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Typecast LA
March 9, 2024 - April 27, 2024
About
Art Share L.A. presents Typecast LA on view March 9th – April 27th in our main gallery at 801 E 4th Pl, Los Angeles 90013.
Typecast LA is an ode to the history and contemporary practice of typography and signage in Los Angeles as a mode of artistic expression.
A celebration of the power of typefaces, signs and symbols to convey not only information but also culture, identity, and sentiment, Typecast LA highlights the work of contemporary artists and designers from Los Angeles.
Featuring: Michelle Andrade, Shepard Fairey, Jonathan Maghen & IN-FO.CO, Lili Lakich, Dave Lefner, Joe O’Neill, Mark Peacock, Lisa Schulte, Theodore Svenningsen, Trox, RISK, Chris Ronk, and Steven Wolkoff
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About the Artists

Kelly "RISK" Graval

Kelly "RISK" Graval
Kelly “RISK” Graval has been synonymous with the Los Angeles art community for over 30 Years. From his early days as a founder of the West Coast Graffiti movement to gallery and museum exhibits around the globe, including the 2012 “Art In The Streets” at the LA MoCA and the hugely successful “Beyond The Streets” exhibits in Los Angeles and New York. His work is shown at top galleries in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, New York, Miami, and London.
Exhibition: Typecast LA

Shepard Fairey

Shepard Fairey
Shepard Fairey (b. 1970) is a contemporary street artist, graphic designer, activist, and founder of OBEY Clothing and creative agency Studio Number One. In 1989, while at Rhode Island School of Design studying for his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration, Fairey created the “Andre the Giant has a Posse” sticker that later evolved into the OBEY GIANT art campaign. In 2008, his portrait of then-Democratic candidate Barack Obama became an internationally recognized emblem of hope. He is also known for the “We The People” campaign debuted during the 2017 Women’s Marches worldwide. Fairey has painted more than 135 public murals and become one of the most sought-after and provocative artists globally, changing the way people converse about art and view the urban landscape.
Exhibition: Typecast LA

Jonathan Maghen & IN-FO.CO

Jonathan Maghen & IN-FO.CO
Jonathan Sacha Maghen (b. 1977) is a designer living and working in Los Angeles, California. They are the founder and Design Director of Primary Foundry (2019–present), and their studio practice.
IN-FO.CO (Inventory Form & Content) is an independent design and editorial studio, run by Adam Michaels and Shannon Harvey in parallel with the publishing imprint Inventory Press.
Exhibition: Typecast LA

Theodore Svenningsen

Theodore Svenningsen
Los Angeles-based painter Theodore Svenningsen creates realistic style paintings featuring train cars and tracks that are often set in desolate and lonely winter conditions.
The artist received a Master of Fine Arts from Otis College of Art and Design and his works have been widely exhibited in New York and California, and are in numerous corporate and public collections.
He has also created murals for UCLA’s Department of Architecture and for Los Angeles City College. Svenningsen has also explored text-based conceptual paintings and collages.
Svenningsen states, “ I have been making art, drawing and painting since before kindergarten. I grew up in a town with many railroads and a large railroad yard. Two of the things that fascinated me were art and trains. We lived where there were snowy winters; snow was a third thing that I was fascinated by; besides the way snow looked, it became a comforting cloak against the world which I never felt as part of.
For more information: Theodoresf.com
Exhibition: Typecast LA

Steven Wolkoff

Steven Wolkoff
Steven Wolkoff is an artist based in Los Angeles. He graduated from Dartmouth College with an honors English major, but somehow became a painter. His three-dimensional language paintings explore the boundaries of the medium of paint and forge a link between formalist and conceptual art. He has shown in galleries in Los Angeles, New York, Berlin, Beijing, Stockholm, Luxembourg, Mexico City, Budapest, Madrid, and Tokyo, and his work has been featured in Artillery Magazine, Architectural Digest, and Poets/Artists magazine. In 2023, Wolkoff was the first recipient of the Torrance Art Museum’s Cycladic Arts Residency Fellowship.
Exhibition: Typecast LA

Lili Lakich

Lili Lakich
Lili Lakich began working with neon in 1966 while still a student at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Her illuminated sculptures have been exhibited in galleries and museums in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Canada. Her public art commissions include
“L.A. Angel” at Calfornia Plaza, “Guardian” at Miller Children’s Hospital in Long Beach and “Flyaway” at the Van Nuys FlyAway. In 1981, she founded the Museum of Neon Art in her studio on Traction Avenue in the Arts District where she began teaching neon design and fabrication.
Exhibition: Typecast LA

