FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Los Angeles Art Association South: The Michael Napoliello Gallery presents the 2007 Biannual

Juried by Alma Ruiz, Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles

Hermosa Beach (August 2007) — Los Angeles Art Association is proud to announce our Fall 2007 Biannual survey exhibition juried by Alma Ruiz, Curator MOCA. Biannual is LAAA's twice yearly, high profile exhibition that features the very best emerging SoCal artists juried by equally high profile individuals.

Los Angeles Art Association is pleased to announce the artists who will be included in the 2007 Biannual, set to open September 13, 2007. They are as follows:

Christopher Barbour
Kimber Berry
Susan Bolles
Holly Boruck
Andrea Chalekson
Melva A. Head
D. Jean Hester
Yoichi Kawamura
Erika Lizee
Mary Jean Mallman
Diane Meyer
Pamela Mower-Conner
Amandine Nabarra-Piomelli
Hung Viet Nguyen
Aline Smithson
Elizabeth Tobias
David Eli Vaughn
Melanie Wynne Waldman
Karen Frimkess Wolff
Kyoung ha Yoo

The Biannual is the Los Angeles Art Association's twice yearly survey exhibition juried by high profile curators. The Biannual presents uncommon access to the very best in emerging talent.

Show dates:
September 13 to November 10, 2007
Reception: Thursday, September 13, 7 to 10p

If you are interested in obtaining a high-resolution of any of the images below, please contact:

Sinead Finnerty-Pyne
Artistic Director, LAAA/Gallery 825
sinead@laaa.org

Artist Images

Mary Jean Mallman

265 End NE
Watercolor and Conte' Crayon on Watercolor Paper, 10.25x11.5", 2007

Yoichi Kawamura

Untitled 7-22-07
Color Photographs mounted on Plexiglas, 19x19", 2007

D. Jean Hester

And I Know There's Nothing I Could Say To Change That Part (from the series You Better Watch What You Say)
Watercolor on panel, 8.5x25", 2007

Karen Frimkess Wolff

Branches (Collective Unity)
Graphite pencil, acrylic on pressed wood panel, 14x16", 2007

Kimber Berry

#628-031007-2
Mixed media, 60x72", 2007

Kyoung ha Yoo

iConnected #2
Mixed media on paper, 24x24", 2007

Holly Boruck

Dis-succor
Oil on resin clay, hair, mixed media, 12x4x6, 2007

Melanie Wynne Waldman

Cubicle
Mixed media diorama, 10h x 16 & 10d x 20l", 2007

Erika Lizee

Seeing things in a new light
Oil on canvas, 24x24", 2007

Christopher Barbour

Liminal Echoes, no.3
Chromira chromogenic print (#1 in ed. of 5), 15x15", 2007

Diane Meyer

Card House: Rustic Canyon
Type C Print, 20x24", 2007

Aline Smithson

Couldn't Wait
Silver gelatin print with selective hand-coloring, 16x20" (framed 24x20"), 2007

Pamela Mower-Conner

The Haunted Terrain 1
Acrylic on canvas, 60x20", 2007

Hung Viet Nguyen

COASTAL SENSUALITY No. 9
Oil on canvas, 48x60", 2007

Andrea Chalekson

Moon's View
Etching, 9x10.5", 2006

Amandine Nabarra-Piomelli

Secret Love #7
Ink jet on gesso hand-coated Japanese paper, 34x37", 2007

David Eli Vaughn

Lepus, the Hare
Cibachrome print on aluminum, 30x24", 2007

Elizabeth Tobias

Emptiness is Form (smaller work next to exhibition title)
Cibachrome on wood panel, 78x144" (3 panels: 48x78" ea.), 2007

Susan Bolles

Sprays
Monotype, ink, oil on black paper, 30x22", 2007

Melva A. Head

Pegasus I
Watercolor, 31.75x24", 2005