For years, Nathan Ota has been pursuing new worlds, both dark and fantastic, to explore in his paintings. Ota has used his stand-ins – a blind bird, a drunk monkey, a one-eyed robot lost in the woods – to travel through dreamlands that hold fantasies and tragedies. Ota graduated from Art Center College of Art and Design with a BFA in Illustration,1993. Ota currently teaches at Otis College of Art and Design and Santa Monica College.

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