2 Guns, 1 Desk

Right now the Housepaint art exhibit (click HERE for previous post) I was invovled with this past summer has been installed in the ROM (Royal Ontario Museum)



If street art is found within the walls of a museum, can we still find something in this vibrant international art movement that can be respected as critical and exceptional art? This exhibition, driven by the street artists themselves, is a distillation of the spontaneity, spirit of collaboration, accessibility and social consciousness from which street art has emerged. Housepaint at the Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC) at the ROM is the first exhibition of street art in a major Canadian museum, an open-ended exhibition and experiment. Through the run of the exhibition, every month-and-a-half another street artist will be invited to respond and add to the canvas houses from Tent City and the previous art work in the sequence -- layering the exhibition with meaning and building organic connections between the works.

At the end of the exhbition the canvas houses will be auctioned for Habitat for Humanity Toronto. Please register at http://www.housepaint.ca for programming updates.

Artists
STARSHIP / GENE PENDON (HVW8) | SPECTER / GABRIEL REESE | ROYAL / DIXON / JUAN CARLOS NORIA | OTHER / DEREK SHAMUS MEHAFFEY | LEASE / LISA MANSFIELD | FAUXREEL / DAN BERGERON | EVOKE / PATRICK THOMPSON | ELICSER ELLIOT | EGR / ERICA GOSICH ROSE | DSTRBO / DAN BULLER (HVW8) | CASE / RYAN MACKEEN | CANT 4 / AMANDA MARIE

ICC Guest Curator
DEVON OSTROM

Starting December 13th, 2008
Institute for Contemporary Culture - Roloff Beny Gallery
4th Floor, Royal Ontario Museum
Free with ROM Admission
Contact Info
Email:
Website:
http://www.housepaint.ca
Location:
Roloff Beny Gallery, 4th Floor, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park
Toronto, ON


I happen to have two panels in this installation(unofficially), so I am very excited and proud to have my work showing in one of the largest galleries in Canada alongside these amazing artists. There has been additional work created since the original installation took place at The LuminaTO event this summer, so even if you saw that, you should definitely come see this second viewing of the work. If looks amazing!


-here is some really great press from the facebook group as well

Street art exhibition at Royal Ontario Museum looks at poverty, homelessness - Yahoo! Canada News

Azure :: The House Painters

insidetoronto.com


There is a facebook group for it HERE

a sketch, to vector, to photoshop...available as a free desktop from me to you, download a full size image from the links at the bottom of this post.










download the full size image here!
http://media.onsugar.com/files/ons1/280/2801554/07_2009/a2/prehistorichot.jpg
...also! here's an alternate hot pink version for all you hipsters.
http://media.onsugar.com/files/ons1/280/2801554/07_2009/33/prehistoricalt.jpg

-Got a quick 'lil canvas on the go, then pushing onward to biggeer things.
Stay tuned dudes!
H.p4d

UPDATED POST!!!


For some reason voting on my designs ended after only 3 days(not 7)
im not sure what rule I broke, but I suspect hat too many friends went and spammed the site with perfect votes..I got no message as to why voting ended early...I may try again, we'll see.



I just got notification that 2 of the 3 designs submitted to threadless are open for voting..








I've got a week to get voted in or out, so do me a solid and go vote for my designs right now....!!!!!!!!

I finally got around to submitting some designs to threadless.com online tshirt shop.

Click here for my threadless profile

it should be open for voting this week, so make sure to vote for me often!!


heres a better view of the front and back together, not seen on threadless.







I'll probably put more online once These get approved, (or not).

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Not sure why photobucket isnt res-zing my thumbs for me, so just click the images to view



Been working on a pile of commissions this month..thought zI'd post up some of the conceptual drawings for the sake of feeding your eyes.

These first batch are all for one proposal. My art Direction was to only use red, white and black. The piece will be hanging in the entrance to a design studio










The best 4 of these were chosen for submission, and then from there I developed this concept based on the feedback received. (the addition of a grey blue was also added to my pallete)





and then I have also been developing this canvas tryptich for another client in Vancouver.

The text is an Estonian word "Avatud"






and then a final piece "Mojo" for the same Vancouver client.


coming up next on the p4 blog will be my work on Vancouvers pilot project between BC Hydro and the city, that invovled me painting a BC Hydro power box (Padamount)
as well I have 4 PVC toys being customized for the show coming up next month.

Oh and I've also got a line of shirts coming out very soon!

Wow, life has thrown me a pile of interesting projects this month, so expect a flood of posts to come in the next few weeks. Ive got about 5 proposals on the go, and am just about to be slammed with Christmas commission work.

So quickly to update, I just got put down for a local customized PVC toy exhibit happening in November.


Facebook Group Info
and the
official PVC2008 Blog

Flyer:



Looks like a huge lineup of artists..
- The Artist Lineup -

1. Sucklord [Suckadelic] [NY, USA]
2. Camilla d'Errico [Vancouver, BC]
3. Ben Tour [Vancouver, BC]
4. Ilanena [Toyko, Japan]
5. Cris Rose [aka SNEAK] [UK]
6. TML Stars [London, UK]
7. Hans Yim [APW Gallery] [NY, USA]
8. Kerry Lee [APW Gallery] [NY, USA]
9. J3 Concepts [WA, USA]
10. FAS aka [SELPH_ONE] [NY, USA]
11. Slobot [SC, USA]
12. Galleriedesoto [USA]
13. AW177 [NY, USA]
14. Rsinart [PA, USA]
15. Rotoreject [USA]
16. Pocketwookie [NB, USA]
17. D-LuX [Detroit, USA]
18. Coreroc [OH, USA]
19. Manga_spawn [AZ, USA]
20. Del730 [LA, USA]
21. Laszlo [OH, USA]
22. Brian Colin [GA, USA]
23. Java [K7 Clan] [USA]
24. Shimotakimas [USA]
25. Soak [Vancouver, BC]
26. Sueme [Vancouver, BC]
27. Ensoe [Vancouver, BC]
28. Bent One [Vancouver, BC]
29. Colin Moore [Vancouver, BC]
30. Duke Barstow [Vancouver, BC]
31. Munk One [Vancouver, BC]
32. Creed [Vancouver, BC]
33. Scott AmFreshHaus [Vancouver, BC]
34. Kimberly Cairns [Vancouver, BC]
35. Angela Ling [Vancouver, BC]
36. Judson Beaumont [Vancouver, BC]
37. Corey Stewart [Vancouver, BC]
38. The Noble Savage [Vancouver, BC]
39. Emon Xie [Vancouver, BC]
40. Serenna Romanycia [Vancouver, BC]
41. English [Vancouver, BC]
42. Arden Marow [Vancouver, BC]
43. Serna 1 [GH] [Vancouver, BC]

Here's some teasers of what I have in the works...







More blank canvases...

So about a year ago I got paid a few dollars to release image rights for a graffiti wall I did as part of some random community 'clean up the alley's' day..
At the time "the Rocker was going to be starring Donny Wahlburg, but it appears they went a different direction by the time it was released....
Heres my piece, and some screens from the movie..

In the movie they walk out of this club and towards the end of the alley where my piece is..you can see some of the other guys stuff in the shots but its pretty dark until they stop for this one on one scene right in front of my piece.





Since this was legal graffiti, the studio was obligated to pay for image rights..had this been some random illegal vandalism, I would have no intellectual property rights...that being said it was nice to get paid for something I already did, rather than just seeing it in the movie after the fact.