I was born in London, UK and resided in Somerset before moving to Bulgaria. My wife, Pam, and I started a small art and craft business which has been established for about 8 years now, Pam does the ceramic side and has a paint pottery studio and I do the gallery side, I paint with watercolours mainly but at times try acrylic, I found that I liked painting Birds of Prey and animals but my wife also gives me ideas of what to paint especially when it comes to landscapes. We moved to Bulgaria 3 years ago and brought the business here where we are trying to build it up again.

Lance Jacobs

My work depicts a city growing at a rapid, uncontrollable rate. This city is a metaphor for psychological space, full of potential yet intimidating enough to hesitate before crossing its harsh borders. Through real world border crossings I have compiled stories and memories that I carry into my understanding of the world. By traveling through psychological space, I create parallels between the world as I see it and the way that I want to see it. The world that I depict came together through struggles to grasp the lessons of the past, while working toward understanding in the future.

Kyle Bryant

Hello there! On these pages you will find my portfolio, containing samples of my illustration work, along with sketches, doodles, personal work. I hope you will enjoy browsing through them. Some information on the artist Calvin was born in Taiwan somewhere the people are nice & kind. Where he spent his formative years drawing, reading and swimming a lot. All activities he still regularly practices. He graduating from the department of visual communication design in 2010. If you want to contact me for further information, please do!

Calvin Wu

My collages and assemblages are visual externalization of the importance of giving value to human emotions, dreams and the unconscious mind. I construct these images using found objects, paper, photographs, and magazines and combine them with traditional mediums. With everything I make, my goal is to to re- imagine the meaning of the soul. My main influenes are semiotics, animism, magic, Carl Jung, the human figure, punk rock aesthetics and mythology.

Molly George

Illustrating in NYC for over 20 years, Eric Rosner has a unique style that recaptures a classic period of Manhattan and presents it for a new participating audience. Ink marker is used to create stunning iconic structures from a golden era. This process is combined with digital enhancements that complete a singular vision to showcase New York City’s most eloquent inhabitants. His canvas prints grab the attention of the on-looker as an awe inspiring tribute to a golden age with a modern twist for today. I get lost in the moment when a piece comes to life. You find yourself thinking of all the people who have graced the grand Metropolis and these buildings have housed them all. Whether it was epic business transaction, stunning scientific discoveries or grand entertainment showcasing, the city of New York has a unique tale of histories. With my artwork, I hope you can conjure a stunning time period over a century ago when the imagination ran wild and magnificent structures soared to the sky.

Erosner

PRESS RELEASE

New York City (July/Aug 2009): Gawker Artists presents MOM & POPism, an exhibition curated by Billi Kid reinterpreting James and Karla Murray’s latest book, Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York, in unique collaboration with many of today’s hottest graffiti and street artists.

Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York is a breathtaking visual guide to New York City’s cultural heritage, with special emphasis on the historic streets and ethnic shops that have defined its many neighborhoods. Meticulously photographed, its powerful images of time-worn institutions will be printed at close to life-size scale and installed on the Gawker Media roof, becoming canvases on which select graffiti and street artists are invited to leave their indelible marks. The result will be a unique impression of a New York City that seems to be fading with each passing day. Our cultural and economic landscape will be called into question, the role of art, particularly graffiti and street art, will be subject to reinterpretation.

Curated by Gawker Artist Billi Kid, MOM & POPism brings together graffiti and street artists to create new artworks on top of the Murray’s photographs. The collaborating graffiti and street artists represent some of the most notable artists in the street art community and the media at large. These include Blanco, Buildmore, Cake, Celso, Cern, Chris (RWK), Crome, Cycle, David Cooper, Destroy & Rebuild, Enamel Kingdom, Goldenstash, Infinity, Kngee, Lady Pink, Matt Siren, Morgan Thomas, Peru Ana Ana Peru, Plasma Slugs, Royce Bannon, Shai R. Dahan, Shiro, The Dude Company, Tikcy, Under Water Pirates, Veng (RWK), Zoltron and Billi Kid.

MOM & POPism closed on August 23rd. However, 3 walls from the exhibition are on display at Clic Gallery’s Broome and Centre Streets location in NYC until September 27th.

For more information please contact artists@gawker.com.

Andy Awesome is the alter ego of Jan Schloesser.He’s born at Lake Constance and took his degree in communication design in 2003. 2009 he created his alter ego “Andy Awesome”. The Series Nº 1 and Nº 2 include 40 collections of paintings in which he modified the heroes of his childhood in a stylized way of Andy Warhols famous pop art prints. 2010 he was one of 50 artists made a painting for Sanrio’s (Hello Kitty) 50th anniversary show in Miami Beach during Art Basel. He loves travelling and discovering new people and cultures, Spaghetti Carbonara, art, hanging out with friends and riding fast horses :)

Andy Awesome

I believe in art as a proletariat force to effect social change. Street Art is the purest platform for democracy. My last solo show CIRCUS OF THE SOUL, detailed 100 years of gang activity in Coney Island, using modern devices. A local anti-violence coalition endorsed the show, and I was able to outreach within the community. That’s what I most like to do, create a dialogue with the public that goes both ways. I’m a London cartoonist discovered in 1990, by Alan Weavis, a charismatic British illustrator, doodling on a tablecloth. He encouraged me to take a diploma in cartooning and media at The Morris School of Journalism, followed by a Bachelor’s degree at Middlesex University. During the 90’s I worked as a freelance contributor. Clients included The Journal of Silly, DNA magazine, and Anchor Books, an imprint of Random House. I have held over 20 art shows in NYC and has been featured in Next Magazine, The Hamptonian, The Clinton Chronicle, Metromix, AOL news, The Daily News, Talent in Motion Magazine, NEWS12, The Times Square Chronicle, Gotham Magazine, and Urban Arts Magazine. JAK is currently working with fine artist Seth Carnes on an anti-bullying installation K(NO)W LABEL.

JAK

Dave Greber creates vibrant, revelatory video installations inspired by socio-cosmic phenomena.

Dave Greber

I paint dynamic images that read in between experiential vision, photography, film, memory, and paint as itself. My source images - personal photographs, light abstractions, mass media and film collages - are rendered into series of paintings that reflect the continuity and transformation of images perceived, engaged, remembered, and retransmitted. I use photography to connect images that are personal and distant, vital and mortal, inscrutable and deliberate as they coalesce in my consciousness. The layered surfaces of oil reactivate the ghosts of imagery that drift between perceptive layers and diffuse into experience.

Warren Holt

Elevator View is New York, photographed by Stewart Mader from elevated perches throughout the city. Tall buildings owe much to the elevator – the engineering advancement that made quick travel beyond a few stories feasible, and directly contributed to the race to build ever-taller buildings that began in the early 20th century. The “view from the elevator” metaphorically speaking, represents the idea of a broad, expansive view from a perspective high above the din of everyday life.

Stewart Mader

Using vintage catalog imagery, each piece in this series explores the relationship between the patterns that exist in fashion and the patterns that comprise human genetics. While a clothing pattern is designed to make the wearer look and feel different than everyone else, when expanded over the model’s exposed skin it instead represents the common biological and emotional framework that we all share.

Ian Addison Hall

The work is essentially a collection of psychological self portraits at varying degrees. Non-archival, spontaneous line work flows on paper as thoughts are poured out in the form of surreal subject matter. These pieces are a visual documentary of days sitting restless with a need to fill the paper with the cheeky thoughts might be rambling in my brain. Anxiety is channeled into each little line and stroke, accented at times by color and collage to heighten the intricacy and playfulness of the work.

Kira Leigh