Launched in 2003, Scion Installation is a revolutionary art tour featuring work from an unprecedented collective of contemporary artists. For 4 years the tour has evolved, and each year the medium with which the artists showcase their work evolves. For Installation 4, the theme “It’s a Beautiful World” was interpreted by each artist in one of four mediums;
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painting, photography, sculpture, and collage. Scion Installation 4 has visited 9 cities around the country with its final stop in Los Angeles where all of the artwork will be auctioned off the to the public. 100% of the money raised from the charity auction will go to Art From Scrap.
For more information on the tour, the artists, the artwork and details from previous years tours please visit www.scion.com/installation
Art From Scrap (AFS) is a non-profit art and environmental education program in Santa Barbara, California with a mission of promoting a greater understanding of environmental issues and encouraging creative expression in the arts. Children and adults in Santa Barbara County and beyond participate in a variety of programs including Green Schools environmental education, a community Arts Center, and a Reuse retail store.
Hands-on art activities and shows at the AFS Gallery encourage the innate creativity of thousands of people each year - proving that each one of us is an artist. AFS encourages kids and adults to rethink the way they view “discarded” materials and to seek creative solutions for their reuse through Art Workshops, Birthday Parties, free art activities at many community events, and at shows at the AFS Gallery. Our major fundraiser is an Assemblage Art Event held in July - featuring artworks by many local assemblage artists, an auction, and entertainment.
ART FROM SCRAP
Art From Scrap is one of the leading environmental education organizations in Santa Barbara, California. Each year AFS Green Schools reaches over 15,000 children through lessons and field trips. Students learn the waste reduction methods of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Compost, pollution prevention actions to improve creek and ocean water quality, and contribute to a sustainable community through organic gardening and service learning projects.
The AFS Reuse store is a great low-cost option for clean, reusable materials when making your own arts and crafts projects, holiday decorations, costumes and other creative endeavors. The selection of materials changes constantly and you’ll be amazed at what you can find! Local businesses donate thousands of pounds of materials each year, keeping them from ending up in the Santa Barbara County landfill.
For more information visit our website at www.artfromscrap.org.
Andrew Pommier Andy Mueller Angela Boatwright Blaine Fontana Blek Le Rat Books IIII Caia Koopman Chris Yormick Cody Hudson Dalek David Choe David Ellis Eye One Francesco LoCastro Freddi C
ARTISTS
J. Shea James Jean Jeff Soto Joshua Krause Kelsey Brookes Kenton Parker Kofie The London Police Mel Kadel Michael Sieben Mike Giant R. Grimes Rammellzee Retna Ron English Sage Vaughn Tim McCormick Travis Millard Yoskay Yamamoto
Andrew Pommier Andrew Pommier lives on the west coast of Canada in a small village know as Vancouver. He enjoys steamed broccoli, hates winter and only has a passing interest in hockey.
AndY MUELLER Andy Mueller was raised in the midwest on a healthy diet of BMX, skateboarding, music and magazines. In 1993, Mueller founded OhioGirl, a small design/photo/ film studio. In 1999, Andy relocated to California to become art director for Girl Skateboard’s new shoe company, Lakai Limited Footwear. Much of Mueller’s work has appeared in graphic design annuals and design books, as well as aired on MTV, and published in numerous magazines; he has also shown his artwork in the U.S., Europe, U.S.Japan, Australia, and Canada. Andy Mueller currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, son, two cats, a bird and a ping pong habit.
ANGELA BOATWRIGHT Angela Boatwright is from Ohio, lives in New York City and has been taking photos for a job since 1997. She loves Def Leppard and hates it when men wear flip flops. When not taking photos she can be found scanning photos, thinking about photos or keeping up on the business of photos. She recently just bought a new guitar with the intention of learning more Runaways songs and is really into Leeway right now.
BLAINE FONTANA Blaines interests and inspiration come from wold folklore and myth, 60’s design books, the animal kingdom, japanese print composition, his back yard and upbringing. He currently lives on Bainbridge Island, WA as a full time fine artist, illustrator and graphic designer with his wife and creative/managing partner Eugenie Jolivett.
BLEK LE RAT From 1981 to 2005 Blek le Rat’s work has focused on urban art in different cities of the world. He is the pioneer of stencil graffiti art, introducing the technique into graffiti in Paris in 1981 and now followed by many artists across the world. He introduced to the urban art landscape the concept of creating life size figures of people.
BOOKS IIII One thing about BooksIIII is that he does not like writing of himself in third person or over sensationalizing his position. Therefore, my greatest influence over the years has been my family’s history and collections. Never the less, graffiti is a huge influence, but what has become my greatest interest are the most rotten get ups, beautiful hand styles, and the aging process. The layering the streets attain reminds me of my grandmother’s scrap booking and these simple methods are what I have taken for myself as style.
