Jacqueline Valenzuela is a multimedia artist currently residing in City Terrace, while creating out of her studio space in Whittier. Valenzuela's work is centered around her experiences as a woman within the Chicano world of lowriding. By focusing on women lowriders like herself she brings their stories to a wider audience that would otherwise be unaware about women who cruise, work on and cherish their Lowriders. Her works on canvas use bold colors, portraiture and the urban landscape to create compositions that emphasize femininity in a male-dominated world. Her installation work revolves around using found objects to create a sense of home and familiarity to the viewers. Lastly, her newest extension of her art practice has pushed her boundaries more in the lowrider world. Valenzuela has begun to paint on Lowriders as well as found car parts to force the male dominated automotive industry to also acknowledge the impact that women can have when entering these spaces. Her art practice reflects the deep roots she has planted in the lowrider community by bridging the gap between fine art and this underrepresented community.

Karen Bystedt, a celebrated mix media artist and photographer, has a love for art that began at a young age. Bystedt was born in Israel to a mother who looked like a Hollywood star and a handsome Romanian paratrooper father. Karen moved to London when she was a year old, soon after her parents divorced. After the separation Karen moved to San Francisco, her cultured mother remarried which birthed a life of traveling throughout Europe, visiting famous art museums in London, Paris, Italy, and New York. Bystedt was one of those little girls who stood in front of paintings and sculptures for long-drawn out time periods losing herself in the art.

In addition to her artistic achievements, Bystedt is also a committed social activist who has used her work to raise awareness and funds for a number of charitable causes. She has worked with organizations such as the amFAR for AIDS Foundation, God's
Love We Deliver to feed terminal patients and their families, and Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles, using her art and photography to bring attention to the struggles faced by vulnerable populations around the world. Bystedt's commitment to inclusion and social
justice combined with her innovative approach to photography has made her one of the most important artists of her generation.

Kitty Brophy Born 1960, Los Angeles, CA. After graduating from high school in Phoenix, AZ, Kitty moved to New York City in 1978 to attend Parsons School of Design. She quickly became involved in the East Village art, music, fashion, and performance scene centered around the legendary Club 57 on St. Mark's Place and The Mudd Club on White St., in collaboration and conjunction with such notable friends as Kenny Scharf, Keith Haring, Ann Magnuson, John Sex, and Tseng Kwong Chi. During this period, Kitty also worked as a fashion model doing print, runway, and video in New York and Paris working with a number of now legendary designers and photographers. She also starred in numerous early art videos filmed by Kenny Scharf.

Kitty's art is in the permanent collection at MOCA Los Angeles, was featured in the Club 57 exhibition at MOMA, has been exhibited twice at MOCA Tucson, and is also in numerous private collections. Her art was featured in a major motion picture and on a wine label. Kitty currently lives and works in Tucson, AZ.

Katie Sunnerrow is an LA based expressive abstract fine artist. She became infatuated with art when she began to find her own unique style and develop her skills during her studies at The University of Georgia. Her works are remarkable for how they bring about nostalgia, memories and warmth.

Mary Lai is a Los Angeles based visual artist & designer with a B.F.A. in Graphic Design. She creates vibrant contemporary artwork that has been exhibited in LA, New York, Miami and internationally. Her ever-evolving modern artwork is full of color, evoking positivity and often brings a smile to the viewer. Her scope of work includes paintings, mixed media art, digital art (NFT's) to large-scale murals and sculptures. Prior to her visual art journey, the seasoned designer built a career in NYC for over a decade as a fashion accessories designer, including an award-winning namesake handbag collection.

With 20 years of art and design experience, Lai has worked with several notable brands including HBO Max, Vayner, St. Jude, the Wahlbergs, American Express, BAM, Snapchat and more. She has also been a panelist at SXSW, NYC.NFT and NFT Expoverse sharing about Art in Web3. She has exhibited at leading art fairs: Scope Miami Art Basel, Art Market SF, LA Art Show, Saatchi/TOAF and Plas Contemporary Korea. She continues to refine her craft and explore what it means to create art with impact in the physical and digital world.

Mei Xian Qiu is a Los Angeles based artist. She was born in the town of Pekalongan, on the island of Java, Indonesia, to a third generation Chinese minority family. At birth, she was given various names in preparation for societal collapse and variant potential futures, a Chinese name, an American name and an Indonesian name given by her parents, as well as a Catholic name by the local priest. In the aftermath of the Chinese and Communist genocide, the family immigrated to the United States. She was moved back and forth several times between the two countries during her childhood - her parents initial reaction to what they perceived as the amorality of life in the West countered with the uncertainty of life in Java. Partially as a result of a growing sense of restlessness, her father joined the U.S. Air force and the family lived across the country, sometimes staying in one place for just a month at a time. She has also been based in Europe, China, and Indonesia as an adult.

OLY. B is an innovative artist from Los Angeles. She combined several popular trends and created her unique style.

OLY. B paints with a closed plot but an open ending. The central image is a woman personifying unity. She is powerful, expressive, sensual, frank, and erotic. Wise as nature, naive as a child.

According to the author, all of her works are personal episodes, conveying not only a stunning picture but also the events she had experienced in her life.

"With each painting, I tell a different story of my feelings, the people I meet, and the phrases I say. I take a portion of my life and soul and leave them on the canvas," OLY admits in her interview.

Creative and visionary artists can easily recognize the combination of certain colors and original patterns made in the author's technique.

OLY.B's canvases decorate the homes and places of celebrities and influencers.

Her favorite material is acrylics.
Two of her more well-known and prominent paintings are named "Pervaded" and "Jenga".

Sachiko Bradley is a British/Afro-American painter. Playfulness, soft-yet-unexpected color palettes, and graphic shapes are hallmarks of her painting style. Her art combines themes such as racial identity, geometry, family, and astrology. Her training in vibrational healing gives her work a spiritual tone and energetic vitality. Sachiko was recently featured in the LA Times for her African-inspired hand-painted murals in a downtown LA loft. Born in Kathmandu and raised among artist communities in Nepal, India, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Italy, Sachiko spoke three languages by the time she entered kindergarten and spent her teenage years attending major art shows with her father, the British painter Martin Bradley, in Paris, Barcelona, and around the world. She lived and worked for 30 years in Italy as an artist, creative director, and interior designer. Her international perspective informs her artistic practice, as do the influences of the many artists among whom she was raised. Sachiko lives and works in Los Angeles.

Lauren "Siyowin" Peters, an extraordinary force, emerges as a fearless and compassionate Native American contemporary artist, wielding the transformative power of her craft to ignite societal change. As a painter, stencil artist, printmaker, street artist, and social activist, she weaves a tapestry of artistry that transcends conventional boundaries, captivating hearts and minds with its resounding call for justice and equality.

Hailing from Native California, Siyowin proudly embraces her diverse heritage, which encompasses Native American-Dakota Sioux and Mexican roots. Her personal connection to the struggles faced by her ancestors is a driving force behind her artistic endeavors. Siyowin's grandparents endured the hardships of being forced to attend boarding schools where their Native language was not allowed, further fueling her determination to reclaim and celebrate her cultural identity through her art.

Beyond her artistic achievements, Siyowin has also excelled in other areas. She showcased her athleticism as an All-State volleyball player and was recruited directly from high school to receive a full-ride volleyball scholarship to Concordia College in New York, where she dedicated herself to the sport and earned her bachelor's degree in Social Work. Expanding her knowledge and impact, she pursued a Master's in Social Work from the University of Southern California. Siyowin's multidimensional talents have also led her to sign with Nomad Management, a well known modeling agency in Los Angeles and Miami.

Driven by a passionate commitment to amplifying Native voices and advocating for indigenous rights, Siyowin's work encompasses both fine art and street art. Through her powerful creations, she seeks to raise awareness, inspire change, and leave an indelible mark on the world.

Pamela Beck is a writer/producer whose novels include the New York Times best sellers Fling and Rich Men, Single Women. She has written screenplays as well as novels and has developed/produced various film and television projects, including the adaptation of one of her novels, Rich Men, Single Women for Aaron Spelling and ABC.

