Framed photograph signed by Jeff Shelp, "Out There," 2024

Jeff Shelp began creating art and photography from an early age. Raised in the eclectic and experimental free-for-all that was 1970's Venice, California, creating and expressing were always second nature. Imagination, com=smic reality, rock and roll, go for it-radical-surf skate-graffiti-of the mayhem of the streets was the incubator for his surreal perspective into the bridge between objective and subjective truth. Past exhibits include Wallace Wentworth Gallery, Washington D.C., Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Venice Art Crawl, Venice, California, Surf Kate Roots Rock, Los Angeles, CA; Honors include Presidential Scholar in the Arts and The White House.