Brett Littman in a poolside chat with the wildly illustrative Clayton Brothers (Rob and Christian) and, through a translator, the highly political Salvadoran artist Ronald Moran.

Ronald Moran's installation at Art Basel Miami Beach consisted of an all-white room made from white foam padding and furnished with objects found in nearby Dumpsters. The piece was an extension of an earlier work that Moran made to address the subject of domestic violence in his native El Salvador. It now resides in the private collection of Miami's Martin Z. Margulies. Moran is represented by Klaus Steinmetz Arte Contemporaneo, San Rafael de Escazu. You can see recent work by The Clayton Brothers in a group show at Dinter Fine Art, on view from January 27 through March 26, 2005, and curated by artist Taylor McKimens. Together they make spontaneous, densely plotted, illustrative paintings teeming with narrative possibilities. Both teach painting and illustration at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA and were represented at the art fair by Houston's Mackey Gallery. Released October 2003, "The Most Special Day of My Life" is a 192-page, full-color, hardcover volume containing works by Rob Clayton, Christian Clayton and the Clayton Brothers, with essays by Michael Criley, Jeff Kling and Long Gone John. The brothers live in Los Angeles.