Roll Call Part One

China Adams got scooped up by ACE from the LA undergrad program after performing a categorical gesture by eating a bit of a donor friend's flesh (and notarizing the act) thus rendering herself a "cannibal." Her subsequent career has been full of surprises - for MCPlexM01, Adams composed, reproduced and signed a set of 10 poems in an edition of 50 for public distribution -- held down by an elephant paperweight on an elegant pedestal. One Night Only Poet is Adams' latest -- and a pronouncedly candid and ironic -- engagement with the art-gallery going public.



Suzanne Adelman & Keith Walsh’s collaborative experimental narrative photograph (compressed here for blogtastification – apologies to the artists; it is normally an entirely linear sequence of images, as you will see by clicking on this link) Gran Turismo White Hole Sceptre Cosmos (2010) oscillates between the historical-looking sketches for an abstract geometrical form (presumably a sculpture), off-kilter blurry, double exposed images of light fixtures and architectural details, and the Void.


The multi-faceted artist Michael Arata was behind one of the inspirations for the MCPlexM01 - the legendary semi-guerrilla One Night Stand shows at LA's Farmer's Daughter Motel (and elsewhere) that articulated the lunatic fringe of the local art scene in the mid-90s. For MCPlexM01 he revived and modified one of his classic works of transactional aesthetics, trading freshly BBQ'd hot dogs (served on buns branded with his signature, as above [see below]) for original drawings, which were then mounted on the entrance wall of the gallery. Photo by Arata of Hollywood.

Josh Aster & Kristin Calabrese

George Budd

Ryan Callis

Caroline Clerc

Christian Cummings

Adrian de la Pena

Walpa d’Mark

Georganne Deen

Joe Deutch

Mark X. Farina

Gerry Fialka


Eamon Fox

Jill Giegerich & Mischa Mandel-Giegerich

Phyllis Green

Daniel Hawkins

Homegrown Evolution

The Keith Walsh Experience

Maya Lujan

Tina Marrin

Dr. Carl Nordstrom, M.D.

Mary Anna Pomonis

Hector Romero

Michael Q. Schmidt


Lily Simonson

Brad Spence


Laurie Steelink

Jim Sullivan

Young Summers


Don Suggs with Linda Stark

Greta Svalberg

Lee Tyler Thompson

Esther Pearl Watson

Aaron Wrinkle