////////// Artists_ Maya Hayuk + Fafi

_ Maya Hayuk_

"Hayuk's paintings, prints, drawings and photographs can range from tender mockeries of idealized social rituals such as hot tubbing or undressing, to transcendent portrayals of geometries giving way to nature. She was raised by Ukrainian immigrant parents in a Wonderbread suburb of Baltimore, converting to punk rock at an early age. After extensive travel throughout the US, Europe, U.S.S.R. and Northern Africa, Maya earned a BFA in Conceptual Art, New Genres and Philosophy studying in Boston, Toronto and Odessa, Ukraine. She has shown her paintings in SF, LA, NY, Tokyo, London, Paris, Seattle, Portland, Raleigh and Baltimore, and lives between San Francisco and Brooklyn." _ Imperfect Articles

_Fafi_

Born and raised in Toulouse France, Fafi's strong presence in the graffiti and fine arts scene was witnessed on her first hometown walls in 1994. Back then, as she was painting and hustling, her sexy, funny, and sometimes aggressive girl characters made the whole world look and help kick-start a whole new graphic language; by exploring feminity through stereotypes, and using it to her advantage, she drew enormous attention and thus started to travel the world with thousands of Fafinettes in her brushes and paint cans. Back then, as she was painting and hustling, her sexy, funny, and sometimes aggressive girl characters made the whole world look and help kick-start a whole new graphic language; feminity by exploring through stereotypes, and using it to her advantage, she drew enormous attention and thus started to travel the world with thousands of Fafinettes in her brushes and paint cans. Europe, USA, Japan, Hong-Kong, the planet is a playground. Europe, USA, Japan, Hong Kong, the planet is a playground. And it's only started. And it's only started. - Fafi.net