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Thomas “Auks One” Lucero was born and raised in Bakersfield, California in the year 1980. He began drawing soon after realizing he was right handed and remained intent on honing his craft, referencing any and all types of art that caught his interest. He drew much of his inspiration from Chicano tattoo art, cartoons: foreign and domestic, skateboard graphics, and later Hip Hop culture and high Renaissance drawings.
Auks is a self-taught artist who has worked diligently over the years to refine his skills in every form of artistic expression he has tried his hand at. Through concentrated practice and keen observation, he has been able to apply the techniques he has learned to each of his envisioned inventions. While he is best known for his graffiti inspired illustrations and murals his work has inevitably spread to the gallery circuit catching the attention of various companies and collectors.
Recently inducted into the world renowned graffiti crew XMEN, Auks has solidified his place as one of the greats while remaining focused on ascension and truthful self-expression.
As his parents have told him many times, ever since he was able to walk Adam would make little drawings. These little drawings turned into cartoons and a huge interest in comics took over. He grew up reading MAD Magazine, Skip Williamson, R. Crumb and Bill Waterson to name a few. He and his buddies would always make silly comic books and sell them for a dollar at the comics store in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan. This hobby turned into an everyday activity.
While in college Adam started to admire more fine art. He looked to Schiele, Basquiat, Bosch, Steadman, Rauschenberg, Klee, Bacon and many of his fellow students and teachers for creative influence. He started to realize that he got more of a response when he didn’t actually try to conform to any stylistic boundaries. Rather, Adam just sits down on the floor in the middle of the night and starts gluing things together. Adam welcomes criticism of any kind and he wants his audience to either really disagree with his methods, or embrace its dirty real-ness.
Dana Woulfe grew up in Rhode Island where he learned to practice and appreciate art at a young age from his grandmother Elizabeth Jehan. After graduating from high school, where he did everything from develop film in the darkroom to sculpt a self portrait, he attended Massachusetts College of Art to pursue his love of creating. While attending college he became interested in the local graffiti scene and befriended the members of Project SF with whom he went on to build a successful artist collective, showing work and creating installation pieces for a diverse group of events and clients. Now, when Woulfe isn’t painting with Project SF, he works out of his studio in The Distillery in South Boston, MA which he shares with friend and collaborator Kenji Nakayama.
I am a graffiti artist who has always had an idea that graffiti has so much potential as an art form and isn't being fully recognized. The canvases they chose to paint on weren't acceptable to the people around them and even though their work was amazing and still is, it is getting covered or painted over immediately. Not that I don't understand why but it is still an art form and should be respected as one just as we try to respect all other strange and wild styles of art that we see today. realizing this I have chosen to try to continue to change peoples minds and make my work 3 dimensional more as if it were a sculpture . My work has no letters a lot of the time but it consists of shapes and layers of graffiti style.
Art to me should be fun because as an artist I am choosing to make this my life so why willingly set myself up for a life of hard times and doing stuff i don't enjoy. I have been working on my art ever since i was young mostly painting but since i have moved on I have been given an opportunity to use 3 dimensional materials such as glass and it has completely changed my whole look at the style of graffiti art. My work used to consist of 3 dimensional shapes drawn on paper or painted on a wall but now i am trying to make those shapes come to life and unlike graffiti sometimes they are not saying anything specific but because our society is so used to seeing this graffiti art everywhere people still relate my work to it.
DESTROY AND REBUILD CURRENTLY RESIDES IN NYC. HIS WORK IS SOUGHT AFTER AND COLLECTED BY MANY. USING SILK SCREENS, SPRAYPAINT, WHEATPASTE, ACRYLIC, OXIDATION TECHNIQUES AND MORE TO CREATE HIS WORKS. CONTACT LOT F GALLERY FOR MORE INFORMATION.
The paintings here represent two different series that I have been working on over the past few years. Both series depict a variety of objects and settings, yet showcase my specific realist style. I have always felt compelled to create bold or eye-catching images. The color relationships and the variety of patterns and textures found in the streamline worlds of graphic design and graffiti are what most influence my choices. In the "Still Life" series I gather a collection of objects and organize the composition in such a way as to bring focus to the collective formal structure. The "Coastal" series is based on my memories of growing up on Nantucket and Cape Cod. Living in these coastal communities I have gained a great appreciation for the ocean and those who earn a living working on the water. I have tried to capture some of the feelings and memories of this way of life in these paintings by using the natural color contrast found between the neutral coastline and the intense blues. I apply many of these colors with a pallet knife, creating a thick crust that is then incorporated with layers of spray paint, creating a surface filled with texture
Joshua Durant was born on Sept. 15, 1982 and raised in the South Shore and Boston Massachusetts. He has been actively showing his work in New England for the past seven years. He has also been involved with the community of New Bedford. In 2008 he earned the "Peoples Choice Award" for a plein air painting of a harbor scene in Scituate Ma. In 2010 he was commissioned with Percy Fortini-Wright to produce a mural dedicated to the importance of the role that women played in the whaling industry of this area. This mural is being displayed in the New Bedford National Whaling Museum. His works are also being displayed within the city of Boston. His current projects are geared towards raising awareness of the role that birds play within our environment.
