Building Design & Construction magazines 40 Under 40 is a national list of up-and-coming stars in the building design and construction industry. The two Los Angeles representatives named were Tania Van Herle 95, who works for Harley Ellis Devereaux, an architecture and engineering firm, and Patrick Tighe 93. Works by Katy Bowen 96 were on display this spring in Consumerism & Product #1, a two-person show at Gallery Revisited, Los Angeles. Katy Bowen, Pacific Northwest (2006), acrylic on wood panel, felt and pompoms, 11 1/2" x 10" Photographs by Bia Gayotto 96 were shown at Haus Gallery, Pasadena, last fall. Her work was also included in a group show, A Power of Expansion, at 4-F in Los Angeles earlier this year. New sculptures by Liz Craft 97 were exhibited at Peres Projects, Los Angeles last fall. Liz Craft, Table Guy (2005), sculpture, painted bronze, 60" x 32" x 21", edition of 3 + 2 AP, photo courtesy of Peres Projects, Los Angeles and Berlin |  | Choreographer, dancer and teacher Sophiline Cheam Shapiro 97 has been awarded the 2006 Nikkei Asia Prize for Culture by Nihon Keizai Shimbum, Inc. The prizes, which are awarded each year, shine a spotlight on outstanding individuals who have contributed to the stability, development and enrichment of peoples lives in Asia. David Beaudry 98 has taught in the UCLA Department of Theatre and freelances as a clarinet/bass clarinet player with local orchestras and on film recording projects. Intermission, a solo exhibition of works by Slater Bradley 98, was on view at Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Basel, Switzerland, late last year. Jose L.S. Gamez 99 was a member of the design team of assemblage-STUDIO, Las Vegas, for the Mesquite Heritage and Art Center in Mesquite, Nevada.  Mesquite Cultural Heritage and Art Center, Mesquite, NV, Jose Gamez, assemblageSTUDIO John Hajda 99 is a visiting assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. An exhibition of new work by Sandeep Mukherjee 99 was on view last fall at sister, Los Angeles. Sagar Chavan 00 works with Frank R. Webb Architects in Culver City, California, and was a member of the project team for Independence Park in Downey, California. |  | David Montalba 00 received a 2005 AIA/LA Next Design Award for the Vertical Parcspace Lofts project. Last year, work by Erin Cosgrove 01 was shown in On Imagining Terror: The RAF. An Exhibition at Kunst-Werke, Berlin, and Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria. Her work was also shown in Van RAF tot Hofstad, Kunste en Terrorisme at Impakt, the Netherlands. Justin Goldwater 01 is working as an animator on the new Richard Linklater film, A Scanner Darkly, starring Keanu Reeves. Los Angeles based PURE Design, formed by Rui Gu 01, Guoping Shi 01 and Yingzi Su 01, won first prize in an invited competition for their design for the Zhuhai Forest Creek Artist Community in China. Roxanne Tuton Jeppesen 01 is music coordinator and private teacher in the Sulphur Springs and Saugus school districts in California. Recent paintings by Heather Brown 02 and current UCLA art student Jacob Stewart-Halevy were exhibited this past spring at Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles. This spring, Tone Nielsen 02 was among those included in Rethinking Nordic Colonialism, a group show of work by international artists on view at the Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland. An architectural project designed and completed by Apurva Pande 02 was featured in Architectural Record under the emerging architects section. Beautiful Dreams: New Sculpture, an exhibition of work by Tanya Batura 03, was on view at Western Project, Culver City, California earlier this year. A solo exhibition of new oil paintings by Whitney Bedford 03 was on view last fall at cherrydelosreyes, Los Angeles. |