FATSIP Studio is the working art studio of painter Weston Riffle in Allied Gardens, San Diego, at 5665 Marne Avenue in the 92120 ZIP. Riffle earned a Bachelor's degree from San Diego State University in 1993 and a Master's from San Jose State in 1996, and has exhibited across California at the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, the Oceanside Museum of Art, the San Diego Art Institute in Balboa Park, and the William D. Cannon Art Gallery in Carlsbad. His paintings depict the people and landscapes of California — particularly the southern and agricultural regions — in a style he describes as informed by a fatalistic view of the individual against forces not clearly understood. Riffle was named to Find the Artist's Top 50 San Diego Artists list and placed third in the La Victoria 100th-anniversary art competition in 2017, a juried contest that drew five finalist painters from across the city. The studio's output has been covered in the San Diego Union-Tribune and SD News, and the work crosses over into the same visual-storytelling tradition practiced by illustrators at Little Fish Comic Book Studio in College Area. Riffle also maintains a second studio space at Arts District Liberty Station (2690 Historic Decatur Road, Suite 104), opened in 2024, for larger installations and gallery shows. The Marne Avenue studio in Allied Gardens functions as the primary painting workspace, with scheduled open-studio events that include light refreshments and walk-through viewing of works in progress. Born in La Mesa in 1970 and raised in Ramona, Riffle is a native Californian whose subject matter draws from decades of observing the state's communities. His exhibition history includes juried shows reviewed by curators from the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The College Area arts community connects through shared exhibition circuits and public programming at neighborhood institutions like the College-Rolando Branch Library. Canvas sizes in the current body of work range from intimate 12-by-16-inch studies to large-format pieces exceeding five feet in either dimension.