OUR ARTISTS

Nancy Baker Cahill

Artist / Activist TeD Speaker

Access to art is essential to Nancy. Her goal with all her projects is to offer unexpected perspectives to new audiences that in turn provoke conversation and affect a broader cultural dialogue.

Painting, Installation, Augmented and Virtual Reality

The internationally renowned, Madrid-based artists view their art as a tool to transform the street and to create bonds between people. With roots in graffiti, architecture, fine art, and design, they have worked on massive scales and have coordinated their projects with numerous NGOs and foundations as well as local, regional, and national governments.

Community Space Transformations, Murals, Interior/ Experiential Design

Phil America

Artist / Activist TED Speaker

Phil uses installation, sculptures, performance, photography, video, and fashion in searching for a better understanding and connection to his subjects while bringing about an interpersonal relationship between the viewer and himself. Recently, he has started to focus more on ways to activate unused spaces.

Performance, Installation, Film

Debra Scacco

Artist, Curator, and Creative Strategist

Debra studies contemporary and historic structures of permission. Working at the intersection of history, culture, and environment, her work connects policy to people by highlighting individual stories impacted by entrenched political structures. Previous exhibitions include Royal Academy of Arts (London), Viper Basel (Switzerland), and the Victoria & Albert Museum (London). In 2012, she was the inaugural Artist-in-Residence at Ellis Island Museum (NYC). She is the recipient of a 2019-20 Cultural Trailblazer award by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (LADCA). Debra is the Founding Director of AIR at Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator: a residency supporting research-led artists working with climate-related themes.

Installation, Experiential Design, and Production

James Peter Henry

Artist

James is an Australian painter working in the United States whose work is heavily influenced by Cubism, African art, and Australian Aboriginal art. His massive murals and impressively scaled canvases showcase a boldly fluid style, heavy with patterns and symbols that morph into human forms.

James has creating art for both public installation and for private collections around the world. Most recently, James’s work has been featured in large-scale permanent installations at the La Peer Hotel in West Hollywood and at the Santa Fe Lofts in Los Angeles. James also received global recognition for a large experiential installation at New York Fashion Week. His paintings are widely collected and are in the private collection of Philippe Hoerle-Guggenheim in New York, among others.

Tanner Goldbeck

Artist

Tanner Goldbeck is maybe best-known for his graphic work, which has adorned Powell Skateboards since you can remember. Later, he did choppers — as in Jesse James/West Coast. He continues to be sought-after as a product development consultant to action sports companies.

While Goldbeck’s murals are among some of Los Angeles’ most recognizable, he has been quietly making fine art all along and recently debuted his latest work at the Venice Biennale.

Graphic Design, Product Development, Installations, Murals

SEL

Artist

Marcel “SEL” Blanco has been tagging around Los Angeles for years but recently started to use his super spray-can powers for good. Now a sought-after big-project muralist, SEL’s draftsmanship and his powerful design sensibility combine to beautify neighborhoods as much as they deliver messages of empowerment an hope to the locals.

Murals, Graphic Design, Installations

Dorian Lynde

Artist

Lynde most often centers her work around investigations into the systems of power and inequity concealed within the cultural signifiers of femininity and their machinations.

Interested in the advertising lexicon around powerful brands, Lynde is well poised to work with brands that want to positively impact the world.

Mural Painting, Installation