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	G40: The Summit 5 Floors 500+ Artists 75,000 sqft Curated Visual and Performance Art A dynamic contemporary art exhibition featuring curated works from artists around the world on display for a full month, featuring musical and visual performances, lectures, live painting and much more! Art Whino teams up with Crystal City BID and Vornado to present G-40: The Summit, a month long exhibition and event series featuring over 500 artists from around the world. The mission of G40: The Summit is to bring the leaders of the New Brow genre together in Crystal City, VA in an effort to explore, discuss and grow this movement. G-40: The Summit will be a culmination of ideas and processes, brought together and highlighted by region and style, creating, for the first time, a full cross examination of this genre. This event will feature 75,000sqft of exhibition space with 4 floors of art! Each floor will represent different hot hubs of the New Brow movement: The DC, New York, and California metro areas, plus one all encompassing floor for international and other regional artists. Visitors of G-40: The Summit will, for the first time, be able to experience entire floors showcasing artists from these regions, and because of this set up, connect the dots of how the different sub-cultures and environs affect the art. From the laid back California Style, to the fast paced New York way of living, the art will bring a fresh visual perspective that words cannot provide. With all the different styles in one place the New Brow movement, now growing and expanding worldwide, will be more comprehensible to the viewer, finally defining the line between the movement's beginnings to its future. A movement that currently exists without much literature or founding in "traditional" institutions, yet includes some of the most highly recognizable and sought after art in the world, will inevitably become a major player in the intellectual and mainstream art world. Each floor will have 10-30 "Showcased artists" who will activate the space with murals and installations, helping to set the mood for their region. In addition to the showcased artists we will have an additional 50-100 region specific artists exhibited on each floor. The show will run up for a month. During the month there will be musical and visual performances, lectures, and more. Also we will feature various art related groups and non-profits, helping to promote their mission and inspire ongoing conversations about the New Brow art world in DC and beyond. Event Schedule: Show Month: March 2010 Open Hours: Wednesdays & Thursdays: 5 – 10pm, Fridays & Saturdays: 12pm – 12am Sundays: 12pm – 6pm Mondays & Tuesdays: Closed Event Location 223 23rd St. Arlington, VA 22202 Metro Accessible and pleny of parking For more info go to: http://crystalcity.org/accessible/parking Art Whino Gallery Art Whino is a DC based art gallery whose mission is to bring together the freshest and rawest talent from around the world. With over 400 artists in the Art Whino arsenal, ranging from California to New York, Germany to Japan and beyond, Art Whino has become an all encompassing force in the art world. Exhibitions cover the whole spectrum of new art forms ranging from exposing emerging stencil and wheat pasting artists to showcasing the most skilled leaders of many different genres. For the life essentials Exhibit 100+ artists have been invited to participate exhibiting one piece each. http://www.artwhino.com/ Crystal City BID Crystal City, Arlington's largest downtown, is transforming. Bright and vibrant, Crystal City now features an abundance of fine restaurants, cafes, specialty stores, outdoor movie nights, bike trails, and two award winning theaters with Arena Stage and the Washington Shakespeare Company. With its quick access to the Metro area and proximity to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, the area is attracting many well-known businesses, non-profits, artists, tourists, and residents - all who are excited to call Crystal City home. From our hotels to our transportation options, Crystal City is also a green and environmentally-minded area - visitors can feel good about their stay with us, inside and out. Established in April of 2006, the Crystal City Business Improvement District (BID) is creating a soul for Crystal City. A public-private partnership, the BID is providing a higher level of service to visitors, workers and residents in Crystal City - driving to become world-class destination in both Arlington and the greater DC region. Featured Artists: Caia Koopman Caia Koopman is a native of California and was born in Livermore. She majored in fine art and earned a B.A. at UC Santa Cruz, California. Santa Cruz turned out to be the place that seduced her to the local skateboarding scene. In addition to receiving an academic education, Caia also learned to skate ramps, streets, pools, and Derby Park. Skateboarding