Eric Zoueh Skotnes

Eric Skotnes is a Los Angeles-based urban artist known for interconnecting disparate styles into an aesthetically integrated whole. Skotnes began writing graffiti at 11 years old, an influence that has evolved throughout his career and remains prevalent in his outdoor murals. He studied illustration and fine art at Art Center College of Design and, through that training, is well versed in classical, figurative painting and knowledgeable about the history of art. Colliding these schoolings—one in the classroom, the other on the streets—Skotnes creates murals and works on canvas that juxtapose his wildstyle graffiti with figural renderings of classical sculptures from antiquity.