Larkin Higgins

All of the books used in these assemblages by Larkin Higgins were discarded by their previous owners for one reason or another. Each of these “found” books sparked a visual-textual reaction in the artist.

Tomes are the major medium – cut, bandsawed and drilled like wood. Since printed text is inherent to the book, the volume’s title and contents become components to the medium, providing context at the same time.

Throughout the years, literature has been a major influence on Higgins’ artistic practice, whether creating paintings, drawings, assemblages, photo-based work, installation, or performance. There are underlying, layered, and direct literary associations or language-based content. Often text becomes texture.

Leslie McQuaide

Like painter Peter Zokosky and sculptors John Frame and Ron Pippin, Leslie McQuaide’s constructions lead us down a path littered with signs of the mysterious, the miraculous and the transcendent. Although she uses the stuff of surrealism – the detritus of today’s hyper-consumerism, McQuaide is anything but a producer of nonfunctional art

Finding grace and beauty in the worn and discarded, McQuaide’s visual commentaries continue the historic conversation that centers on the concept of an infinite God, moral good and evil, the immortality of the soul, and the relationship between God and the affairs of humans.

Bob Privitt

Bob Privitt’s works have been juried into more than 100 national and regional exhibitions and received awards in more than one-third of them. His drawings and sculptures are in many public collections, including those of University of Tulsa, Indiana University, Oklahoma Art Center, University of Arkansas Little Rock, and City of Thousand Oaks, Calif. The artist is the recipient of many national, regional and private grants, including the Borchard Foundation, Woodland Hills, Calif., as Scholar-in-Residence in Brittany, France, 1988–89.

A former motorcycle racer, he also worked as a journeyman ironworker and welder and helped to build the west spillway of the Glen Canyon Dam in Page, Ariz. A detailed résumé can be seen at the Bob Privitt website at arachnid.pepperdine.edu/privitt

Gary Raymond

Gary Raymond is a sound artist who is fascinated by the mysticism of inanimate objects.

“A theme that fascinates me is the secret life of machines, industrial, and man-made objects. Do man-made objects created from living organisms such as wood retain a spiritual essence after being transformed into utilitarian objects? Do inert objects created by man take on a metaphysical life through energy transference as a result of being manipulated? Reminiscent of the period before The Age of Reason, do these man-made objects have a magical life of their own that lies dormant until energized by humans who have recalibrated their senses to be sensitive to them?”