"To consider the small, in all its detail, is to journey inward, knowing the greatest depths."
"~Cheryl, A Smallist creator"
Alisa "XS" Ochoa was born in 1973 and studied Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara. After teaching Art at universities in Romania and United States, she joined The Smallists, where she devoted herself to full-time research germane to the production and reception of art, and the claims we make upon our understanding of the nature of small things. Her work draws, sometimes literally, on a wide range of obscure material. Ochoa has published a number of articles on avant-garde poetry, and her art work appeared most recently in Post House, an independent artists space in Los Angeles.
CherylArtist Cheryl Killingsworth was born in Mountain View, CA and lived in the area untill she entered college in 1994. She received her BA in Art Studio in 1998 from the University of California Santa Barbara and went on to receive her MFA in 2001 from the Royal College of Art in London. Killingsworth has had several group and solo exhibitions, most recently, L'Art Microscopique which opened July 2003 at Le Garage in Paris.
KristenKristen Black is the author of various writings devoted to the advancement of the Smallist theory. She travels the world promoting the movement, as well as exhibiting her Smallist works. Her art consistently illustrates the value of the small in all things. She considers the small to facilitate the greatest of all aesthetic experiences.
KonstantinMy name is Konstantin Afinogenov, I was born in Moscow, Idaho. I recieved my BA of Art at UCSB and then went onto Harvard for my MA and PHD in Nanotechnology. I became devoted to the smallist when I was shrunk down to less than an inch by a freak accident when a blind seagull ran into a powerline, which fell onto my labratory and sent a shockwave through my equipment. The equipment malfunctioned, where a laser hit me and caused me to shrink. I am now forever devoted to the smallists.
LoieMiss Loie Holly Hollowell was just starting to show her face in the New York art world until she had an accident. In 1989 Loie got her MFA at Yale University. During the first eight years after Grad school she was gaining acknowledgement for her gigantic, surrealistic metal sculptures. Tragically, three years ago, while in her welding shop one of her sculptures fell on her head and she was knocked unconscious for a week. Upon awakening she had a life changing realization, which told her to spend the rest of her life preaching and making art about smallness in every form. She no longer makes work that anyone can see.
NickNicholas Brand's involvement in the smallest movement started four weeks before he was to graduate college, when at 4am he fell asleep at his computer. An electrical surge erupted from his keyboard, conducted through drool, altered his brain's chemistry. He is now 42 and now devotes himself solely to the smallest movement. Working in his parent's basement and using a wireless keyboard that uses low-power energizer batteries, he released the smallist website.