The Art at Folklore
“The Serpent in the Moon”
Camille Rose Garcia
$8000
acrylic and glitter on a wood panel
10”x10”
Camille Rose Garcia was born and grew up in Los Angeles, the child of a Mexican activist filmmaker a muralist/painter. Her work has been displayed internationally and featured in numerous magazines including Juxtapoz and Rolling Stone, and is included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the San Jose Museum of Art, which held a retrospective of her work, entitled Tragic Kingdom, accompanied by a catalog of the same name. Garcia’s book, "The Illustrated Alice in Wonderland" was a New York Times Bestseller. She currently lives in Northern California.
“Dearly Departed App”
Lori Nelson
$4000
Oil on a panel, resin finish
20”x 20”
Lori Nelson paints adolescent characters she’s dubbed Cryptotweens, monster-humanoids pictured exploring nature, technology, and their unique personal powers. From science fiction to magic realism and traditional portraiture to story-book illustration, Nelson’s combination of genres and styles creates the artist’s signature–whimsical narratives bathed in moonlight and gently rendered, layer upon layer, in oil on panel.
“What You Have/All I Need”
Dewi Plass
$4000
Acrylic on a Cradled Birch Panel
16.5” x 25”
Dewi Plass is a Dutch artist, born in 1990, with a fascination for nature and a profound love for the visual arts that unfolded itself from an early age. She decided to focus on her development as a full time visual artist, and since then her artwork has been shown in galleries across the world. Using acrylic as her medium, Dewi creates artworks in which animals take the center stage within worlds that invite the viewer to let go of all that’s familiar and instead explore the unexpected.
“Sweet Surogate”
Dewi Plass
Dewi Plass is a Dutch artist, born in 1990, with a fascination for nature and a profound love for the visual arts that unfolded itself from an early age. She decided to focus on her development as a full time visual artist, and since then her artwork has been shown in galleries across the world. Using acrylic as her medium, Dewi creates artworks in which animals take the center stage within worlds that invite the viewer to let go of all that’s familiar and instead explore the unexpected.
“I Got you (on the thread of a tune)”
Dewi Plass
Dewi Plass is a Dutch artist, born in 1990, with a fascination for nature and a profound love for the visual arts that unfolded itself from an early age. She decided to focus on her development as a full time visual artist, and since then her artwork has been shown in galleries across the world. Using acrylic as her medium, Dewi creates artworks in which animals take the center stage within worlds that invite the viewer to let go of all that’s familiar and instead explore the unexpected.
“Shielded”
Dewi Plass
Dewi Plass is a Dutch artist, born in 1990, with a fascination for nature and a profound love for the visual arts that unfolded itself from an early age. She decided to focus on her development as a full time visual artist, and since then her artwork has been shown in galleries across the world. Using acrylic as her medium, Dewi creates artworks in which animals take the center stage within worlds that invite the viewer to let go of all that’s familiar and instead explore the unexpected.
“Obsidian”
Jon Ching
$2000
Oil on Wood
18” x 14”
Jon is a self-trained artist originally from Kaneohe, Hawaii and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Steeped in the natural beauty of O’ahu, Hawai’i, his island upbringing instilled in him indigenous lessons of appreciation and respect for nature, forming the foundation of his fascination with the natural and wild world, which deeply influences and drives his work.
Jon’s devoted art practice and detailed realism is inspired by the interconnectedness of nature. His work is a surreal imagining of what limitless wonders and combinations nature can produce. New creatures and symbioses emerge in his meticulously rendered oil paintings, exemplifying the endless potential of life on Earth through metaphor and allegory.
“The Collector”
Kelly Vivanco
$800
Oil on Panel
16” x 20”
Kelly Vivanco, a native to Southern California, earned her BFA from Laguna College of Art and Design. She works with a variety of media to create art with whimsy, nostalgia and a sense of child-like wonder. Vivanco draws from the real and imagined world to populate her works with a host of playful and curious characters. She takes inspiration from vintage photographs, children's literature and the oddness of her dreams. Shehas exhibited in solo and group shows across the U.S. including California Center for the Arts Museum, The Portsmouth Museum of Art, Thinkspace, SURU, Gallery 1988, Subtext, Rotofugi, Flatcolor, 323 East, London Miles, Art Basel and Orange County Center for Contemporary Arts. Kelly Vivanco's art is available for sale and is collected in the U.S. and abroad; and her daily comic, Patches, has a world-wide following.
“Spray”
Josh Keys
$150
16” x 20”
Inspired by 18th-century aesthetics and philosophy, Josh Keyes paints animals in a style reminiscent of anatomical diagrams. His work is characterized by an attention to detail and to physiological accuracy. Keyes, however, does not place his animal subjects in their natural settings; rather, they are often in peril, displaced from their natural ecosystems into dioramic fantastical situations. These landscapes are frequently isolated and contain an incompatible mix of the natural and manmade. Keyes acknowledges that themes of migration and displacement frequently feature into his work as a form of his preoccupation with global climate change and the human impact on nature.
