Shop available artwork by Donna Bates HERE

Native Californian Donna Bates is a self-taught artist known for her urban, edgy, realistic style. She paints strong, independent, sexy, powerful women or Bad-Ass Chicks, as she likes to call them.

Gabba Solo Exhibition: Courageous Beauty, February 2018

Shop available artwork by Nicholas Bonamy HERE

Nicholas was born and raised in Los Angeles and knew early on that he wanted to pursue a career in art. He graduated from Art Center College of Design in 2003 with a BFA in Illustration. After graduating, he began a career in freelance illustration and graphic design. In 2006 Nicholas’s focus switched to production design, where he participated in several independent projects for film and internet release, and added set design, scenic painting, carpentry, and set and prop fabrication to his growing list of skills. Since 2012, Nicholas has been committed to producing large and small scale, mixed media works, inspired by Los Angeles, and the people and places he grew up with. His work reflects a layered approach that seeks to show the textures of life, living and working in Los Angeles.

Gabba Solo Exhibitions:
Gray, September 2018
Preapocalyptic Daydreams, September 2017
Layered, March 2016

Shop available artwork by M. Christy HERE

Michael Christy’s art integrates his disparate interests such as politics, history, mysticism, and science to create a mythological world which functions as a metaphor for our own. Rooted in the vernacular of western art and contemporary popular culture, particularly cartoons, pornography, and science fiction, Christy’s work explores themes of hegemony, environmentalism, sexuality, and the role of technology in society, as well as universal human themes. His paintings are a celebration of the empowering interactive potential of an atemporal narrative format, with the viewer having ultimate authority in determining the narrative content of the work.

In addition to creating visual arts, Christy also explores education as a vehicle for cultural production. He has worked for Dahlia Heights Elementary School in the Los Angeles Unified School District teaching grades K-6 since 2000. Christy has been Dahlia Heights’ Gifted and Talented Program Coordinator since 2000, and in 2003 he helped develop their School for Advanced Studies Program, which he has coordinated since. In this capacity, he has been able to formalize the school’s commitment to emphasizing the arts, critical thinking skills, technological proficiency, and global citizenship, with a special focus on environmental awareness. He has been invited to speak on these topics at many conferences and symposia in southern California, including the Annual Central Cities Gifted Children’s Association Conference, the Annual City/County Conference on Gifted/Talented Education, the University of Southern California Summer Gifted Institute and Teacher Demonstration School and the USC/LAUSD GATE Symposium. With Daniel Miyake, he teaches Creative Integration of Art and Curricula for LAUSD’s GATE department, and in 2013 published a textbook of the same name.

Christy earned his Bachelor’s degree in painting from Penn State, and his Master’s degree in Globalization and Adult Education from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine, and holds a California Multiple Subject Teaching Credential from the California State University, Los Angeles. He has exhibited his paintings in New York at the CRG and Larissa Goldston Galleries and in Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, the Venice Contemporary Gallery, Crewest Gallery, pLAyLAnd gallery, Cella Gallery, and Cannibal Flower exhibitions, as well as at Studio 508 in Santa Monica and at the Pennsylvania State University. Michael Christy resides in Los Angeles.

Gabba Solo Exhibitions:
Real American Fantasy, June 2017
Happy You’re Here, October 2015

To inquire about available artwork by CANTSTOPGOODBOY, please contact us.

At 26 years old, CANTSTOPGOODBOY (CSGB), is quickly making his mark in the contemporary art world. A native of Southern California, he was introduced to the world of art at an early age by his mother, a professional art restorer. His talents were recognized early but school would not prove to be the environment in which he would flourish. In high school, CANTSTOPGOODBOY was discouraged by a short-sighted art teacher, resulting in a four year hiatus.

With no formal training, he rediscovered his love for art during his freshman year of college where he became inspired both by the prominence of street art and by an art professor who quickly recognized his abilities. After one semester he transferred to the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he took general studies classes while his art was sidelined as a hobby. It only took one semester at Boulder for CANTSTOPGOODBOY to realize that creating art, and not academics, is his true passion.

