Juror: Tyler Stallings, Chief Curator, Laguna Art Museum

Small Wonders is a fundraising art raffle event where each donated work of art will be sold for a raffle ticket of $100. Tickets will be sold throughout the run of the show. All tickets must be purchased in person at the gallery. There is no limit to the number of tickets that may be purchased, and there will be as many tickets available as artworks, so everyone is guaranteed to win something. Raffle picks will be conducted Saturday, December 17th from 4 to 7. Winners may pick up their works as they are awarded.

Pharmaka Art is a nonprofit art gallery that has been in operation since February 2005. Pharmaka Art’s Mission is to bridge the gap between the commercial galleries and the museums of Los Angeles. Los Angeles is home to one of the most creative artistic forces in the world. Pharmaka Art’s goal is to exhibit curated shows that address the pluralistic nature of the contemporary art scene with a focus on painting.

Participating artists: Katy Allgeyer, sAhAr aLsAwAf, Oscar A. Alzate, Fumiko Amano, Pat Arnao, Yun Bai, Derek Baron, Clive Barker, Vicki Barkley, Steve Bartlett, Rebecca Bazell, Yvonne Beatty, Xander Berleley, Airom Bleicher, Jeff Britton, Susan Bolles, Ela Boyd, Nance Broderzen, Steven J. Brooks, Randall Cabe, Michael Carini, Richard Channin, Clara Cheang, Jack Chipman, Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell, Kandice Cota, Christopher Cousins, Jill Daves, Stanley Dorfman, Richard Duardo, Beth Elliott, Patty Fernandez, Scott Ferry, Tim Forcum, Sarajo Frieden, David Friedman, Steven Fujimoto, Robin Gaynes-Bachman, Erin Goodwin-Guerrero, Jake Gillespie, Vanessa Grant, Gronk, Gordy Grundy, Shane Guffogg, Berto H, Jenny Hager, Anne Hars, Jeff Hastings, Michael Hayden, Roger Herman, Karen Herold, Douglas Hill, Laura Hipke, Doro Hofmann, Patricia Howard, Joseph Imhauser, Tim Isham, Diana Jacobs, Bill Jehle, Carrie Jenkins, Barbara A. Kaleta, Seth Kaufman, Kate Kelton, Thomas W. Kidd, Rachelle A. King, Tulsa Kinney, Jeff Koegel, Campbell Laird, Robert Larkin, Yoony Lee, Mark Leysen, Karla Leyva, Leora Lutz, Dan Lutzik, Michael Maas, Rafael Macho, Maureen Maki, Brian Mallman, Mary Jean Mallman, Lynne McDaniel, Kim McCarty, Frank Messa, Tino Mingori, Tina Mion, Christopher Monger, Wendy Sue Morris, Lisa Moneypenny Murray, Andy Moses, Diana Newport, Viet-Hung Nguyen, Ana Osgood, Miguel Osuna, Pammm, Michael Pedziwiatr, Joan Perlman, Carl Ramsey, Karen Reitzel, Billy Reynolds, Omyrrha Levinson Rogers, Mike Rosenfeld, Bob Rossoff, Luke Rothschild, Paula Rubino, Lulu Stewart, Joseph Aaron Segal, Julia Schwartz, Mara Safransky, John Scane, Elisabeth Scheidl, Suzanne Schulton, Yayoi Ailene Shibata, Sofie Siegmann, Francesco X. Siquieros, Diane Silver, David Skinner, Patrick Slattery, Carl Smith, Margaret-Anne Smith, Sue Z Smith, Cathy Stone, Sheridan Sullivan, Vonn Sumner, m.t., Treiops Treyfid, Alison Van Pelt, Tamra Vassallo, Tony Venegas, R. Vega, Alyssa Warshaw, Roger Weik, Caroline Weik, Stacey Wexler, Stephanie Windham, and Steven Wolkoff.

About the Juror: Tyler Stallings is chief curator Laguna Art Museum. His curatorial projects focus on contemporary art and popular culture. Most recently, he organized Pervasion: The Art of Gary Baseman and Tim Biskup (2006), Paul Paiement: Hybrids 1.0-3.5 (2005), Deborah Aschheim: Neural Architecture (a nervous building is a smart building) (2004), Whiteness, A Wayward Construction (2003) and Surf Culture—The Art History of Surfing (2002). Presently, he is working on In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz School. Past exhibitions that he has organized include: Cyborg Manifesto, or the Joy of Artifice (2001); Stephen Hendee: Presence Control (2001); Sandow Birk's 'In Smog and Thunder: Historical Works from the Great War of California' (2000); Elizabeth Olbert: Big Country (1999); Simon Leung: Surf Vietnam (1998); Rubén Ortiz Torres: Desmothernismo (1998, traveled); Kara Walker: African't (1997); Robert Williams: New Work (1997, traveled); Are We Touched? Identities From Outer Space (1997); Grind: The Culture and Graphics of Skateboarding (1995), among others. His writings on art have appeared in Art Papers, Art.issues, Poliester, zingmagazine, and the LA Weekly, among others. He is also the co-editor of the anthology, Uncontrollable Bodies: Testimonies of Identity and Culture (Seattle: Bay Press, 1994). Several profile articles have been written about his curatorial work. He has appeared as a commentator on the arts on regional and national TV and radio. He has also lectured at museums and universities around the U.S.

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