Allison Bamcat
Allison Bamcat is a contemporary artist with an affinity for confectionary and phantoms. Through the use of acidic color, her paintings work to elicit feelings of her neon, nineties-childhood in Los Angeles, surrounded by sun-bleached, cheap plastic dolls and doodled-on stuffed toys. A menagerie of animals and creatures serve as avatars for the artist herself, assembling a series of surreal snapshots of her own personal journey, one of beautiful growth and also the simmer of trauma.
With her candy-coated landscapes, there is an underlying sense of unease, whether through the piercing gaze of a voyeur parrot or in the melting and sinking of her figures. The loss of innocence and a sense of calm-among-the-chaos are feelings works to depict through the use of stark, flat fields of color against her obsessively-detailed brushwork. The velvet finish of gouache matched with her love of wood and paper leave subtle textures for her images to pop off of. She works to hypnotize her audience through her dizzying use of color and detail in her current body of acryla gouache paintings.
photo by: Joshua Lawyer
The Artists:
Tom Dupere
Tom is a self taught New England based mixed media artist. Working in a loose style that takes influences from the creativity of 1980’s / 90’s skateboard / punk & hip hop cultures.
photo: Rob Collins
CODY HUDSON
Cody Hudson (b. 1971) lives and works in Chicago. Hudson's artistic practice spans across multiple mediums, including painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, and public art. Hudson also does commercial design work under the name Struggle Inc.
THOMAS HOOPER
I draw influence from the sanctum of nature and natural forms, then move towards subverting it with unconscious, mathematical and geometric patterns, cosmology, and ancient religious mythology. When tattooing or illustrating I try to incorporate these ideas into intricate patterns and dense details using complex pointillism, repetition, and detailed line-work with the hopes of creating a visual language that is both meditative and pure in form.
My colourful paintings are directly influenced by this idea, but created with the motivation of building a visual sanctuary away from the fraught, hyper stimulated and complex worlds we inhibit both digitally and physically.
Jillian Evelyn’s art draws from the female experience, personal reflection, and anxieties that arises from societal expectations. Utilizing limited color palettes and exaggerated poses, Evelyn is able to turn a feeling in to a visual experience.
JILLIAN EVELYN
Russ Pope's art draws from the social and political environment surrounding him in his
daily life. Pope's inspirations have been skateboarding, music and the creative, interesting
people he encounters daily. His bold strokes, finite doodles and striking paintings are
characterized by faces, still lifes and humorous events. From the early days in Central
California skateboarding, drawing and attending punk shows, to his current life in New
England, Russ has processed life and his interactions with his world through the prism of a
pen and a paintbrush.
RUSS POPE
ALYASHA OWERKA-MOORE
Raised in Brooklyn during the subculture wave of the 70s and 80s, Aly grew up with one foot in formal craft (assisting his mother in the conservation and restoration of ancient textiles) and the other reacting to established disciplines (writing graffiti with the BYI Crew and a member of the original Shut Skates team).
As marketers attempted to harness the energy around what they would call “urban” markets during the 90s, Aly synthesized the varied influences he grew up with to help shape game changing, corporate-defying businesses like Phat Farm, Mecca, and ADI (American Dream, Inc.): a skateboard company run with legendary black skater Ron Allen.
After moving to San Diego to design for DUB, Droors, and DC Shoes, Owerka-Moore would establish what is regarded as one of the most progressive brands in skateboarding: Alphanumeric. The reputation for innovation that surrounded Alphanumeric would lead Nike to seek Aly out for his expertise during the inception of Nike SB. In this collaborative capacity, Aly would work with Nike to select the Dunk as the sub-brand’s flagship skate shoe. The rest is history. Later he would be invited to be part of a fledgling Adidas Originals By Originals program, along side Jeremy Scott and Kazuki of Fragment.
Since then, Aly has embedded himself in cultural reservoirs around the globe, starting iconic cult brands like Fiberops in Hong Kong and Tokyo and acting as PF Flyers’ on-call brand historian in Boston. Later, USA made denim brand Thee Teen-Aged.
Aly’s ongoing commitment to bridging cultural spaces, history, and the future to better clarify our understanding of the present.
Aly’s ongoing commitment to bridging cultural spaces, history, and the future to better clarify our understanding of the present.
Catch him DJing R&B and Rock n Roll from the 40s - 60s if you ever find yourself in the same city as he is.
SCOTT ALBRECHT
Largely informed by typography, Scott's work often deconstructs letterforms with the intent to reconsider the relationship between message and viewer, encouraging a viewer to not simply read and consume a message but engage with the piece in the hope of creating a deeper connection to the idea. By using a consistent visual language of geometry, the works may at first give the appearance of a pattern, however, each work is a carefully considered representation of letterforms from an underlying message.