Griffith Park Archives

John Fleck
Shapeshifter Extraordinaire

by Victoria Looseleaf | Feb 18, 2022 | The DaVinci Questionnaire

The Cleveland-born, Los Angeles-based performance artist – his notoriety as one of the NEA Four whose grants were denied and his outrageous one-man shows such as Psycho Opera, Dirt and A Snowball’s Chance in Hell, along with his more than 120 credits in movies...

Deirdre Sullivan-Beeman
Conjuring Magic, Mysticism and Mystery

by Victoria Looseleaf | Oct 11, 2019 | The DaVinci Questionnaire

The Los Angeles and Vancouver-based self-taught figurative and contemporary surrealist painter whose modified oil and egg tempera techniques originally used by the Old Masters, creates works of magical realism – her subjects are often young, hauntingly innocent and...