artists
Franki Chan
David Choe
Cody Hudson & JARED EBERHARDT
Cheryl Dunn
The London Police
Gluekit
Matt Goldman
Mackie Osborne
Souther Salazar
SSUr
Now in its 7th installment, this revolutionary art tour kicks off 2011 in Los Angeles. Since its inception in 2003, Scion Installation has raised over $250,000 for art charities and non-profits. Building on the success of last year’s tour, Installation 7 again focuses on the video medium, which emerged in the 1960s and has since expanded galleries into more experimental, kinetic and interactive spaces. Installation 7: Video challenged artists to create non-narrative video installations that will eventually transform five unique exhibitions in Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Wichita, Minneapolis and Austin.
TOUR STOPS
LOS ANGELES
BROOKLYN
WICHITA
MINNEAPOLIS
AUSTIN
2/19/11 - 3/12/11 Scion Installation L.A. 3521 Helms Ave. (at National) Culver City, CA 90232
3/26/11 - 4/16/11 Factory Fresh 1053 Flushing Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11237
4/29/11 - 5/21/11 Tangent Lab 143 N. Rock Island, 3rd Floor Wichita, KS 67202
6/04/11 - 6/25/11 Co-Exhibitions 1101 Stinson Blvd. NE #2 Minneapolis, MN 55413
7/09/11 - 7/30/11 Pump Project 702 Shady Ln. Austin, TX 78702
www.scionav.com/space
www.factoryfresh.net
www.tangentlab.com
www.coexhibitions.com
www.pumpproject.org
Okinawa ‘96 Animation: Jesus Rivera Score: Trevor Banta
“When I first decided what I was going to make for this project, I wanted to go dig through old footage that I’d filmed when I attended high school in Okinawa, Japan in 1996 and make a dedication to that moment in time. Upon going through the old footage I discovered something totally unexpected and haunting that not only reshaped this project entirely, but challenged my memories. Could these ‘Lost Moments’ and ‘Ghosts of the Past’ have always been there? And are they still following me today? I’m not sure, but I invite you to take this journey with me.” Franki Chan
FRANKI CHAN Diligence, tenacity, and creative vision are what set DJ, Illustrator and IHEARTCOMIX owner Franki Chan apart from the rest. In a decade of revivals and imagination, Franki Chan holds close the ideals and vision that has brought him to the forefront of his craft, seamlessly merging music and art by way of live performances, records and comics; all of which contribute to creating a pop-renegade aesthetic that defines the energy and unpredictability of the man himself. This post-digital renaissance artist has created an empire of all the things he loves and is.Â
www.iheartcomix.com
http://listn.to/FRANKICHANFANPAGE
David Choe presents Risk at Basel 2010 Shot & Edited: Willie T
“This video is a short time lapse video of legendary graffiti artist RISK freestyling a wall at Art Basel in Miami. There were many talented artists from around the world at Art Basel. Many legendary artists congregated in the Wynwood Art District. In typical fashion, RISK grabbed some cans and impressed the crowd with an incredible impromptu piece.” David Choe In a career spanning 27 years, RISK has impacted the evolution of graffiti as an art form in Los Angeles and worldwide. RISK gained major notoriety for his unique style and pushed the limits of graffiti further than any writer in L.A. had before: He was one of the first writers in Southern California to paint freight trains, and he pioneered writing on “heavens,” or freeway overpasses. At the peak of his career he took graffiti from the streets and into the gallery with the launch of the Third Rail series of art shows, and later parlayed the name into the first authentic line of graffiti-inspired clothing.
DAVID CHOE David Choe, a Los Angeles native, is one of the youngest artists to have a solo show at the MOCA. Diverse and talented, Choe uses his talent to create art on any surface, including canvases, humans, and historic third world war-torn walls. Choe has lectured at renowned universities such as Princeton and Duke and published award-winning books. For Choe, the creative process is part of the narrative journey. “I don’t even know what the outcome is gonna be, but that’s part of the process. The journey has been amazing so far!” Choe uses his memories from his childhood, African jungles, and hitchhiking across the world to create multi-layered works to create uncontrollable raw energy. Through rustic portrayals of eating, praying, crying, and dying, Choe explores cycles of regeneration in both the self and human nature as a whole. His art constructs narratives of his passions for animals and food and of his quests for peace and redemption. Choe’s experimental techniques consequently become an unpredictable fusion of various mediums, transforming the gallery into a personal environment of idiosyncratic expression and breaking ground in both subject matter and medium. Choe brings his visceral adaptations of pain and beauty to his art.
