Wonjun  Bemis

Vinyl Teeth will eat you!

Lucienne Lopez de Victoria wants people to see that shw is dedicated and passionate about her work. That she's spent a great deal of time studying, observing life around her and taking all in from everyday occurrences to sift it through, trying to make a thought-provoking piece out of it. The best part of it, although we all call it 'our work', it doesn't feel like a chore. It comes to me when she reads a fantasy novel, or plays videogames, or talks with her friends. She likes to leave little details or clues in her illustrations, like riddles, even. To her an illustration that allows the spectator to search through it, to let the many stories that lie inside it talk to them, is the most enjoyable and unforgettable piece. The tools she uses are varied, and stem from mechanical pencils and ink pens and watercolor or a graphic tablet and the computer, or both too.

Mylan Nguyen
Illustrator & Fine Artist

hobbies:
listening
dreaming
growing
making art
laughing two loud
loving
playing (especially super mario)
polaroid photography

For talented and ambitious artist Brittany Smith, creating art has been the center of her life. She could hold a pencil steadily and doodle when she was 16 months of age. Now 21, she is an aspiring children’s illustrator, muralist, and fine artist. Smith’s work is playful, vibrant, and often mysterious, appealing to audiences of all ages. Smith began painting murals in high school, 2005. Her first mural was commissioned by First United Methodist Church in Clyde, Ohio, where she painted 4 bible story themed Sunday school rooms, 1 nursery and a hallway. She moved to Orlando, Fl in 2006 to finish high school where she profoundly did mural work for children’s bedrooms, and nonprofit organization Wee Care Boutique. Her drawings and paintings have been featured at Undergrounds Coffeehaus, Fort Lauderdale, and TatoolaPalooza, Miami. Currently, her work can be viewed in local art magazine WeMerge’s fall 2009 issue and on the South A1A beach mural in Fort Lauderdale. Smith can be found at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale pursuing her Bachelor of Arts degree in Illustration, and polishing her expertise in creating artwork.

Dyshawn Carson is a multimedia artist that specializes in character design, 3d environmental modeling, and portrait drawing to list a few. The New Jersey native attended Rosa Parks School of Fine and Performing Arts High School in Paterson, NJ, where he majored in fine arts. It was here where he honed his skills as a portrait artist. Upon graduation, Dyshawn spent his next few of years in Florida, where he studied media arts and animation at The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. He went on to receive his Bachelors of Science in Media Arts and Animation. Since, he has done various projects for companies such as BXP productions, Griffnet Graphics, and Tallit Inc. As much as Dyshawn loves being an artist, he also enjoys being a student, and is always open to learning new techniques and different ways to approach a situation. When asked what he would like to do in the future, Dyshawn's answer is simple, "Create".

Paul Caprio

Born in Boston Massachusetts, raised in Puerto Rico at the age of 18 Eddie Negron left home and moved to Miami to grow and experience life as an artist. Bound in his work is a diverse story telling and art history references. While incorporating a subject matter consisting of anthropomorphism of deities. He began his Exploration of culture, mythology, Identity and fables. Creating a visual of his observations of humanity and their behaviors in his study of taking the conceptual world that lives inside of him and melding it with a strong sense of humanity. Eddie is a Interdisciplinary artist who uses a wide range of media including painting, photography, sculpture, video and installation. In the goals of connecting and integrating Ideas with thoughts of a society to live inside of them. Expressing his experiences, history, desires, his world and his place in that world right now both as artist and individual.

Gabriel Correa

The work and themes within Stains' artwork are full of dark, yet colorful humor. Her stylistic influence fluctuates between cartoons and tattoos.

The subjects of each work of art look tired, worn out and run down, but in a humorous way. Most of the work sarcastically reflects the feeling of an average artist.

Stains is also a tattoo artist, this has also influenced her style of work. She attends The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale and will soon be graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Illustration.

Jess Wilson is a graphic designer, photographer & collage artist and just completed her Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design this year at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. She grew up in North Miami and attended Design and Architecture Senior High where she gained much of her fine art background. Jess' collages mesh science & nature themes with subtle color palettes and a variety of textures to create interesting compositions.

