Michelle Alexander

Michelle Alexander is a Canadian-born artist living and working between Montreal and Chicago, whose interdisciplinary practice grapples with experiences of the body and the discomfort of fitting into one’s own skin by trying to find a rational way through the irrational. She sees and uses materials as the body, as the skin, and as the connections between our inside and outside worlds. She processes through process. In her artworks, questions are asked but answers are not given.

Michelle received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Miami, then studied fashion design at Parsons School of Design, earning an Associates’ degree in Applied Science. Michelle graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a Master of Fine Arts Degree.

Michelle’s work has been exhibited at galleries including Mathew Heberlein Contemporary (Chicago), Ivory Gate Gallery (Chicago), Woman Made Gallery (Chicago), Cipriarte Gallery (Venice, IT), Mana Contemporary (Chicago), The Current (Stowe, VT), and the Design Museum of Chicago. Most recently, she has been featured and reviewed in Chicago Reader, Femme Art Review, Block Club Chicago, Whitehot Magazine, and elsewhere. 

https://www.michellealexanderart.com

@michelle.alexander.art

Paige Beeber

Paige Beeber (b. 1993 Syosset, NY) is best known for her intricate abstract paintings that could be mistaken for textiles which she makes in Brooklyn, New York and Taos, New Mexico. Spending most of her life between Long Island and New York City, Beeber incorporates a wide range of materials—oil, spray, acrylic paints, inks, dyes, and found objects—into her large-scale, intensely detailed works. Beeber received a BFA from Alfred University. She has since been noted for her distinctive approach to mark-making, incorporating abstract and geometric patterns that give her paintings the appearance of needlework, forging a link to past generations of artisans in her family’s history. Beeber’s prominent use of zesty colors and dynamic mix of techniques create moments of harmony and discord that reflect the rhythm of contemporary life.

Beeber is an innovative artist and the visionary owner of See You Next Thursday (SYNT), a platform dedicated to fostering independent artistic voices. Selected as one of Art in America's top 20 global artists to watch, Paige blends her passion for art with a mission to help creators discover their own unique style. Her work has been showcased worldwide, spanning from solo exhibitions in Sicily, various group shows from Copenhagen to Los Angeles, and to completing her third solo exhibition in Manhattan last year in Tribeca. In addition to her exhibitions, Paige has collaborated with esteemed brands such as Robb Report and Delta Airlines, extending her creative vision beyond traditional art spaces. These partnerships highlight her ability to merge fine art with commercial innovation, reinforcing her commitment to bridging diverse artistic platforms

https://www.paigebeeber.com/ 

@paigebeeber

David Black

David Black, an artist based in Los Angeles and Paris, is widely recognized for his raw, energetic style exploring themes of Western Americana and cinematic noir. His evocative photography has served as an origin point for longtime collaborations with several artists including Daft Punk, Kim Gordon, and Dua Lipa.

David Black’s latest body of work extends his ongoing exploration of Western Americana into a more fluid meditation on energy, embodiment, and the inevitable impermanence of form. Here, the frame becomes a vessel for transmission, capturing not story but sensation: the spark that animates, the shimmer that moves between bodies, seen and unseen. These images invite us to consider our own physicality as a threshold - where motion becomes trace, and what lingers in the ether briefly takes shape before dissolving again into light.

https://www.davidblackstudio.com/ 

@_davidblack 

Jun Fujita

Jun Fujita was a Japanese immigrant who became a pioneering photojournalist and poet in Chicago during the first half of the 1900s. Fujita was not only a witness to momentous events in Chicago’s history; his photographs of these news events shaped the way they were recorded. He used photography to humanize inhumanity and to make legendary figures more life-sized. Despite his ethnic background and limited English, Fujita became a celebrated, somewhat swashbuckling member of the staunchly segregated city’s society, counting everyone from Carl Sandburg to Al Capone as friends. Yet he had to fight to avoid being sent to an internment camp during World War II, and he and his white wife refused to have children, fearing the prejudice biracial children faced. His story opens a window into many of the political, social, and cultural struggles of the country at that time. Until now, the story has not been told.

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Francesca Gabbiani 

Francesca Gabbiani (b. 1965, Montreal, Canada) creates depictions of overlooked landscapes, where nature and urbanization collide in their true anarchic state. Combining intricately layered cut paper, mixed media washes, and airbrush, Gabbiani's paper paintings pair literary influences with her own photographic documentation of environments in disastrous, damaged, and regenerative states. Reminiscent of settings in science fiction, her philosophical approach depicts humanity secondary to the omnipresent force of Mother Nature.

Selected solo and two-person exhibitions include Wilding Cran Gallery (2025, 2023), Los Angeles; Baert Gallery, Los Angeles (2024); Cedric Bardawil Gallery, London (2023); Mixografia, Los Angeles (2022); Monica De Cardenas (2021 Milan, Italy & 2020 Zuoz, Switzerland); and film screenings at the Malibu International Film Festival, Los Angeles (2023, awarded Best Experimental Short); Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills at San Vicente Bungalows (2022); and the Getty Center, Los Angeles (2022). Selected group exhibitions include the New National Museum of Monaco (2025), Forest Lawn Museum (2025), The Brick (2025, Los Angeles & West Den Haag, Netherlands); Kunsthaus Centre d’Art Pasquart, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland (2023), the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2022); the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles (2022); Kunsthaus Zurich (2021); KANAL Centre Pompidou, Brussels (2020); Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles (2018); MAMCO Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva (2016), and the Underground Museum (2014). Her work is included in the collections of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Kunsthaus Biel & Centre d'Art Bienne; Kunsthaus Zürich; Hood Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and Universitat St. Gallen, among others. Gabbiani lives and works in Los Angeles. 

https://www.francescagabbiani.com/ 

@francesca_gabbiani

Eric Dwight Hancock

Eric Dwight Hancock (b. 1982) received an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia in 2008, and a BFA from the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia in 2004. Hancock creates abstracted paintings of windswept trees and other natural imagery that conjure memories of his childhood in rural Georgia. Inspired by Japanese woodblock prints, the artist distorts his landscapes to the point of fantasy—until they are almost swallowed whole by sumptuous colors. The discontinuities and distortions of Hancock’s work follow a surrealist logic, functioning like lucid dreaming.

Solo exhibitions of Hancock’s work include M+B, Los Angeles (2026), Trunk Gallery, Los Angeles (2017); and Stan McCollum Gallery, Atlanta (2014). Group exhibitions include Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles (2020); St. J Gallery, Los Angeles (2020); Permanent Storage Projects, Los Angeles (2019); and Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles (2019). Hancock lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

https://erichancockpaintings.com/home.html 

@ericdwighthancock

Jess Humphrey 

Jess Humphrey is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans collage, glass, photography, and fashion design. After two decades in New York City’s fashion industry, she transitioned to full-time contemporary art practice in 2019. Her work is deeply rooted in a fascination with balance, contrast, and perception—drawing inspiration from minimalist color field painters like Ellsworth Kelly and Josef Albers, the experimental spirit of Bauhaus artists Sophie Arp Taub and Gunta Stölzl, and the surreal playfulness of René Magritte.

Blending meticulous craftsmanship with intuitive composition, Humphrey explores how materials interact to shape experience and emotion. She moved to Corning, NY in 2022 to explore the intersection of collage and glass, continuing to push the boundaries of her creative practice, always in pursuit of new ways to bring light, color, and structure into conversation.

https://jesshumphreystudio.com/ 

@holyshitiloveyou

Eric Earnest Johnson 

Eric Ernest Johnson (b. 1968, Los Angeles) is a poet, musician, filmmaker and artist whose vibrant landscapes and geometric compositions explore mankind’s relation-ship with the earth. The native Angeleno’s work is a commentary on the changing state of our natural resources as well as an homage to his beloved home state of California.

He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute and has exhibited in the United States, Korea, Scotland and Switzerland. Johnson’s work has also appeared in a number of publications and brand collaborations.

https://www.ericernestjohnson.com/ 

@eejart

Ken Karagozian 

Ken Karagozian is driven by his passion to photograph the world around him, and in particular, the people in that world. For over 30 years, Ken has borne witness through his photography to an intriguing array of the ordinary and extraordinary characters he has sought out.

Ken’s photography has been widely exhibited locally and nationally, and has been featured in many publications, including LIFE Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and Pasadena Magazine, as well as on television. His award-winning work has been widely recognized, including the California State Fair, Los Angeles County Fair, Armenian Allied Arts Association, Gallery 777 and other institutions. Collectors include the Huntington Library, the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority, and individual collectors. 

Wilshire Subway: The Making of the D Line Subway Extension is a photographic essay and cultural history of the brand new Los Angeles D Line Subway Extension written and edited by India Mandelkern and photographed by Ken Karagozian.

https://www.kenkaragozian.com/ 

@kenkaragozian

Sol Kordich

Sol Kordich (b. 1995) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Kordich approaches painting as an inquiry of the unknown, an exercise that uses the layering of colors and cadenced strokes to conceal a new reality. This accumulation lairs down understanding through a process that simultaneously conveys its own logic to surface from within. Her abstractions emerge from a physical, performative process that permits each painting to build itself through fluid gestures and the gradual accumulation of layered surfaces.

Her background in architecture subtly enables the canvas to become a spatial construct through superimposed layers, where color, gesture, and transparency accumulate to build oniric territories. Fragments of poetry, notation, mythological and mystical symbolism influence the work, revealing the tension between what is visible and what remains confined. Through this interplay of rhythm and color, her work navigates inner landscapes where memory, tension, and unstable harmony coexist.

Select solo exhibitions include Mariane Ibrahim, Chicago (2024) and Grolman Gallery, Berlin (2023). Select group exhibitions include Nicodim Gallery, NYC (2026), Megan Mulrooney Gallery, Los Angeles (2026), Mariane Ibrahim at Art Basel Paris (2024), and Gachi Prieto Gallery, Buenos Aires (2021).

https://solkordich.com/ 

@soko__________

Amy Mackay

Amy Mackay’s paintings document site-specific, performative events she stages with people in her life. These gatherings — whether a devised play or a séance — are built around shared fictions: myths, rituals, and stories that have been told and retold over time, often centering voices and characters that have been displaced or lost completely. Through collective participation, these narratives reach across multiple sites of experience, forming a network of gestures, memories and affects that shift and mutate with every retelling.

Solo and two-person exhibitions include Chandler Gallery, Mill Valley (2025), la Beast Gallery, Los Angeles (2024), and Phase Gallery, Los Angeles (2022). Select group exhibitions include Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York (2026), Middle Room Gallery, Los Angeles (2025), Lobster Club, Los Angeles (2025), Good Naked Gallery/Middle Room Gallery, Los Angeles (2025), and Baert Gallery, Los Angeles (2019). Mackay received her MFA from University of California, Irvine, in June 2018, and her BA from Bard College in May 2007. 

https://amymackay.com/ 

@thisisamymackay

Alex McAdoo

Alex McAdoo was born in 1987 in Bellingham, WA, and currently resides in Los Angeles, CA.

He received his BFA in graphic design from The University of Utah in 2013 and his MFA in painting from The Rhode Island School of Design in 2019. Picturesque symbols of the American suburb, such as foliage-lined streets, sprawling houses boasting lawns, and sleek cars fill McAdoo’s paintings. Soaked in the glow of vibrant, sunset-tinged skies, his idyllic scenes reference how he, born to an Indo-Caribbean family, grew up in Bellingham, Washington. Beyond possessing an autobiographical slant, his depictions of these landscapes in America. 