www.davidchoe.com www.riskrock.com www.smash137.com
Spine Of It Camera: Mike Fox , Cheryl Dunn Editor: Cheryl Dunn Starring: Wilder Zoby, Cheryl Dunn, and Georgia Karbelnikoff Music: Wilder Zoby
“An abstract tale of loss, facing fears, and the fine line between love and hate, life and death. Shot in a bleak yet beautiful setting, illustrated through symbolic imagery and pedestrian movements, Spine Of It leaves you with the feeling of awakening from a jarring dream.” Cheryl Dunn
CHERYL DUNN Cheryl Dunn has spent her career documenting the city streets and the people who strive to leave their mark there. Cheryl Dunn has spent her career documenting the city streets and the people who strive to leave their mark there; everyday people from graffiti writers, artists, and skaters to boxers and bikers. After launching her career shooting for music and fashion magazines, she began to focus on filmmaking in the late 90’s, creating some of the most classic films about artists of her generation who have ennobled the realities of urban life through their own work.
www.cheryldunn.net
pop art “Concentrating on things that “pop!” in a variety of ways, our video highlights acts of presentation and interaction using simplified vocabulary, repetition and bright colors. Aesthetically somewhere between instructional video and infomercial, this work follows our interest in clichés by employing a range of popular video tricks. We were also interested in creating a “still life” that moves…ever so slightly.” Gluekit
GLUEKIT Gluekit is the design and illustration studio of two American designers, Christopher Sleboda and Kathleen Sleboda. Founded in 2002, Gluekit’s work investigates 2-D and 3-D spatial relationships, classic design motifs, the flexibility of language and representation, and the communication of ideas through simple graphics. Gluekit’s award-winning illustrations have appeared in publications in the United States and abroad, including Rolling Stone, Wired, Entertainment Weekly, Complex, The Guardian (UK), and Faesthetic. The duo has been featured on the cover of Print Magazine, and has created cover art for New York, Newsweek, and The Atlantic as well as graphics for book covers, theatre, and broadcast. Gluekit’s design work has been featured in Nylon, Grafik, and Computer Arts; their work has also appeared in exhibitions in Tokyo, London, New York, and Los Angeles. In 2007, Gluekit launched Part of It, an online boutique that works with artists to create tees and totes for causes they are passionate about.
www.gluekit.com www.partofit.org
AIR DANCERS Shot & Edited: Chris Laughter (The Video Mouse) Production Team: Corey Johnson, Mark Armes, Michael Beckman, Raul Sanchez, Andrew Gold, Nate Petzer, Randell Baltazar, Jennifer Deyoung, Nicole Balzano, Mahtab Ahan Additional Design: Jared Purrington Custom Air Dancer: Ameramark Music: Que Que (featuring Maluca) by Maluca, Dillon Francis, and Diplo
“Air Dancers was conceived on the first day of a college 3D animation course I would eventually drop a week later. At the time, I was also enrolled in a video class and both were such a heavy load that they couldn’t possibly be taken simultaneously. Forced to choose, I shelved the 3D class and Air Dancers with it, only to bring it back 8 years later, predictably, as a live-action video. Both parodying and critiquing a (somewhat) bygone pre-recession era of over-produced, low concept music videos, this was a great opportunity to create something fun that glorified limited resources. Embracing the childhood notion that whenever you’re not watching inanimate objects, they take on a life of their own, this video is an exploration of what these civic fixtures must all be doing on the holidays when every tire shop, mechanic, and linen outlet is closed and observing.” Matt Goldman
MATT GOLDMAN Matt Goldman, a Los Angeles native, is a graphic designer & event producer. A graduate of UCLA’s Art School with a degree in Design/Media Arts, Matt became Senior Art Director for Shepard Fairey’s Studio Number One, working there for 5 years before he struck off to start the company he currently runs, MFG Productions: a design, marketing, promotion, and production studio. MFG currently produces events in Los Angeles, New York, Las Vegas, Austin, and more, working with everyone from Vice Magazine to Scion to 55DSL to Fool’s Gold to Mad Decent. He also currently runs two weekly parties in Los Angeles: Dance Right which has been going strong for over 4 years and School Night which was recently nominated as the best party in America by Paper Magazine. On the design side, Matt recently designed & art directed Korn’s latest album, a VP Records release for Diplo, an alphabet with Tim Biskup for Nike, and numerous flyers for Scion’s Radio 17 House Parties. Matt has shown in a handful of group shows over the last two years, including the Manifest Equality show in Los Angeles, in which he designed a shirt to support the fight to repeal Proposition 8 in California that bans legalized gay marriage. Matt currently resides in Silverlake, California surrounded by his thriving cacti.
