Meet the Artists

Started in 2009, ASVP is a Brooklyn-based artistic collaboration between Simon Grendene and Victor Anselmi that has become internationally known for creating graphic images with nods to advertising, pop and comic book culture often including layers of organic abstraction.

Adam J. Kurtz (aka @AdamJK) is a designer, artist, and speaker. His books, You Are Here (For Now), 1 Page at a Time, Pick Me Up, and Things Are What You Make of Them, have been published in more than a dozen languages. His offbeat creative work has been featured in Nylon, Adweek, Vice, The New Yorker, and more.

Add Fuel is the artistic moniker of Portuguese contemporary artist Diogo Machado. Renowned for his innovative approach to traditional artforms, he is known for his intricate patterns, bold reinterpretations, and meticulous attention to detail—crafting multilayered compositions that bridge the timeless elegance of heritage with contemporary visual culture. Born in Cascais, Portugal, his artistic journey began early on, with a fascination for drawing and a love for creating imaginary worlds. Influenced by the aesthetics of skateboarding culture, punk rock, graffiti, video games, and cartoons, his art embodies the dynamic energy of urban life while offering fresh and forward-thinking perspectives on cultural identity.

Agostino Iacurci, born 1986 in Foggia, lives and works in Bologna, Italy. He studied Visual Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.

Albert Reyes has been known to spit art on his hands and knees with a mouth full of beer in the middle of the street. He has also shown in a gallery along with a painting by Picasso. These same strange dualities and juxtapositions are highly prevalent in his work, which tackles both conceptual and graffiti art. Recognized for his ubiquitous “GIVE “ tag, Albert has a distinctive artistic approach inspired not only by street art, comic books, and American pop culture; but also by contemporary and classical “high art “. Many of his drawings and illustrations incorporate everything from icons of corporate America to Hollywood stars to mass media to politics to consumerism.

Allison Kunath is an internationally recognized abstract installation artist and licensed C-33. She has contributed to over 175 projects, including murals covering nearly 40,000 square feet of private/public spaces in six countries. With over fifteen years experience in art, design, and project management, Allison has held notable commissions with The City of Los Angeles, The City of Palo Alto, and The University of California (Irvine), in addition to commercial real estate, design, hospitality, and retail brands like The Kimpton Group, Starbucks, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Tishman Speyer, and Gensler. Her original work has been licensed to award-winning hospitality projects and brand collaborations with Lululemon and SoFi, in addition to capsule collections with Brooklyn Candle Studio, Lindstrom Rugs, and Carver Skateboards.

Amanda Visell is an artist. Amanda Visell lives adjacent to an island on a river adjacent to Oregon and Washington State. Amanda Visell has been super lucky to be able to work with some wonderful people and go to wonderful places. Amanda Visell is doin’ alright.

Amber Vittoria is an artist, poet, and author working in Los Angeles, California. Through abstracted form, ribbons of color and joyous words, her work represents the nuances of emotion, beauty, and nostalgia.

Born and raised in New York City, contemporary artist Baron von Fancy (AKA Gordon Stevenson,) constantly strives to push the boundaries of his art and designs, employing boldly expressive lettering, incredibly vivid colors, and a range of materials including fluorescents, glue, dyes, and reactive paint. Capturing poignant phrases in his paintings, works on paper, graphics, multimedia, and even commercial works, the artist seeks to question conventions by infusing his work with elements of street art that inspired him since he was a child.

Lucio Basik Bolognesi, who has been active since the beginning of the Nineties as a graffiti writer, has developed his personal style gradually switching from spray paint to a broader range of media over the years, mixing elements of his writer’s background with inspirations from Medieval art and Renaissance onward, as well as from modern and contemporary art movements and avant gardes.

Bill McRight was born in 1978 just outside Atlanta. He wandered the East coast for most of his life until moving to Los Angeles in 2011. He has worked with printmaking, mixed media, more recently he has been drawing, making sculpture and installations. His drawings are pretty much always skulls and his sculpture is most often crude weaponry made from old tools and other found objects. His artworks discuss the potential for violence in people, tough guy posturing, isolation, and desperation. When it comes to influences he sites: poor construction, invention through necessity, youth culture, civilian graffiti, and things left behind, as well as art history, literature, pop culture, and a touch of religion. Even though theres a lot of dark stuff going on here Bill says its all fun and he is content to fall asleep next to his true love and two cats with a combined weight of about 40 lbs.

Casey Ryder is an artist and designer living in California. After graduating from Otis College of Art and Design he spent a number of years working alongside artists Shepard Fairey, JRF, Matt Goldman and Cleon Peterson at the renowned Studio Number One. While there he developed a style of his own that utilizes geometry, abstraction, pattern and vibrant color to explore the fine line between order and chaos.

Australian husband-and-wife visual artists, DABSMYLA, employ a shared design language that dictates subject matter, positioning, color theory and perspective. With this established framework and unspoken set of rules- strengthened by over a decade of working together simultaneously - their singular goal is to tell an expansive story that is wholly unique to their own experiences. Panorama is of particular importance in DABSMYLA’s work. Micro points-of-view get referenced in larger scopes of vision – creating an interconnectedness amongst paintings both big and small.

David Weidman was an American animator, animation artist and silkscreen print artist known for his mid-century modern works, including posters, prints and ceramics. Weidman began his career in animation as a background artist during the 1950s and 1960s.

Jim Houser was born in 1973 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the city where he currently resides. He is a self-taught artist and an honorary member of the Philly-based artist collective Space1026. In 2005, Gingko Press released a monograph entitled Babel: Jim Houser. In 2010, Houser released a vinyl record of instrumental music composed to accompany his installations; the songs are currently available on iTunes. Houser’s collages, paintings and installations have been exhibited in institutions such as the Laguna Art Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art as well as galleries in Los Angeles, New York, Milan, Paris, Sydney and São Paulo. His work is included in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Brian Donnelly, who uses the pseudonym KAWS, is an American artist and designer who bridges the worlds of street art, pop culture, and contemporary art. His work is known for its whimsical cartoon elements and thought-provoking themes, often incorporating classic pop culture references and his own iconic characters.

Francisco Reyes Jr., also known as Never Made, is a Los Angeles-born and raised artist and designer whose work spans fine art, limited edition screen prints, merchandise, and large-scale murals. With over 15 years of experience in graphic design, Francisco’s roots in music and skateboarding shaped a relentless DIY ethic that continues to guide his creative path. After earning a degree in graphic design, Francisco worked odd jobs by day and honed his skills by night—eventually landing an internship at Studio Number One, the creative hub of his biggest inspiration, Shepard Fairey. That opportunity turned into a full-time position, where he worked alongside leading talents like Cleon Peterson and had the honor of collaborating directly with Fairey himself.

Frank Shepard Fairey is an American contemporary artist, activist and founder of OBEY Clothing who emerged from the skateboarding scene. In 1989, he designed the "Andre the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign while attending the Rhode Island School of Design!