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Los Angeles

I used to think of Los Angeles as a city about image production. What I understand now — partly because of the artists on this page — is that its most honest work turns all that visual abundance inward. Some of the most intimate art I've encountered came out of LA.

There's something about how artists here hold family archive and inheritance and the politics of being seen that connects directly to what I care about. Art as a way to carry someone with you. As evidence that connection outlasts distance.

The work here is quiet in the best way — specific enough to feel true, open enough to let you find yourself in it.

Shaina McCoyPainting · Oil and impasto on canvasShaina McCoy is a Los Angeles-based painter whose work draws from personal photographic archives — family portraits from the 1980s and 1990s — to render scenes of intimacy, play, and belonging. Her figures are deliberately faceless, their identities communicated through texture, posture, clothing, and the quality of touch rather than individual features.From WillI met Shaina at the Brooklyn Museum and was immediately drawn to her work.View profile →