Machine Dazzle (née Matthew Flower) All That Glitters
The Philadelphia born, New York-based performance artist, costume designer and sculptor, whose degree in art from the University of Colorado eventually took him to the Big Apple where he hooked up with the club crowd, ultimately creatively partnering with...
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John Fleck Shapeshifter Extraordinaire
The Cleveland-born, Los Angeles-based performance artist - his notoriety as one of the NEA Four whose grants were denied and his outrageous one-man shows such as Psycho Opera, Dirt and A Snowball’s Chance in Hell, along with his more than 120 credits in...
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Deirdre Sullivan-Beeman Conjuring Magic, Mysticism and Mystery
The Los Angeles and Vancouver-based self-taught figurative and contemporary surrealist painter whose modified oil and egg tempera techniques originally used by the Old Masters, creates works of magical realism – her subjects are often young, hauntingly...
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Robbie Conal The Godfather of Guerilla Poster Artists
The Manhattan-born only child of Communist union organizers, and American guerilla poster artist whose gnarled, grotesque depictions of U.S. political figures are immediately recognizable and have been printed and plastered across America - from the...
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Luke Chueh Manipulating the Narrative
The Philadelphia-born, Fresno-raised award-winning graphic designer and illustrator whose works stylistically balance cute with brute – all walking the fine line between comedy and tragedy while employing minimal color schemes, simple animal characters and...
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Gregg Gibbs A Taste for the Outré
A third generation Angeleno whose recognizable work as an artist, filmmaker, production designer and performance artist veers from the realistic and offbeat to the blatantly bizarre - and whose documentaries include I, Gauguin, The Treasures of Long Gone...
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Chaz Guest A Passion for People
The Niagara Falls-born, Los Angeles-based painter and sculptor who was appointed Goodwill Ambassador to the Republic of Gambia in 2011 and whose time spent in Manhattan, Paris and Tokyo, at first as a fashion illustrator - infuses his figurative...
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Jimi Gleason Slamming in Silver
The Newport Beach-born artist whose time spent in New York, Berkeley and San Francisco helped hone is approach to painting - he combines the disparate technical and compositional skills developed during his exposure to printmaking, photography and...
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Sussan Deyhim A Diva For Our Time
The Iranian-born, L.A.-based singer, composer, theater artist and activist, whose background also includes dance, media and film, has worked with legendary musicians including Ornette Coleman and Peter Gabriel, and visual artists such as Shirin Neshat - as...
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Osceola Refetoff Capturing 'What The Picture Requires'
With a graduate degree in film from NYU and his motion picture background informing his approach to constructing visual narratives, the Montreal-born, L.A.-based photographer whose interest lies in documenting humanity’s impact on the world – both the...
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Aline Mare Examining The Animate & Inanimate
With early forays into the New York experimental film, theater and performance art scenes, the L.A.-based multi-media artist who combines photography and painting in stylized portrayals of nature and landscapes - and also makes use of body images to create...
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Kelly Berg From Volcanos To Pancakes
A millennial with an old soul, the L.A.-based artist with a fondness for volcanoes - and whose works careen between the texturally abstract and representational paintings that include natural disasters - plumbs her own psychological depths only to discover...
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Lita Albuquerque The Ultimate Cosmic Explorer
The internationally renowned installation, environmental artist, painter and sculptor, who has developed a visual language that brings the realities of time and space to a human scale - and is acclaimed for her ephemeral and permanent art works executed in...
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JT Steiny The Deadline King
The award-winning illustrator, painter, cartoonist, book designer and all-around guerilla artist who makes small watercolors and affixes them to the outsides of sacrosanct buildings such as the Getty Center and Neiman Marcus for people to take, plumbs his...
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Andre Miripolsky Fearing No Art
The award-winning, L.A.-based artist plumbs his own psychological depths only to discover what makes him love work and life. What historical art figure would you like to have lunch with and why? I would love to dine with Picasso and discuss African art....
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Laurie Lipton The Lady Doth Draw
An aesthetic descendant of Dürer, Goya and Rembrandt – with a dash of Arbus thrown in for good measure – the L.A.-based artist plumbs her own psychological depths only to discover what makes her love work and life. What historical art figure would you like...
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Mary Woronov Ferocious, Fractious, Fabulous
Warhol and Roger Corman B-movie cult queen - and star of such films as Chelsea Girls, Death Race 2000 and Rock 'n' Roll High School - writer of books that include Snake, Blind Love, and Swimming Underground: My Years in the Warhol Factory, as well as an...
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Mark Hanauer A Soulful Eye
The in-demand photographer with an experienced, ever-searching eye, who moves seamlessly between genres – from evocative portraits to ethereal meditations on flowers or visceral landscapes – and also stays within the moment while exploring the technical,...
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