Glenn Barr is one of Detroit's most celebrated and successful underground artists. His paintings have appeared in galleries from Seattle and San Francisco to New York City. Glenn's work has been featured in a variety of comics and graphic novels such as Mad, DC Comics and Paradox Press as well as in a series of self published books called HEEP. Barr's contribution to animation include background styling for The Ren and Stimpy Show, Bjork's I Miss You video and The New Woody Woodpecker Show. Barr's paintings have been reproduced in art journals like Juxtapoz, Erotica and Film Threat magazine.

As one critic penned, "Barr's work is the visual equivalent of a David Lynch film."

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Tim Biskup (b. Santa Monica, CA. 1967- ) is a Southern California fine artist whose work has been shown worldwide, including galleries and museums in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Kyoto, Barcelona, Berlin, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires and Melbourne.

Long recognized for his complex color and design theories and a decidedly populist aesthetic, Biskup has amassed a cadre of loyal fans and collectors. Recent years have seen the artist tend towards more complex, personal and conceptual work while maintaining a commitment to visual experimentation.

With a consistent output of original artwork, prints, sculptures, books and other editions, Tim Biskup has produced a body of work that extends into the far reaches of the art and design worlds.

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Scott Campbell’s pleasant little watercolor paintings have appeared in numerous shows and publications around the world, bringing merriment to everyone. His ongoing GREAT SHOWDOWNS painting series rests on the internet as well as his Double Fine Action Comics. He has created other award-winning comics such as “Igloo Head and Tree Head” for the Flight anthology and Hickee comics. At Double Fine Productions he has art directed such video games as 'Psychonauts' and 'Brutal Legend'. Scott lives in New York City where it is currently snowing.

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b. 1976 in Erie, Pennsylvania

Since earning her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1999, Casey's exhibited her paintings regionally and nationally and has had work reproduced in various publications such as New American Paintings, The New York Times and Juxtapoz magazine. Recently, she has been awarded with the 2009 Cleveland Arts Prize as an emerging artist, CPAC's Creative Workforce Fellowship program and an Ohio Arts Council summer residency at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Casey began making etchings while artist in residence at Zygote Press in Cleveland in 2006 and continues working at the cooperative print studio today. Represented by Zg Gallery in Chicago and Michael Rosenthal Gallery in San Francisco, she lives and works in a crooked little blue house in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Paul Chatem was born in 1974 in Bellevue, Washington, but grew up in La Crescenta on the outskirts of Los Angeles, CA. He spent most of his time hunting snakes and scorpions in the Tujunga Wash, exploring the ruins of forgotten ranches, shantytowns and asylums, and ducking punches at punk shows with his friends. Growing up in an environment where nature, history, and the impoverished were constantly being pushed aside to make room for golf courses and mini-malls, Paul has developed a keen talent for representing the rift between rich and poor, the working man and the boss man, in his surreal, often nightmarish, narrative paintings. In recent years, Paul has been using his carpentry skills to develop new and intriguing pieces that invite the gallery patron to interact with his work. By turning a crank which moves layers of wooden gears, the viewer has the opportunity to change the composition and drive the action of the narrative without the traditional barriers between art and the individual. Major influences in his creative life include Max Fleischer, E.C. Segar, Tom Waits, Charlie Patton, The Cramps, and his long-time friend Paul Hewitt. He has been honored to show his works at The Shooting Gallery in San Francisco, CoproNason, Black Maria, C.A.V.E., and dialect Galleries in Los Angeles, Feinkunst-Krueger Gallery in Germany, as well as numerous group shows in Europe and North America. Paul is currently hiding out in the fog-bound sierra foothills with his tortoises, the mud and the bugs.

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Born in 1960, James grew up in the woods in Indiana on Lake Michigan. A research scientist for 15 years, he switched to studying the art and science of film preservation in 1999. James is currently the Nitrate Film Curator and Curator/Preservationist of the David Lynch Collection at the Academy Film Archive. A life-long on/off amateur artist and photographer, he began a commitment to one drawing per day as a form of art therapy during treatment for mental illness following a nervous breakdown in 2010.

James has participated in several Guitar Craft courses beginning 25 years ago under the guidance of Robert Fripp of King Crimson, where he also learned how to meditate. He is now a strong believer, practitioner and pusher of Transcendental Meditation. James lives in Los Angeles with his wife Beth and 7 year-old daughter Sofie.

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Ryan Heshka was born in Brandon, Manitoba and raised in Winnipeg at the end of the "lo-tech" era. Drawing from early influences too numerous to list, he ended up working in the fields of interior design and animation before his current career as an illustrator. Represented in North America, Europe and Asia by Kate Larkworthy Artist Representation Ltd., he resides in downtown Vancouver.

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Stella Im Hultberg is a painter living and working in Brooklyn, NYC. Born in South Korea, raised in Seoul, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and later in California, she studied Industrial Design and worked as a product designer before serendipitously falling into the art world in late 2005.
When not painting or drawing, she likes to eat, ride her bicycle, and play the New York Times crossword puzzle.

