Denis BarryBIODenis Barry was born on February 19th, 1989 in the Lower Hudson River Valley of New York. His fascination with the artistic process began early on with sculpting clay. As this fascination grew, he was
instilled with the desire to share his creations with others, often giving clay toys to friends and family. His later formative years broadened this artistic inclination to encompass drawing, painting, and even some printmaking techniques such as block printing and silkscreening. During this time he was awarded First in various scholastic art competitions, and was able to pinpoint the successful elements to his body of work. The recurring term used by judges and peers to describe his work was “raw”; and so he used his collegiate years at Dutchess Community College and the Fashion Institute of Technology to refine and balance this almost visceral, “raw”, quality. Under the guidance and tutelage of his professors, he was able to evolve his work to be bigger, bolder, and more raw, all the while remaining balanced, compelling, and approachable. |
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BoogieBIORisa Tochigi, aka Boogie, is one half of the dynamic duo boogieREZ. Boogie is a Japanese American street artist who crafts detailed imaginary creatures, flowing abstractions and fun and uniquely creative loving characters. Her body of work taps into the flow of the streets and the vibrations of the dance culture. Her creative spirit blends the technical mastery of traditional Japanese prints with urban imagery, materials and locations.
She is an illustrator, painter and muralist who truly lives life to the fullest. She can’t stop, won’t stop creating! She works on a wide range of projects in a number of mediums. Recently, she has been deeply involved in using plywood to bring her illustrations to life. Her imagination and love of nature and design has led her to create many organically inspired pieces. Some of these projects include, No Boarders, ART @ WTC, Poughkeepsie Gateway Project, Amsterdam Whitney Gallery, Anderson Contemporary Gallery, Clinton Street Gallery, Cryptic Gallery, Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Nord Anglia International School, Art 4 WTC, Jonathan Levine projects, O+ Positive festival, Sun Rise Steam Shack, Int-O Yellow, First Street Project, Gownus Mural Project, Raw Brooklyn, Star Street Art Project, Meeting Of The Styles. |
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John BreinerBIO(b. Poughkeepsie,N.Y. 1980)
Growing up in New York with an early love for Comics, skateboarding and graffiti John’s maintained a career as an Illustrator / fine artist and muralist for well over two decades. While the focus of his personal work revolves around the reuse of found items, (specifically old paper, books and book jackets) he’s also paints large-scale murals, various private commissions and designs as well as curated a number of group art shows and installations. |
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Domino TwistBIOTattoo artist by profession; painter, sculpter, taxidermist, and then some on the side.
I would consider it an impossible task to stick with just one medium, there is far too much to explore for that. Our world is full of tools for creation and that is one of my many inspirations. Being raised in a home of animals lead me to my favorite subject matter, my other interests trickled from there. My current work has mainly revolved around the combination of disembodied critters and light hearted pastels; my assumption is that stems from an interest in horror and disney from childhood. Some things never change. I love the freedom of the life I live and the people it's brought to me, I couldn't ask for a more rewarding career. |
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Elif Varol ErganBIOAfter graduation for her PhD thesis and artistic studies she researched about underground art and contemporary illustrations in Europe and Japan. Her art mainly focused on parent-child relationship, sex discrimination, women’s rights, feminism and human psychology. The characters in her early works can be outlined as uncanny, spooky and strange infants with pale faces, sharp teeth and shadows. There were heavy dose grotesque in the images, severe form deformations, sagging and melting forms merge and blend with intensive contrasts in red and black.
Her current artworks content is mostly focused on feminism, divine femininity, mysticism and women’s identity. She illustrates rebel female characters and move away from all kind of definitions and identities of women which has been put by the male dominance. She uses mostly “witch and wicca” metaphors for her rebellion ladies whose behaviours totally against the common thoughts and belief of society. She usually uses digital media, digital imaging and CNC-machined productions also sometimes combines traditional media such as acrylic, ink, silkscreening for the artworks |
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Christian GalloBIOI was gifted a Polaroid camera at a young age and was constantly shooting everything with it. After the film started to become harder to attain I fell out of it. Later on, I received digital point and shoot mostly documenting graffiti I came across and concerts I would attend. Not until i took a Fine Art photography class in high school did my passion for the art form really develop.
