Double Vision exhibit up through July 1st

Thank you to everyone who came out on Friday. If you missed it, you should definitely stop by before July 1st to take a look in person. Here EGO and Sara put together a video overview of the show...



Presenting 8 Seattle urban contemporary artists doing a unique interpretation of another artists piece. All will be hung side by side with the initial work. Featuring work by 179, Amy Huddleston, *EGO, John Osgood, NKO, Parskid, Solace, and Wade Liostro.

*Double Vision is curated by EGO.

Bherd Studios Gallery is open Wed - Friday from noon-6pm and upon request by calling (206) 234-8348.

1st Thursday Photo Recap: Deli, Flatcolor & Electric Coffin

Another 1st Thursday in Pioneer Square officially in the books. Last nights shows were awesome and fun. We first started at Deli for the "Blank Canvas" Manik custom deck show, moved down to Flatcolor Gallery, and then over to the Electric Coffin for the Boxes of Death #2 show. Now lets get into the details...








Sensei 23 out does himself again with a fantastic samari kick flip. Nicework K-dizzle! You keep on represent'in!







179 hold down the fort as always with another gem within these 256 square inches of skatedeck.




















Zach Bohnenkamp gray hawk attacks a wood grain/ pink mist/ lavander sky.







Solace and his "Shit Board".
(Folks I do not make this up. This is what he was calling it last night.)




























Matamuros & their ladies, (Two Thirds of Team Seattle Mural Art) right here!












Deli was packed last night! You were definitely doing the bumping into one another thing in there.






CASH dropping some knowledge advising the public that to be a real man you must have a chest tat.
























Some of the work that was hanging at Flatcolor for "Sidekicks & Henchmen #2".













Some more work at Flatcolor. (Augie Pagan far left, PGee middle piece.)















Now who wears sharp looking shoes like this?
( Person with correct answer to this questions wins!)





















This was one of the pieces in the main portion of the Flatcolor gallery. Very chunky oils. These are the types of paintings I want to run my fingers arcoss. (But don't!)




















Joey Nix piece at the Electric Coffin Boxes of Death #2 show was a functional piece.
(It held his booze.)

















Weirdo and Joe McSween.







Solace.







Parskid and John Osgood
















PaperMarbleS and Cris Cook




("Winning"- Charlie Sheen)















Solace and Pal.

Electric Coffin Presents "Boxes of Death 2", Thurs. March 3rd

Our friend Duffy at Electric Coffin is presenting the 2nd annual "Boxes of Death" featuring over 50 urban artists on March 3rd from 6-10pm during the 1st Thursday artwalk.

He has outdone himself with a stellar line-up of Seattle urban art faves including: Barry Sevig, Billy Duong, W3 Collective, Brennan Coyle, Carlos Aguilar, Cris Cook, Chris Hunter, Christina Burtner, Corey Urlacher, David Enriquez, Davin Spridgen, Duffy, Dorik Downing, Faustein, Ian Duca, Japhy Witte, Xavier Lopez, Weirdo, Jen Vertz, Jesse Link, Akak, Joey Nix, John Osgood, Jordan Kay, Jose Rodriguez III, Kenji, Kevin Walsh, Paper Marbles, Lawrence Ruelos, Lem Bartley, Mat Savage, Matt Spinney, Nick Beery, Nick Russian, Nikolas Bryant, Parskid, Quincy Quigg, Ryan Davis, Solace, Scott Fuller, Shawn Bishop, Stacey Rozich, Stefan Hofmann, Tim Karpinski, Urban Soule, and Jamie Lynn, Eric Purdy, Carolina Enriquez, and Joe McSween, Michael Chandler and Molly Haas.

You won't want to miss out on this darkly fun show!!

Boxes of Death 2
March 3rd, 2011
6-10 PM
Electric Coffin//The Piranha Shop
1022 1st Ave
Seattle, WA

1st Thursday: Deli Gallery + Bumbershoot: Pecha Kucha, Portrait Challenge & Street Biennale

The beginning of September is chock full of visual delights! We hope you'll make this a stop on your 1st Thursday artwalk schedule...



Zach Bohnenkamp & Sensei 23 of Matamuros + John Osgood of Bherd = a DELIcious exhibit of colorful urban art. The three of them are collaborating on a install piece that they will be unveiling for the show. Also, if you haven't been by lately, Deli in Pioneer Square is now a full on art gallery, their clothing store is up on 1st across from the Seattle Art Museum. So be sure to stop by and check out the new layout!



Don't forget, Bumbershoot is not just about the music, make sure to check out these 3 great visual feasts for the eyes!



Pecha Kucha: "Evil Schemes/Evil Deeds"
Audience: literary & visual arts
Area: Leo K Theatre

Pecha Kucha began in 2003 in Tokyo as a way for young designers to network and showcase their work. Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of "chit chat," it consists of a simple presentation structure: 20 images x 20 seconds each. Six artists from different disciplines will follow this format centered on the theme "Evil Schemes/Evil Deeds," with the artists talking about each slide as it is displayed. Presenters include painter and independent curator Chris Crites, photographic-based artist and curator Nichole DeMent, figurative oil painter Chris Sheridan, performance artist Ilvs Strauss, multimedia artist and poet Nico Vassilakis, and urban contemporary painter John Osgood.





