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ARTIST PROFILES
Meet the EVAC Artist community! Feel free to browse through these profiles to learn more about the artists who will be showing their work live and in person at the 2022 Frogtown Artwalk.
Some of these artists have participated in prior Artwalks, and some are joining us for the first time.
If you're interested in purchasing art from an artist, please reach out to them individually via their email or social media.
EVAC Artist Members
Pablo Hernandez
I am a Frogtown artist originally from Whittier.
Emily Pellegrini
Hi there!
I am an illustrator and designer from Oakland, CA based in Los Angeles.
Whether it's a painting, a logo, a book or a poster, I include hand-drawn and organic elements in each piece I create. I specialize in hand lettering and always find joy in exploring new media.
For all inquiries and commissions, please DM me on Instagram at @e.s.pellegrini or email me at espellegrini@me.com.
I am an illustrator and designer from Oakland, CA based in Los Angeles.
Whether it's a painting, a logo, a book or a poster, I include hand-drawn and organic elements in each piece I create. I specialize in hand lettering and always find joy in exploring new media.
For all inquiries and commissions, please DM me on Instagram at @e.s.pellegrini or email me at espellegrini@me.com.
Dimitri Newman
Dimitri Newman is a Los Angeles based still life photographer. He grew up in the desert southwest and studied drawing and painting at the University of Texas El Paso. Dimitri currently works out of his studio in Frogtown. You can find him most days experimenting with ideas in the studio, working on his classic 68 Camaro or exploring Southern California.
Corey Chambers
Elysian Valley Real Estate Broker and Artist Corey Chambers uses A.I. Artificial Intelligence and other technologies to create artworks, digital real estate, NFT Non-Fungible Token art and virtual real estate.
Ebru Caparti
Ebru Caparti is a Los Angeles-based abstract artist. She is originally from Izmir, Turkey.
She has a degree in Telecommunications Broadcasting and Journalism from University of Florida in Gainesville. With a background in TV and Radio Production and acting, she found her true passion in painting, poetry and writing children’s books–she is the author of 'Atlas the Rabbit'.
Ebru is a self-taught artist. She likes to play freely with colors and layering, exploring contradiction and harmony. Through her art she enters her dreamy world of reality verses fantasy. Her paintings have been exhibited in Art in LA Affair, LA / Miami Art Show, Pancake and Booze Art Show to name a few.
She lives in Los Angeles, California.
For inquiries please contact her ecaparti@gmail.com .
She has a degree in Telecommunications Broadcasting and Journalism from University of Florida in Gainesville. With a background in TV and Radio Production and acting, she found her true passion in painting, poetry and writing children’s books–she is the author of 'Atlas the Rabbit'.
Ebru is a self-taught artist. She likes to play freely with colors and layering, exploring contradiction and harmony. Through her art she enters her dreamy world of reality verses fantasy. Her paintings have been exhibited in Art in LA Affair, LA / Miami Art Show, Pancake and Booze Art Show to name a few.
She lives in Los Angeles, California.
For inquiries please contact her ecaparti@gmail.com .
Marc Chiat
Marc Chiat is an artist working at his Frog town studio since 2010. On view there will be some recent paintings and drawings and some work in progress from his film "The history of the Universe from the beginning until Right Now".
Caleb Martin Ballard
Greetings! I have a LOT of colorful, emotive expressionist art in all sizes and at all prices. Find me at the Elysian Theater...Caleb Ballard is an American artist, writer and musician. A native Kentuckian who has lived in Los Angeles since 1986, Caleb is strongly influenced by Russian expressionism, magic realism, constructionism, American folk art, religious iconography, and the Joy of Cooking.
He paints in loose brushstrokes and eschews detail in favor of suggestive juxtaposition, with disparate visual narratives interleaving. Many suggest the aftermath of a high impact event, though it’s never clear whether the disturbance occurred in the material realm or in some ethereum. He took up painting 4 years ago and is preoccupied with the relationship between trauma and wonder.
