Artists

Jamie and Thomas Jones are local Fresno artists and the creative minds behind Hellhound Rivet Studios. Their artwork combines acrylic pour painting with figurative art.

As an immigrant, Lana Shmulevich is constantly on a journey to find a sense of belonging and placement. To enrich this experience, Lana experiments with various mediums, capturing moments that might otherwise be overlooked or dismissed as coincidental. Through her art, she aims to connect with others by offering new perspectives on the world around her, creating a universal language that speaks to all. Living in L.A. has greatly influenced Lana Shmulevich’s growth as an artist, inspiring her to showcase how each person leaves their own mark on the city, for better or worse. She sees herself as a seed breaking through the cracks of cement, a reflection of how the urban landscape shapes both her and her work. What fuels Lana’s passion is the ability to see things for what they represent, while suggesting new meanings and interpretations through her art.

Viviana’s journey into the world of art is a testament to the transformative power of creativity and perseverance. Born and raised in Los Angeles, amidst the chaos of a bustling household, work, and family life, she discovered her passion for artistic expression later in life.

Though always drawn to creativity, it wasn’t until adulthood that Viviana truly uncovered her love for art and painting. What began as a solution to a financial dilemma – replicating expensive wallpaper on her kitchen walls – quickly blossomed into a full-fledged passion. Fueled by a desire to beautify her surroundings and a knack for imitation, Viviana delved into the realms of faux finishing and trompe l’oeil painting just as they gained popularity.

Living in proximity to the esteemed Art Center College of Design in Pasadena provided Viviana with a serendipitous opportunity to hone her craft. Over seven years, she eagerly immersed herself in every night class available, relishing the guidance of accomplished artists and the camaraderie of fellow creatives.

Despite her unwavering dedication, the demands of work, responsibilities, and family commitments often relegated Viviana’s artistic aspirations to the sidelines. Yet, after three decades of refining her skills amidst life’s whirlwind, she has finally seized the opportunity to pursue her lifelong dream of painting full-time.

Viviana’s art is a vibrant reflection of her spirit – pulsating with bold colors, dynamic contrasts, and a timeless mid-century aesthetic. While she delights in experimenting with various mediums, her heart belongs to the rich textures and expressive possibilities of oils. Through her art, Viviana not only explores the depths of her imagination but also invites viewers on a journey of joy, wonder, and selfdiscovery. Each stroke of her brush is imbued with passion and purpose, weaving a tapestry of emotions that speaks to the soul. For Viviana, art is more than just a form of expression; it is a profound manifestation of her innermost self, a lifelong pursuit that continues to inspire and uplift all who encounter it.

Steven just wants to make people smile when they see his work. He focuses on using happy bright colors in a medium that conveys emotion and light. Steven’s work has been shown at the Janssen Artspace and has been a part of the California Desert Arts Council. Steven has been accepted into the “The Other Art Fair” in Los Angeles, a distinct honor.

Ron Braveman has been a Los Angeles-based artist for about 25 years.

After studying fine art at the University of Hartford’s Art School, he lived in New York City and Los Angeles, continuing to hone his skills by taking classes at Pratt Institute, the School of Visual Arts, Otis College of Art and Design, Art Center College of Design, and other schools.

He primarily works with watercolor, acrylics, pens, pencils, and gouache on paper and canvas. After being commissioned multiple times in 2018 to create original maps of specific places, he discovered that streets, architecture, and various repeating patterns provide endless inspiration.

Once a work begins, it is an intuitive process for him. He pursues a theme until it resembles his mood, most often painting in a peaceful and calm, meditative state. There is no recipe that is replicated from one work to the next; every piece is unique. He manipulates each work until it seems to breathe on its own.

Phil Eaton, based in Laguna Hills, California, is a talented local artist. His artistic explorations revolve around abstract art, playing with color blocks and forms through the use of acrylic paints. The pieces he creates have a unique ability to infuse dimension and space into any art collection.

In the realm of artistic expression, Jason orchestrates a symphony of color, texture, and nuanced marks—a harmonious dance accentuated by the curious embrace of collage, weaving stories and depth into every canvas.

The heart of his work rests in non-representational abstracts, a captivating fusion of mixed-media collage, where layers of chronology conceal and reveal narratives in a delicate dance of intuition and fine artistry.

Laura Mercy translates energy & emotion into art.
She is an experienced artist as well as Reiki Practitioner of over 20 years . Along with her artistic abilities she also offers healing art, spiritual counseling & reiki healing. Her intention in creating these pieces is to help heal the viewer of the work. Each piece is crafted to be a tool for healing & integration and each is infused with the healing energy to help you move past any of the challenges you may be facing.

Alfredo Gonzalez conveys disrupted realism while exploring the human experience and emotion. Gonzalez uses the face, human figure, and his unique painting style to capture portraits of life-altering experiences through quiet moments.

