Chris Lawson is an award-winning artist who divides his time between
Birmingham, Alabama and Phnom Penh, Cambodia. For the past 15 years, Lawson
has exhibited his mixed-media works regionally, nationally, and
internationally, including exhibitions in Atlanta, NYC, and -for the past
three years- at Jazz Fest in New Orleans. His visual work has been featured
in Artpapers and on Juxtapoz.com, and his films have screened
internationally and been featured on National Public Radio. He is included
in over 1,500 collections worldwide including the Jim Henson Foundation in
NYC, Saddle Creek Records (for whom he has designed CD-cover art), and the
private collections of Michael Stipe, Julianne Moore, and Morgan Spurlock.

"For the past ten years I've worked as an artist and teacher in over twenty
countries, and divided my home between Birmingham, Alabama and Phnom Penh,
Cambodia. Both cities are marked by extreme and tragic histories, and it's
been a particular interest to create art in these regions as they emerge and
re-define themselves in the 21st century. I'm continually compelled by the
dichotomies of eastern and western culture; this has informed and shaped my
own art in very graphic and very specific ways. A critic termed my work
"ethnographic surrealism". It's not a term I would ever have thought up, but
it does seem to fit nicely."

Peter Hurly

Growing up with an obsession for comics and cartoons turned into a serious interest in art for Peter in high school. After his sophmore year he went
to North Carolina School for the Arts where visual art became a
central part of his education. Now finishing up his senior year at the San
Francisco Art Institute he continues to paint and collage. Using elements of
genre and narrative he creates conflicting images of personal mythology.
The potency of his work comes through the unsettling tension between a
reverence for meaning and a negation of it.