With a meticulous attention to detail, utilizing mixed media (vintage comics) and various other techniques which he has coined the term “RealFake.”

Collaborations with companies such as Sony, Warner Bros., Serj Tankian, Atlantic Records, Coachella Music Festival, Absolut Vodka, Converse, TOMS Shoes, Sol Republic, the Audience, eOne Entertainment and American Idol to name a few, show you clearly CANTSTOPGOODBOY.

Gabba Solo Exhibitions:
Eleven, September 2018
RealFake: Wannabe, June 2017
RealFake: Unknown, October 2015

Shop available artwork by Rene Gagnon HERE

As a young boy Rene Gagnon had dreams of being a gallery artist. In those dreams he would attend large-scale exhibitions that included art that didn’t exist in the real world. He realized it was his art for the taking. It just didn’t exist. Yet.

The question Rene wrangled with during his adolescence was how he would go about creating the work to fulfill those blurry nighttime visions. He always knew he had to develop something tangible.

The graffiti movement of the early 80’s marked Rene’s first real devotion to an art form. He was a prolific writer from 1986 through 1994. Then after many brushes with the law he attended college, it was here that he discovered a link between graffiti mark making and the abstract expressionist movement. This discovery and subsequent hundreds of paintings he created spanning two decades developed a truly original style he coined “Post-Graffiti Abstract Expressionism.”

Rene continued his creative journey by being an integral part of the early street art movement, utilizing stencils and pasted imagery to have his voice heard. He has since spent the last decade developing a multilayered approach to making art by melding his traditional art training, graffiti art, and street art into one form.

In all this time Rene has come to realize that to truly fulfill his childhood dreams he must do what makes him most happy, and that’s pushing the limits of every artistic medium he can get his paint-covered hands on.

Rene continues to hold true to his diverse artistic personality.  By never settling on any one style, he continues to push paint, and his process, daily. This never ending journey of experimentation keeps him fresh and motivated, and he vows that every time he passes the threshold of his studio he does something different.

Gabba Solo Exhibition:
WiFi is a Girl’s Best Friend, February 2017
Four View, June 2015

Shop available artwork by Brooke Harker HERE

Brooke Harker is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles, California. Her lively paintings of cities and coastal scenes are characterized by energetic brushstrokes in ink and thick oil paint applied with palette knives. These vibrant depictions of daily life capture a sense of motion and highlight moments of synchronicity.

Harker calls herself a historian of the ordinary. Her paintings are a collaboration with all of the people who’ve contributed to a place over time: architects, engineers, city workers who’ve placed street signs, and pedestrians whose colorful fashion landed in view at the perfect moment. All of their individual actions brought together one moment, fated to be captured on canvas.

Fascinated by other cultures and languages since childhood, Harker has lived abroad and participated in projects and residencies throughout Europe and Asia. She continues to travel for inspiration, yet always returns home to Los Angeles to paint in an outdoor studio in the California sunshine.

Shop available artwork by Hero HERE

Casey Courey-Pickering, who goes by the artist name “Hero” (short for The Forged Hero), is a self-taught LA based mixed media stencil artist. Since 2007, he has worked on incorporating new elements and techniques into his art. Prior to becoming an artist himself, Hero immersed himself in graffiti art being influenced by the works of Andy Warhol, Banksy, Jackson Pollock, JR, Richard Hamilton, Shepard Fairey, Basquiat, and David Flores ATC (a local LA artist). In 2009 he moved his stencil work from his studio and canvas to galleries and other mediums. Having begun commissioning his artwork, Hero thought of an idea for a sticker campaign. Being born in the eighties Hero utilized two iconic figures from the eighties to create AlfPacino, this sticker campaign immediately gained popularity worldwide. Hero was hand-selected to beta test and create art for Dynomighty's successful Artist Collective product line. He has also worked on special projects with organizations such as Project Ethos, LA Canvas, Whole Foods, and Vestal.

