The Pier Group

Robert Jensen

Marc Ippon de Ronda

Dan Mountain

Jessi Sprocket Janusee

Randy Polumbo

Randy Polumbo is an installation-based artist who divides his time between Joshua Tree, California, and New York City. His artwork has been shown internationally in museums and galleries and characteristically takes the form of large-scale interventions into urban and rural landscapes.

Josh Zubkoff

Josh Zubkoff is a San Francisco based artist, whose versatile work explores the intersection of pop culture and profound meaning. He is the Creative Director and founding member of the Looking Up Arts Foundation, a San Francisco-based non-profit organization established in 2018 dedicated to large scale art installations.

Srikanth Guttikonda

Sri is a physicist turned engineer and artist based in San Francisco. He pursues his particular interest in art and Idealism by harnessing technology and pop culture to achieve new imaginative goals in sculpture design. Sri is a co-founder and the current CFO of Looking Up Arts foundation.

Hank Willis Thomas

Hank Willis Thomas is an American conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to identity, history, and popular culture.

Benjamin Langholz

I think of my artwork as a series of experiments in collecting elements of what affects humans, those elements that make up the core of the human experience, and combining these elements via sculpture to guide the visitor towards a moment of intensified consciousness. A moment, wherein its purest form, one feels as if their body and mind are operating at its highest potential and that the world forms naturally into collaboration with that potential. In service to this pursuit, I restrain my materials and visuals to those that are honest, as well as minimal. All of my recent works are interactive, and I consider the artwork to be not what one sees, but rather what one feels. In the coming years, I intend to continue my series of experiments in collecting feelings. To guide as many people as possible towards moments in which they encounter themselves. Work more directly with land itself. As well as to widen the breadth of emotion that I expect to convey in my work.

Christina Sporrong

Christina Sporrong is an artist and metal sculptor based out of Northern New Mexico. She was born in Sweden and raised all over the world but abandoned big city life to live in the high mountain desert. Sporrong established Spitfire Forge, a commercial blacksmithing and fabrication shop in 1996. She teaches national and local welding and blacksmithing workshops as a means to empower women and to de-mystify the process of working with metal. She also teaches welding classes through the University of New Mexico and at Vista Grande Charter School. Sporrong’s work often contains an intersection of performance, sound, form and interactivity. A few highlights of these merging disciplines are Amortec, a disjointed romantic dance between a robot and a woman on stilts; The Heron Project, a kinetic sculpture that acts as an aerial performance playground; and Caged Pulse Jets, a fiery cacophonous sound sculpture that the audience can play like an instrument. With the installation Mitt Uthus Sporrong investigates the way that current collective human experience is condensed through memes. The audience is invited to sit, explore and meditate in solitude, inside a tiny red outhouse with hundreds of memes as well as phone screens covering the interior walls. With this exploration into socio-political themes and viral media she is uncovering the humor and power wielded by these familiar cultural sound bites. Her largest sculpture to date, is the Flybrary, a 40-foot tall steel head with book-like birds flying out from the top. The stylized planar head is looking upwards its eyes following the flock of aluminium book- birds with a contemplative stare. While it was installed at Burning Man, the interior of the head functioned as a fantastical multi-level library, filled with books, reading nooks, neuron inspired chandeliers, all of which created an inspiring space to allow your ideas to take flight. The Flybrary is currently freeing its thoughts at the Chatsworth House gardens in Derbyshire, England, as part of the Radical Horizons exhibition. Sporrong spends a good part of the year traveling and the rest of the year with her family at her homestead in Taos, NM.

Marco Cochrane

ARTIST. SCULPTOR. METAL WORKER. Marco Cochrane was born to American artists in Venice, Italy in 1962 and raised in Northern California in the midst of the political and cultural movement of those times. As a result, Marco learned respect for oneness, balance and the imperative to make the world a better place. In particular, he identified with the female struggle with oppression and saw feminine energy and power as critical to the world’s balance. In his 20s, on a dare, he explored sculpting and discovered both his ability to capture human emotion and energy and the power of art to amplify. Self-taught, for more than 20 years Marco sculpted in clay and cast in bronze, primarily women who chose their own poses, their own expressions. In 2007 he attended the Burning Man Festival and was inspired to take his art and his message in a new direction, he just did not yet know how. In 2009 he returned, and it was then he realized how he could enlarge his sculptures to monumental proportions while maintaining their integrity, thus magnifying their impact. Marco believes that the time we have to solve the problems that threaten our existence on this planet is running out, and that the key to finding real lasting solutions is bringing feminine energy into balance with male energy: a global shift, already underway.