Shepard Fairey is an American graphic artist and social activist. Part of the Street Art movement, with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat as his predecessors, Fairey communicates his brand of social and political critique via murals and public spaces. His … Continued
Shaan Syed’s conceptual practice plays with various modes of painting, speaking to both abstract and expressionist traditions. In trying to “objectify a flat surface,” Syed’s paintings both illustrate depth and use tricks of color to defy it. “My paintings merge … Continued
Seonna Hong is a contemporary Los Angeles-based artist working in the genre known as lowbrow or alternatively, pop surrealism. Her work as a background painter has appeared in animation for television and motion pictures, most notably in the Nickelodeon (TV … Continued
Robert Motherwell born 1915 [- 1991] American Abstract Expressionist painter, active also as editor, writer and teacher. Born in Aberdeen, Washington. Studied painting briefly at California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, in 1932, then took a degree in philosophy … Continued
Rob Davis’s abstract, textural paintings incorporate addictive substances such as wine, cigarette ash, and coffee, gesturing toward experiences of the real world. In earlier work he collaborated with Michael Langlois to produce classically informed paintings and mixed-media installations, through which … Continued
“As an artist I am interested in excavating the hidden personal and political histories of people and place. Through a multidisciplinary practice I seek to give voice and dignity to the overlooked, abandoned and forgotten whether that be people, emotions, … Continued
L.A Based graffiti artist REVOK AKA Jason Williams has been tagging under his current name since 1991, when he was 14. His Los Awesome series, created on billboards around the city, was the result of a collaboration called The Movement … Continued
RETNA (aka Marquis Lewis) is an American grafitti artist who was born in Los Angeles, California in 1979. Since first creating a name for himself in the early 1990s, RETNA has become an “eternal broadcaster” of sorts, shining a light … Continued
