Austin Lubetkin
Austin Lubetkin is a software engineer with autism. He has a background originally in painting, and his introduction to art was through the lens of art therapy. Austin has always seen color and emotion as one with his synesthesia and has brought that unique vision into his work through his color palette, which has become his signature. He brings his own artistic touch to his work with AI that separates him from his peers working in the AI space. He frequently works with a type of AI that can transfer the style of one piece to another. In this case, Austin transfers the style of his own paintings to the new digital pieces he creates.
LGBTQ+ & Autistic Artist
Houyee Chow
Houyee is a queer, bi-racial multidisciplinary artist and educator from San Jose, CA. She earned her bachelor’s degree at San Francisco State University in Studio Art with a minor in Philosophy. During the day, she works at a non-profit teaching youth and young adults about arts, tech, media, and creativity. Houyee dedicates her evenings and weekends working on her artwork which addresses social justice, gender inequality, racial justice, LGBTQIA+ experiences, climate crisis, life, and mental health all mixed in with healing from her own traumas. She uses painting, photography, and installation to illustrate her experience of being queer and mixed-race growing up in America. Society categorizes people, but the problem is that she, like many others, cannot be forced into a box.
LGBTQ+ Artist
Janelle “Lulu” Laselle
Janelle “Lulu” Lassalle is an artist, writer, actress, model, recipe developer and idea machine based in Los Angeles, CA. She delights in producing colorful, whimsical work inspired by psychedelics, outer space and mother nature.
Ally Artist
Hadley Rosenbaum
Hadley aims to challenge traditional attitudes to the female gaze through the intimacy of her quirky colorful images, while highlighting her combined love for opulent comedic storytelling and curiosity for connection.
LGBTQ+ Content, Ally Artist
Kevin McCants
Kevin’s artistic practice began at an early age when he started drawing at six years old. Kevin uses mannequins to represent the faceless appearance of human desire, need, and social disconnect without the baggage of specific human personality.
Ally Artist
Samantha Fetcher
Fecher is a local Los Angeles artist who isn’t afraid to work in several mediums at once. She trains chaos into a format of psychedlia, reminiscent of queer skate-culture.
LGBTQ+ Artist
Chung-Ping Cheng
Chung-Ping Cheng is a Los Angeles based artist, inspired by artists like Georgia O’Keefe and Diane Arbus. Cheng’s photographic practice includes black and white, color films, the medium format camera, and a focus on process, repetition and experimentation in the darkroom.
Ally Artist
Havilah Abrego
A Ventura local, Havilah explores the ocean, the life source of her inspiration, and interprets her experiences through her creative work. Havilah quickly tapped into a powerful connection between her life as a scientist and her voice as a painter.
Ally Artist
Monica R Marks
Monica’s experience in the mental health field influences her work, and she believes strongly in the power of expressive arts to promote emotional growth and healing. She loves adding to her collection of discarded or lost items and reclaiming them as part of her paintings and sculptures.
LGBTQ+ Content, Ally Artist
Heath Quiel
Finding subtle but playful ways to subvert the traditional subjects of the traditional mediums Quiel uses, his array of hand-embellished frames creates a curio-cabinet of artwork.
LGBTQ+ Artist
K Ryan Henisey
As a California-based artist, K Ryan Henisey’s work is heavily influenced by the people, culture, and landscape of the Golden State. His personal narrative is often interwoven with mythological subjects, using patterning as a vehicle to make meaning from deconstruction.
LGBTQ+ Artist
Justin Prough
Justin Prough is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work reflects the struggle between sunny days, good waves, and the environmental & political unrest of our times. Telling visual stories by connecting ideas with materials and processes drives his practice.
Ally Artist
Martin Steele
Steele’s current body of work, with a nod to early twentieth-century modernity, places us in the present while elucidating decades past. Working in a characteristic palate of saturated hues and chromatic aberrations, opening a window to the catastrophic sea of information coming our way.
Ally Artist
Joanna Chrys
Joanna Chrys is a mixed-media artist presently focused on creating colorful and textural painted worlds on canvas. Joanna uses dots of acrylic paint to compose and layer her art, creating highly texturized, surreal surfaces.
