Ephemera 2025

“Ephemera” is the latest collection of paintings by contemporary L.A. artist Janna Bock, focusing on the connection between people and place within transitory moments.

Bock employs a playful use of color, shape and line that draws the viewer in as both observer and participant in her L.A.-inspired scenescapes.

With 25 years experience in fine art, and a BFA in Illustration from Cal State Long Beach, Bock balances a robust painting practice with her visual development work in animation at studios such as Warner Brothers and Marvel Animation.

Her personal work draws on elements of both her traditional and animation background to infuse life into abstracted scenes. Often letting figures be outlines and vague shapes, or letting the line come off their shapes, Bock imparts a sense of time into her work by showing figures and spaces as being less defined, suggesting nothing in life stands still.