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Mac Salom Aka (Mactivo) was born in the city of Bogota in 1992. He graduated in advertising and marketing from San Jose University. He specialized in history of animation and art at the Central University.

In 2015, he worked as a cartoonist assistant at Nickelodeon company, where he honed his own style, with the influence of universal animation on his work. Additionally, he gained a lot of experience using technology and digital design when he worked for Freepik, creating proposal and template vectors between 2015 and 2017. Since 2010, Mactivo has analyzed different methods in plastic arts, and that same year he began drawing murals in Bogota, involving concepts and diagrams using street art techniques.

Mactivo’s main style is in the doodle technique, which as been his way of capturing and communicating all concepts, ideas, and knowledge. With his brushstrokes, the viewer can see the maximum detail and figurative collage that generates the composition configured with concepts and a saturation of techniques, characters, icons, and ideas that don’t lose the harmony of the main message.

Discover Mactivo’s paintings at Art Angels, click the link in the bio

Mac Salom Aka (Mactivo) was born in the city of Bogota in 1992. He graduated in advertising and marketing from San Jose University. He specialized in history of animation and art at the Central University.

In 2015, he worked as a cartoonist assistant at Nickelodeon company, where he honed his own style, with the influence of universal animation on his work. Additionally, he gained a lot of experience using technology and digital design when he worked for Freepik, creating proposal and template vectors between 2015 and 2017. Since 2010, Mactivo has analyzed different methods in plastic arts, and that same year he began drawing murals in Bogota, involving concepts and diagrams using street art techniques.

Mactivo’s main style is in the doodle technique, which as been his way of capturing and communicating all concepts, ideas, and knowledge. With his brushstrokes, the viewer can see the maximum detail and figurative collage that generates the composition configured with concepts and a saturation of techniques, characters, icons, and ideas that don’t lose the harmony of the main message.

Discover his paintings at Art Angels

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A new era for Christopher FLORE Florentino begins

For Spacious Skies
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 60 inches
Available at Art Angels

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Fall in love with the shape and form of Rainer Lagemann’s stainless steel sculptures

Rainer is fascinated by the human body, the classic theme of artistic expression and struggle, depicted in all shapes, materials and mediums since the existence of mankind.

Rainer's sculptures capture the human body in motion - a freeze frame of classic, timeless gestures and emotions. The sculptures are both ethereal and concrete. The forms he creates are how one imagines Nureyev or Baryshnikov would look in mid-flight.

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New arrivals in FLORE’s The Modernist Series now on view at Art Angels

Acrylic on paper, custom framed in maple, 36 x 28 inches each

Only 5 works available

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Flore’s work in an unprecedented scale
On view now at Art Angels

Romance Noval
70 x 100 inches
Acrylic on canvas

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West Hollywood is buzzing about the latest large scale, hyperrealistic oil paintings by Mike Dargas 🍯 The German artist is known for his intimately detailed paintings of women, coming through as colorful and crisp as his reference photography. Within his works, Dargas collaborates with models to capture the vulnerability, strength, softness and other enigmatic facets of the female characters telling the story within each painting.

Honey Kitty
108 x 96 inches
Oil on canvas

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Explore works by David Yarrow, now on view at Art Angels Los Angeles

Featured
Silent Witness
71 x 82”

Good Morning Siberia
52 x 70”

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Now on view
The World is Yours, By Floyd Strickland

The universe created by Floyd Strickland conveys tremendous amounts of emotion, portraying highs and lows from palette to canvas, filled with equal parts passion and purpose. His works embody the labor of love that narrates the stories behind the illustrations.

“The World Is Yours” delves deeper than works prior into his personal struggles with growth and loss of innocence while still featuring his children as subjects, his son often representing a younger version of himself. Initially, the image of his son was to be accompanied by a lion, symbolizing a two-sided sense of power, but Floyd’s son opted for a hyena, a raucous creature often more benevolent and family-oriented than typically perceived.

