Ave Pildas is a photographer with a background in design and architecture.
Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ave Pildas worked early in his career as a photo stringer for Downbeat Magazine in the Ohio Valley and Pennsylvania in the 1960s, and has been a successful photographer and educator for the past 40 years. In 1971 Pildas began working as the Art Director at Capitol Records in Hollywood and designed and photographed album covers for the label’s recording artists. He launched a career as a freelance photographer and designer soon after, specializing in architectural and corporate photography. His photographs have been exhibited in one man shows at the: Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Photographers Gallery, London; Janus Gallery, Los Angeles; Gallerie Diaframma, Milan; Cannon Gallery, Amsterdam; Gallerie 38, Zurich; and numerous group shows. Photographs by Ave Pildas are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Bibliotheca National, Paris; the University of Arizona as well as numerous other public and private collections. He is a Professor Emeritus at Otis College of Design.
Phyllis Green is an object-maker, working with ceramics, textiles, and mixed-media sculpture.
Raised in Canada, Phyllis Green moved to California to pursue graduate studies in art. She received an M.F.A. from UCLA in 1981, and began her professional career as an artist, educator and curator in Los Angeles. Her practice integrates gender politics and the sphere of craft. Though she has worked in video and installation, Green is primarily an object maker who represents the body. Over thirty years, these bodily surrogates have taken many forms as Green constructs and projects a multifarious identity.
Green’s work has been exhibited extensively in exhibitions nationally and internationally, including “From Head to Toe: Concepts of the Body in 20th Century Art”, “Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity”, both at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and “Fiction @Love” at MOCA, Shanghai. A survey exhibition titled “Splendid Entities: 25 Years of Objects by Phyllis Green” was presented at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles in 2011.
She is the recipient of individual artist’s fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation; and was among the first group of artists to be awarded a C.O.L.A. grant by the City of Los Angeles in 1996. In 2010 she received project grants from the City of Santa Monica and the Durfee Foundation. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, named her a Fellow in Fine Arts in May 2014.