Born 1937 Los Angeles, California - 2014

Best known for his work with the Beach Boys as a A&R executive, record producer, music supervisor for many popular films and portrait artist.

Once did a portrait of Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys that Brian believed “literally captured his soul”. Their relationship was strained and they separated.

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Born 1980 North Carolina

London based audio/visual artist

Work was collected at G Fine Art, DC in 2004. Group exhibition w/ Jose Ruiz and Maggie Michael.

He typically presents his art as a live narrated montage of his audio and visual recordings.

Born 1971 Washington, D.C.

Conceptual artist that worked closely with Jose Ruiz in a group named Decatur Blue

Founded “Present Company” in 2012 with Chad Stayrook & Jose Ruiz, a Brooklyn based exhibition and social space

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Born 1952 Liverpool, England

English author, playwright, film director, and visual artist of many popular horror franchises such as Hellraiser and Candyman

Creator of 2001 video game “Undying”

http://www.clivebarker.info/news.html

Born 1960 in Los Angeles, California

Famous illustrator of children’s books, games, and disney animator. Animated Day-time Emmy award winning disney cartoon “Teacher’s Pet”, and designed art for “Cranium” board game

https://www.garybaseman.com

Knoxville, Tennessee

Typographer, printmaker, and encaustic artist. The other half of “Yee Haw Industries”.

https://www.pioneer-house.com/julie-belcher

Born 1964 Los Angeles, California

Wayne is a photography-based installation artist whose exhibitions consist of both the hand-made camera and photographs produced by the camera.

He builds the pinhole cameras from odd materials, emphasizing the meaning of his work.

Some of the materials used to build cameras: Blood, bones, organs, artifacts from wars, a crucifix from hitlers girlfriend, and many more interesting items.

https://www.waynemartinbelger.com/index

“My drawings and drawing performances are about the physical act of drawing and about drawing as an extension of the body. Many drawings use repetition by taking a simple gesture and repeating it until it transforms into something else. I often use my body’s limitations, such as physical endurance, or the reach of my wrist, arms, or legs,”

http://www.barbaraberk.net/resume.html

Born 1963 Greeneville, Tennessee

Master typographer know mostly for his concert posters and portraits. With a unique style and font Bradley helped to create the print brand “Yee Haw Industries”, with Julie Belcher in 1995.

Born 1970 in Columbia

Creates painted collages, with some stencils, all inspired by nature being manipulated by and adapting to humans in everyday life.

https://www.monartworks.com

Born in 1931 Barcelona, Spain.

Known for colorful, abstract works and portraits. Cabada has exhibited his work across the world and opened the Aaron Gallery in 1974

https://cabada.art

Born in Washington, D.C.

Daughter of Javier Cabada, she uses light and unique palettes to paint portraits of vintage and modern women in various settings and emotion.

https://sabrinacabada.com

Born 1971 Los Angeles

Sound/installation artist and graphic designer. Has made critically acclaimed recordings for several world wide labels. His digital minimalist work explores the inter-relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, and the act of listening.

https://www.3particles.com

Born 1966 Kalemyo, Burma (Myanmar)

Came to America with his family in 1978 and studied under John Gossage at the University of Maryland. At 30 he illegally crossed the border back into Burma where he photographed a Burmese rebel camp whose images later went on to create his books, Burma: something went wrong and Letter From PLF.

Now teaches photography at George Washington University and American University.

Born in Beckley, West Virginia

Washington DC based artist, Crider specializes in mixed media work on canvas, cloth, and paper, intertwined with her love of language. She seeks to use her work as a way to “articulate ideas, experiences and thoughts that I cannot express with words. “

https://digdc.dclibrary.org/islandora/object/dcplislandora%3A207222

Born Washington D.C. 1997

Stephen Crystal’s oldest son

Co-opened Decatur Blue in 2000 with Jose Ruiz, Ryan Hackett, and Champ Taylor.

Works with unique mediums experimenting with reactive chemicals, adhesives, and plastic to create textures that show his process.

Born 1868 Whitewater, Wisconsin

Historical photographer and ethologist who lived from 1868-1952, who focused on early Western America and Native American people. Known for the book “The North American Indian” 1907 and recorded the film “Land of the Head-Hunters” 1914.

https://www.curtislegacyfoundation.org/the-north-american-indian

Born in 1974 in Athens, Greece

Panayiotis Delilabros has been studying and working in the UK since 1996. A graduate of Central St. Martins, he received his MA in Fine Arts in 2006. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally, taking part in group and solo shows in the United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden and Greece.

