Our Jurors

PETER FRANK is Senior Curator at the Riverside Art Museum, art critic for Angeleno Magazine and the L. A. Weekly, and past editor of Visions Art Quarterly. 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, CA in 1988. Frank contributes articles to numerous publications and has written many monographs and catalogues including one-person and group exhibitions. Frank has also organized many theme and survey shows for institutions such as the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain, the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art in St. Louis, MO, Otis Institute of Art and Design in Los Angeles, CA, the Atlanta College of Art (Atlanta, GA), the Raleigh (North Carolina) City Gallery of Contemporary Art, Artists Space, the Alternative Museum, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, all in New York, NY.

Laurence Vittes is music critic with more than 40 years expirience in this field of arts and contributor for Gramophone, The Hollywood Reporter, Strings, HuffPost Arts, Music Web International and Audiophile Audition. He hosts classical music supper club concerts on Saturday nights at Live at the Lounge in Hermosa Beach and Classical Underground concerts in Gardena.

Tony Clark came to Fine Art through a background in ballet in Europe and America. He became a choreographer, director and producer of ballets, operas, plays, films and theater. Upon his return to the US he started Arts of the Theatre Gallery on Larchmont Blvd. As a tireless support of the arts, he produced sixty-four events in one year alone.

This led him to curate French exhibitions internationally. The French government awarded him a knighthood as Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, in recognition of his curation and organizing exhibitions, and in keeping the French arts alive. In 2006 to 2007 he curated a retrospective of the work of Jean Cocteau throughout Japan and organized an exhibition for the Pushkin Museum in Moscow Clark has served, and continues to serve, on the boards of the following organizations: International Conference of Museums, American Association of Museum Directors, The National Museum Review Committee, The French Heritage Society, The National Historical Preservation Society, American Museum Association, Japan American Society, The Shoah Foundation of Visual History, Art in Public Places, Change A Life Foundation and The Hollywood Arts Council. He was appointed to the board of directors for a new museum dedicated to Jean Cocteau et ses amis, that will be built by the Musee Menton in the south of France in 2011.

He, also, represents and manages a few choice contemporary artists that work in 1, 2 and 3D media in the US, UK, France and Japan. These artists include: Ray Klausen, Peter Shire, Anita Rosenberg, William Haugse, Dragan Mrdja, j.Reto, Melanie Manos, Aldo Rossi, William Emboden, David Gardner, Andre Miripolsky and Philip Johnston. He is most proud of discovering Alexandra Nechita at age 10. Four years later he curated an exhibition of her works that toured the entire mainland of Japan.

2010, Clark has curated four exhibitions for Affinity Galleries, four for Shumei Arts Council Pasadena and made an industrial film for CANON on his art and curation of the Shumei exhibition A QUIET MIND. This will be for international distribution.

Frank Schenker has been a key participant in the promotion of  “Cosmopolitan Music”  music in Germany and throughout Europe for the past 20 years. He founded the company AQUARIUS Music Distribution that carried thousands of titles and provided metaphysical stores throughout Western Europe with quality products and services. Frank Schenker also acts as a consultant to many other labels and musicians on various aspects of the business, works as a producer of compilations and helps artists to find distribution partners in the US and Europe. 

AQUARIUS International Music maintains an eclectic roster of artists including Didgeridoo player GARY THOMAS, vocalist/channeler NHANDA DEVI, Sufi music composer KLAUS WIESE, as well as titles with music composed specifically for Chakra balancing and Yoga practice.

Juror Sandra Stevenson has been working in the music industry for over 15 years. She started in the mailroom at A&M Records, moved to Polydor Records as a radio promotion coordinator and got promoted to an executive assistant within a year. She worked as an A&R and production manager at Restless Records, sales manager at ArtistDirect Records, sales director at Foodchain Records, and VP of marketing at Electric Monkey Records. 

In 2003 she co-started the independent rock label Rockview Records and became VP of Marketing and Operations. Since 2008 she holds the position of a general manager at Chalice Recording Studio. Some of the recording projects that Sandra has booked at Chalice were for Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, P. Diddy, Britney Spears, Foo Fighters, Them Crooked Vultures, Prince, U2, Beyoncé and Rihanna… just to name a few.

Yana Reznik is a versatile concert pianist with a modern view on presenting classical music. Born in Moscow, Ms. Reznik holds a bachelor of music degree from the Manhattan School of Music, a master of music degree from the University of Southern California, and a Professional Studies Certificate from the Colburn School of Performing Arts. A winner of the Artists International Competition, Ms. Reznik gave a sold-out Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall Debut in New York in 2004. Her list of performances include the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Bach Festival, Laguna Beach Live, Classical Underground, Colburn Chamber Music Series and the Southern California Brahms Festival.

In 2010, Yana Reznik created the 'Artistic Voyage' concert series, a visionary gathering of musicians and artists to benefit humanitarian organizations around the world. As the series Founder, Director and pianist, she has invited members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestras, the New York based Biava String Quartet and musicians and faculty from the Colburn Conservatory of Music to perform along with exhibitions of leading painters and photographers. Ms. Reznik is bringing classical music to unconventional venues and settings, where classical music can be more accessible to a broader audience.

As The WOW Report's Art and Pop Culture critic, Phil Tarley has covered Art Basel Miami Beach every year since its inception in 2002. As an art journalist, he is a contributing writer to Fabrik Magazine and writes cover stories and feature articles about art and photography for both its print and on-line editions.
Tarley is also an artist and filmmaker. A native New Yorker, his work was exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in 2000, and a thirty hour video oeuvre was recently acquired by the permanent archives of The New York Public Library.
Tarley received his Bachelor's degree in Film and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University after which he returned to New York and a nascent art scene in the East Village. He moved to Rome Italy, working in multiple creative and technical capacities in the Italian film industry and came back to California two years later for a Fellowship with the American Film Institute.
Tarley's writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Adventure Journal, Genre, and the LA WEEKLY among others. His fine art photography, videos and films have been featured in festivals, galleries and private collections the world over.
Phil Tarley is a member of the Los Angeles Art Association. He is currently working on a book of narrative non-fiction travel stories and an effervescent medley of art projects.