FeatureD ARTISTS

 
 
 
 

WELD QUEEN

Alexandra Weld Queen, born in 1985, is a renowned sculptor and performer known for her work with metal. In 2007, she discovered her passion for this medium and began creating remarkable sculptures. Weld Queen has an impressive portfolio with over 40 sculptural projects. Notable works include "Brothers" (2017) and "Rooster Candy" (2016) at Kudykina Mountain Park in the Lipetsk region, as well as "Mother" (2019) at Mira Park in Novosibirsk. Her creations have found homes in private collections across Russia, France, and the USA.

Between 2020 and 2022, Weld Queen focused on large-scale public art projects and educational endeavors. She delved into sound-public art, resulting in unique objects like Tam-Tam (2020). Her art residencies also led to the creation of Sun Circle (2021) and Dreamer (2022), which seamlessly blend into the landscapes of their respective regions.

 

KEN KELLEHER

Ken Kelleher is an American sculptor. He studied art at Alfred University under sculptors Glenn Zweygardt and William Parry. After college he worked at Hudson Studio, Fine Art Foundry in Niverville, NY where he did finishing work on cast bronze pieces by William Tucker and Anthony Caro, as well as other artists. Hudson Studio was in a shared space at the time with sculptor Jon Isherwood and is in close proximity to Triangle Workshop.


Ken Kelleher has pieces installed in Buffalo and Alfred NY, Doha, Qatar, China and one in production for Indonesia. Small pieces will be available soon through J Steven Manolis Gallery in Miami soon as well as large commissions for private estates and public spaces.

 

OLA VOLO

Ola Volo is a Canadian Mural artist and illustrator from Kazakhstan with a distinctive style drawn from folklore, multiculturalism and identity. Her work is internationally recognized for its inventiveness and unique stories; every character is full of spirited personality and inhabits a dynamic environment. Her practice lends itself often to the public realm, with many of her murals helping to shape and beautify spaces across the world.

As well as creating commissions for a wide range of international clients including Starbucks, Louis Vuitton, Lululemon and Volkswagen, Volo also finds time to do gallery artwork.

 

RETNA

Los Angeles-based artist RETNA accesses spaces between text-based imagery and abstract emotive states with his mysterious lines of verse. Each block of text is a sophisticated system of hieroglyphs, calligraphy and illuminated script.

RETNA (Marquis Duriel Lewis) was born in 1979 in Los Angeles. At the age of fifteen, he began painting on posted fashion advertisements and, from there, led one of the largest and most innovative graffiti art collectives in the city.

RETNA has created exclusive collaborations with brands such as VistaJet, Nike, Louis Vuitton, and Chanel. RETNA lives and works in Los Angeles.

 

DEMSKY

Demsky started his creative journey by getting immersed in the graffiti boom in the early 90s in Spain, where he lives now. Being self-taught, his artistic influences are rooted in the graffiti movement, the fluor era, and his current nostalgia around the late 80s and early 90s, although nowadays these are expanding also towards obtaining a balanced mix between future and nostalgia, radical creativity and exact sciences.

His murals are outstanding and bring a lot of style and attention to any property he chooses for his art.

 

PILPELED

Pilpeled is an Israeli artist, with a distinctive language you can never miss. Numerous brands like Coca-Cola and Absolut Vodka have dove into his captivating, monochromatic, tribal, and trippy world. Keep your third eye open for the future, because you’ll probably see a lot more of Pilpeled.

His designs and artworks can be found on walls and canvases around the world, at museums and exhibitions such as The Israel Museum and Art Beijing as well as on clothing and accessories as part of his streetwear brand and collaborations with some of the world’s biggest brands as PUMA, Absolut, New Era, Bensimon and more.

 

JUREMA

Sean Steed is a London-based artist and graphic designer. Inspired by analogue ways of working, Jurèma is growing as a studio creating murals, paintings, drawings, illustrations and silkscreen prints. In addition to producing graphic works, Jurèma works as a graphic designer with a focus on designing visual identities.

We fall in love in Sean’s style after we disovered the mural he has done for the Gertie restaurant in Brooklyn, NYC. Sean is currently working on a branding project for a new cafe/grocery store in Bushwick which includes a small interior mural.

 

ABSTRK

Abstrk is a Cuban American artist based in Miami, Florida, where his family arrived in the ‘60s during the Pedro Pan and Freedom Flights exiles from Cuba. Abstrk’s background in graffiti art gives him expertise in using movement and color to create captivating pieces. His work consists of forms pulled from outlines and letter structure as well as traditional fine art. While his works are diverse in subject matter, his style and shapes say consistent. You can see his work on canvases and walls throughout the United States and the Carribean.

Abstrk does indoor and outdoor murals and is famous for brand collaborations for Nike and other sport and fashion brands, such as Paris Saint Germain club.

You can see many of his murals in Wynwood Walls and Miami Design District

 

DASIC FERNANDEZ

Dasic Fernández is a Santiago-born muralist of rising fame whose works dot urban landscape across the Americas. Inspired by Chile’s burgeoning hip-hop culture at the age of 14, he began immersing himself in graffiti and the concept of art in public spaces. His career has blossomed and expanded into a variety of different disciplines, notably urban planning projects.

His recent work includes designing and developing Paseo Bandera, a landmark urban project in Chile, and creating a massive public mural for the 2020 Super Bowl, which spanned across 27 floors of the historic Citigroup bank building in Miami.

His works can be seen across Brasil, Argentina, Perú, Uruguay, the United States, Canada and Jamaica.

 

RABI

Rabi (b. 1984) David Emanuel Mordechai Torres is Los Angeles Based artist of Puerto Rican and Polish descent.

