>Artists to see thumbnails again Anthony Ausgang Nathan Spoor Blaine Fontana Eugenie Jolivett Shogo Minamikawa Chaz Bojorquez Mike Figgis Robbie Conal Mear One Brandon Herrick Brady Redman Richard Duardo Van Arno Frank Diettinger Sandow Birk Freddie C Rachel Schmeidler Wilson Hsu Joshua Krause Tim McCormick Mark Dugally David Choe Joshua Petker VYAL Pat Merrill Ron Outlaw Overton Lloyd Mark Vallen Marka 27 Natalia Fabia Launa Bacon Doug Murphy Janice Tieken Miner Yem Jeff Newburg

>Robbie Conal www.robbieconal.com I grew up as an “art brat” in New York City. My friends and I got kicked out of every major museum and every public library in town. I got pschedelicized at San Fransisco State University in the 60’s and professionalized at Stanford University in the 70’s. In the80’s, encroaching adulthood forced me to integrate my personality—get my art and social concerns together—and finally make pictures about subjects that were important to me: politics, power, and the abuses of both. I quickly realized that art institutions are a severely limited arena of reception for ideas about public issues, so I made posters of my paintings and ran around the streets, spattering glue in every major city I could get to my no budget, non-skeddo, total loss, rock’n’roll poster tours…building up a volunteer guerilla postering army as I went. If I can make a surprise one-linear for people on their way to work in the morning—provide them with a little “infotainment”—and get them to think along with me about social issues I think are important, I’m happy. I live in Los Angeles, CA, teach drawing at U.S.C. and have a monthly art column in the LA Weekly called “Art Burn”.