Pamela's shift into working as a visual artist taps into her lifelong love of contemporary art, a passion for color, and the joy (and challenge) of creating.

Her art-making journey began with an empty wall she was on a mission to fill. As a long-time contemporary art collector, she visited her favorite galleries, looking for the perfect piece to fulfill her vision for the space.

She began seeing the work in her mind. As it came into sharper and sharper focus, she felt compelled to try and construct what she saw when she closed her eyes.

She began experimenting. She wanted white space. She wanted calm. She wanted linear lines. Visualizing her palette she saw white, black, shades of gray. A lone red.

As she watched her work grow and morph, it became all about color, light and imagination. The balance between chance and control. The elegance of linear lines and the endless potential of abstraction. The work became its own kind of storytelling.

Making art has become an obsession.

Pamela has had various works selected for multiple online exhibitions as well as in-person group shows. Her work is part of some very substantial collections.

Seffa Klein is a French-American artist currently living and working between Los Angeles and Arizona. Her multidisciplinary practice includes paintings composed with elemental metals, sculptures built with her updated SK Brick, drawing, installation, writing, and music. Each body of work contributes towards her dedication to envision beautiful new ideologies, structures, and shapes, both physical and internal, for humanity's uplifted future. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows across Los Angeles including "LA on Fire" at Wilding Cran gallery, at the ALAC art fair with Louise Alexander Gallery, and in "The Edge of Light: Historic and Contemporary Perspectives on California Abstraction" at Huntington Beach Art Center in 2019. She was named by artnet one of 9 emerging Los Angeles artists to watch in 2019. In 2020, Her work was written about in LALA magazine, LA mag and The Lab Mag. Between 2019 and 2022 she did an extended live-work residency on a 48 acre ranch in the hills of west LA, isolating herself for long periods and producing several new bodies of work. In 2023, her New York solo debut "WEBs: Where Everything Belongs" was written about by artnet, CNN, and Surface Mag, and artnet named her among "5 Artists on the Verge of a Breakthrough Whose Work You Can See in and Around New York This May" during Frieze NY.

Sona Mirzaei is a contemporary artist from Los Angeles, California. She is a self-taught artist, ambitious and talented, building a well-regarded art practice that has blossomed into a wonderful world of its own. Her sole mission is to follow interests in life and capture anything that evokes cognitive activity, emotion, creativity and inspiration for her audience and inevitably herself.

Sona's approach to art is culturally rich, bold, daring, while evoking a gentleness. She achieves great depth and contrast with use of aggressive motion in her brush work, creating paintings with dynamic layers and texture, manifesting dimensions, liveliness and joy. She is currently working in abstract expressionism, pop art, sculpture, street art, mixed media, conceptual, 3dimensional, and public art.

Her interests extend to public art as she believes that people should be able to experience art anywhere and place.

Big Sleeps is a world renowned artist at the apex of the lettering movement. Utilizing the letters he wrote as a child to once glorify gang culture, David Carasco aka Big Sleeps uses those same letters to now lead an artistic movement and influence a new generation of aspiring and established artists with a style synonymous to L.A. Sleeps lettering is part of the permanent collections of the Getty, Natural History Museum and have been notably showcased locally at the L.A. Louvre and internationally at HHH gallery in Japan.

Yely Diaz is Exclusively at Big Sleeps Studio in Paramount, CA full time. She is a self-taught artist that discovered her love for art at a young age. Yely committed to her first apprenticeship in the year 2005 where she later went on to achieve the position of a certified tattoo artist. She now specializes in black & grey, realism, custom designs and lettering.

Her art has been in various renowned shows such as: The High Art Of Riding Low at the Los Angeles Petersen Museum, The Lowrider Super Show, LA DUB Show, TATUAJE, From Cali With Love at Collective Ink Gallery, To name a few and is Always active in the Fine Arts.

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O'Connor is an emotional artist who is driven by his need to create and express.

Growing up between the beach and the city in sub-tropical Queensland strongly influenced his sensibility as an artist. His vivid use of color and expressive forms are a nostalgic marker of his early life. Recently featured by prominent global arts and fashion magazines including ODDA and SICKY, O'Connor has begun carving out a voice in the international art and culture scene.

His process is always kinetic, mining for instruction from his heart and body "Music has the ability to get me out of my head and into my body and this is where ultimately I want to paint and create from" O'Connor is often dancing and moving in-between strokes. "I want people to feel something, I want them to dance too."

O'Connor's high school art assignments at the conservative all boys catholic school he attended would often take over entire classrooms and would be as much about the visual work as the reaction. "For senior year I turned my entire classroom and everyone in it into a thundering storm with swaths of black and grey tulle covering the entire ceiling and projections of lighting strikes bouncing off mirrors around the room. I wanted to see how people reacted, how it made them feel"

Reynaldo Rivera was born in Mexico but spent his childhood traveling across the border and within the United States-mostly between San Diego de la Unión, Mexico; Los Angeles; and Stockton, California-before settling as a young adult in East L.A. Rivera's large (and largely unseen) body of photographic work captures the city's queer clubs and house party scene in the 1980s and 1990s. These images depict a version of Los Angeles that has all but disappeared: Echo Park as a predominantly Latinx neighborhood rife with artists, writers, and performers full of flair and queer glamour.

Alexandria Hilfiger is a painter whose uniquely expressive work carries within it a wide range of human emotion. Her work is intuitive and free, inspired by nature and the raw human experience. The idea of creating a healing experience for herself as well as the viewer informs many of her pieces during her process. Hilfiger believes that there is more beauty in the imperfections of nature and human existence; therefore allowing others to accept the undulating nature of our human experience on earth. Allowing emotion to dictate her work, her background in fashion influences her use of color and texture choices greatly.

Alexandria has been showing work since 2004. Exhibiting in New York City, having a solo show at Soho House NYC, Group show at the Chelsea Art Museum, Novare, Whiplash Studios, MILK, Art Basel Miami 2013, and in Los Angeles at the CUBE. She was recently featured in the Spring Break Art Show in New York, 2022. Alexandria works and resides in Palm Springs.

Born in Rabat, Morocco, Hedi El Kholti moved to Los Angeles in 1992, working in the film industry for several years before earning a BFA degree at Art Center College of Design. Over the years he developed an intimate collage practice that materialized in a series of books and smaller fanzines. Sometimes glossy, sometimes Xeroxed, the collages draw content from various eras and include movie stills, book covers, and images from art publications and gay magazines. Part pop culture time capsule, part unfettered stream of consciousness, these works are deeply personal and autobiographical.

Hedi El Kholti has compiled a new folio of his esoteric collaged works, bound into the catalogue for Made in L.A. 2020, and a new double-sided poster, presented as a takeaway stack in the galleries of the Hammer Museum and The Huntington.

A native of southwestern Michigan, Stephanie Visser relocated to sunny southern California in 2003. Educated at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids Michigan, she graduated there with her BFA in Fine Arts. She continued her education in fine arts and painting at Western Michigan University and Pasadena College of Art and Design.

Stephanie began her artistic journey as a realistic painter. Graduate study led her into landscape abstraction and then to non-objective abstraction. Stephanie Visser uses color, light and emotion to articulate abstract compositions on canvas. Her mature working methodology is inspired by instruction received at the graduate level layered upon a classical arts education. The ideas for the canvases are distilled from techniques that she learned from Mary Winterfield, whom she counts as one of the primary influences to her current painting style. Winterfield, an instructor at the Pasadena College of Art and Design, studied at the the Arts Student League of New York and the Cape School under Henry Hensche. Winterfield taught Visser the spatial push pull theories of Hans Hoffman as well the use of color keys to depict the color of light itself. Visser employs what she terms abstract simplification to create strong soaring work.

Rotem Reshef is a painter and installation artist based in New York and Tel Aviv. Her work creates social commentary via immersive installations and paintings that relate to society's effect on climate change and its relations to the private and public environments.

