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...
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 A Storyteller Supreme
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 large-scale mixed...
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 Bums, as...
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 in the...
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...
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 Iran-Contra affair...
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 a seemingly...
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...