Brandy Rumiez

Ramon Fernandez-Bofill was born in Livorno, Italy 1972 and currently lives in Miami, Florida.  A life-long exposure to textiles and sewing, as well as his experience in the New York fashion industry, has cultivated in Ramon Fernandez-Bofill an intimate connection with textiles. The root of his work explores the role of textile art in culture and identity. His use of found fabrics, hand-crafted materials and traditional painting media result in hybrid surfaces that combine to create a mixture of painting, tapestry and installation. Fernandez-Bofill is an American born in Italy to Cuban parents who eventually settled in Miami, Florida. He pursued degrees in drawing and painting, receiving a BFA in 1995 from The University of Miami, to which he received a full scholarship, and an MFA in 2005 from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). At RISD he was awarded a fellowship and the prestigious Presidential Scholarship. In 1993 Fernandez-Bofill was also awarded a six-week residency at Vermont Studio Center and in 2004 he received a scholarship to participate in a summer residency at West Dean College in West Sussex, England. In 2006, he completed a six-month residency grant at the renowned Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Cape Cod. Ramon Fernandez-Bofill is presently a faculty member with the visual arts department at Miami International University of Art and Design.

Artist 5, a transplant from Suffolk,England to a seasoned south Floridian, considers his art a mixture of Urban Street art, abstract, deconstruction, dysfunction, and existentialism, his five points of power so to speak. With most of his art he likes to incorporate and show the decay of materials as well as the experimental use of nonconventional materials such as concrete patch, motor oil, and drywall compound to name a few. “I like my work to look as if it were produced at an earlier date and over time with weather and age it becomes worn and battered with chipping paint and runny lines”, says 5. He feels art to be universal from the bleeding of rust into an old abandoned car to the print on a billboard, some are good representations, some are bad but all are art. As well as showing the elements is effect 5 also caters to te research of HIV/AIDS ad incorporates it into his work as well. "HIV/AIDS is no long a death sentence like some cancers and other obscure disease, but it is a social disease which in some cases can be more detrimental then even the thought of death" says 5.

Born, live and work in Nicosia, Cyprus, Maria Arouen Trillidou has studied for her BFA at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and for her MA at Basel School of Art and Design (Basel, Switzerland). She currently studies for an MProf in Fine Art at Middlesex, UK.

Her work lays beyond the ability to be defined within logical or conceptual limitations. It is the Sanctum Sanctorum of the enigma of her soul and the extended self, connecting to the Universal Collective.

The mystical creatures are in the borders of the unknown, entering time and space through her paintings, becoming messengers of another world which we know so little of, yet a world which partly lives within us.

Michelle Waters was born and raised in suburban Los Angeles. Fortunately my life was not all shopping malls and tract houses as I had grandparents who influenced me to believe in the power of imagination and the power of the individual to effect positive change in society. My grandfather on my mom's side was an amazingly imaginative artist, and many of my earliest memories are of making art with him. Both my mother and her mother were poets. My paternal grandmother was an activist and worked with the United Farm Workers, raising funds for this group by selling her ceramics. All the arts were valued in my family, and this early exposure and support is a big reason that I am an artist today.

I hold a B.A. in Art from U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I started my path of making art about environmental issues. Artistic influences include Sue Coe, Bosch, Goya, Kathe Kollwitz, Remedios Varo, Frida Kahlo, John Heartfield, Irving Norman, Enrique Chagoya, John Lennon and many, many lesser-known creative souls. I'm also profoundly influenced by the natural world, and I immerse myself in nature as much as possible.

Arabella Proffer-Vendetta is a painter, designer, and co-founder of the indie label Elephant Stone Records. Her loose narrative themes revolve around a fascination with punk rock, aristocrats, Renaissance fashions, aging socialites, pre-code cinema, gothic divas and rock 'n’ roll groupies. She attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA before receiving her BFA from California Institute of the Arts, and has participated in solo and group exhibitions throughout North America and Europe. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, she has taken up residence in many cities including Laguna Beach, Los Angeles, and Boston. She currently lives in Cleveland, Ohio, with her husband and an evil white cat named Milkshake.

