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...
Ilana Savdie Charting Novel Body/Dreamscapes
Raised between Barranquilla, Colombia and Miami, FL, Brooklyn, NY-based contemporary artist Ilana Savdie, born in 1986 and whose meticulous approach to color and surrealistic take on the human body begins with drawings of fragmented limbs - her paintings teeter...
Julian Lennon A Global Emissary for Art and Empathy
Award-winning humanitarian, singer/songwriter, filmmaker, fine arts photographer, New York Times bestselling author and founder of The White Feather Foundation, an organization that brings lifesaving natural resources to people in developing nations around the world -...
Ralph Steadman: ‘A Life in Ink’ An Artist Nonpareil
The savage satirist and internationally renowned 85-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...
Gisela Cólon Conjuring the Ancient Divine Feminine and the Sci-Fi Future
Canadian-born, Puerto Rican-raised, L.A.-based contemporary artist Gisela Colón, whose unique sculptural language of "organic minimalism" breathes life-like qualities into reductive forms through a vocabulary of anthropomorphic geometries in order to create pristine...
Leigh Salgado A Feminist For Our Time
In her three-decade career, San Diego-born Leigh Salgado, whose labor-intensive, feminist-driven work - sometimes labeled Sculpted Drawing and includes altering monotypes with cutting, painting and the addition of eyelets or fasteners, with each drawing resembling a...
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...
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,...
Robert Vargas Promoting Accessible Art and Community Through the Creative Process
A contemporary artist known for his mixed-media portraits, murals and live events, the native Angeleno - a leading creative force in the revitalization of Downtown LA’s art scene whose works infuse classic genres of portraiture and nudes with an avant-garde...
Rebecca Campbell Distilling the Intensity of the Moment By Capturing Its Opposite
A Salt Lake City-born, Los Angeles-based artist whose works include paintings and multimedia sculpture installations that investigate her own family history – revealing the changing nature of relationships over time and space through a reimagining of found images that...
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...
Serge Attukwei Clottey Exploring Issues of Belonging and Place
A Ghana-born and based artist whose works include installations, performances, photography and sculptures that seek to update the visual language of historical images to fit the contemporary – and is also the creator of Afrogallonism, an artistic concept that explores...
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 intersection of...
Tadashi Moriyama Metaphoric Interpretations of Celestial Bodies
The Japanese-born, L.A.-based multi-media artist whose world vision is simultaneously bleak and colorful, dystopian and hopeful and who, while also remaining open to humanity’s follies, has exhibited in Asia, Canada, Ireland, Belgium, Italy and across the States –...
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 innocent and...