led to skateboard graphics, and her first limited edition team T-shirt design for Santa Cruz Skateboards. After earning her art degree, she turned her attention to snowboarding and spent many winters following the snow. It was her love for the sport that inspired Caia to strive for a career creating snowboard graphics and later branching out to become a commercial artist and finally a fine artist as well. Her artwork has been featured in numerous national and international print media including Surfing Girl, Mademoiselle, Details, Girl's Life, Snowboarder Magazine, Teen, Teen Style, Teen People, J-14, Fine , and others. Caia designed T-shirt graphics and promotional illustrations for many companies, such as: Quiksilver/Roxy, Hurley, Op, AT&T, and Casio. Caia's paintings have been used commercially for many years as graphics for snowboards, skateboards and wakeboards for major companies such as K2, Morrow, and Hyperlite. Caia has also been featured on MTV, "mtv sports" as an athlete/artist for her snowboarding and painting. Caia has shown her paintings in a number of galleries around the world and most recently at La Luz de Jesus in LA. She is currently working as a freelance illustrator and painter in Oceanside, CA. Caia is inspired by nature, dreams, politics, and life. http://www.caiadesign.com/paintings.htm Featured Artists: Angry Woebots Aaron Martin was born on the Hawaiian Island of Oahu, but spent most of his childhood growing up and moving from Southern California to Nevada before finally landing back into Hawaii during his Junior year in high school. In 1999 while a car accident changed everything; this life-threatening experience inspired him to leave the island once again, this time to Seattle, Washington. Inspired by the rain and being indoors, he started playing around with different art mediums again. He then left back to Hawaii with a new perspective. "I almost died that night, being trapped in metal changed everything. Almost ten years later but its just like it happened yesterday life's been unbelievable I been blessed with the best Family and Homies ever, on top of that I been rocking out full time doing what I love just painting and meeting the coolest people." Aaron had his first show in 2002 and has not stopped. Showing in galleries up and down California the east coast, have even showed in shows that have traveled from the United States, Tokyo to Hong Kong, Australia & New Zealand. Aaron has worked with companies & crews like Mind Style toys/Disney, Blue Scholars, Kidrobot, Fitted Hawaii /NewEra, Kicks Hawaii & has a project coming soon with Converse Red. Also being published in Magazines in the US & Europe. His focal medium is acrylic paintings on wood and canvas. Using minimal colors and detailed character design, these paintings are usually comprised of stressed out emotional pandas. The pandas tend to represent the story of struggle. "Angry Woebots was never a name it was a concept of what I created, concept of my art, from the car accident until now, from being in a dark place and coming out of the situation fresh and ready to change the negative to a positive thing, getting slammed into metal actually woke me up. Rocking art was the doorway it's been nonstop ever since." Much respects-Woeski One http://www.armyofsnipers.com/ Featured Artists: Jophen Stein Jophen Stein is a graduate of the Laguna College of Art and Design. After establishing the snootson family showcase in 2004 his distinctive style has gained national recognition over the past couple of years. Despite the minor set backs of being banned from Idaho and Iowa Jophen Stein continues the SFSC series from his studio in Pomona. http://www.jophenstein.com/ Featured Artists: Paul Chatem Paul Chatem was born in 1974 in Bellevue, Washington, and grew up in La Crescenta, California. He graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1997 with a BFA in Illustration. While working various arts related jobs in the entertainment industry Paul developed his own personal work and started showing in group shows in Los Angeles. His first solo show "It Tastes like Whiskey" opened Feb. 2006 at the Black Maria Gallery in Atwater, CA. Since then his work has been featured at The Shooting Gallery in San Francisco CA, The Bluebottle Art Gallery in Seattle WA, CoproNason Gallery in Santa Monica CA, as well as in many group shows in North America and abroad. Paul is currently hiding out in the foothills of Los Angeles. http://www.paulchatem.com/ Featured Artists: Reuben Rude Reuben Rude was born in San Francisco, as the sun was setting on the Free Love era. His bohemian parents then moved "back to the land" to the woods of Northern California, where he spent the better part of his childhood without a television. This lack of technology forced him to spend almost every waking hour drawing and painting. When he moved back to the city to attend art school, he got into all the usual trouble with graffiti writers, skateboarders