About the Artists
Liz Walsh
Racheal Rios
Liv Zutphen
Liz Walsh is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles whose work explores the intersection of plant life, urban sprawl, and psychological landscapes. Working primarily in painting, with extensions into clay and video, she examines the tension between technology and the entropy of the natural world. Her compositions often feature e
Liz Walsh is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles whose work explores the intersection of plant life, urban sprawl, and psychological landscapes. Working primarily in painting, with extensions into clay and video, she examines the tension between technology and the entropy of the natural world. Her compositions often feature exaggerated flora, cockpit-like structures, and dreamlike figures that act as portals into subconscious narratives. Through layered, vibrant imagery, Walsh creates intricate tableaux that reflect the power of nature and the complexity of internal emotional worlds.
Liv Zutphen
Racheal Rios
Liv Zutphen
Liv Zutphen is a self-taught artist. She attended Urban High School of San Francisco and Guitar Institute of Technology in Hollywood. She began to paint in 2006 and was included in her first group show that same year at 7 Dudley Sponto Gallery, the location of the legendary beat hang-out spot Venice West Cafe. Her first solo show was in 2
Liv Zutphen is a self-taught artist. She attended Urban High School of San Francisco and Guitar Institute of Technology in Hollywood. She began to paint in 2006 and was included in her first group show that same year at 7 Dudley Sponto Gallery, the location of the legendary beat hang-out spot Venice West Cafe. Her first solo show was in 2011 at Focus Gallery in North Beach, San Francisco. In her art, she loves to explore and expose the hidden emotional states that shape and control the ways humans interact with each other.
Racheal Rios
Racheal Rios
Racheal Rios
I am an eco feminist, Art Brut, making work as a form of disruption centering feminine narratives. I be doing it for my bitches.
Rachel Slick
Albert Chamillard
Albert Chamillard
Born in 1972 in San Diego, CA, Rachel Slick is a Tucson based artist with works spanning painting, sculpture, and public art. She studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Art in Amsterdam and has designed, fabricated and installed 27 permanent public art installations across the United States.
Her dye and paint on paper paintings depict lus
Born in 1972 in San Diego, CA, Rachel Slick is a Tucson based artist with works spanning painting, sculpture, and public art. She studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Art in Amsterdam and has designed, fabricated and installed 27 permanent public art installations across the United States.
Her dye and paint on paper paintings depict lush, densely layered ecosystems. Alive with flora and fauna inspired by desert life, they are shot through with myth and magic, rendered in saturated color and dynamic movement.
Artist Statement:
About 10 years ago, I began painting flowers as an antidote to depression. My neurological disabilities had suddenly intensified, and,
I could find few reasons to get out of bed.
My dominant hand lost function. Tremors and nerve damage forced a rebuild of my entire process. Everything felt overwhelming. But if I could paint a single flower, that was enough to get me into my studio. I grabbed on to that one goal and held on.
Flower art is often dismissed as merely pretty. But they carry outrageous miracles, life bursting from a tiny speck into vivid color, wild nurture, and the dance of life.
Albert Chamillard
Albert Chamillard
Albert Chamillard
Albert Chamillard was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts in 1971. He moved to Tucson in 1994 and received his BFA in studio arts from the University of Arizona in 2003. While a student at the UA, he helped establish the student-run Carbonbase Studio and Gallery. Post- graduation, he continued to work as an art handler and picture framer bef
Albert Chamillard was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts in 1971. He moved to Tucson in 1994 and received his BFA in studio arts from the University of Arizona in 2003. While a student at the UA, he helped establish the student-run Carbonbase Studio and Gallery. Post- graduation, he continued to work as an art handler and picture framer before co-founding Atlas Fine Art Services in 2011.
Albert’s work is primarily small scale drawings that are comprised of layers of cross-hatched marks which create textile-like surfaces, and deal with concepts of memory, family, the natural world and ways language affects and interferes with our perceptions of our world.
Albert Chamillard has exhibited work nationally and locally and is represented by Etherton Gallery in Tucson.
Al Marcano
Albert Chamillard
Al Marcano
Marcano (b. 1987 Cape Canaveral FL.) is a contemporary artist living and working in Joshua Tree, CA, whose work is influenced by street/outsider/folk art.
A self-taught artist, Marcano first gained attention painting on the streets of Los Angeles before moving into galleries and exhibitions. Marcano’s work has been exhibited in galleries
Marcano (b. 1987 Cape Canaveral FL.) is a contemporary artist living and working in Joshua Tree, CA, whose work is influenced by street/outsider/folk art.
A self-taught artist, Marcano first gained attention painting on the streets of Los Angeles before moving into galleries and exhibitions. Marcano’s work has been exhibited in galleries and art fairs and collected internationally, reflecting a distinctive style that merges contemporary street art with nostalgic storytelling and handcrafted, desert-influenced materials.
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