Recent readings by Imani Perry and other prolific black authors resurfaced feelings of desolation and villainization during Floyd’s childhood. Black children between the ages of 10-12, while often innocent, are unfairly depicted as older and more responsible, thus seen by society as vicious and threatening more than any other ethnic demographic. Floyd remembers altercations with police where, in a multiracial community, he faced harsher repercussions than his peers, and the ramifications this had on his adult life prompted him to vividly portray his pursuit of change on canvas.

“Art is a channel for me to unabashedly express my emotions. I strive to tell stories that inspire future generations to make change from small scale to systemic. I paint to change history for the better.”

Along with works that recall personal anecdotes, this showcase deeply connects to his West African roots. Echoing elements of paintings by Aaron Douglas, the Harlem Renaissance painter that catalyzed Floyd’s journey into the arts, this adjacent array of pieces combines vivid colors with flat images in a more uplifting reminiscence on his origins and the culture behind them.

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Flowers last a few weeks, art lasts a lifetime 💐 Coming this March, we’ll usher in the Spring with an opening to PUNKMETENDER’s first exhibition of 2023 at Art Angels. Keep the anticipation at bay with a visit to our gallery where new works from the Parisian-turned-Angeleno are now available and on display.

476
40 x 60 inches
Acrylic on wooden panel with aluminum butterflies

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Stunning new work from has arrived in our new Los Angeles curation

This piece is
Beverly Hills Saturated, 2023
by Michael Callas
90 x 133 inches
Spray paint and stencil on canvas
Unique work

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Micah Johnson is a figurative artist who uses strong gestural lines combined with loose brush strokes to create dramatic portraits primarily featuring African-American children. These subjects, which are often inspired by his young nephews, began appearing in Micah’s work ever since he overheard his 4-year old nephew ask his mother a deeply disturbing question,

“Mom, can astronauts be black?”

Featured work
Micah Johnson
Tranquil, 2022
Signed by artist
Charcoal and oil on canvas
80 x 64.5 inches, framed
This piece is unique

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The Loft is my Ghost

From FLORE’s The Modernist series
50 x 40 inches
Acrylic on Canvas
Unique work

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Meanwhile
By Brendan Murphy
From the artists acclaimed Chalkboard series
60 x 72 inches
Oil, acrylic and gouache on canvas
Unique work

Think of the movie A Beautiful Mind for a glimpse into Murphy’s own brain and process. The artist predominantly uses symbols, shapes, and words to fill vast surface areas, for an abstract effect that’s science class chalkboard meets Jean-Michel Basquiat canvas. The writing in his works is pointedly haphazard and littered with everything from lyrics to words like love, lust, and passion. By design, it not only provokes a visual conversation on sight but prompts a deeper gut check too.

Murphy uses a wide range of impactful materials, tools and a patent-protected chroming technique to create his range of work. His spacemen sculptures and some of his fingerprint paintings, when crafted using a reflective silver-based chrome, cause viewers to quite literally confront themselves while gazing at his work. The spaceman, according to Murphy, is the embodiment of the human desire to look ahead and venture beyond boundaries, to step into the unknown and be present in the moment—to Murphy, that’s the purest form of existence. He’s continually inspired by the interplay of beauty, power and the human need to understand the energies of life.

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Happy New Year From Art Angels!
We are closed today but will reopen for 2023 from tomorrow

Stop by this week to discover new works from Micah Johnson or click the link in the bio, send us a dm or contact us at [email protected]

Phoria Pezhman explores both natural and urban environments through art and photography. A passionate environmentalist, he thrives outdoors where he gains peace and introspection. Pezhman establishes a dialogue between two different realities by deconstructing emulsion transfers into dimensional layers then building the work up layer by layer with an encaustic medium. Through the process, he urges the viewer to visually access the work’s dimensional nature, which is able to be experienced from different angles.

Featured work is

Elyna
by Phoria Pezhman
60 x 48 inches
Framed Emulsion Transfer, acrylic paint and encaustic on board
unique

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New works have arrived from Russell Young just in time for the holidays 🎄🎅🕎

Featured work is
Bardot Thunder in Fucsia Pink
68 x 52 inches
Unique work

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