and art students. He now lives in San Francisco with his wife and eight-year-old daughter, and yes, a television. However, he still spends most of his waking hours drawing and painting. Sometimes he even gets paid for it. http://www.reubenrude.com/ Featured Artists: Casey Weldon Casey was born August 27th, 1979, in beautiful Long Beach California. He spent his childhood in the then undeveloped eucalyptus groves of Yorba Linda and the labyrinth hills of Valencia, skinning knees, capturing flags, and drawing comic books. After a hazy stint in high school, he went on to study at the Art Center College of Design where he graduated with honors in 2004. He moved to Las Vegas, which was great. If you haven't been there, I highly recommend it. He had some shows, made some friends and met a girl. He now lives in Brooklyn, NY with said girl. http://caseyweldon.com Featured Artists: Scott G. Brooks Scott G Brooks is originally from Flint, Michigan, and currently lives and works in Washington, DC. His subject matter ranges from simple portraiture to intricate narratives. In his paintings, he takes social, psychological, and political issues and injects them with a dark sense of humor. Anatomical distortions separate the figures from the photographic ideal, which gives him the freedom to create his own distorted reality. His work is described as twisted and offbeat, sentimental, and disturbing. In addition to exhibiting in galleries, he has also illustrated several children's books. His influences include Mad Magazine, Disney, Saturday morning cartoons, and talking heads on cable news. http://www.scottgbrooks.com Featured Artists: Kelly Vivanco Kelly Vivanco was born and raised in front of a sketchpad and a box of colors in Southern California. She later received her BFA with honors from LCAD in Laguna Beach. In 2004 Kelly became a Studio artist at Distinction in Escondido and currently maintains a working studio there. Her work has shown in numerous galleries and is held in collections across the U.S. and abroad. Kelly enjoys setting whimsy to work in many mediums and pulls inspiration from the natural and imagined world, vintage photographs, children's literature and the oddness of her dreams. http://www.kellyvivanco.com Featured Artists: Craig `Skibs` Barker Craig "Skibs" Barker grew up in Southern California during the early '80s in the midst of both the punk rock and surfing culture explosions. With a healthy dose of punk flyers, album covers, and surfing magazines buzzing through his head, Barker began making flyers and t-shirts for his friends and his own punk bands. Fast-forward to today; Barker's most recent paintings infuse his long-standing love for painting and rendering the human female figure with his punk-fueled graphic design. Mixing different approaches, techniques, and mediums, he creates a sense of memory, personal history, and appreciation for the female form. Combining elements of pop culture, literary censorship, and a positive mental attitude, he creates layered scenes of voyeuristic mischief. Barker's work explores the junctions between past and present, memory and imagination, fantasy and reality, while creating a dialog between image and viewer. http://www.skibsart.com/ Featured Artists: Josh Taylor Josh Taylor died in the year 2037 at the young age of 57. It is still unclear the exact cause of his death, but there have been a couple of people who were close to Josh that started noticing weird things. While Josh was a private person throughout his life, young Tim McAllister (a neighbor) was sometimes allowed into Josh's house. Josh had Tim run to the store to buy groceries or to mail out some prints. When asked if he noticed anything strange in the days prior to Josh's death, Tim replied, "Yeah, a couple days before Mr. Taylor died, I had came in the back door and found Josh at his drawing table. He had his arm shoved elbow deep into his mouth. It really freaked him out when he saw me, and he tried covering up all the weirdness. He sure was strange." This is important though, because when the autopsy was being performed, Josh was completely cut open. On the inside of his body, it was discovered that Josh had been using his innards as a canvas. While only seen by a handful of people, it has been reported that the art INSIDE of Josh is leaps and bounds greater than anything else done by anybody, anywhere. Unfortunately, the Government seized control of all works of art in the year 2012 (music was seized around 1985), so it will not be issued until the Government decides what to do with it. It is doubtful that it will ever be seen, because his art is dark and controversial. It challenges all authority. It inspires people to question, it inspires people to seek change. One can only wonder what was created inside Josh, perhaps someday we will all be so lucky to see. http://www.joshtaylorart.net Featured Artists: Marka 27 Graffiti for me is a powerful tool if used properly. It