GUTTED: LACE’s Annual Winter Benefit

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

JUAN MARTIN DEL CAMPO JR. has been using the medium of stained glass to release his creative demons for the past 7 years. He is a native Angeleno who finds inspiration for his work in the world of pornography, humor, and design. He also co-owns San Francisco’s premiere queer punk label Cochon Records.
www.mysecretlifeinglass.comMICHA CÁRDENAS/AZDEL SLADE

is a transgender artist, theorist and trickster. She is a Lecturer in the Visual Arts department at UCSD, and an Artist/Researcher in the Experimental Game Lab at CRCA and the b.a.n.g. lab at Calit2. Her interests include the interplay of technology, gender, sex and biopolitics. She holds an MFA from the University of California San Diego, an MA in Media and Communications with distinction from the European Graduate School and a BS in Computer Science from Florida International University. She has exhibited and performed in Los Angeles, San Diego, Tijuana, New York, San Francisco, Montreal, Egypt, Ecuador, Spain, Dublin and many other places.
www.transreal.org

XUANITO CARLOS ESPINOZA CUELLAR is a third world xueer/ista, mexican@, xingon/a!, activista, izquierdista, radical, proud GORDA! intelectuala, estudiante, poeta y puta. a xueer who believes in social justice, a pansexual jot@ que believes that poetry has the potential to revolutionize the world, cada palabra is a spark of consciousness, cada poema una transformacion profunda.  Xuanito’s vision includes reclaiming art from and to the margins, dignifying our forms of expression and use laughter to fight oppression and exploitation and keeping the queer xueer.

MARIEL CARRANZA came to the United States from Lima, Perú when she was eighteen years old. Treating her body as material, Carranza works to detach from physical limitations. Surrendering to the course the materials take when left unfixed, her sculptural works challenge the notion of time limitations. Notable performances include “Lemon Piece” at Performance Art Happening, “Full Nelson” at Del Mar Theater, and “Corners”, in which she was confined within the Crazy Space Gallery for nine days, fasting and making the performance space fit her frame of mind by eliminating or altering its corners. She received her MFA from UCLA.
www.marielcarranza.comHEATHER CASSILS

is an artist, stunt person and body builder who uses her exaggerated physique to undermine and interrogate systems of power and control. Often employing many of the same strategies used by FLUXUS and guerrilla theater, her multidisciplinary method crosses a spectrum of performance, film, drawing, video, photography and event planning. She is a founding member of the Los Angeles based performance group the Toxic Titties. Her work is a response to the industrial production of images and the Los Angeles mass culture of consumption. She has exhibited at the White Chapel and Thomas Danes gallery in London, Manifesta, Schnitt Ausstellungsraum, Edith Ruß Site for Media Art in Germany, LGBT film festival in Paris, France, the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwigin Vienna, Austria, MUCA Roma and International Festival, Ex-Teresa Arte Actual in Mexico City, and Art in General in NYC.
www.cassils.wordpress.com

MARCUS CIVIN’s text-and-prop-based performances explore the relationships between the body and resourcefulness, as he balances props that are wobbly and well-handled, deliberately plucked from silent film and the detritus of modern California. Civin earned an MFA in Studio Art from University of California, Irvine, and a BA in Theater from Brown University. Marcus lives in Los Angeles, teaches, and writes for artslant.com. He recently exhibited his work at Am Nuden Da in London, compactspace and LAXART in Los Angeles.
Read about his work here: http://anathematas.blogspot.com/2009/02/blog-post_08.html

ALICE CUNT is a Los Angeles-based antenna to the planet Fabelhaft who works and plays in the realm of performance and multimedia art, which has been featured in various nightclub and gallery venues.
www.myspace.com/alicecuntMONICA DUNCAN

grew up in Webster, New York around the apple orchards of Lake Ontario, the industry of Kodak and the tales of the Rochester Knockings. Her time-based and sculptural work investigates the nature of visual and temporal perception through camouflage, stillness and the surrogate body. She is interested in the site of the seam, a space for the erotic and everyday. Her work has been exhibited at the 11th LA Freewaves Festival, Los Angeles; BS1 Contemporary Art, Beijing, China; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; LACMA, Los Angeles; Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia and forthcoming La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain. Duncan received her BFA at NYSCC at Alfred University and is currently a graduate student in the Visual Arts Department at University of California, San Diego.
www.monicaduncan.net

RAFAEL ESPARZA / GRONK / JOSSELINE BLACK / OSCAR “SISTER MANTOS” SANTOS  Per invitation by Rafael Esparza the multi-disciplinary collective fuses a variety of artistic expressions ranging from dance to music, painting and conceptual performance. Josseline Black is a dancer and choreographer working with the notion of dance as a medium to invite human intimacy with the divine, the universal. She has trained principally in the forms of ballet and modern dance and continues to uncover the emergence of the subconscious when engaging in improvisation. She is interested in the banter between the corpus that is space, the value systems living in the dancer’s body, and the psyche of the viewer in a performative event. Oscar ‘Sister Mantos’ Santos is an active and hyper-active proponent of underground experimental dance music. His high-energy performances and embrace of fractured beats often belie his thorough grounding as a trained artist and historian in installation, sculpture and performance art, in LA’s ever-resplendent queer counterculture. Gronk is a founding member of ASCO-a multi-media arts collective in the 1970’s. Influenced by European film, existentialism, and literature, Gronk, and his cohorts as an early teenager made “Movies without Film”, via performing farcical “happenings” on the streets of his native east L.A. His current works reflect his affinity for ephemera in his murals painted with the intention of their being white-washed subsequently. Rafael Esparza is an artist/student investigating the body as it relates to space and identity in the vastness of what is Los Angeles. His experience in practicing Native Mexica rituals with his current training as an art student inform his ideas of body and border cultures, helping him to produce a multi-layered conflux of historical and contemporary aesthetics that further the ambiguity of notions regarding identity amongst “border” inhabitants.
www.myspace.com/gronkie
www.myspace.com/sistermantos

ABOUT THE CURATOR

DINO DINCO was raised by a family of fighting chickens in rural Pennsylvania before moving to Los Angeles as a child. He is a photographer, filmmaker and artist. His photographic work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Paris (2005, 2001), Los Angeles (2001), and San Francisco (2009, 2004), as well as in group shows in London, Paris, Antwerp, Hasselt (Belgium), New York and Hamburg. Selections from his series “Chico” were featured at Salon Paris Photo at The Louvre, Paris (2001 – 2002). His work has appeared in publications such as surface (US), i-D (UK), Dutch (France), Revista Espacio (Mexico), V (US), Vogue Brasil (Brazil), Tokion (Japan), BIG (US), Studio Voice (Japan), Zoo (France) and BUTT (Holland). His short film, “El Abuelo,” premiered at the Tate Modern in London, May 2008, and has since screened at the 2008 Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival and the 2008 Three Rivers Film Festival, where it won in the Top 3 in the Short Film Competition.
www.dinodinco.com

Additional support for GUTTED is provided by the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts.