About the Panelists

Josh Kaplan, Bandini Art

In Culver City’s flourishing Art District stands a venerable red brick warehouse, no longer what it was. The gallery’s founder, Josh Kaplan, has dropped an asymmetric, white jewel box into the space, preserving its brick integrity as an artifact, but creating an innovative architectural transformation. Bandini Art is dedicated to offering a warmly welcoming, contemporary art gallery emphasizing the unique vision of the most current Californian artists, especially women, in a variety of media. Bandini Art is proud to attract local and international press coverage for their artists’ work, which has been described by art critics as “wildly inventive,” “lustrous,” and “almost hallowed.”

John Kinkead, Kinkead Contemporary

Kinkead Contemporary is a new contemporary art gallery dedicated to emerging artists. Founded by collector John Kinkead, the gallery’s mission is to introduce new voices through an ambitious series of solo and curated group exhibitions. Over the next 24-months a series of co-curated group shows are planned in concert with leading emerging gallerists from Chicago and New York. A native of California, John Kinkead is a graduate of both The Art Institute of Chicago and Cranbrook Academy of Art. A passionate art collector and patron, he is a member of the MOCA Contemporaries as well as LACMA’s Print & Drawing and Photography Councils.

Sam Lee, Sam Lee Gallery

Sam Lee Gallery is committed to long term collaborations with a select roster of emerging & mid-career artists through museum-quality exhibitions as well as through domestic and international art fairs. One of the Gallery’s focuses is to show innovative approaches that articulate and explore contemporary issues such as post-911 realities, borders (political, geographic & imagined), travel and technology in an increasingly restricted global environment, and national identities with regard to patriotism and self-definition. In addition, guest-curated exhibitions will be featured, thus providing a venue for critical discourse and context between invited and gallery represented artists.  Vietnam-born, Los Angeles-based Sam Boi Lee has spent 10 years working with established galleries including Peter Fetterman Gallery, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Jan Kesner Gallery, and Robert Koch Gallery. Lee started his career at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where he gained solid experience in collections management. Lee holds a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in art history, with a concentration in contemporary art and the history of photography.

David E. Stone & Cathy Stone, Another Year in L.A.

ANOTHER YEAR IN LA is housed in the former location of ONE YEAR IN LA which was a yearlong art exhibition project conceived by David E. Stone. During 2004, David staged twelve monthly exhibitions of his conceptually-based work, which formed an episodic cradle-to-grave experience. ANOTHER YEAR IN LA is the result of a metamorphosis from an allegorical solo endeavor to a seemingly more traditional gallery experience continuing a conceptual mindset. The program of exhibitions has focused primarily on contemporary work (often of artists who have never shown in Los Angeles) but have included historic exhibitions (e.g. a forty-year survey of pioneer conceptual artist Stephen J. Kaltenbach). The range of exhibitions have included traditional media as well as installations utilizing sound and video and also performance.

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