Welcome to Art Squat.
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Cover Artist
Helena B Klaus truly deserves to be our issue's Cover artist, and she deserves so much more. This fellow German lad, with her exceptional artistic talents, creates the MOST beautiful paintings! Inspired by the great Austrian painters such as Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt, she too has mastered how to craft interesting, emotional characters. Something that I find unique about her art is that she uses coffee to stain certain parts and so bring out the intensity of the image
I fell in love with her work the moment I saw it and I am so beyond happy that I get to share her work and her story with you, dear readers. Please enjoy our interview:
Helena Klaus
Featured Artists
Rey Fritsch
April Werle
Carlos Leal
David Nelson
Dean Rosenzweig
Guillermo Bert
Alexsandra De Pan
Iris Scott
Jeff Lavinsky
Tetiana Kalivoshko
Saskia
Jim Mooijekind
Kalle Hellźen
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Marisa Caichiolo - DIVERSEartLA
The LA Art Show 2024
Music
Elinor Sitrish
Elinor Sitrish is an Israeli-American singer-songwriter born in the city of Dimona, Israel.
At a very young age, she had an affinity for music. She began singing, writing, and performing as early as 9 years of age and routinely kept doing so throughout her school years.
Shortly after graduation she began working with other professionals in the music industry and performed around Israel and Europe. Elinor's musical influences are incredibly diverse r
anging from classic to modern Rock, Pop, Blues, Soul, and Jazz. Her ability to infuse this vast range of musical styles along with her deep middle-eastern roots helped create a truly
unique concoction of her own. Once she completed her mandatory two-year service in the Israeli Defense Forces she made a decision to move to the United States to pursue her music career.
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Featured Artists
Ioana Pioaru
Lovisa Kjerrgren
Marco Oliver
Martial Yapo
Matthew Dibble
Megan Galiber
Otto Baum
Patricia Espinosa
Raquel Barrios
Katie Middleton
The Artruist Collective
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What is an Art Squat and how did this journey begin?
Well, many many moons ago, circa 1999, my brother Michael Otto, who just prefers to be called Otto, was
friends with a guy named Andy who lived in a fourplex on Genesee ave. just south of Melrose, across from
Fairfax High school. Andy had told my brother that there was an empty two bedroom apartment on the second
level across from his and that the Landlord hadn't been seen in years and nobody was paying rent. He went
on to tel my brother that the empty unit was filled with junk that had to be cleared out but once that was
done, the space could be used as an art gallery. So, my brother and I and a few other friends, spent a few
days clearing out all the junk, and we put large locks on the doors so that nobody could enter without us.
There was no power in the unit that we occupied, so, whenever we had an art opening, Andy would run power
cables out his back window and into the empty unit. Collectively we came up with the name Art Squat for our
new gallery and we had some crazy raging parties. This went on for several years. The Landlord was never seen
or heard from. In fact, there was a garage behind the property that had a vintage car in it and boxes of
newspapers from the 80's.
Read the full Story about Art Squat's origins
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Camille Waldorf
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Previous Issues
Issue 1, May 2021
Issue 2, August 2021
Issue 3, December 2021
Issue 4, May 2022
Issue 5, September 2022
Issue 6, December 2022
Issue 7, May 2023
Issue 8, October 2023
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