Mark Todd Written by Anise Stevens Artist: Mark Todd Location: Los Angeles Occupation: Illustrator, Fine Artist, Professor, Curator Mark Todd’s work is exemplary of the blurring of two worlds that once rarely if ever intermingled: illustration and fine art. More and more, in today’s day and age, we are seeing that illustrators and artists are […]
Colin Ambulance Location: Los Angeles Occupation: Artist Colin Ambulance’s pen name seamlessly fits the art he creates. His art is funny and dark, face-value amusing and topically satirical. Colin is prolific. He uses pens and oils and word balloons to depict an apocalyptic (or realistic, depending on the viewer) glimpse into hipster, scenester, alcoholic, druggy, […]
Isabella Kelly-Ramirez Location: Los Angeles Occupation: Artist Isabella Kelly-Ramirez is a mixed media assemblage artist who creates surreal feminist portraits. Her compositions flow from order to chaos, using a cosmetic color palette and stark white pages. Isabella recontextualizes the faces of mainstream media with giant eyes and lips. These proportions are reminiscent of plastic […]
Carlos Grasso Location: Ojai, California Occupation: Artist Though an Argentinian native, Carlos Grasso studied graphic design and painting in Argentina, Paris, and Los Angeles. As an apprentice to master painter David A. Leffel, Grasso began his art with an emphasis in realism and life drawing. Recently, however, Grasso has found freedom in abstraction. His collage-based compositions juxtapose […]
Max Presneill, a Los Angeles-based artist, unveiled his latest body of work at the Garboushian Gallery in Beverly Hills. His exhibit, TRIUMVIRATE, displays a unique style of abstract and conceptual themes that empower him to explore outside the boundaries of basic fine art. Max delivers a brightly colored and busy assessment of the world he […]
Saturday January 10th marked the opening night of “Pareidolia” at The Red Pipe Gallery. The evening was brimming with talent, and with Curtis Stage, the organizer and participant behind the show as my guide, my palette expanded through the works of Adam Scott, Amy Maloof, Brian Thomas Jones, Jacob Fowler, Julie Whaley, Ryan Travis Christian […]
Wyatt Mills Location: Los Angeles, CA Occupation: Artist Wyatt Mills is a Los Angeles artist whose mixed medium paintings juxtapose a conventional ideology and mass media representation with a critiquing lens of historical and surreal contexts. He creates collages that approach realism like someone in a fast moving train, looking out a window and simultaneously freezing […]
Ellen Schinderman Location: Los Angeles, Ca Occupation: Artist Ellen Schinderman was raised in New York City were she attended NYU and received a BFA in Drama. Her passions for the arts brought Ellen to Los Angeles where she now resides and works as an artist and has become a beacon for the “stitch art” movement […]
Kathi Flood Location: Sherman Oaks, CA Occupation: Artist In anticipation of LA Artcore’s group show taking place on Sunday, December 7th from 1-3PM, We Choose Art paid a visit to guerrilla sociologist and narrative assemblage artist Kathi Flood in Sherman Oaks, CA. Stepping into Kathi Flood’s studio space was like entering a storybook filled […]
Michelle Jane Lee Location: Los Angeles Occupation: Artist Color plays a vital role in the world we live in. Color can sway thinking, change actions, and cause reactions. It can soothe your eyes, suppress your appetite, and even alter your feelings. Visually capturing the dynamics of vibrant color can be difficult but for Michelle […]