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Our Artists
Meet the innovative minds behind our creations. Each artist brings a distinct perspective and flair, blending together a vibrant tapestry of artistry.
At Seismique, work hand-in-hand with local talents and remarkable contributors from around the to create experiences that are both enchanting and unforgettable.
We celebrate their creativity, inspiring them to envision daring ideas bring those visions to life.
Nicky Davis
Nicky Davis’ art is an exploration into the ghost covered, rainbow splashed underworld of his imagination. Influenced from Saturday morning cartoons, graffiti covered walls, and long hikes through the wilderness; his body of work tries to make sense of nature, society, and what the hell it is that we are all doing here.
His illustrative style is consistent across a diverse range of mediums, including: Designer Toys, Murals, Fine art, and Merchandise. His work has been included in gallery exhibitions worldwide and his murals have been featured by numerous festivals such as: Pow Wow Worldwide, Awall Festival, Wild West Mural Fest, IllFest, Hue Festival, and more. Nicky collaborates with many corporations to spread his art including: NASA, Target, Red Bull, The Chive, and more.
Nicky Davis is a visual artist living and working in Houston, Texas. He received his Bachelors of Fine Arts from the University of Houston.
His illustrative style is consistent across a diverse range of mediums, including: Designer Toys, Murals, Fine art, and Merchandise. His work has been included in gallery exhibitions worldwide and his murals have been featured by numerous festivals such as: Pow Wow Worldwide, Awall Festival, Wild West Mural Fest, IllFest, Hue Festival, and more. Nicky collaborates with many corporations to spread his art including: NASA, Target, Red Bull, The Chive, and more.
Nicky Davis is a visual artist living and working in Houston, Texas. He received his Bachelors of Fine Arts from the University of Houston.
Santos Guerro
Santos began creating visual art in his early twenties, and employs a vast range of techniques from oil-based, acrylic, industrial and aerosol paints to avant-garde forms involving various forms of medium-applications. All of his pieces revolve around a keen eye for the emotive power of color.
Aerica Raven
Aerica Raven is a multidisciplinary artist from the Midwest. Intricate illustration, narrative murals, and dynamic installations highlight her body of work. In 2019, she began making paintings described as “light dynamic”–using the physics of light and color, she examines the transience of inner peace and outer chaos.
Input Output
Input Output is a creative media lab comprised of Billy Baccam and Alex Ramos. They bring inanimate structures and spaces to life by combining art, science, technology, and architecture with the creative implementation of light and sound. Together, Billy and Alex formed Input Output to research, design, and develop immersive, digital-physical experiences that challenge the ideas of what reality is and what reality can be in the future.
Moon Papas
Julian Luna and Matt Fries are a collaborative duo working primarily in large playful electronic sculpture, utilizing light, sound, interactive sensors, and a wide array of physical materials including steel, wood, and acrylic. Their work focuses on bringing the viewer into their own experience as an active participant, often directly interactive, but always bending perception—whether by the hand of the viewer or their minds. Together, Julian and Matt make up Moon Papas.
Jhonattan Arango
Jhonattan Arango makes geometric, abstract murals and paper art using only triangles. He uses art as a voice to bridge gaps —to compose visual stories inspired by universal law and beauty. He achieves this by juxtaposing, highlighting, and playing with both the size and color of each triangle to create depth and anatomical accuracy, bringing attention to each individual piece as an important part of the whole.
Larry Breaux
Larry Breaux has been programing and operating CNC mill machines professionally for 10 years producing elements for tradeshows, conventions, exhibits, escape rooms, and haunted houses. He enjoys working with artists and designers turning their concepts into reality. Additionally, Larry enjoys creating CNC & scroll saw projects of his own design in his home shop with his apprentice Phineas Droolington Wigglebottom.
Shokka
Shokka is a native Texan artist who strives to create work that is original and fun, finding their artistic voice through animation and illustrative work in which they can push everyday imagery into a more interesting light. Shokka’s main goal with their art is to inspire others to be loud, vibrant, and fun. Shokka wants to break away from boring and safe, and create the world they want to live in.
Dave Carry
“We always try to build something people can take pictures of to say, ‘I’m here,’” says scenic artist Dave Carry. His New Orleans company, Professional Scenic, built most of the environments, including rooms sprung from Carry’s imagination and rooms designed by artists who specialize in programming interactive spaces. Carry wants the crazy, 360-degree environments of Seismique to be more than pretty. “They need to do something,” he says.
Lindsay Layer & Jake Ezerski
Lindsay is a multifaceted artist who specializes in practical art & design applications such as gardening & landscaping, makeup artistry & modeling, costume/fashion & interior design & cooking.
Jake is a theoretical physicist with a love of art and music. He is especially fond of looking at the big picture, where art, science and technology meet. Jake specializes in circuit design, lighting, photography, sculpture, and digital media.
Jake is a theoretical physicist with a love of art and music. He is especially fond of looking at the big picture, where art, science and technology meet. Jake specializes in circuit design, lighting, photography, sculpture, and digital media.
Kenneth Navarro Jr.
Kenneth Navarro Jr. is a freelance sculptor/painter. He works many mediums including styrofoam, a variety of clays, and wax. He is also able to reproduce his intricate sculpts, as he has a great knowledge of mold making. Kenny has acquired numerous techniques by learning from his peers in his many years of sculpting and painting carnival props for Mardi Gras. As a child his curiosity would steer him to disassemble toys and electronics to see how it was made. This curiosity would later inspire him to pursue constructing projects of his own from scratch. Aspiration of engineering the next prototype, the entire process, to the final piece is what he strives for as an artist.
