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ABZTRACT has partnered up with their good friends at ROGUE STATUS to put on an amazing art show in Los Angeles on April 3rd.

The event will feature artists from the Abztract Artist Collective as well as some special guests. The event will feature original work by:

ABE LINCOLN JR
BILLI KID
CHRIS BRETT
CHRIS RWK
DARKCLOUDS
DAVID FLORES
DICKCHICKEN
ERNESTO YERENA
FAKE
GABRIEL COPELAND
GAIA
HIDDEN MOVES
JMR
JOE IURATO
JORDAN SEILER
JOSEPH DIAZ
JUSTINK
JUSTIN EMERSON
JUSTIN TOLENTINO
KEELY
PAPERMONSTER
PHILIP LUMBANG
REX HOLLOWAY
ROYCE BANNON
SHAI DAHAN
STEREO
FLOW
VENG

Limited edition prints will also be available at the event by Papermonster, Chris RWK, JMR and Philip Lumbang.

Partial proceeds from the event will also benefit SYRV, a nonprofit organization that provides education and community development in Nicaragua.
Interested buyers may contact info@abztract.com

EVENT INFO:
ABZTRACT X ROGUE STATUS
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
7 pm - 10pm
1720 Main Street. Venice, CA 90291

Artist Proof: Damian King aka Deekin grew up in Oregon but eventually made his way down to California where he graduated from California College of the Arts and is currently working out of the Bay Area as freelance illustrator and fine artist.

Artsprojekt: What inspires my art?

Damian King: People, relationships, ironies, beauty, pain, and struggle.  I try not to take life too seriously, so a sense of humor often makes it way into my work.

AP: What is the relationship between technique and content in my work?

Deekin: Ok, that’s a tough one.  I believe that, like a good song, a good piece of artwork usually comes from the heart.  Then it is a matter of being able to turn off all the filters and let your heart flow through your hand.  That way the piece can be a more engaging personal experience for the viewer.  Simply put, If i want a piece to be full of energy and life I will use bright palette and quick lively brushstrokes.  If I want something with a more somber or ‘dark’ tone I will use a darker, cooler palette and slower heavier strokes.

AP: My first experience making art and how it affected my lifes journey:

Deekin: My first memories of making art are drawing epic stick-man battle scenes and football players with disproportionately large heads in my best friends basement in grade school.  I always knew that I would pursue ‘art’ in some way.  I have always loved the way art allows me to communicate with people in a non-verbal way.  I also really enjoy the aspect of creating the work, it is very much like building something.

AP: My most recent experience making art:

Deekin: I just completed a painting that will be made into a promotional poster for a rock n’ roll band from SF.  I had done a poster for this band previously, and the lead singer really liked this series of black and white paintings I have been doing based on photos I have taken of some of my favorite spots around Oakland.  So, he commissioned me to do one for them of the exterior of the Red Devil Lounge in SF, their next venue.

AP: A tour through a day in my life as an artist:

Deekin: Wake up around 9 or 10am, make coffee/breakfast, and turn on my computer, check and reply to emails and update social networking sites..  Depending on what kind of project I am working on I will either stay on the computer to render something using Photoshop and/or Illustrator, or I will start drawing or painting for a few hours til around 2.  I make lunch and take a walk or skate with my sketchbook and find a spot on the Berkeley campus to sit and draw for maybe an hour or so.  Come back home and continue painting or pixelating for another 3-4 hours.  Eat dinner, maybe check my emails again, watch movie or just hang out with my lady for a couple hours.  If I have some extra energy or an approaching deadline I will work for another 2-4 hours from like 10pm -2 am.  

AP: New shows or work?

Deekin: I am in the beginning stages of working on illustrating a fairytale book for adults. The book is being translated from the original old German fairy tales which are very dark and scary, not really fairy-tales for kids.  

(video) Check out this video on Damian King from Vimby

(store) Check out Damian Kings Artsprojekt Store Here

I just posted this weeks Dirty Dozen. I decided to stick to all ProKeds this week since we just launched them a little over a week ago. This week we’re featuring shoes from Wotto, Tokyo Candies, Jon Griffin, Noincomingcalls, Damian King, Joey Potts, Q. Cassetti, Amanda Lynn, Jared Nickerson, James Whitworth, Kev Munday & Jeffry Lee! Check em out!

“Hang me up” Emilie R. exhibition will open at 7:30 PM on March 9th at SOURCE’s gallery space, and run until March 21st. Music by Xeum

Well well well, an excellent combination to keep feeling the year of the Tiger with a glamourous bit of art and music.

HANG ME UP ///
Emilie R. original paintings and digital artworks.
Illustrative works around urban sexy pin-ups.Trophy women.
Hunting for affection. That’s it. I hang you up, and you’ll be mine forever…

MUSIC ///
Xeum’s music is just widely awesome.
From Jazz, Lounge, House or Electronic music, he performs composes and mixes infinitely. Nothing else to add…If you’ve never heard his music, better now than never.

