Artists

Jon Burgerman:
Makes vibrant, neo primitive scrawls of shapes and colour. He’s pushed his monster-like characters into compositions where cartoon-like forms are crammed on top of each until they create a screaming mass of energy. Intensely prolific, he has pushed the character obsession of the late 90s into a far more interesting and strong direction. Think Walt Disney at an Incan monument on mescaline.”
-Francesca Gavin, author of Street Renegades, Visual Arts Editor Dazed & Confused
www.jonburgerman.com

Jon Burgerman

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Jim Avignon:
Cartoon poet, speed painter and performance genius, regards himself as a modern storyteller. His illustrations express the complex relationships of our times by the simples of means. Loving, personal, direct, playful, perfectly observant and for weird, Avignon crafts a visual critique of society, exposing everyday absurdities from business to love with an apt, sympathetic bite.
www.jimavignon.com

jim avignon

Roman de Milkandwodka:
Is a pop-brut-artist from zurich. roman is painting on canvas, but also on walls, and as a fake-tattooist directly on peoples skin!
He’s part of the comic-art-group milk&wodka, and co-publisher of an annual anthology.
www.myspace.com/larrybangbang

Jon Burgerman

Ema:
“I have been painting walls since my early teens, and my style has changed quite a lot and many times since then. I like to use a bit of humor and sometimes cynicism in my paintings although it is not always obvious. Because of my roots in old school hip hop graffiti, it’s always hard for me to call myself a ‘street artist’, although I guess it applies to me too, since I am making art in the streets.”

Jon Burgerman

Christine Young:
Is an artist and illustrator originally from Virginia but currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She holds a BFA in Illustration from Parsons the New School of Design. She was born in Virginia to a sailor and a nurse.

Jon Burgerman

Daniel Dueck:
Poetic creatures are born from spontaneous spills and splatters of paint. The whimsical nature of his elephant is reminiscent of a children’s book character. Treading a fine line between fantasy and reality, Dueck’s work explores issues of identity and memory.

Jon Burgerman

For a long time describing his paintings as an urban parasite, MUNDANO has paintings all over the city, even in the carts of many “Carroceiros”, people that work collecting cardboards, aluminum and other material from the trash to sell to recycling companies. The painted carts run through the city traffic disseminating his messages against the marginalization of this honest and necessary work. On the city’s walls, his messages directly question the corruption of the government, so cial issues, the pallor and the city traffic. In a way, his characters filled up with eyes are the voice of a silent people.

LORO VERZ
LORO VERZ decodes the hectic and busy city life style and transforms it into critical, satirical, subversive images. His work is a direct response to the urban and almost schizophrenic state of mind of people living in massive cities as Sao Paulo, where simultaneity and synchronicity are always present. The artist explores different painting surfaces and mediums from oil to spray cans. His style is a fusion of influences that goes from Hyeronimous Bosch to graffiti, from Robert Crumb to Michelangelo. Besides being an artist, Loro is also an illustrator and cartoonist for the Sao Paulo edition of the Metro Newspaper. For this present show, the Lichen’s shapes and colors are the structure for his work.

APOLO TORRES
APOLO TORRES work is the most figurative one, but there is a strong relationship between the figure and the surface it’s painted on. There is a lot of work on the canvas surface, trying to capture the colors and textures found on the city’s walls, and also other living interventions such as Lichen, moss, and human painting. Working on the depth and perspective, but at the same time leaving the elements scattered in the environment, Apolo have been trying to find a way to indicate that all the roots, the ground on which are built our morals and customs, values, beliefs, and even the possession of the space we share with other living beings can change or disappear at any time. Due to the constant transformation of things, the art of Apolo Torres is a visual record of what he has witnessed and felt.

Skewville has been making great advancements in the experimentation of street stamping technology along with revamping city materials to communicate phrases like “FRESH” and “FAME GAME”. Yet, most know is Skewville’s Sneaker mission, WHEN DOGS FLY, since 1999 they have been manufacturing fake wooden sneakers, which can be found tossed over thousands of power lines in your neighborhood and all over the world.
www.skewville.org

Pufferella has been making Fabric creations since 2002 and has been involved with the Skewville missions even longer. Her work deals mainly with sexual relations and the afterthoughts. She is the woman behind the creation of Orchard Street Art Gallery in NYC and Factory Fresh Art Gallery.
www.pufferella.com

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Jeremiah Maddock's latest body of work is an example of his ever-expanding visual narrative. Having recently relocated to Brooklyn, NY from the rural Washington woodlands, Maddock found himself among the emerging creators of the New York art scene. His works are an attempt to create the purest expression of existence, totally free from external conditioning and undefiled by compromise. His language is a crystal-clear spring flowing with Machiavellian-like "musical hieroglyphics." At times disconcerting, his works possess a certain candor and delve into the perception of the supernatural.

Jake Dobkin is an urban landscape photographer and a graffiti
documentarian. He has lived in Brooklyn for most of the past 31 years.
More of his work can be seen at Bluejake.com and Streetsy.com.

Luna Park spends all her free time skulking about NYC's grotty warehouses, abandoned lots and trash-strewn alleyways in search of
beauty in unexpected locations. She is passionate about urban art and supportive of all creative endeavors to redefine and redesign public space. She posts daily at www.flickr.com/photos/lunapark.

Sam Horine is a regular explorer of forgotten, abandoned and under-appreciated places. He enjoys rooftops, bbq's and pets. He's a frequent contributor to the Village Voice and Am New York. In the spring of '09 he will teach a digital imaging class at NYU. More of his work can be seen at www.samhorine.com.

By day street stars retouches and prints the work of industry leading fashion, advertising, and still life photographers. his professional
post-pro work has appeared in vogue, self, glamour, blender, people, and on tv and major billboard campaigns. for the last ten years,
street stars has photographed in and around new york city where he has documented street life, abandoned locations, graffiti culture, and his fellow boricuas.

Gaëtane Michaux is an artist and architect from Brussels who lives and works in Brooklyn. With a hyperactive imagination, an obsessive and meticulous lust for edges and details, and a desire to re-arrange, she can usually be found with some sort of cutting tool in her hands.

If architecture is building, graphic design the creation of images, and sculpture the massaging of matter, then Gaëtane's background in the three have left her interested in mixing up everything she sees. From street art to people, Gaëtane reconfigures what already exists in the world.