Long Beach-based artist JOHN CULQUI‘s illustrative style and work appeals to anyone who loves the Southern California culture and lifestyle. His illustrative style transports viewers into an endless summer of backyard bowls and local beach breaks where your next drop-in is always your best. The work featured in Ocean Size is inspired from Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, other literary classics such as The Brothers Grimm “Fisherman Wife” and the 1962 Tom and Jerry cartoon “Dicky Moe”.

San Diego artist C.MARTINO showcases the latest additions to his ongoing “Surf Sacrifice” series of board-based surf shrines. tiki totems and broken board requiems. Utilizing the materials and ephemera of surf culture, the series seeks to create secular tableau’s of oceanic faith transformed by the mythic power of devotion to swell, tide and time.