Believe it or not but Sydney used to be pretty gangster in the early 00’s. Not in a Fat Tony sense but rather a more “Young and Dangerous” style. Galaxy World and outside George St Cinemas was a hub for the best of hair styles and used to be all the rage for highschoolers at the time. As a young asian boy I often fanticised how cool this superthugged out underworld was like, it probably wasn’t like this..
Through the week I have been working on some artwork for the newly branded Pub Life in Surry Hills. With the artworks I tried to create an old school Aussie Pub type feel trying to recreate illusions of a hand painted/airbrushed look through photoshop. To see the rest of the series go over there and check em out in person and while your at it go grab the fiendish O.G. burger. Grease level one hunned.
O.k. Rap time – one new, one old and one funny. The order, you decide…
My piece for the “Hyper Reality Dimension XX” gallery the other week.
This was my tribute to all of the high energy, Saturday morning Jap Heroes of the 70s/80s/90s. Besides my “Evil Ryu” spin on the godfather, Ultraman, other side elements I tried to include were some of this, this, this, and this.
Initially I was going to do a whole piece on Guyver entirely, my personal favourite growing up but I was afraid it wouldn’t be as easily recognizable. So I did the next best thing and created a mash-up instead. So yeh If you don’t know please check Guyver out, I guarantee the most bizarre, dark, violent version of the good old power rangers type you’ll ever see (titty laser cannons? you can’t beat that).
The piece is acrylic and a bit of spray on a 40 x 30 canvas.
Photos of the event are now out courtesy of aMBUSH gallery which can be found here
The online catalogue to check out all of the other works can be found here
So on Thursday all it went down, the first real solo exhibition for Andrew, Timbo and I.
Thanks to those that came, dropped in or soldiered on for the whole night. All is very much appreciated and the support was definetly felt.
BIG thanks goes to Vibewire, Sabrina, Borrott, Dori and Charlie Fung for helping us set up and get everything in order, all the peeps that reblogged/spammed/hustled our promos all over the internets and Jinman for laying down the beats for a good 3 hours. Final thanks to Tim who bascially curated/orchestrated the whole exhibit and Andrew for putting in the hard yards and pumping out dope works.
So Ive avoided blogging progress of the works to “suprise” people, but here they are. Will probably post some behind the scenes stuff throughout the week but for the mean time here are some snaps of the works on the night, mostly jacked courtesy of Mikey Dees blog.
3 Different artists – 3 different styles
Timothy
Insane intricate gouche work, the level of detail was amazing. To the applause of many fiends (Diana, Kayo) that 20 looked real! haha
Andrew
Staying true to the “family” roots, Andrew worked on a series of black ink illustrations Americana style with a bit of jap thrown in for good measure.
Me Since Andrew had black and white covered, I tried to go back and experiment with a large scale acrylic/spray style that I used to work with a few years back. It feels good to paint again after so much straight ink work.
There were a few more artworks from each of us on display but il post them up later as better quality versions/more photos are uploaded from the night.
For the mean time this is the first set via Timbo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/timbo400/sets/72157627562635507/
Believe it or not but Sydney used to be pretty gangster in the early 00’s. Not in a Fat Tony sense but rather a more “Young and Dangerous” style. Galaxy World and outside George St Cinemas was a hub for the best of hair styles and used to be all the rage for highschoolers at the time. As a young asian boy I often fanticised how cool this superthugged out underworld was like, it probably wasn’t like this..
All over print everywhere
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