MORE /// www.xeum.net

THE SOURCE ///
The Source is the best spot in Shanghai to get the last trends of streetwear. As a part of that, they always display a wide range of really good music and art.

Exhibition Opening Party /// March 9th, 2010, 7:30PM

Exhibition Dates /// March 9th - March 21st, 2010

Location /// SOURCE (158 Xinle Road, Near Donghu Road)

Contact ///
eva@thesource.cn
er@emilierecord.com

original post via Emilie Record

Artist Proof: Chor Boogie is an aerosol artist whose work is considered ‘Color Therapy for the Soul’. His art ranges from soulful, deftly shaded portraits to color therapy, with geometric elements adding up to half-hidden faces, and a mind’s eye or two to encourage you to see internally and externally. He’s been a great friend of mine for sometime, starting back a few years back. He’s a very talented guy, with a great personality and after surviving a recent stabbing while painting a mural in SF his art has grown even stronger with his recorvery. As you will see, Chor is a man of few, carefully selected words… So we will let his work do the talking for him, as you will see, each one of his pieces, is worth more than a 1000 words.

Artsprojekt: What inspires your art?

Chor Boogie: YOU.  
 

Color Therapy mural painted by Chor Boogie, Apex & Vulcan inside Zazzle HQ

AP: Whis is the relationship between techinque and content in your work?

CHOR: COLOR THERAPY.


Chor in San Diego at Writers Block after the Agenda show 2009

AP: Describe your first experience of making art and how it  affected your life’s journey

CHOR: WHEN I WAS 5 YRS OLD MY TEACHER HANDED ME SOME PAINT BRUSHES AND TOLD ME TO GO FOR IT WHEN SHE CAME BACK TO SEE THE FINISHED PRODUCT … I TOLD HER WHEN I GROW UP IM GOING TO BE AN ARTIST.. NOW HERE I AM 

Market Street, SF where Chor was stabbed twice while painting a mural.

AP: Describe your most recent experience of making art

CHOR: GOT STABBED PAINTING A MURAL…  (Click link to see the video interview)

AP: Take us on a guided tour through a day in your life as an artist

CHOR: NETWORK MARKETING ..PAINTING… EATING ..SLEEPING ..

Check out Chor Boogie’s Artsprojekt Store here
 

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Pale Horse recently received his new wood engraving piece called “The Afterlife Obsession of Hatshepsut” back from his boyz at BlackBooks Stencils and had it framed up. It’s  traveling to Berlin’s Strychnin Gallery for the Artsprojekt exhibit called “Edge Of Love” opening in April. See some pics of it below and  purchase the dual skate decks here.

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I just finished laying out this new skateboard with photos of just a few of the many graffiti trucks I come across in San Francisco and Oakland when I’m out shooting. Check out the layout below and besure to click through to see the product in my Artsprojekt store! (The photos are arranged in no particular order)

Check out the Skateboard here

Check out the Skateboard here

Artist Proof: Chris Dyer is a beaming source of positive energy and as an illustrator you can see his great vibe translating into his work. As an artist and as a person Chris is always aiming for higher grounds of ‘self realization’ and you can see this eminating from his body of work. Chris currently resides in Montreal, Canada, but like myself, he loves to travel, so you never know where he will pop up next.

Artsprojekt: What inspires your art? 

Chris Dyer: Everything I come in contact ends up entering the realm of my paintings. So it is important I am influenced by good meaningfull things in my life, if not the abundant crap that pollutes our misguided world will reflect in my soul expressions. I like to travell and the cultures I learn from end up in there. Of course the colorfull 80s culture I grew up with show up. Stuff like skateboarding, surfing, vynil records, video games, action figures are all broken down and become pieces of a puzzle where everything is part of the oneness of the absolute reality we are part of. I am a spiritual person and this vision of unity is the glue that holds all of these many influences together.

AP: What is the relationship between technique and content in your work?

Dyer: I think that technique is important in that you have to be good enough in the way you express yourself. It’s insulting to be out there as a professional artist when your art is so undeveloped it hurts the eyes. But in the end, if your technique is crisp but youre saying nothing, your work is empty and dosnt appeal to me. Art is a powerfull tool to convey messenges, but if were just using it to be “cool” it is a power that has been misused. So content is crucial, hopefully something that uplifts the souls of the viewers, something that teaches us to be better humans and helps us manifest a better reality for all. Technique will always be improoving, but if the messege of your art is clear and good, you can’t loose.

AP: Describe your first experience of making art and how it affected your life’s journey

Dyer: I have been a creative person as long as I remember. I used to draw all the time as a kid and would also build robots made out of junk, or club houses, mix tapes, etc. Art didnt affect my life. Life affected my art.

AP: Describe your most recent experience of making art.

Dyer: I cant stop making art. If I do, I loose my groundation and the mind beats the living crap out of me. I have the inevitable need of constant expression. I was supposed to chill out during christmas, but I coudn’t so I painted another skateboard. It came out super sick, if I may say it myself, so I was stoked. It was some kind of energetical abstract fish, that represents my need to eat this watery living creature, despite my intention of being a vegetarian.