Born 1959 Cuba

One of the most sought after Pop artists practicing today. Known for striking and vivid mixed media incorporating vintage advertising style and often with ironic messages of power, wealth, lust, and more providing a commentary on our culture.

https://kingofpopart.com

Born in El Salvador

Working with symbols from her Salvadoran ancestors, reflecting on spiritual unity through her abstract paintings and “luminous silent language”.

Florida based pop portrait artist

Founder and director of The Illustration Academy 1995 and co-founder of Visual Arts Passage. John has won several awards from the New York Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts, and more. His work has been on the cover of Newsweek, the pages of Esquire, Money, and Essence, and in the publications of Penguin Books, Bantam Books, Hitachi, 7-up, NCAA, Sprint Corp, and the Knoll Furniture Group. Mostly creating landscapes, portraits, figures, and magazine illustrations with water color and drawings.

Born in Thousand Oaks, California

Combining nature, physiology, and psychology her paintings and projects convey an experiential understanding of synesthesia, a cross-sensorial phenomenon integrating color, memory, emotion and language. Attempting to translate neurological reactions to deep, complex emotions with manipulated botanical shape with human influence.

http://www.loriespositoart.com

Born 1961 Washington, DC

Works with oil paint on scrap metal, illustrating the most generic of pop culture objects with an emphasis on objects that are used once, then discarded, and quickly forgotten. Pieces of metal that are previously damaged with distressed paint or dents is what Fitts prefers to use, as the surface itself can be more important than the painted subject.

http://mfitts-art.blogspot.com

Born 1977 Bristol, Rhode Island

Large installation artist who builds his pieces from raw scrap materials on the streets. Drawn specifically to torn down billboard and street posters that can be torn and collaged to hide or obscure their message.

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Urban landscape artist that admires the run down buildings and people living their routine lives within them. Capturing scenes of everyday life in the city with an overlying quilt pattern that reveals the meanings and stories of each.

http://www.joshgeorge.com

Born 1964 in Zaragoza, Spain

Works consisting of thousands of drops of water, arranged into a grid pattern, inside of which a small amount of ink or enamel is dropped and left to dry. He describes his art as post-minimal.

https://www.teogonzalez.rocks

“He uses sound and paint to trap, isolate, and transform natural stimuli. Much like an electronic musician might sample a beat and transform it into something new, he uses paint and sound to "sample" part of a visual or auditory element and repeat, alter, and suspend it according to the subject’s vocal and anatomical cues.”

Also co-founded Decatur Blue with Jose Ruiz, Champ Taylor, and Brian Balderson

https://www.ryanhackett.com/index.php

Born in Dallas, TX

Henderson’s paintings are inspired by nature, anthropology, philosophy and linguistics. The subjects in her work range from portraits to narrative scenes that tell a story for viewers to interpret their own.

Wood burning and mixed media artist, influenced by Native American artwork, patterns, vintage lithography. Often using antique cigar boxes and found pieces of wood.

https://www.jasonhouchen.com/biography

Jamison’s mystical paintings are mostly feminine subjects in harmony with animals and nature. Known for using egg yolk in her paintings she feels it helps to connect life, and the embodiment of femininity to her work.

http://www.susanjamison.com

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Born 1946 Galveston, Texas

Abstract artist working with wood, canvas, and layers of paints. His process is most valuable as he applies several layers of paint while also sanding it away. Creating depth and texture for his monochromatic pieces.

https://www.otisjones.net

Born 1961 in Shiga Prefecture

Sculptural design and collage artist working with everyday objects in fascinating combinations. Many of her exhibitions stick to a theme and use similar materials to create a collection of aesthetically pleasing antique looking pieces.

Born 1971 Johnstown, Pennsylvania

Kepple mixes glue, handmade ink, and varnish to create a gel that he drizzles, or draws, in looping forms layered on top of one another. The finished artwork reveals a corporeality that recalls cells and skeletal structures. His finished artworks are richly textured, luminescent, abstract paintings

Born 1975 Baltimore, Maryland

Photographer that captures public spaces and often signage from unexpected angles that obscure them and give a different message. Leaving the viewer curious, like a subliminal message his photos use its subjects subtly in ways they were never meant to.

https://www.johnlehr.net

Born 1979

With a knife, a pencil, and paper Lin creates drawing/sculpture hybrids on layers of paper that partially reveal the drawings underneath. Leaving the viewer to infer what is behind the layers. Often thought to be laser cut, Lin’s handmade art is important to her as it helps to exercise and express our thought process as humans.

http://www.amylinart.com/htm_new/index.html

Chinese artist working in Vancouver, BC creating abstract paintings exploring the ‘nature of beauty’. Often painting landscapes and flowers with textured paint and translucent layers.

