A New York beacon of a storytelling, Street Artist NohJColey carves lino block prints, hand cuts paper filigree, and builds interactive sculptures to bring family, friends, and fictional characters to the street. Unconventional, eclectic, and story-driven, NohJ mixes events from his life with science fiction, social critique, and a moshpit of metaphors . . .

Social scientist and Street Artist Specter uses paintings of people in your community to make the case with wheat-paste and a bit of sarcasm. Repainting sitters from photos shot on the street, Specter heralds and nearly deifies the everyday food delivery guy or homeless neighbor in oversized glory . . .

Former graffiti writer El Sol 25 is now a droll mashup enigma on New York streets, pasting up fully formed composites of people like puzzles in doorways. With a mix-n-match irreverent Girltalk mashup style emblematic of this time, the warmth and continuity come when you see that it is handmade and hand painted.

The gladdening and clean aesthetic of Street Artist Creepy belies a deeper well of existential considerations that are always a part of his narrative-driven character-based folk art. His large-scale public murals of illustrative aerosol toss and bounce skinny limbed people telling dark stories of ennui and disconnection, non-plussed in their muted earthen tones.

A Canadian pied piper of disjointed fellars and femmes in pied-colored hose and Cosby family sweaters, Street Artist Troy Lovegates AKA Other works tiny and large with a free-wheeling style that tramples over boundaries.

London Street Art duo Miss Bugs are design culture mixologist who take the practice of appropriation to a more finished end than the stencil kings of recent years heralding from their hometown of Bristol.

A student of graphic design and sociology, French Street Artist LUDO merges nature with weaponry into biomorphic Frankenplants; giant green flowers with closed circuit televisions instead of pistols, cabbages with gun turrets, cacti that turn into syringes.

Collaborators since 2005, this Berlin Street Art / fine art duo loves paper, public space, and a planned form of accidental beauty. Using techniques of screen print and collage, their figurative experiments dip into the nostalgic future and the ridiculous; together they toil as self-styled enthusiastic workers in a robot factory.

This summer, Corey Helford Gallery of Culver City celebrated its 5th Anniversary with a group exhibition showcasing some of the artists their space has dedicated to exhibiting this half decade. We talked to the gallery owners about the past 5 years, and what they are learning along the way.

Born in 1972 and raised in East Baltimore, Chris Stain is a New York-based, self taught stencil artist and print maker influenced by social realism, the plight of working people, and skateboarder culture.