Reshef uses waste vegetation (branches, petals, ferns, leaves etc.), collected in the streets, parks and elsewhere in the urban surroundings, and imprints these "relics" onto her canvases, in a technique that resembles photograms.

In the spirit of Ecofeminism, reacting to a world that has suffered greatly from industries that had excavated and damaged entire natural areas for centuries, Reshef is suggesting a more compassionate approach of coexistence with nature, out of respect and acknowledgment of its importance for centuries to come.

Through her artistic practice, Reshef wishes to bring optimism and stability, and to address longevity, historical perspectives and the power of nourishment and life.

Multidisciplinary artist Yana Tammah has taken a variety of artistic journeys in her life so far. In her childhood years, she was strongly shaped by her Eastern European upbringing and later by her life as an immigrant in the U.S., where she first discovered her creative talents, as well as her interest in the glamorous fashion world.

Driven by her devotion to sharing her vast knowledge and expertise with others, Yana founded her own lifestyle brand "SSTAGIONI" and authored two books on developing a personal style. Throughout her creative journey, Yana always believed that from suffering there comes strength and that every hardship ultimately reveals a better side of life. This profound belief is what inspired her label "SSTAGIONI", which translates as "Four Seasons" in Italian. The label perfectly embodies the rhythm of life's constant changes, where warmth only exists because of cold, and light only because of darkness.

Later on, with her artistic curiosity still burning bright, Yana discovered a new medium to visually represent her experiences and emotions in a whole new way with her experimentation with abstract painting. She founded her art label "SSTAGIONI Art by Yana Tammah" in 2022 as a body of abstract work, embracing the feminist movement and incorporating masculine inspirations to create an open, relatable, and emerging dialogue of contemporary artwork. Along her journey, Yana has experienced various hardships, which have shaped her art and continue to influence it to this day. So far, her expressive paintings have touched the hearts of their viewers at numerous exhibitions worldwide and have also been featured in well- known television productions.

SSTAGIONI Art paintings have been exhibited and collected worldwide, including in United Kindom (London), Italy (Milan, Venice), Germany (Berlin), Spain (Madrid, Palma de Mallorca), Switzerland (Zurih, Zug), Russia (Moscow).

In US as well (New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Denver).

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Her work has been featured in television productions on prominent networks such as 5KTLA and Fox.

Based in her native Los Angeles, Laurie Raskin has exhibited her vividly colored abstract paintings and collages throughout the world. Trained as a designer, Raskin's education at the California Institute of the Arts, where she earned a BFA and MFA, awakened in her the perceptions and skills to work in fine as well as applied art, and her ability to generate energetic, high-keyed imagery now finds her working pictorially. She has shown in galleries, museums and art fairs in Tokyo, Paris, Istanbul, New Delhi, Brussels and Miami as well as New Orleans and throughout California. In the last few years Raskin has licensed her art on such diverse applications as a fashion line in England, a vodka label for a Michigan-based micro distillery, and a designer carpet line resulting from a collaboration with Didden & Co in Brussels.

Kymm Swank is a self-taught artist living in Los Angeles, CA.

She works primarily in oils and acrylics. The bold work she creates explores abstract forms, urban texture, and structure through line and color.

She currently lives in downtown Los Angeles, where the transforming skyline and city streets offer constant inspiration. She has shown her work throughout Southern California, most recently at WallspaceLA, Shockboxx, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, and the LA Art Association. Her paintings can also be seen on the sets of numerous TV shows including: Grace and Frankie, Newsroom, American Horror Story, Insecure, and MadMen.

Hedy Torres was born in Colima, Mexico to a family of seven. She is currently residing in Los Angeles CA.

She moved to the United States in 2006 and obtained a Green Card and General Education Diploma (GED) in 2009.

Torres worked various jobs in order to be able to afford her education, including work as a street vendor and an Uber driver. During her time as a street vendor, Hedy came face-to-face with the harsh reality of this hard and often dangerous occupation. This experience inspired the direction of her artwork to focus on street vendors: the unseen, hardworking and often forgotten people who truly make Los Angeles the multicultural city that we all enjoy.

Various personal experiences also prompted the topic of Hedy's dissertation thesis -spotlighting the stories of undocumented immigrants in the U.S.

Hedy holds a MA with an emphasis on Painting and Drawing from California State University, Northridge.

Janae Young, mixed mediums artist from Midwest America . Has studied art and curation for many years through experience and travel. A major portion of her success as an artist occurs in Los Angeles where she has hosted 10+ shows independently.

Sophia Gasparian was born in Yerevan, Armenia and currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Sophia Gasparian's narrative paintings intertwine childlike innocence with sociopolitical criticism and her aesthetic approach remains apart from the mainstream art, incorporating stencils, stickers, spray paint and other nontraditional media. The issues of equality of human rights worldwide, ethnic dislocation and social identity inform her everyday thinking and influence her art.Gasparian's work is archived at the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. She received her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute and her work has been exhibited at galleries in New York, Berlin and Los Angeles.

Paul Gellman has worked as an artist and performer in Los Angeles since the early 2000s, creating a practice that reflects, mimics, and subverts intellectual hierarchies (both historical and current). Collage is central to Gellman's practice, as are the found objects and bric-à-brac he uses as his media. Often working in composites-using varied objects to create singular and new "whole" works.

As an artist born in Argentina, a local resident, and an avid traveler, Daniela Schweitzer is drawn to diverse scenes and people of many different cultures-this inspires her to paint!

As a classically trained artist, whose current work involves mostly figurative abstract pieces, Schweitzer is inspired by people, human gestures, and the simple beauty of everyday events. Her love for drawing and painting started at a very early age. When she was 6, she began her Classical Training in Art in a Classical Atelier setting, where she learned the foundations of classical drawing and painting techniques.

For the next 12 years, Schweitzer followed a yearly academic regimen of technical progression and certification and mastered different mediums and techniques.

Art and painting continued to be an integral part of her life after she left her hometown to study medicine in Buenos Aires in 1985, where she continued to train at an Atelier while studying at the University of Buenos Aires.

Schweitzer's strong classical art foundation in combination with her medical studies made it possible for her to evolve as an artist with the human figure playing a prominent role in her paintings. She continued to paint when she moved to California in 1995 and has a studio in her house in Malibu where she lives with her husband and daughter. Currently, Schweitzer's paintings focus on large figurative abstractions but she also paints abstract pieces, contemporary landscapes and still life.

Amy Smith is a self-taught contemporary artist always evolving.

Her artwork includes murals, stencils, collage work, illustrations, digital graphic design, paint,
and spray paint, all to create one-of-a-kind pieces that reflect both her passions and fury,
juxtaposed through the lens of imagination.
While some of her work is driven by political, social, and environmental injustice, most reflect her deeply-rooted optimism and belief in the power of the feminist spirit, unity and love.

Her portrait collage series deconstructs recycled fashion magazines to represent both her love for self-expression and her contempt for excessive consumption and manipulation.
Tearing fashion magazines that are carefully crafted to objectify women, she transforms
corporate messaging into words and images that celebrate people that create our beautiful
tapestry of humanity.

When humanity is seen as more than just a number or consumer, we can connect on a deeper level.

Amy Smith's work has been featured in prestigious art exhibitions like the LA Art Show, The Other Art Fair, and has been selected for various public art initiatives including LA County Arts celebrating the Centennial of the 19th Amendment among many others.
With her first upcoming museum show at Ontario museum at the end of 2022, she continues to expand her message throughout the art world.

Her work is internationally collected, gallery represented and featured on many tv/film shows. Her focus is to connect humanity through her art by sharing messages of a hope and unity for a better future

Amelie Laurice the artist behind Desert Moonrise, is a self taught and emerging artist who grew up in California.

Her early works were predominantly pop culture style. The Desert Moonrise identity emerged from a series of camping adventures in the Californian deserts and the Southwest, often reminiscent of Georgia O'Keeffe and Maynard Dixon.

She has been featured in publications and media including Los Angeles Times, Artsy's curator's picks, The Argonaut, and NBC Palm Springs.

