Art Traffic

Creative Arts Coalition to Transform Urban Space (CACtTUS) is a donation based project space for emerging contemporary artists established by both Jorge Mujica and Mayra Serna. We interviewed Jorge and their current artist in residence, Roxana Martinez and discuss their personal practices and the ways CACtTUS functions as art gallery and work space.

Michael Nannery is an artist based in Long Beach, California. His prints, illistrations, installations, and communal activities deal with time, our relationship with the natural world, and much more. Nannery currently has work on view at Gallery Flux in Long Beach.

Adee is an La Based interdisciplinary artist born in Florida whose work is a "celebration of joy and black liberation" and about finding the balance between grief + celebration. She uses music, painting, and filmmaking and has recently collaborated with MOCA Los Angeles.

Tatiana Vahan is a Los Angeles artist and curator whose work is conceptual in nature and focuses on the relationship between art, the artist, and capitalism. She is the founder of the Bar Fund grant initiative and is currently working on the Los Angeles Artist Census.

Gerardo is a ceramic based artist from Oaxaca, Mexico whose work is influenced by murals, graffiti art, and other imagery from the streets of LA. He has work up right now at the Riverside Museum of Art and is currently working on a body of work for a solo show in the near future.

Mark McKnight is an analog photographer who strictly works with the traditional black and white film. Upcoming shows include:

Turn Into

Mark's forthcoming solo exhibition at the James Harris Gallery in Seattle Washington on September 6th

Monotasking

Group show at the Luisotti Gallery in Santa Monica from June 23st through August 4th

Essence Harden is an independent curator and artist (and much more!) born and raised in Oakland California. Upcoming shows she has curated and worked on are:

She Loves Her

The Los Angeles LGBT Center's Advocate and Gochis Galleries in October

Bold Visual Language: Emory Douglas

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions on July 7th

Second Look Twice

Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) on September 19th

Refuge: Shinique Smith

California African American Museum (CAAM) currently on view

Sergio Teran is a painter, printmaker and teacher. His subjects are usually of his friends, collegues, and family members posing infront of a Los Angeles landscape.

Norm Laich is an artist, sign painter, and fabricator that has been intrigul to the Los Angeles art scene for several years. He has worked with several of the art world's biggest names and currently has a show at the ICA/LA of peices he fabricated for others such as Mike Kelley and Arturo Herrera.

Justin Michell is a Los Angeles baised painter who incorporates collage into his artwork.

http://justinmichell.com

https://www.instagram.com/michell_justin/