Esteban del Valle is an interdisciplinary artist born in Chicago, Illinois in 1984.  He completed his MFA in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2009, where he received a Presidential Scholarship and the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship. His work investigates the performance of leadership, the role of the artist as a public figure, and the effects of class and privilege on institutions in the form of paintings, murals, sculpture and video art.

You still in a funk over that picture? Now, who’s petty? I never met somebody so jealous of a measly picture they’d go this long holding a grudge.

Lisa Teasley is a Los Angeles native, artist and writer. Her solo retrospective show was at the Marie Baldwin Gallery, Spring 2019 and her first solo exhibition was at the Watts Towers Art Center curated by John Outterbridge.

Gabriela was from Mobile, Alabama, where Leon’s grandfather was born. They bonded over the seafood, Leon saying he had always wanted to go to learn about his roots, Gabriela laughing at the thought of this sheltered kid from Santa Monica driving down the narrow highway by the Gulf with some curated blues playlist blasting through his dad’s puke green Prius.