Leader of Chicago’s avant pop movement for more than 25 years, this influential American pop artist creates colorful artworks that disrupt predictable interpretation, tickle the senses, and delight the child inside.

In a further exploration of formal abstraction, Anderson uses stage lighting in his new body of work as a reference point. Highlighting the individual versus a universal experience of witnessing a fleeting moment, his paintings bring to light the classic notions of line, color and form within a single frame. Utilizing a screen grab, Anderson uses live concert footage as the starting point for this series. Some images have been taken from split second frames, while others have developed from the visual familiarity of how light carries within a given space; providing a more imagined composition.
The bridge between analog and digital is a key factor within these works; an important dynamic of contemplation for this series.

Makan Negahban is a Californian native born in 1990. After spending the better part of a decade writing, recording, and performing music around the nation both with his LA based band Bür Gür and as a solo artist, he was overcome with the desire to become a fine art painter at the beginning of 2016. Channeling a deep love for the portraiture of Alice Neel, Lucien Freud, Gustave Klimt and of contemporary artists such as Hope Gangloff and James Jean, Negahban exiled himself from all forms of distraction and had a prolific year producing remarkably complex oil paintings which firmly established his technique, sensibilities, and focus.

My work is an exploration of the psyche in the form of painting and drawing influenced by print media, collage, and performance. While riffing on themes of gender, fairytale, and masquerade, I play with the relationship between control and catharsis, visualizing the body coming out of itself, exposing not only one’s guts but one’s internal state–one’s emotions, one’s craziness–in a way that can seem both pleasurable and painful. I draw from my personal background (especially my origins on a cranberry farm in New England) as well as literature, mythology, dance, and costume.

BLikeMe, Ukrainian born, previously walked the runway for fashions top designers, now makes the streets of LA her canvas. Growing up in the Soviet Union, BLikeMe realized the lack of art supplies and the stricter communist teacher would never provide her with the opportunity to develop her skills to become a successful painter. She made herself a promise to return to art once she lived in a better environment and a more open-minded society. After pursuing a modeling career for over 12 years she moved to Los Angeles where she picked up her childhood dream of being an artist.

BLikeMe has murals for LA’s top businesses in highly trafficked locations. She’s a versatile artist in tune with the world’s hottest artists and icons. With a passion for the Ukrainian resistance against Russia, she bridges the gap between celebrities and political activism.

Laurie Shapiro’s large-scale, tapestry-like, mixed-media paintings are sometimes viewed from the wall and sometimes walked inside of.  Fascinated by color and process, Shapiro initially builds up her paintings by hand-sewing painted segments and drawn screen prints on raw muslin, followed by layers of over-painting.  From afar, her pieces look like paintings, but when viewed more closely, one can see the hand-stitching of her screen printed drawings.  A few artists she admires are Roy De Forest, Gustav Klimt, and Kerry James Marshall.

To infuse depth and luminosity into his work, Jordan Domont employs a palette of punchy hues. Experimenting, he discovered that when inks layer heavily onto Mylar, it creates a rich, almost melted effect. Pigments become slightly volatile, even mercurial, and their behavior enlivens the entire process. Jordan likes to explore how different amalgams of color work together, because it sure trumps sitting back and watching paint dry.

Darren Sarkin is a Los Angeles based artist and lighting designer. He was born in London but has lived all over the world. He works with wood found after forest fires and has created beautiful lights using the wood and recycled glass. His show at Radiant Space sparked the attention of CBS News and was featured in a national story. 

Born in Gunma, Japan, Multi Media Artist. IBUKI KURAMOCHI specializes in artworks for exhibition; and also specializes in live performances combining her live paintingand her Japanese Butoh dance.

She studied Butoh dance at the world renown Kazuo Ohno Butoh Dance Studio in Yokohama. She has held a deep interest and passion in painting since her childhood when she saw, for the first time, Ikuo Hirayama’s work about Silk Road Art. 

She works a lot with black and white, which represent the beginning and nothingness. In her paintings, we can find many themes like nature, the animal world in opposition with the human world, and eroticism.
Ibuki has performed and exhibited her artwork in various major cities like Paris, Sydney, Italy, Taipei, New York, Kyoto, Tokyo and Los Angeles.

Venturing thru a Kris Markovich painting is like rolling on a skateboard at max speed. Images both blurred and in focus swirl past you, recognizable faces, layer upon layer of experience, visions and paints evoke a revolutionary primitive and elevated world. Kris is a true skateboarder. Like the renegade street style of running to Home Depot for ramp building supplies, the same rings true with his painting techniques. Now working with different kinds of techniques – brushes, paints, and a variety of mixed medias – Kris indulges his love and passion onto much larger pieces wood with the same forward motion of building and attacking a skate spot.

Atlanta based artist Alic Daniel is a multidisciplinary artist who is known for his bold graffiti-like “scribble” paintings. His work is primarily expressed in broad strokes and bright colors, fusing concepts of pop-art, graffiti, and abstract expressionism. Daniel begins most of paintings by creating an iPad sketch which is then manipulated and applied to canvas using acrylic, spray paint, airbrush, oil, and ink. Using aggressive and masculine strokes, Daniels’ voice is heard in his ever evolving body of work. Daniel’s paintings are made in a layer fashion in order to create texture and depth on the canvas. 

Daniel received his BFA at Belmont University in 2015. He was born in Dayton, Ohio and currently lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia.