BIGFOOT, CHIP7, EL KAMINO August 5th

artists: BIGFOOT, CHIP7, EL KAMINO

 

 

BIGFOOT, CHIP7, EL KAMINO to exhibit at Flatcolor Gallery in August
Flatcolor Gallery and The Are of Storytelling are proud to presents the work of Bigfoot, Chip7, and El Kamino on Thursday, August 5th, 2010 from 5-9pm.
From Bigfoot's famous characters to Chip7's psychedelic futuristic visions and El Kamino's expressive paintings of nature; each artist brings years of street art experience and style to their distinctive gallery work.

About Bigfoot
Bigfoot is a California Bay Area based nature loving artist,and has been a major influence in the skateboard industry for more than a decade. Originally from New Jersey, young Bigfoot fled to California to be closer to big trees. Disassociated from art school and human society, in 1994 he started writing ÒBigfootÓ in the streets of San Francisco with relentless fury. Working often with house paint and wooden panels, his work depicts the conflict between the respect for nature held by the artistÕs cast of Bigfoot characters and the destructive agenda of mankind. Despite his reclusive nature, Bigfoot has managed to stay active in society, designing skateboard graphics and footwear, showing in galleries in America and Japan, the release of his vinyl figure with Strangeco in 2004, and more recently his collaborations with The North Face and Hurley. His eponymous character and his love of heavy metal and especially the masked rock group KISS, play a major role in his studio work as well as his highly recognized street art.

About Chip7
Chip7 is an American painter born in New York City and raised around the east coast. He currently living and working in North Carolina. His images are inspired by a long standing, keen interest in scifi themed comic books and cartoons. With a extensive background in graffiti he has shifted his focus to studio work using a mixed media of cel animation paint, watercolor, inks, and collage. Constant motifs consist of hyper colored robots and overlapping clusters of shapes. His style of abstract pattern painting has been called "Debuffet meets Dekooning" (Richmond's grid). He has been featured in magazines including Juxtapoz, Beatiful/Decay, and The Art of Storytelling. He has also published in books like Broken Windows, Graffiti NYC (gingko) and Freight Train Graffiti (Abrams). His work has been exhibited and collected across American cities such as New York and Los Angeles as well as abroad in Hong Kong, China; Bangkok, Thailand; and Antwerp, Belgium.
Chip7 painted as part of Primary Flight's outdoor mural series at Art Basel in Miami ,FL in 2008 and has worked as a longtime studio assistant for James "Dalek" Marshall. In 2010 The Art of Storytelling magazine released a limited edition resin figure of his signature character ''the eyeball kid''. Themes for his work include topics of overcrowding, and surpassed sustainability.

About El Kamino
El Kamino is an American painter hailing from the state of Virginia. Becoming involved with graffiti in the mid nineties, he has developed a signature style that has taken on many forms over the years. While maintaining a presence in the world of wall painting, he is a veteran of DIY art shows; displaying canvases in small towns across the south east. An avid fisherman, his gallery work focuses on the animals he encounters along the creeks and rivers he frequents. The interaction of birds, snakes and fish; presented in a manner that combines religious iconography with illustration. Good and evil, life and death, nature and technology. His paintings attempt to capture the constant struggle of opposing forces, demonstrated through the use of his surrounding wildlife.

websites:
http://www.chip7art.com/
http://www.bigfootone.com/
http://www.storytellingmag.com/

Opening Reception: Thursday August 5th, 2010 5-9PM.

The exhibition will run through August 29th, 2010.

Contact Flatcolor Gallery at info@flatcolor.com or 206-390-6537 for press and preview information.

About Flatcolor Gallery
Located on First Avenue in Seattle's historic Pioneer Square neighborhood, Flatcolor Gallery features local and national underground contemporary artists in a relaxed gallery setting. Flatcolor Gallery has featured the art of Parskid, Robert Hardgrave, Chip7, 2H, EGO, Joe Vollan, Timothy Karpinski, Sohaila Adela, Chris Crites, Ryan Bubnis, Ryan De La Hoz and, David MacDowell.

From designers and illustrators, to street artists and tattoo artists, Flatcolor Gallery is dedicated to bringing a fresh perspective on art and creativity to Seattle's First Thursday Art Walk each month. In addition to original artwork, Flatcolor Gallery features a growing line of affordable fine art prints and products.

Images:
http://www.flatcolor.com/images/august2010/bigfoot.jpg
http://www.flatcolor.com/images/august2010/chip7.jpg
http://www.flatcolor.com/images/august2010/elkamino.jpg
http://www.flatcolor.com/images/august2010/front.jpg
http://www.flatcolor.com/images/august2010/flatcolor-webaugust.jpg

Aug 05, 2010 — Aug 29, 2010

categories: contemporary, painting, drawing, sculpture, mixed-media