CAIA KOOPMAN Caia Koopman was born in 1968 and raised in Livermore, California, just outside San Francisco. She majored in fine art and earned a B.A. at UCSC in Santa Cruz, California. Caia explains her addiction to art, “I’ve always been an artist-as a kid I would draw to escape, to travel, to explore...and I still do”. She is currently working as a freelance illustrator and painter in Oceanside,California. Caia is inspired by color, dreams, politics, and life.
CHRIS YORMICK Chris Yormick lives and works in New York City. In the nations capitol is where he cut his teeth on an unhealthy diet of skateboarding, graffiti, and harDCore music. A self taught artist and designer, he was also the art director for Skateboarder Magazine, ĂŠS skateboard footwear and worked for such clients as Def Jam and Comme De Garcons. In the past four years, Chris has weaned away from design and concentrated his time purely on art away from the computer. Chris has shown his work across the globe and is constantly working on ways to expand his vision and voice in the art world.
CODY HUDSON Cody Hudson is a Chicago based painter, also known for his commercial art and graphic design contributions under the name Struggle Inc.
DALEK James Marshall, also known as Dalek. Born in 1968, the painter has made a reputation with a distinctive and innovative style, unlike any other Pop-Inspired painter working today. Stylistically synthesizing the American traditions of still animation and cartoons, his remarkably complex compositions resemble a direct lineage to the expressive Japanese Superflat movement, and the zany everyday apparitions found in nature.
DAVID CHOE David Choe is one of the most diverse and prolific artists working today. He is one of the youngest artists to ever have solo show at the MOCA. He has had his art shown on every surface from canvases to human bodies to third world, war torn walls, it can be found in every facet of society, from fancy galleries, museums, t-shirts, shoes, movies, billboards, cars, murals, buildings, from New York City to the Congo, Africa to everywhere in between.
DAVID ELLIS David Ellis lives and works in Brooklyn; where his “motion paintings” travel through time like music, where beats are orchestrated and performed on “drum paintings” stretched and tuned to bass, snare, etc. and played via analog drum machines propelled by air, where player pianos meet SP1200s meet improvisational wild style sign painting.
EYE ONE Eye One resides in Los Angeles and is a member of Seeking Heaven and Second To None. He publishes the highly-acclaimed publication Lost: Graffiti in the City of Angels.
FRANCESCO Lo CASTRO For the last ten years, Francesco LoCastro has been South Florida’s thoroughfare to the national Lowbrow art scene, as both a respected artist and as the curator of intrepid art exhibitions. As a painter, LoCastro’s works are bound together by a hallucinatory surreality. As a curator, Francesco LoCastro’s electrifying shows in Miami’s Design District and Wynwood Arts District have ushered in a caliber of Lowbrow art previously unseen in South Florida
FREDDI C Freddi C is originally from London, England but has made Los Angeles her home for the past nine years. Â In 2003 she opened her own gallery - The Lab 101 Gallery that has exhibited the most outstanding of emerging urban artists. In January 2008, Freddi opened her second gallery The CERASOLI gallery in the former Lab 101 Space and moved the Lab 101 across the street into the front of her art studio. When she finds free time she still paints.
J SHEA After graduating from the Art Institute of Boston, Shea built a career as an Illustator, sneaker designer, rock poster artist, and puppet fabricator. Shea’s personal work combines processes from the Commercial Arts he’s worked in to create mixed media paintings and sculpture that combine folk art, Pop art, street art and assembledge.
JAMES JEAN James Jean is a Los Angeles-based artist who has most recently collaborated with Prada on their Spring/Summer 2008 collection and campaign. The album art he created for Reprise Record’s My Chemical Romance was also recently nominated for a 2008 Grammy award. He has won five consecutive Eisner awards, three consecutive Harvey awards, two gold medals and a silver from the Society of Illustrators of LA, and a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators of NY for his work with various clients. A hardcover collection of his work was published by Adhouse books in 2005 called Process Recess, and a subsequent oversized collection called Process Recess: Portfolio was published in 2007. In 2008, Chronicle Books will publish a postcard book of his images called “XOXO.”
JEFF SOTO Through striking visual imagery, Jeff Soto communicates profound visions and fears, nostalgia of his youth, and themes of love, lust, and hope. Soto’s distinct color palette, subject matter, technique and bold themes resonate with a growing audience. Inspired by childhood toys, the colorful lifestyle of skateboarding and graffiti, hip-hop and popular culture, Soto’s representational work is simultaneously accessible and stimulating.
JOSHUA KRAUSE Joshua Krause is a primarily self-taught artist driven by hope and humor. His art is an obsessive search to find his individual path in a world that seems to be on another page. Influenced as much by dreams as by stupid movies, Joshua relies on intuition and the unconscious to guide his work. Born in NYC in 1977, and raised in Florida, Joshua lives and works in San Diego, CA.