Recent shows include 1969 Gallery, NY (2025); Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles (2025); Loyal Gallery, Sweden (2025); Artemin Gallery, Taipei (2025); Abigail Ogilvy, Los Angeles (2024); GAA Gallery, NY (2024); WOAW Gallery, Singapore (Solo show, 2024); New Collectors, NY (2024); Aicon Contemporary, NY (2024); Make Room, Los Angeles (2023); Martha’s Austin, Texas (Solo show, 2023) & Shin Haus, NY (2022); 

http://www.alex-mcadoo.com/info.html 

@alexmcadoo

Wyatt Mills

Wyatt Mills (b. 1991) lives and works in Downtown Los Angeles. Working at the intersection of abstract expressionism and contemporary Americana, Mills interrogates Western influence, the human condition, and interpersonal experience. His stylistically ambidextrous approach merges immaterial shapes with tangled, corporeal forms, cultivating a kind of deliberate, exuberant disorder. Frequently reworking the same canvas—destroying, rebuilding, and obscuring—he pursues an image that feels both uncannily familiar and psychologically charged. Through this iterative process, Mills offers a pointed reflection on contemporary desensitization and the dissonance produced by an accelerated, image-driven culture.

Mills studied painting at the School of Visual Arts in New York before continuing his practice at the Berlin Institute of Arts in Germany. His work has been exhibited internationally, with notable presentations at Lobster Club, Los Angeles (2025); Mey Gallery, Los Angeles (2025); Wonzimer, Los Angeles (2025); Vielmetter Gallery, Los Angeles (2024); The Hermitage Museum, Bombay Beach, CA (2024); Nothing At All Gallery, Hong Kong (2023); la Beast Gallery, Los Angeles (2023); Galerie Droste, Paris (2022); Galerie Droste, Berlin (2022); Maddox Gallery, Los Angeles (2021); and the Long Beach Museum of Art, CA (2019).

https://www.wyattmills.com/ 

@​​wyatt.mills

Merrick Morton

Merrick Morton (b. 1955, Hollywood, CA) is a documentary street photographer, and co-founder of the gallery, Fototeka. in Los Angeles. Morton is best known for his black and white photographic portraits of LA's barrios and inner-city communities which "helped pioneer modern street photography" while on assignment for Rolling Stone Magazine.

Morton continues to work in Hollywood as a film set still photographer on movies such as One Battle After Another, Fight Club, La Bamba, and Rampart. In the early 1980s, he started photographing the East Los Angeles cholo culture, ultimately co-founding the L.A. Six, a "collective of street photographers documenting the subcultures of Los Angeles". 

http://merrick-morton.squarespace.com/ 

@merrickmortonphoto

Akiko Stehrenberger 

Akiko Stehrenberger is a 34-time CLIO award-winning movie poster art director, illustrator and designer, who works with directors, movie studios, advertising and movie advertising agencies.

She was deemed “Poster Girl” by Interview magazine in 2011, Creative Review dedicated their January 2011 Monograph to her illustrated movie posters, her poster for “Bad Milo” was featured on the Conan show, Vanity Fair included her “Funny Games” and “Kiss of the Damned” posters in their “Best Movie Posters of All Time” list, her “Da 5 Bloods” poster was on view at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, and NASA/JPL commissioned her to do the Artemis space launch posters in 2022.  The sold out “Akikomatic: The Work of Akiko Stehrenberger” was published by Hat & Beard Press in 2020.

Her clients include A24, A&E Networks, Absolut, Amazon Studios, AMC Networks, Artists Equity, Criterion Collection, The Duplass Brothers, Focus Features, FX, HBO Max, IFC Films, JPL/NASA, Levi’s, Lifetime, Lionsgate, Magnolia Pictures, Mondo, Mubi, Mutant, Neon, Netflix, Nine Muses Entertainment, The Orchard, Oscilloscope Laboratories, Paramount Studios, Porsche, Saatchi & Saatchi NY, Screen Media, Showtime, Simon & Schuster, Sony Pictures, Studio Canal, Weiden + Kennedy Amsterdam, Weiden + Kennedy Portland, and more.

https://www.akikomatic.com/ 

@doyrivative

Orian Williams 

Orian Williams (b. 1965) is an American film producer. Williams is best known for the Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated  Willem Dafoe/John Malkovich film Shadow of the Vampire, as well as the BIFA-winning Control, an Ian Curtis biopic which also received multiple Cannes and BAFTA awards.

