Press Release
Nov 2006 Art Show "Side Effects"

Opening Reception

Nov. 11th, 6:00pm to 10:00pm,

located at Design Theory, 2252 South Figueroa St., Los Angeles CA 90007, Phone: (213) 745-8781

Siuan McGahan is a self-taught painter who was born in Dublin, Ireland. As a teenager, she spent time in the Caribbean country of Haiti and was very influenced by Haitian artists. She studied Mathematics and Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has worked in engineering at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and subsequently as a visual effects artist in the motion picture industry, including work on "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King". She very happily decided to leave practicality behind and currently devotes all of her time to painting and music. Aside from painting prolifically, Siuan sings and plays guitar in the L.A. based indie rock band called The Renders She lives and works in Los Angeles , CA

Linda Tremblay-Geibel is a self-taught creative being, born in a large maple tree in northern Alberta, Canada. As a French Canadian, Linda grew up in the tiny French town of Marie Reine (with a heaping population of 200,) also known as the ultra isolation of the prairies. Here she spent a great deal of her time dreaming, riding motorcycles, building forts & developing her innovative capabilities and techniques. Between the talents of her stay at home mother, (a.k.a the town seamstress,) and her father the lumberjack, this surrounding clearly influenced Linda's curiosity & interest to the world of fashion, design, architecture & wooden mannequins. From the ripe age of 13 she dreamt of the mysterious and exciting world of the "city life." At 18 years old, with many dreams to fulfill and passion in her bones, she retired her steel toe boots & abruptly ended her "lumber piling" career to book a one-way ticket to the largest Canadian city she could find. It was at the International Academy of Design in Toronto, that Linda studied Interior Design and during her second year, learnt about the existence of animation. Upon graduating from Interior Design she enrolled in the computer animation program. Today she continues her career in the film industry as a digital artist and maintains a level of sanity through balancing her personal art projects, triathlon racing and discovering the vast selection of obscure restaurants with her husband Jonathan Geibel. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles CA.

John Huikku is originally from Worcester, Massachussetts. He obtained a degree in art from the University of Massachussetts. After college, he moved to New York City to take a job editing and creating graphics for commercials. In 1994, John moved to Los Angeles to further his career in visual effects. He has worked at Dream Quest images, Weta Digital (in Wellington, NZ) and is currently working at Walt Disney animation. John has credits for matte painting and other visual effects work on many films including Return of the King, Sky Captain, Chicken Little and Armageddon and is currently working on Disney's next animated film, Meet the Robinsons.

Kim Pepe was raised in the Buffalo/Niagara Falls area of Western New York. She moved to Los Angeles in 1987 following a career in music. Her creativity led her to perform in a punk band call "Green Jello" as a character named "Sadistica". While performing continuously for ten years, she helped develop characters, write songs, art direct, and create digital animation for the band. Their 1994 Grammy nomination helped launch her artwork into the mainstream Music Industry. She received two gold albums and a gold single for which she did all the album and merchandising artwork for, as well as perform as one of the drummers and back-up vocalist. Kim's paintings are published in Jim McMullan and Dick Gautier's book, "Musicians As Artists". She is currently working as a digital compositor for several of the Motion Picture Industry's leading visual effects companies as well as doing commissioned artwork.

Ben Radcliffe is an animator by trade with many animated feature films under his belt but his secret love is the mystery of the toy camera. He admits, that he has very little real photography experience, but after an extended trip to the Orient and 15 rolls of celluloid artistry later he has become fascinated by the wonders these tiny pieces of technology hold, and the stories they are capable of telling. He looks forward to future trips abroad so that he may capture the essence of the world at large with his many toys