CREATING COLLABORATIVE CORPSES
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Painter. Thinker. Maker. Doer. As an artist exploring the rough and tumble Joshua Tree, Kat Green never seems to have enough air and space and time and light. Nevertheless, she fights the blank canvas good fight every day, religiously. Sometimes, it wins. Mostly though, she does.
missy is the founder of the bunker slo and is a firm believer in all that is fun, kind and interesting.
Alex Kandarian is a young artist from Los Osos, CA. They began painting in 2016 and quickly fell in love. They are currently pursuing an AA in Studio Arts from Cuesta College. What Alex lacks in training, they make up for in passion. Alex uses acrylic and marker to bring alive otherworldly creatures. They use bright colors and striking contrasts to make their images pop. When Alex isn't painting or working you will likely find them in their garden tending plants, on the beach scavenging for rocks, or at home crafting with animal bones. Alex has lived on the central coast all their life and enjoys the natural beauty by hiking and spending time outdoors. One of Alex's greatest joys is participating in diy art shows and sharing their work with other like-minded artists.
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Creative Director. Illustrator. Photographer. Heading up Joshua Tree agency Flurry, Bill Green provides digital and analog mayhem whenever and wherever it is needed. It is always needed. He also vows to pick up his bass again one day when he finishes whatever he’s working on next.
Gary Ellsworth (aka “Sawdust”) jack of all trades, master of none. Carpenter, painter, tattooer.
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Jeff lives on strict diet of cereal and Thai iced tea with an occasional chocolate donut. Despite his poor dietary choices he has been pumping out colorfully bold paintings since before you had an email address and carried a phone in your pocket. His obsessive painting efforts have earned him the title “Best Artist In SLO County” by SLO New Times Readers for 2010-2013. These accolades haven’t gotten to his head or inflated his ego. Just kidding, he totally thinks he’s a rockstar. When not painting or watching YouTube videos he can be found walking around town with his family taking way too many photos with his iPhone, riding his watermelon colored bicycle, or laying on his couch reading a book when he should be doing house chores like replacing the leaky skylight.
Jenny Ashley is an art photographer who has lived in San Luis Obispo county for over 30 years. Images from her "lampshade project" will be on display for Art After Dark at Appendage and Bough for the month of November. In 2017 her work was also featured at Tigerlily Salon for a group show curated by Neal Breton, the "Phantom Project" a pop up gallery supported by San Luis Museum of Art, and summer show at Studio 2G in downtown SLO.
The concept for "Buried" --her black and white photographs for this Exquisite Corpse project--was something Ashley had been wanting to execute for nearly a year. "I finally found someone who'd let me bury them alive!" Ashley joked. The model in "Buried" is Atascadero painter and installation artist Jami Ray, whom Ashley has collaborated with on several projects. "Screaming while being buried--that was Jami's idea. I initially shot it as a peaceful scene with her eyes closed." Photographing people adds an element of spontaneity, which Ashley loves."As soon as you put a person in the frame, I think of it as a collaboration. There's two of you now making something."
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The octopus has eight legs, three hearts.
More about the octopus: “Here is an animal with venom like a snake, a beak like a parrot, and ink like an old-fashioned pen. It can weigh as much as a man and stretch as long as a car, yet it can pour its baggy, boneless body through an opening the size of an orange. It can change color and shape. It can taste with its skin. Most fascinating of all, I had read that octopuses are smart.” Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness
Kirstin Kallal has two legs, one heart.
More about Kirstin: Here is an artist with two jobs like a SLO commoner, a mouth like a sailor, and ink of all sorts in her studio. She can weigh as much as a man, though her weight fluctuates, give or take 10lbs. She drives a Subaru Outback, can pour her body into not-so-baggy jeans, and squeezes in time for art-making when she can. A recurring exploration in Kirstin's art: The shape of the body as it relates to the space it is in. Recently, she has been experimenting with adding color to her usually black & white pieces.
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Mike is a hip and groovy pen slingin' millenial with a heart of gold (but mostly membrane and blood) currently living and working out of the Central Coast. With a love for line quality, character work, and a drive to express and give form to the intangibles within us, Mike has found art as his favorite vehicle to say what words cannot. He also finds that he sounds pretentious when he talks about art, especially in the third person, and for that he would like to apologize.
You can find him wherever you find cats, or wherever his car last broke down.
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Neal Breton is an American actor, film director, producer, race car driver, entrepreneur, activist, and philanthropist. He won and was nominated for numerous awards, winning an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 film The Color of Money.
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Sara Lane (Sara LeGrady) was born in Nebraska and moved to California when she was 11. Obsessed with art and painting since birth, she knew she was on her way to becoming an artist. After studying Art and Design at Cal Poly from 2004 - 2008, she graduated and refused to leave San Luis Obispo. She began to work as a local artist at Trader Joe’s and has since become known as an “on call” painter creating custom art for many wineries and clients on the Central Coast. She met her musical husband through their love for art and each of them have worked on multiple collaborations together as well.
She also creates her own personal art which has shown at multiple venues such as Linnaea’s, Tigerlily, Foremost, The ARTery and is currently on display at Hug Cellars in Paso Robles. These pieces represent the freedom to express ourselves and our unique spirits through the use of vibrant color, contrasting lines and emotion weaved together as a celebration of natural human rights. She reflects a woman‘s vulnerabilities and strengths to create a form that embodies the inner beauty of every woman.
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My art is nothing more than an expulsion of self. Raw, unedited, profane, selfish. All my ego spread like butter across the paper.
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Zachary Benson Friedberg creates vibrant pop and surreal artwork that explores themes related to multi-dimensionality, trans-dimensionality, popular culture, and leisure. His acrylic on canvas paintings are most notable for their attention grabbing use of highly opaque fluorescent and metallic paints applied with print like precision and pigments made of elements that do not exist in this dimension–effectively rendering these elements invisible to everyone except beings occupying the 7th dimension. Zachary’s artwork can be seen on international touring musicians’ merchandise and in galleries throughout Southern California. He paints at his art studio located in Santa Ana, California, though he regularly travels to higher dimensions for inspiration, enlightenment, and to perform with his metal band, Morbid Eclipse.
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Los Angeles artist that is inspired by Retro vintage Americana, classic 1930’s cartoons, and also Mexican culture.
Rick has been doodling far back before he can remember, mostly things that would get him into trouble, and mainly on the walls of his house. Went to Riverside Community College in Riverside CA for Animation. Only trying art as a profession since 2016. Now he’s been painting his life away to create as much work as he can.
Petrina Mina, also known as "Petri" is a professional painter from CSULB and Ryman Arts. Her artworks range from watercolor pet portraits, acrylic 4”x4” doodle paintings, figure drawing studies, occasional sculpting and resin casting and mixed media encaustics. Petrina currently interns as a set and prop painter for a stop motion animation studio. On weekends, she's a teaching assistant for Ryman Arts. When she’s not sleeping, she’s either drawing or painting. She has a dog named Atticus and a cat named Summer (they are best friends).