Gabba Solo Exhibitions:
Shadows of Hope, October 2017
January 2016

Shop available artwork by Iskar HERE

Iskar’s inspiration originally came from classic illustrations, vintage comics, and modern pop art. After completing a degree in graphic design, Iskar moved to London for three years where he received inspiration and mentorship. When he moved back to Mexico he founded his company, Artwall Deco, where businesses and institutions can commission murals. The genesis of Artwall Deco has provided Iskar opportunities to travel and put his work in other cities and countries. During his journey’s he began to dabble more and more with street art, which has transformed into a fluent language for the artist. Additionally, Iskar works in his studio creating expos for galleries, constantly looking for ways to unite the gallery world with the street art world.

Shop available artwork by Warren Jacobson HERE

Warren Jacobson has been working as a visual artist for many years. His recent works encompass a new focus by combining his traditional oil painting skills with his personal documentary-style photography. Warren currently resides on Long Island’s North Shore, about 25 miles from New York City, on an isthmus, connecting Centre Island to Oyster Bay. This locale, its inhabitants, and visitors are often the subject of his artworks. He has found a sanctuary that is his special place; his homeland. Warren searches for serene imagery in his world and the people and places he encounters.

Japan-based artist Nagisa Kamae creates adorable, touching images of small creatures. Rabbits, kittens, puppies, squirrels – Kamae realizes her images perfectly, touching them with a delicate brush of the whimsical. Her inspiration comes from small animals she finds them at the zoo, pet stores, and even in vintage animal picture books, she says; her accompanying food images are as likely to come from packaging as from vintage cookbook illustrations.

Nagisa Kamae has lived in SoCal and studied Fine Art at El Camino College in Torrance, California. She currently resides in Japan.

Shop available artwork by Hope Kroll HERE

Combining the printed element of collage with the three-dimensionality of assemblage, Kroll’s inventive layering of imagery culled from a wide array of antique books is an entirely new approach to found imagery.

Assemblage is one of the “bridging concepts” that connect various artistic disciplines while retaining their specificity. While Kroll’s source material is gleaned from a multiplicity of texts, including old encyclopedias, medical texts, children’s books, popular science, technical manuals, paper dolls and old photographs, the careful juxtaposition of imagery transforms the presupposed chaos of subjects into cohesive compositions that re-imagine patterns in nature and investigate the neurotic processes of humankind.

Beyond the diverse assortment of inspirations, Kroll’s complex works focus on the source material itself and the history of those objects. Deconstructed and then reconstructed, individually cut imagery each possesses its own unique history, having passed through many hands before being re-contextualized by Kroll. Serving as the canvas for these intricately cut-out assemblages, aged blank paper found in old books lends a natural patina and muted hue to the works.

Because of the high quality of the color plates and lithography selected, Kroll maintains the integrity of the original found materials while considering their imagery in an entirely new context. In many cases, elements of the work are lifted off the flat surface to create visual drama to these mise en scenes​ while adding dimensionality and showcasing the highly meticulous nature of her cuttings.

Jim Mazza is an artist, illustrator, and printmaker based in Los Angeles.

Shop available artwork by Bobby Moore HERE

Bobby Moore aka Bobbyfatcaps is originally a Maryland native but has lived in Los Angeles since 2013. With a deeply connected background in graffiti, he has utilized those techniques and pulls inspiration from the world of surreal, pop, graffuturism, and cubism to formulate his own unique style. This allows him to create a colorful explosion of visual entertainment.

Along with his whimsical street style, he has a second style rooted in more traditional methods of painting which pull from old master techniques. This fusion of imagery invites the viewer to explore past nostalgia and futuristic theory through symbolism that touches a deeper side of the mind questioning ‘high' and ‘low' culture.

Duality through binaries allows Bobby to direct more loaded participation and explore his creative philosophy of the whimsical and serious. Through this juxtaposition of abstract imagery, nothing is literal. Gabba Gallery gave Bobby his first solo show in 2020 entitled “Who Goes There,” and building upon that success Bobby released his first print edition shortly after.