AP: Take us on a guided tour through a day in your life as an artist

Dyer: I get up on an average of 2pm. Its not that Im lazy, it’s cause I cant stop working and keep on going till 5 or 6 o 7am, when I just drop. Once Im up I do some quick yoga to stretch the muscles, and make breakfast for my girlfriend n me (oatmeal n bagels). I then put in a couple of hours into answering my many emails and then probably go out to run aerons (post office, buying materials n such). By the time it gets dark I am already doing some kind of art, either painting, drawing or photoshop. On saturdays I go out for breakfast a block away from here. I rarely party unless there’s a real need for it (which is rare) and hit the seldom art show like once a month (probably cause my art will be part of it n need to rep). For fun I will go out skating sometimes or hit a the record shop n dig crates. That’s when Im in the city (Montreal) cause when I’m traveling, each day presents itself more spontaneously.

AP: Please let us know what you have coming up. Are you working on art for a new show? Working on a new product line? Working on a commission piece?

Dyer: Right now I am about to go to Belgium to get legally married with my girlfriend who’s from there. I don’t have any major shows coming up. I am just taking personal commissions from clients. My latest one was a 8 foot surfboard for an old friend in Peru. In Europe I will be painting a Cd cover and a book cover. I wish I was working on a solo show for a big gallery, just doing whatever comes from my heart, but I am still very unknownin in the gallery mainstream and am forced to use my time on jobs that pay right away.

But I do believe this year will be great for me getting to that level of recognition though, as I believe the level of my art is already there. First of all, I have a full on art book to be published sometime this year. It will be  250 color pages of all the different art I’ve done through the years.

Also, a documentary about my art, that I have been working on for a couple of years, will finally be released at a bunch of film festivals and the on dvd. Andy Howell is in the flick, together with many other artists, pro skaters, musicians and conscious cats in general. It’s gonna be awesome and very inspiring. So yeah, I appreciate the support of Artsprojekt in helping me get these projects and art  out to the masses, so they can give some very needed spiritual healing, as well as getting my artistic career established. Big Ups!

Check out Chris Dyer’s Artsprojekt Store

Here are some videos Chris would like to share:

Trailer to “Positive Creations” The Movie

Creation Skateboards’ artist Chris Dyer

Urban Ambush special on Chris Dyer

Chris Dyer on “Island Street Chaud” Web TV show 

‘DO AS THE PHAROAH SAYS’ by Chelsea Jones.

New design up on the zizzle Zazzle.

Check it out. Available on a tee & a deck.

http://www.zazzle.com.au/chelsealjones*

Artist Proof: Chelsea L. Jones  is an illustrator with a BA from Billy Blue College of Design, currently living and working in Sydney, Australia.

Artsprojekt: What inspires your art?

Chelsea: Ever since I was a little kid Ive had a big love for comics and cartoons. My Saturday mornings consisted of a television, a pencil and a blank art book. I’d sit for hours and recreate the characters on the screen. It helped me become very familiar with the form of almost any character on television. Still to this day, those sketching sessions have had an influence over my work..

I also get inspiration from the media world and celebrities. I like choosing delinquent celebrities who have been in the media and recreating them at their worst.  

 
AP: What is the relationship between technique and content in your work?

Chelsea: I’ve often been told that my work looks like “realistic cartoons with an edge.” I think this juxtaposes quite well with the themes and concepts in most of my pieces because it provides an alternate world in which these characters or people can exist. I like twisting and tweaking with the personalities or perceptions of the characters so implementing the “realistic cartoon” side to my work pushes that extra button in the audiences imagination.

AP: Describe your first experience of making art and how it affected your life’s journey

Chelsea: Well, my first real experience of art-making (besides the Saturday morning sketch sessions) was way back in primary school when Pokemon, Dragonball Z and Tazos were in vogue. I was the token artist of the class and that meant that I’d get about 10 requests a day for drawings of Pikachu, Homer Simpson, Sailor Moon etc. 

I also discovered graffiti art back in those days and I’d design graff pieces on paper for almost everyone. Drawing all of that shit gave me a ton of practice and I havnt stopped drawing since, so I think if it never happened, I’d have never become an artist..

AP: Describe your most recent experience of making art.

Chelsea: I’m working on a wall-piece at the moment using a mixture of acrylics and spray paint. Only problem is that it’s in a poorly-vented room and it’s summer in Australia now so it gets pretty intense. I find myself usually painting it in 30 minute sessions. 

AP: Take us on a guided tour through a day in your life as an artist

Chelsea: Well at the moment I’m usually creating 1-2 digital works a day depending on how inspired I am. However when it comes to paid-jobs I’ve gotta find that inspiration quickly so I’m usually raiding art blogs on the Internet and reading magazines like Empty and Juxtapoz. I’m also a freelance graphic designer so in conclusion, I work from home and just go out and chill whenever I want really. It’s a tough life I’ll admit.

Check out Chelsea L. Jones’ Artsprojekt Store here

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