“Lonely Prince”
Hikari Shimoda
$1000
22” x 22”
Inspired by the Japanese manga and anime from her youth, Shimoda’s work expresses modern day issues in colorful and illustrative techniques. Often depicting starry-eyed children, she dresses her characters in heroic costumes resembling Superman and magical girls, an anime sub-genre of young girls who uses magic, revealing problems and struggles in contemporary society through a juxtaposition of brushwork, text, and collage. Such characters are a commentary on Christianity’s anointment of Jesus Christ as a savior of humanity, and a mirror of our fantasy heroes. They also represent our adult desire to nurture the children of the world and to defend the world we have constructed. Following the Great East Japan Earthquake and accident of Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in 2011, Shimoda became increasingly interested in various connections in the world.
“Whereabouts of God”
Hikari Shimoda
$1000
22” x 22”
Inspired by the Japanese manga and anime from her youth, Shimoda’s work expresses modern day issues in colorful and illustrative techniques. Often depicting starry-eyed children, she dresses her characters in heroic costumes resembling Superman and magical girls, an anime sub-genre of young girls who uses magic, revealing problems and struggles in contemporary society through a juxtaposition of brushwork, text, and collage. Such characters are a commentary on Christianity’s anointment of Jesus Christ as a savior of humanity, and a mirror of our fantasy heroes. They also represent our adult desire to nurture the children of the world and to defend the world we have constructed. Following the Great East Japan Earthquake and accident of Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in 2011, Shimoda became increasingly interested in various connections in the world.
“Neighborhood Watch”
Richard Ahnert
$7000
Oil on Canvas
24” x 36”
Richard graduated with honors from the Arts York Program at Unionville HS with a Major in Visual Arts and went on to study Technical Illustration and Graphic Design at York University and Seneca College, graduating with the Presidents Honor Roll for Highest Academic Achievement. With a drive to explore and evolve as an artist, He continues studies and workshops ongoing to help define his style and practice. Richard began exhibiting his work in 2010 and has shown in exhibitions and galleries in both Canada and the States. His work has won awards and can be found in private collections and businesses around the world. He uses the relationship between animals and humans to explore themes of emotion, metaphor, and narrative with a satirical twist. Storytelling, understated humour, and deep reflection are at the heart of his practice.
“Embark”
Richard Ahnert
$4000
Oil on Canvas
24” x 18”
Richard graduated with honors from the Arts York Program at Unionville HS with a Major in Visual Arts and went on to study Technical Illustration and Graphic Design at York University and Seneca College, graduating with the Presidents Honor Roll for Highest Academic Achievement. With a drive to explore and evolve as an artist, He continues studies and workshops ongoing to help define his style and practice. Richard began exhibiting his work in 2010 and has shown in exhibitions and galleries in both Canada and the States. His work has won awards and can be found in private collections and businesses around the world. He uses the relationship between animals and humans to explore themes of emotion, metaphor, and narrative with a satirical twist. Storytelling, understated humour, and deep reflection are at the heart of his practice.
“Little White Bear Boy”
Mayuka Yamamoto
$2800
Mayuka Yamamoto’s contemplative paintings focus on wide-eyed children wearing animal suits who gaze directly at the viewer or float adrift in dreamlike landscapes that range from fantastical forests to wintry tundras. Yamamoto’s costuming foregrounds the psychological states of her child subjects, appearing as a sort of armor or second skin that alternately heightens or hides their interior emotions.
“Red Bear Boy”
Mayuka Yamamoto
$2800
Mayuka Yamamoto’s contemplative paintings focus on wide-eyed children wearing animal suits who gaze directly at the viewer or float adrift in dreamlike landscapes that range from fantastical forests to wintry tundras. Yamamoto’s costuming foregrounds the psychological states of her child subjects, appearing as a sort of armor or second skin that alternately heightens or hides their interior emotions.
“Little Prince Boy”
Mayuka Yamamoto
$2800
Mayuka Yamamoto’s contemplative paintings focus on wide-eyed children wearing animal suits who gaze directly at the viewer or float adrift in dreamlike landscapes that range from fantastical forests to wintry tundras. Yamamoto’s costuming foregrounds the psychological states of her child subjects, appearing as a sort of armor or second skin that alternately heightens or hides their interior emotions.
“I Will Love You Till The End of Time”
Brian McGuffey
Brian is a self-taught artist currently residing in Todos Santos, BCS, Mexico. Originally from Alabama, travels have taken him throughout North and Central America and Europe.
Images from his life experiences and childhood are loosely represented in my paintings. Storytelling, children's books and his Grandmother are all inspirations for conceptualizing imagery and themes. Brian's work can be seen as either light-hearted, thought-provoking, or both simultaneously.
Building of texture and use of color are primary steps in his creative process. Elements for his paintings include several layers of acrylic paint, vinyl composite, oil stick, and a matte, protective polymer on canvas or wood.
In Brian's current body of work, he has created subjects possessing both human and animal characteristics. Inspiration for these works come from such disparate sources as Henry Darger, Crayola® crayons and Hermann Rorschach.