Her past exhibitions include: LA Art Show, Giant Robot Gallery curated by Luke Chueh, LA-LA Land Gallery, Venice Art Walk + Auctions, Unicef Next-Gen Art, 100 Pieces, Tempe Festival of the Arts, Tucson Historic Fourth Art Festival, Beverly Hills Art Show, Hwy 62 Open Studio, Mojave Showroom Joshua Tree, Acme 5 Lifestyle, Fab Gallery, and Dorado 806 Gallery.

Amelie is a 2023 Curatorial Committee member for Venice Art Walk + Auctions, and one of the founder and principal curator of Dorado 806 Projects.

Annie Clavel is a mixed media abstract painter who grew up in Paris, France. She studied mathematics and computer science and taught mathematics in France and in Tunisia. Annie moved to Long Beach in 2006, where she opened a gallery and began her career as a professional artist.

She takes her inspiration from her background in science, thinking of the perpetual motion in space since the Big Bang and of the concept of infinity. Cosmic landscapes, magical nature, emotions, and stories might be seen in her paintings.

Her art is in private collections in France, Tunisia, Germany, Canada, Japan and USA.

Annie is chair of marketing and treasurer at Orange County Center for Contemporary Art. She is an active member of Los Angeles Art Association (Gallery 825) and a board member of Women Painters West.

Jacqueline Valenzuela is a multimedia artist currently residing in City Terrace, while creating out of her studio space in Whittier. Valenzuela's work is centered around her experiences as a woman within the Chicano world of lowriding. By focusing on women lowriders like herself she brings their stories to a wider audience that would otherwise be unaware about women who cruise, work on and cherish their Lowriders. Her works on canvas use bold colors, portraiture and the urban landscape to create compositions that emphasize femininity in a male-dominated world. Her installation work revolves around using found objects to create a sense of home and familiarity to the viewers. Lastly, her newest extension of her art practice has pushed her boundaries more in the lowrider world. Valenzuela has begun to paint on Lowriders as well as found car parts to force the male dominated automotive industry to also acknowledge the impact that women can have when entering these spaces. Her art practice reflects the deep roots she has planted in the lowrider community by bridging the gap between fine art and this underrepresented community.

Janae Young, mixed mediums artist from Midwest America . Has studied art and curation for many years through experience and travel. A major portion of her success as an artist occurs in Los Angeles where she has hosted 10+ shows independently.

Karen Bystedt, a celebrated mix media artist and photographer, has a love for art that began at a young age. Bystedt was born in Israel to a mother who looked like a Hollywood star and a handsome Romanian paratrooper father. Karen moved to London when she was a year old, soon after her parents divorced. After the separation Karen moved to San Francisco, her cultured mother remarried which birthed a life of traveling throughout Europe, visiting famous art museums in London, Paris, Italy, and New York. Bystedt was one of those little girls who stood in front of paintings and sculptures for long-drawn out time periods losing herself in the art.

In addition to her artistic achievements, Bystedt is also a committed social activist who has used her work to raise awareness and funds for a number of charitable causes. She has worked with organizations such as the amFAR for AIDS Foundation, God's
Love We Deliver to feed terminal patients and their families, and Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles, using her art and photography to bring attention to the struggles faced by vulnerable populations around the world. Bystedt's commitment to inclusion and social
justice combined with her innovative approach to photography has made her one of the most important artists of her generation.

Karen Bystedt a celebrated mix media artist and photographer, has a love for art that began at a young age. Bystedt was born in Israel to a mother who looked like a Hollywood star and a handsome Romanian paratrooper father. Karen moved to London when she was a year old, soon after her parents divorced. After the separation Karen moved to San Francisco, her cultured mother remarried which birthed a life of traveling throughout Europe, visiting famous art museums in London, Paris, Italy, and New York. Bystedt was one of those little girls who stood in front of paintings and sculptures for long-drawn out time periods losing herself in the art.

In addition to her artistic achievements, Bystedt is also a committed social activist who has used her work to raise awareness and funds for a number of charitable causes. She has worked with organizations such as the amFAR for AIDS Foundation, God's
Love We Deliver to feed terminal patients and their families, and Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles, using her art and photography to bring attention to the struggles faced by vulnerable populations around the world. Bystedt's commitment to inclusion and social
justice combined with her innovative approach to photography has made her one of the most important artists of her generation.

Katie Sumerrow is an LA based expressive abstract fine artist. She became infatuated with art when she began to find her own unique style and develop her skills during her studies at The University of Georgia. Her works are remarkable for how they bring about nostalgia, memories and warmth.

Kymm Swank is a self-taught artist living in Los Angeles, CA.

She works primarily in oils and acrylics. The bold work she creates explores abstract forms, urban texture, and structure through line and color.

She currently lives in downtown Los Angeles, where the transforming skyline and city streets offer constant inspiration. She has shown her work throughout Southern California, most recently at WallspaceLA, Shockboxx, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, and the LA Art Association. Her paintings can also be seen on the sets of numerous TV shows including: Grace and Frankie, Newsroom, American Horror Story, Insecure, and MadMen.

Kymm Swank is a self-taught artist living in Los Angeles, CA.

She works primarily in oils and acrylics. The bold work she creates explores abstract forms, urban texture, and structure through line and color.

She currently lives in downtown Los Angeles, where the transforming skyline and city streets offer constant inspiration. She has shown her work throughout Southern California, most recently at WallspaceLA, Shockboxx, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, and the LA Art Association. Her paintings can also be seen on the sets of numerous TV shows including: Grace and Frankie, Newsroom, American Horror Story, Insecure, and MadMen.

After studying painting at SUNY, Buffalo, Linda Smith went on to get an MFA in film from NYU and then moved to Los Angeles from New York City. In Los Angeles, she began painting again and started exhibiting her work.

Her work is inspired by her daily life, a mix of relationships with people, cats and dogs, along with inspiration from art history from the early Greeks to more contemporary art. Smith is really influenced by Picasso, Leger and Matisse, and of course Viola Frey, Robert Arneson and the Funk movement up in Northern California.

In 1996, she started working in ceramics, and presently works with clay and glazes creating ceramic sculpture. It's an exciting medium. Smith loves to explore with color pattern and shape, using her imagination, Whether it be in painting , prints, mosaics or sculpture her imagination takes over. She says "art is basic to my life, and it gives it joy, struggle and meaning.

Meghan De Roma is a visual artist and storyteller working in collage, painting, sculpture, and bookmaking. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

DeRoma received her BFA in Sculpture and Photography, with a Minor in psychology, from Miami University, Oxford, OH, in 2000. After evolving through a career in creative direction for brands, she founded a boutique sustainable toy company in 2016. This move led her to write and illustrate children's books, and back on the path of making art. She has done continuing education coursework in the arts at the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia University, Chicago, depth psychology research through Animas Valley Institute and the CJ Jung Institute of Los Angeles, and creative writing at Harvard University under film director Catherine Eaton.

DeRoma is a member of the Dorado 806 Art Collective in Santa Monica, CA, as an artist and curator. She has shown her work in the gallery in a series of shows since 2022 and has a solo show forthcoming in September 2023. Her work has been shown at Dorado 806, the Women United Art Magazine (cover artist), The Other Art Fair (Sept '23), the Venice Art Walk, curated by Laura C. Watts, CHTV, curated by Yiwei Lu, and FAB-gallery.

Meghan De Roma is a visual artist and storyteller working in collage, painting, sculpture, and bookmaking. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

DeRoma received her BFA in Sculpture and Photography, with a Minor in psychology, from Miami University, Oxford, OH, in 2000. After evolving through a career in creative direction for brands, she founded a boutique sustainable toy company in 2016. This move led her to write and illustrate children's books, and back on the path of making art. She has done continuing education coursework in the arts at the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia University, Chicago, depth psychology research through Animas Valley Institute and the CJ Jung Institute of Los Angeles, and creative writing at Harvard University under film director Catherine Eaton.