Sophia Paris is a Los Angeles-based Iranian artist. Her fine art often focuses on her heritage and lifestyle. As an artist, Sophia’s inspiration springs from a variety of ideas and places. Her paintings mix the traditional with contemporary flair.

Calligraphy, poetry, and architecture take primary focus on Sophia’s traditionally inspired art. Many of her works use Iranian script to share selected words from Rumi. She also explores place by creating fantasy perspectives based on designs from locations in Iran.

In her contemporary works, Sophia explores wonder and femininity. She uses everyday objects, such as pinwheels and lipstick, to explore pop sensibilities and American idioms.

Sophia’s artwork is available directly from the artist’s studio, on Saatchi.com, and at Artlounge Collective. More works will appear at the Art Expo New York, April 2024.

Ashley Wright paints highly vibrant, textured, eye-catching landscapes and illustrations. Since becoming a full-time artist, Wright has sold her work internationally, and exhibits throughout Southern California. Her paintings focus on perception and reality in relation to Derealization, Dissociation, and Maladaptive Daydreaming – all things Wright struggles with. She hopes that her paintings help bring awareness to C-PTSD (Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and the beauty that comes from it. The world’s that Wright creates come directly from her inner world that has protected her when struggling with Dissociation. All of Wright’s paintings take visual inspiration from locations around Southern California, nostalgia from Sci-Fi, and the vibrant designs of the 80s/90s. The combination of nostalgia and dissociation allow for Ashley’s paintings to take on a dream-like state and envelop viewers to wonder about each texture, brushstroke, and color palette. Dreamscapes allow for viewers to feel a sense of familiarity, hope, discomfort, and unknown, just as someone who struggles with dissociation may emotionally and physically experience.

Christopher Wray-McCann was born in Detroit and attended high school at The Interlochen Arts Academy in northern Michigan. It was there at the age of 16 that he began studying photography. After graduating, he went on to the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore to continue studying photography, majoring in photojournalism. In the early years of his career, Christopher did a great deal of work within the music industry photographing many album covers, making music videos, and spending months at a time embedded with numerous bands photographing their lives as they toured the world. At the same time, the commercial aspect of his practice continued to grow in the realm of photojournalism for magazines such as Conde Nast Traveler, Rolling Stone, Popular Mechanics, Esquire, and GQ.

Nicholas Murillo, creator of DOT95, is a local Los Angeles artist. His signature lips and teeth have gotten him in and out of trouble since grade school to present day. For the last four years, Nicholas has been using alcohol markers and his iPad as his main muse, as well as his paint pieces that he does on leather products and canvas. Although his characters have similarities, each one is a different expression of how he felt that day.

Matt Markum is a surrealist painter living in Los Angeles, CA. His works are predominantly made using either acrylic or oil paints and generally feature a lot of texture and dream-like imagery. His paintings often depict everyday, common-place elements presented in a strange, exaggerated manner.

Cris Fernandez is an artist originally from sunny Southern California, where he draws inspiration for his unique artistic style. Describing his work as a blend of Pop, Surrealistic, and Low Brow, Cris has always been captivated by the world of horror movies, fantasy, and all things related to popular culture. It is these diverse influences that have greatly shaped his artwork, allowing him to express the intricacies of his vivid imagination. Through his vibrant use of colors, Cris aims to transport viewers into a realm of fantasy, while simultaneously incorporating sinister undertones influenced by his love for horror movies. The remarkable transformation of his childhood fears into positive and inspiring visual representations is a testament to his artistic vision. In each brushstroke, Cris strives to unravel the wild and extraordinary things that reside within the depths of his creative mind.

Liliana D’Ambrosio was born in 1951 in Irpinia, Italy. During early her adolescence, she developed a passion for painting which would extend throughout her life. Inspired by her passion for art, she went on to study at the Art School of Avellino.

For a long period extending from the late 1980’s to the early years of the 2000’s, she drew on paper with rapidity and acrylic colors worked into her paper using dry and slightly diluted brushes. During this period she experimented with different mediums, though she continued to create masterpieces using acrylic paint. Liliana’s work began to provoke emotions with the use of diverse colors and linear shapes.

In 2018, after a prolonged absence from the art world due to illness, she decided to return to the United States to expand her influence in the world of American Art.

Catherine Dickson have shown her work in Seattle and Los Angeles for the past 20 years. After attending Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, where she grew up, she then went on to attend Arizona State University with a double degree: a BA in Art History and a BFA in Digital Photography. She has shown many works, many times at Santa Monica Art Studios, Hanger Gallery, and the Cornish College of the Arts Alumni Gallery. Dickson ebbs and flows between various mediums, having a mastery of each technique while keeping a consistent sensibility of mood and tone.

