Muralists who live and work in Los Angeles often add color and culture to the city's concrete facades. His work is a tribute to the life and times of the city. For our annual feature on holiday wrapping paper, Times art directors commissioned eight Los Angeles muralists to illustrate intriguing designs, from a Dodger tribute to candy perfect for the season. (You can find all the designs in the Sunday weekend print section.)
Here you can read about the artists and download your favorite designs to use on your computer and phone. Or you can print them at home and use them to wrap as you like.
Daniel Antelo
Daniel “Downtown Daniel” Antelo is a Los Angeles muralist and oil painter who is celebrated for his dynamic style that fuses hyperrealism with abstract elements. His art, which has featured the Dodgers, Nike, and Kobe Bryant's family, among other clients, reflects a deep connection to the culture and community of Los Angeles.
You can see more of his work on Instagram @downtowndaniel and on his website, downtowndaniel.net.
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Marisabel Bazan
Marisabel Bazán is a Panamanian artist based in Los Angeles known for her vibrant and multidisciplinary works that encompass painting, sculpture and public art. Her art explores themes of metamorphosis, mental health, and the human spirit, with notable commissions such as “Dance of the Butterflies” (West Hollywood) and “Il Cammino Della Farfalla” (Panama City, Panama). Exhibited internationally, including at the United Nations in Geneva, Bazán's work is part of prominent collections around the world. A strong advocate for mental health, she fuses creativity and humanitarian efforts through powerful projects and collaborations with global brands.
You can see more of her work on Instagram @marisabelbazan and on her website, marisabelbazan.com.
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Parisa Parnian
Parisa Parnian is an Iranian American artist and cultural storyteller based in Los Angeles whose work bridges the worlds of food, design, and art.
With a creative practice focused on celebrating immigrant and diaspora communities, Parnian uses her illustrations to reflect her passion for connecting cultures through the use of bold patterns, vibrant colors, and meaningful narratives. Her work, deeply inspired by her experiences as a visual artist and culinary creative, aims to honor heritage while reinventing it for a modern, multicultural audience.
You can see more of her work on Instagram @savage_taste and on her website. savagemuse.com.
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Cleon Peterson
Cleon Peterson is a Los Angeles-based artist whose chaotic and violent paintings depict the struggle between power and submission in the fluctuating architecture of contemporary society. His category-defying work has illustrated articles in the New York Times, fiction by George Saunders in the New Yorker, and Penguin Classics edition of Philip K. Dick's “The Man in the High Castle.” In 2020, he launched a series of instrumental political posters disseminated through his website.
You can see more of his work on Instagram @cleonpeterson and on his website, cleonpeterson.com.
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Brenda Cibrian
Brenda Cibrian is a Los Angeles-based artist and muralist whose work focuses on nostalgic, dreamlike, and introspective themes. When collaborating with communities and clients, he uses his murals to showcase cultural elements, nature and diversity with the intention of beautifying spaces with uplifting art. As a multidisciplinary visual artist, Cibrian says her media includes large-scale murals, original paintings, illustrations and graphic design.
You can see more of her work on Instagram @brendacibrian_art and on her website, brendacibrian.com.
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Mikołaj Wyszynski
Mikolaj Wyszynski is a painter and illustrator from downtown Los Angeles. He works primarily with acrylics mixed with spray paint and enamels for his paintings and murals. His new work focuses on technology-enabled portraits and fictional landscapes riddled with cyber-trash.
You can see more of his work on Instagram @mikolajone and his website, mikolajw.com.
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Núria Ortíz
Ms. Yellow, also known as Nuria Ortiz, is a self-taught Mexican-American muralist and teaching artist from Carson. She has dedicated her time to creative development and empowering communities, working closely with schools, galleries, organisations, museums and others to develop art workshops, murals and mentoring for young people. The central themes of his artwork are culture, folklore, mental health, education, unity, love and social justice.
You can see more of her work on Instagram @MsYellowArt.
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Kim Gaeta
Kim Gaeta is a Mexican-American artist and muralist who was born in Los Angeles. His focus is on what unites the human condition with nature and the cycles of life and death. Working with a variety of media including assemblage, drawing, printing and painting, she has explored flora, fauna, folklore and symbols. His images are often surreal and focus on the symbolism of nature.
The following illustration unites hope, prosperity and good luck in the new year. Kim uses ladybugs as berries to symbolize good luck, wreaths to symbolize eternal unity, and candles to symbolize light in the darkness.
You can see more of her work on Instagram @tarantula_garden and on her website kimgaeta.com.
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