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Public Reception
June 03, 2017
Exhibition Dates
June 03, 2017 - July 15, 2017
Michael C. Hsiung
On Sid Who Lives in the Mushroom Mountain Cove, 2016
Pen and Ink on Paper
9 x 12 inches
SOLD
Sterling Bartlett
Palm Portrait, 2017
Acrylic on Watercolor Paper Mounted to Birch Panel
16 x 20 inches
SOLD
Luke Ramsey
Think Too Much, 2017
Ink on Paper
12 x 10 inches
SOLD
Ben Venom
Open Wide, 2015
Handmade Quilt with Recycled Fabric
31 x 41 inches
SOLD
DabsMyla
These Are The Days, 2016
Acrylic on Wood
36 x 48 inches
$9,500
POSE
Frizz 2, 2017
Acrylic, Spray Paint, and Paper on Claybord Panel
36 x 48 inches
$12,000
Mark Drew
Young World (Slick Rick), 2017
Acrylic on Canvas
35.5 x 35.5 inches
SOLD
Nil Ultra
Tighter Than Dick's Hatband, 2017
Collage
17 x 13.5 inches
$800
Jason Filipow
Life Crisis, 2017
Spray Paint on Canvas
36 x 30 inches
$1,200
Curtis Kulig
Rumors, 2017
Acrylic on Canvas
30 x 40 inches
$8,000
Cody Hudson
Happens All The Time (Whatever You Want From Me), 2017
Acrylic on Linen
18 x 24 inches
$2,400
Ravi Zupa
I Wish, 2017
Mixed Media on Wood
30 x 36 inches
SOLD
Ben Hordon
Out Of The Blue, 2017
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Wood Panel
48 x 48 inches
$3,500
Jason Pulgarin
Love Me Now, Or Never, 2017
Spray Paint and Silk Screen on Wood Panel
23 x 29 inches
$2,500
Chris Pastras
Lady Liberty, 2007
Acrylic, Oil Pen, and Marker on Wood
24 x 36 inches
$1,800
Kevin Earl Taylor
Eminent Domain, 2016
Oil, Enamel, and Serigraph on Panel
24 x 24 inches
$4,800
Jim Houser
Trying and Trying, 2016
Assemblage on Panel
24 x 24 x 5 inches
$3,500
David Aron
Volitional Formations, 2008
Acrylic on Canvas
24 x 24 inches
$1,200
Clint Peterson
Eye in the Sky, 2017
Acrylic on Wood
22 x 26 inches
SOLD
Mel Kadel
Out Crowd, 2015
Pen and Ink on Paper
16.5 x 15 inches
SOLD
Aesthetic Apparatus
Don't Print That, 2017
Monoprint
17 x 21 inches
$250
Skullphone
Digital Grande, 2010
Screenprint on Collage
31 x 41 inches
SOLD
Monica Canilo
Chemisette, 2015
Mixed Media
21 x 39 inches
$3,200
Casey Ryder
Untitled, 2017
Acrylic on Wood
6 x 6 inches
SOLD
Tim Biskup
The Dog #10, 2016
Graphite, Construction Paper, and Acrylic on Plywood
49 x 25 inches
$8,000
Florencio Zavala
Listen to Your Mother, 2017
Archival Digital Print
21 x 29.5 inches
SOLD
Justin Krietemeyer
Rainbow Smiley, 2015
Watercolor, Gouache, Dye, Ink, and Graphite on Archival Watercolor Paper
44.5 x 44.5 inches
SOLD
Matt Goldman
For Ever and Ever, 2017
Screenprint
28 x 36 inches
$450
Jeff Ho
POP, 2015
Acrylic on Canvas
12 x 12 inches
SOLD
Jeff Ho
The Zephyr Supernal Craft, 1994
$16,800
Glen E. Friedman
Jay Adams, 1976
Silver Gelatin Print
11 x 14 inches ($2,250)
16 x 20 inches ($7,800)
30 x 40 inches ($13,000)
Andy Jenkins
Injured Mandala, 2017
Mixed Media on Wood
24 x 24 inches
$2,200
Michael Sieben
Shelf No. 3, 2016
Mixed Media
21 x 29.5 inches
$1,000
Andres Gurrerro
A Cultural Experience, 2017
Gouache, Geso, and Serape Fringe
20 x 20 inches
$1,300
Nathan Bell
Unfollow The Leader, 2017
Acrylic on Coroplast
16 x 16 inches
Seonna Hong
Wonder Twin, 2015
Acrylic on Canvas
24 x 24 inches
$6,000
Deedee Cheriel
Permanent Dream Sojourning, 2017
Mixed Media on Wood
46 x 36 inches
Russ Pope
Ocean Through Car Window, 2017
Acrylic on Stretched Canvas
40 x 30 inches
$2,500
Tristan Eaton
The Fool That Follows, 2016
Archival Gyclee Print, AP
28 x 29 inches
SOLD
Tristan Eaton
The Monster Within, 2016
Archival Gyclee Print, AP
28 x 29 inches
SOLD
Nicholas Bowers
These Things Weigh Heavy, 2017
Mixed Media
28 x 42 inches
$3,250
Scott Albrecht
Companions, 2017
Acrylic on Wood
10.5 x 5.75 inches
$1,400
Shepard Fairey
Star Gear, 2017
Stencil and Mixed Media Collage on paper
19.5 x 20.5 inches
SOLD
Travis Millard
All the Things, 2014
Ink on Archival Paper
20 x 15.5 inches
SOLD
Todd Francis
Vacation Home, 2010
Waterproof Ink and Watercolor on Paper
22 x 30 inches
$3,000
Kai & Sunny
Beyond the Wave, 2017
Ballpoint pen original on 100% cotton sommerset 410gsm
46.5 x 46.5 inches
SOLD
Steve Keene
Husker Du, Candy Apple Grey, 2016
Acrylic on Plywood, HPM
24 x 24 inches
SOLD
Ernesto Yerena
Indigenous Roots Denied... No More, 2017
Stencil, Spray Paint, and Collage on Wood Panel, HPM
Collaboration with Arlene Mejorado
18 x 24 inches
$850
Umar Rashid / Frohawk Two Feathers
Scene from the Battle of Ain Jalut, 2017
Acrylic on Wood
11 x 14 inches
$2,000
Frohawk Two Feathers
Sexo, Muerte, Oro, Y Comida, 2017
Acrylic on Wood
Ed. 1/10
15 x 15 inches
SOLD
Winston Tseng
American Camo, 2017
Pigment Ink on Cotton Twill Fabric
35 x 35 inches
SOLD
Tim Armstrong
...And Out Come The Wolves, Side A, 2017
Mixed Media
24 x 24 inches
$2,750
The London Police
Minions Guarding a 12 Headed Lad, 2017
Acrylic and Ink on Brussels Linen
31 x 31 inches
$4,400
Albert Reyes
Untitled
House Paint on Wood
24 x 34.5 inches
$1,000
Francisco Reyes Jr.
Santa Muerte, 2017
Neon Sculpture
Ed. 2/3
45 x 24 inches
$4,000
Thomas Campbell
Snake, 2014
Bronze
Ed. 3 of 6
15 x 27 x 6 inches
$14,000
Adam Wallacavage
Jewel Throne, Homage To Axel Stocks, 2017
Lamp Parts, Epoxy Clay, Epoxy Resin, Sea Shells, Glass Beads, Spray Paint, Wood, and Iridescent Powder
26 x 21 x 12 inches
$3,250
Lucien Shapiro
Quartz Mallet, 2017
Quartz, Cone Studs, Resin, Glue, Wood, and Love
27 x 12 x 4 inches
$1,200
Lucian Shapiro
Black Lion Club, 2016
Resin, Iron, Punker Studs, and Wood
24 x 4 x 3 inches
$750
Lucian Shapiro
Mineral and Tar Bar, 2017
Punker Studs, Resin, Amethyst, Mica, Quartz, and Selenite
20 x 6 x 5 inches
$700
“The driving principle of Subliminal Projects is that art should be accessible to everyone and that art can come from many different perspectives and cultural niches. Good art is good art, whether it’s done on an album cover, a skateboard, canvas, or found cardboard.” – Shepard Fairey
Echo Park- Subliminal Projects is proud to present Twenty-One. Subliminal Projects enters its 21st year celebrating with a large-scale salon style group show. The exhibition will feature mixed media works from over 50 artists, as well as past print and product collaborations that defined Subliminal’s beginnings as an artist collective.
In the mid to late 90’s the breadth of skateboarding had unreservedly evolved from a singular focus on skateboarding as a sport to an all-encompassing creative culture, in which art played an integral role. Inspired by the rise of the many key artists who made a profound but little-recognized impact on skateboard culture, Shepard Fairey, Blaze Blouin and Alfred Hawkins created a skateboard and apparel company, that they coined Subliminal, highlighting collaborations with those artists.
“We chose the name Subliminal because art was a crucial part of skateboard culture but was never highlighted as the focus,” said Shepard Fairey. “We looked at the name as an acknowledgment of that and a bit of a way of identifying ourselves as underdogs.”
In addition to collaborating with artists on product-based works, Subliminal began producing fine art prints, shedding new light on skateboard and t-shirt graphics as a valid form of fine art. Tapping into the artist network exhibiting at Aaron Rose’s Alleged Gallery in New York, Subliminal produced print collaborations with artists including Thomas Campbell, Mike Mills, David Aron and Andre Razo creating an intersection between skateboard art culture and the contemporary art gallery domain. In the following years, recognition of these artists continued to grow and gain notoriety by both mainstream and commercial art institutions, most notably in the Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture exhibit, curated by Aaron Rose in 2005. The exhibit toured museums around the US and Europe and was an important milestone that recognized the importance of this group of artists that Subliminal helped champion ten years prior.
