CONTRIBUTORS MASTHEAD Publisher Chris Davies Associate Editor Peter Frank Creative Director Chris Davies Art Direction & Design Shout Design Group Paul Soady Contributing Writers Jacki Apple Aparna Bakhle-Ellis Peter Frank Phil Tarley Dale Youngman Contributing Photographer Ted VanCleave
JACKI APPLE Jacki Apple is a Los Angeles-based visual, performance, and media artist, designer, writer, composer, and producer whose work has been presented internationally. Her writings have been featured in numerous publications including THE Magazine LA, The Drama Review, Art Journal, and High Performance. She is a professor at Art Center College of Design.
APARNA BAKHLE-ELLIS Bollywood born and bred Aparna Bakhle-Ellis studied film at Emerson College in Boston before checking into Hotel California. A writer enthralled by the consonance and dissonance of being specifically in Los Angeles, she is also Fabrik’s managing editor. Her interests include modern art, l’écriture féminine and conscious parenting.
PETER FRANK Account Executive Dale Youngman Production Associate Allem Ramirez
Peter Frank is Senior Curator at the Riverside Art Museum and is also the Associate Editor for Fabrik. He was born in 1950 in New York, where he served as art critic for The Village Voice and The SoHo Weekly News, and moved to Los Angeles in 1988.
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PHIL TARLEY Phil Tarley is a Fellow of The American Film Institute, an artist and a filmmaker. He is currently working on a book of narrative non-fiction travel stories.
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Dale Youngman is a freelance curator and writer who has been living in LA for 15 years. Her raison d’être is to reverse the paradigm of the starving artist, one at a time.
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ISSUE 11
ON THE COVER
‘The Beatification’ by Featured Artist David LaChapelle.