenheim Bilbao in 2013; and is in the collections of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia and the Glasgow School of Art. Zabala received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts and lives in LA.

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