Lancaster Museum of Art and History at stARTup LA 2020
stARTup’s mission is to champion under-recognized artists, and to empower them in their careers. This includes working with artist collectives and non-profits who sustain diverse communities of working artists.
Long-time supporter, Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) returns to stARTup Los Angeles 2020 with the works of six Los Angeles-based artists in Room 331, including past stARTup exhibitors Dani Dodge, Lynne McDaniel, and Annie Seaton.
MOAH Portfolio Review at stARTup LA 2018
In addition to exhibiting their work, MOAH will be hosting free, on site portfolio reviews with, art historian and critic, Betty Ann Brown; artist and owner of Griffith Moon Publishing, Kimberly Brooks; and assistant curator of the Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Robert Benitez, over the stARTup LA weekend.
Here’s a preview of the six women artists you can find in Room 331!
Lillian Abel has exhibited in New York City and Los Angeles and various venues across the United States. Her work depicts Nature, however, it is made in her studio from memory, impulse and emotion, from the energy experienced while being in nature. They are abstracted by the palette knife, searching for hidden worlds that lay just beyond the edge of our awareness, calling the unexplored knowledge of the unseen.
Dani Dodge uses unexpected sculptural materials to alter spaces. Her experience as an embedded journalist during the 2003 invasion of Iraq changed her forever. Since then, she has created art and installations that transform and challenge expectations. Within these works are often elements to of magical realism.
She has a fascination with the desert and the ability of life to flourish within harsh, desolate conditions. Inspired by residencies at the Prime Desert Woodland Preserve in Lancaster, Calif (2019), and the Mojave National Preserve near Barstow, Calif. (2019-2020), her recent work explores survival, and her love of the hideously beautiful Joshua tree. Dani lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work is included in four museum collections, and has been shown internationally and across the US.
Since earning her Master’s degree at Claremont Graduate University, Stevie Love has developed a diverse body of work that transcends the boundaries between painting and sculpture, using paint as a sculptural medium, glorifying the physicality of the paint. Peter Frank described her work as “the moment where pictorial language and mental imagination, conventional thought and erratic vision, give way to one another.”
Stevie lives overlooking the Mojave Desert in an adobe home she and her husband built with their own hands. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Art and History in Lancaster, California, and the Riverside Art Museum in Riverside, California.
Lynne McDaniel is a Los Angeles based artist whose work uses the landscape to explore current events and examine the relationship between humans and their environment. Her paintings depict the environmental and ecological changes caused by natural disasters, human intervention, and the passage of time.
Often using news photos as sources, she paints the landscape then disrupts the image to indicate the place where things go wrong. The incursion can be a subtle dash of color, or a more violent stroke or erasure. The destabilization or interruption of what is happening in the paintings reflects the artist’s growing uncertainty about what is happening on the larger canvas of our world. Lynne has exhibited extensively and her work is in numerous corporate and private collections in the US and Europe.
Annie Seaton describes herself not as a photographer, but a painter who uses photography.
Through her art, Annie pushes and plays with photography beyond it’s traditional limits. She trains her lens on surfers and the landscape around them as subject, while conveying deep meaningful moments of joy vis-a-vis painting expressively in her own dreamy, creamy language of color. Annie Seaton was born in Toronto, Canada and lives in Sherman Oaks, CA where she lives with her son, daughter, dog, cat and five koi fish. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Stephanie Sydney was born and raised in London, England and is currently living in Venice, California. She studied art at Santa Monica College and UCLA. Because of her time constraints as a graphic designer and art director, Stephanie started exploring painting with a camera — first double and triple exposures in the camera, then adding mixed media pieces and digital collages. Stephanie currently works in her art studio in Santa Monica. She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions all around the county and in Europe. Her work is in several collections, including Banque BNP Paribais and Morgan Stanley in New York.
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