Linda Sue Price Location: Los Angeles Occupation: Neon Artist Written By: Desiree Cormier Linda Sue Price is an abstract neon artist based in southern California. She creates neon pieces of art that differ from her peers in appearance because she loves to break the 2-dimensional plane. Unlike your typical neon signs that have their tubes […]
Marz Jr. Location: Los Angeles, CA Occupation: Fine Artist and Illustrator Written by Anise Stevens Escape from New York first graced the big screen nearly thirty-five years ago. Although its follow-up, Escape from LA, took sixteen years to materialize, fans of the original cult classic were thrilled for the opportunity to see their hero, Snake […]
Artist Profile: Teale Hatheway Location: Los Angeles, CA Occupation: Fine Artist Written by Anise Stevens Teale Hatheway’s newest solo exhibition, Fragmented Realities: City of Dreams, communicates her conflicting feelings about Los Angeles and how she’s had to grapple with her love for the city’s rich history despite its ever-changing landscape. Five generations have passed since […]
Review of “Unknown Saints” By: Andrea Bogdan Artist: Gianni Arone Location: Echo Park A slow reveal of Gianni Arone’s “Unknown Saints” materialized over the last 12 months. Like royal guests at the servant’s quarters, they are unexpected reminders of something more important than us. An early triptych in the series hung at Gabba Gallery’s, “Kool […]
Review Of It’s a Beautiful Day, I Guess on view now at Subliminal Projects. Artists: Gregory Bojorquez, Patrick Martinez, Michelle Guintu, Tim Diet, and Mark Drew Location: Los Angeles It’s a Beautiful Day, I Guess opened last Saturday at Subliminal Projects. Referencing Kendrick Lamar’s “The Recipe”, a track featuring Dr. Dre on the hip hop artist’s 2012 album, […]
Douglas Alvarez Location: Los Angeles Occupation: Artist Interviewed by: Baha Danesh Douglas Alvarez’s conceptual paintings use vibrant compositions that frequently combine organic forms which emote ecstatic nostalgic feelings and eccentric humor. His experience within the city of Los Angeles is captured in each painting. Various dualities and contradictions play out including food and pain; abstraction and […]
Kristine Schomaker Written by Anise Stevens Artist: Kristine Schomaker Location: Los Angeles Occupation: New Media and Performance Artist, Painter, Art Historian, Founder of Shoebox PR Over the past decade, Kristine Schomaker has made huge strides, emotionally as well as professionally. While her beautifully orchestrated abstract works flow with an electrifying vibrancy, her venture into new […]
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 […]
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 […]
