Behind My Camera: 8x10: 2018 At 70, Kimberly-Ann is converting beaded necklaces into bracelets. She's also just finished entries for two simultaneous shows, and next on her radar is another Call & Response bookmaking project and a local art fair. Her work is eclectic and varied. She works in leather, semi-precious beads, on gourds, with many different types of paint, paper, and found objects, as well as photography. She's been creating art in one form or another since she can

Debra Varvi, resolving a mono print, 2024 At 69, Debra Varvi is working through her dead angels cathedral window series. She's more focused now, more disciplined. And she's still paying bills. There's an insistent energy in creativity. A restless energy that pushes and prods. It collects light, color, shadow, form, lines, ideas, songs, bits of poetry, imagery, random nonsense. It hoards these things in the back of the mind and plays with them constantly. This energy is only s

By Kristine Schomaker I'm watching a Zoom screen where a medical school auditorium at USC is showing a painting of a service dog wearing a medical alert vest, his human hooked up to an IV pole surrounded by pharmaceutical labels and pain scales. The dog's eyes are clear and calm. The human's body is deconstructed into medical diagrams - intestines visible, organs exposed, reduced to systems and symptoms. Ashley Bravin just got out of the hospital with sepsis a week ago. She g