2013/14

Dayna Lee and Ted Berner are founders and principal designers of Powerstrip Studio. Graduates of Rhode Island School of Design with Fine Arts degrees, both are international award-winning designers. With their background in motion picture industry art direction, Dayna and Ted have established a reputation for their cinematic approach to design. After college, Dayna and Ted worked in media, fashion and the film industry providing concept design and graphic design for photographer Helmut Newton, illustration for designer Ralph Lauren, and editorial New York Times. Lee and Berner have each received Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Art Direction for “Sting, All this Time.” Their careers include work for films by Ridley Scott, Paul T Anderson, Jim Jarmusch and Kevin Costner. All experiences led to the creation of Powerstrip Studio, an LA based multidisciplinary design studio of interior designers and architects specializing in conceptual design and execution of public and private environments. With diverse international projects in urban, resort, and mountain locations, Powerstrip Studio was awarded 2017 Best Hotel Design in Europe under 200 Keys) International Hotel and Properties / Design et Al, for their design of Hotel Zoo in Berlin and 2018 Best Suites Design in North Americas & Caribbean International Hotel and Properties / Design et Al, for their design of Seafire Resort & Spa. Current projects are culturally diverse and in East Berlin, London in Southbank and Westminster, the Teton Mountains of Jackson Hole, the island of Grand Cayman, glass skyscraper in Indonesia and historic guesthouses in Key West.

Matthew Spencer graduated summa cum laude from the College for Creative Studies in May of 2014 with a BFA in Illustration.

He has vested interest in how our world is represented to us through simulated images in the media and how these in turn form our comprehension of the world around us, basing his pieces on images from the media and internet. His works are cynical of utopian notions surrounding our relationship with the natural world, effectively combining medium, process and aesthetics as message.

In 2011 Ryan Stanier launched the Other Art Fair. Eliminating the middleman (galleries), Ryan created a space for artists to come and show their talent. Tremendously popular from the very beginning, the fair attracts more than 40,000 visitors and exhibits over 100 artists. In 2011 Ryan launched the Other Art Fair with the intent to create a space for artists to come and show their talent. Tremendously popular from the very beginning, the fair attracts more than 40,000 visitors and exhibits over 100 artists.

Graduate of St. Martin’s School of Art London and subsequently the Royal College of Art London, Graham Crowley is often regarded as one of the most distinguished living painters in the UK. He has held a number of significant teaching posts, most recently Professor of Painting at the RCA. He has shown in seven previous John Moores exhibitions and won joint second prize in 1987. He is represented in several public collections and has exhibited in numerous group shows, winning the ING Purchase Prize at The Discerning Eye Mall Galleries London 2004. His most recent solo show was at Beaux Arts London 2005.

Painter and printmaker Carol Robertson, is a former first place recipient of the prestigious Sunday Times Watercolour Competition. Previously a Research Fellow in Painting at Cardiff School of Art & Design, Carol is now widely exhibited in an extensive list of international locations.

Known for his cut outs into the plaster of walls in mainly derelict buildings and spaces, Goldsmith’s graduate Terry Smith was a recipient of the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Award in 2008. Smith notably held the keys to the Tate Turbine hall, during the refurbishment in 1996 having been given permission to create his work in the walls and spaces of the building that was to become Tate Modern.