FACULTY: Revok

Monday, October 1, 2012

Dabs Myla & Friends "Marvelous Expeditions"

DABS MYLA & FRIENDS

"MARVELOUS EXPEDITIONS"

In the spirit of travel and all things wonderfully itinerant, acclaimed duo and couple "Dabs Myla" took over Thinkspace Gallery in the Culver City Arts District outside Los Angeles. During the dates of September 1st to September 22nd, 2012 Dabs Myla & Friends launched "Marvelous Expeditions". New works and an installation alongside a curated selections of individually unique pieces from 32 of their closest and most inspiring artist friends. The gallery in fact become a locus of meeting and communal exchange, as artists from all over the world were brought together by Dabs Myla, to share their experiences of traveling through its landscapes.

As artists and urban enthusiasts Dabs Myla translate their experience of the world through a distinctly collaborative amalgamation of their styles and rendering strengths. Their work conveys a synchronicity of vision and aesthetic uncommonly allied, collusive and playfulness. Which is strengthen and solidify by their shared love of travel, food, graffiti, illustration, and urbanity.

Dabs and Myla, originally from Melbourne Australia and now currently based in LA, are no strangers to this productive geographic disruption, and this project seeks to celebrate the unexpected encounters and inspirations catalyzed by travel. They have invited each of their featured friends to produce a piece for the exhibition on a 16” x 20” wood panel, and with these set material parameters each artist will work their magic. This series is loosely meant to invoke exploration and travel, and each participating artist will metabolize their impressions of the theme differently through their respective styles, voices, and memories.

"Marvelous Expeditions" showcases the duo’s love of friends, collegiality, exchange, and the proliferation of vision and variety that thrives alongside constant movement and displacement. All while having a good time and making the world a brighter place.

Below are selected shots from the opening reception at Thinkspace Gallery on September 1st, 2012:

Dabs Myla Instillation

"City of Strangers" Detriot

Acrylic on cradled wood panel 18" x 24"

"Attempting to Time Travel" New York City

Acrylic on cradled wood panel 18" x 24"

"Sunshine Dreams and Super Constellations" Tokyo

Acrylic on cradled wood panel 24" x 30"

"New Horizons" New Orleans

Acrylic on cradled wood panel 24" x 30"

"Antwerp"

Acrylic on black stonehenge paper 4.5" x 6"

"Graceland"

Acrylic on black stonehenge paper 4.5" x 6"

"London"

Acrylic on black stonehenge paper 4.5" x 6"

"San Diego" 8:15pm

Acrylic on black stonehenge paper 4.5" x 6"

Both Dabs and Myla were on hand and graciously signed items and posed for pictures

"Flight of the Valkyries" by Cat Cult

Silk screen on cradled wood panel

"Mural Study" by Greg Lamarche

Ink and water color mounted to wood panel

"Southern States Stackes" by Dvate

Acrylic on cradled wood panel

"Lines" by KEM5

Spray Paint on cradled wood panel

"Luggage" by Witnes

Acrylic on cradled wood panel

"Home Sweet Chicago" by Pose

Collage, acrylic and spray paint on cradled wood panel

HonLet A Dog Live" by Honky Kong

Acrylic and cel painting ink on cradled wood panel

"Mission to Nowhere" by Luke Chueh

Acrylic and Ink on cradled wood panel

"Bon Voyage" by 123 Klan

Silk screen on cradled wood panel

"Untitled" by Revok

Found remains, spray paint and latex on cradled wood panel

"A Vandal for Life" Eine

Spray paint and mixed media on cradled wood panel

"Valencia" by Aaron de la Cruz

Ceramic tile, grout and enamel on cradled wood panel

"Mr. Zom" by The Yok

Acrylic and sumi ink on cradled wood panel

"God Child" by Tristan Eatan

Acrylic on cradled wood panel

"Space Oddity" by Axis

Acrylic on cradled wood panel

"Untitled Alley" by Logan Hicks

Spray paint on cradled wood panel

"Land of the Free" by Meggs

Acrylic, spray paint and collage on cradled wood panel

To learn more about "Dabs Myla", their work, up coming exhibits and shows. Please visit:

www.dabsmyla.com

To learn more about Thinkspace Gallery in the Culver City Arts District, up coming exhibits, shows and additional featured artists. Please visit:

www.thinkspacegallery.com

Thursday, September 20, 2012

SABER "Beautification" & REVOK "Gilgamesh" at Known Gallery

During the dates of July 28th to August 1th, 2012. Known Gallery located in the heart of the Fairfax Market in Los Angeles, played host to two of LA's most notorious and infamous graffiti and street artists this Golden State has ever produced. SABER and his brother in-arms REVOK (aka Jason Williams) banded together for a joint dual solo exhibit. SABER with "Beautification" and REVOK with "Gilgamesh". Both are famed graffiti artists from the MSK, AWR & The Seventh Letter Crews in Los Angeles. Each artists show growth and maturity in their work while striving and maintaining the transition from the streets to galleries and museums.

SABER: Born in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, SABER was raised by creative parents and discovered his passion for art at an early age. At 13, his cousins introduced him to graffiti when they took him to see the spray paint-covered Belmont Tunnel. From that moment on, he was hooked. After honing his skills on local walls, SABER joined MSK, and was later inducted into legendary piecing crew AWR. SABER was already a fixture in the Los Angeles graffiti scene by 1997 when he completed the largest graffiti piece ever created. His piece on the sloping cement bank of the Los Angeles River was nearly the size of a professional football field, and took 97 gallons of paint and 35 nights to complete. In a famous photograph—taken by his father just after it was finished—SABER stands on the piece and appears as a tiny speck amid a giant blaze of color. It catapulted SABER to legend status in the graffiti world. SABER began exhibiting in his fine art in 2002. His monograph, SABER: MAD SOCIETY, complete with stories of his graffiti misadventures, was released by Gingko Press in 2007 and is now in its second printing. In October 2010, SABER released a video in which the year's heated debate about health care was spray painted over the American flag. While some saw it as desecration, SABER advocated for health care reform in the video, revealing that he had epilepsy and was un-insurable. This work led SABER to create a large group of American flag paintings called the Tarnished series.

In 2011, SABER's solo show, The American Graffiti Artist opened in New York to great acclaim. Additionally, his art was featured in two museum exhibitions, "Street Cred" at the Pasadena Museum of California Art and MoCA's "Art in the Streets". (Bio courtesy of saberone.com)

Below are selected samples from the VIP opening on July 28th, 2012.

SABER "Beautifcation"

"War of the Worlds 1" 5' x 6

Mixed media on canvas

"Untitled" 6' x 12'

Mixed media on canvas

"Untitled" 24" x 34"

Mixed media on canvas