DeRoma is a member of the Dorado 806 Art Collective in Santa Monica, CA, as an artist and curator. She has shown her work in the gallery in a series of shows since 2022 and has a solo show forthcoming in September 2023. Her work has been shown at Dorado 806, the Women United Art Magazine (cover artist), The Other Art Fair (Sept '23), the Venice Art Walk, curated by Laura C. Watts, CHTV, curated by Yiwei Lu, and FAB-gallery.

Melissa Meier work confronts social and spiritual issues by incorporating mixed media sculpture into narrative assemblage. She is constantly working with new processes and structure, for example, with her "Laced" series, she photographed mug shot female portraits in natural light. With wood putty and graphite, the photographic surfaces are re-rendered and then dramatically altered with incised lace patterns. With a feeling similar to the Maori warrior facial tattoos, at once sexy and intimidating, the portraits are created out of a symbol of elegance, femininity and ironically Victorian repression. Meier's latest work entitled "Skins" furthers female portraiture, this time using natural elements such as leaves, feathers, stones, egg shells, pinecones, sticks, sponges, sea shells, scales and fur. Tribal ritual or the future of fashion, the "Skins" series asks the question: is there a difference?

Meier spent most of her childhood in Brazil. She received a B.A. from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. She has exhibited her work in New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, Sao Paulo and was chosen by Sotheby's for their Young International Artists group show and auction in Tel Aviv, Vienna and Chicago. Most recently, in Los Angeles, she has shown at Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts, Bleicher Golightly Gallery, Caporale/Bleicher Gallery and James Gray Gallery at Bergamot Station. In March, 2023, Meier will be having a solo show entitled "Becoming Nature" at The Oceanside Museum of Art in Oceanside, California.

Melissa Meier work confronts social and spiritual issues by incorporating mixed media sculpture into narrative assemblage. She is constantly working with new processes and structure, for example, with her "Laced" series, she photographed mug shot female portraits in natural light. With wood putty and graphite, the photographic surfaces are re-rendered and then dramatically altered with incised lace patterns. With a feeling similar to the Maori warrior facial tattoos, at once sexy and intimidating, the portraits are created out of a symbol of elegance, femininity and ironically Victorian repression. Meier's latest work entitled "Skins" furthers female portraiture, this time using natural elements such as leaves, feathers, stones, egg shells, pinecones, sticks, sponges, sea shells, scales and fur. Tribal ritual or the future of fashion, the "Skins" series asks the question: is there a difference?

Meier spent most of her childhood in Brazil. She received a B.A. from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. She has exhibited her work in New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, Sao Paulo and was chosen by Sotheby's for their Young International Artists group show and auction in Tel Aviv, Vienna and Chicago. Most recently, in Los Angeles, she has shown at Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts, Bleicher Golightly Gallery, Caporale/Bleicher Gallery and James Gray Gallery at Bergamot Station. In March, 2023, Meier will be having a solo show entitled "Becoming Nature" at The Oceanside Museum of Art in Oceanside, California.

OLY B. is an innovative artist from Los Angeles. She combined several popular trends and created her unique style.

OLY. B paints with a closed plot but an open ending. The central image is a woman personifying unity. She is powerful, expressive, sensual, frank, and erotic. Wise as nature, naive as a child. According to the author, all of her works are personal episodes, conveying not only a stunning picture but also the events she had experienced in her life.

"With each painting, I tell a different story of my feelings, the people I meet, and the phrases I say. I take a portion of my life and soul and leave them on the canvas," OLY admits in her interview.

Creative and visionary artists can easily recognize the combination of certain colors and original patterns made in the author's technique.

OLY.B's canvases decorate the homes and places of celebrities and influencers.

Her favorite material is acrylics.
Two of her more well-known and prominent paintings are named "Pervaded" and "Jenga".

Sachiko Bradley is a British/African-American painter. She was born in Kathmandu and raised among artist communities in Nepal, India, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Italy. Sachiko spoke three languages by the time she entered kindergarten and spent her teenage years attending major art shows with her father, the British painter Martin Bradley, in Paris, Barcelona, and elsewhere. Sachiko's international perspective informs her artistic practice, as do the influences of the many artists among whom she was raised.

Sachiko is represented by UNREPD gallery. Her paintings are held in private collection in the United States, Italy, Japan, Canada, Switzerland, and Brazil. Sachiko lives and works in Los Angeles.

Sachiko Bradley is a British/African-American painter. She was born in Kathmandu and raised among artist communities in Nepal, India, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Italy. Sachiko spoke three languages by the time she entered kindergarten and spent her teenage years attending major art shows with her father, the British painter Martin Bradley, in Paris, Barcelona, and elsewhere. Sachiko's international perspective informs her artistic practice, as do the influences of the many artists among whom she was raised.

Sachiko is represented by UNREPD gallery. Her paintings are held in private collection in the United States, Italy, Japan, Canada, Switzerland, and Brazil. Sachiko lives and works in Los Angeles.

Sun-Mi is a contemporary artist in the Faux Naif movement Born in Asuncion, Paraguay, she went on to study at Maryland Institute College of Art where she received her BFA in
illustration.

"I document what my eyes have witnesses, heart has felt, and lessons that should have been learned. Through my paintings, I will whisper to you my story...." ~ Sun Mi

Sun-Mi is a contemporary artist in the Faux Naif movement Born in Asuncion, Paraguay, she went on to study at Maryland Institute College of Art where she received her BFA in
illustration.

"I document what my eyes have witnesses, heart has felt, and lessons that should have been learned. Through my paintings, I will whisper to you my story...." ~ Sun Mi

Sun-Mi is a contemporary artist in the Faux Naif movement Born in Asuncion, Paraguay, she went on to study at Maryland Institute College of Art where she received her BFA in
illustration.

"I document what my eyes have witnesses, heart has felt, and lessons that should have been learned. Through my paintings, I will whisper to you my story...." ~ Sun Mi

Ms. Yellow (Nuria Ortiz) is a self-taught Mexican-American muralist, artist, craftswoman and teaching artist. She has dedicated her time to the creative development and empowerment of communities, working closely with schools, cities, community centers & more to develop workshops, murals & mentorship to the youth. Her artwork and murals have been displayed in museums, galleries, and streets throughout the United States and around the world such as Egypt, Haiti, Japan, Spain, France, Australia and Mexico, centering on themes such as culture, folklore, sisterhood, education, unity, love and social justice.

French born fashion designer and photographer, Sandrine Abessera is a self taught multimedia artist who finds her inspiration in the quotidien moments she captures through her lens. By observing our ever consuming social, urban, and natural environments through symbols and markers, Abessera's work in turn is a mix of editorial melancholy and romantic utopia.

Today, Sandrine lives and creates in Los Angeles, CA.

Lauren "Siyowin" Peters, an extraordinary force born on March 13, 1997, emerges as a fearless and compassionate Native American contemporary artist, wielding the transformative power of her craft to ignite societal change. As a painter, stencil artist, printmaker, street artist, and social activist, she weaves a tapestry of artistry that transcends conventional boundaries, captivating hearts and minds with its resounding call for justice and equality.

Siyowin recognizes the unsettling reality that individuals of her creed are not safe in this modern-day world. With a profound understanding of this issue, her goal is to create a representation of memory, serving as a focal point for capturing the tensions between native life, history, and remembrance. Through her art, Siyowin aims to shed light on the challenges faced by Indigenous communities, inviting viewers to reflect on these important issues.

In Siyowin's artistic sanctuary, the boundaries between historical and contemporary art dissolve, yielding a stunning fusion that transcends time and space. Her works stand as bold testaments to the indomitable spirit of Native women, their struggles etched upon each stroke of her brush. Drawing inspiration from the depths of inequality, her art serves as a beacon of hope, resplendent with deliberate statements that resonate with the resilience and tenacity embodied by Indigenous communities.

Hailing from Native California, Siyowin proudly embraces her diverse heritage, which encompasses Native American-Dakota Sioux and Mexican roots. Her personal connection to the struggles faced by her ancestors is a driving force behind her artistic endeavors. Siyowin's grandparents endured the hardships of being forced to attend boarding schools where their Native language was not allowed, further fueling her determination to reclaim and celebrate her cultural identity through her art.