KELSEY BROOKES Kelsey Brookes was born in 1978. A formally trained scientist who spent years tracking viruses for the U.S. government, he now lives and works in San Diego as a painter. His art can be found broadly throughout the US and Europe and is represented internationally by the Lazarides gallery (London).
KENTON PARKER Los Angeles based Kenton Parker is an artist and designer. Gathering inspiration from popular culture and everyday life, Parker draws and paints a rich vocabulary of icons and motifs. He has maintained both a progressive edge and timeless style in all his work. Producing both design and fine art, Parker maintains a constant, provoking communication with his viewers.
KOFIE Born & raised in Los Angeles, Kofie’One is a multi-tasking independent & the illegitimate son of Jim Brown & Racquel Welch.
THE LONDON POLICE The London Police started when big english geezers headed to amsterdam in 1998 and started rejuvenating the visually disappointing streets of the drug capital of the world. The goal was to combine traveling and making art to create an amazing way of life not seen since the days of King Solomon. London Policeman have come and gone but founding members are still known to walk the streets of every city in the world spreading love through pens and stickers. Dont be like that. Who cares wins.
MEL KADEL Mel Kadel was born in 1973, and grew up in the suburbs of Harrisburg, PA. For the last 9 years, she has been living and working in Los Angeles, CA. Her drawings are made with tiny pens, paper, q-tips, and glue.
MICHAEL SIEBEN Michael Sieben lives and works in Austin, Texas where he juggles his time between writing and illustrating articles for Thrasher Magazine, co-owning and operating Okay Mountain Gallery with his fellow mountaineers, and freelancing for numerous clients in the skateboard industry. When not working, Sieben can be found in his backyard riding the mini ramp or hanging out in drainage ditches. Sieben’s personal work has been exhibited throughout the United States as well as England, Japan, Australia, and Mexico.
MIKE GIANT Birth. Upstate New York. Drawing. New Mexico. BMX bikes. Heavy Metal. Skateboarding. Punk rock. Hip-hop. Thailand. College. Dishwasher. Raves. Lorelei. First tattoo. San Francisco. Dharma. Think Skateboards. Angi. London. Adult bookstore. Computer animation. Tattooing. New York City. Newskool. Skullz Press. Everlasting. Track bikes. Brooke and Leia. Tokyo. Tattoo 13. Plum Village. Albuquerque. Stay Gold. Rebel8. Manifestations. Penny farthings. Ordination. Megan. 35. Right here. Right now.
R. GRIMES R. Grimes is a self taught artist whose methods of producing work would seem archaic to most people. He avoids the use of presses and other machines to produce his art and various projects. By minimizing the use of machinery, Grimes preserves the human element in the art of creating.
Photo: Keetja Allard
RAMMELLZEE Performance artist RAMMELLZEE (pronounced RAM-EL-ZEE) personifies your gothic futures. The equation was born in 1979. The RAMM:ELL:ZEE, through various mediums, such as paints on canvas, resin frescoes, drawings, sculptures, carpet and performance art, including literature, lectures, poetry and music, maintains his intellectual factory as a stable foundation for this artistic expression that encompasses “mannerism” and”chiaroscuro”.
RETNA When Los Angeles-based graffiti artist RETNA’s work first appeared in the midnineties, what made it stand apart from the rest was its unique layering. His color palette was so intricate, so carefully chosen, his pieces often looked to have been daubed on with a paint-brush. Quite the achievement when you consider he was painting on walls, trains, bridges, and freeway overpasses in the black of night.
RON ENGLISH Ron English, a New York-based painter, has exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide for over twenty years. His unique sensibility, in which the familiar is reflected through funhouse mirrors into something startlingly new. He is also a premier street artist, most widely known as a “billboard liberator� and one of the seminal members of the culture jamming movement.
SAGE VAUGHN born 1976 an hour and a quarter after the bicentennial in Jacksonville Oregon. lives and works in Los Angeles. has a wife and four cats.
TIM McCORMICK Tim McCormick brings to his work a unique perspective on issues of fame, pop culture, and self. Perceptions of suburban banality set against the surreal backdrop of Hollywood as well as the influence of San Diego’s early surf and skateboard subculture. With a self-taught methodology McCormick currently exhibits in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and throughout the greater U.S.
TRAVIS MILLARD Travis Millard (Born 1975 in St. Joseph, Missouri), grew up rocking out in Olathe, Kansas. He founded the Fudge Factory Comics operation in 1997, and has been producing small run zines, prints and comics under the umbrella since then. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
YOSKAY YAMAMOTO Yamamoto discovered a way to fuse the two different cultural backgrounds together into his work. Yamamoto nostalgically blends pop iconic characters from his new Western home with traditional and mythical Japanese elements, balancing his Asian heritage with urban pop art.
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