Sundown Salon #14: Showdown! - MILLIE WILSON & JESSICA RATH

Millie Wilson is an artist and teacher at the Califonia Institute of Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including New York, Los Angeles, London, Rome and Melbourne. Exhibition venues include the Matthew Marks Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, White Columns, Drawing Center, Sonnabend Gallery, Thread Waxing Space, Hayward Gallery, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Walker Art Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, SITE Santa Fe/Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Santa Monica Museum of Art and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Wilson has received numerous grants including an NEA Visual Artists Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship and a City of Los Angeles Artist Grant.

Jessica Rath is a Los Angeles artist whose sculptures, installations and performance works explore aspects of human vulnerability and the seductive nature of power. She often refers to the human scale through the use of clothing in her work and attempts to harness the monumentality of architecture by applying American craft and sewing either directly or figuratively to sites. In 2001-2002, Rath was commissioned by the LA County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to create an experimental and temporary piece which became "Return Engagement to Garment City," a theatrical work inspired by the historic rise and fall of 1930s organized garment workers who used high fashion marches in Los Angeles to support their cause. Most recently she has exhibited at London Street Projects, L.A and the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, L.A. and been the recipient of the Bridge Residency Award at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA.