Fields, Factories, Fame, and Fallacies

Monica Seggos is a self-taught Greek-American artist who focuses on building narrative environments. Each environment is a synthetization of multiple mediums with the primary objective of forming a coherent whole that contains several layers of meaning for maximum impact. For each project, she conducts research, develops a narrative, translates it into visual metaphor, and introduces disruptive elements into a tableau. She incorporates variations of sculpture, as- semblage, mixed media, painting, photography, costume, video, wordplay, poetry, found objects, Olfactory Art, Post-Internet Art, and Body Adornment within the mise-en-scène. The juxtaposition of contrary elements creates an engaging, immersive cabinet of curiosity.

Exhibition: Fields, Factories, Fame, and Fallacy

Instagram: @monicaseggos

Adrienne Wade dedicates her life to inspiring change in the world through art, natural living, self-transformation and (w)holism. She is a multi-disciplinary artist and naturalist who has created all her life. From her celebrated San Pedro Waterfront Arts District murals to her Venice street art happenings, with art on display in Los Angeles, New York, Europe, French Polynesia, Iowa and on exhibition in Hollywood’s legendary Barnsdall Art Park. She has studied art and design, permaculture, plant based medicines, wildcrafting and place making) and is a documentary film and television engineer.

Exhibition: Fields, Factories, Fame, and Fallacy

Instagram: @adriennewadeart

Instead of ink or paint, Chiho Harazaki uses tape as her primary medium. Tiny pieces of tape cut with a precision knife and scissors compose a whole picture. Informed by her experiences living in both Japan and America, Harazaki’s subject matter includes a variety of cultural, historical and social comment.

Exhibition: Fields, Factories, Fame, and Fallacy

Instagram: @chiho_harazaki

Born and raised in South Central Los Angeles, Toni Scott makes art installations and individual artworks that explore her African-American, Native American, and European heritage. Her installation “Bloodlines” was the inaugural exhibition of Discovery at the California African-American Museum in 2009-2012. In 2016, she was invited as the First International Artist to exhibit a solo exhibition at the Changzhou Museum in Jiangsu Province of China. “The Circle and Cycle of Life,” focusing on Indigenous culture, feminism and technological advancements of the 20th century were exhibited at Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Peking University, China for the 25th Anniversary of the Sackler Museum exhibition “Intervention: International Art & Culture,” and acquired for their collection in 2019. Recently, 2020 Scott exhibited her social justice work at United Talented Agency Artist Space, Beverly Hills, CA Group exhibition, “Emergency on Planet Earth.”

Exhibition: Fields, Factories, Fame, and Fallacy

Instagram: @toniscottart

Matt Deifer is a passionate Los Angeles based artist/entrepreneur who harnesses the world of the surreal in his artwork. His exquisite array of photography and bodypainting celebrates spirituality, therapy and adventure. “I love pushing boundaries, stimulating the five senses, exploring light.” An East Coast native, his studio is located in Mid-Wilshire, where he works as a locations agent.

Exhibition: Fields, Factories, Fame, and Fallacy

Instagram: @mattdeifer

Wayne Perry is an accomplished Los Angeles based ceramic artist, art fabricator, public art restorer, and educator. For the past 22 years, Perry has worked on over 50 public art projects throughout Los Angeles and California. As a ceramic tile mural fabricator, he has helped make over 30 large-scale art projects with renowned LA artists. He has been commissioned by The Getty, The Wallis Annenberg Center for The Performing Arts, The Pasadena Playhouse and the California Community Foundation. Perry’s technical and artistic mastery in ceramics come from studying and working with artist Peter Shire, where he produced pottery, ceramic art and public art for 15 years. Currently, Perry works as a consultant for the Los Angeles Metro Public Art Program. He maintains and restores the extensive public art collection, as well as supports the fabrication and installation of new art projects throughout Los Angeles county.

Exhibition: Fields, Factories, Fame, and Fallacy

Instagram: @wayneperryart

Floyd Strickland is an emerging multi-disciplined artist from Los Angeles Ca. Drawing inspiration from his childhood environment, Strickland often uses realistic figures that are juxtaposed with cartoons creating dream-like paintings.

