Veritas Artists by Veritas Fashion

VISUAL ARTS

VERITAS ARTIST COLLECTIVE

Inspiring hope through the arts

The Veritas brand is designed and created to bring community together through a combination of the Arts; one shirt, one painting, one sound, one film, and one word at a time. Veritas is an Art Fashion Brand, creating its own niche in the fashion market, a brand with its core revolving around the Fine Arts community. This community encompasses all genres of art and design, similar to the late 1960’s New York art scene that revolved around the Factory owned by Andy Warhol. Groups of creative individuals who networked and created together, shared their works, critiqued each other and most of all impacted the art community worldwide. The network of artistic talent that was born out of this collective included artists, poets, photographers, actors and actresses, fashion designers, musicians, and filmmakers. In essence the idea behind Veritas is to become “The Factory” as a brand, but with a greater purpose than just influencing artistic creation, a purpose of becoming involved in humanitarian projects worldwide through this collection of creative individuals. This is the design behind “The Veritas Artist Collective”, a collection of artists, photographers, sculptors, musicians, actors/actresses, filmmakers, producers, writers and athletes thus enabling the Veritas brand to connect internationally in all creative circles.

Beth Anna Hynum Paris, France

www.takeholdoflife.com

Travelling the better part of my life, and painting for the past eleven years, my art depicts what I consider deserves attention or should be lingered upon in life. As a painter, my belief is that moments are gorgeous and fleeting, people are over-photographed and not meditated upon, and intentional living is a choice. I like to press pause, capture life as it is lived and appreciate it- whether that be the eyes of a young immigrant, the curves of the human form, or the tabacco stained beard of my neighborhood hobo. Recent Exhibitions: 2010 La Promesse d’un Visage | Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne | Paris, France. BRUT | Le Blabla | Paris, France 2009

2008

Grand Marche’ de I’ Art Contemporian | Place de Bastille | Paris, France Peintures Recentes | Arnaud Goujon Architecte | Paris, France

2007

False Spring | La Barrique | Paris, France Peintures Recentes | Quinze | Paris, France

2006

Bob Johnson Dallas, Texas

www.workofbob.com

Bob Johnson is an emerging Dallas based artist who deconstructs the visual scenes of modern day night life and the effects of artificial light through painting. Each of his paintings, whether representational or purely abstract, gives the viewer a sense of familiarity that involves them in the world he creates. His infatuation with this subject matter became apparent in his studies as an undergraduate at The University of North Texas. While earning his bachelors degree in Fine Arts, Bob met and collaborated with many artists. Through these collaborations he went on to join the 5D Artist group and began showing his work around the DFW area. Soon after earning his bachelors degree Bob moved to Chicago and completed graduate work at the prestigious School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He later moved back to Dallas and became a member of the Veritas Artist Collective founded by fellow 5D artist Ty Clark. Since then he has been exhibiting his work for charitable foundations in hopes to support humanitarian efforts around the world. Recent Exhibitions: 2010 Young and Cultured | AMLI Quadrangle | Dallas, Texas Vibrant Life | Natural Health Family Chiropractic | Tyler, Texas 2009

2008

Veritas Artist Collective | Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Vine WIne| Denton, Texas

2007

Luminous Visions | Pacchia Prima | Dayton, OH

2005

Brent Richardson Norman, Oklahoma www.brentrich.com

Life, its the thing that pushes us, the only reason people get out of bed in the morning and the very drive to create something new, something that expresses oneself to those we come in contact with. Simply stated art, or printmaking, is my preferred way of letting people in on the way I perceive things. Printmaking has become my favorite medium, in the end a process should serve to strengthen a piece of art, and for that reason at times I do stray from printmaking. I have since realized that other forms of art like: painting, sculpting, and drawing can influence and improve my prints. Most things are first taught in a classical sense with a fine line between right and wrong but when crossing mediums suddenly everything fuses together. My brush strokes resemble my woodcuts, gestural drawing change lines in an etching and before I realize it I have found a terrific way of discovering new ways of doing things. Recent Exhibitions: 2010 Woodblock, the wave of the future | Bodega Bean | Belton, Texas The Viking Ship by Dennis McNett | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Grudge Match | Tattooed Mom | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Tower Of Babel | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2009

