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Nancy Baker Cahill is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist whose hybrid practice focuses on systemic power, consciousness, and the human body. As a new media artist, Cahill creates immersive and interactive experiences, video installations, and conceptual blockchain projects rooted in the practice of drawing. Her monumental augmented reality artworks extend and subvert the lineage of land art, often confronting the climate crisis, social issues, and civics. Nancy’s work...

GABRIEL GONZALEZ is a Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter and leader of a new break-out collective of world class musicians embodying the truth of the Los Angeles Latin experience – La Verdad. Since 2015 Gonzalez has also been a lead singer for Boogaloo Assassins, the famed 12-piece Latin Boogaloo, Salsa, and Latin Soul band with whom Gonzalez is about to release a new album. Since the beginning of his career as a child performer in Mexican films, Gonzalez (also known as...

Susan Davis is the Founder & President of DESERT X, a site-specific, contemporary art exhibition that is held in the Coachella Valley of Southern California every two years. Since 2017, DESERT X has pushed the boundaries of art beyond the gallery walls to present work that engages with the public in desert environments, through unique installations created by acclaimed artists from around the world. While responding to and amplifying the dramatic range of land and seascapes ...

Kathleen Turner is an award-winning American actress and director, celebrated for her acclaimed work in film, television and theater. With an over forty year career, Kathleen's bold and brave choices as an artist has led to a groundbreaking body of work that has changed cultural perceptions of how women are portrayed on the screen and stage. Always insisting on playing by her own rules, the two time Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominee has created some of the most iconic...

Eric Fischl is one of the most influential painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Inspired by his own middle-class upbringing on Long Island, Fischl’s provocative paintings expose the underbelly of American suburban life while piercing through its veil. Through startling scenes of grief, adolescent sexuality and political malaise, Fischl is committed to expressing what often remains hidden and unspoken behind society’s mores. During his meteoric rise in the 1980s, in...

In the late 90’s, JT LeRoy – a male teen sex worker turned-novelist – became an overnight literary sensation. Publishing three bestselling books, LeRoy’s electrifying work revealed a subversive American culture that had never before been explored. Immediately, LeRoy was celebrated by Hollywood and the Literati. The only problem was... JT didn't actually exist. In 2005, a 39 year old woman by the name of Laura Albert was outed as being the real author. Albert had ...

Today in Paris marks the unveiling of the infamous Christo and Jeanne-Claude's posthumous dream project -- "L‘Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped”. Artlaws is thrilled to present a special event interview with celebrated artist and photographer Simon Chaput who knew Christo and Jeanne-Claude intimately, as both friend and colleague. After meeting the artist couple in New York in 1983, Simon quickly became an integral part of their life and their work. Christo and Jeanne-Claude we...

Zack James is the founder of Animeme Studios and creator of one of YouTubes' most successful and longest running animated series YO MAMA -- a channel that's garnered over 8 million subscribers across all platforms and over 2 billion views. Considering the longstanding success of the franchise, many people are unaware that the show's creator is an autistic man who was born with non-verbal autism. He was never supposed to speak -- let alone, pioneer such phenomenal new media succe...

Hailed as the “Punk Ballerina” by Vanity Fair, legendary dancer and choreographer Karole Armitage is the Artistic Director of the New York-based Armitage Gone! Dance Company. After rigorous training in classical ballet, Armitage began her professional career as a member of Balanchine’s Grand Theatre de Geneve. Soon thereafter she started exploring modern dance when she joined Merce Cunningham's company, performing leading roles in his landmark works. In the mid-80’s, she establi...

Los Angeles based photographer and visual artist Melanie Pullen is best known for her breathtaking and startling series High Fashion Crime Scenes. In this extensive photo series which has evolved over fifteen years, Pullen recreates grisly true historical-crime scenes, while outfitting her "victims" in haute couture -- 13 million dollars worth. Melanie takes a forensic approach to her work with extensive research, that for this series included visits to the LA Coroner’s office. By...

When singer-songwriter Esthero (Jenny-Bea Englishman) released her trip-hop masterpiece Breath From Another in 1998, she was only eighteen years old. Leaving behind her idyllic countryside home in Ontario to pursue the burgeoning music scene in Toronto, Esthero penned an album that would change the face of music. With two acclaimed solo albums to follow and a number of high-profile collaborations with artists like Kanye West, Andre 3000, Black Eyed Peas, Mos Def and Sean Lennon, E...

Derek Ahonen is an internationally acclaimed playwright best known for his gritty, volatile, and darkly humorous work. As co-founder of The Amoralists, the trailblazing New York City theater company, his aim was to write and produce raw theater with absolutely no moral judgement, while expressing the American condition in a completely honest way. And now, Derek has written and directed his first feature film, The Transcendents (based on his play). In our hilarious, off...