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...
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...
Kenton Nelson American Life Remembered
Pasadena born and raised, 65-year old autodidactic artist Kenton Nelson - a regular contributor to New Yorker covers and whose works can be described as "eroticism meets the Works Progress Administration, albeit with a joyful spirit," and are also found in museums...
Miles Regis The Art of Being Woke
LA-based, Trinidad-born painter/designer/musician/multi-platform creative, 51-year old Miles Regis - an embracer of storytelling in stylized renditions of fundamental scenes of love, loss, freedom, survival, activism and living history, and whose...
Douglas Tausik Ryder Linking Technology and Aesthetics
New York-born, Los Angeles-based sculptor, 65-year old Douglas Tausik Ryder – a pioneer in the use of code to drive technology-assisted sculpture-making to evoke images of natural forms and whose organic, sensual style is a tension between geometry and...
Mike Mollett A Postmodern Renaissance Man
A vital and integral part of the Los Angeles art scene for some 40 years, native Angeleno Mike Mollett - poet, sculptor, performance artist and erstwhile gardener and teacher who was a founding member of the peripatetic groups, The Lost Tribe and The Carma...
Don Bachardy An Artist For All Seasons
Still at the top of his game at 85, 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...
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...
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...
Keith Collins The Heart of an Artist
Los Angeles-born and raised, 64-year old Keith Collins, a visual artist specializing in large-scale fine art tapestries, oil paintings and industrial assemblage - whose work often explores the automotive realm, portraiture, music, sports and abstract...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
