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Al's art has been seen everywhere from the Dithers DVD to a boatload of t-shirt designs for the Fifty24SF/Upper Playground empire. He continually shows everywhere, although your best bet at catching up to the elusive Reyes would be in his own Los Angeles. UpperPlayground.com
Cody cames out of nowhere and quietly shocks the living canoodle out of you with powerful, witty concepts presented with craftsman-like precision and gargantuan scale. http://qwert.scurvy.net/
Kristin graduated UC Davis with a ball of graphic design fire in her heart and nowhere to put it, which drove her further and harder into every graphic application, from poster art to fine art prints to clothing design. As luck would have it, she was recently recruited by a high-end corporate in-house design department and relocated to San Francisco. Elektriklov.com
Chris is popping up alll over this year, with appearances in New York magazine, the New York Times, Clear, Faesthetic, Sherbert, Law of Inertia, and Best Life magazines as well as the Output 7 and Jeremyville's Sketchel book. Chris was recently nominated STEP magazine's Top Emerging Talents in 2005. Gluekit.com
From FecalFace.com: "Mike's work ... reminds me of artists I grew up with. He paints things that are tangible: old men, sad women, stars, dotted halos, and rays of what? Knowledge? Insight? Who knows. It doesn't really matter." Mike's super-positron attitude helps him stand above the rest, even while curating Voice 1156 gallery in San Diego. Voice1156.com
The Buffmonster hails from the inhospitable streets of Los Angeles. Small and elusive, The Monster manifests itself in different forms, each working towards the same goal of graffiti eradication. Buffmonster has evolved from using flattened spray cans nailed to telephone poles to primarily using big, gray boxes situated throughout the city. Sometimes The Monster even gets invited in from the streets, where The Monster's candy-coated landscapes emerge. Pink is power in the land of the Buffmonster. Buffmonster.com
Aaron Winters is the Sacramento-based graphic designer, illustrator, fine artist and musician behind AVMJ. Although much of his time is spent paying the bills as the creative director for a non-profit, he has also served as webmaster for Vapors magazine and has provided continuous art direction for the Weird Forest and Claire's Echo record labels. In the spring of 2005, Aaron (along with Skinner) established The Ultramega Art Conglomerate — organizing a massive group show at San Francisco's prestigious 111 Minna Gallery. This is in addition to a wide variety of freelance projects Aaron juggles ranging from a coutre magazine to event promotion to t-shirt and toy design. One of Aaron's most recent achievements to date was his inclusion in Faesthetic magazine no. 5, where his artwork can be seen alongside that from the likes of Tim Biskup, Shepard Fairey and more. AbideVisuals.com
Jay is a dude that makes stuff for dudes out of things at times. PunksGitCut.com
In addition to mural projects at Tower Records (Seattle), a Day Of The Dead installation at SF Art Institute, The Capitol Garage Coffeehouse remodel (Sacramento) and private commissions, Skinner has three incredibly successful solo shows at The Toyroom Gallery in Sacramento under his belt. These projects led to his inclusion in the widely-acclaimed Sci-Fi Western group show at 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco (as seen in Juxtapoz magazine) and the accompanying catalog (published by Last Gasp), followed by another group show at The Shooting Gallery. Other group shows have found him in the company of such heavy-hitters as Sam Keith and Liz McGrath. TheArtOfSkinner.com
Garin's art has been steadily progressing on an aesthetic and commercial level for at least the last five years. Having shown at The Toyroom, Horse-Cow and elsewhere, Garin remains committed to his ideal that art must maintain its authenticity and intent at all cost. Once known for large paintings recalling Basquiat, his current project, El Gordo, is an exciting departure in his style, technique and application. At once genuine, yet graphically repetitive, the project finds Garin jumping back and forth from the public to the private. BirdsAndBolts.com
Adrienne Yan is an illustrator recently relocated to San Francisco. Since graduating from Parsons School of Design, her work has appeared in BUST, YM, Girls Life, Ms., Indy Men's Mag, Scholastic magazines and other girlie publications. She also has work in the knitting book Stitch N Bitch Nation. AdrienneYan.com
Jyoti's name (meaning "light") served to foreshadow her pursuits as a photographer. She seamlessly melds sociopolitical commentary with abstract art symbology in capturing some of the most striking images in that arena today. Jyotiology.com
P.B. is a modern day Renaissance mofo juggling family, job, art, graff, shows and band duties (The CUF) like a 42-armed gorilla on speed. As at home with a paintpen as with collage and found art, Pete's able to elevate the 'street scene' far and away from the Toys he leaves in his dust.
Far better known as drummer for The Losin' Streaks, Matt's portraiture of classic rock gods are technically proficient and true to their subjects, yet in a style all his own. If you see him around, ask him where he finds his ZipTone...
Nathan steps outside what many of the rest of the artists in the group does. Instead of applying paint to create an image, he chips away at it to expose the wooden textures beneath. What results are some really pretty mind-blowing interpretations that one can only help but think take place 'on the fly' as the grain and imperfection of the individual plank allows. Nate's ability to carve letters and characters extends to furniture, doors, etc., and has earned him the respect of local gallery owners, art celebrities and solo spots from Infusion Cafe and the Sacramento City Collge/Kondos Gallery to Low and Voice 1156.
Judd and his buddies moved out to California at 16 to chase skate dreams. Now professional skateboarder for The Unbelievers and father, Judd is focusing hard on his artistic ventures. With several features in national magazines like Thrasher, SLAP, and Transworld Skateboarding, and numerous shows in 2004 at The Horse-Cow, Flatspot, SellOut/BuyOut, and the Artists Studio Gallery, Judd is blowing Sacramento up in his casual-as-casual-can-be manner.
Coming from a background as an art director for an advertising firm, Jairus has now focused all of his attention into his paintings, incorporating American icons juxtaposed with neo-romanticism and satirical jargon. Jairus has been actively showing his work for the last 5 years in locations from Seattle to San Francisco, Sacramento to Los Angeles, England and Germany.
Rafter is everyone's hardest working best buddy. Most well known for a successful professional skateboarding career and inimitably good attitude, Mike's made his 'retirement' one to remember. After stints doing in-house video assignments for Expedition Skateboards and Thrasher magazine, Mike has recently begun independently producing video. As of late Mike's been busy keeping the groms of Sac flush with the finest goods skateboarding has to offer over at his shop Flatspot (21st & K St., Sacramento) and hanging out with with his fiancee.
Jeff may be better known for his work playing in and recording Sacramento rock bands, but his constant stream of visual art and shows is pretty well worth mentioning. Jeff's made a career out of finding the least expected art venues to show at — "You got a show where!?" style — as well as showing everything from drawings to hand cut rubber stamps.
A period curating art shows at the now-deceased Joe's Style Shop in Sacramento led Kevin to shows of his own work at the Sacramento Center for Contemporary Arts, Gallery Horsecow, The Toyroom, Gallery Balazo (SF), an installation at SF Arts Institute and others. Kevin's work is a changing mix of abstract portraiture and collage. As a muralist he had been working with the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission as an instructor in after school programs for five years creating public art at schools, community spaces and private commissions before moving to San Francisco. Kevin's work has been lent to Supernaut skateboards and Satori skate wheels and had been a regular designer at the quarterly Sellout/Buyout market.