Mary Anne was raised in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. Her childhood home was a unique blend of creativity and scholarship – her mother an artist and her father an academician - Mary Anne and her older brother, one of the biggest influences in her life, were immersed in a ‘choose your own adventure’ of talent. Mary Anne’s brother, ever the gifted visionary, followed the creative path, while she chose the other, academia. As a young adult, Mary Anne struggled to balance her own innate creative drive with her unwavering intellectual curiosity. Unable to reconcile the two, she thought of her art as a hobby, though never letting it go, while pursuing her education.

During the pandemic, Mary Anne dedicated much of her free time to filling sketchbooks with her art. The act of creating felt therapeutic. She started sharing her pieces on Instagram to contribute to the community of artists that inspired her there. Organically, Mary Anne grew a public following and is delighted that people find joy in the pieces she creates. Through her use of color and shape, Mary Anne aspires to weave a narrative of an enduring pursuit of self-expression.

Mary Anne chooses to maintain anonymity as an artist, taking commissions as she works as a public health researcher addressing the impacts of structural racism on people who are minoritized and oppressed. Mary Anne and her partner of 20 years live on a small island off of Oakland, CA. Together they are raising two children to be good humans with the support of a progressive, inclusive, and loving community.

Follow this artist @maryanneshakyhand

Shop available artwork by Morley HERE

"Morley’s work can feel like love notes, private jokes, public secrets or a last testament. He provides a cool tonic for the heat and isolation of Los Angeles. "
- Frank Warren (Founder of PostSecret)

Morley is a Los Angeles-based street artist that specializes in bold, typographic posters which he wheat pastes within the urban landscape. Blending humor, hope and his unique perspective on life, Morley’s aim is to act as a friendly voice amongst the cacophony of billboarded messages and corporate slogans.

His work has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, LA Magazine, TheChive.com, LA Canvas and on networks such as ABC, CBS, Comedy Central, Discovery Channel, Amazon and Showtime. He has been shown in galleries around the world and he has lectured at numerous universities, the Los Angeles County Museum Of Art and The Artisphere in Washington DC. He toured the country with his book If You're Reading This, There's Still Time (published by Cameron + Company in 2014) and was featured in the AOL original docu-series "Vicariously".  

“By turns whimsical, provocative, and transformative, Morley’s intriguing public art re-opens us to our collective sense of wonder.”
— Davy Rothbart (creator of Found Magazine, author of My Heart is an Idiot, and contributor to This American Life) 

Gabba Solo Exhibitions:
A Beginner’s Guide to Mending, September 2017
Cuatro Love, June 2015

Shop available artwork by Jules Muck HERE

Jules Muck started doing graffiti in Europe and Great Britain twenty years ago. Muck began bombing in New York in the late 90s. She was discovered on a Bronx rooftop by Sandra Fabara “Lady Pink”. Muck apprenticed under her for the next 4 years.

Muck has shown at Tokyo Big Site, the Bronx Museum of Art, the Weisman Museum in Minneapolis, Phantom Gallery in St. Louis, and the Fuse Gallery in New York. She has been published in Ganz's Graffiti Women, Cey Adam's Definitions, and both of the Murrays' books Burning New York and Broken Windows. In LA Jules Muck has shown at The Pacific Design Center, Gabba Gallery, Lab Art Gallery, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, and Rivera Gallery in Hollywood.

Her murals are prominent all over the Los Angeles area, especially in Venice Beach where she lives and has her studio. Her works include a mural on Gjelina restaurant featured in Food & Wine and the Main St & Horizon Ave mural that received a large amount of press including a spotlight on Access Hollywood and an article in Newsweek's The Daily Beast.

Muck's celebrity clientele includes socialite Petra Ecclestone, musician Everlast (House of Pain), actress Lindsay Lohan, ‘Stone-Cold’ Steve Austin, and LACMA artist Robert Standish.

Art photographed by Jay Kantor

Shop available work by Max Neutra HERE

Born 1978 in Venice Beach, CA.

