My artistic influences and inspirations are as varied as where I have lived. From Gerhardt Richter to Janes Addiction, from Tom Waits to Richard Serra, from Bob Marley to Julie Mehratu, from Ruth Bader Ginzburg, to Arshile Gorky, Prince, De Kooning, Dylan, and so many more.

My process is everything to me. I have been digging for years to arrive at mark and surface. Light, depth, movement.

I use traditional and industrial tools and processes to create Galactic Infinity on Custom birch panels, and paper.

I have worked hard to achieve a contemporary surface, that is not glossy and textured but Layered, deep, complex, smooth, and elegant.

I studied closely with the great Bruce Mcgaw, Dewey Crumpler, and Jeremy Morgan while getting my BFA at Diego Riveras painting monastery in the amazing city of San Francisco, at 800 Chestnut st, the mighty San Francisco Art Institute.

I founded several arts organizations and businesses, including, AudioCinema LLC (Portland), Robertson Art Space LLC (LA), Downtown Arts District Association (LA), HemLine Records (SF), and San Francisco Painters Club (SF), and ilan Laks Art Studio (Culver City)

I have had the opportunity to work with some of my heroes, like George Clinton, Maria Abromovic, Jackson Brown, Bad Brains, GhostFace Killa, and great artists like Dan Gilsdorf, Jason Shawn Alexander, and Samantha Wall, Beyonce, Pink Martini, Pavement, Linda Perry, Katie Perry, and many more. I have also worked with amazing companies like Nike, Budweiser, Pabst, Willamette Week, DC Comics, PDXPOP, Music Fest NW, Red Dress, and so many more.I have been featured in many publications and appeared in too many group shows to mention. I have been represented by galleries in Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Holland. My art has shown in galleries nationally and internationally, as well as the Los Angeles Art Association, and the Orange County Center For Contemporary Art, chosen personally by the great art critic Peter Frank.

My large, non-representational pieces are and have been part of numerous public and private collections, including Merrill Lynch, Michael Ovitz, Sela Ward, Bank Of America, UCLA, MTV, the Mayan Theater and the Montage Hotel.

I am an artist and teacher, I have taught art to all age groups, in schools, institutions, camps, and privately.

I am the happy husband to a top tier Pilates Trainer, and the father of two beloved daughters.

I art and then I aren’t.

xoxo

ilan Laks

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