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Jessica Joslin spent her early years wandering through the halls of natural history museums, enchanted with the exquisite Victorian-era taxidermy and osteological displays, with their brass fittings and gleaming wood. Inspired by these visits, she began to slowly acquire a collection of natural objects: shells, seedpods, feathers, bones, and assorted oddities. In 1992, she began building the first beasts of this menagerie, using objects from this collection.

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Alice Lodge is an Australian-born LA-based artist who loves a cup of black coffee.

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Chris Mars is a self-taught Minneapolis-based artist. Growing up in a family marked by mental illness, much of Mars’s work has served as an exploration of the issues surrounding the diagnosis, treatment, mistreatment and societal stigma associated with Schizophrenia, for which his eldest brother Joe was institutionalized when Chris was five years old. At the state run mental hospital in which Joe was confined, Chris witnessed firsthand and at a very early age the sad fact of mechanized and dehumanizing treatment. Today Mars, through his work, champions his brother and those like him. Empathy toward “the other” and “the outcast” continues to serve as the basis for his work, now frequently manifesting in broader political and societal themes of prejudice, exploitation, conviction and redemption.

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Los Angeles-born artist Elizabeth McGrath has always had an eye for the strange beauty in the grotesqueries of life; this appreciation is nowhere more evident than in her work. Inspired by the relationship between the natural world and the detritus of consumer culture, she brings forth a new cavalcade of creatures from the darker corners of the streets, the city, the imagination. It is this melancholy interaction between man-made status symbols and suffering specimens of nature that make up her intricate body of work.

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Margaret Meyer thought she'd be a veterinarian but somehow ended up an artist who sometimes works in stop-motion animation. Most recently she was lured to Portland, OR (where she still resides) by Laika Entertainment to design and fabricate costumes for the new Mr. Peanut commercials and the feature film, Coraline. In addition to that she worked in LA on the shows "The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack", "Robot Chicken" and "Morel Orel" for the Cartoon Network, doing everything from designing to building characters. Her actual start in the business came from working with Art Clokey (of Gumby fame) on a revival of "Davey and Goliath".

Margaret exhibits her paintings and sculptures here and there and her work is included in private collections throughout the US and as far away as Melbourne and Prague (where she once worked for peanuts painting marionettes sold to tourists on the Charles Bridge!). She likes to invite viewers to make up their own stories about her images.

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Home schooled in the rural, central California Coast, Brooke early on found escape and stimulation in imaginative visions and art. Her addiction to the bizarre, morbid and fantastical was apparent at a very young age. Isolated in her early life, surrounded by nature and art, her work displays an eerie, lonely, yet innocent story.

In her adult life, Brooke found identification and validation in punk rock and eclectic cultures, building a deeper bond with outsider art and the eccentric. Her vast collection of oddities began to accumulate, then morph into art pieces and dioramas.

Brooke’s pieces encompass the complexity of a fantasy world, while integrating the details of nature, resulting in meticulous and compulsive dioramas—both playful and dark. Each piece is unique and endless in its layers of detail. An element of mystery or an untold story seems to be thematic among all of her work. It is an endless journey discovering the hidden objects and designs in each of her sculptures.

Most of her work is unplanned and is purely driven by the moment; her process dictated by impulse and flow, doing what she can with the mediums she has on hand. Her pieces are mainly built from old taxidermy, found objects and almost all recycled material. Currently residing in Portland, Oregon, Brooke spends her days addictively gluing, sawing and sewing any one of her many projects.

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Eric’s approach to figuration is both beautiful and disturbing. Whether expressed blatantly or in a subtler manner, his work attempts to tap into those realities and dimensions that exist beyond the fringe of our perception. Referencing found imagery (often that of 40′s era Hollywood), his own photographs and his unpredictable imagination, he creates “paintings about films about dreams about the neighbors.” Painstakingly rendered with impeccable craftsmanship, White’s work often emulates the varying planes of focus and multiple exposure of the photographic process. This combination of themes and technique produces complex, refined environments that are at once multi-dimensional, two dimensional, perilous and inviting. Eric White was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1990. His work has been featured in numerous group shows as well as seven solo exhibitions including three at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles.

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Ashley Wood (b. 1971) was born in Australia, and now resides in Australia and The United States. He lives with his wife, his two sons, and one stinky cat. Ashley has been a professional illustrator for over ten years, and has worked for most major entertainment companies including Dreamworks SKG, Warner Bros., Random House, Marvel Comics, McFarlane Entertainment, IDW, and Konami.
His illustration technique is a combination of traditional painting techniques, coupled with digital photography and graphic software.

Currently Ashley divides his time between operating his entertainment company 7174 TYP LTD., creating properties for film, comics, books, and toys; and commercial projects including the Official Metal Gear Solid comic for IDW Publishing, and commissions from the advertising- and entertainment industry.

GLENN BARR

TIM BISKUP

SCOTT CAMPBELL

AMY CASEY

PAUL CHATEM

JAMES HAHN

RYAN HESHKA

STELLA IM HULTBERG

JESSICA JOSLIN

ALICE LODGE

CHRIS MARS

ELIZABETH McGRATH

MARGARET MEYER

BROOKE WESTON

ERIC WHITE

ASHLEY WOOD