Our mentor pool is evolving and growing constantly. They are the professionals and teachers who believe in our method of education in the field of visual arts, philosophy, science, and litrature.
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Joe Ceballos is a creative director, digital game designer, and painter. He has extensive experience working as a key creator in the leading companies in the field such as Industrial Light and Magic, Epic Games, and Riot Games. His work in filmography spanning 17 years includes The Hunger Games, Captain America, Iron Man and Mission Impossible III, and many more.
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Sunook Park is a designer and strategist in the field of cross-cultural branding. In addition to his work as a professor of graphic design at CSULB, he maintains a professional practice in both commercial and nonprofit sectors through Sunookpark Branding a subsidiary of his company, ANDLAB and Associates, Los Angeles. He has worked as a consultant for many international companies, including Samsung, Hyundai, Jinro, Nongshim, Speedo, Nike, Anta, and the South Korean Ministry of Agriculture.
His class at CSULB, Graphic Design Workshop, ART420, is a professional design studio course that provides students with direct, hands-on working experience with clients such as Disney, Hallmark, BENEV and Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. ART420 is offered at the Long Beach campus during the Spring and Fall semesters, and in Seoul during the Summer semester.
ANDLAB has also served as a vital community art platform, curating local and global art exhibitions for the last two decades. Through this venue, Park has organized over 60 solo and group exhibitions, spanning from genres of contemporary art to illustration, photography, sculpture, painting, drawing, and installations, involving over 500 hundred emerging and established artists. He curated and produced Movements Seeking Balance during the COVID-19 pandemic, a virtual and onsite exhibition that hosted eight contemporary Korean artists at the Muckenthaler Cultural Center in Orange County, California.
Through his consulting work with the South Korean Government’s Ministry of Agriculture, he focuses on bringing much-deserved international acknowledgment and focus to traditional Korean alcoholic beverages as healthy and sustainable foods with great cultural significance. In 2019, he wrote a book, Korea Suul Branding, and organized a series of International Suul Conferences in Seoul. Further, working with the Korea Suul Institute, his organization, California Suul Institute (suulca.org), based in Los Angeles, California, works to develop Suul as a global family-to-family tradition and a pillar of food culture awareness and environmental consciousness.
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Caley O’Dwyer is a practicing psychotherapist, creative writing teacher, poet, and painter. He is the author of Full Nova, a book of poetry, and has written many poems in journals, including Sentience Literary Magazine, Levure Litteraire, and Live Encounters. Caley will be mentoring in the creative writing area and psychology for ANDLAB-Edu.
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Eric is often described as the most important second-generation Finish Fetish or even Light and Space artist. He is, but he is more than that. In his work, he unites two traditions in Southern California art: the one based on the use of perfectly finished twentieth century technology and materials, and – underneath – the one based on the old tradition of woodworking. This combination sets Eric’s work apart from any other artist associated with these two tendencies. And, at the outset, his work has a rich complexity just in terms of materials. At times, the wood structure – on which Eric applies layers of color impregnated and clear resin – declares itself. Almost always, the wood structure is just visible under Eric’s perfectly crafted surfaces.
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Anita Bunn received a BA in Fine Art from Trinity University, a BFA in Photography from Art Center College of Design, and an MFA in Photography from Claremont Graduate University. She is currently Adjunct faculty at several local colleges and universities, teaching black and white darkroom photography, digital photography, digital imaging, and studio lighting for photography. Anita exhibited locally with Offramp Gallery (recently closed) and regularly participates in group exhibitions and with local artist-run spaces. She shows her work both nationally and internationally, and is in many public and private collections, including the Wallace Annenberg Department of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Scripps College, and the Capital Group, Los Angeles.
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Marsha Judd is a ceramic sculptor in Southern California. Her works are represented in museums and corporate and private collections throughout the world, and are renowned for their reflective surfaces and contemplative qualities. Judd subtly evokes the tenderness of the relationships closest to her through her use of form and the burnished surface. Marsha Judd was born in Los Angeles, CA. Marsha holds a Bachelor of Arts from California State University, Fullerton (CSUF), Fullerton, California. She uses clay as her primary medium of expression.
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Kristan Marvell’s sculptures derive from a technique, which he developed and has worked with over the last twenty years, that he calls spontaneous carving. His bronze sculptures begin as monolithic chunks of Styrofoam. As a stone carver has marble, Marvell has Styrofoam. The sculptures evolve as Marvell pulls and manipulates large hot wires through massive blocks of Styrofoam. This process allows for the improvisational removal of material and produces a unique visual vocabulary. Also, Styrofoam, a material devoid of sensuality, an industrial emblem, is in a sense corrected and made sensual as it progresses towards its transformation into bronze.
Through this visual vocabulary, Marvell explores the confrontation between the natural, the organic, and man’s manipulation and reconstruction of the world.
On the most obvious level, the natural landscape is used as a point of inspiration, a visual ode to the raw power of its geological beauty. The work acknowledges and utilizes nature’s ability to elicit emotional transcendence. However, the sculptures are not replicas of natural formations. As a sculptor, Marvell, is interested in thematic or formalist concepts such as the relationship between mass and density, or volume and spatial balance. He likes the enigma of creating sculptures where mass is levitated in unusual ways, where unknowing fragility is able to bear great weight. By way of modernist formal concerns, the work references the concept of man’s transformation of nature through the intellectual event of manipulation.
As the eye wanders the sculptural planes, there is a sparseness, a focused control of surface and texture, in which the hand of the artist is evident. In that organization of space, thoughtful and heart-felt integrity emerges, imbuing the sculptures with emotion and grace, reaffirming the power of the object.
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Stevie Love lives surrounded by nature in an adobe house that she and her husband made by hand on the north-facing slope of the San Gabriel Mountains high above the Western Mojave Desert. Her paint-sculpture hybrids are inspired by intense energy, joy, nature, visual culture, and being open to experiment.
Love’s philosophy builds on the early Modernists’ belief in artmaking as a spiritual practice and extends it into everyday contemporary life, and to that end she is practicing metaphysics in the studio. She professes an addiction to acrylic paint for its ability to make three-dimensional sculptural forms, and her tools include squeeze bottles and pastry tubes. The addition of faux fur and faux gems brings a funky sense of surprise and humor. Esteemed writer and critic, Peter Frank, characterized the work as “the crass and the cosmic”.
Love’s work has been featured in private and public spaces across the U.S., and in Asia, and Europe, and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA, and the Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA.
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Chris Miller is a multi-disciplinary artist who works mainly with ceramics. After earning an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005 Miller has held numerous teaching positions and exhibited nationally. He is currently an Associate Professor of art at the California State University, Long Beach.
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Atilio Pernisco has a BFA from Art Center College of Design and his MFA from Claremont Graduate University. He worked as an illustrator and designer for more than a decade for a diverse list of clients until he began exhibiting his work nationally and internationally. He also teaches at his Alma Matter and at many other local institutions.