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Alex Israel was born in 1982 in Los Angeles, California. He received his B.A. in 2003 from Yale University, Connecticut, and his M.F.A. in 2010 from the University of Southern California, Roski School of Fine Arts, Los Angeles. Israel’s works are in the public collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Recent solo exhibitions include the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City (2012); “Alex Israel: Lens,” LA><ART, Los Angeles (2013); Le Consortium, Dijon (2013); “Alex Israel at The Huntington,” The Huntington Library, Art Collection, and Botanical Garden, California (2015); “Sightings: Alex Israel,” Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2015–16); “#AlexIsrael,” Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (2016); “Using Walls, Floors, and Ceilings,” Jewish Museum, New York (2016–17);  “SPF-18,” Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (2018); and “Waves,” Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria (2018).

Based in Los Angeles, Israel engages with the particular culture of the local film and media industries. Mining the “food chain” of show business, he interrogates and confounds the fine line between “talent” and “raw material” while re–framing and re–presenting manufactured items whose formal and auratic properties are often overlooked. For Israel, the American dream, as embodied by the Los Angeles mythos, remains affecting and potent. Channeling celebrity culture as well as the slick appearance and aspirations of the entertainment capital, Israel approaches his hometown with an uncanny coupling of local familiarity and anthropological curiosity. His work alludes to both California cool and calculated brand creation, embracing clichés and styles that exude the hygienic optimism endemic to the local scene.

Israel currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Alex Israel was born in 1982 in Los Angeles, California. He received his B.A. in 2003 from Yale University, Connecticut, and his M.F.A. in 2010 from the University of Southern California, Roski School of Fine Arts, Los Angeles. Israel’s works are in the public collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Recent solo exhibitions include the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City (2012); “Alex Israel: Lens,” LA><ART, Los Angeles (2013); Le Consortium, Dijon (2013); “Alex Israel at The Huntington,” The Huntington Library, Art Collection, and Botanical Garden, California (2015); “Sightings: Alex Israel,” Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2015–16); “#AlexIsrael,” Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (2016); “Using Walls, Floors, and Ceilings,” Jewish Museum, New York (2016–17);  “SPF-18,” Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (2018); and “Waves,” Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria (2018).

Based in Los Angeles, Israel engages with the particular culture of the local film and media industries. Mining the “food chain” of show business, he interrogates and confounds the fine line between “talent” and “raw material” while re–framing and re–presenting manufactured items whose formal and auratic properties are often overlooked. For Israel, the American dream, as embodied by the Los Angeles mythos, remains affecting and potent. Channeling celebrity culture as well as the slick appearance and aspirations of the entertainment capital, Israel approaches his hometown with an uncanny coupling of local familiarity and anthropological curiosity. His work alludes to both California cool and calculated brand creation, embracing clichés and styles that exude the hygienic optimism endemic to the local scene.

Israel currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Alex Israel was born in 1982 in Los Angeles, California. He received his B.A. in 2003 from Yale University, Connecticut, and his M.F.A. in 2010 from the University of Southern California, Roski School of Fine Arts, Los Angeles. Israel’s works are in the public collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Recent solo exhibitions include the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City (2012); “Alex Israel: Lens,” LA><ART, Los Angeles (2013); Le Consortium, Dijon (2013); “Alex Israel at The Huntington,” The Huntington Library, Art Collection, and Botanical Garden, California (2015); “Sightings: Alex Israel,” Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2015–16); “#AlexIsrael,” Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (2016); “Using Walls, Floors, and Ceilings,” Jewish Museum, New York (2016–17);  “SPF-18,” Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (2018); and “Waves,” Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria (2018).

Based in Los Angeles, Israel engages with the particular culture of the local film and media industries. Mining the “food chain” of show business, he interrogates and confounds the fine line between “talent” and “raw material” while re–framing and re–presenting manufactured items whose formal and auratic properties are often overlooked. For Israel, the American dream, as embodied by the Los Angeles mythos, remains affecting and potent. Channeling celebrity culture as well as the slick appearance and aspirations of the entertainment capital, Israel approaches his hometown with an uncanny coupling of local familiarity and anthropological curiosity. His work alludes to both California cool and calculated brand creation, embracing clichés and styles that exude the hygienic optimism endemic to the local scene.

Israel currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Sarah Morris (born 20 June 1967) is an American artist. She was born in the United Kingdom, and lives in New York City, in the United States.

Morris is both a painter and filmmaker, seeing the two media as interconnected. She describes the dual processes as “two sides of the same coin”, creating the paintings and films (which reference one another visually and thematically) simultaneously.

She is best known for her abstract paintings that feature bright colour fields and graphic line work, often referencing elements of architecture and taking titles from bureaucratic institutions.

Morris' films have been characterized as portraits that focus on the psychology of individuals or cities. Her films about cities, like Midtown, Chicago, "Los Angeles", and Rio depict urban scenes, capturing the architecture, politics, industry and leisure which define a specific place. Other films describe a place through the viewpoint of an individual, like psychologist Dr. George Sieber describing the terrorist event at the Olympic Stadium in Munich in the film 1972 or the industry politics of Hollywood from the viewpoint of screenwriter and producer in the eponymous film Robert Towne.