He paints in loose brushstrokes and eschews detail in favor of suggestive juxtaposition, with disparate visual narratives interleaving. Many suggest the aftermath of a high impact event, though it’s never clear whether the disturbance occurred in the material realm or in some ethereum. He took up painting 4 years ago and is preoccupied with the relationship between trauma and wonder.
Corrie Gregory
Each one of us carries around stories, real or imagined. These narratives define us; they teach us how to live our lives and what to believe in. My work is inspired by images culled from vintage children’s books, greeting cards, medical books, and ephemera. The inherent history of these collected papers helps breathe life into the new characters that inhabit my work. These creatures morph and grow organically until I have recast them to create a new visual story. Like fairy tales, dreams, and nightmares my “tales” center on the body, gender, and the human condition.
To purchase artwork please contact: corrie.gregory@gmail.com
To purchase artwork please contact: corrie.gregory@gmail.com
Lindsey Francis
Forever starting with a vision of pale colors and ending in rainbows. Lindsey is an artist based in Echo Park.
Contact me on instagram for art inquiries.
Contact me on instagram for art inquiries.
Ema Berndt
I am a self-taught 17-year-old Artist based in LA, working in Expressionist Pastel and Hyperrealist Graphite. See more of my work or contact me through my Instagram! I'll be selling prints and originals.
Carlos A. Etcheverry aka Oripoto
I'm a Venezuelan illustrator, comic book artist, and sometimes fashion designer.
Inspired by psychedelic art and comix, my work combines dark themes with bright colors, and sometimes just fun weirdness!
Inspired by psychedelic art and comix, my work combines dark themes with bright colors, and sometimes just fun weirdness!
James Piatt
James Piatt is an artist, architect and industrial designer. After studying environmental and industrial design at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, he went on to distinguish himself as a design leader in home décor, electronics, fashion accessories and art. His professional experience includes working as an industrial designer and managing design teams within major US and international brands. Having a diverse range of experiences, he has taught himself that Conceptual Art, design, architecture and fashion aren’t the separate fields that they appear to be. This approach fused with popular culture from the past and present constitutes James’s interdisciplinary practice today.
Xilos (AKA) Carlos Rosas
As a Los Angeles native currently living in Boyle Heights, I interact with the LA Art Community, participating in the digital revolution of art and art spaces. My work centers around urban adventures, graffiti art, and street photography (taken locally, as well as during my travels to other countries). My scenes evoke ethereal elements of magic and mysticism in the everyday world, taken with a photojournalistic approach. Adding colorization and animation to themes of struggle, tragedy, and change brings alternative perspectives to the hidden human stories in my body of work. My photographs then become a surrealistic scene of life and its complexities.
Ed Houlemarde
I had a high school art teacher who told me to see the art in everyday things - That has been with me ever since. I create abstract, found object, assemblage and combines. I need color, texture and movement. My work is slowly becoming a stronger focus for me, as I near retirement I can grow as an artist and expand my creativity.
Erica Goebel
I've lived in LA all my life and am delighted to say that our neighborhoods continually provide inspiration. I like to paint in a loose, but recognizable way, sensitive to our changing urban landscapes, colors, architecture, and plant life. Feel free to contact me through Instagram or my email.
Brandon Vientos
The work I create is reborn from found materials, typically fabric scraps, and sewn together.
Maja
The word indigenous has to mean something very unique in the world of art and creativity . It means a native placewere ideas an memories are born. It means a place where birthanddeath intermingle for its inhabitants. But for the artists it means a place where symbols,shapes and colors axpress themselves originating from the people who inhabitants its invirons. They are the features through which the people reveal their artistic soul.