can bring empowerment to people within the urban area through compelling imagery of truth and awareness. To paint a mural that depicts strength, aptitude, unity, and pride in one self is what I live for. I have a strong passion for painting even if it's not on a wall, but my heart is with the people who struggle. The single mothers, unemployed, imprisoned, poverty stricken individuals who I see everyday that still give themselves a reason to continue, that is my reason to continue. I thank GOD for the ability to create on the level that I do. http://www.marka27.com/ Featured Artists: Molly Crabapple Molly Crabapple is an award-winning artist, author, and the founder of Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School Molly learned to draw in a Parisian bookstore. She later drew her way through Morocco and Kurdistan, and once into a Turkish jail. She's developed her trademark Victorian style based a fascination with ambition and artifice. Remember, the devil's in the details Molly's drawn for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Marvel Comics the Bloomberg Corporation and Playgirl, and illustrated eight books. She's also turned her talents to 30-foot theatrical backdrops, children's books, parade installations, burlesque posters, critically acclaimed webcomics, pornographic comic books, art writing, and gallery shows around the world. She's the resident Toulouse Lautrec of The Box, one of New York's most exclusive nightclubs. http://www.mollycrabapple.com Featured Artists: Peap Peap, or Samapeap Tarr was born in Auckland NZbut grew up in many different places and countries because his mother is Chinese Cambodian and his father is from Te Awamutu and they were always on the move all over the place. He is a NZ based artist whose cultural background has influenced him and his emotions to create his signature sinister yet tranquil works of art. Known primarily for his use of bold black ink on a blank white medium, his art exists in a world where lightness and darkness battle, yet coexist in the same breath to balance each other and contrast against each other. It represents the ups and downs of life, the yin and the yang, the ongoing war that ends up being waged on canvas or whatever medium his work lies on. FOR MORE BIO'S OF PARTICIPATING ARTISTS PLEASE VISIT: http://www.crystalcity.org/artful/g40artists DC METRO ARTISTS Alan Defibaugh Alexa Meade Anthony Dihle Aniekan Udofia Billy Mode Brandon Hill Cabezon Chris Bishop Daniel Barojas Dana Ellyn Decoy Drew Storm Graham edward gross El Stabo Emily Greene Liddle Francisco Munoz James Walker Jared Davis Jazirock Jessica van Brakle Luz Del Mar Rosado Matt Sesow Matt Somma Michael Weber Michael Owen Nils Westergard Novie Trump Peter Chang Peter Krsko Twitch Scott G. Brooks Sylvia Ortiz Shawn Martinbrough Susannah Parnin Tim Conlon Tim Slayton Truth Among Liars Trevor Young Yulia Graham NY METRO ARTISTS Angie Mason Casey Weldon Cern One Chris Murray Chris RWK Chris Stain Cope 2 Frank Gonzales Ghetto Picasso gigi Heather Randell Herm Life! Indie Jessica Angel Joe Iurato JoKa Liza Corbett Marka 27 Migdalia Luz Barens Vera Mikel Glass Molly Crabapple MDOK Ovie PaperMonster Scott Albrecht Sue Works TMNK Veng CALIFORNIA ARTISTS Aaron Kraten Alex Chiu Andrew Hem Angry Woebots Caia Koopman Codak Chris Brett Craig Skibs Barker Dabs Myla Daniel Fleres Daryll Peirce Darling, Jim and Tina Douglas Alvarez Downer Eyeone Ganyan Jeremy Asher Lynch Jim Mahfood John Felix Arnold III Jophen Stein Joshua Herbolsheimer Joshua Krause Kelly Castillo Kevin E. Taylor Marie Barr Mary Spring Matthew Linares Mr. Ben Venom Mr. Penfold Munk One Patrick Haemmerlein Paul Chatem Peabe Reuben Rude Rick Reese Stuter Terri Woodward Tommii Lim Ursula Young Walter Hall WORLDWIDE ARTISTS Arizona John Koleszar Australia Brad Strain E.L.K. Kareem Rizk Nick Morris Brazil Alex Hornest Lelo Bulgaria Ernesto Nasimo Canada Hyein Lee Chicago Aunia Kahn Charlie Owens Esho Cleveland Arabella Proffer-Vendetta Colorado Bryan Collins Max Kauffman Thinkmule Detroit Ron Zakrin Florida Adam Russell Aleloop Brandon McLean Dan May Luis Diaz Mauricio Murillo Patrick Fatica Ruben Ubiera Rudy Duboue Patrick "STAR27" Deignan Tatiana Suarez France Anko Christian Mefee Germany Dennis Schuster Dust Ki Yoon Ko Marc Wöhr Mario Wagner Georgia Nicolas Gracey Hawaii Remi Mead Indianapolis Emma Overman Iowa Brent Houzenga Lithuania Natalie Shau Mexico Raudiel Sañudo Michigan Brandi Read Nashville John Collier Nevada Julie Steiner New Zealand Askew One Peap North Carolina Dustin Spagnola Oregon Anna Todaro Spencer Reynolds Zach Tobias Portugal Leonor Morais Paulo Arraiano Puerto Rico Adrian 'Viajero' Roman Seattle Chris Sheridan Soule Texas Cutthroat Dave Lowell Graham Franciose Saint JAHn Scotch UK Annabelle Hartmann Kenn Munk Molotov Circus The Krah Zachary Walsh Wisconsin Jimbot Vermont Josh Taylor To get show updates and invites Sign-Up To Get G40 Show Updates and Event Invites Email Address:

