Locals Only

Chicana/LA based Photographer & Artist of 10+ years.

Snackbabie is a visual artist who primarily works with acrylic paint. She creates female cyclops aliens, drawing inspiration from personal experiences, friends and cartoons. Her vibrant use of color and black line work express the different energy her character’s feel in piece.

Jazmyn Martinez is a Los Angeles native ceramic artist based in the Arts District. She began her ceramic studies in 2019 and has experience in hand-built and wheel-thrown functional pottery. She is trained in horsehair and raku firing and creates art that can be used by all.

Born in Mexico, Nico is a queer photographer, capturing LA’s LGBTQIA+ community with a focus on drag shows, concerts, and cannabis events.

Exploring the world can suck you into an oblivion if you’re detached from your roots. Southern European by blood, always filled with the Roman spirits and colorful visions.

Zyi is a multi-disciplinary artist whose diverse interests in painting, fashion, digital art, and tattooing are embodied in their distinctive and unconventional style. Through their art, Zyi explores the intersection of sharpness and fluidity, imbuing each piece with intricate details inspired by the natural world. Drawing on a range of organic structures and patterns, from insects to brain neurons, Zyi creates mesmerizing abstract silhouettes that reflect their fascination with the beauty and complexity of the universe.

Jaja Dario is a visual artist, philosopher, and scientist at heart, born and based in Los Angeles. With a compass and color perspective, she confronts elements of the collective unconscious by painting patterns of feeling tones that give shape and form to her sublime encounters with songs. Jaja grew up in Manila, where she tripped hard and earned a BFA in Studio Arts – Painting from the University of the Philippines in 2004—her creative experience and practice hones in on the notion of the transcendent function and humanity’s quest for wholeness.

Ree Magaña is a Los Angeles-based artist and curator. Their goal as a creative is to amplify underrepresented artists’ voices and advocate for the decolonization of contemporary arts spaces.

For me, the process of creativity involves both planning and accident, to be guided by a spirit of the opening of perception — an eyes open meditation where looking for a new way of seeing, an awareness of a disclosure of meaning. Art consists, as Marcel Duchamp said, of the “gap” between what is intended and what is presented, that is, between what one intended and what is perceived. Art therefore uplifts us to the between –that which to Martin Buber indicates an event, where we are both defining and defined through our relationships with ourselves, others, and the world.

Exhibition: Spring Benefit + Art Auction, Locals Only

Morgan M. Barajas is a Los Angeles based visual art alchemist strongly influenced by Romanticism, Surrealism, and Expressionism. He is fascinated by the interplay of the spiritual and the physical, and aims to render this often invisible relationship in his work. Originally trained in Cinematic arts, Morgan was inspired by filmmaker Akira Kurosawa to paint his own storyboards. What followed was an all consuming love affair with visual art marking, that enlightened his approach to creating. Utilizing oil paint, pastels, charcoal, ink, graphite, and sometimes organic matter in his work, every piece is a unique alchemical experiment all its own.

Exhibition: Products of Empire, Spring Benefit and Art Auction, Locals Only