LA artist Doug Aitken’s Text Sculpture series uses light-boxes, mirror works, living plants and photography to create interplay of words and images. Aiken has a previous body of work ranging from photography, films, installations and architectural interventions, and has collaborated with the likes of very cool Tilda Swinton and Cat Power.

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LA-based artist and Sumi Ink Club founder Sarah Anderson focuses on collaborative work, inviting anyone who wants to join her in creating massive ink drawings. Still, she maintains a pretty distinct style. If you’re in Baltimore, check out her stuff at the Harmonic Huh show at the Hexagon, which will be up until June 19.

LA-based conceptual artist Zach Stadel examines the assumptions and presumed utility ascribed to various materials by reworking the ways in which they define and are defined by space, gravity, and light.

LA-based renaissance man David Choe draws from toy culture and comics as much as he does from Japanese painting and conceptual high art. Choe has a massive body of work, which includes sculptures, installations, murals, paintings, photographs, and graphic novels. Legend has it that his first exhibition at an ice cream shop stayed up two years longer than originally planned because his pieces sold faster than the ice cream itself.