ART, studio tour:
a Valley Artists Studio Tour included Brian Spellman, who does architectural paintings in black, white and gray, works in his one-bedroom apartment in Reseda. story alludes to perhaps the valley's most renowned artist:

Perhaps the artist most identified with the Valley is Jeffrey Vallance. Until he moved to Las Vegas in 1995, Vallance lived, worked and exhibited in his childhood home in Canoga Park.

Vallance's oeuvre includes an ambitious piece centering on a frozen chicken he bought at a Valley supermarket and christened "Blinky, the Friendly Hen." In the mid-1980s, he did a series of drawings called "Avenue of the Absurd" that documented such West Valley landmarks as the Calabasas pet cemetery where Blinky is interred.

In an 1995 interview, Vallance complained that he could get European collectors to Canoga Park, but not Westsiders.

vallance attended trinity first lutheran junior high on kittridge st. more on vallance here