Lauren "Siyowin" Peters, an extraordinary force born on March 13, 1997, emerges as a fearless and compassionate Native American contemporary artist, wielding the transformative power of her craft to ignite societal change. As a painter, stencil artist, printmaker, street artist, and social activist, she weaves a tapestry of artistry that transcends conventional boundaries, captivating hearts and minds with its resounding call for justice and equality.

Siyowin recognizes the unsettling reality that individuals of her creed are not safe in this modern-day world. With a profound understanding of this issue, her goal is to create a representation of memory, serving as a focal point for capturing the tensions between native life, history, and remembrance. Through her art, Siyowin aims to shed light on the challenges faced by Indigenous communities, inviting viewers to reflect on these important issues.

In Siyowin's artistic sanctuary, the boundaries between historical and contemporary art dissolve, yielding a stunning fusion that transcends time and space. Her works stand as bold testaments to the indomitable spirit of Native women, their struggles etched upon each stroke of her brush. Drawing inspiration from the depths of inequality, her art serves as a beacon of hope, resplendent with deliberate statements that resonate with the resilience and tenacity embodied by Indigenous communities.

Hailing from Native California, Siyowin proudly embraces her diverse heritage, which encompasses Native American-Dakota Sioux and Mexican roots. Her personal connection to the struggles faced by her ancestors is a driving force behind her artistic endeavors. Siyowin's grandparents endured the hardships of being forced to attend boarding schools where their Native language was not allowed, further fueling her determination to reclaim and celebrate her cultural identity through her art.

Lauren "Siyowin" Peters, an extraordinary force born on March 13, 1997, emerges as a fearless and compassionate Native American contemporary artist, wielding the transformative power of her craft to ignite societal change. As a painter, stencil artist, printmaker, street artist, and social activist, she weaves a tapestry of artistry that transcends conventional boundaries, captivating hearts and minds with its resounding call for justice and equality.

Siyowin recognizes the unsettling reality that individuals of her creed are not safe in this modern-day world. With a profound understanding of this issue, her goal is to create a representation of memory, serving as a focal point for capturing the tensions between native life, history, and remembrance. Through her art, Siyowin aims to shed light on the challenges faced by Indigenous communities, inviting viewers to reflect on these important issues.

In Siyowin's artistic sanctuary, the boundaries between historical and contemporary art dissolve, yielding a stunning fusion that transcends time and space. Her works stand as bold testaments to the indomitable spirit of Native women, their struggles etched upon each stroke of her brush. Drawing inspiration from the depths of inequality, her art serves as a beacon of hope, resplendent with deliberate statements that resonate with the resilience and tenacity embodied by Indigenous communities.

Hailing from Native California, Siyowin proudly embraces her diverse heritage, which encompasses Native American-Dakota Sioux and Mexican roots. Her personal connection to the struggles faced by her ancestors is a driving force behind her artistic endeavors. Siyowin's grandparents endured the hardships of being forced to attend boarding schools where their Native language was not allowed, further fueling her determination to reclaim and celebrate her cultural identity through her art.

Alessandra Pierelli was born in Ancona, and studied painting at the Brera Academy in Milan. She took a course in decoration and trompe l'oeil at the Academy of the Superfluous in Rome directed by Prof. Lucifero. From 1996 to 1998 she attended the International Art School of Montecastello di Vibio (PG) directed by Nicholas Carone. From 2002 to 2005 she collaborated with renowned artist Alvin Held. In June 2004 she organized, together with Giuliana Dorazio and Giorgio Bonomi, the exhibition In the shade of Bramante - Sculptures in a park. Since 2006, she has participated in and organized numerous prestigious collective and personal exhibitions. From 2017 she has been collaborating with art critic and journalist Angelo Crespi, who curated two of her solo exhibitions held in Milan in 2018. She currently collaborates with Bg Gallery in Santa Monica Los Angeles. She took part in numerous solo and group exhibitions.

Dollar Emoji, 2019 by Alessandra Pierelli

is part of her smiley face emoji series. This fun and facetious face conveys, with its raised eyebrows and open smile, a sense of success, excellence, and all things money.

Get ready to add a pop of style with this fun financier!

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Artist Bio

Alessandra Pierelli was born in Ancona, and studied painting at the Brera Academy in Milan. She took a course in decoration and trompe l'oeil at the Academy of the Superfluous in Rome directed by Prof. Lucifero.

From 1996 to 1998 she attended the International Art School of Montecastello di Vibio (PG) directed by Nicholas Carone. From 2002 to 2005 she collaborated with renowned artist Alvin Held. In June 2004 she organized, together with Giuliana Dorazio and Giorgio Bonomi, the exhibition In the shade of Bramante - Sculptures in a park.

Since 2006, she has participated in and organized numerous prestigious collective and personal exhibitions. From 2017 she has been collaborating with art critic and journalist Angelo Crespi, who curated two of her solo exhibitions held in Milan in 2018. She currently collaborates with Bg Gallery in Santa Monica Los Angeles. She took part in numerous solo and group exhibitions.

Los Angeles-based conceptual artist Jane Szabo merges a love for fabrication and materials with visceral photographic images. Using hand-made constructions, self-portraiture, and still life, she shares stories that explore her personal experiences through an astonishing lens of self-exploration and identity. Szabo's background creating props and miniatures for the entertainment industry infuses her creative process.

Widely exhibited in both solo and group shows, her work has been shown at the Museum of Art & History in Lancaster, California, where it is included in the permanent collection. She was commissioned to create a series of environmental portraits for the museum in 2019, the social engagement project #countmein, funded by the California Arts Council and the California Community Foundation. The museum acquired 71 images from this project for its collection. Her art is also a part of the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Arte al Limite in Santiago, Chile, Centro de Arte Faro Cabo Mayor in Santander, Spain, and in private collections throughout the U.S. and Europe.

Szabo's work has been exhibited in solo shows at The Huntley Gallery at Cal Poly Pomona, The Danforth Art Museum, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Foto Relevance Gallery in Houston, TX, the John Wayne Orange County Airport, the Museum of Art & History in Lancaster, CA, Foto Museum Casa Coyoacán in Mexico City, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, the Yuma Fine Art Center in Arizona, and the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art.

She holds an MFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

Allois is an American painter and illustrator, best known for the striking and bizarre images of Aliens in her surrealist work. She illustrated collectible edition of the stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Ray Bradbury "THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER/USHER II," published by Gauntlet Press in 2010.

Allois is an American painter and illustrator, best known for the striking and bizarre images of Aliens in her surrealist work. She illustrated collectible edition of the stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Ray Bradbury "THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER/USHER II," published by Gauntlet Press in 2010.

Born in Rabat, Morocco, Hedi El Kholti moved to Los Angeles in 1992, working in the film industry for several years before earning a BFA degree at Art Center College of Design. Over the years he developed an intimate collage practice that materialized in a series of books and smaller fanzines. Sometimes glossy, sometimes Xeroxed, the collages draw content from various eras and include movie stills, book covers, and images from art publications and gay magazines. Part pop culture time capsule, part unfettered stream of consciousness, these works are deeply personal and autobiographical. Through his colorful and eclectic compositions, El Kholti reflects on insecurities regarding queerness, fear of illness and virality, and feelings of alienation from his provenance.

Hedi El Kholti has compiled a new folio of his esoteric collaged works, bound into the catalogue for Made in L.A. 2020, and a new double-sided poster, presented as a takeaway stack in the galleries of the Hammer Museum and The Huntington.

In Made in L.A. 2020: a version, the artist's work is present in two institutions, across Los Angeles.

Natalia Palacino Camargo is a Colombian artist and curator born in Bogota D.C. She is currently a senior student at New York University and is pursuing a double degree in Studio Art with a concentration in Graphic and Media Design, Video and Mixed Media Arts, and a degree in Philosophy. She has extensive experience in graphic design, social media management, and content creation. Her intersectional art practice aims to make art with a purpose and create social impact. Natalia is very passionate about advocating for gender equality, LGBTQ+ rights, and bettering and working with her Latinx community.

