www.andrewhem.com

Andrew Hem was born in Cambodia. At 4 months old, his parents fled Cambodia from the genocide and ended up in Los Angeles. By age 12, Andrew started getting into graffiti. He studied under writers like dzeas, rek2, lifer, and zoueh. He continued graffiti for about 9 years getting into nothing but trouble. He got introduce to figure drawing in his last semester at Santa Monica College and knew right away what he was meant to do. At that moment he changed his major and pursued the life of an illustrator.

Influenced by patterns and cultures from his native Cambodia to the diversity of LA, Andrew’s illustrations often show groups of uniquely rendered urban characters, entangled or entwined, fluidly moving through still spaces from city streets to decidedly rural settings. A quiet energy permeates his work casting the observer as the observed and then reversing it. Andrew’s graffiti years sneak to the surface in his hand lettering which often takes on physical dimensions. Multi-ethnically inspired, and sometimes nonsensical, his dimensional lettering can be seen held in the hands of figures or weaving its way through his illustrations’ plots and settings.

?An Art Center College of Design illustration graduate, Andrew balances illustration with gallery exhibits nationwide. Clients include Adidas, Microsoft’s Zune, Lucky Brand Jeans and The LA Times, and he has exhibited at Compound, Corey Helford, Receiver and Thinkspace galleries among others.

Claus Winkler, *1974 Cologne, his Pseudonym „SEAK“ appears along Artist Colleagues like Banksy, and Osgemeos to be one of the most influential Artist in the contemporary Graffiti and Street Art Movement.

He utilize the Letters of his Tag Name „SEAK“ as a Projection Medium for the Comunication in between the Meta-Communication, Popcultural Trends, aswell as Social Interactions.

With his Antenna Logotype Satellites based on former Letters he represents the Missinglink between modern Graffiti and the recent Neo Streetart Movement.

www.myspace.com/seakthing
www.seakone.com
www.cnskillz.com

Ingolstadt Jam Session

Leinwand/Wand Installation

Size Matters

Size Matters (closeup)

www.jr-art.net

As an undercover photographer, JR transforms his pictures into posters and makes open space photo galleries out of our streets. An acute observer of our time, as comfortable in cozy neighborhoods as in urban ghettos, he questions pedestrians with the exhibitions he mounts on their everyday commutes.

Using a camera he found once in the subway, JR finds inspiration in informal encounters he makes following his travels and his intuitions.

From 2001, he has been pointing his camera to a number of communities (writers, breakdancer, fresstylers, …), and worked with popular actors and musicians such as Vincent Cassel, IAM or the Gotan Project.

From 2004, he has been working on the 28 millimeters project, which first part – Portrait of a generation – led him up to the New York Times front page. The large size pictures of the Montfermeil and Clichy-sous-Bois youth have been notably displayed on the walls of the European Center for Photography and the square of the Hotel de Ville, in Paris.

His pictures beginning to sell at Hotel Drouot of Paris, he keeps on planning unauthorized exhibitions of large size pictures such as in Rome or in Wuppertal (Germany). He is currently working on the second and third parts of the 28 millimeters project in Middle East and Brazil.

The 3rd stage of the 28 millimeters project – Women Are Heroes – has already led him to Africa in post-conflicting zones to shoot the women with who he wishes to share painful stories and to testify of their desire to live. Their portraits were already pasted in Sierra-leone and in Liberia. In 2008-2009, JR will develop this project in India and in Asia

International art- as well as lecturing work soon led him amongst the midst of trans-national artist groups such as GBF, SUK, FBI and FX. Within those brood cells of new styles and techniques. DAIM developed a diversity of skills which enabled him to go beyond his roots. Concrete walls were more and more replaced by canvases while spray cans from a hip hop shop were now often amended by mouse clicks in Photoshop. Firstly, two dimensional pictures evolved into bafflingly three dimensional graphics with seemingly unlimited depths and perspective only to finally become sculptures leaving the confinement of flat surfaces entirely.

www.myspace.com/daim_art
www.DAIM.org
www.DAIMshop.com

Buenos Aires / Argentina

Hamburg / Germany

Tijuana / Mexico

“All Directions”
-at the exhibition Still On and Non The Wiser

“Die Mauersprengung”-Sculpture

http://www.dezeinswell.com/
http://www.doodlebarn.com/
http://www.dezeinhaus.com/

BLOC28 is an art-based program with traditional works on canvas and board as the inspiration, and to see how contemporary artists work together with an art company like Disney.