Ana Bikic has been an active advocate for the environment using her artistic talents to further awareness for many years in South Florida. Professionally trained in the fine arts in Argentina and Europe , Ana challenges medium and technique in acrylic that few fine artists can achieve with brushwork only. Translating glaze formulars from oil to acrylic. Using collage handmade paper, water color and carved block printing, traditional techniques present new approaches . Ecosymbolism Art ,writen by the artist,is a call to fully understand our heritage as studied fine artists,to express with humanity's symbols an iconography of hope, positivism and inspiration for noble solutions.

Kelly McKernan is an artist and illustrator from Atlanta, Georgia who has, since her youth, possessed the ambition to be a full time creator. She is a graduate of Kennesaw State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. While her training was in traditional painting, her focus has been in mixed media, specifically in combining film photography and advanced darkroom techniques with aqueous media painting. Over the last two years, Kelly has received local, national, and international recognition for her unique work, has been printed in a number of major publications, and is currently showing with several notable galleries. She is also a member of the Cheap Paper artist collective.

Japanese artist Yoko d'Holbachie creates some outstanding candy-colored fantasy illustrations that make you just want to smile. Yoko’s colorful visual universe started in graphic design, while later she became a freelance illustrator creating the most outlandish, whimsical, cute, bold, psychedelic, and most colorfully enriched creatures. d’Holbachie is a fine example of someone who can use color to its maximum capacity, without overworking the digital canvas, or killing the visual experience in any way. If your a color lover, like me; you’ll be inspired and entranced by her multi-pallet experience.

Rural southwestern Nebraska is where Melanie Pruitt was born and raised. Lakewood, Colorado is now her home.

She finds solace in studying the beauty of human history. The details of its emotional complexity to the organic patterns of the Rocky Mountains that surround her inspire an obsessive love of line, form, and movement. These intricacies translate both realistically and abstractly into her creative process.

Art Cargo aims to create a world full of colorful characters that tell a story and represent visually what is beyond our earthly conception. The imagery challenges our exploratory nature and asks us to ponder the existence of beings and worlds beyond our own. Merging imagery forces us to confront the idea of chaos when different worlds and creatures collide into one another on different planes of space and time. Space and existence are the only threads that link the worlds of Art Cargo together; untamed portals acting as wild vessels for unplanned space-time travel. The result is a wild multiverse on the verge of chaos, ever changing and multifaceted. Much like modern society, the colorful playground of Art Cargo, reflects the energy that exists between the diverse elements that make up our world today.

Edith Lebeau grew up in Beloeil, a little town of Quebec, Canada. As a young girl, her artistic development was influenced by a fascination with popular culture, Greek, Roman, and Celtic mythology, movies and fairytales – influences that continue to be seen in her work today. Lebeau mostly paints female figures, portraying them as superheroes, villains, goddesses, and nymphs, their look being the most important thing in her work: they tell their own story through their expressions and emotions. A certain ambiguity is intentional – Lebeau often blurs the story to encourage the audience to make it their own, letting the character question the viewer.

Edith Lebeau holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts at l'Université du Québec à Montreal.

Sara Antoinette Martin’s female subjects are icons and deities, glorifying the anxiety and complexity of just being. Her work is a conversation of emotions and reflections of how she sees herself in this world and how the world sees her. Sara filters through her influences from traditional tattoo art, vintage swimsuits, Masonic symbolism, fins, gills and flowers, to create a unique visual language. More fascinated by the occult and religious imagery than believing in it, Sara is more interested in playing with the meaning of symbols then using them as they are historically intended.

Maria Rozalia Finna spends her days in a small studio in Melbourne, Australia with her cats birthing characters that live in her fantasy and dream world. She acts as a bridge from the surreal to the real. The characters that fabricate are to her children and reflections. Her influences are surrealist and pop surrealist, psychedelic, children's illustration and animation just to name a few.

