Inside Out

Carlos Mares is a visual (digital) artist, poet, artivist, and erudite, who exhibited two digital paintings at “The First Floor Gallery in Santa Clarita’s City Hall, CA” and his paintings were mentioned in Newsletter from “Center for Hispanic Excellence: La Casa Latina at University of Pennsylvania” (by Maritza Santiago-Torres, Office Coordinator on April 21, 2020).  His digital paintings depict a story filled with history and his own personal experiences. His artwork has been featured in various group shows throughout the US and Los Angeles.

Exhibition: Inside Out

Andrea Castillo born and currently living in Los Angeles, California, received her MFA from Lesley University College of Art and Design in 2014. Her work has been shown at Charlie James Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) Seasons LA (Los Angeles, CA) Plaza de la Raza (Los Angeles, CA) the CCCM, Mexican Center for Culture and Cinematic Arts (Los Angeles,CA)She has been the recipient artist in residence for Vermont Studio Center (Johnson,VT), Grand Central Art Center (collaborative) (Santa Ana,CA), Signal Fire (Portland, OR), Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (Amherst, VA) with artist grant. Publications including her work are ArtMaze Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, YoungSpace and Voyage LA Magazine.

Exhibition: Inside Out

Ricardo Miranda has been shooting fine art and editorial photography for 25 years. He documents the people of Los Angeles using photography, film, and video to create socially interactive art. His projects include work in Latin American, Asia and Europe. He holds a B.F.A from the School of Photography at California Institute of the Arts.

Exhibition: Inside Out

Nychole uses her art as a personal understanding of feminine energy, strength, and beauty. Soulful and Afrocentric, she strives to show the relationship of feminine energy and the universe. Her images unite the human experience with symbolism and elements of space and time. Her art conveys the infinite potential and divine nature that lives within us all.

Exhibition: Inside Out

The Artwork of Rick Ortega transcends time and takes us on a mystical journey into an ancient way of life. His paintings reveal an array of indigenous symbols from Mexico’s past, turning his colorful compositions into modern day codices which reveal the history, myths, legends, and spiritual beliefs of the Mexica people, better known as the Aztecs. Each painting captures the heritage of his ancestors, who held the arts with high regard, truly believing that the Tlacuilo (The Painter) had his heart rooted in God and would transfer the symbols of divinity to his paintings. This ancient tradition of creativity is the root of Mr. Ortega’s art.

Exhibitions: Inside Out, SOMOS

Art Carrillo is from Los Angeles with a bachelors degree in art. He’s an acrylic, photorealist painter that paints a little bit of everything. There’s a lot to paint about so he’ll never stick to one subject. His goal is to never waste your time when you walk into a gallery. He hopes to create work that is worth staring at.

Exhibition: Inside Out

Mi nombre es Maricruz Sibaja,Soy originaria del Istmo de Tehuantepec Oaxaca. Vengo de una familia de artistas, estudie dibujo en la Ciudad de México y Arte en New Mexico.

Exhibition: Inside Out

Maritza Torres is a Xicana Artist based in East Los Angeles/ Tongva Territory. She is best known for her graphic style and portrayal of the empowered woman. She has made a point to look for intersectional spaces to work with and make her work accessible to poc, queer and working class communities. From 2020 to present Torres engaged in a more fluid and self care based work style. She hopes to forge ahead into a new realm of art unifying past, present and future.

Exhibition: Inside Out

Josiah O’Balles, is a Afro-Chicano, multi disciplinary artist and advocate from Los Angeles. His artwork is informed and inspired by the heroes, beauties, and struggles within the working class BIPOC community, the motion of music, and his interest in his own personal lineage and history. He seeks to utilize his art to aid, amplify, and progress the causes and stories of his community, and in return hopefully learn more about himself in the process.

Exhibition: Inside Out

My art is for everyone, but specifically for La Raza. A way to represent my upbringing in Southern California. To express our desires to be accounted for and respected. This series of work each drawing contain 3 ideas, 1st, something organic that grows from the earth, highly recognizable in the community. 2nd, a young woman, a chola, one that will give birth to the future. And 3rd, an image that too many would represent spiritually and light. Through these 3 images I’m able to show life a life cycle from be born out of the earth, to gaining consciousness, an identity, and finally to death, where our mind and spirt ascend to the cosmos, the light.

Exhibition: Inside Out

Cristian Rivas is a Southern California based artist. Pulling inspiration from her Mexican heritage, the human condition, and human anatomy, she creates brightly colored paintings.

Exhibition: Inside Out

Gregg Stone is an award-winning professional artist who exhibits internationally. He was born in Los Angeles, California in 1952, a tenth generation Californian. His Mexican heritage reflects and inspires his work. College education consists of an associate arts degree from Orange Coast College and bachelor of arts degree from Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. With masterful manipulation of watercolors, gouache and Japanese sumi-ink, Gregg developed his own style, which he calls ‘Modern Realism.’ His creations have to be viewed in person to appreciate the attention to detail and three-dimensional, life-like quality.

Exhibition: Inside Out