Artist's Biography

Peter Harkawik studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Skowhegan, ME and received his BA in Critical Theory at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA. His work has been exhibited at galleries and art spaces including Kara Walker Studio, New York; Annie Wharton LA, Los Angeles; Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami; Space 1520, Los Angeles; Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles; Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; and the Yale University School of Art, among others. He was a visiting artisting at the Maryland Institute College of Art; and recipient of the Skowhegan Fellowship as well as a FICOM Summer Study Grant.Peter Harkawik studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Skowhegan, ME and received his BA in Critical Theory at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA. His work has been exhibited at galleries and art spaces including Kara Walker Studio, New York; Annie Wharton LA, Los Angeles; Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami; Space 1520, Los Angeles; Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles; Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; and the Yale University School of Art, among others. He was a visiting artisting at the Maryland Institute College of Art; and recipient of the Skowhegan Fellowship as well as a FICOM Summer Study Grant.

Curator's Biography

Brian Bress is a Los Angeles-based artist and filmmaker. Born in Norfolk, VA, in 1975, Brian received his BFA from RISD and his MFA from UCLA. Recent solo exhibitions include Interventions: Brian Bress, Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Brian Bress: Status Report, New Museum, New York; and Brian Bress: Under Performing, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles. Recent group exhibitions include Future Present: Five Artists, Five Weeks, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin; Stagecraft, curated by David Norr, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum; Object Orientation: Bodies and/as Things, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA; and Staff Curated Video Show, LA><Art, Los Angeles.