Sophia Paris is a Los Angeles-based Iranian artist. Her fine art often focuses on her heritage and lifestyle. As an artist, Sophia’s inspiration springs from a variety of ideas and places. Her paintings mix the traditional with contemporary flair.

Calligraphy, poetry, and architecture take primary focus on Sophia’s traditionally inspired art. Many of her works use Iranian script to share selected words from Rumi. She also explores place by creating fantasy perspectives based on designs from locations in Iran.

In her contemporary works, Sophia explores wonder and femininity. She uses everyday objects, such as pinwheels and lipstick, to explore pop sensibilities and American idioms.

Sophia’s artwork is available directly from the artist’s studio, on Saatchi.com, and at Artlounge Collective. More works will appear at the Art Expo New York, April 2024.

Ashley Wright paints highly vibrant, textured, eye-catching landscapes and illustrations. Since becoming a full-time artist, Wright has sold her work internationally, and exhibits throughout Southern California. Her paintings focus on perception and reality in relation to Derealization, Dissociation, and Maladaptive Daydreaming – all things Wright struggles with. She hopes that her paintings help bring awareness to C-PTSD (Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and the beauty that comes from it. The world’s that Wright creates come directly from her inner world that has protected her when struggling with Dissociation. All of Wright’s paintings take visual inspiration from locations around Southern California, nostalgia from Sci-Fi, and the vibrant designs of the 80s/90s. The combination of nostalgia and dissociation allow for Ashley’s paintings to take on a dream-like state and envelop viewers to wonder about each texture, brushstroke, and color palette. Dreamscapes allow for viewers to feel a sense of familiarity, hope, discomfort, and unknown, just as someone who struggles with dissociation may emotionally and physically experience.

Catherine Dickson have shown her work in Seattle and Los Angeles for the past 20 years. After attending Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, where she grew up, she then went on to attend Arizona State University with a double degree: a BA in Art History and a BFA in Digital Photography. She has shown many works, many times at Santa Monica Art Studios, Hanger Gallery, and the Cornish College of the Arts Alumni Gallery. Dickson ebbs and flows between various mediums, having a mastery of each technique while keeping a consistent sensibility of mood and tone.

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

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

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

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.

Melinda McLeod is a local Los Angeles Santa Monica-based painter Laura Kowalski uses to represent the movement and light of her subject more accurately. Her impressionist style largely focuses on West Coast icons like scenes from the Santa Monica Pier, surf, and American Flags.

Melinda McLeod is a local Los Angeles 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. Melinda’s abstract style is expressive, using a language of color and texture to express the experiences of life.

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

Joan K. Sharma is a Fresno based artist. She studied for a year in Rome, Italy and a summer at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and is currently a faculty member  of the Department of Art and Design, California State University, Fresno. A portion of Joan’s “Blue Whirl” series, gestural images that reference a clean-burning flame, appear in The Artist Tree Fresno lobby. Her oil paintings and photographs have been exhibited at the Fresno Art Museum, Spectrum Gallery, Arte Americas, Gallery 25 and internationally.

Jessica is an LA based Creative Director/Photographer specializing in movement. Her work is a fun mix of vibrant colors, youthful energy and dynamic lighting concepts, combined with a playful sexiness. Her portfolio includes a variety of projects including Travel, brands, Commercial, Advertisement, Portraits and personal projects. Jessica has developed a deep interest in mixed media photography and cinematography and loves working with different creatives to construct eye capturing projects.

Erik Vincent (aka “Roshi”) is a Los Angeles based muralist and illustrator who masterfully blends color and fantastical imagery. Roshi’s work focuses on moments of personified narrative within subjective experience; the moments of revelation, transformation, and illumination that happen within ourselves. By creating images to encapsulate these stories and myths, Roshi provides a new framework for onlookers’ to reflect upon their own interpretations and personal stories. He aspires to help others better divine their own paths of understanding and meaning through his colorful and intricate artwork.

BLACK BRAIN is a pop-noir artist disrupting beauty and thought. His gifted, art psyche develops stories that bring color to the mundane, dialogue to the mute and personality to the dull. His work is a voice for the transitional generation. His in-demand talents have globally guided him to award winning design firms including Hasbro, Takara, Eleven, and Karten Design. Since then, BLACK BRAIN has joined forces with philanthropic groups and other artists/designers/dreamers to pursue his first love – art – most recently working with Generosity.org helping end the world’s water crisis. BLACK BRAIN also is co-owner of Vergez, Inc., an arts-centric, high-concept environments design firm alongside his artist/designer wife.

Sara Sandoval is a spray paint and stencil artist who creates a wide range of images using stenciling techniques. There is something mesmerizing about watching her cut her stencils and masterfully layer paint to create complex images. Even without the paint, Sara’s detailed hand-cut stencils are their own work of art.

John Troxell works as a food and lifestyle photographer, helping his clients tell their stories through dynamic, colorful imagery. He creates images from start to finish working through the entire process one step at a time. John has live in the Los Angeles area for the past 25 years, working as a photographer for car commercials, music videos and food ads.

He fell in love with the camera at a very young age and chose to enter Hollywood as a cameraman to learn and grow in the broadcast world. His imagery is not only photography, it’s an expression of who John is and what he brings to the table for his clients – beautiful, artistic imagery.

Danielle Garza aka “Ellierex” is a Los Angeles-based mixed media and installation artist. An avid practitioner of paper marbling, Ellierex captures swirled, kaleidoscopic colors and intricately designed patterns painted from an aqueous surface and then transfers them onto paper or fabric. She uniquely combines traditional marbling methods with her own innovative and meditative techniques, utilizing the concepts of intuitive or automatic painting. The “flow” within her work creates a space where viewer’s minds can truly wander.

Ellierex’s creative achievements include large-scale installation public artworks, album covers for musical recording artists, print design for film and television, and exhibitions throughout galleries across the United States. For The Artist Tree West Hollywood, she created an original, mesmerizing mural, which adorns the walls of the store’s VIP shopping lounge.

The Couto Brothers are two self-taught artists who share a passion merging their kaleidoscopic style with cultural imagery in contrasting ways.
As brothers who were raised in Brooklyn and Brazil, and having traveled extensively around the world, they connected later in their lives to suddenly create works of art together and simultaneously.

Their work juxtaposes historical and social themes against bright colors and shapes to channel a refreshing perspective and challenge the ideas of the world. The Couto Brothers’ original “Wish You Were Here” mural welcomes visitors to The Artist Tree West Hollywood, reaffirming The Artist Tree’s mission of creating a welcoming destination for community, cannabis, and art.