Art
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Art21 proudly presents an artist segment, featuring Barry McGee & Margaret Kilgallen, from the “Place” episode in Season 1 of the “Art in the Twenty-First Century” series. “Place” premiered in September 2001 on PBS. This segment follows Barry McGee and Margaret Kilgallen to the local train yards where the artists point out their favorite markings and leave some of their own, contributing to a graphic conversation that spans train cars across the nation.
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Stanley Donwood, alongside Thom Yorke, has designed the artwork for every single Radiohead album since The Bends. A wild seascape, a distant island, a full moon. Gradually the island grows nearer until we land on a primeval wilderness, rich in vegetation and huge, strange beasts. Time passes and things do not go well for the island. Civilization rises as towers of stone and metal and smoke, choking the undergrowth and the creatures who once moved through it. This is not a happy story and it will not have a happy ending. Working in his distinctive, monochromatic lino-cut style, Stanley Donwood carves out a mesmerizing, stark parable on environmentalism and the history of humankind.
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No one fits the personality of a Dr. Seuss character quite like our friend Jack does. Living in the legendary Hobbit House in Newport Beach, he splits his time between going on surf trips, running operations for 88 Surfboards in the U.S. and capturing surf footage on Super 8. Tune in as he gives us a glimpse of life in Newport Beach and the path that led him to create films that push the boundaries of traditional surfing. Known for films such as The Zone, Groove Move and Secret Sound Underground, Jack Coleman is the purest representation of our “surf everything ride anything” mentality. He zigs when most people zag, and that’s exactly why we love him.
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‘This Film was constructed from mostly my personal archival footage. Contributing camera operator credits go to; me, my kids, my wife, my friends, mates, pals, random peeps, extended family & calver film crew. The Film was backed by Film Australia, Dogwolf, Trasmission, Madman, a few Private Investors and obviously mostly by me “THE LISTERS” — considering I literally provided 92% of the entire content. HAVE YOU SEEN THE LISTER was edited by Director: Eddie Martin. For the few months that the Film was “in production” i told Eddie that I didn’t care what he wanted to make and for him to just do his thing. As a Filmmaker, Eddie is an artist in his own right. I consciously did not attempt to influence, direct or control the narrative or Eddie’s impression of me or my footage whatsoever. Personally, I would’ve made a different Film. Over the past 3 decades I have accumulated literally hundreds of hours of filming, so really, with that amount of footage, the Film could’ve been chopped up and pieced back together in any number of patterns to ultimately make whatever narrative Eddie wanted. This movie was released in 2017 and was picked up by Netflix where it was viewable until a few years ago. Typically, i was deceived by the producers re contracts, lawyers, managers, hypers etc yadda yadda etc. “THE LISTERS” did not make any $ from this Film…so, like… —you’re welcome— . This is a pretty emotionally driven movie. It’s more about my family life than my art practice (just to let you know). Like I said; I would’ve made a different Film. Either way, despite everyone involved getting paid except for me and my family, it’s an honest documentary to be fair.’
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David Carson is arguably the world’s most well known graphic designer. All For a Few Good Waves is a short documentary portrait offering a raw glimpse into the life and work of David, an uncompromising genius, who refuses to be anyone but himself.After a career as a top ranked pro surfer and high school sociology teacher, he rose to prominence in the 90’s after art directing Transworld, Beach Culture and Ray Gun Magazines before going on to start his studio. With no formal design training, Carson took the design world by storm, upending conventions and breaking traditional rules he didn’t even know existed.
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LITTLE RATS is a short film following ‘XXXX’ a South American graffiti writer, during his time traveling in Europe. ‘XXXX’ ruminates on the risks and rewards of his chosen lifestyle as we follow him underground on a tense mission to paint a metro.
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Lucas, formerly known as the notorious street artist Hanksy, made a name for himself by reproducing pop culture figures into parodic public art memes. His most famous one involves Banksy’s signature rat stencil with Tom Hanks’ face emblazoned on its head. One of his more recent victims includes President Donald Trump in which the artwork portrays the iPhone’s poop emoji embellished with Trump’s face which he dubs Dump Trump. After nearly seven years of producing viral street art as Hanksy, Lucas wants to rebrand himself as an artist by using his real name. This pivotal transition in his career coincided with his first showing as Adam Lucas in an exhibit titled, “Some Grow Up, Others Grow Down.”
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Thomas is a self-taught painter, sculpture, photographer, and filmmaker who splits his time between his stuff making studio in Bonny Doon, CA and traversing the globe making films. His artworks combine scribbles and scriptures, taking slogans and anecdotes from his unique vocabulary and juxtaposing them with a profound look at human nature. His movement-oriented paintings are as layered with meaning as they are with paint. The works, typically composed of several panels, are free-flowing with wide expressionist swipes of color, bold graphics and intricate renderings of characters and text. His photographs mimic the intensity of the paintings, yet in a more abstract fashion. Campbell has mounted solo exhibitions in New York, Paris, Tokyo, Denmark, The Netherlands, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Morocco. In 1999, he completed his first feature length surfing film, The Seedling, and in 2004 released his second, Sprout and his third “The Present” in the spring of 2009. Thomas is also part owner and creative director for a small, independent record label based in Santa Cruz, CA, Galaxia, which has released records by contemporary artists such as Tommy Guerrero, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Peggy Honeywell and The Black Heart Procession. Galaxia was established in 1993. In 2013 Campbell started an new creative platform called UM YEAH ARTS which is a nexus for the making of books and music.
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Monster Children visited Kelsey Brookes at his studio in Southern California as he prepped for his solo show opening in Detroit this week, to talk about his new collection with RVCA and tenure with the Artist Network Program. When asked of his inspiration and what his new collection, “Position” represents, Brookes’ responded noting all the beautiful intricacies our world has to offer and finished explaining his process, adding that his work is “just about celebrating that we’re all alive”. Get a glimpse into the working mind of Kelsey Brookes.
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The latest installment of Table Talk features innovative street skater turned artist Chad Muska catching up with our host and skate legend Chris Pastras as they discuss his transition from one of the most innovative skateboarders of all time to artist.
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Carved in Mayhem is the poetic depiction of one man’s unique journey. It is the picture when the forces of nature that surround one, collide with an opposing resistance of the human spirit.Johnny Bang Reilly is a man on a journey. Like many of us, he is on a search for peace and truth, however his path to this point is what sets him apart. His life has arched from receiving abuse to giving forgiveness, incarceration to liberation, hate to gratitude: trading in a sealed fate for an accidental destiny.
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‘Sky News asked me for an interview. I agreed on the condition that I provide a distorted sound bite. Using a friend’s voice, I took the opportunity to get some ridiculous sounding audio onto Sky News. Unfortunately they cut out the more absurd parts, however what was left still sounded pretty odd. Big up Sky News.’
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