Kathy S. “WhiteBear” Copsey is an American artist, with Native American and European heritage, who focuses on contemporary Native-themed artwork featuring animals and Natives.

Delaney Watkins is a self-taught young artist who has been immersed in the world of art for as long as she can remember. Fuelled by an unwavering passion for her craft, Delaney finds joy in bringing her vivid imagination to life on canvas, consistently pushing the boundaries of her mind’s eye

While born in Los Angeles, Anahid’s Armenian heritage penetrates her work in which women are a dominant subject matter. Her use of discarded materials are always an intricate part of her artistic expression that allows her to weave a tapestry of tradition, intimacy and power.

Obsessed with exploring and exploiting the not so pretty, the broken and discarded parts of ourselves and our surroundings, Anahid looks for the beauty in imperfections. The discolored, the torn, and the weathered. She finds worth to behold and explores those complexities in her art.

Houyee is a queer, bi-racial multidisciplinary artist and educator from San Jose, CA. She earned her bachelor’s degree at San Francisco State University in Studio Art with a minor in Philosophy. During the day, she works at a non-profit teaching youth and young adults about arts, tech, media, and creativity. Houyee dedicates her evenings and weekends working on her artwork which addresses social justice, gender inequality, racial justice, LGBTQIA+ experiences, climate crisis, life, and mental health all mixed in with healing from her own traumas. She uses painting, photography, and installation to illustrate her experience of being queer and mixed-race growing up in America. Society categorizes people, but the problem is that she, like many others, cannot be forced into a box.
LGBTQ+ Artist

Hadley aims to challenge traditional attitudes to the female gaze through the intimacy of her quirky colorful images, while highlighting her combined love for opulent comedic storytelling and curiosity for connection.
LGBTQ+ Content, Ally Artist

Fecher is a local Los Angeles artist who isn’t afraid to work in several mediums at once. She trains chaos into a format of psychedlia, reminiscent of queer skate-culture.
LGBTQ+ Artist

A Ventura local, Havilah explores the ocean, the life source of her inspiration, and interprets her experiences through her creative work. Havilah quickly tapped into a powerful connection between her life as a scientist and her voice as a painter.
Ally Artist

Finding subtle but playful ways to subvert the traditional subjects of the traditional mediums Quiel uses, his array of hand-embellished frames creates a curio-cabinet of artwork.
LGBTQ+ Artist

Justin Prough is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work reflects the struggle between sunny days, good waves, and the environmental & political unrest of our times. Telling visual stories by connecting ideas with materials and processes drives his practice.
Ally Artist

Joanna Chrys is a mixed-media artist presently focused on creating colorful and textural painted worlds on canvas. Joanna uses dots of acrylic paint to compose and layer her art, creating highly texturized, surreal surfaces.
LGBTQ+ Content, Ally Artist

Andy Thompson’s practice is an amplified version of himself following his intuition. Andy loves exploring color, but also the cultural and spiritual aspects of our world. He loves getting lost in art, and he hopes to inspire and even help others to find themself within his art.
Ally Artist

Antonia Gross is a female Mexican American painter based out of Southern California. She aims to create timeless pieces that can be enjoyed by a diverse group of people. Antonia’s figurative pieces are, more specifically, intended to portray the human figure in a new light.
Ally Artist

Arlene Weinstock earned a BFA degree from Boston University. She continued her education at the Corcoran Museum School where she studied website development. She earned a Signature (CPSA), Experimental Signature (CPX), and Five Year Merit recognition for her artwork from the Colored Pencil Society of America (CPSA).

Weinstock’s “Recyclables” is about finding beauty in materials others discard. She creates paper from shredded office documents. As she builds the paper with layers of wet pulp, she sculpts the surface. When dry, she paints intense colors to enhance the forms and textures. Working in conversation with the art, she follows the lead of what emerges. She looks for ideas in the lights and shadows. Weinstock often feels an idea and helps these phantoms take form. The process of creating art is giving life to ideas. Recycling paper is renewal.

This colorful abstract art series uplifts the spirit. It speaks to the intention of second chances. Through it, she sees possibilities.

Working with inks, Stella focuses on channelling the feeling of a place or state. Whether it’s the energy of a busy cityscape or the peace of a still forest, she strives to capture the subject’s essence in her work. Inks are Stella’s chosen medium because of their ability to flow and change shape.

Justin Prough is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work reflects the struggle between sunny days, good waves, and the environmental & political unrest of our times. Telling visual stories by connecting ideas with materials and processes drives his practice. Prough’s work has been exhibited in California and in private collections across the U.S.

Kathryn Pitt is a UK born artist that now lives and works in Los Angeles. A figurative and non representational 2D artist, Kathryn has been involved with and featured in many exhibitions in California, throughout the US and overseas, whilst teaching art to children within her studio and as a docent at the Getty Museum.

