id: Photographs by Andrew Overtoom April 25, 2013

FREE OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 7-9 p.m.
Gallery hours: Mon-Fri 6-10 p.m. / Sat 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Andrew Overtoom's "id" collection features selected photographs of Los Angeles drag artists and female impersonators. Overtoom's sensitive and insightful portraits document a fascinating cross section of this remarkable community.

The exhibit’s title suggests the part of the mind, the id, in which innate instinctive impulses and primary processes are manifest. It also refers to I.D., how one identifies.

Andrew Overtoom is a filmmaker and photographer working in Los Angeles. He specializes in medium and large format portraiture and analog/digital hybrid darkroom techniques. Overtoom also authors the Undead Neg blog.

When he's not in the darkroom or his Echo Park studio, Overtoom works as an animation director, screenwriter and cinematographer, best known for his work on the animated television series Family Guy, Phineas & Ferb, and SpongeBob SquarePants, for which he was nominated for Emmy Awards in 2004, 2007 and 2011. Overtoom wrote, directed and photographed the award-winning feature film My Life with Morrissey in 2003, followed by the documentary Real Life with Morrissey in 2004.