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Nan Coffey is a San Diego-based contemporary artist whose signature style — "Art All Over" — means exactly what it sounds like. No surface is safe. No canvas too small, no object too strange. For over 25 years she’s been painting her vision of compassion, inclusion, rock ‘n’ roll, and pure joy onto everything she can get her hands on.
Nan’s work has traveled from her San Diego studio to the walls of Caesars Palace, the iconic Hotel Del Coronado, and in 2023, the museum walls of the California Center for the Arts — where her retrospective “Positively Animated” filled every gallery room. She has created original commissioned work for Google, Tender Greens, and San Diego FC.
Nan’s art and the punk/ska world have been in conversation for years. She’s created limited edition prints in collaboration with Rancid, Fishbone, Less Than Jake, Frank Turner, Buck-O-Nine, Violent Femmes, and Bouncing Souls. She’s painted custom skulls and guitars for bands, collectors, and superfans who want something nobody else has. And every year she gives her time, talent, and sweat to Musack — a San Diego nonprofit keeping music in the hands of kids who need it.
Canvas is just the beginning. Nan paints on guitars, skulls, Bali Hai cocktail mugs, helmets, surfboards, bamboo panels, and custom objects of all kinds. She partnered with UK pop artist Horace Panter (founding member of The Specials) on two collector collaborations that sold through galleries in LA and London.
She’ll paint on almost anything. The worst she’ll say is it won’t work — and she’ll usually have a better idea ready.
Nan will be showing at Fall Brewing on August 1st. Come see her work in person, meet the artist, and take something home.
Nan takes custom commissions year-round — original paintings, custom painted skulls, guitars, objects, and anything else you’ve been thinking about. Reach out here or email info@nanwashere.com.