Interview with Rafael Silveira

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Interview with Rafael Silveira

Rafael Silveira is a fine artist with a strong background in the graphic arts. The majority of his works consists in oil and acrylic paintings that mixes a classical atmosphere with contemporary techniques and subjects, especially cartoon imagery. In the journey of expanding his artistic vocabulary, Silveira established a dialogue between his paintings and new mediums, such as wood sculpture, collage, among others. He currently lives and works in Curitiba, the south of Brazil

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Interview With TaoSuz.

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Interview With TaoSuz.

Taosuz. is born from a collaboration between two artists Tao and Suz. The aim of each artwork is the exploration of the values and principles of our modern society. In his collages, Tao combine photography, altered and recomposed images to provide a visual commentary on the humain condition evolution.  Suz. is born of a design school education. In her paints, she is inspired by the contemporary urban society.

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Interview with Trek Six

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Interview with Trek Six

Art has been a life long passion and pursuit for Trek, dating back to his art upbringing in the 80’s were he studied under the mentorship of Puerto Rican painters Andres Bueso and son Andy Bueso were he honed his painting skills and learned what it meant to be an artist. He would return home to Miami with this knowledge and love of art and carry it with him on the streets of Miami were he was part of one of the city’s most notorious and oldest graffiti crews STV, creating mural all over the city and through out the US and Puerto Rico. Most recently Trek has been participating in urban beautification projects all around the world. He represented Miami in Pow Wow Hawaii and worked again with Charles Juhasz and the EML collective on a mural for Triufunal Polytechnico de San Juan for an exhibition named “Contrafuerte” in Puerto Rico. In 2012 he has had works featured on media sites like Huffington Post and publications such as USA Today, Sun Sentinel and The Miami Herald as well as having a mural showcased on the premier of the Emmy award winning baseball documentary “ The Franchise” on Showtime and participated in Heineken Open Your World Mural Project. He was just voted Miami New Times 2013 Street Artist of the Year.

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Interview with Dan Baldwin

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Interview with Dan Baldwin

Born in Manchester , Baldwin studied at Eastbourne College of Art and Design and then Kent Institiute of Art and Design.He lives and works in West Sussex. His work is internationally collected by an exclusive clientele. Baldwin has exhibited his paintings, prints and ceramics around the world. He has enjoyed a stream of sell-out solo shows and presented his work in art fairs in Basel, Miami, L.A, Tokyo, San Francisco, London and New York.

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Interview with Ezra Pirk

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Interview with Ezra Pirk

Since early childhood Ezra one and only passion was and still is drawing and painting on every occasion that presented itself to him. About 14 years ago, he discovered graffiti art and since then a lot of things happened. After years of practicing, He started to do jobs for individuals and companies every where in Switzerland. Next to Aerosol Art, he also does illustrations, logos, portrays and drawings for tattoos and always try to stay openminded. Since 2005, He is a member of the Marshall-art platform and take part in exhibitions with other graffiti artists of Switzerland.

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Interview with GreatEclectic

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Interview with GreatEclectic

As an artist: GreatEclectic blends the most abstractly familiar elements of life – love, envy, wealth, wrath, perception, desire, greed, necessity, lust, identity, indulgence, ideals, ego, morals, said bankruptcy, and fears – with the rawest veneer of famous faces. His pieces are pastiches – whole in-and-of themselves but even more so in context of one another. Pop & Politics are alive and well-contented bedfellows in this world. The personal space stands as the pre-eminent public place of judgment. Shadows dance in rigid rhythmic formation with neon strobes. The entire world coalesces into a kaleidoscopic cultural landscape… where we are presented with our own selves from before the mass-mediated mirror of Pop life. His art lives, loves, laughs, lauds, lambastes, legislates, and promulgates on behalf of true Pop. It unravels the American tapestry because we were wound too tightly; it dims the lights because they blind so brightly; it hearkens to the dawn though it heralds nightly; and all it takes is a liberated lid to refresh the mind and see what I see: if you want to see a sad boy shine – pay him; if you want to see a sad boy smile – pay attention. (Words by Swiper Bootz)

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Interview with Yann Couedor

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Interview with Yann Couedor

Before being an artist, Yann Couedor is a great music lover and collector. This is mainly where he draws his inspiration from, although he is particularly fascinated by other fields such as movies and pop art. This is what led him to represent on its own way artists and personalities that have marked him. He paints with acrylic and likes to compose with collage. His initial idea being to stick authentic elements in relation with the character he chooses to paint ( newspaper articles , vinyl records cover, photos, CD etc purchased at auctions). In 2013, he published his first book  » Lissen2myART  » published by Indeez . A book that exposes his works, and traces eight-year of his career starting from its beginnings in 2004 until 2012. Through perseverance in communicating about his work, he made the fateful encounters that will lead him to exhibit his artwork in France and abroad.

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Interview with Jason Edmiston

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Interview with Jason Edmiston

Jason Edmiston is a commercial illustrator since 1996, he  has created work for advertising, editorial, packaging and book publishing clients internationally. He is a traditional artist, painting in acrylic on watercolour paper or wood panel. His style ranges from realism to exaggeration, usually emphasizing the figure, and a certain degree of humour or caricature. Jason is often asked to emulate a specific genre of illustration, such as movie posters, pulp covers or retro style advertising. His fondness for pop culture, especially movies and toys often creep into his work.

