Laura Ball's work combines her technical achievements in watercolor with an ongoing part-psychoanalytical, part-environmental project she has explored over the last ten years. A recipient of numerous awards and grants, Ball has exhibited in galleries across the United States and internationally. Her work is in important private and public collections, including recent additions to the Denver Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and 21c Museum. Ball received her MFA in 2004 from the University of California, Berkeley. Ball lives and works in San Diego, California.
Leon Benn lives in Portland, Maine. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA) and the University of California, Los Angeles (MFA). He has had solo exhibitions at David B. Smith Gallery (Denver), Roberts & Tilton (Los Angeles), Stems Gallery (Brussels), and Carter & Citizen (Los Angeles). His work has been featured in group exhibitions at Able Baker Contemporary (Portland), Space Gallery (Portland), Brand New Gallery (Milan), the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, James Harris Gallery (Seattle), and Lisa Cooley (New York), amongst others.
Justin Favela is a Las Vegas native working in the mediums of painting, sculpture, and performance. His work draws from art history, popular culture, and his Guatemalan/Mexican heritage. Selected exhibitions include Crystal Bridges Museum of Contemporary Art (AR), Denver Art Museum (CO), Contemporary Arts Center (NV), the Berman Museum (PA), and the Nevada Museum of Art (NV). When not in the studio, Favela is probably watching television or co-hosting his podcast Latinos Who Lunch. He currently has work on view in Kissing Through A Curtain, a group exhibition at MASS MoCA (MA).
Linda Nguyen Lopez received a BFA from California State University of Chico and a MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Lopez has exhibited her work in New Zealand and throughout the United States including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville), Craft and Folk Art Museum (Los Angeles), Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach), The Hole (New York), the Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House Pottery (New York), and the Museum of Arts and Design (New York). She has been an artist in residence at The Clay Studio and the Archie Bray Foundation. In 2016, Lopez received the Lighton International Artist Exchange Program Grant. She is represented by Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami, FL.
Liz Nielsen is an experimental photographer based in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Her photographs are made without a camera and can also be described as light paintings or photograms. She works in the analog color darkroom exposing light sensitive paper and processing it through traditional photographic chemicals. Nielsen received an MFA from the University of Illinois, Chicago in 2004, her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002, and her BA in Philosophy and Spanish from Seattle University in 1997. Liz has exhibited her work extensively including recent solo exhibitions in New York, London, and Paris. Her photograms have been featured at international art fairs such as Paris Photo, Photo London, AIPAD New York, Unseen Amsterdam, and Landskrona Foto in Sweden. Nielsen has been reviewed in the New Yorker, the Guardian, the London Financial Times, LensCulture, Vogue UK, and FOAM magazine among others.

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