Culture Curation

American Artist/Designer Chris Maestas (b.1984) has been interacting visually and physically with the urban environment of Los Angeles since his day as a graffiti writer and skateboarder starting in the early 2000s.

Chris was deeply influenced by the transformation brought by the many different sub-cultural elements that Los Angeles underwent in the early 90s. He was particularly inspired by how the three-dimensional reality of the city was often dressed or transformed to express individuality based on influential subcultures. There was an urge to stand out. Over the years, these unique relationships of free-from styles of subcultures influenced his approach to capturing cultures through forms of art.

As a traditionally trained automotive strategist/designer, Chris’s job entails constant research into upcoming trends and paradigm shifts in order to create future trends. This research has led Chris to the exploration of Blockchain based art since 2016 continuing into the creative paradigm shift within artificial neural networks. Chris’s IRL work centered around Acrylic, oil-based enamel, spray paint, and digital pixel-pushing since his early days as a traditional artist, however, as of 2022 Chris has been deep-diving into A-I-assisted exploration. Chris’s work has been described as powerful and thought-provoking.

Chris Maestas is an Internationally exhibiting artist and designer and has been featured in National print and digital publications. Chris’s new journey into A-I-assisted art has amassed prominent collectors within the Web3 ecosystem and he has been exhibited at Art Basel in Miami, NY Times Square as part of a World tour with Art Crush, La Biennale di Venezia, and many others.

Chris graduated in 2013 from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena with a Bachelor of Science in Automotive Design/Industrial Design.