RYAN “YANOE” SARFATI
Ryan “Yanoe” Sarfati, is a Belgium American contemporary artist best known for his large-scale murals and evocatively versitic aesthetic. Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Yanoe forged his urban art identity as a graffiti writer, crafting wild-style, interlocking lettering radiating with energy. Yanoe relocated to Los Angeles during the early 1990s and has since become a formidable, prolific force in the mural and installation scene. With site-specific murals in cities ranging from Tulsa, Oklahoma to Columbus, Ohio to Los Angeles, California, Yanoe creates work that is an important integer of placemaking. Developed over his multi-decade career, Yanoe has a keen understanding of mass and space and is elegantly versed at translating multidimensional modalities, like Brutalist architecture, into dynamic, unidimensional walls. In more recent years, Yanoe has pivoted the intentionality of his practice to fine art, exploring studio painting and commercial partnerships with companies such as: Nike, Urban Decay, Headspace, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Netflix.
Eric “Zoueh” Skotnes
Eric Skotnes is a Los Angeles-basedurbanartistknown for interconnecting disparatestyles into an aesthetically integrated whole. Skotnes began writing graffiti at 11 years old, aninfluence that has evolved throughout his career and remains prevalent in hisoutdoormurals. Hestudied illustration andfine art at Art Center College of Design and, through that training, is wellversed in classical,figurative painting andknowledgeable aboutthe history of art. Collidingtheseschoolings—one in the classroom, the other on the streets—Skotnescreatesmurals andworks on canvas thatjuxtapose his wildstyle graffiti with figural renderings of classicalsculptures from antiquity