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GeddessBIOI have been making art as far back as I can remember. I was born on Nantucket Island to two painters who put a pencil in my hand at a very young age. I have always been heavily influenced by surrealism, especially the
work of MC Escher and Dali. When I left the island for the first time, at age 7, I was exposed to graffiti and my interest in manipulating letterforms began. Since I started tattooing in Chicago 2010, my influences have become more contemporary and personal. The use of psychedelics and automatic drawing as meditation has changed the way I approach my artwork over the years. Lately, I find myself mostly inspired by fellow traditional tattooers, graff writers and calligraphic lines. I view my artwork as a visual psychedelic experience and primarily work as a tattooer and painter. |
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REZBIOTc Weaver aka rezones aka one half of the dynamic duo known as BOOGIEREZ is
a self taught visual artist.Starting out in the early 80’s with graffiti art...The platform eventually brought him to graphic design, which transitioned to graphic design which eventually led him to photography. his primary sources of inspiration are his life’s experiences as well as his environment. pulling heavily from his trials and tribulations as a youth growing up in long island, Brooklyn, New Jersey and Poughkeepsie. Then folding in his love for hip hop as well as it’s connecting elements (sci fi-anime, martial arts and comic books) he’s been able to craft works that are oddly familiar but at the same time strikingly different. |
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STETZBIOStetz is a self-taught mixed media artist based out of Kingston, NY
Born into a family of perpetual travel, having moved from one place to the next while living out of, in, and on the four C’s since birth: campgrounds, couches, cars, and casinos. This life of constant travel has given Stetz an endless source of inspiration. Opening him up to all forms of art even some he weren't aware of at the time. In his youth Stetz had developed a speech impediment. Not being able to fully utilize his voice as an expressive outlet it was his aunt, a painter and teacher of the arts at university, who introduced him to the paintbrush shortly before she had passed away. Immediately realizing the pen and brush are a much stronger voice Stetz had begun scribbling on anything in his path. Carrying a marker since the age of 5 would enable him to draw on everything from car windows, to the back of paintings in hotel rooms, to bus benches, all just to kill boredom. Unaware that what he was doing would be the seed that later leads him into a life of illustration, design, publication, photography, videography, graffiti, fine arts, and street expression. Over the years Stetz has fabricated a fast and loose painting style molded by the traditional arts and refined in the dark of night utilizing the quickness of the spray paint can. This love for creating public works of art has given much momentum to the lifestyle of perpetual travel allowing Stetz to show artworks and paint murals on an international scale. |
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John StoltzBIOBorn in 1977 in Middletown, N.Y., John Stoltz is an infamous artist, whose striking, pioneering artwork has depicted progressive interpretations as well as personal events. The birth of his talent was introduced during the Skater Revolution of the 1980's and was further influenced by comic book art. It was not long before his interest in animated design work was overtaken by the underground art world where he emerged as an up and coming Graffiti Artist. He experimented with one of the most powerful art movements in recent history and considers the realm of Graffiti to be his greatest inspiration. It provided him with an artistic stage for his gifted ability to transfer raw street art material to mixed media design. His life experiences and artistic explorations have been instrumental to his development as an Urban Artist. His unique style allows him to create beauty on multiple platforms while maintaining an extraordinary balance between optimism and subtle realism.
Early in his career he worked with Superegular Records where he created album covers for Hip Hop Artists signed to the music label. He has successfully sold his unique designs on everything from clothing to furniture, had multiple art gallery expeditions and has performed his live painting technique at music festivals across the region. 8 Hats High Inc. he was commissioned as a clean up artist for four animated commericials. May 2011 The Man Cave on the DIY network with Tony Lagussa, featuring John as the Graffitti Art Professional on set. Developing logo designs for independent music artists. He continues to travel the music festival circuit displaying his live painting style and he is gathering an artist catalogue of pieces for display. He is an avid volunteer within the arts community. |
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Tony VitekBIOTony Vitek is an artist/sculptor from Middletown, NY who works with different mediums and is always experimenting with new styles and techniques to incorporate into his art. These particular 'Skullptures' ,as he likes to call them, are from a series of metal hanging sculptures using only recycled metals discriminately chosen for their particular shape; each piece manipulated and then constructed.
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