We walked inside toward a two-story abstract piece Daisy painted in 2020 with three-dimensional shapes. Emma Daisy poses with her abstract mural inside the rotunda of Bayshore Mall in Glendale.

Along one wall, four massive abstract paintings are partially complete ... perched above the studio space atop a partition wall. “Daisy likes to keep eyes on me,” says Kent, nervously.

You may have seen the photo before. It captures a group of 14 men and one woman clustered together in a sparse room, staring straight at the camera with scowls of varying intensity. The painter ...