MEET THE CREW
Ryan Gardell
Creative Director // Mural Artist
@artifaktstudios
Ryan's work explores the raw, gritty textures of the urban sprawl, mixed with the vibrant, polychromatic landscape of psychedelia, creating a vast dichotomy that emulates the thin veil separating reality from imagination. He is constantly experimenting and evolving his creative process with new techniques and styles, embracing a fusion of organic and digital mediums, while utilizing tools both new and old. Ryan's pursuit is to make art more interactive, inclusive and accessible, dissolving boundaries between artist and spectator. He believes in radical self expression as a human birthright, and encourages creativity as a therapeutic practice essential to a happy, healthy life.
Audrey Tesserot
Project Manager // Mural Artist
@mbody.one
Audrey Tesserot aka MBODY is an interdisciplinary artist, Ayurvedic bodyworker, yoga teacher, and health advisor whose work lives at the intersection of art, healing, and embodiment. Born in Miami and shaped by its cultural intensity and creative pulse, she carries a multifaceted, renaissance-like approach to her work — informed by a lifelong devotion to craft, movement, pattern, and integrative practice. Audrey holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Boston Conservatory at Berklee and brings lifelong experience across multiple artistic disciplines — including mandalas, ceramics, painting, and costume design — which collectively inform and elevate the work she creates today across walls, canvas, earth, and spatial environments.
Rocko Gardell
Apprentice // Media
@BSFV2010
Rocko Gardell is a 14-year-old freshman at Shepard Hill High School. As the Artifakt mural apprentice, Rocko is responsible for prep work, masking, buffing walls, job site cleanup and more. He is also training to takeover the editing and production of all Artifakt content and media, including Youtube live streams. Rocko is currently a junior firefighter in Dayville, CT and is aspiring to be a career firefighter when he grows up.
Brian Soldano
Mural Artist // Tattooer
@soldanopaints
Brian Soldano is a mural artist and tattooer with over two decades of experience in the art world. His distinct style is a fierce fusion of heavy metal imagery and bio-mechanical cyborg designs, producing a bold, industrial aesthetic that resonates with intensity. His work is not just visual but visceral, pushing the boundaries of form and texture. "I draw, I paint, I sculpt, I shred, and I rage from the womb to the tomb."