To see their interpretations of the most iconic cartoon character of all time mixing with the standard interpretations of Mickey over the years may have more impact on the overall contemporary arts culture than we can foresee at this time. That unknown quality with these collaborations makes the program more exciting than what has become the norm.

The first series of artists included Steven J. Daily, David P. Flores, Mear One, Greg “Craola” Simkins, and Slick.

October ’08, The second series of artists included Aroe, Chaz Bojorquez, Ewok, Rime, Tenga, and Suiko.

http://bloc28.com/home.html

SAMPLES OF SERIES ONE

My Split Decision, 1956
David P. Flores

Mickey da Vinci
Mear One

Visitation
Greg “Craola” Simkins

Tres Mickeys
Slick

SAMPLE OF SECOND SERIES

Aroe
Chaz Bojorquez
Ewok
Jersey Joe (Rime)
Suiko One
Tenga One

He currently resides in Toronto, Canada, with his wife, children, and imaginary friend, Andrew.

www.scarygirl.com
www.nathanj.com.au
www.outregallery.com/browse.aspx?Category=2

{GOLDENVOICE EVENT}

http://www.goldenvoice.com/shows/details/?id=20753

Kool Keith comes in many forms and many incarnations, but his style is distinctly his own. Just as there’s no mistaking his smooth lyrical delivery and searing hip-hop prose with its underlying edgy beats, there’s no denying the incredible force of power that is Kool Keith. Whether as a founding member of the legendary Ultramagnetic MCs, or in the guises of his renegade rap personas that include Black Elvis, Dr. Octagon and Dr. Dooom, Keith has established himself as an innovative lyricist whose raps stretch the envelope to the limit while exciting and entertaining the listener. Kool Keith, nee Keith Thornton, first emerged as part of the legendary New York crew, the Ultramagnetic MCs.

At a time when rap was slowly making the transition from B-Boy braggadocio to a more aggressive, politicized stance, the group quickly established themselves as lyrical innovators with such classics albums as Critical Beatdown, Funk Your Head Up, and the Four Horsemen. Kool Keith launched a solo career and through his various releases he explored his many sides, from the playful to the downright carnal, releasing such independent records as Kool Keith’s Sex Style and Dr. Dooom’s First Come, First Served.

In addition to his many rap outings, Keith proved he was not averse to cross-genre experimentation and even collaborated with the electronica outfit Hardkiss on “Abandon Ship” (Sharks & Mermaids mix) on the Astralwerks imprint; in fact, Kool Keith appears on the Prodigy album Fat Of The Land as the voice of “Smack My Bitch Up” and on the track “Diesel Power.” On a recent commercial tip, Kool Keith appears as Dr. Ultra, the lead character in a series of nationally-broadcast television ads for Sprite. Looking back at his vast eclectic body of work, Keith says …”I’m not about nostalgia, I’m not about looking back. If I made a hit, I moved on and never looked back…. the future is what I should be dwelling on right now.”

General Admission/ Standing Room Only

* El Rey Theatre
* Los Angeles, California
* Show time: 8:00pm
* Age: All Ages+

TICKETS
$17 adv-$18.00 + $2.00 dos*

http://www.goldenvoice.com/shows/details/?id=21390

{GOLDENVOICE EVENT}

A VALENTINE’S DAY CONCERT presented by KOST 103.5
Kenny (Babyface) Edmonds
& All-4-One

Saturday February 14, 2009 – 8:00pm
* Club Nokia
* Los Angeles, California
* Show time: 8:00pm
* Age: All Ages+

TICKETS
$48.50-$78.50*

* All 4 One 8:30PM-9:15PM
* Babyface 9:45PM-11:15PM