DANIEL DAVIS AUSTIN, TEXAS

www.danieldavisphoto.com

His vision is clear. There are many stories to tell - and time is ticking. Daniel has an insatiable appetite for a lot of things: For his craft and perfecting it. For his world and pursuing justice. For life and capturing its beauty, truthfully. And it’s that ideal - truth - that binds all of his work together. He believes that an inauthentic image is not really an image at all. It’s a myth, a lie. And there’s more than enough counterfeit authenticity in the world. Daniel captures truth through photography. Six years ago in a far-off place, this voracity for truth was birthed. Armed with a point-and-shoot camera and a yetunrealized zeal for photography, Daniel ventured to Africa on a mission trip and began snapping pictures of what he saw. During the trip, his life’s passion was unmistakably revealed. He would be a photographer. An education followed - and opportunity. His pursuit of truth and story - and broadcasting them as far and wide as possible - has taken Daniel from wedding chapels to crumbling shacks in every corner of the globe. From India to Central America to Africa to Haiti and back again, he has packed up his gear and followed his passion wherever opportunity has struck. Professional Shoots2002 France | Germany | England 2004 England 2005 China 2006 China 2007 Uganda 2009 Guatemala 2010 Guatemala | India | Haiti

ESTHER HAVENS AUSTIN, TEXAS

www.estherhavens.com

Estherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mission is to be a voice for those who are longing to be heard. She captures stories that transcend a personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s circumstances and reveal their true strength. For many years she has focused on social-awareness campaigns with organizations around the world. Her images posses deep meaning to compel thought and challenge action. At heart, she is a connector, fostering relationships across continents, cultures, industries and perspectives. She has traveled extensively to over 45 nations and her photographs have been displayed in various exhibits across the country. She currently resides in Austin, Texas Recent Exhibitions: 2009 charity: water ball | Metropolitan Pavilion | NYC Let There Be Hope | Long Center for Performing Arts | Austin,Texas Roscoe Exhibit | D Gallery | Soho | NYC charity: water | Chelsea Market - Chelsea | NYC Falling Whistles Love | Common Grounds | Waco, Texas Falling Whistles Love | Victory Grill | Austin, Texas Falling Whistles Love | Angels and Kings | NYC Falling Whistles Love | Southside Gallery Space | Dallas, Texas Beauty for the Broken | Snooze | Denver, Colorado 2008

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2005

Lost in Peru | Gallery Art Space | Dallas, Texas

Justin Strickland Denton, TEXAS

www.justin-strickland.com

Memory, by definition is “an organism’s ability to store, retain, and subsequently recall information”. How does the human mind construct memories? Even with new advances in the study of the mind and memory, many of the mechanisms of such are not well understood. It is thought that specific types of memory are linked to specific parts of the mind, yet we still do not know how the mind makes sense of these disparate elements and arranges them into a single memory. My work is a product of this function, and the architecture of how one’s mind “builds” memories. By taking pieces of photographs and drawings, I “build” images, much like the human mind constructs memories from fragments of human experience. Through this process I take disparate elements of my own memory and create new local narratives with new meanings and histories of their own. Through the rearrangement of these personal narratives I hope to present the viewer with a visual product from which they can draw their own conclusions from and relate their own experiences to. Recent Exhibitions: 2009 HOPE | Veritas Artist Collective Warehouse | Lewisville, Texas LOVE | Southside at Lamar | Dallas, Texas 2007

Holiday Presence 3 | Kettle Art | Dallas, Texas

2006

Oddities | Kettle Ar | Dallas, Texas Expo ‘06 | 500X Gallery (Noah Simblist, Curator) | Dallas, Texas

