MEET THE ARTISTS
Carla Jay Harris
Born in Indianapolis, IN, but raised traveling the globe as the child of a military officer, Carla Jay Harris’s social and artistic development was impacted tremendously by the geopolitical and natural environments she encountered. She fervently believes that space (physical and physiological) has a fundamental, lasting impact on personal identity. While the environment around us is constantly evolving, photography has the power to capture humanity in a place, in a moment - transforming a flicker in time into a lasting, appreciable statement. Carla's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Miami, New Orleans, Las Vegas, Paris, and Quebec. She completed undergraduate coursework at the School of Visual Arts in New York, received her bachelor's degree with distinction from the University of Virginia, and her MFA from UCLA in 2015. She currently lives/works in Los Angeles, CA. Her works are included in the collections of USC’s Fisher Museum; The California African American Museum; The Museum of Art and History, Lancaster; and The Museum of Fine Arts, Sherbrook as well as the corporate collections of General Mills; LA Metro; Creative Artists Agency; and META (Facebook) Inc. She is represented by Luis De Jesus Los Angeles.
Deborah Aschheim
Deborah Aschheim makes installations, sculptures, drawings, digital and social media projects and temporary interventions into public space. Her projects exploring memory and place are based on community engagement. She has had solo and group exhibitions across the United States and internationally, including the Richard Nixon Presidential Library; the Barrick Museum at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Suyama Space in Seattle; San Diego State University; the Pasadena, CA Armory; Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis; the Weatherspoon Museum at the University of North Carolina Greensborough; the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh; Otis College and Laguna Art Museum in CA.
Aschheim was Artist-in-Residence for Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder, using art in outreach to historically underrepresented communities of voters across LA County. She was the Inaugural Hellman Visiting Artist at the Memory and Aging Center at UC San Francisco. Aschheim has created public artworks for University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Santa Monica Fire Department, Rancho Los Amigos Hospital, UC San Francisco, for Amazon.com in Seattle, for the Cities of Sacramento, Los Angeles and Palo Alto. Grants include the Puffin Foundation, the California Community Foundation, the Center for Cultural Innovation, Individual Artist Fellowships from the Cities of Los Angeles and Pasadena. Aschheim lives in Northwest Pasadena.
