Gajin Fujita Art Ninja
A Los Angeles-based graffiti artist and member of LA graffiti crews K2S and KGB, Gajin Fujita, who blends Eastern techniques and elements (anime, ukiyo-e; geishas, demons) with Western urban imagery, and has exhibited at galleries and museums such as LACMA and L.A....
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 to have...
Charles Arnoldi A Constantly Expanding Vocabulary of Artistic Expression
Ohio-born, Los Angeles-based abstract painter, printmaker and sculptor, Charles Arnoldi, whose 50-year passion for the material world, a commitment to experimentation and a tireless focus on studio production – and whose work has been exhibited in galleries including...
Refik Anadol Painting With a Thinking Brush
Born in Turkey in 1984, Los Angeles-based media artist, director and pioneer in the aesthetics of data and machine intelligence whose work locates creativity at the intersection of humans and machines and has been installed globally, including in Italy, France,...
“Jim Shaw: Thinking the Unthinkable” The Impossibility of Examining Our Own Consciousness
Reanimating mythological themes through incidents from political history and popular entertainment in disparate fields that collide in a dreamlike mélange, L.A.-based artist Jim Shaw - whose works are included in such institutions as the Hammer Museum, San Francisco...
Luciana Abait Dedicated to the Environment
Buenos Aires-born, L.A.-based Luciana Abait, who deals with climate change and environmental fragility and their impacts on immigration - and whose artworks have been shown widely in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia, and are held in private, public...
Shag Lowbrow Artist Extraordinaire
Grooving his way through life, Southern California-born painter and designer Josh Agle, AKA, Shag, whose paintings of mid-century modern fantasy worlds of debauchery, la dolce vita and drinks galore, vividly celebrate consumerism and consumption in equal measure as...
Casper Brindle Exploring the Possibilities of Color, Light and Form
Los Angeles-based Casper Brindle, a contemporary disciple of the 1960s and 70s Light and Space generation whose paintings explore the expressive possibilities of color, light and form and range from spectacularly technicolor to subtly monochromatic – and whose work...
Aaron Rose An Indefatigable Artistic Force
Los Angeles-based artist, writer, musician, independent curator, erstwhile owner/director of the NYC Alleged Gallery and helmer of the 2008 cult documentary, “Beautiful Losers” – whose teenage experience with Mod culture led to a collaboration with DC and whose public...
Kelly Berg From Volcanoes 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 what makes...
Simon Birch Delving Into Allegorical States of the Human Condition
British-born, Hong Kong-based Simon Birch, who has been awarded the prestigious Louis Vuitton Asian Art Prize and the Sovereign Asian Art Prize, and whose work has encompassed sculpture, painting, photography, performance, video and large-scale multi-media...
Chloe Sells Creating a Psychedelic Ride Through the Mind of Hunter S. Thompson
Born in Aspen, CO in 1976, the Ubud, Bali-based photographer, who graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and whose work has been exhibited in multiple solo and group exhibitions internationally while living between London, UK and Maun, Botswana - and has...
Sophie Kipner Engaged, Aware and Continually Searching
Born and raised in Topanga Canyon and primarily using the blind contouring technique – drawing the shape of a subject without looking at the paper by exploring the boundaries of form, identity, play and body language, ultimately transforming the images into something...
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 acclaimed...
RISK The Godfather of West Coast Graffiti
The Los Angeles-based, internationally known graffiti artist and muralist extraordinaire, who has collaborated with musicians, including Slash, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Halsey and more – and who also works with brands such as the NFL, Lyft, and Marvel Studios, as well...
Shana Mabari Traversing Science, Astrophysics and Marine Conservation
The Los Angeles-based contemporary artist whose engagement with color, light, reflection and geometric forms that are on a continuum connected to the 1960s Light and Space movement - and whose work has taken her to Paris, Ibiza, Northern India, Southeast Asia and Tel...
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 the...
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 movies and TV,...
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 expressionist...
Conrad Egyir Transcending Narratives
Born and raised in Ghana and known for his bold, graphic portraits of Black individuals that deliver the visual punch of Pop art and are portrayed like royalty and other canonized icons - his subjects reign over canvases shaped like large-scale stamps, postcards, and...
