California artists

In today’s podcast episode, host Scott ‘Sourdough’ Power sits down with ‘late bloomer’ Ezra Brown to discuss the artist’s slow and steady rise to fame...

Inspired by cartoons and wordplay, San Francisco artist Brian McDonald reveals the angst and anxiety hiding behind our favorite 21st-century amusement...

LA native Hilary Baker illustrates human-caused habitat destruction in a recent series of animal portraits that place big cats and bears in urban loca...

Working in new media, San Francisco-based artist Avital Meshi strives to understand widespread cultural attitudes about race, gender, beauty, and sexu...

Based in California, genderqueer artist Brian Oldham creates hybrid works that “explore caricatures of popular American ideals” through self-portraitu...

Based in Long Beach, Julio Salgado makes colorful work that refutes the false stereotype of immigrants as low-skilled, poorly educated, and prone to c...

A look at Neil Kendricks’ ‘Strange Fruit,' a mixed-media series that places the viewer in the psychological space of vulnerable individuals.

Los Angeles-based painter Jessus Hernandez explores the geometric beauty of cityscapes in his color-saturated abstract paintings.

Los Angeles-based artist Alice Yuan Zhang uses interactive technologies to explore immigrant myths of the American Dream and investigate notions of ho...

Activist Juana Alicia blends elements of magical and social realism into her vivid mixed-media work, addressing social justice, gender, and eco crisis...

Dune Woman, painter Sara Long’s recent sun-dappled series, documents the artist’s return home to explore the microclimates of northern California.

Yeon Joo Lee longed to return to painting for decades after her childhood aspirations to become an artist were curtailed. When she'd raised two sons a...