Los Angeles based Artist Koko Alexander on Trendy Art Ideas

My Proper noun is Koko Alexander, and I am an artist living in Los Angeles. I would say my paintings are vibrant, whimsical, and very dreamy. I just love color to exist honest. Living in LA has definitely influenced my style. I love the architecture and terrain that is wrapped upwardly in an utterly huge and exciting city. It really fascinates me. If you step outside and wait up, you see completely withal palm copse against a never catastrophe blue sky, but also high rising buildings, neon signs, and mansions on rolling hills. It just seems very otherworldly and like a surrealist painting in itself.

I am currently working on a Palm Springs serial which y'all see in the photos here. Information technology's a historical town a couple hours away in the desert, and to me, information technology feels like a paradisiacal fourth dimension capsule. My two favorite artists are David Hockney and Edward Hopper, who both have a huge influence in my work. People could describe my artistic mode as a hybrid of 'Nighthawks' and 'A Bigger Splash'. I call up I love Hockney and then much is considering nosotros share a common ground of both being gay and living (at 1 point or some other) in Los Angeles, and to me the paintings that he created while living here in the lx'due south seem that much more meaningful. ~ @kokoalexander

Joy Ride Oil Painting on canvas by Koko Alexander