Packed neatly into the 2 train. 5-17-10.
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Peter Cross
Peter Cross makes pencil drawings to salivate over, precise and delicate, they bear witness with photographic verisimilitude to times and places that have never existed but seem weirdly deja-vu-ish. Cross worked for over twenty years as an art handler and then as a registrar in Manhattan galleries. Much of that time was spent with Leo Castelli, where he worked with artists like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenburg and Roy Lichtenstein. When I first got to NYC Peter hired me to install shows, and despite my being nosy and persistent, has always been extremely secretive about his drawings. I finally got him to email these. Peter doesn’t have a website just yet, so if you want to contact him – leave some way to be reached in the comments section.
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Fudge Factory Comics
It’s been a really long time since I dropped in on the work fo Travis Millard at Fudge Factory Comics. I met him a really long time ago at a show in Denver and was impressed by how nice of a guy he was. He just keeps on rolling with some of the funnest, funniest and smartest doodles around and there are few things better than one of his zines. I just punched in his URL today out of curiosity and was once again impressed by his unique work.
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B/D Apparel Artist Interview: Yaiagift
This week’s B/D Apparel artist interview features Yaiagift. Yaiagift contributed our “Bikes N’ Roses” shirt, which reinterprets the iconic Guns ‘n’ Roses album cover to give new meaning to today’s bike/fixed gear culture. His aesthetic mixes a broad range of influences, from underground comix, punk rock, skate culture and beyond. Yaiagift’s process apparently begins as a “really awful sketch” that “looks like if someone with no artistic skills made it.” Read on to find out how he transforms a work’s humble origins into a polished final product, and the one artist anyone who ever holds a pencil in their hand must check out! More images of Yaiagift’s personal work and design process after the jump.
1. What is your general aesthetic? How would you describe your work’s subject matter to someone?
I’ve got a really clear idea of what my aesthetic is, it’s hard for me to put it in words, but it’s really easy to understand once you’ve seen my artwork. It’s a mix of skate culture, punk/metal iconography, shocking cinema terror and underground/classic comic respect.
2. Describe how you create your works? Some of your tools of the trade?
I do all my work in a very traditional way, pencil and marker. Process starts with a client’s request or a personal motivation, that leads to a lot of research. Then I do a really awful pencil sketch and I think I’m never gonna solve the artwork because it looks like if someone with no artistic skills has made it. Eventually, I go through the process and achieve a respectable piece in pencil that in the best occasion looks pretty close to the idea in my mind. Then the usual stuff: ink it, scan it, deliver it.
3. Walk us through the design process for the shirt you made for Beautiful/Decay.
It was really nice to do the BD artwork, in this case I started playing with different ideas, the duality on the name lead me to the idea of a radical mixing of elements to achieve something new, but that still looked really familiar to anyone. I’m really happy with the result is really awesome, I hope people enjoy it.
4. Advice for any designers, artists trying to get their work seen?
Work hard, believe in what you are doing, and embrace the opportunities that technologies are offering right now.
5. Some of your favorite other artists, or influences?
If you are ever gonna hold a pencil in your hand, be sure to check the art of (in no particular order): Jim Phillips, Charles Burns, Alex Toth, Brian Ewing, Jack Kirby, V.C. Johnson, Marc Mckee, Coop, Shepard Fairey, Todd McFarlane, Peter Bagge, Lucas Varela, J. Romita Senior & Jr, Grotesk, Daniel Clowes, Steve Ditko, Jamie Hewlett, Mike Giant, Will Sweeney, Ed Repka, Michael Kupperman, Godmachine, Robert Crumb, Jim Blanchard, LamourSupreme, Ray Frenden, Johnny Ryan, Jack Davis, Robert Williams, Brian Bolland, Joe Madureira, Mike Allred, and maybe few more. I’m not sure if that’s a list of inspiration or envy, haha!
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Melissa Murray
Melissa Murray is an artist from Brooklyn, NY. The themes in her paintings revolve aroud “images from past experiences or dreams.” Much of her work includes the metaphorical use of animals, which symbolize “sincerity in life, a seemingly degenerative trait in our current human consciousness. These creatures represent purity, and personify my dreams and fears for our collective future.”
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Moonassi
Moonassi artist statement:
“I draw something I’d like to draw and I can draw well. I draw people because that’s what I’d like to talk about. I prefer to draw in a small scale as I wish to capture my everyday thoughts and feelings during a limited time of the day. If I think I want to touch you my drawing reflects that thought. I draw an act that I’m upsetting you if
I think I want to distress you.
The reason why these ephemeral and scattered thoughts are so significant for me is that I can see myself as a tiny fraction like those thoughts, and also I’m the collection of those fractions. I’m the mundane being, a sort of dust everywhere. I’m anyone or anything in anywhere. I want to sweep and gather all those tiny little fractions on paper so as not to be scattered.”
The drawings of Moonassi are absolutely divine. I could only imagine how a large series of them would look hanging in a gallery. Beautifully contemplative work.
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I have a 5 years old niece
I have a 5 years old niece. She decided to give me this teddy bear as a children’s day gift. Maybe she thinks of me as a child but I certainly could be her mother. Now I made this teddy bear drawing as a gift to her.
Pencil drawing on moleskine
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