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 […]
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 […]
Yumi Sakugawa Location: Orange County, CA Occupation: Comic book artist and illustrator Yumi Sakugawa is a comic book artist and the author of “I Think I Am in Friend-Love with You” and “Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One with the Universe.” She is a regular comic contributor to The Rumpus and WonderHowTo.com. The editors of The Best American […]
Chelsea Monét Location: Los Angeles & San Francisco Occupation: Musician, writer, performer Chelsea Monét is a performing and recording artist whose art and way of life are geared toward bringing consciousness and love back into the mainstream media and entertainment industry. Chelsea most recently hails from the San Francisco Bay Area, though she was born […]
Jill Avilez (Mizz Absurd) Location: Northridge, CA. Occupation: Musician Mizz Absurd, born and raised in Hollywood, CA, shares her soul, scat, slap solo bass in an act that features both spoken word and music about life, love, and experience. Her live shows, which she narrates in philosophical, poetic metaphor, are picking up momentum in many […]