Historically artists inevitably reflect their background in their work. My own focus in making art embraces the indigenous aspect of my life. My work is uniquely American and expresses itself in the symbols of North, , Central, and South America. It is mainly representational reflecting the cultural history of the people who work the land. Born in Ecuador
Historically artists inevitably reflect their background in their work. My own focus in making art embraces the indigenous aspect of my life. My work is uniquely American and expresses itself in the symbols of North, , Central, and South America. It is mainly representational reflecting the cultural history of the people who work the land. Born in Ecuador
Alan Oliver
I'm a local photographer in Frogtown, originally from Louisville, KY. I'm a lifelong outdoorsman and fly-fisherman, living right on the LA River going on 4 years now. While I've always had a passing interest in photography, it wasn't until I moved West about a decade ago that I really started on my journey. I was living in Colorado, in the mountains every weekend, and simply unable to capture the sheer grandeur of landscape.
So I upgraded my equipment and taught myself the ropes, and I quickly discovered that I had some natural abilities that deserved to be cultivated. That's what I've been doing, and I'd like to share it with my community here in the Elysian Valley.
If you would like to purchase any of my work, contact me through my website. I can print any size up 13"x19"
So I upgraded my equipment and taught myself the ropes, and I quickly discovered that I had some natural abilities that deserved to be cultivated. That's what I've been doing, and I'd like to share it with my community here in the Elysian Valley.
If you would like to purchase any of my work, contact me through my website. I can print any size up 13"x19"
Ofelia Jess Sandoval
Ofelia Jess Sandoval was born in Compton and raised in Southeast LA. For the past decade has lived in Northeast LA where she works as a nature-based educator and gardener. Her paintings are abstract works which focus on landscapes and portraits from memories: past and present.
Jon Ching
Jon is a self-trained artist originally from Kaneohe, Hawaii and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Steeped in the natural beauty of O’ahu, Hawai’i, his island upbringing instilled in him indigenous lessons of appreciation and respect for nature, forming the foundation of his fascination with the natural and wild world, which deeply influences and drives his work.
Jon’s devoted art practice and detailed realism is inspired by the interconnectedness of nature. His work is a surreal imagining of what limitless wonders and combinations nature can produce. New creatures and symbioses emerge in his meticulously rendered oil paintings, exemplifying the endless potential of life on Earth through metaphor and allegory.
Jon’s devoted art practice and detailed realism is inspired by the interconnectedness of nature. His work is a surreal imagining of what limitless wonders and combinations nature can produce. New creatures and symbioses emerge in his meticulously rendered oil paintings, exemplifying the endless potential of life on Earth through metaphor and allegory.
Sylvia Brallier
My art beginning was in botanical illustration where precision is key. But now I’ve gone wild. I choose my color palette. Then I apply liquid paint, pouring color & pattern over the canvas. I stretch it out over the canvas to see what happens! Amazingly, it’s like a Rorschach test. I interpret the images that I see & flush them out with brush work. Liquid paint adds an element of surprise (l never know how it will turn out!) I then add the psychological content of the Rorschach test. I complete it with loose or exacting precision for interpretation. Best. Game. Ever. I’m intensely prolific. I have hundreds of paintings ready for sale. I love commissions too. I would love to have me art enliven your space. Please contact me. Looking forward to talking to you already! creatrixsb@gmail.com
Jimmy Dean Horn Jr.
Resident of Frogtown. Artist and designer.
Steven Montoya
Hi, my name is Steven. I've lived in this neighborhood my entire life and I'm excited to be apart of the EV Arts Collective and participate in the Art Walk. I'm a second generation Mexican-American with an Associate's in English and a Bachelor's in Chicano Studies. Growing up I've always been finding creative outlets like playing musical instruments to film photography, which is what I love to do now. Portraits, landscapes or anything with good lighting is what I like to shoot. I really just try to shoot some cool shit whenever I can you know. I develop & scan at home and I'm planning on purchasing an enlarger so I can have a full darkroom set up at home. I hope y'all like the shit I shoot.✌️🐸