Since 2021

The Makery is a visual arts space providing exhibitions, workshops and design consulting. It is a shared multidisciplinary studio workshop offering services to Downtown Los Angeles and beyond.

Resident Artists at The Makery

David Lovejoy has been working as a maker and designer since the early 1980’s.  A successful career in graphic design supported a long and leisurely arts education at several schools and studios, focusing on ceramics.  His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in California, Hawaii and Oregon and is in collections in the U.S. and Europe.

As a maker of things, his artistic direction has always included using and repurposing whatever materials fit the need, with a feeling toward materials from the 30’s & 40’s, due to their wonderful 'patina of use' through time.  Trained as a ceramic artist, his recent work includes assemblage and installation art. He has won a few awards, and in 1993 was named one of the “Art Stars of California” by Art in California magazine.

More recently, he was commissioned for the work ‘Walk / Don’t Walk” in the street-level windows of the Spring Arts Tower on Gallery Row in Downtown Los Angeles, and customized a 1962 Airstream trailer for an upcoming National Geographic expedition to the South Pole. He also designed the interior surface and created the lobby chandelier in the Broadway Arts Building in Los Angeles, and was commissioned to create the "Willow House" at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County for their Centennial Garden.

Cathi Milligan started her art career in the field of graphic design before discovering glass. Glass has since become pretty much all she thinks about. Her glass experience spans over 30 years, mastering techniques such as torch working, kiln forming, mosaic, and now adding glass blowing. This experience has afforded her many opportunities such as television appearances demonstrating torch work and kiln forming, as well as macramé, writing a book (on macramé), and some public art commissions.

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Cathi is also the publisher of LA Art News, a Northeast Los Angeles based online publication, devoted to promoting art and culture in all of Los Angeles. She also teaches glass and jewelry classes at The Makery, Adam’s Forge, Pacific Art Glass, and These Hands Makers Collective. And lastly, but most importantly, she is a real estate agent with ACME Real Estate.

Cathy Immordino is a Los Angeles-based photographer, whose layered images form composites of personal experience and public spaces. Drawing on techniques and methods from fine art and photojournalism, Immordino’s optical layering serves as an evocative visual allegory for the complex narratives of life and memory. Immordino began her photography career after years of being a film actress, a set of experiences whose highs and lows she documented, along with architectural and urban landscape photographs of Hollywood at night. In subsequent projects and series, including a major endeavor based on her own ancestry and the history of immigration in her immediate family, she has continued to refine and evolve this fundamental structure. Layering her own stories and observations against backdrops of iconic architecture, landscapes, and public spaces where they unfolded. In this way she collapses both time and space in a surreal but familiar language composed of art history, biographical reportage, and photographic technology. Immordino has exhibited her work in galleries and institutions across the United States, co-founded the Shed Collective, and is associated with The Makery, MOPLA, the LA Center for Photography, the Los Angeles Art Association, Center Santa Fe, and the Society of Photographic Educators.

Richard S. Chow is a photographic artist in Los Angeles whose work is recognized in fine art, documentary, analog, and original photo-based objects. His work has exhibited solo at the Museum of Art and History (MOAH) Lancaster; Orange Coast College; Neutra Institute Museum & Gallery; and Metro 417 Gallery. His work is also in the permanent collection at the American Hotel in Los Angeles, and in the LA Public Library, as well as other private collections.

Highlights of recent group shows include the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts (FMoPA), the Griffin Museum in Boston, bG gallery, Gallery 825, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Open Mind Art Space, LA Art Show, Bergamot Station galleries, among others. Richard has earned recognitions in Lucie Foundation’s annual International Photography Awards (IPA) six years running from 2013 to 2018, then again in 2020.

His work was featured in the monograph LACMA Jazz 25th Anniversary published by the LA County Museum of Arts. Richard is the author of two independent published books, Distant Memories, and Urbanscape, both received book awards from MOPLA (Month of Photography LA) by Lucie Foundation. Additionally, Richard is curator and co-producer for Open Show Los Angeles whose mission is to provide a platform for visual artists to share & dialog their work. He is a reviewer for the 2021 Artist Grant awards in support of Sacramento's California Art Council. A few years back, he served as the Board Chairman for a non-profit 501c3 Create Now that mentors at-risk youth in arts education. He has curated exhibits at galleries and art fairs, led workshops and moderated panel discussions in photo fairs.

Richard is represented by UPAG United Photographic Artists Gallery in Tampa FL, as well as Gallery 825 LA Art Association in West Hollywood, CA. His portfolio & artist statements can be viewed at www.richardschow.com.

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