PRESS - Breaking Bad Art Project

The Breaking Bad Art Project is on display for one more week at Gallery 1988 Melrose in LA.  The online response to this show has been absolutely insane and I am so thrilled to have been a part of it.  Check out some of the coverage below!

A great little video made by AMC about the show

Breaking Bad Art Project on E!News

And also a few of the more notable sites that have covered the event:

SoCal Public Radio

Fast Company

LAist

Huffington Post

Flavorwire

Inside the Winnebago

And finally, here is my piece for the Breaking Bad Art Project, commemorating my favorite season of the show, and my absolute favorite meth lab set up thus far, complete with chemistry equipment stolen from J.P. Wynne High School!

"Inside the Winnebago"
Watercolor and gouache on lanaquarelle paper
13 x 19"

*The original painting has been sold, but you can now buy a print of this piece in a size of your choosing through Society 6!

**Also, check out a sweet write-up of the show with pictures of some of the works including mine via LAist!

Breaking Bad Art Project Opening Reception

Still somewhat in shock over how awesome last night was...

Me and RJ Mitte in front of my painting.  He was an incredibly nice guy.

Got to give my Walter White portrait to the man himself!

Also got Bryan to autograph the rubber gloves I used for my painting!

Me and Emily with show creator Vince Gilligan, also a really nice dude!

Gallery 1988 pulled out all the stops and absolutely KILLED it with this show.  So appreciative to those guys for the chance to participate in this show and attend the opening.  

Breaking Bad is one of my all-time favorite shows and I am so incredibly grateful and honored to have had the opportunity to contribute to its history in some small way.  So damn cool, and can't wait for the new episode tonight!

BB preview

Here's a small section of my piece for the Breaking Bad Art Project group show opening next week at G1988!

Respect the Heisenberg.

RIP VENICE ART WALLS

August is officially the last month of the Venice Art Walls so I felt I should probably head over there and do a little something.  Busted out a super quick piece this morning, not my best work but all in good fun.  Wonder if it even lasted through the day?

It's really a shame that a city like Los Angeles, whose very soul and identity are so saturated with graffiti can't find enough money in their budget to keep their only public legal walls alive.  Once these walls are gone, there will be nowhere in LA for artists to paint graffiti legally.  

Without the painting program in place, the walls and surrounding area will inevitably get covered in tags and become an eyesore to the public-- I wouldn't be surprised at all if this leads to their eventual demolition.   A place that was once such an important part of LA's graffiti, music, and skateboard scenes will be reduced to memory... Bummer.

THE BREAKING BAD ART PROJECT

This is probably the most exciting thing ever.  Still not quite sure how I managed to weasel my way into this show, but Breaking Bad is my absolute favorite series and I couldn't be more stoked on this.

  The culmination of G1988's BreakingGifs campaign, The Breaking Bad Art Project group show will showcase all of the original posters from the viral campaign as well as a handful of new artwork from new artists including yours truly.  

If you've followed the campaign at all you've seen some of the amazing things that have been created in the name of Breaking Bad.  This is going to be absolutely epic. Can't wait to show you what I painted for this one.

CRAZY 4 CULT

CRAZY 4 CULT opens tomorrow night!  Very proud to be a part of this awesome show.  In keeping with their plan of global art domination, this year Gallery 1988 has moved one of their biggest annual exhibitions to NYC.  The gallery space is an impressive two floors and the show boasts some of the best work from over 200 artists.  

Previews of people's work have been popping up all over the place and everything looks incredible so far.  **Check out a sweet write up on the show and some images from Thrillist, including a sneaky appearance from my Eraserhead piece (image #10).  

If you are a New York friend (you know who you are!) please go check out the show and support G1988!  Address and details below:

My painting for the show is admittedly weird, but perhaps not even quite as strange as the movie that inspired it.  After watching David Lynch's 'Eraserhead', I was disturbed and intrigued and knew I wanted to create a piece around it.  The movie has a lot of spermatozoa floating around in it, so I focused on the sperm image as a symbol for life and death and got real weird with it.  Hope you like the painting!

"The Endosperm"

Watercolor on Lanaquarelle paper, 16 x 20"

"The Endosperm" (close-up)

Education of Style Invite

This is somewhat exciting, as I rarely get to share things I make at my job right after they are created (our ski designs are made 2 years in advance, and everything else is generally done 1 year in advance).
However, next week is the world premiere of 'The Education of Style', the new ski film starring Tanner Hall, Henrik Harlaut and Phil Casabon, and I got to make a cool invitation for the event:

The title of the movie is done up like a graffiti handstyle and I thought it would be fun to play off of that for the poster.  Since the movie is called The Education of Style, I wanted to "educate" folks on some different styles of tagging.  I always enjoy drawing out type by hand so this was very cool to work on.

I also got to make the invitation for the after party, which is a celebration of Henrik Harlaut's 21'st birthday.  Henrik (or E-Dollo as he is called by his fans) is one of my favorite dudes and I wanted to do something really awesome for his party.  And what's more awesome than Mike Tyson's Punch Out?

If you happen to be in Southern California next Tuesday, definitely swing by Lido Theater in Newport for the premiere and check out the after party at Bikini Bar!

*Update:  The afterparty will take place at our office/warehouse at 1987 Placentia St in Costa Mesa.  Come grab a beer and skate the miniramp with us after the movie.

AMERICAN HERO

"The American Hero" is a group show that opens next Saturday, July 7th at Gallery 27 in Chicago.  The show pays tribute to Americana in film and pop culture.  Artist Adam Devarney tipped me off about this new gallery, having recently moved to Chicago.  I believe this is only the second show they've done, (The first was a Wes Anderson tribute show) but I saw the title and was really inspired to do something for it.  If you are a Chicago friend or happen to be in the windy city next weekend, definitely go check this show out, it looks like its going to be really awesome.  Adam will be in it, and a bunch of other cool people too. Check out the show flyer for Gallery 27's address.

This piece took me a little over a full day to paint in total, but the fact that I left it alone after that is somewhat of a personal accomplishment as I have a tendency to want to overwork everything.  I didn't focus on a specific movie or piece of pop culture for this one either, which was nice.  Instead I thought on the much broader theme of violence, and came up with something I think is pretty cool.  Hope you like it.

"Untitled (usa)"

watercolor on lanaquarelle paper, 11 x 14"

You can't see very well in the picture but the frame has some nice red white and blue splatter on it.