C. Kirk preparing brand-new smaller pieces to accompany the larger works for his upcoming show “Building Character” at The 4th Wall Gallery / Dallas, TX
Show opens March 5, 2010 from 7-10pm
The 4th Wall Gallery
2925 Fairmount Street
Dallas, TX 75201
Filmed at C. Kirk’s studio, February 21, 2010
For more information, go to www.ckirkart.com and www.the4thwallgallery.net
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This segment profiles the artist known as KAWS, former Graffiti (tag) artist turned painter and designer of limited edition toys and clothing. This segment also features some cool clips of KAWS’ art, displayed in Pharrell Williams’ Miami Home and Kanye West’s latest album cover and billboard.
You can catch his next exhibition,
“KAWS, The Long Way Home,” February 21,— April 04, 2009 at the Honor Fraser Gallery in LA
http://www.honorfraser.com/?s=upcoming
or
http://www.honorfraser.com
“I just started simply through graffiti and drawing on my skateboard and painting on walls and getting that small recognition,” said KAWS, known to his family as Brian Donnelly.
KAWS graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York with a BFA in illustration in 1996. After graduation, KAWS briefly worked for Disney as a freelance animator painting backgrounds. He also contributed to the animated series 101 Dalmations, Daria and Doug.
He began his career as a graffiti artist growing up in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Later moving to NYC in the 1990s, KAWS started subverting imagery on billboards, bus shelters and phone booth advertisements. These reworked advertisements were at first left alone, lasting for up to several months, but as KAWS’ popularity skyrocketed, the ads became increasingly sought after.
In addition to NY, KAWS has done work in Paris, London, Berlin and Tokyo.
In the late 90s, KAWS began to design and produce limited edition vinyl toys, “an instant hit with the global art toy-collecting community,”especially in Japan, where this genre is well respected and widespread. More toys and later clothing were made for Original Fake, a recent collaborative store with Medicom Toy, in the Aoyama district of Tokyo where an original limited edition product is released each week.
KAWS has also participated in other commercial collaborations with Takahashi for Undercover, snowboard projects with Burton, and sneakers with Nike and Vans.
His most recent collaboration was with Comme des Garçons.
KAWS’ acrylic paintings and sculpture have many repeating images, all meant to be universally understood, surpassing languages and cultures.
One of KAWS’ early series, Package Paintings, was made in 2000. This series, entitled The Kimpsons, subverted the famous American cartoon, The Simpsons. KAWS explains that he “found it weird how infused a cartoon could become in people’s lives; the impact it could have, compared to regular politics.”
In addition, KAWS has reworked other familiar icons such as Mickey Mouse, the Michelin Man and the Smurfs.
Through all of his projects, KAWS has successfully blurred the line between fine art and mass-produced merchandise. He uses his products to allow his imagery to infiltrate a larger audience than that of the fine art world.
The artist is currently an active member in both the commercial and fine art communities.
His work is included in the traveling exhibition “Beautiful Losers,” which started at the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center and will be traveling through 2009 throughout the US and Europe.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS (forthcoming)
Plastic Culture, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Great Britain
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Album Cover, 808s and Heartbreak, by Kanye West
Also check out:
http://www.original-fake.com
http://www.kawsone.com
Video: © 2009, CBS Sunday Morning, CBS News, CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved No Infringement is intended
Duration : 0:6:34
Purvis Young, one of today’s most important American artists. 30-min full length documentary available at www.purvisyoung.com.
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Me making 3 different canvases, 2 FAKE GRENADES in 2 differtent colour ways and a small FAKE KATE with some spatters!
Here you can vind all my work: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lype/
and here you can buy the grenade: www.100artworks.com
Duration : 0:7:5
Ernesto has been using his artwork to inspire dialogue on a number of important social issues; the idea of GANAS (motivation), the injustices facing the National Day Laborers Movement, and has highlighted some of the worlds greatest revolutionaries and social workers through his artwork. Cesar Chavez is no exception, and has had a profound effect on our world by dedicating his life to making things better for all working people around the world.
