Interview with Ian Johnson

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Interview with Ian Johnson

Ian Johnson was born in Syracuse, New York and lives and works in San Francisco. He is the Creative Director of Western Edition Skateboarding…

Ian Johnson’s style and visual language has an instantly recognizable character and unique voice.
His work draws its structures and graphic impact from his scope of influences that includes Jazz music, literature, and film.
Johnson adds elements of abstraction giving his compositions the expressive immediacy and elevated moods that are rooted in the culture and histories he references.
His paintings and drawings incorporate elegantly drafted elements of figurative line work and abstract patterns that combine with color building on his established and ongoing visual narrative.

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Interview with Dale Grimshaw

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Interview with Dale Grimshaw

Dale was born in Lancashire. He studied at Blackburn College of Art and then went on to achieve his Bachelor of Fine Art degree at Middlesex University. As a student Dale won the Apthorp Fund for young artists and then went on to win the Liquitex Student Award in the USA. As a result, he was able to exhibit at the Academy of Arts in New York and in the Cable and Wireless exhibition in London. After a break from his artwork, when he pursued a career in the music industry, Dale returned to painting and was quickly featured in the TV show ‘A Brush With Fame’. In 2006 Dale was a finalist in the both Pride in the House and Liberte D’expression competitions. More recently, he has contributed to the Street Art scene with a series of striking and dramatic woodcuts prints that he has pasted up in London and Europe. Dale has established himself over a period of six years as being one of the most respected and individual artists on the London art scene. Dale’s work has been seen in a number of group shows internationally in Paris, Berlin and in the USA.

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Interview with Carl SCREWTAPE Paoli

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Interview with Carl SCREWTAPE Paoli

Veteran Hollywood stuntman Carl Paoli, known for stunt doubling Patrick Dempsey, Patrick Swazey and Jimmy Fallon, to name a few, has translated his fearlessness into art.  His intrepid lifestyle is expressed on canvas as raw, intimate, figurative portraits delivered in an urban, contemporary style, while drawing influence from the masters. His art has been seen in the streets, galleries and museums of New York, Los Angeles, Florida and Chicago and sold world wide. 

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Interview with DAN23

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Interview with DAN23

After spending several years painting musical artists with watercolors, Dan23 opened in 2006 his own gallery in Strasbourg. His first steps as a solo performer making live-paintings then appeared to be more on concerts and music festival stages throughout the world than in his own gallery. In 2013, he decides to quit the stages in order to get more involved into the streets and the urban environment, painting bright portraits, each of them dedicated to a particular song and representing all the significant encounters he made in his life. The « Tour Paris 13 » project in which he got involved, eventually gave him the recognition. Finally, the street-art gallery Mathgoth in Paris offers him the opportunity to make a solo-performance in 2014.

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Interview with David Rusbatch

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Interview with David Rusbatch

Born in Leeds in 1979, David Rusbatch's work is drawn from popular culture, focusing on themes of celebrity and genius. In 2008 Rusbatch became one of the youngest ever exhibitors at the National Design Museum. The nature of creation and the act of destruction is a constant theme in the artist's work. Rusbatch has been known to abandon or completely destroy paintings in the pursuit of artistic enlightenment and 'perfection'.

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