No Trespassing, 1998
  Assemblage Art/Mixed Media
32"H X 44"W

Bobby Furst was born Robert Saint Knowles the Third on Long Island, New York in 1953. In 1955 he and his mother moved to Los Angeles, California.

In 1959, after his mother remarried to documentary filmmaker Peter Furst they moved to Laurel Canyon in the Hollywood Hills. In the early 1960's Bobby would roam the canyons and trails collecting sticks, stones, bones, etc. Walking to school on Thursday mornings he would raid the local trashcans and stow his finds in bushes to be taken home later that day.

Making order out of the chaos of these castoffs was the beginning of a life long pursuit of collecting stuff and assembling art.

Since moving to the High Desert in 2005 he has continued his quest of turning objects upside down and inside out, inviting viewers to see familier objects anew, thereby creating new worlds and new landscapes of language and image.

Diane Best was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied in the San Francisco area (Stanford University, San Francisco Art Institute), before moving south to Los Angeles.

Working off of the tradition of the American conservationist artists of the 19th century, Best strives to update landscape painting utilizing contemporary theories of perception that have been influenced by deep ecology, photography, cinema, digital imaging, and animation.

Diane Best’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Joshua Tree, 29 Palms, Palm Springs, New Hampshire, New York, and Boston.
Her work has been profiled in the publication “Lifescapes; West Coast Art & Design”.

Recently, Diane’s work was exhibited at the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles and the Carnegie Museum in Oxnard, CA.