This catalogue presents forty artists who have had a solo exhibition in the Joseph Clayes III Gallery at the Athenaeum since 1990, and have a piece in the permanent collection. It highlights many San Diego artists who were instrumental in defining the local art scene.

Artists in order of collection:

James Hubbell, William Wegman, Italo Scanga, Roger Mertin, Patricia Patterson, Ming Mur-Ray, Becky Cohen, Mauro Staccioli, Rolf Händler, Nina Katchadourian, Ernest Silva, Harry Sternberg, Russell Forester, Phel Steinmetz, Faiya Fredman, Jean Lowe, Zandra Rhodes, Raul Guerrero, Christine Oatman, Manny Farber, Peter Dreher, David Teeple, Joyce Cutler-Shaw, Viviana Lombrozo, Derek Boshier, Kim MacConnel, Teddy Cruz, Luc Leestemaker, Marcos Ramírez ERRE, Alida Cervantes, Philipp Scholz Rittermann, Doris Bittar, Adam Belt, Ken Goldman, Roman de Salvo, Jay Johnson, Stephen Curry, David Adey, Gail Roberts, Anne Labovitz.

Introduction and Acknowledgments by Erika Torri
Catalogue Entries by Cornelia Feye
Essay by Lucía Sanromán
Edited by Julie Dunn
Designed by Tyler Blik of Blik
Artworks photographed by Philipp Scholz Rittermann
Portraits photographed by Jennifer Atkinson, Victor Ha, Roy Porello, and Don Mirra.

Edition of 2,000 copies

Hardcover with dust jacket cover, 126 pages, 24 x 31 cm.

Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
La Jolla, California
2012

ISBN: 978-0-9828289-1-5