Recent work by Lauren YS in North Hollywood.

@thethirdman8 👟

A neon dream - incredible artistic vision and narrative. ꓄ꁝꏂ ꋬꋊꉔꏂꇙ꓄ꋪꋬ꒒ ꉔꋪꌦꉣ꓄📿 by @squid.licker. #beautifulbizarre #surrealism #laurenys #squidlicker #neon #contemporaryarts #installationart #artinspiration https://www.instagram.com/p/CqIvQdtMhjd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#Streetart by #LaurenYS @squid.licker in #Osaka, Japan, for #Yodokabe @yodokabe More info at: https://barbarapicci.com/2022/11/10/streetart-lauren-ys-osaka-japan/ #streetartosaka #streetartjapan #japanstreetart #art #graffiti #murals #murales #urbanart #muralism #muralismo #streetarteverywhere #instastreetart #streetartphotography #streetartpics #streetartaddicted #streetartlover #igersstreetart #graffitiart #arteurbana #wallart #spraypaint #spraypaintart #contemporaryart #artecontemporanea https://www.instagram.com/p/CkyPsiKI6n7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Influenced by her Asian American heritage and a wide range of skills and experiences—academics, literature and writing, teaching, illustration, and animation—Los Angeles-based Lauren YoungSmith, aka Lauren YS, is inspired by dreams, symbolism, and mythology. Landing on the urban art scene Lauren creates "a misfit wonderland in which imaginary heroines can address the absurdities of reality"—work that @SeaWalls_ says "aims to bring a sense of vibrancy and wonder to every community she approaches." Participating in Sea Walls San Diego in 2016 at Upas and 30th streets, YS painted this message about the environmental toll of ocean acidification....and offered up further evidence of the existence of mermaids.  @squid.licker/

Long Beach!!! I feel like you’re so close, yet, so far away right now! I’ll be back soon to visit @squid.licker’s @powwowlongbeach wall and all the others soon enough 🤞🏽 And to all my LBC dispensaries I miss you all too, I can’t wait until we can do face to face business again! Happy 4/20 weekend everyone! #LaurenYS #LoloYS #SquidLicker #powwowlongbeach #powwowlongbeach2018 Lauren painted this in two days. @powwowworldwide #powwowworldwide #muralism #muralart #LongBeach #longbeachstreetart #artingwithhalopigg #allthehits #HalopiggArchives #ImChillinAtHome (at Long Beach, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_FhcTZHJkx/?igshid=wjgbopmb2ya7

Done by me, some years ago. Original painting “fu” by lauren YS aka squid licker

by Lauren “laurenys” YoungSmith