Kathryn has had three solo shows over the past seven years, the last in 2020 at Brittany Davis Gallery in Ojai, has curated several shows and has an honorable mention for her painting ‘Red View’ at the juried show ‘Bold Expressions’ at Northern California Arts, Sacramento.

Michael Korney paints masterful contemporary landscapes that pull you into their world. Each place is one he has visited that has produced an emotional stimulus for him. Michael paints to capture these feelings so that viewers can have a similar experience.

#trashart was created to transform items that would otherwise end up in a landfill. It began as a therapeutic practice and has grown into a playground of shapes, colors, and textures that share a glimpse into the artist’s daily consumption. #trashart is garbage, literally.

The fleeting moments, the perfect shot, the one with the magic light and shadows. All of them are their own piece of time Tim Smith tries to preserve in the time machine of the camera’s eye. In that instant, there’s nothing but breath and the stillness of the moment. Tim has been fortunate enough to have been exhibited in galleries all over the world, and he hopes to find himself fortunate enough to be featured in your home.

Andy Thompson’s practice is an amplified version of himself following his intuition. Andy loves exploring color, but also the cultural and spiritual aspects of our world. He loves getting lost in art, and he hopes to inspire and even help others to find themself within his art.

Melinda McLeod is a local Los Angeles Santa Monica-based painter Laura Kowalski uses to represent the movement and light of her subject more accurately. Her impressionist style largely focuses on West Coast icons like scenes from the Santa Monica Pier, surf, and American Flags.

Shalla Javid is a Los Angeles-based artist accustomed to living life without borders. This has helped her move beyond the self-imposed confines of medium and subject into an exploratory realm of endless possibilities. In the Artist Tree Fresno, Shalla showcases abstracted figures within meditative stories

Jason Dorman is a Fresno-based illustration who specializes in charcoal hyperrealism. His subjects often includes recognizable objects in isolated compositional framing.

Sküt the artist is best known as Co-Founder and original designer of Grindr, but is locally known in WeHo as a muralists for Micky’s, a vice-president of the Co-Op TAG gallery, and creator of pop-culture queer imagery.
LGBTQ+ Artist

Miss Brightside is an accomplished Los Angeles-based artist and designer. Miss Brightside’s works explore mark-making and subversive subjects, often applied in functional pieces such as clothing, wallpaper, and other design elements for the home. Miss Brightside holds an MFA from Central Saint Martin (CSM), London.

Joanna Chrys (@joannachrysohoidis) is a mixed media artist presently focused on creating colorful and textural painted worlds on canvas. Joanna uses dots of acrylic paint to compose and layer her art, creating highly texturized, surreal surfaces. Joanna uses complex and rhythmic patterns to create an “amplified interpretation of emotion.”

Self-taught, the artist Dorsadof paints in multiple mediums, ranging from oil and acrylic to collage and palette knives. Dorsadaf’s subject matter runs the gamut as well, at times focusing on familiar objects like seascapes, flowers, even edible “yummies” like donuts. At other times she ventures into pure abstraction.

David Jester loves painting his subjects in pools. He believes they are metaphor rich environments. People inside the pool looking out or those outside looking in have a slightly distorted view of each other.
LGBTQ+ Artist

Photographer Nick Rattaire captures the essence of Central California with stunning street and event photography. Nick is currently showing four of his images in the lobby of The Artist Tree Fresno, illustrating the vibrant colors of the San Joaquin Valley.

Joan K. Sharma is a Fresno based artist. She studied for a year in Rome, Italy and a summer at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and is currently a faculty member  of the Department of Art and Design, California State University, Fresno. A portion of Joan’s “Blue Whirl” series, gestural images that reference a clean-burning flame, appear in The Artist Tree Fresno lobby. Her oil paintings and photographs have been exhibited at the Fresno Art Museum, Spectrum Gallery, Arte Americas, Gallery 25 and internationally.

We are thrilled to feature the work of Artist Tree team member Miles Parsons! Miles works at The Artist Tree West Hollywood. His collage deco skate decks are currently on display at The Artist Tree Riverside.

Robert Hayman is a Los Angeles based photographer and stylist best known for his wildly imaginative collaborations with RuPaul’s Drag Race star LaGanja Estranja, a prominent drag queen and cannabis activist.  “I’m a one-man show,” Hayman states of his work. “I do the makeup and the styling, and I art-direct the shoot.” On June 10, 2022, Robert performed a powerful live art performance with LaGanja at The Studio Lounge showcasing his beautiful artistry as a photographer, makeup artist, and stylist. His artwork is on display in The Artist Tree West Hollywood and The Studio Lounge in celebration of Pride month.