LGBTQ+ Content, Ally Artist
David Woodland
David Woodland paints imagery from important televised moments of history, Watergate, Manson Trials, etc. through the same lens of lo-fi broadcast but through his cyanotype palette, and a hint of Hopper-esque loneliness.
LGBTQ+ Artist
Andy Thompson
Andy Thompson’s practice is an amplified version of himself following his intuition. Andy loves exploring color, but also the cultural and spiritual aspects of our world. He loves getting lost in art, and he hopes to inspire and even help others to find themself within his art.
Ally Artist
Dave Emmett
Dave Emmett is punk-science-fiction artist who uses fluid pour-painting techniques to create nebulae, wormholes, planetscapes, and all things alien on canvas. He aims for vibes that are loud, vibrant, disruptive, and alive. Proud alum of Fresno State University.
LGBTQ+ Artist
Antonia Gross
Antonia Gross is a female Mexican American painter based out of Southern California. She aims to create timeless pieces that can be enjoyed by a diverse group of people. Antonia’s figurative pieces are, more specifically, intended to portray the human figure in a new light.
Ally Artist
Arlene Weinstock
Weinstock’s “Recyclables” is about finding beauty in materials others discard. She creates paper from shredded office documents, sculpts then paints intense colors to enhance the forms and textures. Working in conversation with the art, she follows the lead of what emerges.
LGBTQ+ Artist
Eugene Huffman
Eugene Huffman is an established Queer, HIV-Positive Los Angeles Artist, Curator and Advocate. His primary work is expressionism with vibrant color and non-repeating patterns that reference life through a lens of survival – an outlet for his openness as a survivor of domestic violence and abuse.
LGBTQ+ Artist
Kathryn Pitt
Kathryn Pitt is a UK-born artist that now lives and works in Los Angeles. A figurative and nonrepresentational 2D artist, Kathryn has been involved with and featured in many exhibitions in California, throughout the US and overseas, whilst teaching art to children within her studio and as a docent at the Getty Museum.
Ally Artist
Jeff Iorillo
Jeff Iorillo is a Los Angeles painter working with mass, momentum, and gesture. He works action-style on a table or floor, dragging and scraping acrylic and enamel paint with plexiglass blades in a single dramatic gesture or layered passes for a vivid experience of color and movement.
LGBTQ+ Artist
Margarita Camps
Maggie Camps is an Ecuadorian artist who from an early age was attracted to brushes and colors. In 2005, Maggie specialized in mixed painting and has participated in several exhibitions. She is currently based in Quito.
Allied Artist
Sküt
Sküt the artist is best known as Co-Founder and original designer of Grindr, but is locally known in WeHo as a muralists for Micky’s, a vice-president of the Co-Op TAG gallery, and creator of pop-culture queer imagery.
LGBTQ+ Artist
Melinda McLeod
Melinda is an American artist, intrigued with animals, colors, geometry, and people. Colors are influenced by feelings, everything falls into place, the look in the eyes, the twist of the head, the expression of emotion or none.
LGBTQ+ Artist
Edward Lightner
Edward Lightner’s fascination with images of atmospheric atomic tests inspires his compelling art. In his recent series, he has moved on to exploring imagery derived from underground atomic testing, uncovering visual threads of connectivity between beauty and death.
LGBTQ+ Artist
Miss Brightside
Miss Brightside is an accomplished Los Angeles-based artist and designer. Miss Brightside’s works explore mark-making and subversive subjects, often applied in functional pieces such as clothing, wallpaper, and other design elements for the home.
Ally Artist
John Waiblinger
John Waiblinger is a new media artist who explores masculinity and desire through his Post Photography compositions. He snaps pictures of urban and natural environments and sources his figures from queer pornography, re-contextualizing them.
LGBTQ+ Artist
David Jester
David Jester loves painting his subjects in pools. He believes they are metaphor rich environments. People inside the pool looking out or those outside looking in have a slightly distorted view of each other.
LGBTQ+ Artist
