Artists Currently Showing
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Janet McNaulty
Oil
Janet McNulty is an artist based in the Chicagoland area. Her work explores her inner world. Passions, grievances, joys and struggles, are exposed and celebrated through gestural paint strokes. The paint, like skin, bears the energetic markings of life experiences. Thus, bringing the inside out and encouraging each of us to embrace our own complexities.
IG @jango_janet_mcnulty
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Kori Gabs
Abstract
Kori Gabs is an emerging artist living and working in San Diego. After studying industrial design at the Academy of Art San Francisco, he decided to bring it back to his roots of brush and canvas. He employs mixed media on canvas to render nonrepresentational scenes that give the impression of a mindfield of raw emotions. Through mark making he is able to focus on visual, metaphoric, and symbolic layers that lie within each moment of time. The result is a controlled chaos of an erudite abstract expressionist.
IG @korigabs
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Donna Isham
Abstract
As a native Angeleno, I've often felt slightly apart from the mainstream—not quite fitting into the "cool crowd" or the "pretty girls." This sense of being on the periphery, marked by introversion, self-consciousness, and a noisy anxiety, has fueled my artistic expression and deepened my awareness of others and my environment. I've come to realize that I see people and things differently, and I now embrace these feelings as both my muse and the interpretive foundation of my art. Through my creations, I aim to cultivate beauty and inspire dialogue about courage, individuality, and personal expression.
Captivated by the messy, beautiful complexities of being human, my work combines figuration and abstraction to explore the fine line between what we show the world and what we keep tucked away. Lately, I've focused on celebrating women—their courage, strength, and undeniable beauty. Travel has profoundly influenced my art, opening my eyes to diverse landscapes and environments. The colors of bustling cities and the textures of quiet coastlines blend with my figurative and abstract themes, creating a world rich with contrasts and connections.
My aesthetic is driven by an intuitive understanding of balance, form, color, and space. The shapes, lines, and colors I observe in life introduce dynamic tension to my layered canvases. My approach to mark-making and color selection—including the deliberate absence of color—allows me to blur and reimagine elements within the same canvas. I engage with a variety of mediums, including oil, cold wax, acrylic, pigment, graphite, pastel, oil stick, and fabric, drawing inspiration from live models, photographs, film, musical history, and my own memories.
My style of lyrical abstraction pays tribute to the stark dichotomies I've encountered while growing up in Los Angeles and during my travels abroad. Each neighborhood presents a distinct universe, offering a rich tapestry of cultural and visual diversity—from nature to urban concrete and neon lights. Surrounded by mountains, deserts, and seas, and influenced by the allure and surrealism of Hollywood, my work embraces these contradictions through distinctive mark-making, color mixing, and material layering.
In my figurations, I explore the multifaceted nature of female beauty, emphasizing vulnerability, individuality, and courage. Moving beyond traditional representations of cinematic beauty, my art celebrates evolving ideals of what it means to be beautiful as a woman today. My paintings honor the inner strength, turmoil, and triumph of women, serving as testaments to their own narratives.
At its core, my art is about freedom—the freedom to embrace our raw edges, vulnerability, and power. I want my paintings to be spaces where boldness and beauty coexist, where the figurative and abstract collide, challenging viewers to see more, feel more, and think a little deeper. It’s not about perfection, but about celebrating the richness of life in all its imperfect, messy glory. I invite viewers to project their imaginations into these depicted lives and landscapes, weaving their own stories and emotions, and perhaps finding moments of joy and resonance within my work.
IG @donnaisham
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Lola
Resin
Lola is a contemporary artist who is known for her resin abstractions. Her previous work was an exploration of layered forms and bright hues. The compositions elicited joy. With each body of work, there is an evolution. Her new series is the former deconstructed. Instead of a multitude of stacked shapes, the forms are simpler, and the work minimalistic. The compositions are tied together by the use of a shadowy overlay. This new body of work invites the viewer to embrace feelings of serenity and tranquility.
A common philosophy she consistently adheres to is the desire to evoke positive feelings through the use of color. Lola has always used tinted resin for this intent. Resin has a high gloss finish, when combined with pigments the medium harmoniously captures her vision. Lola works on a raised horizontal plane, allowing the resin
to spill over and collect in to drips. The drips have become signature to her work. Each finished piece goes beyond the intended composition. When looking at the sides, the viewer is pleasantly surprised by the gravity defying drips. This element furthers her commitment to create work that inspires an “all around” good feeling.
