Camille Rose Garcia Art Both Hallucinatory and Earth-Bound
Artist and author Camille Rose Garcia – whose works of layered, broken narrative paintings of wasteland fairy tales and are influenced by vintage Disney and Fleischer cartoons, and are also in the collections of museums including The Los Angeles County Museum of Art...
Urs Fischer Exploring Themes of Perception and Representation
Born in Zurich, the New York/L.A.-based, Urs Fischer, who mines the potential of materials from clay, steel, and paint, to bread, dirt, and produce in order to create works that disorient and bewilder – and whose collections are included in, among others, New York’s...
Catherine Opie Plotting a Ghost Map of Sites and Personae
For more than three decades, Ohio-born, L.A.-based Catherine Opie – whose work is included in museums worldwide and whose venerated photographs range from lesbian families, surfers, Tea Party gatherings and riveting self-portraits, to abstract landscapes of national...
Alison Saar A Visionary Synthesizer of Personal and Collective Histories
Los Angeles-based artist and 2025 Driskell Prize Recipient, Alison Saar – whose sculptures, installations and prints are deeply rooted in the African diaspora, Black female identity, and global spiritual traditions, and have been displayed at, among other...
Robert Williams: ‘Fearless Depictions’ The King of Pop Surrealism and Lord of Lowbrow Art
Los Angeles-based artist Robert Williams – whose epic, cartoon-inspired history paintings draw deeply from American vernacular culture and its visual slang, using concrete, relatable, and often absurd imagery to deliver sharp social commentary – and who was a founding...
Ralph Steadman: ‘A Life in Ink’ An Artist Nonpareil
The savage satirist and internationally renowned 89-year old British illustrator who captured the zeitgeist over decades with his political and social caricatures, cartoons, album covers and art books with his signature ink-splatter style – and forged an indelible...
Morleigh Steinberg A Polymath Extraordinaire
Los Angeles-based Morleigh Steinberg – an artist, dancer, choreographer, filmmaker and ARCANE Space gallerist whose performances have appeared at the Guggenheim Museum (NYC), The Hammer Museum (LA), and numerous venues across Europe, and who has also designed and...
Barbara T. Smith Mining Her Own Biography
Los Angeles-based Barbara T. Smith – the barrier-smashing pioneer of body-focused performance and Conceptual art in the 60s and 70s, and whose work has continually gained prominence with each passing decade – including the 2023 career-spanning exhibitions, Barbara T....
Marilyn Minter Paying Homage to Art Historical Conventions of Portraiture and Representation
New York-based Marilyn Minter – whose work both resonates and repels, and who balances between exquisite material execution, personal homage, and art historical excavation, and who has exhibited in museums around the world, including at the Guggenheim Bilbao, the...
Nir Hod Delving Into the Duality of Human Nature
New York-based Nir Hod – who delves into the duality of human nature as subject matter for his paintings that are achieved through color palettes and relaxed brushwork, and has had solo exhibitions in the United States, as well as having been in numerous group...
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...
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...
Mona Kuhn Portraying the Complexities of Human Nature
Brazilian-born, Los Angeles-based artist Mona Kuhn, acclaimed for her contemporary depictions of the nude through intimacy with her subjects, knowledge of traditional iconography and technical mastery, as well as portraying the complexities of human nature, both...
Elliott Hundley An Aesthetic of Intimacy
Los Angeles-based Elliott Hundley – whose distinct billboard collages are drawn from elaborate photo shoots in which his friends and family become the performative subjects and incorporate paint, encaustic, collage, fabric and other materials, and whose works are...
Llyn Foulkes The Quintessential Maverick
Los Angeles-based Llyn Foulkes – known for his mixed-media practice, notably his satirical paintings of historic and commercial American icons, and whose works have been included in the collections of, among others, MOCA, the Guggenheim Museum, L.A.’s The Hammer and...
Don Bachardy An Artist For All Seasons
Still at the top of his game at 90, the eternally youthful, Los Angeles-born artist Don Bachardy, whose evocative, unstinting and visceral portraits of artists, Hollywood royalty and friends, as well as soul-defining self-portraiture, with works numbering in the...
Doug Aitken Blurring Boundaries Between the Natural World, Technology and Human Intervention
An artist exploring every medium, from sculpture, film and installations to architectural interventions, Los Angeles-based Doug Aitken – whose works have been exhibited in hundreds of museums and galleries around the world, including at MoMA, the Hirshhorn Museum and...
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...
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...
Alex Israel Exploring Pop Culture As a Global Visual Language
Los Angeles-based Alex Israel – known for exploring the vacuity of celebrity culture through paintings, sculptures, installations and videos that center on signifiers of this culture, from sunglasses to director’s chairs to celebrities themselves, and is in...



