Alice Mizrachi is an artist, curator, social entrepreneur, educator and community organizer. Born and raised in Queens, New York, she has long been an active part of the art community near and outside her home town. Since her graduation from Parsons School of Design in 1999, she has exhibited her works in galleries worldwide such as Powerhouse in NYC, Colette in Paris, Lab 101 in L.A, Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis to name a few. Her works reflect a nostalgia for a city that once was- an urban subculture, gritty and thriving through a variety of buildings woven together as a colorful luminous cityscape; sometimes vibrant but always invoking a hidden tranquility. With a knack for intensity, it is no wonder that Alice’s work is commissioned for a list of iconic companies including Gravis, The Washington Post and Shape Magazine. Alice has also been featured in a variety of niche publications such as Giant Magazine, Juxtapoz, and Square Rootz for her hard work and dedication to the arts. She continues to paint murals all over the world as an additional part of her artistic ventures and collaborative partnerships. While educating today’s youth in central Harlem as an art teacher, she is also keeping busy as a co-founder of the YOUNITY Arts Collective. Alice is not only known for her excellence as an artist and educator but also for her passion in uniting female artists and entrepreneurs through YOUNITY.

South Florida and now San Francisco based freelance illustrator Liz Lorini has been drawing fashion girls since she was a little girl, using a paper doll as a stencil and drawing hair styles and clothing on the outline with paints and glitter. From the dreams of childhood our careers are made!  As Liz grew up, she became inspired a lot by graphic art styles she found on product packaging while she studied abroad in Nagoya, Japan during high school. It was such a visual place, everything had a cute/sexy/fun illustration on it, and every day she went out (even if it was to the grocery store) she was inspired and wanted to draw more and more. Because of this exciting and visual environment she rekindled her love for art and knew exactly what she wanted to study in college. Liz attended the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida with a concentration in Illustration and graduated with her BFA in 2006.  After finishing school she packed her pink paint brushes up and moved out to San Francisco, CA to work as a full-time freelance illustrator and gallery painter under the name "Miss Kika" for galleries across America and internationally. She enjoys strawberry tea, 1980's girly nostalgia, and creating fun and colorful pieces for girls of all ages to enjoy!

Teresa Korber was born in Miami, Fl in 1984. She was raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Having both parents as artists, she was born in to the art world. Teresa is daughter of internationally renowned artist Michael Korber. Her background also includes Technical theatre.  Aiming to convey pure emotion, Teresa paints primarily with acrylics on canvas. For finishing touches, she sometimes trades in the brush to paint with her hands or a palette knife.  Her works illustrate human emotion at both it’s simplest and most complex. Teresa’s intense passion is what drives her. Each piece tells its own story. She feels that her passion is her work and her work is her passion.  Teresa’s first public appearance was in March 2008 where she sold numerous paintings and since continues to have a strong clientele base. Her work can be found in numerous spaces and retail stores in downtown, West Palm Beach as well as South Beach. She’s also gained much success locally thru her public performances live painting with live bands where the audience can see her process and passion come to life.

Maria "TOOFLY" Castillo’s journey into the world of art began with her commute to public school from her Corona, Queens neighborhood. Her trips were filled with adventurous sketches as she immersed herself in the myriad of graffiti tags, fill-ins, and outlines viewed on almost every deconstructive surface along the way. It was precisely the rebellious artistic spirit of the 90’s street graffiti movement that drove Toofly to join its subculture ranks.  Highly influenced by the calligraphy and illustration skills of some exceptional writers at the time, a teenage Toofly aspired to become the female version of what she most admired. She began to develop her own knack for “hand styles” and her unique Toofly characters. Her work soon blossomed on various graffiti black books, allowing her skills to be recognized by writers across the five boroughs.  By the time Toofly entered the School of Visual Arts (SVA), she had introduced her character to the walls of New York. At SVA, she applied her artistic skills to illustration and graphic design coursework. Finding inspiration in the New York urban landscape, this artist in the making began to juxtapose her “around the way girl” character against multi layered street imagery for various print and public street art projects.  Toofly’s constant and active role in the hip hop community allowed her to remain true to her roots, as she continued to draw raw feelings from the ever-changing and spontaneous public art world around her.

