Known for his hyper-detailed, meticulously hand-cut stencils, Los Angeles-based Logan Hicks has risen to the top ranks of his field with his borderline obsessive approach to the stencil medium. Using a non-intuitive approach to color, layering and scale, Hicks' recent work exposes the hidden structural parallels that unite architecture and the urban “organism” with their counterparts in the natural world, leaving the viewer surprised, delighted, and haunted.

Albuquerque-born, Oakland-based Adam5100 pushes the stencil medium to its outer limits. The products of a painstakingly complex process - incorporating as many as a dozen separately cut stencil layers - his finished pieces are unexpectedly serene and contemplative, yet somehow unsettling. His recent paintings challeng our concepts of modernity, using spaces as a language to describe forgotten places, giving them a story and a context within the present.