Joe O'Neill

Joe O'Neill
Joe O’Neill is a Los Angeles based painter working in multiple styles from realism to abstraction. A longtime interest in words and letters, both their visual structure and their meanings, is a common thread throughout his work. Joe studied art at Santa Monica College and San Francisco Art Institute (BFA 94). In addition to Gallery shows he paints signs, private commissions, and has created work for many TV shows and feature films.
Exhibition: Typecast LA

Chris Ronk

Chris Ronk
Emotions run deep, yet still, in Ronk’s work. As an artist, he longs for a sense of symmetry, sequence and harmony, but these things do not always come easily. Although he strives for meticulous order, his work ultimately remains flawed. It is in this tension, between his desire for perfection and the ultimately flawed reality of the finished piece, where the true beauty of his work lies.
His subtly textured minimalist colorscapes and bold type influenced paintings echo and oppose the multiplicity of visual stimuli encountered in city life overwhelmed by noise, poverty, excess and an over dependence on technology. Influenced heavily by nature, the human form, architecture, advertising, and typography— Ronk creates visual experiences that viewers are subconsciously familiar with and inexplicably drawn to. Intentional, yet often contradictory, use of symmetry and imbalance, repetition and uncluttered space, rich palettes and monochromatic schemas, all exist within his work. Serenity amongst the chaos, Ronk’s art invites a deeply meditative pause that never ceases to captivate.
Exhibition: Typecast LA

Lisa Schulte

Lisa Schulte
Neon light boasts two primary identities: a jubilance that reflects the radiance of midday, and an evening persona of romance and excitement, where in surging flickers of curved encapsulated candles intrigue passersby. Lisa Schulte, an American sculptor born in Long Island, New York, has mastered the many “faces” of neon, earning her moniker, “The Neon Queen.” Lisa studied in Kansas under Master Neon Tube Bender Freddie Elliot, and her growing prowess sparked the beginnings of “Nights of Neon”– a (35-plus years running) Los Angeles neon studio and boutique creative space providing custom neon pieces for films, events, and branding.
After amassing experience and exposure, Lisa shifted her focus to envisioning and creating intricate, abstract designs often absent in neon, and for the last decade, Lisa has turned inward to create personal pieces she has exhibited in museums and fine art galleries nationwide. In a recent series, the artist externalized the metaphor of unity by pairing two disparate mediums – white neon and found wood – in a novel harmony; their differences highlighting the inherent beauty possessed by each. The artist is presently creating abstract pieces built from neon and wood.
Exhibition: Typecast LA

Mark Peacock

Mark Peacock
With several successful exhibits in and around downtown Los Angeles, San Francisco and Southern California, Mark Peacock’s photography captures scenes from the streets, classic Americana and historic architecture. He considers himself somewhat of a documentarian, archiving the nostalgia of his native home town.
With many solo and group art shows to his credit his photographic prints are highly sought after and used for set decoration in various film, television and commercial productions.
Exhibition: Typecast LA

Michelle Andrade

Michelle Andrade
Michelle Andrade received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Otis College of Art and Design. Her text based drawings engage the leavings of everyday conversation and elements of her personal interior monologue.
Michelle currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Exhibition: Typecast LA

Dave Lefner

Dave Lefner
As a native-born Angeleno, artist Dave Lefner has always had a love for the city that surrounds him… for Lefner, this sunny, urban landscape serves as the perfect inspiration for his detailed, very limited-edition, reduction linoleum block prints.
He received a BA in Art from California State University at Northridge in 1993. It was there he discovered a love of typography, the colorful, abstract NYC cityscapes of Stuart Davis, as well as his biggest inspiration- Picasso’s series of linocuts from the 1950s.
Lefner is widely recognized as a Master of his craft. Represented by several galleries in the States, he has exhibited abroad, as well. A solo exhibition in 2018, at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, garnered him a Los Angeles Times article, the third of his career. His detailed prints are also in numerous private and public collections, including the Permanent Collection of Prints and Drawings of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Lamont Gallery at Phillips Exeter Academy, as well as being featured in a 12-minute documentary short, by Serena Creative, which airs frequently on KCET’s (PBS Socal) “Artbound.”
Exhibition: Typecast LA

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