Often, people forget how important Cesar Chavez was and how his legacy affects us to this day. By making this print and honoring the spirit of Chavez, Ernesto has created an indelible mark on the legacy of a great man and a great revolutionary.
This is Ernestos first true fine art print. By using archival materials, and printing at the renowned Modern Multiples studio in downtown Los Angeles, Ernestos artwork is now on par with some of the great masters of our time; Shepard Fairey, Ron English, Futura, Saber, Revok, Retna, the list goes on and on. This large format piece will stand to define Ernestos signature style into the future.
Here are the details on the prints:
Artist: Ernesto Yerena
Size: 30″ x 30″
Medium: Fine Art Serigraph on 320 GSM Stonehenge Archival Paper. Printed at Modern Multiples Studio, this is Ernestos first large format fine art print.
Edition Size: 50 pieces each of two colorways; brown and turquoise
Price: $125 including free US shipping
Duration : 0:1:38
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“[Verse 1]
This is the point of no return I could never go back
Life without parol up state shackled and trapped
Living in the hole, lookin’ at the world through a crack
But that, I’d rather shoot it out and get clapped
I’ve gone too far, there ain’t no coming back for me
Auschwitz gas chamber full of Zyklon-B
Just like the spanish exterminating Tynos
Raping the black and Indian women, creating Latinos
Mother made me out of self richeous hatered
And you got yourself a virus, stuck in the Matrix
A suicide bomer strapped and ready to blow
Lethal injection strapped down ready to go
Don’t you understand they’ll never let me live out in peace
Concreate jungle, guerilla war out in the streets
Nat Turner with the sickle pitch fork and ma chatte
The end of the world, mother you not ready
This is the point of no return and nobody can stop it
Malcolm little running up before Elijah Muhammad
The commedent killed the dinosaurs, changing the earth
They love to criticize they always say I change for the worse
Like prescription pills when you miss using them nigga
The temple of nights when they took Jerusalem nigga
And figured out what was buried under Soloman’s temple
Al Aksa the name is no coincidental
I know too much to government is trying to murder me
No coming back like cutting your writs open vertically
How could the serpant be purposely put in charge of the country
Genetic engineered sickness spread amongst me
My people are so hungry that they attack without reason
Like a fuckin’ dog ripping off the hand that feeds him
Immortal Technique is treason to the patriot act
So come and get me mother cause I’m not coming back
[Hook]
This is the point from which I could never return
And if I back down now then forever I burn
This is the point from which I could never retreat
Cause If I turn back now there can never be peace
This is the point from which I will die and succeed
Living the struggle, I know I’m alive when I bleed
From now on it can never be the same as before
Cause the place I’m from doesn’t exist anymore
[Verse 2]
This is the point of no return nigga you better believe this
Mary Magdalen giving birth to the children of Jesus
The evolution of the world, bloody and dramatic
Human beings killing monkeys to conquer the planet
The kingdoms of Africa and Mesopotamia
Machine gunnin’ your body with depleated uranium
This is the age of micro chips and titanium
The dark side of the moon and contact with aliens
I started out like Australians, criminal minded
Broke into hell, tore it down, and built and city behind it
South Paul, murderous, methadology nigga
Remember that I’m just a man don’t follow me nigga
Cause once you past the point you can never go home
You’ve got to face the possibility of dying alone
So tell me mother fucker, how could you die for the throne?
When you don’t even got the fuckin’ heart to die for your own
It rains acid, one day the earth will cry from a stone
And you’ll be lookin’ at the world livin’ inside of a dome
Comperized humanity living inside of a clone
This is the place where the unknown is living and real
Worm went to planet X and the seventh seal
Universal truth is not measure in mass appeal
This is the last time that I kneel and pray to the sky
Cause almost everything that I was always ever told was a lie”
-Immortal Technique
A build up of 3 canvas by Block
Music by Immortal Technique / The point of no return
“It’s that real this time around.
Revolutionary vol.2″
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Bloke
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