Information provided by the Artist: Northern California artist Bryan Valenzuela has spent the last couple decades aiming to perfect a unique drawing technique involving the atomization of the figure by carving out shape, shadow and light with handwritten text. Though virtually unnoticeable from afar, once the viewer steps closer they are engulfed in a barrage of words intermingled with other mixed media elements. In 2016 Valenzuela ventured into the public art sphere, garnering a large commission from the City of Sacramento. He has since completed many permanent public and private works in San Francisco, Chicago, Washington D.C., Malibu, and Napa. He has won First Place at the Crocker-Kingsley Biennial, Best in Show at the California State Fair Fine Art Exhibition, and exhibited nationally in many group shows, most notably for Scope at Miami Art Basel and Moniker in London. In 2025 one of his works joined the Crocker Art Museum’s permanent collection.