In the Paint (ITP) is an organizational initiative stemming from the Lakers 6-point Racial Equity Plan. The Program seeks to recognize and support the creative talent of L.A. based BIPOC artists. Band of Vices (BoV) is honored to be a part of ITP as it aligns with BoV’s core mission of providing opportunities to undervalued people and communities

THE EXHIBITION

All works below are for sale through Band of Vices. To purchase any of the pieces click on the image. On the specific artwork page there is a purchase option. If the Work is available you can purchase it by adding it to your cart and checking out.

NOTE: All works will be included in an ITP x BoV exhibiton scheduled to take place in Band of Vices’ Sacred House March 31 - April 16, 2022. Works purchased will be available for pickup/delivery following the Exhibition but no later than May 1, 2022.

Charly Palmer - Featured Artist

In the Paint Featured Artist and Creative Director Charly Palmer was born in 1960 in Fayette, Alabama and raised in Milwaukee. He relocated to Chicago to study Art and Design at American Academy of Art and School of the Art Institute. As a graphic designer and illustrator, he has run a successful design studio with a Fortune 500 clientele. As an instructor, he teaches design and illustration and painting at the post-secondary level—most recently—Spelman College. Currently, Palmer devotes his life to his creative goals and has established himself as a fine artist of note.

Oladigbolu Phemi Adeniran

Phemi Adeniran is a Nigerian artist who emigrated to the United States in 1997. He graduated in 1986 with a degree in fine arts, specializing in sculpture Yaba College of Technology, Yaba Lagos. Phemi is a multi-talented artist, who expresses himself in the material, and medium that best expresses the statement he wants to pass across and he runs his studio in Carson California. He has participated in several art shows. Phemi Adeniran is an educator and has a Masters Science Degree.

Andre Ajibade

Ande Ajibade was born in Los Angeles, California, but spent his formative years in Nigeria, West Africa. His art as a whole, is about truthful history and awareness and is combined with the other subjects, sports, politics and culture to make strong comments. Influenced by Renaissance master, Rafael and Baroque master, Caravaggio, Andre’s art is a representational style with lots of strong colors. He works in various mediums, like oil on canvas, oil pastels on illustration board, water colors, colored pencils, charcoal and graphite. His recent works are strong commentaries against racism and social injustice.

Moses Ball

As an artist from South Central Los Angeles, Moses strives to create impactful large-scale murals and mosaics, as well as personal fine artworks which tell the story of community heroes, activists, and everyday folks. He creates images that are themed around social justice and spirituality, highlighting the heroism and power of those who are ignored or marginalized

Ryan Bautista

Ryan Bautista is a Filipino-American collage artist and a proud Los Angeles native. After earning a bachelors in business and a minor in studio arts from Loyola Marymount University he shortly followed with a masters in business analytics from UC, Irvine. Throughout his career in entertainment, he continuously experimented with mediums such as photography, abstract painting and analog & digital collage art. He rediscovered collages in 2020 as a way to express the nuanced emotions during the eventful year. His current work focuses on diversity, the duality of identity as an Asian American and the “in between” emotions we experience which can be seen from his unique color palette

Chantee Benefield

Chantee Benefield is a native Californian, born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley. She studied Painting and Art History at Howard University (BFA). Chantee’s creative pursuits have spanned the fields of fashion, interior design, film and television as a designer and scenic painter. She is a mixed media artist and enjoy’s working in a variety of styles which range from realistic portraiture to fantasy and abstract expressionism. Her work is informed and inspired by subjects in art history and African American culture and the myriad of ways they intersect.

Da’Kise Boyd

Dakise born in Pasadena, CA is a graphic artist, a sound engineer, and co-owner of a media group called 15FIFTEEN. Dakise has been creating for 10+ years and was inspired by his group of friends to become an artist. After graduating high school Dakise and his friends formed a creative group called “Dirty Legends” which consist of a few graphic artists, music producers, R&B, rap artists. Dakise sees the world through different shades of colors and unique abstract shapes, and that is what he expresses through his art.

Jarrett Camp

Award winning Los Angeles artist Jarrett Camp was born in Warren, Ohio and grew up mostly in West Covina, California where he became fascinated with skateboard culture. He finds inspiration in way the people of LA express their passion, whether it’s through skateboarding, fine art or graffiti. Dyslexia affects the left side of the brain impairing the ability to sort out language in the correct sequence, which in turn makes processing the alphabet extremely difficult. While this is a challenge, Camp has leveraged the inherent benefits of dyslexia - an aptitude for two dimensional representation as well as three dimensional design.

