WE ARE STEADFAST
Steadfast Gallery presents original artwork from pop culture makers. You've seen their work in iconic animated films, on book covers, and in product design.
They create worlds, characters, and objects filled with observational wisdom & crafted with a technical virtuosity earned from daily practice.
And then they go home and produce more art.
Steadfast makes their personal art - unconstrained by deadlines or stylistic limits - available to you.
Production Designer
Noah Klocek
NOAH KLOCEK is a Production Designer for Pixar Animation Studios, where he has driven the look of films such as Onward and the forthcoming series Win or Lose, among many, many others.
Whether he is exploring storytelling techniques via expansive compositions, or celebrating the inherent stories nature tells us in intimate plein air tableaus, all of Noah's work is steeped in wonder.
Art Director & Visual Development Artist
Tia Wallace Kratter
TIA WALLACE KRATTER'S feature film credits are an A to Z of animation blockbusters for the last 30 years. Her personal work features an astonishing mastery of watercolor, and often finds the exquisite in the mundane.
Character Designer
Crystal Kung
CRYSTAL KUNG is a character designer whose work can be seen in Pixar's Inside Out 2 and Netflix's Nimona. Her personal work is relentlessly whimsical, exhibiting her superpowers of design and her keen sense of the way in which behavior informs character and story.
Color and Lighting Art Director
Carlos Felipe León
CARLOS FELIPE LEÓN'S work in animation has led him to various studios all over the world, from Paris to the San Francisco Bay Area. His art contributed to the visual look of such films as Illuminations's Despicable Me and Pixar's Soul. His personal art, expressed in various media, is similarly intrepid and often finds him immersed in the dynamic symphony of a city.
Production designer
Rona Liu
Rona Liu's design work has included designing princess dresses for Disney consumer products and entire worlds for Pixar films. In her painting practice she brings a musicality and an angular approach to form that engages with classic modes of image making.
Sets Shader
Alyssa Minko
ALYSSA MINKO is a sets shader who's work can be seen in Pixar's Turning Red, Lightyear, Win or Lose and Dream Productions. Her personal work is driven by her love of nature, and particularly by the healing heat and clarity of the desert.
Sets Technical director
Jenna Spurlock
JENNA SPURLOCK is a world builder whose set work can be seen in Pixar's Turning Red, Soul, Dug Days, and Win or Lose.
In her personal work Spurlock's landscapes feature the cozy magic hour of her resident Bernal Heights, seen through her signature pushed palette.