During his time with CYRCLE Rabi collaborated with artists, brands and non-profits including, HBO, Google, Uber, Pharrell, TED Prize winner - JR , James Lavelle, Chad Muska, Woodkid, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, and Audi, among others.

He’s been featured in publications such as the L.A. Times, L.A. Weekly, Huffington Post, Hypebeast, Lonely planet and Complex Magazine. Rabi split from Cyrcle in 2019 to pursue his personal artistic vision. He continues to live and work in Los Angeles.

 

MITYA PISLIAK

Mitya Pisliak was born in Minsk (Belarus) and lived in New York. He holds a BA in Monumental and Decorative Art from the Belarusian Academy of Arts, and since 2009 has been involved in decorative art in both private and public spaces.

He currently specializes in illustration, street art, and public murals.

His collaboration with real estate properties include “Diversity,” a large public mural, “Moonlight Room,” wall art for a concept store, and “Stockholm,” a wall drawing for a private interior design studio.

 

RALPH LAZAR

Ralph Lazar is a South African artist, currently based in California.

He chronicles his own life and the world around him, contemporaneously documenting current affairs by creating art in real-time as the news unfolds, and combining this with a stream-of-consciousness self-expression inspired by people, words, music and travel.

His work has been showcased at Art Basel Miami, The LA Art Show, Art Palm Springs and Art Market San Francisco amongst others. In January and February 2020, his artwork appeared on 1,700 digital screens across New York City.

Recurring themes he explores are geopolitics, race relations, Civil Rights, US Presidential history, the US Supreme Court and the US Constitution.

 
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MR. A

André Saraiva is mononymously known as André or on the street as his alter ego, the tag Mr. A. Mr. A is a funny round face with a huge smile and a wink that follows you everywhere, and is now all over the world—often in pink—a color that is traditionally taboo in the graffiti world. 

Along with his disruptive monochromatic style, André is also known for his concept “Love Graffiti,” which are commissioned pieces meant to be love letters to loved ones. They’re done in pop colors near where they live so that they are unable to be missed.

Andre lives and works between Los Angeles, Paris, and the rest of the world.

 

DEVON WALZ

Devon Walz is a muralist, who is based in Southern California. She uses bright colors and pastel moods where her interests are lied in mysticism, ontology, and psychedelia.

She has worked with brands like Vans and West Elm; she also has done numerous projects from album covers to planners.

Her recent works would be the huge mural at Vans HQ in the Strip Session Stage in Costa Mesa, California. The mural fills the entire background of the stage. She has also created beautiful artworks for offices in Costa Mesa and Laguna Beach.

 

JULIA SILVERHOOF

Julia Silverhoof was born in 1986 in East Berlin, Germany and grew up in a small Russian city in Siberia upon her father’s stationing duties in the military. Living near the Siberian forest and growing up with the absence of her father, Silverhoof spent most of her childhood engaging in self-reflection, understanding the human spirit, and absorbing the world surrounding her.

Julia completed her academic studies in Samara which consequently led to her first exhibition as a solo artist in Moscow (UP TO ICE, 2010). She has resided and worked in Los Angeles for the last 5 years, developing her technique and concept in a body of work.

Julia lives and creates between Paris and Los Angeles.

 
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Ivan Ninety

Ivan Ninety started from graffiti in 2007. Now is concentrated on: wall painting, paper collages, assemblages, photography, illustrations, taking a part in different street-art festivals, exhibitions, auctions. 

His works are stored by friends and collectors from Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Holland, Germany, England, Israel, Puerto Rico, Australia and Brazil. 

Ivan is based in Moscow and travels a lot to create his memorable art commissions.

 
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KANO & CO

Kano & Co develop models and produce pieces in collaboration with artists, architects, designers, offices and agencies generating "Pair to Pair" projects, creating community and cooperative design.

A design studio and digital manufacturing workshop behind Mayan Warrior Art Car, a migrating dance floor and music community at Burning man festival.

Kano is based in Mexico City where he designs and fabricates projects for his international clients.

 
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Artem Stefanov

Artem Stefanov (STFNV) is an artist from Moscow, well-known as a muralist, graphic designer, and curator. The former member of ZUKCLUB art group, the participant of more than 30 street art festivals in Russia and all over the world. Since 2015 collaborator with ARMA17 group (night club and music label) on the regular basis.

Specializes in large-scale murals with highlighted optical effects. The significant feature of his visual language is a mixture of forms and objects from the actual surroundings. Based on unique constructive patterns of industrial walls, the artist takes out digital aesthetics from it: glitch effects, morphing forms, and optical illusions.

Nowadays, in art, post-digital aesthetics - the mainstream phenomenon which reflects current cultural processes.

 

PAZ DE LA CALZADA

Paz de la Calzada is a San Francisco based artist and muralist. Her work includes large site-specific drawings and temporary installations which explore elements of urban space and the relationship between art and the viewer.

Calzada’s artwork cohabitates and collaborates with the surrounding architecture, enhancing the beauty of the existing environment.

She has worked with private institutions, museums, art centers and city public commissions, including The Palo Alto Art Center, San Francisco Arts Commission, de De Young Museum, Monterey Museum and University of San Francisco.

 

ANDREW HAAN

Andrew Haan is an artist and muralist based in Los Angeles. Haan initially studied Graphic Design and Architecture, which heavily influences his style utilizing patterns, clean lines, geometric shapes and bright colors.

Haan’s worked with companies such as Tastemade, Well Done Catering, been published in Gross Magazine, Decompoz Magazine, and shown with RAW Artists, Co-Lab Gallery in Los Angeles and South ST. Gallery in New York. 

 
 

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