Donna Letterese is a Los Angeles based artist who loves working in pen and ink with splashes of paint. Born and bred in New York, she earned her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. While studying abroad for six months in London, one of Donna's professors opened her up to the world of underground cartoons and comics. She has loved graphic novels and pop surrealist art ever since. Donna moved to Los Angeles in 2006, where she first worked as a tutor, as well as an Assistant Editor for the graphic novel publisher, Netcomics. She currently works as a freelance writer for such publications as In Hollywood Magazine, while exhibiting her art at galleries/collectives such as The Feminine Oddities, Cannibal Flower, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, and 2nd City Council Art and Performance Space in Long Beach. She also sells her handmade greeting cards and Sculpey toys at craft fairs in and around Los Angeles.

Diana McClure has worked across the art + culture landscape for 15 years in both New York and Los Angeles, and has had extended stays in North America, Central America, the Caribbean and Europe since her first trip to Haiti at the age of 2. An artrepreneur/freelancer since childhood, her first writing gig was as a sports writer for a local newspaper during high school. After college she went on to work in the art department for urban culture magazine, The Source, where she taught herself photography and was in charge of designing the Graf Flix page among others. Since then, she has been a travel blogger on wejetset.com, written for Art Asia Pacific, UPTOWN, Unleashed, The Studio Museum in Harlem magazine and more. She has also received grants/fellowships from The New School for Social Research and The Mellon Foundation. Her photographic work has appeared in The Philadelphia African American Museum, The Los Angeles Times, Judy Chicago's Envisioning the Future project and NYMAG.com among others.  In 2007, she founded Cultureserve.net, a global art + culture news website that was a 2008 Finalist for a Creative Capital l Warhol Foundation - Arts Writers Grant. Cultureserve positioned women artists, street art and artists working in an international context in a larger dialogue that challenged assumptions about global art.

Mylene Tolentino

i got sole.. really i do.. www.igot-sole.com
i daze off
i draw
i love vinyl toys
i love robots and space
i been lovn' kobe since 1996!
lakers = i l.o.v.e
i study art all day long

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy
is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking
at life through the wrong end of a telescope.

Alicia Shirley, aka GZ is a San Diego, CA mixed media artist that is established in street promotions, book arts, graphic design, photography, and collage. As a mixed media artist, she finds herself capturing what the average person overlooks. It was in the documenting of the Hip Hop culture that she discovered the interaction between a neglected landscape and the tools of a graffiti artist. Capturing this relationship seemed to be a natural evolution within her body of work. Be on the look out for her work is showing up all over as she continues to explore this new direction in her work.

Nerviswr3k

Arizona

Rsin Art

Blandon,  PA

Jenna "Soopajdelux" Colby

Bremerton, WA

"Come stare at the walls and we will tell you stories"

Motorbot

Texas

The world of Josh "f+" Pearce is a reality of the intangible manifest. A universe of infinite possibility and wonder. An ever evolving, living, breathing organism, blessed with all the powers of gods, encumbered by all the flaws of man. f+ is an oasis, a nightmare, a metaphor all living in pure chaos and perfect harmony.

f+ is powered by a windmill mind, a glass furnace heart, and the occasional anvil. I invite you to explore and enjoy this world as it grows and evolves. Hopefully everyone that comes upon it will find something of inspiration or perhaps, a bit of enlightenment.

Betso, a self taught artist from Las Vegas influenced by cartoons, graffiti, and the strange world of animals, he puts the love of all three into each one of his paintings.

His work has been exhibited in galleries throughout the US including LA, San Francisco and New York City.

Michal Wright-Ward is a designer and illustrator in the animation and gaming industry, a plush artist and an aspiring childrens' books writer/illustrator.

Mike "m.heisler" Slobot is an artist and a storyteller.  His creations are unique characters with backgrounds (and futures). Slobots are the good guys: they work in conjunction with people, animals and the planet.  They come in many colors, but they're mostly green.  In a scene that often farms out its production to overseas factories, Mike makes every attempt to outfit the Slobots with reclaimed local bits.  The repurposed parts come together under the Slobot secret sauce as one whole healer, helper or pal.

