curators

Manifest Destiny

Kathleen Clark

Kathleen Clark co-directed Clark | Oshin Gallery in Los Angeles and was the longtime Photo Director of Los Angeles Magazine and LA Weekly.  She is currently working on a variety of projects in addition to independent curating, including publication of her photography blog http://kathleenclarkexposed.wordpress.com, development of a documentary photography series for television and reviewing portfolios for Eyeist.com.  She serves as a portfolio reviewer for Review Santa Fe, Review LA, Foto Fest – Meeting Place Houston, Palm Springs Photo Festival, Art Center College of Design, The Lucie Foundation’s Fresh Look, and Julia Dean Photo Workshops.

Redefining Hollywood

Aline Smithson

After a career as a New York Fashion Editor and working along side the greats of fashion photography, Aline Smithson discovered the family Rolleiflex and never looked back. Now represented by galleries across the country and published throughout the world, Ms. Smithson continues to create her award-winning photography with humor, compassion, and a 50-year-old camera. Her work has been featured in numerous publications including the PDN Photo Annual, Communication Arts Photo Annual, Eyemazing, Artworks, Lenswork Extended, Shots, Pozytyw, and Silvershotz magazines. She has exhibited widely including solo shows at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Boston, the Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art in Colorado, and Wallspace Gallery in Seattle. Ms. Smithson has been the Gallery Editor for Light Leaks Magazine, writes and edits the blog, Lenscratch, is a contributing writer for Diffusion, LightLeaks and F Stop Magazines, writes book reviews for photoeye, and has been curating exhibitions for a number of galleries and on-line magazines. She was nominated for The Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award in 2008, 2009, and 2010 and for The Santa Fe Prize in Photography in 2009 by the Santa Fe Center of Photography. She was a 2009 and 2010 juror for Critical Mass, and a reviewer at Review LA in 2010 and 2011. She lives in Los Angeles.

J. Wesley Brown

J. Wesley Brown is a photographer based in Los Angeles, CA. He has lived in various cities throughout the United States, as well as in Sydney, Buenos Aires and most recently, Madrid. Wesley’s work explores isolation and loneliness, feelings each of us experiences and which are often heightened in the darkness of night, where he does most of his work. The locations in his s photographs are portrayed as he finds them, shot using only the ambient light that exists naturally or by man’s intervention, but not his own. Work from his Semblances series has been shown as part of PhotoEspaña Madrid and at the Carmel Art & Film Festival in October.  He was recently selected as one of the top 30 emerging American photographers to watch in 2009 by the Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward Competition. Wesley writes and edits the blog, We Can Shoot Too, focusing on photography in Los Angeles and is represented by MadridModern Gallery.