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ANDREW BELL Andrew Bell is a British-born, Brooklyn-based artist and designer. His work spans a wide spectrum of mediums from illustrations and paintings to toys and sculptures. His studio, Dead Zebra Inc, is responsible for producing artwork and projects such as his popular "the Creatures in my Head" collection of monsters. more info | back to top |
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ANDREW HOLDER Andrew Holder is a Florida-born artist and graphic designer who grew up in California. He graduated from Art Center College of Design with a BFA in Illustration. Currently living and working in Pasadena, Andrew's work often plays with vibrant colors and textures as well as explores unexpected compositions. more info | back to top |
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ANTHONY WILLIAMS Anthony Williams is a self taught artist who grew up painting on the streets of Los Angeles. His current work mixes photography, graphic design, and traditional fine arts. more info | back to top |
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AUDREY KAWASAKI The themes in Audrey Kawasaki's work are contradictions within themselves. Her work is both innocent and erotic. Each subject is attractive yet disturbing. Audrey's precise technical style is at once influenced by both manga comics and Art Nouveau. Her sharp graphic imagery is combined with the natural grain of the wood panels she paints on, bringing an unexpected warmth to enigmatic subject matter. more info | back to top |
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BOB DOUCETTE Bob Doucette is the director of many well known animated children's programs including the PBS hit Clifford's Puppy Days and such shows as Stephen Spielberg Presents Tiny Toons and Animaniacs. Doucette has worn many titles as an artist from pupeteer to painter. What started as a puppet hobby sequed into a doll making career; with a Ben Franklin doll as a permanent collection of the Smithsonian and many in the private collection of Demi Moore. more info | back to top |
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BOBBY HUNDREDS Bobby Hundreds is the co-owner and creative director behind The Hundreds, a streetwear brand that has crossed boundaries between the skate, hardcore, and hip hop scenes. Today The Hundreds is carried by retailers worldwide and you can't seem to read a magazine, open a fashion trade, or watch music television without seeing The Hundreds. Bobby was also named one of Inc. Magazine's top 30 businessmen under 30. more info | back to top |
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CHRISTINE CHANG PHOTOGRAPHY Bio coming soon. more info | back to top |
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CHRISTOPHER LEE Christopher, AKA "The Beast is Back", describes himself as an illustrator and designer of sorts. He is formally educated in graphic design, but has been an artist since the first time he picked up a pencil. He has had amazing opportunities to work at both corporate and personal levels, exhibiting in countless galleries and channeling his talent into various endeavors ranging from illustration, to photography, to advertising, to even vinyl toys. more info | back to top |
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DAVE PRESSLER Dave Pressler is a founding member of The Dan Clark Company, specializing in the creation of kids' media for networks such as Fox Kids and Kids WB!. Pressler created the visual design for the distinctive look of "The Save-Ums", the Emmy nominated CGI adventure for preschoolers airing in the United States on The Learning Channel. He is a Los Angeles artist who uses sculpture and painting to fuse his two passions: fine art and pop entertainment. more info | back to top |
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EDWIN USHIRO Edwin Ushiro's career as a fine artist bloomed in 2006 when his artwork exploded onto the scene as a part of art shows in Los Angeles, New York, and Berlin. From there the buzz kept growing with magazine interviews and more art shows. He recently had an exhibit in Kyoto, Japan, as well as a solo show here in Los Angeles at Lebasse Projects. His work can be seen everywhere from Giant Robot, to Gallery 1988, to Juxtapoz, to HypeBeast. more info | back to top |
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ERIC FORTUNE Eric is known for his thought provoking content and for the mastery of his craft. The work provides a beautifully rendered visual that provokes the viewer and pulls them in for closer inspection. His paintings often deal with people and their relationships. The trials and adversities that they strive to overcome, exaggerated and blown out of proportion. His work has been shown in various galleries in LA and NY. more info | back to top |
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ESPIE MUNOZ At first glance, Espie's pieces evoke a joyful, positive, and uplifting sentiment, but upon further reflection they elicit feelings of nostalgia and whimsy that take the viewer on an emotional journey to a peaceful and loving place. Her recent experimentation with collage work and different textures breathed new life into her artwork, and resulted in pieces that represent the dawning of a new era for her creatively. more info | back to top |
