LaurenYS (a.k.a. Squid Licker) is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work is influenced by multiple stages of focus, both geographically and in practice.

With dynamic bouts in academics, literature and writing, teaching, illustration, and animation leading up to her arrival in the urban art sphere, the influences of these phases of her own career add up to a robust style of murals and fine art.

Lauren's work is influenced by dreams, mythology, death, comics, love, sex, psychedelia, animation and her Asian-American heritage.