Exhibition: Fields, Factories, Fame, and Fallacy

Instagram: @floyd_strickland

Adrienne DeVine has developed her visual language on a foundation of materiality, semiotics and African culture. Her work is held in public and private collections, and her exhibition history includes universities, galleries, the California African American Museum, and a group exhibition in Berlin. Early in her career, she worked in the graphic arts and printing industry, and then went on to an administrative career working in academia, philanthropy, and community-based organizations. She earned her BA from California State University Long Beach and her MFA from Claremont Graduate University.

Exhibition: Fields, Factories, Fame, and Fallacy

Instagram: @adriennedevinemixedmediaart

Rachael Kucken is a self taught, Los Angeles based artist who strives to create immersive worlds by pushing traditional oil painting methods. This is done by meticulously detailed images being layered on glass and mirrors to add depth, movement, and self reflection. In doing so, she hopes the care put into each subject immortalizes them in ways they may not have been before, because it’s what she believes they deserve in this ever changing experience.

Exhibition: Fields, Factories, Fame, and Fallacy

Instagram: @littlelambcake

S.C. Mero is a magical realist who lives and works in Downtown Los Angeles / Skid Row where she’s been invading the neighborhood with guerrilla art installations since 2015. Her work focuses on transforming mundane, ordinary objects and environments into something unexpected or endearing with the goal of revealing the marvelous nature of the objective reality we all share. She embraces the process of Alchemy through several different art forms including sculpture, mosaics and installation art. Ideas she explores in her work with the U.S. Penny include: the divine order underlying chaos, the individual’s relationship to community and the Hero’s journey through inner transmutation.

Exhibition: Fields, Factories, Fame, and Fallacy, Spring Benefit and Art Auction

Vanessa Rivera is a Los Angeles based artist with an education in Fine Arts from the University of Southern California. The paintings she creates are a depiction of her personal evolution. The topics she speaks on range from learning the true meaning of love, questions regarding religion and spirituality and finding peace in the tragedies of life. She continues to use art as a way to heal herself and to speak on the injustices faced by marginalized people, aiming to also heal her community and create self-reflection, unity and self-love. She uses color as a language to create an emotion in the viewer whether it’s in her solely abstract work, or in preparation for a story in her figurative paintings. Rivera uses her signature halo triangle to bring all of her styles together and collectively speak on the overarching theme in which she portrays the human experience, while also shining light on the pure nature of humanity.

Exhibition: Fields, Factories, Fame, and Fallacy

Instagram: @vjriivera

Shahla first enrolled as a pre-med student in college, but later found her direction and changed her major to graphic design for her bachelors degree and a master’s in art. Shahla’s early Middle-Eastern upbringing combined with her Western knowledge creates a dynamic fusion of subjects. Her stylistic tools include the hues and luminosity of the medium itself, whether it is alabaster, marble, clay, bronze or paint. Each piece has a concept; that concept evolves during the process of creating the idea and instead of fighting the irregularity or imperfection, she allows them to become an original part of the piece. Though Shahla’s work continues to evolve as she explores new styles and mediums, her artworks will inspire hope and harmony among all.

Exhibition: Fields, Factories, Fame, and Fallacy

Instagram: @sonarta1

Buena Johnson is a local Los Angeles visual artist, arts instructor & owner of Buena Vision Art Studio. The aim of her work is to inform, uplift, educate, motivate positive change & heal. Her style is realism/photorealism and her main medium is Pencil. Graduating from Pratt Institute of Art in New York & moving to CA, she experienced the heart of Hollywood and her first early series of artworks focused on Jazz, Blues, Gospel & Entertainment legends whose influence is still felt today. Buena’s work transitioned into an uplifting Angel series influenced by her spiritual upbringing. With continued racism & the killing of more & more African Americans, Buena has begun a series that addresses America’s history of slavery & injustices whereas she acts as a recorder, truthteller, & an advocate.

Exhibition: Fields, Factories, Fame, and Fallacy

Instagram: @buenavisionart

Erin DeVine explores the relationships between nature, humanity and consciousness. Daily observations and past experiences come together in her work to illustrate the shared experience of life. In addition to painting, she also makes digital art and earned a Certificate of Excellence in 3D modelling from Pasadena City College. In her painting practice, Erin continues to challenge and push her limits by experimenting with new techniques. Through experimenting, Erin hopes to discover more effective ways to communicate the intent of her art to the viewer. The intent of her art is always morphing and responding to the forces of the world.

Exhibition: Fields, Factories, Fame, and Fallacy

Instagram: @erindevineart