Joey Cannizzaro is an undisciplinary artist, astrologer, and teacher. Along with Dan Bustillo, they formed The Best Friend's Learning Gang, an experiment in disorderly, amateur education. They curated the inaugural show at MOCAM: The Museum of Contemporary Art on the Moon, as well as two seasons of Studio, an emerging artist showcase at REDCAT in Los Angeles. Cannizzaro’s work has been seen at The Hammer Museum, 356 Mission, Machine Project, Flux Factory, Lancaster Museum of Art, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, some times, and a lot of other places; they’ve also performed at Centre Pompidou, REDCAT, HAU2, and in the back of moving Honda Odyssey on Echo Park Boulevard. You can read some words they wrote in The Brooklyn Rail, Temporary Art Review, OnCurating, Black Clock Blog, and in paper books. They have an MFA from California Institute of the Arts, and a BA from The New School University.

Mariah Csepanyi Cool is an artist based in Long Beach, California. Her work manifests in surreal installations often guided by the logic of her vivid reoccurring dreams. In a recent installation Csepanyi Cool is playing with allegorical images that have percolated through a TV screen during a flicker-induced hypnosis, attempting to weave her own story into the fabric of human mythologies.

Csepanyi Cool holds an MFA from University of California Irvine and a BA in Visual Anthropology from USC. She has exhibited at the CAC gallery in Irvine, Actual Size in Los Angeles, the LBCC Art gallery in Long Beach, PØST in Los Angeles and Circus Gallery in Los Angeles among other places.

Matthew Hotaling is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles and New York. Hotaling plays with themes of consumerism, power and absurdity. His work spans from paintings, glass gloves, recipe drawings, portraits of zeros and regurgitating mass media. Hotaling received an MFA in 2015 in New Media & Photography from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey and a BFA in 2012 in Painting and Digital Media and Minor in Art History from State University of New York College in Oswego, New York. Hotaling has exhibited at Alta Art Space in Malmö, Sweden, Sweet Life in Los Angeles, Centre Gallery in Tampa Florida, Gowanus Loft in Brooklyn, New York, to name a few.

Kari Reardon is a Los Angeles-based artist originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and completed her MFA in 2012 at the California Institute of the Arts. A recipient of numerous grants, residencies and fellowship, she has shown throughout the US and internationally, most recently HilbertRaum (Berlin, Germany) and One Mess Gallery (Vienna, Austria). She teaches a wide range of sculpture courses at California State University Northridge, and is a member of the artist-run gallery Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles.

Martabel Wasserman is an artist, writer and curator living in Santa Cruz, CA. She received an MFA in Studio Art from UC Irvine, CA, in 2013 and is currently a PhD student in Art and Art History at Stanford University. Wasserman has taught at UC Santa Cruz and Cal State Long Beach and has recently had solo exhibitions at Human Resources in Los Angeles and at CAC Gallery in Irvine, CA. Recent group exhibitions include Pitzer College Art Galleries in Claremont, CA, Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica, CA, and Elephant Art Space in Los Angeles, CA.

Wasserman has curated several exhibitions at Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, CA, where she previously worked as the Curator of Community Engagement. Other curatorial projects have been exhibited at Human Resources in Los Angeles, CA, Cinefamily Theater in Los Angeles, CA, Maloney Fine Arts in Los Angeles, CA and ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles, CA.