While curating exhibitions was not always the main focus of Subliminal, it has been an essential part of its narrative. The first exhibit curated under the Subliminal name was in late December of 1995, at a deli in South Carolina. Eventually Subliminal found a physical home in Los Angeles in 2003, sharing a space with Fairey’s creative agency office, Studio Number One, located in the historic building of The Wiltern Theater. With resources available to produce exhibitions, the re-named Subliminal Projects continued to define its mission of bridging the gap between the fine art world and subculture artists that merit a forum to show their work, congregate, and have a good time.
Now in Echo Park, Subliminal Projects identifies as an extension of its primary philosophy, while embracing new forms of graphic art, illustration, photography, and time-based media. The perennial schedule includes art exhibitions by established and emerging artists, as well as pop-up collaborations, a lecture series, workshops and artist publications.
Twenty-One seeks to evoke the types of DIY style shows, which were the bedrock of Subliminal’s early exhibitions, showcasing the artists that are fundamental to the gallery’s past, present, and future.
This exhibition was made possible with the support of OBEY Clothing.
CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS
Aaron Rose, Adam Wallacavage, Aesthetic Apparatus, Albert Reyes, Andres Guerrero, Andrew Holder, Andy Jenkins, Ben Horton, Ben Venom, Casey Ryder, Chris Pastras, Claire & Jeremy Weiss, Clint Peterson, Cody Hudson, Curtis Kulig, DabsMyla, David Aron, Deedee Cheriel, Dennis Morris, Ed Templeton, Ernesto Yerena, Evan Hecox, Florencio Zavala, Francisco Reyes Jr., Glen E. Friedman, Jason Filipow, Jason Pulgarin, Jeff Ho, Jim Houser, Jon Furlong, Justin Krietemeyer, Kai & Sunny, Lucien Shapiro, Luke Ramsey, Mark Drew, Mark Gonzales, Matt Goldman, Mel Kadel, Michael C. Hsiung, Michael Sieben, Monica Canilo, Nathan Bell, Nicholas Bowers, Nil Ultra, POSE, Ravi Zupa, Russ Pope, Scott Albrecht, Seonna Hong, Shepard Fairey, Skullphone, Space Invader, Sterling Bartlett, Steve Harrington, Steve Keene, The Cobrasnake, The London Police, Thomas Campbell, Tim Armstrong, Tim Biskup, Todd Francis, Travis Millard, Tristan Eaton, Umar Rashid (Frohawk Two Feathers), Winston Tseng, and more.
SUBLIMINAL PROJECTS is a multifunctional gallery space promoting diverse forms of art while providing a forum for contemporary dialogue. It was established by Shepard Fairey and Blaize Blouin in 1995 and played an integral part in introducing skateboarding culture and design to the art world. Now located in the historic neighborhood of Echo Park, SUBLIMINAL PROJECTS continues to offer a platform for artistic exploration and innovation. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday from 12 to 6 pm.
OBEY CLOTHING is a lifestyle apparel brand developed in 2001 by artist Shepard Fairey. Built off of heritage fundamentals from military design, skateboarding, music and cultural movements, OBEY Clothing weaves a story of experience and appreciation for those that came before and those that stand out with originality today. OBEY celebrates the disenfranchised and the brave, the people that think and express themselves uniquely and aren’t afraid to do something different It’s about experience and observation.
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Exhibiting Artists
Aaron Rose
Adam Wallacavage
Aesthetic Apparatus
Albert Reyes
Andres Guerrero
Andrew Holder
Andy Jenkins
Ben Horton
Ben Venom
Casey Ryder
Chris Pastras
Claire Weiss
Clint Peterson
Cody Hudson
Curtis Kulig
DabsMyla
David Aron
Deedee Cheriel
Dennis Morris
Ed Templeton
Ernesto Yerena
Evan Hecox
Florencio Zavala
Francisco Reyes Jr.
Frohawk Two Feathers
Glen E. Friedman
Jason Filipow
Jason Pulgarin
Jeff Ho
Jeremy Weiss
Jim Houser
Jon Furlong
Justin Krietemeyer
Kai & Sunny
Lucien Shapiro
Luke Ramsey
Mark Drew
Mark Gonzales
Matt Goldman
Mel Kadel
Michael C. Hsiung
Michael Sieben
Monica Canilao
Nathan Bell
Nicholas Bowers
Nil Ultra
POSE
Ravi Zupa
Russ Pope
Scott Albrecht
Seonna Hong
Shepard Fairey
Skullphone
Space Invader
Sterling Bartlett
Steve Keene
Steven Harrington
The Cobrasnake
The London Police
Thomas Campbell
Tim Armstrong
Tim Biskup
Todd Francis
Travis Millard
Tristan Eaton
Winston Tseng