Interview with Stacey Wells

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Interview with Stacey Wells

Stacey Wells, inspired by music, stage lighting and cool rocker looks, has a love for painting Rock Stars. Greatly intrigued by the Sunset Strip and its history, Wells has become a familiar face on the Strip, recently creating a collection of art she calls Reflections of the Strip, reflecting back on some of the great musicians that have made it big starting on the Sunset Strip, also featuring new talented bands that are paving their way today, playing famous venues such at the Roxy, the Whiskey and the Viper Room. Wells’ hand painted Alice Cooper tribute, a 10 ft Gibson Guitar sculpture has been installed at the Andaz on Sunset Strip. Wells has captured the essence of the Strip, with art work that will truly make your space ROCK!

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Interview with Mike Bell

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Interview with Mike Bell

Born and raised at the jersey shore - Mike Bell's art blends an aura of nostalgia and humor, combined with vivid color and a combination of influences. Japanese cartoons, classic monsters, vintage toys, punk rock, carnivalesque images, MAD magazine, and Big Daddy Roth are among the cultural forces that have shaped his art. The juxtaposition of counter culture imagery with modern day influences are the blueprint for Mike's canvases

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Interview with Jimmy C

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Interview with Jimmy C

James Cochran, aka Jimmy C participated in the graffiti movement in Australia during the early 1990s, and after working on numerous mural commissions and community arts projects, went on to complete a Masters degree in Visual Arts at the University of South Australia with an interest in figurative oil painting. His two interests in graffiti and oil painting converged, leading to the development of Cochran's signature aerosol pointillist style; portraits or urban landscapes painted entirely from blobs of spray paint. This technique developed into what he called the 'drip paintings' and the 'scribble paintings', composed of layers of coloured drips or energetic lines to form vibrant and poetic cityscapes and portraits. Cochran now lives in London and his canvases and walls can be viewed in cities across the world.

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Interview with Martin Whatson

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Interview with Martin Whatson

Martin Whatson (b. 1984) is a Norwegian born and based stencil artist. While studying Art and Graphic design at Westerdals School of Communication, Oslo, he discovered stencils and the urban art scene. He had been interested in Graffiti for years, following the development within street art closely. In 2004 he started his own artistic production. His artistic expression started off more political, inspired by DOLK and Banksy, but has developed into a more subtle expression. His stencils are a mix of urban scenes with a poetic, hippyish make peace not war-message. He has a cheerful, very much recognizable and almost feminine touch; butterflies, doves and hearts in soft, nonetheless vibrant, colours. Still, his expression is very much masculine, filled with in your face-statements that represents a young and vigorous group of upcoming artists. Since his artistic debut in 2006, he has had several solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions, both nationally and internationally.

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Interview with JPS

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Interview with JPS

Weston Super Mare based artist JPS has triumphed over adversity fighting his demons and becoming the artist he is today. He has risen to great heights in a short space of time winner of bizarre Magazines alternate artist 2012 and been behind some of the most high profile art events organised in the west of the country in the last couple of years and has taken part in large exhibitions in London, Los Angeles and Houston. he is currently the subject of a documentary called 'if walls could talk' and filming will end at the opening of a solo show by the same title at centrespace gallery bristol on the 30th of may.

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Interview with Borbay

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Interview with Borbay

Borbay is a self-represented artist, living and thriving in the vibrant city of Manhattan. Collected globally and featured by an impressive breadth of revered news outlets, Borbay has created a successful business model outside of the ‘art world’ you read about.

Borbay’s creations, with their chasm-deep detail and painstaking process, have garnered the artist a large following from Manhattan to Milan, and his Warhol-esque willingness to mine pop imagery has earned the admiration of fans,educators and celebrities alike. With a pre-art résumé that includes everything from advertising to Reality TV (to, yes, working for Donald Trump), it’s no wonder that he’s lauded as one of the most game changing players emerging in the contemporary art scene. His collages incorporating New York Post headlines became a New York Post headline. He’s painting the Guggenheim each year for 20 years, and intends to show the series in the Guggenheim itself. Borbay is being celebrated by everyone fromBBC World to the Wall Street Journal Japan.

 

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Interview with Jason Mecier

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Interview with Jason Mecier

Jason Mecier has spent over 10 years creating outrageous 3-D mosaic portraits of his favorite pop culture icons. Each portrait is created from objects such as make-up, candy, pills, food and discarded junk donated from the celebrities themselves! Jason hopes to one day trade art with Marilyn Manson, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Jane Seymore and Yoko Ono. Jason lives and works in San Francisco.

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Interview with Butcher Billy

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Interview with Butcher Billy

Butcher Billy also called Billy The Butcher is inspired by the retro feel of 70′s, 80′s and 90′s design-related pop culture, including comics, movies, TV, music, videogames, magazines and everything visual. Billy Butcher is using digital creation tools and social media trends to emulate and promote such vintage visual concepts. That contrast is a mashup itself.

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Interview with Alessio-B

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Interview with Alessio-B

Alessio-B, is from Padua (Italy). His artistic work falls within the urban art and street art. Attached to the diversion of messages and images, the artist tells us with humor and sympathy that life is also a big smile and a wink. The theme of the joyful and carefree childhood is reccurent in the work of Alessio-B . And he transmits it with strength and optimism.

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Interview with Chor Boogie

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Interview with Chor Boogie

Chor Boogie is an artist, a conceptual genius, a street romantic, a master of illusion and technique, Chor Boogie is an original. His works can be described as having healing effects by his unique and unmatched use of color, which brings greater meaning and understanding to his works. Every vibrant piece has a story attached to it. Chor Boogie’s colorful paintings are attracting A-list celebrities, art galleries and museums. Originally from San Diego, the artist known as Chor Boogie currently resides in San Francisco but is an internationally known artist and has traveled extensively to exhibit his work around the world.

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Interview with Gnasher

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Interview with Gnasher

David Nash aka Gnasher started out in 1985 doing graffiti in Harlow, Essex, at that time he was predominantly painting 'letters' or words spray painted in a graffiti style. At the time, there was a growing graffiti scene and lots of well-known artists visited the town. Dave was inspired by the images of characters some the artists of that time were creating, he was hooked from that point and spent years developing his own style of graffiti.

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