2005

Katie Kader Denton, TEXAS Katie Kader Art

The basis of a weaving structure is two interlocking threads that come together in a systematic pattern through repetition to create a larger form. A state of hypnosis occurs through the weaving process as the pattern envelops the work. The premise of my exploration is the idea that all people search for structure and order in daily life. I wanted to communicate this need for order through weaving. In my artwork, I translated this traditional process of constructing cloth into a two dimensional illusion. I began by using a weaving draft as the basis of a pattern and turned that into a code by which I worked. I layered the code the same way I would have if I used cloth on a loom by connecting two separate lines at ninety degrees until I received the illusion of woven cloth.

2008

12X12 | ArtSpace | Tyler, Texas

Matt Braun north carolina

I create three-dimensional graphic compositions by making and assembling objects from our American culture. They are toxic and wasteful collections of anxious objects. These works maintain guilt and cynicism about the places we inhabit. American celebrations and fears converge, acknowledging the comfort of here and the turmoil of elsewhere. While wars rage in the world, I am wearing new pants. Recently, I faced a panel of professors to defend the work in these images and my thesis, and during that conversation I used a phrase to describe the work that should have been in the thesis in the first place. Bottled Conflict. Much of my work is a product of combining everyday images of American conflict with my own hesitations about participation in my surroundings. As an artist, I have been compelled to build and create since I was old enough to find my fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tools, but I also dwell on the inherent toxicity and waste involved. So, I acknowledge that by being a consumer and an artist, I contribute to the massive cycle of literal and metaphoric poisoning, and feel the guilt of negatively impacting people I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even picture. But as I have no plans to move to a cave and catch my own food, I continue my life and my work in this, by many comparisons, blessed place that is my home. My work is additionally fueled by American fears, and celebrations and uses images from the media and advertising as well as objects from the spaces I inhabit. Throughout my time as an undergraduate at the University of North Texas, and a graduate student at The University at Albany, I created work, which was graphically orientated and aesthetically informed by my love of music and being a musician. I have produced assembled objects by combining hand made and found components, since before I was old enough to call it art, and I continue to do so. So how else can I describe what it is that I make? They are snap shots taken from the part of the world that I know.

Nicole morrow fort worth, TEXAS www.savenikki.com

As an advocate for the love of self and others, I strive to create paintings that remind us that we are dynamic individuals with multiple facets of emotion at any one given time. I want my work to reflect back to its viewer a piece of himself or herself; in other words, I’d like the viewer to discover an emotion that maybe they weren’t even aware they were harboring. After all, it’s through self-discovery that we learn how best to take care of ourselves so that we may turn around and use that knowledge to help others. Nicole’s has a commision contract with NYLO Hotels. Her work can been seen on display atwww.nylohotels.com

SAMo4PREZ AUSTIN, TEXAS

www.samo4prez.com

SAMO4PREZ has been creating for 35 years on a plane of imaginary existence while traveling the globe from the USA to Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Romania, Paris, Mexico, Thailand, Japan and his former home for a moment, China. An artist, writer, fashion designer, activist and philanthropist SAMO4PREZ has shown his work from California (his place of birth) to his new home Austin, Texas. His current work stems from his visual surroundings, memories and the power of influence that pop culture has on community. He is the nephew of world-renowned sculptor and raku artist Conway “Jiggs” Pierson and studied under American sculptor William Catling while attending Azusa Pacific University’s School of Fine Arts. SAMO4PREZ is also known as Ty Clark and is the CEO/Founder/Designer for Veritas Fashion that he founded in 2008 as a fashion line that embraces the Arts and uses creative individuals to support communities in need all over the world. He has been involved in humanitarian projects in 10 different countries building a network of creative activists from various genres in the international Arts community. Veritas Fashion is now in 2010 being worn by celebrities, artists, filmmakers, writers, sculptors, musicians and trendsetters around the globe. As a member of the Veritas Artist Collective and 5D Artists Group, he also supports, promotes and raises awareness for Comfort the Children International, Naomi’s Village Childrens Home (Kenya), Falling Whistles, Construction for a Cause and Communities in Schools. SAMO4PREZ is actively providing opportunities for emerging artists around the globe to show work and invest in communities in need. Recent Exhibitions 2010 Veritas Road Tour V.2 | Two Month Exhibition | Oregon | Washington | California | Texas Sidewalks #2 | Space SXSW | Austin, Texas Sidewalks #1 | Inspiration Gallery | Austin, Texas Bringing Soul To Uptown | AMLI Gallery | Dallas, Texas 2009 I Am Here | DIAC show | Dallas, Texas Hope | Veritas Artist Collective Warehouse | Dallas, Texas Love | Southside on Lamar | Dallas, Texas 2008 2006