www.mfgproductions.com
LIFE COACH - A collaborative project Music: La Femme
“Life Coach is a stream of consciousness collection of film, stop motion and traditional animation elements that were created in Los Angeles and Chicago (with stops in Virginia, Wisconsin, Salt Lake City and London) over a period of a few weeks. Using geometric shapes, quiet outdoor scenes and a minimal color palette, we experimented with abstract and sometimes absurdist ways of delving into themes of hope vs. doom, euphoria, boredom, solitude, anxiety, apocalypse and rapture.� Cody Hudson & Jared Eberhardt
CODY HUDSON & JARED EBERHARDT Cody Hudson, also known as Struggle Inc., is a Chicago-based graffiti artist. Infamous for the production of clean, multi-dimensional graphics, Cody’s design aesthetic is part urban modernism and part organic visual deconstruction. His graphic work and paintings have been exhibited throughout the US, Europe and Japan including the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), New Image Art (LA), Rocket Gallery (Tokyo), The Lazy Dog (Paris), & Andrew Rafacz (Chicago). In 2006, Cody was commissioned by the City of Chicago Public Art Program to create a permanent installation at the Sox/35th CTA station as part of the Arts in Transit Program. Cody’s work has been featured in numerous magazines and publications including idN, Arkitip, Anthem & Juxtapoz. Jared Eberhardt grew up in Salt Lake City, skateboarding, snowboarding and listening to anything on Dischord. After realizing he wasn’t going to be a professional skateboarder, he turned toward photography and design as a way to keep in touch with his friends and satisfy his passion for skateboarding and snowboarding. His work in his basement studio led to him becoming a Design Director at Jager DiPaola Kemp and eventually a Creative Director at Burton Snowboards. Sometime in 2007 he decided to pursue a career as a full-time director and has since developed a style based on his love for crafting things. He has an ever growing body of work for various clients and friends including Nike, Puma, Intel, Sub Pop, Lego, Vans, Nixon, Footlocker, MTV, Sony, Adobe, Subway, Target and Alfa Romeo. He currently lives in Los Angeles and is represented worldwide by Partizan.
www.struggleinc.com www.codyhudson.net www.jaredeberhardt.com
PALS “We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.� Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) The London Police
THE LONDON POLICE The London Police started when big English geezers headed to Amsterdam in 1998 to rejuvenate the visually disappointing streets of the city. The motive was to combine traveling and making art to create an amazing way of life not seen since the days of King Solomon. Known for their iconic LADS characters and precision marking, TLP have recently celebrated 10 strong years in the art world and their work has graced streets and galleries in 35 countries during this time. London policemen have come and gone, but founding members are still known to walk the streets of every city in the world spreading love with pens and stickers. The current duo have managed to form a partnership more cohesive than Han Solo and Chewbacca in Star Wars and are continuing to produce slick artwork that is tighter than a butler’s cuff. Never be scared, don’t be a hero and let the good times roll.
