Artist's Biography

Kevin Christy was born and raised in the suburbs of Los Angeles. He graduated from Art Center College of Design. He has exhibited work throughout North America and Europe. He is represented by Monya Rowe gallery (New York), and has also shown at Jack Hanley gallery (San Francisco), Hope gallery (Los Angeles), New Image Art gallery (Los Angeles), White Columns (New York), Loyal gallery (Sweden), and Space 1026 (Philadelphia). His work has been featured in magazines such as Vice, Tokion, Graphic, Esquire (Japan), as well as American Illustration, Communication Arts, the Art Directors Club annual, and a zine published by Cederteg Publishing. He has also contributed to "dear new girl, or whatever your name is." published by McSweeney's. His clients include the New York Times, New York Times magazine, Nylon, and he is a regular contributor to Stop Smiling magazine. He is a co-founder and creative director of Broken Wrist Project, publishing company. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

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Curator's Biography

Ed Templeton was born in Orange County, California. He grew up
in Anaheim, then his family moved to a trailer park in Corona. His
father ran off with his babysitter. He eventually moved to Huntington
Beach and began skateboarding when he was 13. By the time he was 18 I
had started skateboarding professionally and left high school to enter
skate contests in Europe. Upon his return he started painting and
taking photographs. In 1994 he had his first solo exhibition at
Alleged Gallery in New York. Since then he has exhibited his work
internationally including exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo, Paris,
Kunsthalle, Vienna, ICA Philadelphia, Modern Art, London, Tim Van
Laere, Belgium, and Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles. His first hardcover
monograph, Deformer, was published in 2008 by Italian publisher
Damiani. To this day Templeton still skates professionally and runs a
skateboard company, Toy Machine Bloodsucking Skateboard Company. He
lives and works in Huntington Beach, California with his wife Deanna.

Deanna Templeton is a photographer originally from Orange County, CA and, still lives and works there in Huntington Beach.  Templeton has led the perfect suburban life. Coming from a dysfunctional family and emerging from tumultuous teenage years relatively unscathed, she now lives in a big suburban house with her skateboarder husband, Ed Templeton. She came to photography, (twice) through her travels, and soon started documenting the people and places that make the Orange County suburbs so strange. Her work is a close-up glimpse into the youth culture and bland architecture that slips through the cracks in this mega-suburb.  Her first solo exhibition was at Etnies’ Broome Street showroom in Ney York in 2004; another was Only Once, at the Museum het Domein in Sittard, Holland in 2005.