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FATOE (MIKE ORDUNA) Fatoe focuses on an application of mix-media by fusing illustration, spray paint & photography with digital art and output. He has produced a wide range of work for clients in several industries, from new media companies, record labels, magazines to snowboard & skate and grassroots. Fatoe.com showcases Mike's illustration, graffiti & design experiments and has evolved into a design studio and online store, offering exclusive artwork for collectors. more info | back to top |
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FRANCESCO LOCASTRO Francesco LoCastro is the founder of Pop Art Studios, a creative services company and launch pad for LoCastro's diverse art projects. LoCastro was recently named Executive Director of Gen Art's First Annual Vanguard Art Fair, the first fair of its kind to emphasize emerging trends of the Street Art and Pop Surrealist movements. His work has been featured in numerous publications, including VICE, Juxtapoz, NYArts, FEFÉ, and The Miami Herald. more info | back to top |
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GLORI TSUI Glori Tsui is characterized by using combinations of hand drawings and computer techniques to express and explore her ideas. She is an illustrator with strong interest in children book graphics as well as 3D objects such as toys and sculpture. more info | back to top |
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ISABEL SAMARAS Isabel Samaras' work is a form of visual story telling - her painted narratives, classical in technique and pop in content, revolve around issues of secret love and making things end the way we wish they would. Best known for lush and meticulously painted riffs on Old Masters that send up pop culture icons of the '70s, her ribald images are woven with references to classic horror movies, ancient mythology, cheesy television, and childhood fables. more info | back to top |
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JAMES NACCARATO James Naccarato was born in New York and raised in California. At a young age, he took a strong interest in 16th and 17th Century classical painting, cubism, and surrealism. Growing up, Naccarato was inspired by California culture and identified with street art, comics, and various underground art movements. He is known for his colorful and playful creatures who often have a fictional quality to them. more info | back to top |
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JAY HORINOUCHI Duality is a theme that Jay constantly explores with his art. Being a bilingual Japanese American, there is a duality in thoughts, words and translation. He also receives a lot of his artistic inspiration from the Japanese culture itself, and how that differs from his American life. His art is a mix of abstract watercolor and hyper detailed robot technology, constantly questioning the balance between man vs nature, old vs new. more info | back to top |
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JOBY CUMMINGS More than just multi-talented, Joby enjoys a plethora of creative outlets. Not only is he an outstanding tattoo artist of 18 years, he is also an accomplished fine artist, who has had numerous exhibits with canvases flying off the walls into the collections of many of his followers. On top of that he is also a graphic artist, illustrator, and music producer. more info | back to top |
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JOHN PARK PHOTOGRAPHY Since 2005, John Park has been a Los Angeles based freelance photographer specializing in portrait, film set, fashion and entertainment photography. John studied photography and advertising art direction at Otis College of Art & Design. Clients include Forever21, Urban Behavior, Costa Blanca, Edge Clothing, Gnarle Clothing, Disney Consumer Products, Unit 5 Films, and Philean Entertainment. more info | back to top |
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JULIAN CALLOS Julian Callos is a Los Angeles based illustrator and gallery artist. He has had a great deal of influences, including comic books, fine art, and the cartoons he loved as a kid. Always gaining new inspirations and learning new things, Callos' art evolves with him. more info | back to top |
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JULIE WEST Julie West's work relies heavily on people and environments. Often quirky, bizarre, or ironic, she looks heavily at the way people live and define themselves, as well as the environments which they create for themselves. Her work has been shown internationally, and she has been commissioned by companies such as Electronic Gaming Monthly, The Alternative Press, Earth Products, Flow Snowboards, Rockpile Magazine, Complex Magazine, and many others. more info | back to top |
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JUSTIN DIAMOND The photo is only half way done when it is taken. The world of Photoshop has brought the illustrator's imagination out of Justin Diamond. The opportunity to become a digital painter is something that has taken over his photography. Diamond's challenge is to bring life to inanimate objects. It can be as wild as making a toaster into a spider or as simple as duplicating and playing with composition. more info | back to top |
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KATHERINE CHIU Katherine Chiu is a Los Angeles based artist and designer. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors in Illustration from the Art Center College of Design. Her work has been recognized by Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, CMYK Magazine, and 3x3 Magazine. She exhibits in various galleries and teaches art to children. more info | back to top |
