Leon Keer is a world-leading artist in anamorphic street art. He has executed commissions in Europe, The United States, Mexico, The United Arabic Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Russia, New Zealand, Australia and several countries in Asia. Keer’s work creates an interplay between a sense of playfulness and idealized beauty and the reality of our surroundings. His paintings reflect his thoughts, confronting …
Van Holmgren was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in central Iowa. He has worked as a professional artist for 10 years and as a full-time artist for the last six. His work has been shown across the United States and as far as London, Australia, Canada, and Brazil. There is a visual vibrancy that is consistently seen in his …
Todd Niccum is a native of Knoxville, Iowa and is a graduate of DMACC and NE Missouri State University (now Truman State University.) His jobs in offset printing, creating retail displays and architectural millwork created the foundation for his own design and build business, T and B Design Lab, in 2013. He has created projects for museums including the Des …
Juanjo Novella is an artist who has been linked to public art since the beginning of his career. With 37 years of experience, he has focused on the intersection of urban and social spheres within the realm of public art. Over the years, he has contributed to urban regeneration projects in cities such as Barcelona, Bilbao, and Madrid. Today, Novella …
Ricardo Gonzalez is a designer and artist from Durango, Mexico, currently living in Brooklyn, New York. His work is identifiable by his signature script style seen on large-scale murals, commercial work for some of the most notable brands, and sometimes just a simple sticker on the street. He studied graphic design at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Canada, and postgraduate program for typographic …
Ben Schuh is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in the Des Moines Metro. Schuh has exhibited in a number of national arts festivals and has collectors across the United States as well as in Canada and Europe. His artworks feature in both private and public venues, where he aims to transform cities, neighborhoods, and private collections.
Born in Kentucky, raised in Ohio, and currently residing in Iowa City, Iowa, Thomas Agran is interested in the Midwest — for both its charms as well as its challenges. He is particularly dedicated to the Midwestern landscape, its total transformation through agriculture, and the political, social, and environmental consequences of that change. Some of his paintings also explore the complicated …
Iowa based artist Jill Wells is best known for her dynamic and colorful narrative paintings investigating race, history, stereotypes, accessibility and the human condition. Born in 1980 in Des Moines, Iowa, Wells was raised in Indianola, Iowa. She studied at Drake University (BFA 2005). An award-winning painter, Wells has been in practice for more than 18 years, with public and …
Huma Bhabha is a Pakistani-American sculptor living and working in Poughkeepsie, New York. Her imposing, fragmented figures draw upon representations of the human form from the Paleolithic to present, generating amalgamations of time and place. She considers the comparisons between found and manmade materials in her work, often using bronze for her large-scale figural sculptures. Bhabha was born in Karachi, …
The artist team of Beau Kenyon and Natalia Zubko worked collaboratively to create River Constellation. Learn more about each artist.