His diverse body of work includes YELLOW ROSE (2019), the acclaimed coming-of-age drama that received widespread critical praise. Williams also produced the feature documentary BILLY IDOL SHOULD BE DEAD (2025), chronicling the iconic musician's extraordinary life and career, as well as the documentary MOGWAI: IF THE STARS HAD A SOUND (2025), celebrating the influential Scottish post-rock band. In 2024, he served as Executive Producer alongside renowned filmmaker Wim Wenders on ROVING WOMAN. Most recently, Williams produced SAM & KATE written and directed by Darren Le Gallo and starring Academy Award winners Dustin Hoffman and Sissy Spacek, with Amy Adams serving as Executive Producer and appearing in the film. 

In recognition of his achievements, Williams was named one of Variety's Top Ten Producers of 2007. With an impressive legacy of critically acclaimed films and documentaries—and a slate of exciting projects still ahead—Orian Williams continues to captivate audiences worldwide through his commitment to bold storytelling, artistic excellence, and cinematic innovation.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0931410/ 

@orianw 

Senon Williams

Senon Williams is a lifelong visual artist and musician, and a Los Angeles native. Ranging in media from paintings on paper and canvas, to wood sculpture and assemblage. Senon explores poignant visualization of the inherent human struggle– both ancient and contemporary. He finds space in the natural world, exposing stages of human evolution. His love of language play, sounds, textures, and associations of word and object often explore the triumphs and conflicts inherent in identity, history, and community. Senon’s search for truth leaves him amazed and baffled. Creating art is his meditation on meaning, or no meaning, in the face of our turbulent existence. We are invited to support or defy multiple conclusions, how do we help and how do we hurt?

The written word and poetry is a consistent part of his practice. He has published four books: Hunted & Gathered (2017, Hamilton Press), Words Don’t Mean Much (Hat & Beard Press, 2021), Rituals (Lauren Powell Projects/Keep or Gift After Purchase, 2023) and Scrapyard (Hat & Beard Press, 2025), as well as multiple zines.

Senon’s work has been shown at Five Car Garage (LA), The Hole NYC (LA), Rusha & Co. (LA), PRJCTLA (LA), The Lodge (LA), Auxiliary Projects (NYC), Beyond The Streets, Southampton Arts Center (NY), FT Gallery (Phnom Penh), amongst many others.

https://senonwilliams.com/ 

@senonwill

Russell Young

Russell Young, born in 1959 in Yorkshire, is a British-American artist best known for his large scale silk screen paintings examining cultural icons, the nature of fame, and the souring of the American Dream. 

His earliest breakthrough was his photography of George Michael for the sleeve of the album Faith in 1987. Young photographed many music stars throughout the 1970s and 1980s, including Morrissey, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, REM, The Smiths, Bauhaus, Diana Ross, Paul Newman, Björk, and many others. He went on to shoot over 100 music videos for leading artists during MTV’s height in the 1990s, which brought him to the United States. 

Young eventually moved to California, where he began his current practice with his sold-out show Pig Portraits in Los Angeles in 2003. The many series that have followed, including his ongoing Heroes + Heroines and WEST, demonstrate his visceral, analog processes and signature use of diamond dust. He has exhibited across the world in numerous galleries alongside masterclass artists, institutions, and cultural figures. These include museum exhibitions at the Modern Art Museum Shanghai, Multimedia Art Museum Moscow, Cornell Art Museum, Polk Museum of Art, and the Goss-Michael Foundation. His genesis NFT debuted and sold on SuperRare in 2022. 

Young’s work is included in many prominent private and institutional collections including those of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Barack Obama, David Bowie, Kate Moss, The Kardashians, Brigitte Bardot, Drake, Angelina Jolie, David Hockney, Brad Pitt, Aby Rosen, and others, as well as The Getty Collection in Los Angeles and The White House Collection in Washington, D.C. His works have crossed the auction block at all of the world’s major auction houses, including Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and Phillips. He currently lives in Southern California. 

https://russellyoung.com/ 

@bankrobbercalifornia