THE DETAILS GUILD works with thought-leading artists, who share our objectives of broadening community interaction with art through public installations, art education and mentoring programs.
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Kenny Scharf
Kenny Scharf was born in Hollywood in 1958, and lives and works in New York City and Los Angeles. For over thirty years, he has created vibrant paintings, murals, and sculptures which infuse pop imagery from cartoons and science fiction with surrealist energy. Kenny seeks to reach out beyond the elitist boundaries of fine art and connect to popular culture through his art. He believes that the artist has a social responsibility to engage others in a thought process that ultimately brings art into everyday life, thereby enhancing the quality of our collective experience. His work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Stedelijk Museum, and has been featured in hundreds of exhibitions and projects internationally.
Dan Colen
(b.1979 in New Jersey) He lives and works in New York. He graduated with a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Art and Design in 2001. Colen's work resides in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo Norway, and has been exhibited at the New Museum, New York; Macro Future Museum, Rome, Italy; Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom; the 2006 Whitney Biennial; The Royal Academy; PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, New York; The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo.
Mario Ybarra Jr. and Karla Diaz
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Mario Ybarra Jr. is an artist whose work operates as examinations of conflated and excluded social norms, often examining complete environments, histories and narratives. Ybarra’s visual dialogues expose an autobiographical context that is unique to southern California but universal in concept. He received an MFA from University of California Irvine and a BFA from Otis. Karla Diaz is a writer, performer, artist and educator, also born and raised in Los Angeles. She received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts. A former Plaza/CAP (Community Arts Partnership) student, she uses collaborative and pedagogical approaches to working with artists and communities. Both Ybarra and Diaz have exhibited internationally in major museums and galleries from California to Cairo, including MOCA, LACMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Tate, the Getty, and many more. In 2002, Ybarra and Diaz were co-founders of the artist-collective Slanguage, where Diaz now oversees exhibitions and programming.