ARTIST BIOS

TREVOR TRAYNOR
Originally from the Bronx, Mr. Traynor has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is the recipient of several prestigious awards including Industrial Photographer of the Year at the 1st International Photography Awards. Mr. Traynor's work has also been featured in art fairs across the globe and in a variety of publications such as URB, RIME, elemental, and Remix. His photographs reside in some of the top private, public and corporate collections. Trevor's main role in the exhibit is to capture the bold portraits of those that live, work, play and lay on the streets that make up the Lower Haight Neighborhood.

HALSEY CHAIT
SF/Mission District-based illustrator and muralist with a strong head for puzzles and a pencil for precision. Along with contributing photographs to the photo grids and mapping out their location within the representational blocks, Halsey's main role in the exhibit is to install graphic representations of 'Block People' at the entrance and along the back wall of the space that will sandwhich the imagery of the State of the Lower Haight and provide it with a human form. The installation at the entrance will serve to draw in the crowd from the street and the interactive mural along the back wall of the gallery space will request their participation to give something of themselves to the neighborhood in order to get something from the neighborhood.

GRAHAM THIEL
Through his education as an architect, Bay Area-based designer/builder Graham Thiel came to find that through the lens of a camera one could document the existing condition of a space as is, untouched, in all its vivid detail, whether planned, designed, built, or left unto its own mutation or evolution. Along with contributing photographs of people, places, and textures of all the little things that make up the visual fabric of the Lower Haight neighborhood, Graham's main role is to bring together the artists, performers and peope of the neighborhood into the same space at the same time to collectively decide the State of the Lower Haight.

PHILLIP T. NALES
Nales was born and raised in Sacramento and now resides in San Francisco. Tuesday nights he hosts the Red Light Open Mic at Amnesia Bar in the Mission District. He has been writing and performing poetry for ten years. He is the author of two collections of poems, Sexological Asylum (Cinnamon Poetry Press), and My Woman is a Tree. His performances have crossed stages throughout the world and even found themselves on bits of electronically transmitted media. When not hunched over a classic typewriter clutching a bottle and a few ideas and emotions, he is on stage acting. He is also writing a live travelogue based on his journey to Cuba with his lover.

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