LOCAL ARTIST SHOWCASE
Among the many hopes and dreams we have for our restaurant, we always envisioned that Steel Cup Café would be a place of connection within our community, and a gathering place for creatives.
Our Local Artist Showcase features a rotating selection of pieces from amateur artists and photographers. Every piece is available to purchase on consignment from the artist. For more information about a specific piece, or to inquire about purchasing, please contact us.
2024 Artists have been selected. We will open up nominations for 2025 in November 2024 so keep an eye out if you or someone you know would like to be featured.
Michael Biagiotti
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Michael Biagiotti Gallery
Cara Gonzales
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Cara Gonzales Gallery
Roman Boiko
An avid photographer since childhood, Roman Boiko now takes a camera everywhere. His current interests include capturing the beauty of
Roman Boiko Gallery
Joanna Branch
Joanna Branch is a Long Beach abstract and still life digital artist and photographer. They enjoy playing with layers of line, pattern, symmetry and shape. This has been inspired by the different world cultures who use colour and repeating patterns to communicate or decorate. Joanna enjoys the development process that often transitions from photographs taken when walking, to a digital representation in the form of overlayed collage of lines, shapes and colours.
Joanna Branch Gallery
Ruttanatip (Dang) Chonwerawong
Dang Chonwerawong is an educational administrator who has dreamt of being an artist ever since she could remember. She uses the process of creating arts to help with her information, decision making, project planning, and oftentimes reflecting on difficult issues. Dang contributes her artwork toward social change by donating all proceeds to local non-profits. For this featured collection, proceeds will benefit the YWCA of Greater Los Angeles.
Dang Chonwerawong Gallery
Ketzie Diaz
Ketzie Diaz is a Long Beach artist working with relief printmaking.
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Myla Gonzales
Mixed media artist Myla Gonzales believes that when our eyes are more aware of the world around us, the inspirations and the appreciations unlock the box of creativity we all innately possess. With a Bachelor’s in Art Education from the Academy of Art University, she teaches at an art studio in Artesia. In this world that is constantly inundated with modern technology, she is passionate about finding little blissful moments. From fleeting to large encounters with people, animals and environment, this energy emanates within the paint and with every stroke of the palette knife, her favorite mode of transportation.
Myla Gonzales Gallery
Irina Mirskaya
Irina Mirskaya enjoys digital imaging and conventional painting with watercolor, egg tempera and oils. Her experience includes art directing of a textile studio, teaching art at Otis College, elementary schools and private workshops, illustrating greeting cards and children’s books, creating art dolls and hand-painted jewelry. Characters, real or imaginary, populate Irina’s art: people next door or from far away and long ago, animals and magical folk and creatures. Dancers and musicians take a special place in Irina’s creative journey. Every ethnic, cultural, or social group of people has its own dance and music traditions, either changing with the times or being cherished and carefully preserved through generations. People dance! When they are happy, they dance. When they are sad, they dance, too. Their emotions are expressed through the movement, and it’s a fulfilling challenge to capture that movement on paper. Ethnic costumes, researched or imagined, add a bonus point of interest for Irina, as a textile designer. Irina exhibited at the Pacific Design Center, The Optical Allusion Gallery, Chemers Gallery, Gatov Gallery, Slutzky Gallery, Esencia Flamenca Studio, among others. Born in Russia, Irina now lives and works in Long Beach, CA, with her husband and two children.
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