Okedoki is an artist from Canada, with a background in Fine Arts and Sociology. Her work infuses pop culture with a twist of cuteness. Okedoki has shown in galleries in Detroit, Miami, Salt Lake City and Hong Kong.

An East Bay, CA, horror toy sculptor Jay222 combines his love of classic horror films and comics with a slash of twisted humor.

"Jon Burgerman makes vibrant, neo primitive scrawls of shapes and colour. He's pushed his monster-like characters into compositions where cartoon-like forms are crammed on top of each until they create a screaming mass of energy. Intensely prolific, he has pushed the character obsession of the late 90s into a far more interesting and strong direction. Think Walt Disney at an Incan monument on mescaline." Francesca Gavin, author of Street Renegades, Visual Arts Editor Dazed & Confused.  The UK artist has built a strong reputation through his unique and colourful artworks of swooping, intertwining lines and hyper-emotional characters. Working across a variety of media that includes drawing, painting, print, animation, large scale murals and toy design, his art retains a hand-made, hand-drawn quality. A sense of British self-deprecation, dry humour and modern-day anxiety imbues his work along with an enthusiasm for salads.  Burgerman has exhibited internationally since 2001 and has work in the permanent collections of The Victoria and Albert Museum and The Science Museum in London. He regularly gives lectures at Universities and presented his work at the prestigious Pictoplasma Character Design Conference (Berlin, 2006) where he also ran a ‘doodling’ workshop for the entire audience. In 2008 he was invited to appear as a guest on the popular BBC children’s TV show Blue Peter.

Felt Mistress AKA Louise Evans is a UK based stitcher and prolific tea drinker. She divides her time between making bespoke couture wedding gowns, burlesque costumes and an array of felt creatures. She has collaborated with artists such as Jonathan Edwards, JAKe, Woodrow Phoenix, Craig Conlan and, most notably, Jon Burgerman. She states her main interests as sewing, Japan, boxes of buttons, pandas, cake and Mr Edwards. Her favourite films are Dirty Harry, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, Westworld and Mrs Harris Goes to Paris. When not sewing she likes to dream that one day she'll get to work with the Beastie Boys and live to see the day when you can download French Fancies "off of the internet". Louise drives a white car, wears white boots and has a penchant for "early Quo".

Brian Colin is a painter, sculptor, illustrator, and writer. His primary focus lies in the realm of lowbrow art, where he realizes his vision in the mediums of three dimensional canvas paintings and vinyl toys. He has also written and illustrated a number of comic books, including “Jonas: Tales of an Ironstar” and “Serial Repercussions”.  The inside of Brian Colin’s head is an odd and fantastical place. Robots bake muffins and battle giant space squids, massive sand worms spring from the desert to attack hot air balloons, cowboys roam the plains on the backs of mutant possums, and dark woods are filled with strange creatures — both friendly and sinister.  Born in Gaithersburg, Maryland, Brian always knew the magical realms in his head were incongruous with the mundane world in which most people trudged through their daily existence. During his formative years he discovered a deep affinity for the excitement and wonder of comic books. His love for comics led him to the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, where he received his degree in Visual communications in 1996.  After graduating, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia and began creating comic books of his own. He wrote and illustrated the Noir-esque miniseries “Serial Repercussions” and published the anthology “Annex”. Later, he continued his work in the comics field by writing and illustrating “Jonas: Tales of an Ironstar”, a sci-fi western comic with lushly painted art.

Raised in a small deserted town in the United Kingdom, Squink! grew up on a diet of popcorn, candy, and Jayce and the wheeled warriors. Qualified as a graphic designer but also a keen painter from a very early age, he became a toy collector with the launch Of the Toy2R Qee, which eventually lead to customising everything he could get his hands on! A head filled with characters in need of being set free finally had an outlet. Heavily influenced by japanese culture and 80’s cartoons, he claims to put a little bit of his soul into each character he creates, giving them all a unique personality, fueled by coffee, good smelly cheese and shoegaze. Taking motivation from the toys he surrounds himself with, and the natural beauty of ...well...nature.. Squink! has more recently branched out into canvas paintings, and also limited edition screen printed t-shirts.

