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Charmaine Olivia

Charmaine Olivia is a self-taught fine art painter born in Southern California in 1988. She was raised by spiritual parents who began teaching her yoga and meditation when she was four years old. Charmaine began oil painting at seven years old and has been a professional artist since she was 17. Spirituality, mysticism and mythology are...

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Brett Crawford

Painter, metal sculptor, street artist, toy designer and illustrator are only a few of the titles Los Angeles based artist Brett Crawford holds up his sleeve. Not bound by any one specific skill, this multi-talented artists work can be seen on walls and in galleries across the country. In his latest body of work, Brett Crawford...

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Brent Patten

Brent Patten is a self-taught artist who has dedicated the last 20 years as a full time professional tattooist, both internationally and locally, and is co-owner of Forever Tattoo in Sacramento. He has a lifelong commitment to artworks executed in various collective contemporary mediums and styles. Brent continues to explore, create and execute techniques he acquired...

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Bordalo

Bordalo II was born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1987. He says that belonging to a generation that is extremely consumerist, materialist and greedy has been a driving force behind his art and his activism. Known for his animalistic sculptures made from scavenged materials, his work makes environmental destruction more visible. With the production of things at...

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Apexer

APEXER (b. 1978, San Francisco, CA), also known as Ricardo Richey, is a street artist who creates colorful abstract patterns through the use of spray paint. Part of the Gestalt Collective that engages in collaborative murals in San Francisco, Apexer curated mural projects on Bluxome Alley, other districts of San Francisco, and the SFMOMA display...

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Aik Brown

Aizik “Aik” Brown is a muralist and painter from Sacramento, CA. Creating has always been his way of self-expression and being able to use his voice visually. At a young age he was strongly influenced by graffiti art, and soon started creating his own art. He attended Humboldt State University and received a BA in...

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Invader

Invader works and lives on earth. He graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris and holds a Master's degree in visual arts. I define myself as an UFA, an Unidentified Free Artist. I chose Invader as my pseudonym and I always appear behind a mask. As such, I can visit my own exhibitions without any visitors...

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Curtis Pitman

Places on Earth are uniquely defined by their physical, social, and cultural contexts.  My work seeks to capture these unique qualities and bring them to life. My skills as a designer are multi-disciplinary in both art and architecture and I am passionately dedicated to improving the built environment for humanity through art.  My work fosters...

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Retna

American street and studio artist Retna has done something that was a big novelty in the world of street art – he invented a distinctive constructed script and incorporated it, in one way or another, in all of his paintings and murals. Because of the uniqueness and visual appeal of these constructed letters, Retna became...

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Vhils

Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto (b. 1987) has been interacting visually with the urban environment under the name of Vhils since his days as a prolific graffiti writer in the early- to mid-2000s. His groundbreaking bas-relief carving technique – which forms the basis of the Scratching the Surface project and was first presented to the public at...

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