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Interview with Esteban Del Valle

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Interview with Esteban Del Valle

Esteban del Valle is an interdisciplinary artist currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Esteban has produced murals throughout various parts of the USA, such as New York, NY, Chicago, IL, San Antonio, TX, and Kansas City, MO, Spartanburg, SC, and Provincetown, MA. He has been in numerous publications and his mural work has been featured on HGTV, NY1 News, News 12 Brooklyn, and the New York Times. Esteban has also been a part of various exhibitions including Pulso: Art of the Americas at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, MI, EMPIRIA at Superchief Gallery In New York, NY, the 2009 New Insight exhibition at Art Chicago, and the East/West 2009: Emerging Artist Exchange at the CoCA in Seattle. In 2009, while at the Hub-Bub residency in Spartanburg South Carolina, Esteban collaborated with the Spartanburg city ballet to create their fall production. In 2010, Esteban was both a writer in resident at ISLAND in Michigan and a visual artist in residence at the Djerassi Program in California. In 2011, Esteban worked in Los Angeles designing a set for the 2012 Sundance Film Festival selection Filly Brown and was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Most recently, he has completed a 7-month fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA.

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Interview with Artist Anonymous

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Interview with Artist Anonymous

Artists Anonymous was founded in 2001 the members studied at  University of Arts, London and University of Arts, Berlin till 2007 ; they live and work in London and Berlin. The anonymity of AA allows the viewer to experience their work without consideration for the identity of the artist. Works by Artists Anonymous are included in major public and private collections worldwide.

 

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Interview with Greg Gossel

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Interview with Greg Gossel

Greg Gossel was born in 1982 in western Wisconsin. With a background in design, his work is an expressive interplay of many diverse words, images, and gestures. Gossel’s multi-layered work illustrates a visual history of change and process throughout each piece. His work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and abroad, including San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Copenhagen, and London. His commercial clients include Levi's, Burton Snowboards, Stussy, VICE Magazine, and Interscope Records while his work has been published in The San Francisco Chronicle, Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine, Artslant, and ROJO Magazine. Greg currently resides in Minneapolis, MN.

 

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Interview with Brad Jensen

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Interview with Brad Jensen

Brad Jensen is an award winning, self-taught artist. He uses mixed media and pop culture to create and express himself in his paintings.  Jensen’s art is equally respected by persons from every walk of life.  And the walk of life is part of what makes Brad such a wonderful artist.  From musicians and celebrities to private and corporate commission work from across the nation. 

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Interview with Zig

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Interview with Zig

Andy “Zig” Leipzig is a contemporary artist whose work crosses the boundaries of classical art and modern technology. Diametrically opposed themes, He weaves together the visual language of fine art and the media driven realities of the modern world into an extraordinarily powerful synthesis and an incisive comment on art, perception and the human condition. Influenced by society’s increasing commercialization, “Zig” creates surrealist works that are acutely intuitive but do not take themselves too seriously.

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Interview with Cusco Rebel

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Interview with Cusco Rebel

 

Cusco Rebel, 40, is a mutlidisciplinary self-taught artist. The skate and street cuture are very present in his work searching as references elements that refer to this essentially urban universe. Cusco Rebel is currently Art Director and producer at Mundo.ag, he also teaches two courses related to creativity in Perestroika (SP / RJ / RS) school. He works with various techniques such as: spray paint and acrylic paint, stencil, collage... He has already done work for various clients such as Toddy, Sprite, Converse, Passport, Wanton, Pepsi, among others.

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Interview with Rugman

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Interview with Rugman

Rugman is a London-based artist/designer. He has a passion to create pieces of visual quality for people to enjoy…  After a Skate, POP and Comic influenced adolescence, Rugman the Artist mainly paints from his studio in Soho and has been known to on occasion stencil or paste the streets of East London where his art came to fruition. Through the years his work has been exhibited around the world… including in Barcelona, Berlin, California, Dublin, and most notably in London at Cans Festival and Cans Fest 2 alongside some of the leading Urban and Graffiti artists of our time. He now has his own streetwear label, Rum Knuckles, based in Soho, London

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Interview with Chris B Murray

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Interview with Chris B Murray

Chris B. Murray had a hunger for art from his earliest years, growing up in a small town in upstate New York. Having ambitiously exhausted his autodidactic options, he then majored in illustration at Rochester Institute of Technology. He now practices in Philadelphia, where he lives with his girlfriend, Emily, and their dog, Chunk. His work has been awarded or recognized by the likes of The Society of Illustrators, Juxtapoz, Hi-Fructose, and Illustration Age, among many others. He has done editorial and promotional illustration for many high-profile publications such as The New Yorker, Boys’ Life, and XXL. Recently, his Adirondacks-exploration series “ADKS” showed at Chicago’s Rotofugi Gallery.

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Interview with Stikki Peaches

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Interview with Stikki Peaches

Stikki Peaches is a street artist based in Montreal whose tagline, What if Art Ruled the World?, has been taking over the urban landscapes of Paris, London, Berlin and Stockholm since 2009. The anonymous street artist is strongly influenced by pop culture references, lowbrow, and street culture; created using a variety of media, including collage, acrylic paint and silkscreen, each piece encourages passersby to stop, analyze, and question, and is sure to leave them with a smile. Stikki Peaches has exhibited in New York and Montreal, most recently participating in MURAL Festival, the Armory Week, and the Permanence exhibition at Space 27.

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Interview with Chris Stain

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Interview with Chris Stain

Chris Stain grew up writing Graffiti in Baltimore, MD in the mid 1980’s.  Through printmaking in high school he adapted stenciling techniques, which later lead to his work in street stencils and urban contemporary art.  Compared at times to the American Social Realist movement of the 1930’s and ‘40’s, Chris’s work echoes his upbringing and the people who helped shape his mental and physical landscape. His work illustrates the struggles of the unrecognized and underrepresented individuals of society. Chris currently teaches art in New York City and is pursuing a BA in Art Education.

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