OsirisOrion is an artist / painter / sculptor / toy customizer, who is no stranger to the vinyl toy / lowbrow art scene. His work has been featured all across the web and in galleries across the US. Noted for his visceral visual style, OsirisOrion continually pushes the envelope with his blend of influences ranging from horror, comics, graffiti, abstract and japanese kaiju.

Lysol

Ian Ziobrowski

Zam is a New York Native Designer/Tattooist . His art draws strongly on his graffitti background. Spraypaint and Airbrush are his tools of creation. Utilizing the strengths and weaknesses of both mediums to paint well rendered images.

In the past 20 years, Zam's art has adorned everything from custom cars and motorcyles, murals, urban art toys and even human skin.

Currently, he is the propietor/curator of Genuine Artikle Gallery on Long Island.

Lana "Plushinator" Crooks

Sara Antoinette Martin’s female subjects are icons and deities, glorifying the anxiety and complexity of just being. Her work is a conversation of emotions and reflections of how she sees herself in this world and how the world sees her. Sara filters through her influences from traditional tattoo art, vintage swimsuits, Masonic symbolism, fins, gills and flowers, to create a unique visual language. More fascinated by the occult and religious imagery than believing in it, Sara is more interested in playing with the meaning of symbols then using them as they are historically intended.

Dave "Outtamymind" Quiles was (hold your tongue) born on a pirate ship on Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, WI. He gave up his villianous bucaneering upbringing to pursue a career in art and design, all while getting a biochemistry degree. He moved to Florida after a wind spirit suggested it to him on a whisper carried on a breeze. He designs, he daydreams, he creates, and, every once in a while, he sleeps. His projects include everything from furniture and children's books to jewelry and sculptures. He is known to push the boundaries of wall art with his multi-planed acrylic sculptures. He's also known to push the boundaries of mind-control. YOU WILL LIKE HIMMMMMMMM...(it was worth a try!)

Mr. Den

NREAZON is an artist based in Dallas, Texas and well known for her use of bright colors for her character based 2D art. Her artwork has a Tokyo Pop feel to it with her characters showing many ranging emotions and having a kawaii feel all at the same time. NREAZON concentrates on the use of bold colors and clean lines to be used on her Vinyl Toy Art, Canvas, and even Merchandise. NREAZON also bridges the gap of the art world and music world working with musicians such as Sony Japan artist DJ Princess Cut the first lady of screw music. Making Figures out of rapper/producer Billy Syn and Yums Designer Big Tex.

Kat Brunnegraff's paintings are heavily influenced by animation, you can see the anime influences from her teen years, the 80's animation influences from her childhood, the influence of Chuck Jones' and Mary Blair's work and also the influences of the "new brow" or "pop surrealism" movement. It's all mashed up together in her head and helped create who she is as an artist. Her favorite things to paint are night time landscapes, funky animals, forest spirits, mermaids and monsters. In her free time she likes to play video games with her husband and go on adventures.

Creating art is something Bryan Collins has always done, either in visual form or with music. He likes working from reality in an unreal sort of way. For example, he will be inspired by the twisted texture of a tree's bark, or the markings on an animal or fish, and then he will incorporate those things into a surreal and whimsical piece of work where the tree bark might show up in a young girl's hat who is riding a monster with the fish's colors and patterns. Many of his ideas come from his dreams as well. People make art for many reasons, whether to shock or to soothe, and he believes his purpose is to make art that inspires people to absorb their surroundings in everyday life, pay close attention to special moments, and never forget the imagination of their childhood.  Some of his attraction to child-like motifs could be nostalgia related, but he never really moved away from his interest in children's minds even as he was leaving childhood. The way kids rationalize to make sense of things is incredible. Who says clouds have to be particles of water and not mutatable sky creatures? A child makes 'it' whatever they want, therefore who is more in control - an adult who's thoughts are limited by science or a child who is not limited at all? He wants his art to be like a child's mind in regards to absolute freedom.

