Catlin Moore received her B.A. in Literary Journalism from the University of California, Irvine, and her M.A. from California State University, Long Beach. Moore is currently the Director of Mark Moore Gallery (Culver City, CA), and the Co-Founder/Co-Director of 5790projects (Los Angeles, CA), a curatorial partnership that produces quarterly pop-up exhibitions throughout Los Angeles County. Additionally, Moore sits on the Executive Board for ArtTable, the Modern and Contemporary Arts Council for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Contemporaries for Museum of Contemporary Art. Moore is also a freelance contributor for several art publications, including Daily Serving, Beautiful/Decay, Fabrik Magazine, and ArtLog. Moore is also a mentor through the Emerging Arts Leaders' Los Angeles chapter, and in her spare time, is a volunteer at the Seal Beach Animal Care Center.
Lari Pittman is a gardener. Particularly fond of succulents, he maintains precisely manicured rows of cacti that borrow from a methodical landscape sensibility, a rational formation he claims “pushes back” against the chaos of nature. A composite of Columbian and American Southern heritage, Pittman is fluent in the duality of cultivated life. He understands that mortality is the only fixed variable in our otherwise unique[…..]