Dave Prez
Dave Prez is a New Orleans based carpenter with 25 years of experience. On the weekends you can catch him in the historic French Quarter jamming with numerous bands. Dave is most recently quoted saying, “I’m old, I don’t need exposure.”
Stephen Fishman
Stephen Hal Fishman is an Austin-based artist and designer creating experimental animated films, music videos, print media, interactive installations and live visual accompaniment for music and dance. His work is a playful synthesis of sci-fi surrealism and contemporary cultural critique.
Kaity Furdak
Kaity Furdak is a Scenic Painter based out of Buffalo New York. At the young age of 26, Kaity already has 10 years experience as a painter and set designer. As a co-owner of Overlook Creative, you can view her art in various theme parks across the United States. When she isn’t at her home, you can find her in New Orleans teaming up with her Art Heros down at Professional Scenic Services.
Jessica Guerra
Jessica Jill Guerra is a Houston-based fine artist and designer with a pure love of expressing beauty, from printmaking on lush paper and textiles, to painting outdoor civic and public art. Her work is recognized for its bold graphic florals, patterns, and inky woodcut impressions. Jessica’s creative work is guided by her substance and technical illustration detail, built upon years of painting architectural illustrations that gave her multidisciplinary skills and expertise in traditional mediums.
Smooth Technology
Smooth Technology is a one-stop creative engineering and design shop in Brooklyn, New York. A combination of cutting-edge technology and artistic sensibility allows them to create interactive experiences that are accessible, impactful, and visually stunning. Their work has made appearances on some of the biggest stages on earth. Past clients range from pop stars (Lady Gaga, Mariah Carey, Taylor Swift) to tech giants (Google, Amazon, Cisco) to museums and name brands (MoMA, Under Armour, Hasbro).
Lou’a Louise
Lou’a Louise is a true quadruple threat, an accomplished singer/songwriter, circus artist, producer, and mixed media artist. Performance wise, she is known for her silky smooth voice, jazzy musical stylings, and wide range of circus talents. Her fabrication specializes in textiles and large format interactive pieces. Her art is designed to be fun and approachable—cuddly even. She’s been seen all over the world from spending time in India with Performers Without Borders, to performing at the largest festivals in the world from Vegas to Mexico, and her work has been featured at well known events such as the Texas Renaissance Festival and Burning Man.
Boston Kassidy
Boston Kassidy hails from Dallas, TX, where he established his background in professional audio and visual entertainment. He spent years throwing parties, organizing sound, lighting, and aesthetic for a range of events. From collaborative artistic projects to corporate entertainment, Boston has had his hands in all things meant to curate an experience. When he came to join the team at Seismique, he brought these skills to help bring the space to life. Boston’s passion lies in the power of lights and music and it has been a pleasure to assist in helping the artists realize their visions.
Kevin Martino
“Born in Covington, Louisiana, Kevin Martino earned a Fine Arts degree in sculptural printmaking from Southeastern Louisiana University. Drawing from Southern street art, rap culture, and graffiti, he transforms raw influences into visual languages for broader audiences. Through 3D graffiti, fabric and vinyl printing, murals, and paintings, Martino reinvents the authentic spirit of rap and graffiti—using new materials and technologies to reimagine expression in a rapidly changing world.”
Samantha Parker
Samantha Parker creates large scale abstractions utilizing paper, plastic, and construction materials. Most recently, Samantha has been creating pop-up street installations across local Chicago schools and playgrounds. The series, Restricted Areas, captures a frozen moment in time, empty and devoid of movement during the Covid-19 pandemic.
John Rowland
As a south Louisiana native, John Rowland draws from memories of the natural beauty and function of his surroundings throughout his creative process. The art of movement and organic forms influence even stationary elements within his work. An Sculptor/Maker with a BFA from LSU, he works with many media including but not limited to wood, metal, foam, paint, and plastic to fabricate a piece. Less concerned with grand conceptual undertakings than the act of creating, his fascination lies with the problem solving and craft required in making something from nothing.
AlieRose
AlieRose is a 12 year Professional Hula Hoop and Fire Manipulator/Performer, who has evolved into an artisan of cosplay and wearable fire costuming, a producer of shows with talent from across the nation, and can be found regularly working on events all over Houston. Whether it be stage managing at the Texas Renaissance Festival, or performing in Discovery Green or in front of City Hall for the Art Car Ball. Her background in photography, love for nerd culture, and attraction to non-normative symbolism and aesthetics have created her unique style and performative presence here in Houston, TX.
Hai Ussin
Kai Ussin is an all-around artist in the animation industry. She has experience in multiple art forms like 3D modeling, concept art, and storyboards, but her passion is character Illustrations. She previously worked with other studios such as ‘FuelFx’, where she created digital art and 3D models for clients like Flowtek, Fracmax, Schlumberger, Memorial Hermann, and many more.
Mary Leigh Fitzmorris
“After beginning her career as a pastry chef, Mary Leigh transitioned into scenic art, starting as a shop sweeper before quickly proving her talent for faux finishes. She went on to lead finishing work for major productions including Disney’s Star Wars Launch Bay, the NFL Draft, and Comedy Central. With experience spanning murals, set design, automotive paints, and welding, she thrives on re-creating real-life textures and embracing new skills. Now part of Seismique, she’s excited to keep pushing her craft forward.”
Jesse Shoemaker
Jesse Shoemaker is a New Orleans native who considers himself a maker more than an artist. He is a trained make-up and special make-up FX artist who is always looking to learn a new skill or technique from anyone willing to teach him. Currently, his works have been focusing on Spray paint art, custom kitbash model building, creating incredible sets as well as displays. He does not limit himself to one particular style, or format, rather he is always looking to incorporate his skills in new ways. He draws inspiration from everyone and everything around him, other people’s creations, books, movies, and games.
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