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L. CROSKEY Back in the 80’s Leonard Croskey known to everyone as LC, used to go by the name King Kaoski and ran with Pasadena graffiti crew, IBM: Images Beyond Mentality. This once strictly street art man then stretched his creative palate and turned to fashion and design. Inspired by vintage pin up art, design, and advertising, LC creates a world of imagination, a very distinct world of his own, an image that reflects a metaphor or fantasy or delusion, a false paradise. more info | back to top |
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LUKE CHUEH Luke Chueh (pronounced CHU) got his start when the Los Angeles underground art show, Cannibal Flower, invited him to show at their monthly events. Since then Chueh has quickly worked his way up the ranks of the LA art scene. Employing minimal color schemes, simple animal characters, and a seemingly endless list of ill-fated situations, Chueh stylistically balances cute with brute, walking the fine line between comedy and tragedy. more info | back to top |
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LUKE FELDMAN Luke Feldman aka SKAFFS creates vibrant characters. SKAFFS is a collection of work made up of art, animation, giant adhesives, games, books, skate decks and collector toys. While the scope of his work is extensive, it is bound together through his unique and dynamic style; a style that has led to worldwide exhibitions, a number of awards, and collaborations with high profile artists and companies such as Disney, Cartoon Network, and Coca-Cola. more info | back to top |
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MANOLIS ANASTASAKOS Manolis Anastasakos hails from Greece and has done solo and group exhibitions all over Europe, Los Angeles, and Japan. He is a set designer for movies, theater productions, and television shows worldwide and has served as a Curator for many art festivals around Greece. He was also one of the creative directors for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 28th Olympic games in Greece. His work has earned him several international awards. more info | back to top |
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MARI ARAKI Mari Araki considers herself as both an artist and storyteller. The characters in her artwork become protagonists in an imaginary world. The subjects are drawn from a variety of places and inspired by a need to release her honest reflections of real life visions and fears. Deliberately flat, emotionless, and employing an adventurous palette, her imaginative vision showcases an ability to balance beauty and repulsion evenhandedly. more info | back to top |
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MELISSA HASLAM By painting exotic yet strangely familiar environments, Australian artist Melissa Haslam offers an escape to a romanticized, whimsical and yet slightly dark interpretation of the world. With an emphasis on narrative theme, her paintings are populated by beautiful, forlorn and mischievous women in fairytale-like scenarios. Melissa draws influence from vintage illustration, botanical art, Victorian painting, and contemporary fashion photography. more info | back to top |
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MICHAEL PAGE Michael Page has shown throughout California and Europe, and currently resides in San Francisco. Reflecting on his work, Michael found greed, hate and war, and their anecdote, love, running deep through each piece. Environmental neglect and its devastating effects reside in many of the paintings. And, subtle or not, there is also expressed discontent with the state of our political system and those that wield their power so callously. more info | back to top |
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MICHAEL STEELE Michael Steele's most popular works are known as the "Cluster" series, where he combines objects, using various techniques and mediums, to portray them as parts of a whole. Together, they form a unique composition. In his own words, a Cluster "resembles images or objects grouped together to form something larger. I feel this gives images or objects a stronger presence rather than being displayed by themselves." more info | back to top |
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NATE FRIZZELL A recent graduate of Otis College of Art and Design, Nate Frizzell has spent his time since graduation dedicated to painting and honing his style. Using bold and colorful images of children at play - and in turmoil - Frizzell creates intimate stories that mask his own feelings of immaturity. Using both highly rendered images and softer graphic design elements, Frizzell weaves stories into his paintings that we all can see ourselves being a part of. more info | back to top |
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P-JAY FIDLER P-Jay Fidler's art is a non linear narrative unfolding onto canvas. The viewer is as important to the story as the painting itself. Because his audience brings with them a major part of the story, the results are often surreal, ambiguous, and yet very much familiar. His work reflects a mixture of adolescent archetypes with dark psychological aspects of the human condition. These images create a piece of art work that is truly awe inspiring and thought provoking. more info | back to top |
