Thursday Dec 10th - Art Show in Jersey City - CANCELLED
Monday Jan 4th - Kamikaze with Seasick / Failures (ex-Charles Bronson) / Salvation (PA) and Aerosols (MA) @ ACAB.
More to come…
A quick bio about me:
I have been artistically creative since my early childhood. Beginning with drawing comic book and cartoon characters, graduating to an abstract paintbrush, then moving on to the precise splicing of collage work and delving into the art of graphic design for record covers.
My last fifteen years have been spent as a highly active member of the independent music community. As a hardcore punk vocalist and record label owner I have booked/toured the country several times over, released a dozen vinyl records and have performed hundreds of shows all across the country. Two of my bands in this time are called "The Degenerics" and "Kamikaze". They both still exist today. You can find out more or listen to them at: www.myspace.com/xsoulrebelrecordsx
I have also more recently brought my obsession with cinema to fruition by taking a stab at filmmaking. I completed a 32 minute short film in 2006 and more recently a music video both of which I produced, scripted, shot, directed and edited.
There is an absolute need for creativity and creation in my life. I have found that to define the word “art” can be simply done with one word: expression... hence I have an obsessive need to express myself.
About my collage work:
"My medium of choice is "collage" art in which I dissect printed magazine images (primarily from the 1950s to 1980s) as well as antique educational / science books and meld them into a very personal juxtaposed form of media manipulation to develop my own vision of the world as we view it through the eyes of mass media. I attempt to distort reality through visions of mixed surrealism that fall onto viewers eyes like a jigsaw puzzle assembled in the incorrect fashion that somehow magically fits together in sheer perfection.
I believe that the major media corporations have no right to filter mass media through their own personal or political agenda without the repercussion of individuals taking the same outlandish liberties. My work is completely apolitical and has no agenda except the hope of pushing how we view and digest forms of visual expression and communication. My goal is to move the viewer into a forced ugly realm of real life savage imagery that is matched alongside independence of the individual self and where one stands in the grand scheme of the universe as it is so kind to continue to hold onto our human earthly existence as we know it.
A celebration of prose by sight and execution in my work reveals the seedy underbelly alleyways of outsider thinking that is so important in this modern overproduced technological and sterile world. That is why nearly all of my images are from discarded magazines that are irrelevant and obsolete. I make these images relevant and bring them back to a sad modern life of something once long dead. I spend hours upon hours with surgical like hands, using the abstract zen method of thought with no thought, to create a portrait of obtuse realism with acute precision. The final result is supposed to intrigue the viewer into a place that conventional media and art would not dare tread. A statement of the true face of social activity that is for sale in every florescent lit corner of consumer America.
I dare not try and sound pretentious nor profane. My work will speak for itself and will only grow stronger with more time and exposure. I am confident of this and would like to take the first huge step out of the trenches of my unemployed unsatisfied current existence and make a positive impact of influence on to the eyes of those who dream to see the world beyond the confines of sterile pedestrian and show them the wonderful sights, only to be seen in between the cracks of the proverbial rigid fence surrounding us all, which leads out to the pastures of freedom hills and progressive valleys. This is my mission.
samples of my work: click click click cluck click click cluck click click