She is currently a curatorial assistant for Elijah Wheat Showroom, an art collective and art gallery that focuses on highlighting the work of starting and mid-career artists. She also interns as the Graphic Designer for the LGBTQ+ Center at NYU, is a peer mentor for the Academic Achievement Program (AAP), and, has been working as a monitor in the Digital Art Lab in the Art & Art Professions Department at NYU.

Los Angeles-based artist Ruby Vartan was born in Beirut and classically trained at the Academie Libanaise des Beaux Artes. The strong use of color in her paintings, which reflects her Armenian heritage and identity, symbolizes her desires as well. She has exhibited in Southern California at Launch, Museum of Lancaster MOAH:CEDAR, Cactus Gallery, Ace/121 Gallery, and Studio Channel Islands. She has also shown in New York City's Ace Gallery and numerous times in Yerevan, Armenia including its Museum of Modern Art and the Yerevan Art Expo. Also was one of the participants of the cultural exchange program in digital public art at the metro system in Gimpo city, South Korea.

Los Angeles-based artist Ruby Vartan was born in Beirut and classically trained at the Academie Libanaise des Beaux Artes. The strong use of color in her paintings, which reflects her Armenian heritage and identity, symbolizes her desires as well. She has exhibited in Southern California at Launch, Museum of Lancaster MOAH:CEDAR, Cactus Gallery, Ace/121 Gallery, and Studio Channel Islands. She has also shown in New York City's Ace Gallery and numerous times in Yerevan, Armenia including its Museum of Modern Art and the Yerevan Art Expo. Also was one of the participants of the cultural exchange program in digital public art at the metro system in Gimpo city, South Korea.

Sona Mirzaei is a contemporary artist from Los Angeles, California. She is a self-taught artist, ambitious and talented, building a well-regarded art practice that has blossomed into a wonderful world of its own. Her sole mission is to follow interests in life and capture anything that evokes cognitive activity, emotion, creativity and inspiration for her audience and inevitably herself.

Sona's approach to art is culturally rich, bold, daring, while evoking a gentleness. She achieves great depth and contrast with use of aggressive motion in her brush work, creating paintings with dynamic layers and texture, manifesting dimensions, liveliness and joy. She is currently working in abstract expressionism, pop art, sculpture, street art, mixed media, conceptual, 3dimensional, and public art.

Her interests extend to public art as she believes that people should be able to experience art anywhere and place.

Multidisciplinary artist Yana Tammah has taken a variety of artistic journeys in her life so far. In her childhood years, she was strongly shaped by her Eastern European upbringing and later by her life as an immigrant in the U.S., where she first discovered her creative talents, as well as her interest in the glamorous fashion world.

Driven by her devotion to sharing her vast knowledge and expertise with others, Yana founded her own lifestyle brand "SSTAGIONI" and authored two books on developing a personal style. Throughout her creative journey, Yana always believed that from suffering there comes strength and that every hardship ultimately reveals a better side of life. This profound belief is what inspired her label "SSTAGIONI", which translates as "Four Seasons" in Italian. The label perfectly embodies the rhythm of life's constant changes, where warmth only exists because of cold, and light only because of darkness.

Later on, with her artistic curiosity still burning bright, Yana discovered a new medium to visually represent her experiences and emotions in a whole new way with her experimentation with abstract painting. She founded her art label "SSTAGIONI Art by Yana Tammah" in 2022 as a body of abstract work, embracing the feminist movement and incorporating masculine inspirations to create an open, relatable, and emerging dialogue of contemporary artwork. Along her journey, Yana has experienced various hardships, which have shaped her art and continue to influence it to this day. So far, her expressive paintings have touched the hearts of their viewers at numerous exhibitions worldwide and have also been featured in well- known television productions.

SSTAGIONI Art paintings have been exhibited and collected worldwide, including in United Kindom (London), Italy (Milan, Venice), Germany (Berlin), Spain (Madrid, Palma de Mallorca), Switzerland (Zurih, Zug), Russia (Moscow).

In US as well (New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Denver).

CALIFORNIA HERITAGE MUSEUM (Sep 9-30 2023)

Her work has been featured in television productions on prominent networks such as 5KTLA and Fox.

Wes Aderhold is an artist living and working in New York City. He is self-taught and blends abstraction, figuration, and cubism. He is inspired by the ubiquitous difficulties of life and the underpinnings of being human.

Wes Aderhold is an artist living and working in New York City. He is self-taught and blends abstraction, figuration, and cubism. He is inspired by the ubiquitous difficulties of life and the underpinnings of being human.

These words very well describe the artist as well as her works. Rhea, over the last twenty-seven years, produced a body of work that celebrates with antiquity the everlasting human spirit, which survives the brutality, and insanity of war, aridity, and harshness of human nature as it endures.

Rhea utilizes a variety of media: oils, sand, water, treated paper, canvas, and wood; which she layers, smoothes, and sculpts to create the abstract impressions, which demand tactile as well as visual interplay.

Her works are perceived as the topography of intimate landscapes, as well as the mapping of emotions and sensations devoid of familiar forms. The paintings are a personal diary of the artist as she chronicles the events that had an impact on humanity and nature.

These works combine to express the feelings of introspection, conflict, human emotion, and the effects of malicious wielding of power and greed on humanity.

Rhea's work has been exhibited in Israel, Europe, Australia, New York, and Los Angeles. She now resides in California with her husband of 48 years.

Margaret Leyva is a young mother and creative living in Los Angeles. Her work explores themes of romance, family, and different aspects of day-to-day life. She has worked with Polaroid, Instagram, Nike, the LA Times, various record labels and magazines, and has shown work at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. In tandem with photography, Margaret is also apart of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, IASTE Local 700.

Margaret Leyva is a young mother and creative living in Los Angeles. Her work explores themes of romance, family, and different aspects of day-to-day life. She has worked with Polaroid, Instagram, Nike, the LA Times, various record labels and magazines, and has shown work at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. In tandem with photography, Margaret is also apart of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, IASTE Local 700.

Born in Rabat, Morocco, Hedi El Kholti moved to Los Angeles in 1992, working in the film industry for several years before earning a BFA degree at Art Center College of Design. Over the years he developed an intimate collage practice that materialized in a series of books and smaller fanzines. Sometimes glossy, sometimes Xeroxed, the collages draw content from various eras and include movie stills, book covers, and images from art publications and gay magazines. Part pop culture time capsule, part unfettered stream of consciousness, these works are deeply personal and autobiographical. Through his colorful and eclectic compositions, El Kholti reflects on insecurities regarding queerness, fear of illness and virality, and feelings of alienation from his provenance.

Hedi El Kholti has compiled a new folio of his esoteric collaged works, bound into the catalogue for Made in L.A. 2020, and a new double-sided poster, presented as a takeaway stack in the galleries of the Hammer Museum and The Huntington.

In Made in L.A. 2020: a version, the artist's work is present in two institutions, across Los Angeles.

Based in her native Los Angeles, Laurie Raskin has exhibited her vividly colored abstract paintings and collages throughout the world. Trained as a designer, Raskin's education at the California Institute of the Arts, where she earned a BFA and MFA, awakened in her the perceptions and skills to work in fine as well as applied art, and her ability to generate energetic, high-keyed imagery now finds her working pictorially. She has shown in galleries, museums and art fairs in Tokyo, Paris, Istanbul, New Delhi, Brussels and Miami as well as New Orleans and throughout California. In the last few years Raskin has licensed her art on such diverse applications as a fashion line in England, a vodka label for a Michigan-based micro distillery, and a designer carpet line resulting from a collaboration with Didden & Co in Brussels.

Erika Rothenberg uses words, images and diverse media, from painting to drawing to photography to large-scale public artworks and museum installations.

Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Hirshhorn Museum, DC; Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany; and is in many private and public collections. Freedom of Expression National Monument, a giant megaphone in New York City, sponsored by Creative Time in 1984 and 2004, was featured at the Museum of The City Of New York 2017-18. House of Cards, my 1992 MoMA, New York exhibition of 90 satirical greeting cards, was recreated at Zolla Lieberman Gallery Chicago in 2015; Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles in 2016; and Susan Inglett Gallery, NY in 2018.

Rothenberg attended the University of Chicago until she was kicked out for participating in a student protest. Before becoming a full-time artist, I was the first woman art director at McCann-Erickson advertising agency in New York, working on Coca-Cola, the New York Times, and other clients. Additionally she is the founding member of the Guerrilla Girls.

Recent exhibitions include the Hirshhorn Museum DC., Museum of The City of NY, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, We Rise. Los Angeles, the San Diego Institute of Art. and Bunker Artspace, Miami.

Artist Bio
Rotem Reshef is a painter and installation artist based in New York and Tel Aviv. Her work creates social commentary via immersive installations and paintings that relate to society's effect on climate change and its relations to the private and public environments.

Reshef uses waste vegetation (branches, petals, ferns, leaves etc.), collected in the streets, parks and elsewhere in the urban surroundings, and imprints these "relics" onto her canvases, in a technique that resembles photograms.

In the spirit of Ecofeminism, reacting to a world that has suffered greatly from industries that had excavated and damaged entire natural areas for centuries, Reshef is suggesting a more compassionate approach of coexistence with nature, out of respect and acknowledgment of its importance for centuries to come.

Through her artistic practice, Reshef wishes to bring optimism and stability, and to address longevity, historical perspectives and the power of nourishment and life.

Artist Bio
Alexandria Hilfiger is a painter whose uniquely expressive work carries within it a wide range of human emotion. Her work is intuitive and free, inspired by nature and the raw human experience. The idea of creating a healing experience for herself as well as the viewer informs many of her pieces during her process. Hilfiger believes that there is more beauty in the imperfections of nature and human existence; therefore allowing others to accept the undulating nature of our human experience on earth. Allowing emotion to dictate her work, her background in fashion influences her use of color and texture choices greatly.

Alexandria has been showing work since 2004. Exhibiting in New York City, having a solo show at Soho House NYC, Group show at the Chelsea Art Museum, Novare, Whiplash Studios, MILK, Art Basel Miami 2013, and in Los Angeles at the CUBE. She was recently featured in the Spring Break Art Show in New York, 2022. Alexandria works and resides in Palm Springs.

Artist Bio
Julienne Johnson was born in the USA in Sandusky, Michigan and is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice includes drawing, painting, sculpture, installation. She has been engaged professionally in a variety of other creative disciplines, most notably songwriting and poetry. She was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1999 and a Dove Award in 2000, among other music honors. Her poetry has been published in the USA, Canada and Australia.

Despite success in these arenas, Johnson's most profound connection is with the visual arts -her strongest, most direct form of communication. Her award winning artworks can be found in museum, corporate, and private collections around the world.

Julienne Johnson has one son
and resides in Los Angeles with her husband.

Artist Bio
Julienne Johnson was born in the USA in Sandusky, Michigan and is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice includes drawing, painting, sculpture, installation. She has been engaged professionally in a variety of other creative disciplines, most notably songwriting and poetry. She was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1999 and a Dove Award in 2000, among other music honors. Her poetry has been published in the USA, Canada and Australia.

Despite success in these arenas, Johnson's most profound connection is with the visual arts -her strongest, most direct form of communication. Her award winning artworks can be found in museum, corporate, and private collections around the world.

Julienne Johnson has one son
and resides in Los Angeles with her husband.

Big Sleeps is a world renowned artist at the apex of the lettering movement. Utilizing the letters he wrote as a child to once glorify gang culture, David Carasco aka Big Sleeps uses those same letters to now lead an artistic movement and influence a new generation of aspiring and established artists with a style synonymous to L.A. Sleeps lettering is part of the permanent collections of the Getty, Natural History Museum and have been notably showcased locally at the L.A. Louvre and internationally at HHH gallery in Japan.

Julienne Johnson was born in the USA in Sandusky, Michigan and is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice includes drawing, painting, sculpture, installation. She has
been engaged professionally in a variety of other creative disciplines, most notably songwriting and poetry. She was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1999 and a Dove Award in 2000, among other music honors. Her poetry has been published in the USA, Canada and Australia.

Despite success in these arenas, Johnson's most profound connection is with the visual arts -her strongest, most direct form of communication. Her award winning artworks can be found in museum, corporate, and private collections around the world.

Julienne Johnson has one son
and resides in Los Angeles with her husband.

Lori Cozen-Geller formulates her sculptures out of a familiar, vital, and relatively recent artistic language. But in creating these objects, she has reasoned well outside the norms of this vocabulary and the genre it informs, almost to the point of heresy. Cozen-Geller is indeed a minimalist, following in the wake of hundreds of principally (if by no means exclusively) American artists who have pared down their formal vocabularies to essences. But Cozen-Geller wants something different out of large, simple shapes than do most of her minimalist predecessors and cohorts: she wants meaning. Symbolic meaning. Iconography, that is, as recognizable (if not necessarily self-evident) to the untrained viewer as a stop sign - albeit far less literal.

Artist Bio
Andreas Stylianou, born in Cyprus in 1990, is a Contemporary artist that lives and works between London and Nicosia. He studied at the Architectural Association (London) and received a Master's degree from the Royal Collage of Art (London) and IE Business School (Madrid).

Trained as an Architect, Andreas always suppressed his creativity, until one day he moved into an artist studio and started painting as if that's what he was meant to be doing all his life.

Andreas has had his first show with Galstian Advisory LLC in October 2019 and has been included in the "While Supplies Last" group show at the Bellevue Art Museum (Washington). Andreas has an upcoming solo shows in both Los Angeles (California) and in Nicosia (Cyprus).

Tom O'Connor is a contemporary Australian artist, actor, and creative director who lives and works in Los Angeles. His artist practice spans across abstract painting, spatial installation, sculpture, and self-portrait photography.

French born fashion designer and photographer, Sandrine Abessera is a self taught multimedia artist who finds her inspiration in the quotidien moments she captures through her lens. By observing our ever consuming social, urban, and natural environments through symbols and markers, Abessera's work in turn is a mix of editorial melancholy and romantic utopia.

Imbued with the spirit of exploration, a love for textures and urban youth subcultures of the '70s, Abessera's practice mixes DIY ethics with punk and street style graphics that adhere to a code in which art is about aesthetic impact.

Abessera's multimedia, inter-medium approach to artmaking fuses her philosophy of execution through emotion. The images in focus - both found and made, still and moving - opens her art to the beauty and mystery captured in everyday life. Abessera's work is rooted in personal experience, vision, and touch.

Today, Sandrine lives and creates in Los Angeles, CA.

Amy Smith is a self-taught contemporary artist always evolving.

Her artwork includes murals, stencils, collage work, illustrations, digital graphic design, paint,
and spray paint, all to create one-of-a-kind pieces that reflect both her passions and fury,
juxtaposed through the lens of imagination.
While some of her work is driven by political, social, and environmental injustice, most reflect her deeply-rooted optimism and belief in the power of the feminist spirit, unity and love.

Her portrait collage series deconstructs recycled fashion magazines to represent both her love for self-expression and her contempt for excessive consumption and manipulation.
Tearing fashion magazines that are carefully crafted to objectify women, she transforms
corporate messaging into words and images that celebrate people that create our beautiful
tapestry of humanity.

When humanity is seen as more than just a number or consumer, we can connect on a deeper level.

Amy Smith's work has been featured in prestigious art exhibitions like the LA Art Show, The Other Art Fair, and has been selected for various public art initiatives including LA County Arts celebrating the Centennial of the 19th Amendment among many others.
With her first upcoming museum show at Ontario museum at the end of 2022, she continues to expand her message throughout the art world.

Her work is internationally collected, gallery represented and featured on many tv/film shows. Her focus is to connect humanity through her art by sharing messages of a hope and unity for a better future