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RAMON CHO Ramon Cho (aka Rome One) was born and raised in Southern California. His artistic background consists of fine art, calligraphy, graffiti, illustration, and graphic design. Ramon shifts daily from his primary role as Creative Director for streetwear brand Bloodbath - to an art teacher for children. He has done freelance work for various renowned Hip Hop Artists and Musicians. He also paints in his free time as an exhalation to everything he is influenced by. more info | back to top |
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SARAH JONCAS Sarah Joncas' interest in visual arts developed at an early age, starting with the dedicated drawings of dinosaurs and lizards. Eventually the study and enjoyment of working from existing images stirred up the need in Sarah to create images of her own; ones that could reflect the world, yet also appease the personal feelings/ideas that she herself maintained. With this, her direction changed gradually from the world of animation, towards fine art. more info | back to top |
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SEAN CHAO Sean Chao graduated from Art Center College of Design and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Through drawing, painting and sculpture, Chao narrates personal history and imagination. Creatures and characters he created assemble in the mysterious mixture of nature and urbaneness. The processes of imagery, mixed media and imagination are intertwined and investigated in Sean’s work. more info | back to top |
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SEONNA HONG The gears turn and shift in Seonna Hong's career as an artist and animation art director. She spent several rewarding years teaching art to children. In 1999, she made the transition into animation industry and in 2004 Seonna received an Emmy Award for Individual Achievement in Background Styling for her work on "My Life as a Teenage Robot" (Nickelodeon). She continues to keep her plate full with national and international gallery shows. more info | back to top |
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SOPHIA GASPARIAN Sophia (b. 1972, Armenia) is a Los Angeles based artist. Equal human rights worldwide, ethnic dislocation, social identity and women's progress form her thinking and influence her art. Gasparian's work is archived at the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. Her narrative paintings intertwine childlike innocence with sociopolitical criticism and her aesthetic approach remains apart from mainstream art, utilizing various forms of nontraditional media. more info | back to top |
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STACEY AOYAMA Stacey Aoyama's work has been seen in projects as varied as the Sk8ology ISM Exhibition, commissioned murals for boutique shoppes, production work for Disney, and Harry Potter creative direction. She's inspired by all types of art from contemporary abstract to classic paintings. She continues to build an impressive resume through her freelance work and can often be found painting around Pasadena. more info | back to top |
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TADAHIRO UESUGI Bio coming soon. more info | back to top |
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TESSAR LO Tessar Lo received his BAA in Illustration and immediately made plans to move to Los Angeles to pursue a career as an artist. Lo brings a very eastern style into his work. He has been influenced by artists such as Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara and by Japanese ukiyo-e printers and other traditional asian techniques. He juxtaposes these traditional influences with current pop culture and music to create his own unique view of the world. more info | back to top |
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TOM HAUBRICK Tom Haubrick works as a full time tattoo artist and illustrator. He spends his time portraying the struggle of love, loss, and travels over the last few years of his life. He has displayed his artwork in a number of local galleries including Lebasse Projects, Corpro Gallery, Subtext Gallery, Black Maria Gallery, and Distinction Gallery. He currently resides in the small town of South Pasadena. more info | back to top |
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YOSHI (aka MR44) Yoshihiro Takahashi AKA MR44 is the co-owner of streetwear brand Foreign Family. Hard work and the drive to create good clothing has driven Foreign Family from the start, from deciding to utilize only original hand drawn artwork, to building an image and fostering their own dedicated international following. Foreign Family is quickly taking the Los Angeles art and streetwear scene by a storm, guided by MR44’s vibrant creations. more info | back to top |
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YUTA ONODA Yuta Onoda, originally from Japan, has been shaping his art aesthetic through various forms of media, hoping to find new avenues to express himself. He has recently been chosen as one of the finalists for the ADCC 2009 National Student Competition as well as won the New Venture Studios Emerging Artists Grant. His work has recently been seen at noted Los Angeles galleries such as Project: Gallery, Gallery 1988, and LeBasse Projects. more info | back to top |