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My goal is simple: To enrich my community and remind them of our diverse culture through vibrant colors that uplift and nourish our souls.
My goal is simple: To enrich my community and remind them of our diverse culture through vibrant colors that uplift and nourish our souls.
Eric Michael is a Long Beach-based artist & muralist. Born in Venezuela he is currently working on a new body of work detailing his childhood experiences growing up in Caracas […]
cat . ferraz / kat fúróz/ n. 1 girl. 2 born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. 3 Parsons School of Design graduate with a BFA(major : illustration). 4 has shown paintings […]
Originally born in the former Soviet Union, Ilya Barannikov is a designer and artist currently residing in Long Beach, California. His vision is to bring the ethereal and tangible worlds […]
Mike Mag (Michael Magalhães) is a Brazilian Skateboarder, Artist, and Graphic Designer. Mike Mag studied Fine Arts at Florida State University. Today his studio operates out of Rio de Janeiro […]
Local artist (@bakedpapaya) and musician (@asifui), Tatiana Velazquez started heavily attending to her creative urges the moment she moved to Long Beach in 2006. Experimenting with a wide array of […]
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Julian “Just Magic” Montelongo believes that all art is magic. It’s an energy with the ability to manifest, transform, and communicate directly to people. […]
*Multi-hyphenate artist. I am a new genres artist working through multiple mediums, from performance and sculpture to media, literary writings, and project-based channels. My work functions at once as critique […]
Darrows’ flexible approach to art making and design has guided her through a broad range of creative endeavors. This includes – fine art, commercial art, public art, performance art, collaborative […]
Katie Stubblefield creates wood cut prints, oil paintings, sculptures, large-scale drawings, and site-specific installations that explore order, chaos, and entropy. Growing up in Tennessee’s old-growth forests before relocating to Southern […]
My work starts with my own explorations of urban areas on foot. My primary goal for these explorations is to experience my surroundings in a more intimate way. After moving […]
Fresh out the jungle emerges new hieroglyphs. Graffiti, abstraction, and patterns swirl around to the beat of a tropical surrealist fantasy become reality, worldwide from the streets of Long Beach. […]
Jerry Rodriguez’ creativity ranges from vibrant watercolors, to inverted paintings, woodworking, string art, and beyond. No matter the medium, Jerry is best known for his heart-felt, thought provoking art. As […]
Often it is said that Chicanos feel caught between cultures, not fully American, yet at the same time unable to identify fully as Mexican. I was born in the United […]
I’m a Vietnamese-American freelance illustrator (and daily bunny wrangler), born and raised in the Little Saigon area of Southern California. I graduated from CSULB with a MFA in Illustration in […]
Throughout my career I have translated my ideas into a variety of media — photography, books, montage, installation, video, sculpture and public artwork. The common thread has been a kind […]
Jason prides himself on a polymathic creative output encompassing sculpture, collage, sound, live performance, self-publishing, curation, broadcast media and ministerial services Through room- sized mixed media assemblage, primal sonic compositions, […]
Explaining my artistic synthesis and conceptualization involves a singular examination of time, human behavior, architectural space, regional place and feel, and “off the wall” experimentation, and how all integrate pentatically. […]
What is beauty, what is beautiful to the world I live in today? Being a multi-ethnic individual of Creole heritage has played an enormous role in the way I view […]
Every Artist should have a purpose. It should be a burning desire to express something to the veiwer. Really good artwork moves the veiwer and tells a story. Its the […]
All of us humans are made as creative vessels, capable of capturing images, eclectic memory bits and combining these jigsaw pieces to create new objects or performances outside of ourselves. […]
I love creating murals my main goal is to be able to consistently paint them with out the door to door rejection one day. I also paint canvases and that’s […]
While objects manipulated and made have importance as charged symbols, my process has been more about research, not just in an academic approach but in an emotional and personal approach. […]
My delicately rendered drawings manipulate perception, creating fantastical iterations in which artificial and natural imagery fuse to become environmental allegories. Working in graphite pencil and powder on wood […]
Kay Erickson Photographer I am a second generation photographer who used to watch my Mother hand color photographs. At age 7, I received my first camera, and went on to […]