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OH! ART SHARE MADE AN ADULT COLORING BOOK!
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Snapshot: Los Angeles Artists is just that, a snapshot of the L.A. art scene. This adult coloring book features the works of 15 prominent and emerging Los Angeles-based artists to give you an idea of what it is like to walk up and down the streets of Los Angeles. The interviews in this book give insight into the type of social, political, and economic issues that Angelinos face daily, and the colorable designs that it contains allow readers to make Los Angeles their own.
All of the proceeds from this coloring book are being given to Art Share LA, the Midnight Mission, and the artists.
This book was created from the hard efforts of two over-achieving college students: Alexandra Zarchy and Holly Harris who had the vision to connect with Artists to help Art Share. The book’s three main goals, in essence, are to educate, to invest in the Los Angeles community, and to inspire a human connection to art.
COLOR WITH US!
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WRDSMTH is an LA-based street artist who aspires to inspire others on a daily basis with colorful and well-chosen words crafted into indelible thoughts and phrases that he paints/pastes onto walls around the world.
"Every word that you’ve ever seen painted or pasted onto a wall resonates with something in my life. That’s how this whole thing works."
"The incredible thing is that when I put it out there when I paint and paste it and take a picture and put it on my Instagram, the outpouring of these personal words resonating with other people from day one has just been staggering. I still paint and paste things where I wonder if people are going to get this if they’re gonna understand this, and they end up being my most popular pieces. People are like, “oh my God, you read my mind” and “oh my gosh, I can’t believe this” and I love that. It’s always rooted in something that means something to me, but the fact that it’s being embraced, and the fact that I do this full-time and that people want to own those words and have them in their homes and in their lives is just amazing, so I never expected that. I started this never expecting to make a dime, but that’s the beauty of it, that everything happened organically, and I guess that’s what I’m saying, I never want to lose that. If I do lose that feeling or that joy, I took a wrong turn somewhere."
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Alexandria Risby's work exhibits a unique and intersectional approach to indigenous African design and elements from the Rococo period.
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Hedy Torres is a Mexican-Immigrant working, producing, achieving, and living in L A. Her work is about the representation of people who lack visibility. Her Invisible Hands series strives to honor immigrants by elevating their existence and contribution to Los Angeles.
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Bunnie Reiss's work is heavily influenced by her Eastern European background, with its tradition of folk art, bright colors, and community engagement.
"Right now, I’m really kind of tapping into the historical role that artists have played in states of mass chaos in the world. I’m looking at symbology, poster art, and really simple meanings that help define where we are, and I’m trying to take that from a positive place. A lot of my work right now is based on positive messaging, which it always has been, but it’s more literal now. I think I kind of have two bodies of work going, where I’m looking at the poster side of it, but I’m also looking at art as form, and less as detailed imagery. I have tons of ideas. Right now, my brain is sort of overflowing with ideas. It’s just hard to pick one. "
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Caroline Heer is currently living and working in Pasadena, California. Her art practice focuses primarily on a combination of large-scale paintings & sculptural ceramic work.
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Jeremy Novy is a California based street and stencil artist best known for his stencils of koi fish and efforts in support of gay activism.
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Jimmy Warhol’s unique style is an expression of his surroundings and the cultural melting pot of Los Angeles.
"Why do you deconstruct faces? I don’t like drawing deliberate things, I like to take a different route. I took character design and cartooning, and I call my style abstract cartoonism; it’s just taking regular cartoon and illustration or character design aspects and turning them on their heads and putting them wherever I want. So, eyes can go anywhere on the face. A mouth can go anywhere on the face, and then that, as a cohesive thing, makes a different character, and maybe not a deliberate human face, but it is a face, and it makes you think of something, and the cool thing about abstract characters is that people can give their own meanings to them. And they can have their own determination of what is being said, what is being done, and so forth. I’m inspired by all things, and my art is abstract cartoonism for the most part. And, I paint abstract paintings as well."
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Alvaro Naddeo’s work deals with waste, overconsumption, and social inequality. The brands, logos, and packaging depicted in his work are objects with an inherent duality, both desirable and despicable, a clear byproduct of having worked in advertising for more than 20 years.
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Morgan Barajas is an SGV native who lives in Los Angeles. His training is in film and editing but his true passion is in the visual arts. His work focuses on the darker aspects of humanity "while letting the light in." He's an art district staple and Art Share Family member.
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Lois Keller creates creative environments through painting, drawing, and events. Her work has revolved around the ability to create art in between her responsibilities as a mother and caregiver.
"Every morning I work for a few hours before the house wakes up. I let my thoughts ebb and flow through the circumstances that I find myself in. I have lots of stops and starts and unfinished work. Everything that I do shouldn’t have to be a product, although I do find myself in that trap sometimes. I’m terrible about branding, and my body of work looks like it’s from about 14 different artists. I simply want to be creative with whatever resources, time, and inspiration I can muster amidst the chaotic stillness right now. "
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Robert M. Kalafut an LA-based West coast artist who makes abstract portraits, and has experience in the Advertising industry, Film Industry, Local 800, Toy Design, and Animation Industry.
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Bailee Roberts is a 16-year-old artist based in California, currently entering her senior year at an arts high school.
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Willie Baronet is an artist, activist, professor, and curious dreamer. He is the creator of @weareallhomeless and co-director of the documentary #signsofhumanity on Amazon.
"The WE ARE ALL HOMELESS project began in 1993 due to the awkwardness I felt when I’d pull up to an intersection and encounter a person holding a sign, asking for help. Like many, I wrestled with whether or not I was doing good by giving them money. Mostly I struggled with my moral obligations, and how my own choices contributed in conscious or unconscious ways to the poverty I was witnessing. I struggled with the unfairness of the lives people are born into, the physical, mental and psychological handicaps. In my struggle, I avoided eye contact with those on the street, unwilling to really see them, and in doing so avoided seeing parts of myself. That began to change once I began asking them if they would sell their signs. My relationship with the homeless has been powerfully and permanently altered. The conversations and connections have left an indelible mark on my heart. I still wrestle with personal questions regarding generosity, goodness, compassion, and guilt. And what it means to be homeless: practically, spiritually, emotionally? Is home a physical place, a building, a structure, a house? Or is it a state of being, a sense of safety, of being provided for, of identity? I see these signs as signposts of my own journey, inward and outward, of reconciling my own life with my judgments about those experiencing homelessness."
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Toni Figueredo is an installation artist and photographer from Miami. She creates playful work the viewer associates with their own mortality, sexual, or otherwise.
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Jack Westervelt is a young artist inspired by the idea of majesty. "I think the universe has power. When I see or hear something that inspires me, it is a transference of that power that goes through me and onto the canvas or page, rendering me as a medium. Kind of like a game of telephone where the input becomes something entirely new by the time of output."
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Alexandra Zarchy is a double major in NGOs/Social Change and Public Relations at the University of Southern California. She is passionate about giving back to her hometown of Los Angeles; whether it be by making podcasts at the Midnight Mission or volunteering at Art Share Los Angeles. She cares deeply about racial injustice, the prison system, homelessness, and the preservation of art. This book, being one of art and activism, is at the intersection of her interests, making it a labor of love for her.
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Holly Harris is a Los Angeles native and college student at Texas Christian University. She has been passionate about art ever since she became a part-time glass- blower five years ago. She is an art supporter because of the connection that art fosters between the artist and the viewer and the humanity that is imbued in each art piece. She is also the author and illustrator of Self-Made Shade: A Book about Sun Safety, which was her first published book.
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Upon purchasing the book, you are giving back to the Los Angeles community! THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
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