Born 1958

Abstract contemporary artist that is known for working with encaustic and wax. Using fire to melt the wax and reveal layers underneath, Lozano builds textures that mimic erosion. As she manipulates the structure, the wax reflects light and provides optical depth.

Born 1975

Glass sculptural artist

“My pieces follow the trail of daily life and seek to transform the mundane into the fantastic. Each piece is an expansion on a reality, a tall tale of what might have started as an everyday interaction. I embrace the absurd and extraordinary provoking the imagination into wakefulness.”

https://www.carmenlozar.com

Born 1972 Matanzas, Cuba

While starting her career at only 21 she is considered one of the leading painters of her generation. She has exhibited her work all around the world becoming well known internationally.

Born 1954 Washington, DC

Contemporary abstract American artist known for using bright colors and large canvases.

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Born 1971 Los Angeles, California

A sculptor that creates eery anthropomorphic dioramas often depicting how animals deal with waste from human consumption.

She has been nicknamed ‘Bloodbath McGrath” for her work.

https://elizabethmcgrath.com/about

Born 1974 Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Abstract painter known for her complex control over color shades and combinations of materials she uses.

His colorful and bold illustrations with posed common objects have been used for countless advertisements and big name companies around the globe. The almost mathematical placement of shapes makes each of his pieces very pleasing aesthetically and eye catching.

https://markallenmillerillustration.com

Born 1951 Wisconsin

Urban photographer capturing the mentally ill, homeless, drug addicted, ‘lower class’ citizens. Often using photography paper and furniture varnish to treat the prints, as to give them a vintage look. Also known for his photo collages, that make unnatural and uncomfortable images that have been described as ‘manifestations of pain’.

Born in Las Vegas, Nevada

Inspired by his hometown, Misko is famous for his paintings and extra large murals of neon signs. Using black background with the bold bright colors popping on top gives them a very realistic look. Misko has been recognized repeatedly by local press earning the honor of “Best Local Artist” by both Las Vegas CityLife and Las Vegas Weekly magazine.

https://www.jerrymisko.com

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Born Gothenburg, Sweden

Abstract painter and sculpture artist. Uses an array of mediums all beautifully blended on canvas or paper: acrylics, color pencils, pastels, crayons, oil bars, oil pastels.

Creating dreamlike scenes with inspiration from her own experiences and life. She avoids faces in her work as she wants the figures to stand more for emotions or a feeling rather than a person.

Born 1970 Charleston, North Carolina

Street artist, skateboarder, activist, and creator of the world famous brand OBEY giant . Seen on sides of building, in magazines and newspapers, advertising, clothing, political signs, and more. Extremely influential and powerful designs have interested, confused, and disturbed viewer just as they were intended to do.

https://obeygiant.com

Photographer who uses silver gelatin prints to create relaxing vintage images of subjects standing in landscape.

Graduated Cocoran School of Art in 1992.

Born 1971 Richmond, Kentucky

A mixed media, narrative artist who adds fabric and sewn thread to her painted canvas or muslim. Using donated fabric from friends and family Phillips gives texture and a story to each of her pieces. Known for her use of a long-arm sewing machine rather than a more traditional method.

https://ginaphillips.org/home.html

Born 1969 Havana, Cuba

Ramos produces animations, etchings, and multimedia-immersive installations that lead to a proactive self-awareness, favoring tolerance and justice. Her work exposes how dysfunctional power interactions produce negative narratives that affect identity, nationality, gender, and race conflicts. She connects these concerns with history and social practices using characters from art, literature, and political cartoons.

https://www.sandraramosart.com

An award-winning abstract artist whose work has been seen in solo and group exhibitions in America, Europe and Mexico. Ramburg's paintings, executed in acrylic, combine drawing and brushwork and are derived from a combination of personal events and environments he's known in life.

https://www.calvinedwardramsburg.com

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Fine contemporary artist that paints layered pieces pertaining to biology and life, often creating full collections that follow a theme. Much of her work has to do with communication in multiple contexts. Such as animals with plants, people and music, and art to perception.

https://www.lrowlandart.com

Born 1975 Buffalo, New York

An abstract expressionism painter that believes art has no boundaries and pure, uninhibited freedom. She uses many materials including fabric occasionally.