Max Neutra was born in an apartment just across from the Sidewalk Cafe on the boardwalk of Venice Beach. It was not long before his parents began to hear the call of New Mexico and so at age six his family moved to an old coal mining town called Madrid twenty miles south of Santa Fe.  It was in this small town where Max spent his youth running wild in the desert, often coming home at the end of the day with his face blackened from the dust of the the coal hills.

In Santa Fe 1997, Max graduated from an alternative high school program called ACAT (Academy of Communication Arts and Technology) and followed with a bachelors degree in the sound arts from Expression Center for New Media in the bay area in 2000. Rather than following in the footsteps of his great-grandfather, Richard Neutra, Max pursued his creative passions through experimentation in music and designing sounds rather than designing structures.

Throughout his entire life, Max has always felt driven to create.  Most of his school work was decorated with sketches and illustrations, and he left a trail of drawings gifted to friends throughout the years. But it wasn’t until 2005 that Max turned to visual art as a career. After an epiphany in a coffee shop, Max had realized that his most natural state was one of creative output, and that was the very moment he decided that his calling was to be an artist.

Buying himself some proper art supplies, Max quickly got to work discovering and defining his visual voice. With influences like Ralf Steadman, Gerald Scarfe, and Egon Schiele, he developed a loose and expressive style.  He worked in a quick and messy fashion, and soon realized that he did not mind painting in front of an audience.  After spending five years painting live on the streets, in galleries, bars, clubs, and festivals in Los Angeles, Max Neutra made a name for himself as one of the city’s premier contemporary artists.  He has been commissioned by Toyota, Warner Brothers Records, and has risen to the international arena through sponsored tours across Europe and India.

Being a self taught artist has allowed Max to develop a style that is distinctly recognizable as his own.  Riding the line between mayhem and control, he paints images that are both chaotic and contained, each canvas an arena where chance and skill come together to create a colorful fusion of iconic imagery.  Utilizing his distinctive gonzo style, he explores subjects such as the dark side of humanity, the beauty in nature, the fading line between man and machine, and brutal truths we often avoid, all while matching his subjects with the expressive vitality they deserve.

From the artist:

I strive for each painting to be like a signature. Quick and messy. Brave and permanent. Unmistakably written by my hand. Produced by the machine that is my body.  I indulge in the imperfections of myself and the world around me, and marvel at the inherent factors of chance that the process provides. Through practicing this approach, a stream of surprises emerge and I am in a constant state of discovery.

Gabba Solo Exhibitions:
Power Up, April 2017
September 2016
Four View, June 2015

To shop about available artwork by Jeremy Novy, please click here.

Novy's unique brand of street art is ripe with thoughtful social examinations. He combats the homophobic lack of representation in street art and murals with his celebration of gay iconography, bringing joviality and warmth to disused urban spaces. Novy's 2011 National Endowment for the Arts grant enabled the curation of the first major exhibition of its kind, "A History of Queer Street Art" in San Francisco. This groundbreaking show next toured to Los Angeles' Pop Up Gallery and then was ultimately received with great acclaim at Yale University.

A graduate of the Peck School of the Arts, Novy's work has been met with critical acclaim across the nation. His work has benefitted non-profit foundations, advocacy organizations, and community service programs.

Featured in numerous books, publications, and in both public and private art collections, Novy's stencil work is cogent in its messaging and remarkably complex for its compositional simplicity. His most established series – “Koi,” refers to coded anti-authoritarian symbols embedded in Communist-era Chinese art. His pioneering images of drag queens, physique pictorials, and pornography bring to life the multiplicity of a truly modern identity, reminding us that we each must walk our streets in collective solidarity.

Shop available artwork by Judy Ostro HERE

For over 50 years, Judy Ostro has worked as a professional artist, creating pieces that have been shown and sold across the United States and internationally. Judy’s professional career began in the late 1960s and attracted attention from high-profile patrons like Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. She is best known for her acrylic on canvas abstract paintings of surreal landscapes and human forms. During her career, Judy also worked as a public school art teacher, inspiring youth and mentoring young artists. Now in retirement, she volunteers in an assisted living home, engaging the residents in the creation of original work. Judy currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

Shop available artwork by Christina Ramos HERE

Christina Ramos is an award-winning painter from Southern California. Christina specializes in Figurative Realism and Candid Portraiture. She is the only acrylic painting instructor for the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art. She is also a representative of the Golden Paint Company as one of their “Working Artists”. Her work has been shown in the Museum of Latin American Art, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, the Pacific Asian Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Masters San Antonio, and the Santa Paula Art Museum. Her paintings are held in many private collections here in the United States and Europe.

