Art Week 2025

Dan Kitchener, also known as DANK, is a British artist from Essex, England, renowned for his large-scale murals depicting rain-soaked urban streetscapes, particularly scenes inspired by the neon-lit cities of Japan. His work captures the atmospheric glow of city lights reflected on wet pavement, blending realism with a painterly, almost impressionistic quality executed entirely with aerosol paint. Kitchener has been painting since the early 1990s and has created murals in cities across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, becoming one of the most recognizable mural artists working today.

Cryptik creates from a palette of wonder, where all science, math, and true art spring from equal mystery. His is a clear-eyed art practice of more questions asked than answered. The Southern Californian creative's intricate, almost trance-inducing works—be they on mammoth walls, slap stickers, or hanging in galleries—find voice in images of spiritual universality. By his hand, Eastern philosophical thought and mantras hypnotically merge with the black letter bombing of cholo writing. The ancient and the sacred marry in a modern quest—through art—for conscious awakening and awareness.

Born in Paris in 1972, Seth began expressing himself on the walls of his city in the mid-90s. His stomping ground was the 20th arrondissement, where he made a name for himself in the graffiti scene by painting characters. After graduating from the École des Arts Décoratifs, Seth went on to work in advertising, animation and comics, but never ceased his work on the streets. In 2003, he began traveling around the world, exchanging ideas with artists from different cultures. Drawing from experience, he published the book Globe Painter in 2007 and took part as author and presenter in the documentary series Les Nouveaux explorateurs broadcast on Canal +. The program takes viewers on a voyage of discovery through the prism of urban art. Throughout his travels, Seth has developed a distinctive painting style based on the theme of childhood. His conviction: public space is not a place to teach lessons, but a place to question, to dream, to look beyond. Seth portrays children whose innocence often contrasts with the harshness of their environment. Their faces are rarely visible, allowing viewers to project their innermost selves. His vortexes serve as doorways to imaginary worlds.

Joe Iurato is a multidisciplinary artist whose works are built on a foundation of stencils and aerosol. Falling somewhere in between simplistic and photorealistic, his multi-layer stencils offer a distinctly clean and illustrative aesthetic. Utilizing the outdoor environment to create site-specific installations, Iurato creates windows into a narrative formed by personal experiences. Each individual work of art highlights the potential for interaction and storytelling within public space and transforms common land/cityscapes into carefully crafted scenes.

Dave "Persue" (per-SWAY) is a celebrated American artist / author and a pioneer in 1990s skateboard art and as a trailblazer in West Coast aerosol art movement. Renowned for his bold graphics and imaginative storytelling, Persue is perhaps best known as the creator of the beloved Bunny Kitty universe, a whimsical world that bridges street art with heartfelt narratives that have captivated fans worldwide. Rooted in the subcultures of skateboarding and aerosol art, Persue's distinctive style has left a lasting impact through murals, illustrations, international exhibitions, the Wet Paint project and collaborations with major brands. With a career spanning decades, he continues to inspire new generations with his creativity, authenticity, and passion for storytelling.

Multi-talented fine artist, sculptor, and graffiti pioneer Kelly "RISK" Graval has been synonymous with the Los Angeles art community for decades. With a career spanning over 30 years, Risk has solidified his place in the history books as a world-renowned graffiti legend and contemporary artist. From his early days as a founder of the West Coast Graffiti movement to gallery and museum exhibits around the globe, Risk has transformed from a street artist to a rising star in the contemporary art world. His work has been shown in top galleries in LA, San Francisco, Toronto, New York, Miami, and London. His work has also been featured in major museum exhibits including the 2012 "Art In The Streets" at the LA MoCA and the hugely successful "Beyond The Streets" exhibits in Los Angeles and New York. Risk has been compared to the Ferus Gallery movement by art academia.

Hebru Brantley is an American artist known for his distinctive, narrative-driven work that revolves around his conceptualized characters. Drawing from art historical references such as Robert Colescott, Andy Warhol, Kerry James Marshall and Jean-Michel Basquiat, the work of Brantley reassesses contemporary culture and mythology through a unique lens. He utilizes his characters in a narrative output to address complex ideas around nostalgia, fear, safety, power, and hope. Brantley's work is often seen challenging the traditional view of the hero or protagonist. His most known character, Flyboy, was born from the Negro Mythos series where Brantley reimagines the super heroes of American pop culture as people of color. Brantley currently works and resides in Los Angeles, where he is also expanding into film and TV directing through his media company, Angry Hero. In early 2022, he released a short film on Netflix.

Simon Berger (b. 1976) is a Swiss contemporary glass artist recognized for his innovative technique of sculpting portraits by carefully cracking glass with a hammer. His works, often described as morphogenesis, transform the fragility of shattered glass into hauntingly expressive portraits. By harnessing impact and transparency, Berger creates intricate compositions where light and shadow play a central role. His pioneering approach has redefined glass as a sculptural medium, exploring the intersection of material destruction and artistic creation.

Sandra Chevrier is a Canadian contemporary, pop urban artist, known for her captivating portraits of women from The Cages series. Her work is exhibited internationally, and her artworks are now in the collections of art collectors all over the world. Sandra produces work ranging over vastly fluctuating emotional enigmas and concepts that have set the standard of our modern communication, exposing the limitations of our world; our self-imposed expectations and the cages we have allowed to bar us from the fullness of life's experience.

Sandra paints masterfully detailed portraiture, making her women seemingly emerge from a surreal world, onto the canvas, wherein a dance is performed between reality and imagination, truth and deception. The artist chooses to highlight the fragility of the superhero, their struggles and weaknesses, and exposes the humanity within the superhuman.