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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

"Hollywood's Best Kept Secret: The Fine Art of Storyboard Artists"

Darek Gogol, Trevor Goring, Collin Grant, Ed Natividad and Marc Vena

February 7, 2004 - March 4, 2004

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 7, 5 - 8 PM

Santa Monica, Calif. -- February 5, 2004 -- The Schomburg Gallery is pleased to announce "Hollywood's Best Kept Secret: The Fine Art of Storyboard Artists," an exhibition that brings together five of the best kept secrets in Hollywood. These artists' visions have helped shape major studio releases including Independence Day, Star Wars: Episode I, The Matrix, Forrest Gump, Minority Report, Mission Impossible 2, Entrapment, and Rush Hour. The directors they have worked with include Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Robert Zemeckis, Robert Redford, Roland Emmerich, Andy & Larry Wachowski, Joel Schumacher, Chris Columbus, Michael Bay, Lawrence Kasdan, Bryan Singer, Gore Verbinski, Ron Shelton, John Woo, Brett Ratner and many others Š These storyboard artists are also fine artists; their unique original artwork will also be on display - and for sale - at Schomburg Gallery.

Darek Gogol was raised in Poland and attended the College of Art and Design in Lodz. He emigrated to England in the early 1980s and started working as an illustrator in animation and commercial advertising. He segued into movie production with Steven Spielberg's London-based animation company, Amblimation, and subsequently moved to the United States in 1991 to work on many of the Disney animation classics, including Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King and Pocohontas. When Dreamworks started up, he was offered the position of Production Designer on their first animated feature, The Prince of Egypt. In parallel with his animation career, Darek has also had the opportunity to work as a concept designer with many of Hollywood's top live-action directors on movies including Matrix, Pirates of the Caribbean, Armageddon, and Minority Report.

Trevor Goring was born in Birmingham, England. He received his BA in Graphic Design at St. Martin's School of Art, in London, with post-graduate work in illustration. After college, he illustrated magazines, comics, and books, as well as an animated series for the BBC. Later, he established "Helicopter Studios" - a large, cutting-edge advertising studio that gave starts to many promising artists. In 1991, Trevor entered the Hollywood film business starting with Ron Shelton's Cobb. He has continuously done storyboards and concepts for major features such as Independence Day, Final Fantasy, Mighty Joe Young, Gattaca, The Cell, Fantastic Four, Spawn, X2: X - Men United, The Ring, Mission Impossible II, Entrapment, Godzilla, Mask of Zorro, Tin Cup, and The Italian Job. Trevor has worked on over 35 films of drama, fantasy and science fiction. Trevor's newest endeavor is the comic production company Electric Spaghetti Comics, which helps film artists and writers enter the world of graphic novels.

Collin Grant was born in Hackney, London. He attended City of London Polytechnic and Eastman College of Technology, where he received his diploma in Graphic Design. Collin worked for several art companies in London - Drawers, Creative Direction and Up To Scratch - before moving to LA in 1993. Collin Grant has worked as a storyboard artist on a variety of films some of which include: The Matrix, The Fifth Element, Daredevil, X-Men 2, The Edge, and Batman and Robin.

Ed Natividad is a graduate of the Center for Creative Studies College of Art Design in Detroit. While at the Center for Creative Studies, Ed majored in transportation design and illustration, and took a minor in anatomy. Ed was both a storyboard and conceptual artist for Star Wars Episode I. As conceptual artist he helped shape the look of Episode I's architectural elements, costumes and weaponry. Ed started working at George Lucas' special effects company Industrial Light & Magic in 1994. In addition to Episode I, his credits as storyboard and conceptual artist include Armageddon, Batman & Robin, Forrest Gump, Matrix 2/3 and Terminator 3.

Marc Vena was born in Manhattan Beach, California. He received his BFA in Illustration from California State University at Long Beach and started working as a storyboard artist for live action movies soon after. Through the years, Marc has worked for many prestigious directors including Robert Redford, Lawrence Kasdan and Alfonso Arau. He enjoys all the layers of talent in the movie making business from writers and stuntmen to special effects people and directors. In his free time, Marc enjoys doing watercolor paintings and leatherwork as well as a significant amount of sketching. Marc Vena's storyboard credits include A Walk in the Clouds, Bicentennial Man, Bones, Coyote Ugly, Daddy Daycare, Dreamcatcher, Final Fantasy, I Know What You did Last Summer, Mortal Kombat, Rush Hour I and II, The Horse Whisperer, The Mists of Avalon and X-Men 2.

Gallery Director Susan Schomburg is the granddaughter of "Golden Age of Comics" cover artist Alex Schomburg. (Alex Schomburg is regarded as the definitive Golden Age cover artist by Spiderman and Hulk creator Stan Lee.) Susan Schomburg's grandfather was also the first artist hired to work on Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

FOR VISUALS OR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
Susan Schomburg, Director
Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Avenue, E3A, Santa Monica, CA 90404
Tel: 310-453-5757 Fax: 310-453-5758 info@schomburggallery.com
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