Your Art Los Angeles / Amy Smith

Amy’s art will be on view at 6675 Hollywood Blvd between November 4 - December 1, 2019.

Amy Smith is a self-taught, contemporary artist. In her Collage Portrait Series, Amy Smith uses photography, and layers of hand cut stencils, and torn recycled fashion magazine pieces to simultaneously represent her love of fashion and her contempt for excessive consumerism. In addition, she show cases female portraits to empower and unify, creating a space to feel connected to oneself and to each other.

Smith’s mixed media collages have been shown at Saatchi’s The Other Art Fair, Wallspace LA Gallery, The Whole 9 Gallery, and been part of auctions such as revered Julien’s Auctions with artists like Mr. Brainwash, Shepard Fairey, and Andy Warhol. Smith’s works can also be found on online galleries like Saatachi Art and Artsy.net. Amy Smith’s work has been featured in a number of private collections, residences, businesses, television shows and films. She is currently exploring a new series of collage with neon elements and a series of stencils on natural wood.
Working on a larger scale, Amy Smith has also created public murals stretching 20 feet long currently on view as part of the Gabba Alley Project in Historic Filipinotown, LosAngeles, a 10 foot mural of Hedy Lamarrat The Neutra Museum in Silverlake and a 8 foot mural of Frida Kahlo at the San Diego North Park Art Festival among other collaborative projects.

You can connect with Amy on Instagram at @amysmithart.

Curator: Vakseen

While working on hit records as a music executive/producer has played a driving force in his career, it’s Vakseen’s (born Otha Davis III) passion for the arts that has served as his key to sanity in the fast paced entertainment business. The self-taught, museum-exhibited Floridian has developed a distinct collage-influenced painting style (Vanity Pop) that fuses elements of photorealism, cubism, beautyand fashion into vibrantly alluring, abstract portraits. While most viewers assume they’re viewing collage or mixed media art, each creation is in fact meticulously hand painted directly oncanvas. Drawing inspiration from our fascination with beauty in popular culture, his gallant paintings are a celebration of women, beauty, duality, insecurityand self-preservation. Currently based in Los Angeles, his art has been featured by Adidas, Vans, Buzzfeed, Complex, Playboy, Poets Artists, Juxtapoz Magazine and Hi Fructose, amongst others. In addition to being sold to collectors and art enthusiasts, his art has been shown in museums, countless gallery exhibitions and featured in over 100 magazines worldwide.