Bob Conge founded PLASEEBO in 2004 as a shop dedicated to creating unique one of a kind collectable figures and designing original figures for Ultra Limited editions.  He has often thought of toys as small sculpture. They are miniature interpretations of things that are unattainable in the "real" world. They enable a child to become General Patton directing the Third Army of die cast Dinky tanks through the dirt in his own back yard or allow an adult to time travel back to that moment in the back yard of his memory. This spurring of the imagination is certainly the stuff of Art.  He calls the way he build his figures "Frankensculpt", because they are cobbled together from unrelated parts in a sculpting process which breathes a new life into them. He likes his figures to be edgy, quirky, punkish, dark, more like Franz Kafka than Walt Disney.  Some times the work is inspired by his concern for what he sees as deplorable human behavior such as our war in Iraq, which inspired my WAR figure or his anger over the unfair practices of Banks which resulted in my sculpting the "Bank America " piece. Other times it may bubble up from distant childhood memories or fears. Whatever the direction or medium of expression, the drive is to bring to life a personal vision in the form of a new figure

D-LuX

Phoneticontrol (born Eric John William Broers in 1975) is a San Francisco based illustrator, muralist and curator. He also is a designer of websites, figures and clothing. In 1999 he moved from the suburbs to Chicago and pursued record label management and illustration. Finding that he had to choose one over the other, he decided on visual over audio. After visiting SF for an art show he was involved in 2005, he completely fell in love with the city. One year later, he packed up his cat and his stuff and pushed west to the Left Coast. He now lives in the Hayes Valley with his wife, Alice Koswara and two fighting cats.

Mylene Tolentino

i got sole.. really i do.. www.igot-sole.com
i daze off
i draw
i love vinyl toys
i love robots and space
i been lovn' kobe since 1996!
lakers = i l.o.v.e
i study art all day long

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy
is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking
at life through the wrong end of a telescope.

Charles Kaufman is an American artist with art studios in the U.S. and Germany.

After cartooning for many years and working as the Creative Director in an ad agency, Kaufman picked up the paintbrush in 1990 to start painting. He has been painting and exhibiting his work fulltime since 1995.

His original paintings and other works of art are exhibited in galleries and other venues in the United States and in Europe.

Christopher Umana is an illustrator specializing in narrative painting, commercial illustration, portraiture, and gallery work. He holds a BA Degree with honors in Illustration from the Art Center College Of Design, Pasadena in California.

Crossroads resident Tyler Coey combines traditional design and painting techniques with contemporary street art and hipster toy design, producing cool dimensional objects illuminated with an edgy, illustrative style.

Representing the Wasted Talent crew.

Lou Pimentel

Tony Surphman is a surrealist painter who ties together everyday inspirations from cultures and transcends them into artistic masterpieces with subconscious strokes to express spirituality through mixed media.

THINKMULE grew up in Kansas and now resides in Colorado. His approach to his work is a mixture of the past in style and modern execution. TM's work is inspired by ancient culture, outsider artist, folk art and modern life.

Ian Ziobrowski

Lucy Jane Hughes has always been fascinated by shifts of light and how they change the colours and scenes before us, the way they become symbols and language which humans have used from pictrographic writing all the way up to the modern symbols of high mathematics. What if we no longer had to paint many different scenes but only one painting which did the changing before us like watching the day move over a view? So she has devised Moving Paintings which do just that. Video examples can be seen on her website.  Her ink drawings are the exploration of symbolic themes which are later used in a semi-abstract form using her oil technique.  They are the thoughts which form a painting.

Yael Shani was born in 1982 in Israel. She has always loved art, especially the more bizarre and low brow side of it. She has been drawing ever since i can remember myself. I am self taught, and never went to any art school or had any proffessional training. I am very "Lo- fi" at my work. I Draw on regular A4 paper using pencil and pen, color with pens and colored pencils, and then i scan it and do some very simple work on Photoshop, I have always adored the female beauty and it's strength. I draw women almost exclusively. I am also strongly influenced by tattoos and tattoo art, and use a lot elements taken from that world in my work.