www.thelondonpolice.com
pinky and the red trees “Stormy night, stars, scary flowers, strong winds, red trees and a pink beastie. Lightning strikes, there’s a charge in the air, crickets chirp, and loons call beware, a faint sound of bag pipes drifting on a draft and mysterious rumbling a way off, glowworms glimmer and soar through the stratosphere, pinkness and redness together in the fracas, falling or flying, there is magic afoot.” Mackie Osborne
MACKIE OSBORNE Mackie Osborne, raised in Orange County, grew up with horses, magic and science fiction. Creative at a very young age, Osborne drew horses, dragons, space aliens, and bats. She pursued biomedical engineering in Missouri after graduating high school. Lasting six months before returning home for warmer weather and an easier major, Osborne realized her passion for drawing and studied commercial art and design at California Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo, pursuing a B.A. in Applied Art and Design in 1980. After graduating, Osborne entered the advertisement industry, eventually opening her own design firm in 1991. She’s had the opportunity to exercise her talents on various projects including trade show designs to book and web designs. Osborne designs for a schizophrenic array of clientele from doctors, retail clothing stores, architectural firms, museums, galleries, magazines, pet supplies, yoga instructors, private investigators, accounting firms, personal assistant services, marketing and pr firms… for industries from the garment industry, the carpet industry, the entertainment industry, the music industry to the hospitality business. Osborne distinguishes herself by, applying her own unique perspective on the world on each project she is involved with. It’s clear that she loves her work and has fun making things with images, shapes and typography. Currently she lives in Los Angeles with a husband and four dogs. She likes to scramble through the brush with her dogs in the Santa Monica Mountains, play with her two ancient printing presses and practice as much yoga as possible.
www.mackieosborne.com
Popcorn the cat explores a magical, wild backyard “Description of making the video: I went outside to play around with some animation tests on a beautiful day when there was a little break in the rainy weather. A small stray cat I had recently adopted, named Popcorn, kept invading and investigating everything I tried to do, so I eventually gave in and decided to follow him around instead. He was so restless that I thought it would be funny if his curiosity was never satisfied, and he ended up narrowly missing each little magic moment as he explored the wild backyard. The music is a lost classic by guitarist Don R. Auten, that I became obsessed with listening to during this same stretch of rainy days.� Souther Salazar
SOUTHER SALAZAR Souther Salazar’s work first began to circulate in the early 90’s, in the form of photocopied cut-and-paste minicomics and zines made in his bedroom as a teenager in rural Oakdale. After graduating from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Salazar lived and worked in Los Angeles for several years. He recently moved back to a more rural environment along the Tuolumne River where he could focus on his work. Salazar exhibits his collages, paintings, drawings, and sculptures in dense and frenzied installations that encourage exploration and participation by the viewer. His work has been exhibited in galleries and Museums in cities around the world including New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Switzerland, and Brazil.
www.southersalazar.net
Writer’s block “The typewriter footage created in my piece represents the ongoing tension in creating a captivating work. It is a struggle to produce potent works and sometimes overworking a piece can lead you into a tailspin of writer’s block. Inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s, The Shining.” SSUR
SSUR ‘Sex, Politics and Protest’ Known in the commercial art world as SSUR©, New York’s OG visionary Ruslan Karablin has been an endless personage in The City’s Downtown Art Scene for nearly two decades. Born in Soviet Ukraine, Karablin immigrated in 1975 to New York’s Coney Island, Brooklyn at the age of 5. Coney Island set the stage for what would be Karablin’s underlying theme in so much of his work, being a poignant inspiration not only because of its romantic fantasies, but also life as seen through his eyes and a childhood spent in an impoverished minority environment (The Hood). Culture clashes, world travels, and everyday struggle are elements which resonate in the SSUR© lifestyle. SSUR© has created, signature pieces for Supreme, Kangol, DC Shoes, Medicom Toy Japan, Boost Mobile, KidRobot, Swatch, Converse and others. Encompassing popular culture, Hip Hop, eclectic music, Russian heritage, The Black Hand, social consciousness and Revolutionary Iconography, SSUR© is the champion of the anti-hero of modern day urban myths.
www.ssurempirestate.com
SCION INSTALLATION ART TOUR Launched in 2003, Scion’s Installation is a revolutionary art tour affirming the brand’s ongoing commitment to support independent artistic expression. Each year, the tour travels to exhibit at galleries in various cities across the United States, exposing established and emerging artists to new audiences. Since it began, Scion Installation has featured the work of an unprecedented collective of contemporary artists, designers, photographers and filmmakers including: Andre from Paris, Gary Baseman, Peter Beste, Blek le Rat, Angela Boatwright, Kelsey Brookes, Mr. Cartoon, Crash, David Ellis, Ron English, Futura, Mike Giant, James Jean, Rammellzee, Retna, Kenny Scharf, Andrew Schoultz, Jeff Soto, and many others. For more information, including videos, photos, biographies as well as past and future show information please visit www.scionav.com/installation.
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