To inquire about available artwork by Regan Russel, please contact us.

Regan Russell is a San Diego-based artist and illustrator whose work focuses on pop culture, identity, and celebrity. Through drawings and illustrative paintings, Russell’s photo-realistic subjects and creative juxtapositions connect viewers to themes of nostalgia, beauty, and absurdity. He studied Visual Art at the University of California, San Diego.

To view additional work by Tōshee, please contact us.

Tōshee’s mixed media work features carving and layering techniques inspired by traditional Japanese woodblock printing, Sumi-e, cel animation, and the constantly evolving art of the North American streetscape.

A native of New York City and first-generation American born to Latin American parents, Tōshee studied design at Harvard under the late, great Toshihiro Katayama, internationally acclaimed graphic designer, sculptor, and painter. His artist name is in fact an homage to his teacher, who passed away in January 2013. 

In his life outside of art, Tōshee has worked as a university teaching fellow, video game producer, multimedia consultant, primetime network sitcom writer, and Internet music company manager.

Tōshee has been active in the Los Angeles and Miami contemporary art world since 2013. He had a solo show at Gabba Gallery in March 2016. His work has been shown in group exhibitions at Gabba Gallery, Stone Malone Gallery, Prohibition Gallery, The Hive, and with long-standing LA pop-up show Cannibal Flower.

Shop available work by WRDSMTH HERE

I am a writer doing time in Hollywood.

I’ve been enamored and inspired by street art for a long while. I never considered myself an artist, though -- at least not of the paint and brush variety. I am a writer. My canvas is a blank page of paper and my paint takes the form of the colorful and well-chosen words I craft into nimble sentences.

Which is how I arrived at the idea for WRDSMTH.

I hope these indelible thoughts of mine that are temporarily tattooed on the walls of LA resonate. If they do, let me know.

Shop available work by Essi Zimm HERE

Essi graduated from the University of Colorado with a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Design, and from Savannah College of Art and Design with a Masters in Architecture, where she was also awarded Excelsus Laureate (graduate valedictorian) and was part of Tau Sigma Delta, an honor society in Architecture and Allied Arts. A firm believer that Architecture is the mother of all arts, Essi strives on a daily basis to be as creative as possible in a variety of ways. 

“Essi Zimm” is actually her moniker in the art world, and she goes by her given name Jesse Voigt in her day-to-day business. Which is owning her own architecture firm Studio Jesse James with her partner James Johnson, which does work in California, Kentucky, and New York. 

She gained her design chops by living abroad in Japan and working for famed architect Frank Gehry, with whom she helped design the Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy Museum in Paris, France, and the Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi.  She has since won numerous awards in both architecture and art. Her most prized humble brags are her winning for best new retail design for a small space for the Pink Dolphin Los Angeles Flagship store in LD+A, and being featured in New American Paintings #126 West Division.  She is going on her fifth solo show in Los Angeles but has been featured in numerous group shows throughout Los Angeles, New York, Arizona, Canada, and England.

Gabba Gallery Solo Exhibitions:
Entomophily, March 2018
Happenstance, March 2017
Layers, March 2016
Nacht, June 2015

Shop available artwork by 8333 HERE

Artist 8333 showcases his signature minimalist pop style in his current series Cycle 0b1 (binary for one). His work explores themes of connection and isolation through pictograms rendered with precision, emotion, and sophistication. 8333 fuses crafts and thought processes from other disciplines with popular culture to make a distinct satirical statement. 8333 is a native of Chicago. He lives and works in the Los Angeles area.

Gabba Solo Exhibition: February 2017