ULT UR E &C ART MR. SAY
SAY IT LIKE YOU MEAN IT
DRAW TIL THE
JOHNNIE DOMINGUEZ CASKET DROPS
JE SUIS
gOD VOLCANO LA MER
STICKER
MAD ONE PHIENDS
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JOEY
“LA is my favorite city on earth. It’s a place where you can go out for dinner or a quick drink, and end up partying the night away. Strange things always seem to come my way in the City of Angels, and I wanted my first art exhibit there to reflect not only my experiences, but the rock and roll party atmosphere of the 1970’s through today. Initially, my concept was to capture some of the LA rockers of the last 30 or 40 years, but there’s so much more to a scene than just the “rock stars”. It’s also the fans, groupies, junkies, hookers and parasites that made the rock scene what it was, is, and will hopefully become. This collection is my pop art take on the crazier side of LA rock history”.
-Joey Maas Illustration By Joey Maas Text By Lisa Hunt
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Joey Maas is a profile Neo Pop artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. His unique talent is self-taught as he originally took on the medium of paint to create a new aesthetic for his home city. It was only three years ago that Maas began diligently painting and within the first six months he had created his first series. Immediately he was asked to exhibit his work and has been shown in numerous galleries throughout Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, including his first exhibition in Los Angeles this year. Maas has been featured in 2011 in Pop Art Heaven and in March 2012 he was featured in Marrow Magazine, RKYV Online #41 Design Fix. Maas’ background lies in touring his band as a drummer for many years. He found his first visual artistic influences from the, “mastermind behind the early Vision Skateboards graphics”, Andy Takakjian. The bright, bash designs inspired Maas as a youth to begin drawing where he realized his genuine ability to portray life. Melding the spirit of Pop Art with a passion for popular culture and music, Maas incorporated his formal vocabulary of portraiture and graphic elements to capture pop icons in a new light. He has captivated his audience with his radiant palettes and astute compositions, including capturing the attention of the musicians and pop icons in his work- some of those musicians have purchased his work for their own collections. His latest series focuses on the rockers of Los Angeles from the 1970’s and 80’s and become more layered and complex as he explores new technique and materials.
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OLCANO Words & Photography By Samantha Hulbert
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There comes a moment in your life where you know what you’re supposed to be doing on this Earth, that you know what you’re doing is right and beneficial to others and, most importantly, to yourself. Friends, family, pets, those fleeting moments you will never, ever see again… Many things, unfortunately, seem to fade away with time. And the only thing that’s left is a tangible memory - the photograph. It was in the very beginning where I seemed to focus on nothing but the environment around me. I’d capture nature it in all of it’s intricacies, capture my friends and events. I’d make it a point to bring my camera with me at all times so as to never miss a thing. It quickly became a need and a necessary tool in which to properly document and neatly file things that were beautiful, moments that meant something to me and only me. I found my niche, and I was never to let go. Macro, spontaneous portraiture, nature, landscape, and band photography have always been creative pursuits. But it was self portraiture that had the most impact on my life and the overall style of my photography. And all of it started with my Pentax 35mm camera. It was indeed a slow and arduous process - I could only learn by viewing each and every one of my prints. It was only until I acquired my now old, clunky, first digital camera that gave me the ability to truly create. I felt more confident with it, like I had something in my possession that could outdo everything I captured before it. A self timer, ten seconds, and I had a photograph. Ten seconds, and I created a part of myself for people to see. “Go Back to Sleep” was, to say the least, the beginning - I incorporated myself into the environments I so loved to capture. Shadows, heavy use of contrast with constant attention to lines and angles, nudity, simplicity - it was a foreshadowing of what was to become of my photography. Coupled with the experience of life and the accumulation of photographic knowledge, I blossomed. It was necessary to create. I had all of these emotions and experiences that needed to be shared. Photography was the outlet, and my body the subject. In all of my life, I’ve gone so long with being silent - never having a voice, always to push things down. And it was at this time where I had the confidence in order to expose myself in ways to alleviate all of the pressure that was built up in the past. The human form is the simplest without any patterns of clothing, without shoes and accessories, which is why my self-portraits are most prominently artistic nude. I never want to detract from the story I’m trying to tell or the emotion I’m trying to evoke in the viewer. I seek to use my body as a means of expression, plain and simple. And what better way to create a story with a photograph then to use my own body, my own self as the subject. For over six months, I experienced multitudes of epiphanies. I found out things about myself that I never, ever knew existed. I built a confidence that still carries on with me today. And with photography, I’ve created pieces of artwork that I can look back on and remember a life that will surely, constantly change. Just as a brush is to a painter, a camera is the tool I need in order to thrive in this world, to truly understand myself and the environment I‘m living in. Without it, life doesn’t seem as fruitful, not as meaningful, and certainly not as forgiving.
