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Ashley Bickteron is a Barbados-born American artist known for his baroque multimedia approach to exploring contemporary society. Juxtaposing photographic prints, thick oil paint, and found objects, Bickteron depicts alien figures amidst the detritus of consumer culture. “I’m interested in the liberating aspect of being totally untethered, let loose in the worst possible environments,” he explained. “I like things to be seven kinds of wrong. If they are seven kinds of wrong, sometimes the wrongs neutralize themselves.” Born in 1959 on the island of Barbados, Bickerton’s father was a linguistic scholar that traveled the world with his family before settling in Hawaii in 1972. The artist received his BFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1982, before moving to New York where he attended the Whitney Independent Study Program. While in New York, Bickerton developed the brand name
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They say timing is everything, and for a while, it looked like timing would bring Anjanette Maraya-Ramey nothing but grief.
In March of 20`19, the choreographer and longtime arts administrator was in remission after an intense battle with leukemia. With the kind of carpe-diem spirit that can come from surviving a serious health challenge, the South Bay native decided it was time to bet on herself.
The plan was to finally make good on her dream of opening a performing arts center in the community where she grew up that would serve the multicultural population she grew up with. After much planning and negotiating, Maraya-Ramey found a location in Eastlake. She invested her retirement savings in a five-year lease, which she signed on March 2, 2020.
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