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Akira Ohiso

Akira Ohiso is a Seattle-based artist who has been working with digital applications since 2014.  He works mostly on an iPad using Procreate and his index finger.  Before he moved to digital , he was primarily exploring collage and assemblage processes . Akira plays with the relationship between digital and analog and enjoys using mass-produced services such as Fed Ex to print his art and IKEA to frame it.  Utilizing “low brow” materials and processes hints at his comfort with pop and outsider art iconography.  

As a child, he studied painting with Aida Wheden, a regional artist who was taught by Thomas Hart Benton and Hans Hoffman.  Akira received his BA in Studio art in 2001 where he received creative guidance from Lilliana Porter, Maureen Connor and Debra Priestley.  He lives in Seattle with his wife and three children.

Ellie Ohiso

Ellie is an accomplished designer and marketer and has been creative director for a NY based advertising agency for over a decade. Ellie holds a BA with Honors from Queens College, majoring in the arts and marketing, and continued her graduate education at the Gallatin School of the Arts at NYU. She is a graduate Fellow of the Newington Cropsey Foundation in Hastings-on-Hudson. As co-founder and publisher of Green Door Magazine, Ellie guided the creative and marketing elements within the publishing plan and supervised the advertising and circulation efforts.