Nuit Blanche
September 24th 7-11pm
The Nuit Blanche "INTERNATIONAL BLOCK PARTY" on I ST
Join ART WHINO and URBAN ARTISTRY along with
artists from around the world for a collaboration of live art, dance and music
during this year's ART ALL NIGHT DC www.artallnightdc.com
Beginning at 7:00pm on Saturday 9/24/2011 this
creative city street will transform into a live production featuring seasoned
artist www.scotty76.de
on one side parallel to an impressive list of both local and international
artists sponsored by www.artwhino.com
Scattered along I street between the spectrum
of international visual artists and graffiti writers that will line the sidewalk
that evening, performers from Urban Artistry along with students, local dance
crews and other movement specialists will cypher the night away to the funky,
soulful sounds played by a local favorite, DJ Baronhawk Poitier http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/DJBaronhawk
Travel for Scotty76 has been made possible
with generous sponsorship from The Goethe Institute in Washington, DC www.goethe.de/ins/us/was/, please visit their site for the full list of programs
Scotty will participate in during his stay.
Artist materials have been provided by PLAZA
ARTIST SUPPLIES www.plazaart.com
and International Soul Society Festival 2011 www.internationalsoulsociety.com.
For more information on this collaboration and
other events during DC's first ever Nuit Blanche visit www.artallnightdc.com or like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/artallnightdc
Art Whino will be showcasing 8 artists. Each artist will be painting large scale installations live ranging from 10 to 20 Feet in length. Along with the installation each artists will be exhibiting original artwork.
Art Whino Participating Artists :
Blaze One
Eric B. AKA Viceversa
Gregg Deal
HKS181
Jazirock
Lightup
Pore
About the Nuit
Blanche
Art All Night: Nuit Blanche DC is
debuting this year in the Chinatown/Gallery Place and Shaw neighborhoods. The
festival is being organized by a passionate group of volunteers, all driven by
the idea of a one night arts festival that is inclusive and free, highlights
both downtown and a local neighborhood, and features collaborative cultural
programming in a variety of art forms.Art All Night DC was founded by Ariana Austin and is being curated by a diverse list of cultural partners. The festival is presented by Shaw Main Streets, Inc., the commercial revitalization and historic preservation organization serving the Shaw neighborhood, immediately north of Chinatown/Gallery Place.
For more information visit : http://www.artallnightdc.com
About Urban
Artistry
Urban Artistry consists of dancers,
musicians, and historians who are also, economists, audio/visual technicians,
anthropologists, logisticians, writers, graphic designers, communications
experts, IT and entertainment specialists- who have all matured through their
education in urban arts culture. We are guided by the origins of the drum, the
energy of the underground dance movement and the art that documents our
experiences.Blaze
One
I
grew up in Washington DC. As a young child I rode The train back home from
school. Seeing the art that was painted on the side of the metro tracks always
was the best part of my day. The art spoke to me. I tried to imitate that art,
and attracted the attention of some of the experts. I was even complemented by
several police officers. While I was in high school, I worked for a community
group asked to design a mural for a metro station. It was exciting to see that
everyone loved the work, and I was even featured on the news. Since then it has
been exciting to do art shows, signs, graphic design, and outdoor murals. In the
future I plan to paint murals outside of the United States.Eric B. AKA
Viceversa
Originally
from Monrovia, Liberia West Africa, Eric B has been residing in the United
States with his family as a political refugee since 1990. He completed high
school at Quince Orchard High where he was first introduced to his first love,
traditional film photography. After graduating from high school, he briefly
pursued photography at Montgomery College.During the 90’s Hip Hop culture Blooming in the DMV which was underscored with the “Aerosol Street Art Scene”. Eric was drawn in and immersed into the scene and committed to a life pursuit of this culture. Later his interest expanded as he explored many other forms of creative self expressions in traditional painting (acrylic and oils), collage, sculpture, fashion design, book making, interior design and remodeling.
Seeing himself as a life long student to the many disciplines of creative expression, the arts has been the focal interest which has lead him to a path of spiritual awareness and self enlightenment. Witnessing the destructive side of mankind and being a child survivor of war, Eric B uses art as a medium for hope, change and love.
“Art is the thread unique to the human animal that binds and heals mankind of it’s diseases of hate and the illusion of alienation that we are born into.” Eric B.
