A new body of work by local artist William Deutsch dealing with the demons that, instead of fading along with childhood fears, somehow hung on and grew up along with us. They're crafty devils, for sure...

"When I was much younger I used to hear the voices in my head. They started when I was about three or four. I'd lay in my bed, lights on, sheet pulled over my head and a doorbell would ring. A door that was not there would open and somewhere inside my thoughts an old woman's voice would laugh and tell me she was going to get me. Bony fingers would wrap around my frame tickling me and though I'd beg her to stop, it would continue until I ran into my parents bedroom.

Tired of the nightly routine, my mother and father had my brother move in with me and bought me a night light. They explained that if I could fall asleep before the light turned off each night, the woman would never appear again. She never did.

Those things we left under the bed and in the closet are waiting for us in the waking nightmares of adulthood...."

Featured Artist

William Deutsch is a working artist based in West Los Angeles. Fed on a diet of comic books, text based role playing games, and Magic the Gathering, he has long had a fascination with the world of fantasy and how it plays into daily life. After attending UCLA's art program in 2001 he began the process of creating "Stained Glass Lightboxes" using plastics and polymers and borrowing imagery from sources ranging from the Bible to Lisa Frank Stationery.

Both in his paintings and sculptures William explores the trauma of failure and heartbreak through a pop aesthetic. His work has been used in childrens books, galleries, as well as by clients such as Sony for film and television.

Supporting Artists

Michael's work is a combination of many visual sources and influences from pop culture references of movies and television to religious iconography to pornography and visual jokes, games and puzzles. More recent work has been marked by a tendency toward visual juxtapositions and perverse combinations… the artist has an ever broadening obsession with visual themes like clowns, redheads, grotesque portraits, albinos, severed limbs, etc.

Michael has a BFA in Painting from Tyler School of Art in Pennsylvania. He has also informally studied filmmaking since 2004. He is currently juggling the two disciplines of art and filmmaking and is in pre-production on his first feature length film.

Eban Lehrer was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Although very accomplished, he is basically a self-taught artist. Eban's artwork opens a window to the haunting side of a woman's beauty that society often sees as threatening. He has always been interested in the exploration of the boundaries that society imposes arbitrarily. Pushing and challenging these conventions often leads him to new, exciting adventures in art.

Eban began painting as an adult (as Paul Gauguin did). He is essentially without formal art education, having only taken two basic art classes, a beginning drawing class and a beginning painting class in the continuing education department at Otis/Parsons. He has exhibited in local venues, as well as in Las Vegas and New York City. His work hangs in the Museu de l' Erotica in Barcelona, Spain. For more information on Eban Lehrer, please visit his gallery website at www.ebanlehrer.com

London May is an artist straight out of Hollywood and has dabbled in every aspect of the art and music world. He makes disturbing and beautiful art as well as music. His art tends to be a bit on the darker side but is always open to personal interpretation. Sometimes it is political, dark, or glamorous while at other times it is totally abstract. London loves experimenting and doesn't limit his creations to any single medium.

He works with woods, glass, wax, resin, sculpey, and many more mediums. London is an instrumentalist who loves to make electronica dance music as well as play it live. He just recently started to show his work in galleries across Los Angeles and hopes to expand the availability of it further out as well as experiment a lot more in the coming years.