Born 1975 Lima, Peru

José Ruiz is a Peruvian curator and artist working between Baltimore, Washington DC, and New York. He is the Director of the MFA in Curatorial Practice program at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) as well as full-time faculty.

www.joseruizart.com

Born 1978 Hayward, California

Utilizing a variety of mixed media, found objects and layers of assemblage, his work evokes the wonders and imagination that many of us abandoned in childhood. His installations transport the viewer into a vibrant and endless world of overlapping drawn, painted, sculpted and animated narratives and dreamscapes -- half-remembered, half-imagined places where stories can develop and take on a life of their own.

http://www.southersalazar.com

Born 1975 Quantico, Virginia

Known for his elegant and sometimes disturbing oil paintings of human figures and landscapes. From large scale panoramas to illusionary scenes, he often depicts his models in aggressively dramatic actions that create narratives without a beginning or end.

https://erikthorsandberg.com/home.html

Born 1950

Abstract painter who uses probability to assist in the selection of colors and placement of patterns in her work. Through her process she creates these brightly colored geometric shapes that suggest spontaneity.

https://anneseidman.com

Born 1968 New Jersey

Vintage ad style pop art collage paintings, often depicting its subjects dreaming or thinking of their deep desires.

https://simensky.com

Born 1975 Waxahachie, Texas

Oklahoma Choctaw Native American artist best known to use his single line drawing technique to create a meaningful image. Usually animals, plants, or people from Native American tribes shown how they are in life today.

Born 1972 Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Large scale installation sculptural artist, often using one-time use, disposable everyday objects and materials. He leaves many of his pieces unnamed for the viewer to draw their own conclusion and meanings

A Thai minimalist painter who draws inspiration from people he has seen around the world on his travels. His installations often include a painted wall beside the framed pieces, providing a backdrop.

Born 1960 Washington, D.C.

Contemporary glass artist who co-founded the Washington Glass Studio in Washington, DC. Often using his art as memorial or dedication pieces to people around the world who have either died from disease or violence, or people who’ve dedicated to help others.

He describes his infinite mirror pieces as safe protected spaces, a new dimension almost, that never existed before he created it that holds his ideas and memories.

https://www.timtateglass.com/home

Born 1970 Jacksonville, Florida

Contemporary abstract artist who combines landscape, symbolization, and representation to fabricate his unique perspective of the world. Utilizing water color, acrylics, oil , adhesives, collage, and much more.

Since 1998, he has lived in Washington, DC, where independent venues such as Decatur Blue (2000-2005), District of Columbia Arts Center (DCAC), and Pleasant Plains Workshop were helpful, orientational ventures for him.

https://champneystaylor.com

Born 1977 Washington, D.C.

Leading Washington, D.C. mural artist in the late 1990s. Inspired by pop-art and graffiti, painting abstract figures and personified objects. Creator of Holy Bones brand

https://www.kellytowles.com

Born Vancouver, B.C.

Working with encaustic or paint on found objects, typically wood scraps. Often painting figures in action and various still life scenes.

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Working with light and the element of chance, Villarreal creates large pieces that are described as “the visual manifestation of code in light”. Patterns that interact with each other or draw a basic outline of the underlying structure.

He has many permanent installations around the world in museums and on public display everyday.

http://villareal.net

Born 1973

Sculpture artists working with machines, magnets, iron filings, lights, and more. She uses her kinetic based sculptures and art to help visualize energy, and systems of the body and how they function.

http://webpage.pace.edu/cl61816n/index.html

Illustrator and fine art painter that draws inspiration from urban living and human interactions. Setting narratives that could be perceived as multiple intertwining stories between the subjects, almost like an ecosystem, all elements involved serve a purpose.

Has done commissioned work all over the Las Vegas valley including advertising, murals, sculptures, illustrated children’s books, and more. He and his wife ran a gallery in Downtown Las Vegas from 2008-2020.

https://www.josephwatsonart.com

Born 1979 southern California

Described as “post-pop surrealism”, using a bright hyper-chromatic palette and layers of glaze to illustrate everyday objects and subjects as “otherworldly” and create these almost cinematic scenes.

Weldon has had studios all throughout the US in his life and is known for his four eyed cat paintings.

https://caseyweldon.bigcartel.com

Born 1977 Los Angeles, California

A portrait artist known for his figurative paintings of black and brown men in a blend of the traditional and contemporary. His models are posed similarly to some historical portraits, but in their everyday western style clothing. This style is meant to represent these men color in a powerful and heroic way, to attempt to change a misunderstood narrative in American culture.

https://kehindewiley.com

Born 1985 Las Vegas, Nevada

Performer, sculptor, painter, and more Willis explores many different concepts and mediums, but always creating cohesive collections. Often using his humor and inspiration from Las Vegas his collections and installations reveal his personality and tell personally stories.

http://www.thomasraywillis.com