IG @lolaresinartist
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Harry Knapp
Mixed Media
From Brooklyn to the beach, wandering the hallways of my mind, so many doors I’ve yet to open, windows I’ve neglected to shut. Shit Everywhere.
Art has been a kind companion along the way, a portal to explore my fears, hopes and dreams. Satire is my weapon of choice, though I have found myself in a deep dive on the fragility of humanity, to which I am no stranger.
People ask about my process, that’s a tough question because it is literally changing daily, as am I. Some might label my work as mixed media or collage, I like to think of it as fantastical narrative I suppose, a perpetual exercise of bringing light to darkness, joy to pain, color to a cloudy day. Essentially, I utilize a wide variety of elements as my paint per se, abstract paintings, photography, illustration, texture, ink and so on, digitally assembled.
IG @harryknappart
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Michael Tarquato deNicola
Abstract
Michael Torquato deNicola is a world traveling and award-winning surfer, artist, and filmmaker.
Mike grew up making sense of the world through surfing and art. Born and raised in Southern California, he is a life long surfer with much of his inspiration coming from the Ocean and his experiences around the globe in locations such as Indonesia, Iceland, Samoa, Peru, The Galapagos Islands and more.
Mike started surfing at the age of 12 and was competing with the US team by age 19. As the first pro surfer from the US team to graduate from College, he learned to negotiate between his athletic and creative pursuits, and the business of surf.
Mike has always designed the work on his surfboards, but it was only when he started traveling and competing internationally that his work developed into the style it is today. Mike’s boards tell the story of his relationship with the Oceans from around the globe. If Mike’s surf style can be called fluid his large and colorful mixed media pieces resonate the same fluidity in a layered collage of rhythms, patterns and forms.
Some of his favorite ventures have come from working with Marie Claire, The Olson Company and creating and producing Red Bull’s ‘5X’ series, seen on FOX, NBC and Fuel TV which feature a new format of competitive surfing. Mike produced and art directed the award-winning documentary ‘The Westsiders’ and produced the feature film ‘Chapter and Verse,’ released in 2017.
Mikes visual works have appeared in galleries, art fairs, film festivals and TV screens around the world over the past 25 years as was the subject of ‘A L.A. Surf Story’ presented at Civic Center Studios in Downtown Los Angeles.
In 2020, Mike created ‘A Book of HOPE’ which is based on a repetition of 21-Day meditations during the pandemic. Most recently, his artwork has been exhibited at the Tracy Park Gallery in Malibu and The Swing Street Gallery on Gallery Row in Downtown L.A.
IG @iamtorquato
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Wencke Uhl
Contemporary Figurative Artist
Wencke Uhl is a contemporary figurative artist living and working in Germany.
Uhl draws inspiration from human beauty and the female form. As a teenager she wanted to become a fashion designer and her fashion-forward aesthetic continues to shine alongside the deliberate and differentiated elements that define the vivacious and independent nature of her subjects. Uhl still likes to “dress” women in shapes and patterns, but her focus shifted from the purely fashion-oriented to including elements of storytelling.
Her works capture a situation, a moment, or an expression. Playing with concepts of identity and self-image they're reflecting the vibrant pop culture and mood of today’s transitional time. Emancipation, diversity, equality, and liberty are a natural and inherent part of her idea of how the world should be. Consequently, she is usually drawn to subjects displaying a certain independence, strength, and nonchalance. Freed of the male gaze, Uhl celebrates femininity by capturing images of powerful women that have their own agenda and that defy objectification and subordination.
Her subjects are dripping in bold colors and lush patterns that exude a compelling and vivid dynamic. Uhl creates her paintings using acrylics, oil paint and decoupage. Experimenting with different techniques, texture, and patterns, Uhl demonstrates mastery of graphic lines, composition, and color theory.
With the themes, saturated color palette and way of stylization drawing on the aesthetic vocabulary of pop art, the pluralism in her work firmly places her in the realm of contemporary artists.
Her work is sold internationally throughout the US, Europe, and Australia. It has been featured many times, including an episode of Architectural Digest’s Open Door with Maude Apatow. Artsper selected Uhl as one of their Top 25 Artists to Collect in 2025.IG @winnovation
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Gago
Abstract
Gagik Vardanyan – GaGo was born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1960. He graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts in 1985. In 1999 Gagik moved to Buenos, Argentina, where he embraced Latin American culture and art, and his art was touched by the energy and the beauty of Buenos Aires. In 2018 – GaGo established residence in California. Inspired by nature, and the cultural diversity, GaGo created and continues to create some large series of modern abstract paintings such as “Motion”, “Impressions of California”, and “Urban Flower”.
IG @gago_artist