Interview with Paul Lovering

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Interview with Paul Lovering

Paul lives in Edinburgh Scotland, loves the Arts , started to paint watercolor 5 years ago after a absence of 35 years having preformed above average at school level. He was denied the opportunity to go to Art school way back in the early seventies , due to cost and his parents seeing that Art would not be a proper job ,but after a illness fibro myalgia recently made me housebound for a year, he decides to self teach himself with watercolors after finding the old magic of sketching had not deserted him .

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Interview with Serge Gay Jr.

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Interview with Serge Gay Jr.

Spanning across multiple genres and styles, Serge depicts musical icons who have either influenced him artistically or had some sort of personal impact on his life. From Bowie to Jay Z, Serge’s new body of work has a flowing melodic feel to it, indicative of whatever music influenced each painting’s creation. The trademark feverish surrealism still remains however each work has a poignant composition and style incredibly emblematic of whatever musical genre it stems from. Themes of lost love, identity and hope are depicted through the energetic brush strokes and eccentric whimsey rendered in his work.

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Interview with DC Langer

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Interview with DC Langer

Brooklyn born DC Langer was born an artist. She began painting as a child along side her artist mother, to fuel her growing creativity, or perhaps to stop her from talking so much, or eating all day. DC's energy is clearly seen in her art-- the colors bounce clear off the canvas. Her fascination with light and dynamic color has formed the foundation for her art. Her keen color perception is called "synaesthesia", which is the innate fusion of the senses--something that is shared with only one in 250,000 people. DC's first commissioned assignment, at age 13, was the design of a 48'x14' New York City billboard, giving her international exposure. Many jobs followed, propelling DC into a career as an illustrator and fine artist. A graduate of Boston's School of the Museum of Fine Arts,DC's work has been shown around the world and has won international acclaim in various competitions, including The Society of Illustrators, Art Direction Magazine and Studio Magazine's Silver Award.

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Interview with Pam Glew

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Interview with Pam Glew

Pam Glew, is a contemporary British artist, known for her unique bleaching technique on vintage fabrics and flags. Antique American quilts, brocade and old jeans are dyed black and painted freehand with bleach. By painting onto vintage textiles, the artist plays with our notion of idols, patriotism and the culture of heritage. The portrait slowly develops in the painting process resulting in an image emerging from the cloth.

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Interview with Cabaio

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Interview with Cabaio

Cabaio's relationship with the street dates from his childhood in the then quiet Las Cañitas, linking with it in different ways to spend time. Since 2002, alongside Nicolas Monti (a coworker and neighbor of San Telmo) , saturated by excess of information in the public space within crisis here and there , they took over the streets as a place of action , taking the stencil as a tool and night as an ally , this reaction to that news hit was baptized Vomit Attack. By 2005, driven by this fellowship with the streets of Buenos Aires , Cabaio followed his path alone and broken, emphasizing even more his affinity with them. Today he spends his hours trying to learn, seeking for new techniques and tools to allocate in his various projects.

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Interview with Kai

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Interview with Kai

Kai started out as a street artist in LA at the age of 14 when he began a quest to get his father to stop smoking by plastering the city with a series of clever images which he called his “Morons” campaign.  He slowly created a buzz within the street art community and concentrated his focus on addressing social issues like consumerism and addictions. By the young age of 18, Kai was becoming more and more known and was asked to participate in a documentary series for Hudson Jeans. This caught the media’s attention and he was mentioned in Los Angeles Magazine as one of the forefront street artists of his time. He went on to study at CalArts and Ecole Nationale Superior Beaux Arts Des Paris. His style has been said to be a combination of  Damien Hirst, Banksy, Koons, Rembrandt, and Anthony Van Dyke all in one.

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Interview with Bryden Lando

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Interview with Bryden Lando

Bryden Lando was raised by wolves. Now he is an old sea captain living in Los Angeles. He designs and manufactures clothes. Also, he paints, shoots film and photos, and tries to surf occasionally.  Growing up on the island of Maui, Hawaii, Bryden Lando began painting and illustrating as a young child. Contrary to the stereotypical, laid back reputation of island living, growing up on Maui did anything but mellow out Lando’s creative drive. It hasn’t slowed to date. A multidisciplinary artist, Lando is drawn to illustration, film, painting, photography, and music and fashion design. In 2005, Lando and his brother began Future Heretics. After a growing following in Los Angeles and a great response from press with much celebrity clientele, the brand grew into a full scale men’s and women’s ready to-wear collection. Lando’s artistic sensibilities have been much sought after by some of the top bands, DJs and solo artists in music today. His ever-expanding body of work includes limited edition, custom illustrations and concert posters for some of his favorite bands including Kanye West, Crystal Castles, MGMT, Surfer Blood, Vampire Weekend and Sleigh Bells to name a few.

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Interview with VHILS

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Interview with VHILS

Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto (1987) has been interacting visually with the urban environment under the name of Vhils since his days as a prolific graffiti writer in the early 2000s. His groundbreaking carving technique has been hailed as one of the most compelling approaches to art created in the street in the last decade. This striking form of visual poetry, showcased around the world in both indoor and outdoor settings, has been described as brutal and complex, yet imbued with a simplicity that speaks to the core of human emotions, expressing the struggle between the aspirations of the individual and the demanding, saturated environment of the urban spaces he lives in, highlighting and exposing the sombre dimension that lies behind the current model of development and the material aspirations it encompasses – unsustainable, yet inebriating. An avid experimentalist, he has been developing his notion of the aesthetics of vandalism in a plurality of media – from stencil painting to wall carving, from pyrotechnic explosions to 3D modelling – which have enabled him to expand the boundaries of visual expression.
 

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Interview with Sandra Chevrier

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Interview with Sandra Chevrier

Sandra Chevrier currently lives in Montreal, Quebec. Her work takes her traveling over a broad range of fluctuating emotional enigmas and concepts that have set the standard of our modern communication. Working in a home studio, Sandra produces her work at a full-time scale, aggressively pursuing a common thread until it is worn away, leaving her to begin on a new path. She exposes the limitations within our world, our self-imposed expectations and the cages we have allowed to bar us from fullness of life’s experience.

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Interview with Yves Budin

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Interview with Yves Budin

Yves Budin is a self-taugh drawer, painter, illustrator, peintre, illustrateur from Liege, Belgium. Yves learnt to draw by spoiling his body and soul into his father's comics collection. His borther's Art book collection opened him to expressionism. Alberto Breccia and Hugo Pratt taugh Yves, one could drawn with black and white .American literature has initiated him to great voyages, the Beat Generation, the world of Jazz...   

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Interview with Gothlieb Tjiackk

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Interview with Gothlieb Tjiackk

Alexandre Hannesse signs his works as "Gothlieb Tjiackk". Born in Brussels in 1970, where he lives and works. Always tempted by photography in particular by portraits, Alexandre Hannesse worked in the nineties as an assistant photographer focused on black & white portraits. He'll follow this influence all his life as an artist. At the end of the nineties he'll take the liberty to participate in some small competition-exhibitions which ended in great trophies. In 2000 he decides to go to Portugal and work together with another artist in order to study once more the art of the portrait. He'll do this a year long. In 2006 supported by his sensibility and his keen eye on the world around him, Alexandre Hannesse decides to create "Gothlieb Tjiackk" an imaginary artist, issued out of a fusion between art and evil. He then developed "Nocif'Art", an artistic creation resulting from a sick community, its ideas and its products but also its immoderate overconsumption by people.

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Interview with Mink Couteaux

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Interview with Mink Couteaux

Mink spent his first years mostly eating paint in his father’s studio, then doodling his way through school, drawing NBA players and team logos copied from his trading card collection. After internships with ATTAK Powergestaltung and Nike Europe he graduated and moved straight to Largetosti. Working on projects for clients in the the likes of Nike, W+K, Bits of Freedom, N8 Edits and more! 4 years later in 2013 he started the Merged visible studio.

Mink's work has featured on numerous websites like Behance, Complex, Digital Art Served, idn, Illustration served, a sporting life, whudat and more....

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Inteview with DAN.

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Inteview with DAN.

From Glasgow, Scotland, DAN. started to heavily get into art during High School. Art always found a way back into his life so he decided to leave and follow his passion. Inspired by the works of Jef Aerosol, C215 and Snik, he studied and practiced the ways of stencil art. He sees himself more as a 'newborn' artist with the journey only just beginning. He'll soon be re-locating to Edinburgh where he plans to set up a studio. He'll also have his first exhibition this summer in Scotland, but he'll be aiming to get more lined up throughout the next few years, gradually making his way to painting his work on to the streets of Europe.

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Interview with Blake Lee Ferguson

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Interview with Blake Lee Ferguson

Blake Lee Ferguson, born December 1986, is a self-taught artist from Forest City, NC. He drew on everything he came in contact with from an early age, but graduated to paint and canvas around the age of 18. Blake pairs street art with an understanding and appreciation of artists such as Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Gerhard Richter to achieve something that is truly one of a kind. His penchant for bright backgrounds nod at abstract expressionism, while his bold and often greyscale "stencil style" figures show his love for street art.

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Interview with Erika Iri5

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Interview with Erika Iri5

Erika iri5 (pronounced “iris”) is a self-taught artist. She holds a degree in Russian from Washington University in St. Louis. She loves working with strange experimental materials. In 2010 she collaborated with director Ethan Lader to help produce the hit music video for the Bruno Mars song “Just the Way You Are.”  The video has received over 300 million views on youtube. She was recently honored as the Official Artist for the 2013 Grammy Awards.  Past clients include: The Times, Oprah Magazine, MAXIM, Levis Strauss & Co., Hermes, Showtime, and RayBan. Erika iri5 lives and plays in the French Quarter, New Orleans.

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Interview with Daas

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Interview with Daas

DAAS is a Japan based American contemporary visual artist. His work is primarily focused on the power of color, balanced design and a representation of animals, insects and humans in a geometric based form. He is currently in the studio working on a series of paintings titled Geometrics, which have been exhibited in group and solo shows in Osaka, Japan over the past year. In addition to his studio work, DAAS also creates large-scale murals.

 

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Interview with Billi Kid

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Interview with Billi Kid

The “notoriously harmonious”* Billi Kid is a street artist determined to refine his voice while leaving an indelible mark on the over saturated urban and cyber landscapes. A life-long doodler, art enthusiast and design junkie, his work blur the lines between graffiti, pop culture, iconography and art. Never to busy to look, feel and listen, his collaborative works with artist from around the world have been celebrated in both the media and street art community alike. His passion for the streets has led him to curate ground breaking exhibitions that have helped bridge the gap between the urban landscape and the sterile indoor environment.

 

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