Gabe Gault

Gabe Gault’s work challenges assumptions. Employing classical painting techniques while using modern mediums, Gault bucks conformity, not allowing himself or his work to be easily defined. Channeling Renaissance portraiture and still-lifes, Gault explores his identity as a Black American, re-appropriating, breaking down, and repurposing Colonial influences in order to celebrate Culture. The symbiosis of classic imagery representing abundance and wealth and the modern fascination with innovation and forward movement is at the core of Gault’s vision as an artist.

Buena Johnson

Buena is a local Los Angeles visual artist, arts instructor and owner of Buena Vision Art Studio. The aim of her work is to inform, uplift, educate, motivate positive change and heal. Her style is realism/photorealism. The media she uses is mainly Pencil. Buena’s work has been showcased in the Smithsonian, The Getty collection, MOCA Los Angeles, and other museums and galleries nationally and internationally, and can be accessed in a variety of publications. Buena graduated from the Pratt Institute of Art and is currently a art professor at UCLA

Patrick Henry Johnson

Patrick Henry Johnson is a Los Angeles based artist / muralist who was born in Valdosta, Georgia. Patrick attended The Art Institute of Ft Lauderdale in Ft. Lauderdale Florida. Patrick left Ft Lauderdale and moved to Los Angeles to further his career as an artist. Patrick became a full time muralist and began painting murals in Italy, Finland, Germany, Great Britain and Alaska. In 2016 after a two decade mural ban was lifted, Patrick was the first artist chosen to paint a mural on public property funded by the city of Los Angeles. Patrick coined his style Heroic Surrealism.

Kiara Eileen Machado

Kiara Aileen Machado was born in Lynwood, California. She received her BFA in Painting and Drawing from California State University Long Beach. Machado’s pieces confront the erasure experienced by marginalized communities. Mainly focusing on the Central American perspective, her work brings into question the absence and exclusion of Central American Folk from mainstream U.S. and Latinx narratives. Machado’s work has been featured nationally, including the John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art in Reno Nevada, LHUCA gallery in artiTexas, Stamp Gallery at the University of Maryland, SOMArts and Acción Latina Juan R. Fuentes Gallery in San Francisco, Frederic Jameson Gallery at Duke University, the University Art Museum in Long Beach, 72andSunny, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Angel Gates Cultural Center in San Pedro, UCF in Orlando, Florida and was a part of “Art Without Borders” in Florence, Italy.

Ehsaan Mesghali

Ehsaan Mesghali is a creative director trained in architecture, professionally involved in creative marketing and design since 2008. Holding senior positions at various agencies in the Los Angeles area, today he works primarily as a design consultant, educator and artist. With a background that touches on multiple disciplines at a professional level, his studio’s most recent internal experiments surround themes of geometry, color and pattern inspired by the calligraphic traditions of his parent’s native Iran. He has been experimenting with tape stencils and spray paint as a medium for over a decade, and is currently partnered with Puma after exhibiting with them at Art Basel Miami in 2018 and 2021.

Obi Oduah

Obi Oduah is a self-taught visual artist currently residing in Los Angeles, CA. Obi is originally from Nigeria but was raised in the Midwest. After graduating from Miami University with his BA in Business Administration, he focused on his professional career which resulted in relocating to 7 different states in 15 years. Art in all forms has always had a big role in his life but turned into his escape from his demanding professional career in 2011. His art is driven by contrast, simplicity vs. complexity and mono vs poly chromatic with inspiration from artists such as Thierry Le Goues and Kehinde Wiley.

Travion Payne

Artist Travion Payne is an African American artist from Houston, TX. While he has recently acquired BS in psychology his passion for creating art has never left him. In fact, he likes to utilize his psychological background to create thought provoking paintings with a goal to emotionally influence the viewers of his work. His art sheds light on controversial topics that will give insight into the issues that black men face. Issues such as mental illness in correlation with religion, colorism, homophobia, and fragile masculinity within the black community.

Antonio Pelayo

Artist Antonio Pelayo, born in Glendale, California and yet raised for most of his childhood in the Mexican countryside, has never had his own country. At nine, his family sent him back to his father’s village in Mexico, Years later his family brought him back to Glendale, which he now saw through the lens of Mexico. It looked unreal; it did not look like home. Nothing looked like home anymore; not Mexico, not Southern California. The one home he had was his art. Though his mastery of pencil and paper began in the nave of an old country church in Mexico, in America his skill developed even further. In 2005, with his first art-show, a new chapter in Pelayo’s career had begun.