My name is Louis LIV. I’m an artist, designer, producer, and printmaker born and based in the greatest city in the world, Los Angeles. My work is rooted in the emotional and physical landscape of the city: cracked pavement, reflective street signs, atlas pages, peeling vinyl, graffiti, municipal typography, and the weathered infrastructure that most people pass without thinking twice about. The street of today is very different from the street of my memory, and my work lives in that space between what Los Angeles was, what it has become, and what it still means to the people who move through it every day. I think of myself as both a literal and figurative street artist. The street is my subject, my material, my archive, and my medium. Through printmaking, collage, textiles, sculpture, sound, and functional objects, I transform everyday materials into culturally rich artifacts that reflect the beauty, grit, glow, contradictions, and lived experience of the city. I’ve driven a million miles through these streets. This is what I found.

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