Young Contemporaries 2020

Los Angeles artist Alejandro Poli Jr. (aka Man One / LMU 1993) is a multi-award winning artist, illustrator, curator, and entrepreneur. His work has been exhibited in many galleries worldwide and had numerous solo exhibitions. His work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, The Getty, LACMA, Parco Museum in Tokyo, and the Smithsonian Institute Washington D.C. among others. He has conducted workshops meant to foster mutual respect across ideological lines in Northern Ireland, Japan, Germany, Mexico, Panama, and throughout the US. In 2002, he founded Crewest Gallery in LA to legitimize graffiti art as valuable and collectible and give graffiti artists a professional venue to showcase their work. Man One has been featured on TV and in film including MTV's Pimp My Ride, ABC's Extreme Makeover, America's Next Top Model; John Tucker Must Die, The Roommate; TV commercials for Ford, Microsoft, Target and Verizon. He has also painted live on stages across the country for MTV with The Black Eyed Peas, De La Soul, Wyclef Jean as well as performed with George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic. manone.com

Evan Senn (LMU 2006) is a curator, writer, artist and art historian in the Southern California area. She is currently the Director/Curator for the Golden West College Art Gallery in Huntington Beach and teaches Art History at Laguna College of Art and Design as well as California State University, Fullerton. She is the current Editor-In-Chief for OC Art Blog, the former Editor-In-Chief of Culture Magazine and Inland Empire Weekly, and has worked in staff positions at YAY! LA Mag and Artillery Magazine. Her Master's Thesis and first published book, Cement Sanctuary: Contemporary Street Art in Los Angeles (2011) has helped establish her as an expert in alternative and underground art movements. Evan has contributed to a number of other books on art, including TMRWLND: The Secret Stays Unknown - The Art of Dereck Seltzer & Tina St. Claire (2016), Seeing the Invisible (2015), Yarn Bombing L.A., and many art catalogues. In 2013, Evan was an Artist-in-Residence at Grand Central Art Center, during which she produced a documentary called Life of a [Female] Artist with Ingrid Reeve. She has curated at several Los Angeles and Orange County art galleries since 2005, and has contributed as an arts writer for numerous publications. evansenn.com