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Symbols
Beside The Pain That Is A Home
Curses
Collages
DAVEY CADAVER Text By Hillary Rose Christen
ieLAvate Davey Cadaver was born into a traveling family. From the age of 9, he had already lived in two countries, five states and ten cities. His time spent in flux encouraged a relentless reading habit and frequent trips to the library, while most children his age were making friends on the playground. The countless books painted a whimsical, yet endlessly surreal and sometimes dark reality for Davey, provoking intense dreams and furthering his ability to conjure monstrous and animated forms within his colorfullyspontaneous works of art. He has a clairvoyant eye for what others often overlook and brings forth spirited, primitive, and sometimes hauntingly indescribable objects and hybrid creatures that dissolve from one to another, leaving just enough room for the discretion and imagination of the viewer. Like an optical illusion or secret message, his work exhibits layers that represent a rapid stream of consciousness from which we can find resonance--or solace. Davey’s automatic nature is to capture components from layer to layer; whilst combining shapes and blocking out whats unnecessary, he ultimately weaves the layers like a brilliantly composed spider web that seemingly stops time in its tracks..
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JOHNNIE DOMINGUEZ Words & Images
In a world that can be cruel and harsh, I reach inward to the inkwells of my deepest faith in the human spirit. Drawing forth my own self salvation through my weapon of choice, the papermate pen.
SAY IT LIKE YOU
MEAN IT.
MAD ONE Words By Erica Vega Neely Illustration By MAD ONE
ieLAvate Curator/Street/Gallery, artist Michael Mad One” Neely II, presents annually this one of a kind art exhibit “StickerPhiends”, a showcase of local and international sticker artists, graphicdesigners, graffiti artists, print makers and many others for a fifth year in arow. The show will feature,“Printed Matters” and other forms of street/galleryart. The show has always had plenty of free giveaways throughout the openingnight receptions donated by sponsors ranging from adult beverages, clothes,magazines, dvd’s and MORE we could name names but there are more than a handfulto list and continue to support yearly. There have been several Graffiti/Urban art themed showsthroughout the city the last few years. This is one of a kind for sure; thename explains itself “Sticker Phiends” an array of urban/gallery artists and designers throughout the world coming together to showcase under one roof. “MadOne”, a local Portland based urban/gallery artist, had the opportunityto curate many local and international artists for the show making itfive years in a row, We have artists ranging from New York to Arizona,California, Japan, U.K. and beyond”. Stickers, posters and stickerart isn’t just for skateboarders and bands anymore, it hasbecome a new way ofexpressing yourself and getting your name and or images out to the public eyes. Letting the public analyze your images and getting up where ever you can, youcan find stickers on the back of street signs, electric boxes, and magazinekiosks. Most importantly putting them up where no one has before. Someartistsand show viewers just collect stickers, some rep just themselves. But eitherway you look at it stickers have been accepted and will be displayed as a newwave art form. “Sticker Phiends” is an art exhibition supporting the urban arts movement and bringing awareness of stickersas well as other mediums used and how they have gone from the streets to beingdisplayed in today’s galleries and museums.
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