Artist Statement
Through out my life I have felt a deep connection with birds. As a child I spent my days searching out hawks and many other interesting bird species native to the area I grew up in. I have been rendering birds in many different mediums as far back as I can remember. As I grew older I began to realize my love for painting and decided that this would be the direction I wanted pursue. I am deeply intrigued by the symbolism and spiritual nature that birds carry and chose to use them as my focus of subject matter within my art. Birds are sensitive to their environment. These days we need to take heed the subtle messages they are sending us about the changes we need to make in the way we treat this planet that all of us live in.
Currently I am producing a series based on "Birds in Decline" as well as a more expressionistic series of birds where my subjects appear to be exploding or dispersing into space releasing their energetic souls from this reality.
Kevin Ross Blaise Donahue aka KDonz was born in Providence, RI on March 1st , 1987. From an early age, drawing was a fascination which became a hobby at best in his younger years despite instruction. Kevin attended Emerson College, and lived in Cambridge, MA during this time where he first truly experienced street art and graffiti. Motivated by what he saw thrown up in his neighborhood, and a drive inspired by a passing cousin, he began to draw with markers on cardboard scraps found on the street. From this a personal philosophy was born from an intense appreciation for graffiti, and an established hate for terrible folk art and landscape work crammed down his throat from an early age. His paintings and drawings are never sketched, or planned in anyway way. Instead, a more cerebral or subconscious approach is taken to produce these disgusting and psychedelic creations.
Kenji Nakayama was born in Tomokomai on the island of Hokkaido, Japan in 1979. A mechanical engineer by education, Kenji made a significant life change in 2005 with a move to Boston, Massachusetts to study traditional sign painting and to dedicate his time and energy to art-making. Kenji's diverse practice ranges from careful pinstriping and gilded lettering to hand-cut, multi-layered stencil paintings. Each intricately carved stencil painting is a unique manifestation of documenting and responding to the environment surrounding him, and often takes months to complete. His work serves as a personal diary of experience and influence, and his process can be described as a balance between meditation and highly-trained craftsmanship. Music, solitude, humor, motorcycles, and urban decay serve as direct sources of inspiration.
Kenji's work has been exhibited widely across the US and abroad in numerous solo and group exhibitions. He attended the Musashi Institute of Technology from 1998-2002 in Tokyo, and studied traditional sign painting at Butera School of Arts 2004-2006 in Boston. Now Kenji also works as a designer at Converse. He currently lives and works in Boston.
Percy Fortini-Wright comes from a long line of artists in his family, ranging from oil painters, watercolorists, and calligraphy artists. Around age 4, Percy could be found virtually anywhere with a pen in his hand, constantly drawing and developing his ideas despite his young age. Percy's early subject matter consisted of many different artistic explorations, which included landscapes containing animals, cartoons, and inventing creative new variations of the English Alphabet. As Percy continued to refine his style of painting throughout his school years leading up to college and Graduate school, it became clear to him that pursuing a career as an artist was inevitable.
Some of the things that fuel Percy's creativity include music, science, nature, and the nuances of everyday life defining human culture. Using the techniques he has perfected throughout the years, Percy now specializes in nature scenes, street art, murals, portraits, lettering and landscapes and traditional figurative oil paintings. Percy is also heavily inspired by the graffiti movement throughout the world, both past and present, and is reflected in his artwork.
Through the juxtaposition of tropes within representational painting and contemporary graffiti vernacular I describe form and shape. I construct my work from both memory, and direct observation sampling existing imagery not limiting how my images operate blurring the lines between collage, abstraction, and straight representational painting. My work investigates my own spacial perceptions of form, line, color, and light through the physical density of paint. Using the etheric qualities of spray paint mixed with the physicality of different paints I create both a physical and optical illusion of space and form, while the expressive nature of the calligraphic mark reveals the time,speed, and charge of the piece.
My commitment to multiple painting styles orchestrating the relationships between public and private and those between representational painting and street art vernacular has led me to create a diverse range of artistic arenas, in which these styles combat and or peacefully coexist.
