Guest Artists
Venice Open Studios is pleased to present the work of distinguished guest artists in a curated group exhibition at Sunset Studios hosted by Kayla Witt, Studio 8.
Amadea Bailey
Amadea Bailey is an expressionist painter working in acrylic, mixed media, collage and drawing. Her large scale paintings are highly textured depictions of inner and outer landscapes and states of mind. Emotionally driven, Bailey’s work is drawn from a vast reservoir of experiences, emotions, dreams and memories.
Fu-Ding Cheng
Fu-Ding Cheng – artist, filmmaker, shaman. His prize-winning films have been exhibited at the Whitney in New York and the Hammer in LA which presented a retrospective of his series, Zen-Tales for the Urban Explorer. Expressing his shamanic perception, his transcendent paintings reveal the energy within objects as well as the beauty of their physical form.
Juan Carlos Muñoz Hernandez
Juan Carlos Muñoz Hernandez combines his signature graffiti style with the classical traditions of oil painting and sculpture. He was exposed to the Los Angeles graffiti arts scene and aerosol based mural painting where his family lived in Boyle Heights. His works range in materials using acrylic, ink, pigment on paper wood and canvas to multi dimensional cast and fabricated bronze, with patina and powder-coat. His work has been included in numerous museum and gallery shows over the past twenty years.
Ivo Vergara
Ivo Vergara, aka Ivotopia, is a Chilean-born international visual artist with over 27 years of experience. A founding member of Grupo Azar, he has exhibited across South America and the U.S., including Art Basel Miami, Track 16 Gallery, and the A+D Museum. His large-scale murals include a 10-story waterfall in Downtown LA and Venice Beach Sunset.