Veritas Artist Collective | Vintners Cellar | Plano, Texas Veritas Artist Collective | D’Vine Wine | Denton, Texas

2005

5D: First Five | The Burkett House Gallery | Denton, Texas

5D: Middle Ground |The Burkett House Gallery | Denton, Texas

24th Annual Open Exhibition | 500X Gallery | Dallas, Texas

SEAN C. ELLIs DALLAS, TEXAS

seanellisart.wordpress.com

Sean Ellis is a working designer and fine Artist in the greater Dallas area. He has designed for Veritas and Comfort the Children International, along with using his paintings to help raise money for Falling Whistles and Naomi’s Village. Sean Ellis’ fine art focuses on two styles. His abstract expressionistic body is involved with in depth that looks inside the limits of control and the expressionistic contradictions inside that control and how to defy it. This work is on display in the offices of the Bentley Yates corp., Salon M, Green Peridot and other various collector’s homes and design spaces. Sean’s recent works take a fresh outlook on pop art. Dealing with iconic faces and personalities from a lost time of the modern era, and juxtaposing them against the flashy bright world of pop today. His Pop Art covers approximately 100 ft of the Venue Hailey’s in Denton Texas and in several homes of collectors including the Combs’ estate. Sean Ellis and Ty Clark founded the 5D artist collective which is a primary contributor to Veritas projects . His work with Veritas led to his work with Comfort the Children and landed him on the main tote bag at the D.C. summit conference in 2010 in which the top non-profit companies were in attendance by invitation only along with President Clinton and other agents of change. He has been in 17 Shows across the state including at the prestigious Dunn and Brown Gallery along with the galleries at Southside Lamar, and 500x.

ZACH SAUCEDO PHOENIX, ARIZONA DALLAS, TEXAS

www.saucedodesigns.com

Zach Saucedo is a conceptual artist based in Dallas and Phoenix and has been painting and creating since his childhood. His artistic tendencies come from two sources: his mother and God. He was raised to acknowledge God in all things, which in turn gives him the motivation to create and inspire in everything he does. Growing up in a home with a mother who was a natural artist gave Saucedo the skills and training to do what he does today. While he does not have formal art training, his artwork is fueled by a curiosity to explore anything that allows him to use tools and his hands to make a living. Saucedo also utilizes early work experiences as an electrician, carpenter, and interior designer. He is involved in the Dallas art community as one of the founders of the Dallas Independent Artists Community and is proudly involved in the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center (DCAC) annual Art + Advocacy fundraiser as both a committee member and art donor. Saucedo’s most recent shows include “Revolutionary but Gangster” a solo show at The Ross Akard Gallery and “I am Here” at Southside on Lamar, both in Dallas, as well as “Anticipation” his first solo show in his hometown of Phoenix, Arizona. My vision as an artist changes often and my evolution is a speedy one. I truly believe that none of my work is purely my own and that it is all just an interpretation of a greater message. I invite you to view it alongside of me as it happens, and in turn I am just as eager to learn and be inspired by as many of your lives as possible.

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