In this video we visit the artist Donnie Molls in his studio in Los Angeles. Donnie Molls is a Los Angeles-based contemporary artist (born in 1970 in Redwood City, California), known for his innovative mixed-media works that blend photography, painting, and more recently, AI-generated imagery. As a self-taught artist, he has developed labor-intensive processes, including early use of hybrid photographic techniques and chemical photo developing methods, often exploring themes like the southwestern desert landscape, migration, family oral histories, Latino heritage, and cultural narratives.

In this interview, Donnie Molls talks about his beginnings as an artist, LA art scene influences, AI paintings as well as old-school techniques, desertscapes, lowriders – and bobcats!

We’ve featured his work in earlier videos such as the one about his solo exhibition “Oral Histories” at CMay Gallery.

Studio visit with Donnie Molls. Los Angeles, March 4, 2026.