El Mac

Born in Los Angeles in 1980 to an engineer and an artist, El Mac has been creating and studying art independently since childhood. He was inspired at a young age by classic European painters such as Caravaggio, and Vermeer and Art Nouveau symbolists such as Klimt and Mucha.  This was mixed with the more contemporary influences of graffiti and photorealism, as well as as the Chicano & Mexican culture he grew up around. Mac’s art was featured on the cover of Juxtapoz magazine in 2009 and again in 2012, as...

Art in the streets

Please join us for an informal sharing of art and graffiti and all things painted in public with visiting guest artists, Shamsia Hassani (Kabul, Afghanistan) and El Mac (Los Angeles, USA) who will share their recent and ongoing work.