Gregg
Deal
Gregg
Deal, 36 years old, and a 12 year resident of the Washington DC Metro area is
emerging in the area as a prolific, technical and imaginative artist. Time as a
young man immersed in graffiti and street art throughout the 90‘s, eventually
Gregg was trained in traditional fine arts, specifically oil and drawing as well
as graphic design. With A few minor shows on the East Coast just out of college,
and a mentorship with performance artist James Luna and a trip to the Venice
Biennale he is reemerging as a force marrying graffiti/street art, his fine art
training, and professional experience in graphic design. Working primarily with
acrylic based spray paint, Gregg works in various subjects such as portraiture,
animals, typographical letters, and original characters using commentary that
are both narrative and social. Heavily informed by the world he lives in, his
work takes on a roll of irony, humor, drama and social
commentary.HKS181
HKS181
was born during the height of the Civil War in Central America, thru trials and
tribulations he found himself first in the D.C. Metropolitan Area and then later
trickling down to the suburbs of Northern Virginia. An Artist from the early age
of 5, art as he knew it would take a slight curve upon seeing the writings on
the walls of Washington D.C. and the surrounding areas, he caught the bug and
it's still circulating thru is body. Doing both local and national shows he
keeps pushing himself both with a pen and paper as well as with a spraycan to
create not only works of art but his own fingerprint in the
world.Lightup
Whither
he went, or who went with him, it is impossible to say. But I myself believe
that his godmother took him on his traveling-cloak to the Beautiful Mountains.
What he did there, or where he is now, who can tell? I cannot. But one thing I
am quite sure of, that, wherever he is, he is perfectly happy. And so, when I
think of him, am I.Jazirock
Kevin
Irvin (AKA) Jazi Rock was born in 1972 in the impoverished neighborhoods of west
Baltimore. Being raised by only his mother, Kevin turned to the streets to be
his father, his acceptance, and his comfort zone. As a boy Kevin searched for an
identity and struggled to express his souls frustrations with the world around
him, like many others in his neighborhood. While others turned to drugs and
crime, Kevin discovered the the book that forever changed his life. At the ripe
age of 12 Kevin was infected by the graffiti bug when he saw a copy of Martha
Coopers infamous book, "Subway Art" circulate around his neighborhood. With all
the money he had been saving he bought ONLY the front cover to this book for 15
dollars and began to sketch away and adopted the nome de guerre, "JAZI ROCK". At
12 Jazi was able to produce such intricate sketches and displayed a
precociousness in graffiti that an older writer by the name of "KORUPT" took
Jazi under his wing. Korupt taught Jazi everything he knew from hand styles to
outlines to fills to caps to proportion. Jazi started to rise in the ranks and
his workd began to show up all over west baltimore from burners on trains, bombs
throughout the city and tags. Before puberty hit, Jazi was already doing large
scale graffiti pieces with complex color sequencing while standing on two milk
crates because he wasn't tall enough to reach the top of his work. His work was
not only larger than life but literally, larger than he
was.Pore
Pore,
Born in Silver spring, MD, raised in Montgomery county, and now live in Fairfax
county.Been an artist since I popped out of my mom. I find beauty in all art so
I have not ever been judgmental of styles or other artists. I enjoy working with
any artist who has a good head on their shoulders and loves to create. I don't
no where art will take me in life and i don't really care as long as i create i
am whole.Scotty76
Scotty's
interest in painting and for art in general started in his youth, but it was at
age 12 when he and his family moved to Heidelberg, Germany and settled into the
nearest high-rise estate Emmertsgrund that he began to tag, MC and bboy. From
there he traveled to Jams such as Freestyle Session and International Battle of
the Year competing with his crew The Southside Rockers in some of the most well
respected breakdancing competitions in the world. As a dancer he has performed
and toured with artists from the Black Eyed Peas to KRS ONE. As a visual artist
Scotty76 pieces can be found from Heidelberg to Hong Kong with his crew "The
Phunk Masters," which were known far beyond national borders for their style.
His artwork adorns retail shops, clothing lines, graffiti books and album covers
from Tattowierungen as the zBvon Rapqueen Cora E to Massive Attack. One of his
greatest works in 2009 was an 8 x 3 m large mural that he painted at the Playboy
mansion for Hugh Heffner. He is also well known for designing urban wear dating back to 1995 when he painted his first T-shirt under the motto "The World is Yours." Since then he has designed for labels such as Aero Soul, El Presidente, Artistik World, the ADIDAS "End to End" collection and the U.S. designer label Fj560. He recently launched his highly anticiapted line Artyllerie, which hit stores throughout Europe in March 2011.
Check out more from Scotty76, the bboy, the writer, the MC at SCOTTYS WORLD the VD documentary about his life as an artist or visit his website at www.scotty76.de