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the art of beer show

old skoolin for the children

Art whino is putting on this incredible show filled with some of today's finest artists, including myself, and all for a good cause. Do yourself a favor and check out this show, you won't be disappointed.

Koleszar coming to Flagstaff

I will be showcasing all new works at Black Hound Gallery on October 2nd. Come on by and see the stencil process in the flesh. This show will only be on display through the weekend, so don't miss out.

Melbourne Stencil Festival 2009

I am pleased to say that I have been selected for the Melbourne Stencil Festival again this year. I will have five pieces in the show, so if you are in the Melbourne area, don't miss out on an opportunity to see some world class stencil art.
Here is the list of artists in this year's festival:
085c3n3 - ADi - Ben Howe - BOO - Dan-e - Dean Christ - DrewFunk - E.L.K -
GODADI - Haha - Jak Rapmund - John Koleszar - Joshua Smith - Keags - Keys - Lachlan Widdison - Logan Moody - Max Berry - Monkey - Ololo - PSALM -
Rachael Miller - Rhen Fray - Stephen Bettess - Tom Civil - VEGA
For those of you unable to attend, here is a preview of the pieces I will have on display:

Friends with knives

I will have a few pieces in this show next week. Check it out if you have a chance. Special shout out to Paper Monster for including me in this amazing line up of talent.

Urban Decay @ Bherd Studios

If you find yourself in the Seattle area on August 14th, then head on over to Bherd Studios to check out the urban decay show that i will have several pieces in. This is a great lineup of artists including friends Soule and Paper Monster. Don't miss out.
August 14th 2009

Bherd Studios

8537 Greenwood Ave. N,

Suite 1,Studio D

Seattle, WA 98103

Interview with spraygraphic.com

Last week, Chuck B from spraygraphic.com came by to photograph me and my studio. Despite the heat, we managed to get some really great shots.
You can see the entire shoot in two parts on
sprayblog.net