Portrait Challenge
Curated by Ryan Molenkamp
NW Rooms

One page, one picture of a notable model, six empty boxes and a challenge to draw the model. This is the essence of the Portrait Challenge, started in 2002 by artist and security chief at the Frye Art Museum, Ryan Molenkamp. Bumbershoot attendees will have the opportunity to draw their unique interpretation, realistic rendering, insightful caricatures, or just silly pictures and conceptual musings of the model, or opt to participate as the model and see how other people render their portrait.





Location: NW Rooms

Seattle Street Biennale 2010 is a selection of Seattle's most respected street talent, featuring large site-specific works by Katsu, Aerub, Ego, Angel179, Baldman Watching, and Joey Nix, plus other local artists will contribute smaller pieces, making this an installation that takes viewers on a visual experience that is confusing and beautiful. Reflecting the vast subculture known as street art, the methods employed span from spray paint to wheat paste.

Free Art Friday Is Finally Back at Bherd Studios!

Tomorrow we're bringing FAF back to Bherd Studios. If you missed out on our last installments, what we do is give away free art. Yes, you heard correctly FREE ART. Stop by our gallery on Friday, Aug 6th from noon - 6pm and receive a free limited edition, signed & numbered John Osgood / CASH collab print. These prints were screen printed by hand by the artists. Please note this is only while supplies last (there are 17 of them). Follow us on twitter ( www.twitter.com/bherdstudios ) to find out the progress of the giveaway.

John Osgood & CASH are doing this to promote their collaborative exhibition called "John y CASH" that will take place on Thursday, August 12th from 6-9pm at the Twilight Artists Collective in West Seattle.


Looking forward to seeing you!

Bherd Studios Gallery
@ The Greenwood Collective
8537 Greenwood Ave N Suite 1
Seattle, WA 98103
http://www.bherdstudios.com/

PimpArtworks Limited Editions goes Live‏

PimpArtworks, a London-based Urban & Street Art on-line gallery, are proud to announce the launch of their new Signed & Numbered, Limited Edition prints section.

This new section will be ran side by side to the site’s Open Submission art community and showcases exclusive works by Street Artist’s from around the world. Including a couple of pieces by our own, John Osgood of Bherd Studios.

Each large artwork is on average limited to 30 prints, supplied with a genuine certificate of authenticity and has been priced affordably.

About PimpArtworks:

PimpArtworks is a brand new community website dedicated to Graffiti Art, Urban Art, Street Photography Art and all other forms of Urban Artwork. They provide graffiti, street and urban artistic talents a global platform to sell their artworks online and get them exposure & recognition. Whether you are looking to buy graffiti art, browse street art, sell urban art, or simply be inspired by urban and street art then PimpArtworks is the place. It is their vision to cultivate a new breed of up and coming talents, as well as encouraging existing urban artists and urban photographers by creating a direct interaction between themselves and their appreciative audience.

Within the vibrant PimpArtworks community you'll find a mixture of traditional and digital art styles including street photography, graffiti art, stencil graffiti, guerrilla art and blackbook sketches, capsulated in each artist's very own digital art gallery.

To visit their website go to: www.pimpartworks.com

On the Radar for the Greenwood-Phinney 15th Annual Artwalk

The Greenwood-Phinney 15th Annual Artwalk is next week. Save the date for the big openings with over 60 venues in the neighborhood participating: Friday, May 14th from 6-9pm and Saturday, May 15th from noon-5pm.

Here's some show card teaser's...

W3AVE Urban Art Collab Events: April 29 & 30

S3A presents a two night/two neighborhood event called “W3AVE”, bringing together 18 Seattle urban artists for a live collaborative art session the first night, followed by an opening reception and auction the next night.

The live painting event on the first night will take place at the Henry Art Gallery for their “Open Floor” program on Thursday, April 29th from 7-9pm. The reception and auction for the finished collaborative pieces will take place on Friday, April 30th from 6-9pm at City Hostel Seattle in Belltown. Both events are free and open to the public.

The artist line-up includes: Ego, Stacey Rozich, Augie Pagan, Weirdo, Solace, John Osgood, Kevin “Sensei23” Sullivan, Zach Bohnenkamp, CASH, Ninjagrl, Joe Vollan, Mat Savage, PaperMarbleS, Jeremy Gregory, Justin Hillgrove, Mike Capp & Mike Gardner. The artists have been divided into six teams of three. Each artist will show up to the live event with a 12”x16” canvas that they have already started to work on. During the live event, they will swap their canvas with each of their team members and contribute to their canvases while the audience watches. By the end of the live event, each team will have three completed collaborative pieces to be auctioned off the following evening.

In addition, both events will include: DJ EMC and the Acid Unicorn dropping contemporary beats, cooking up an engaging blend of dance grooves and known and loved favorites - from yesterday, today and tomorrow.

LIVE EVENT:
Thursday, April 29, 2010
7:00 – 9:00pm

Henry Art Gallery
15th Ave NE & 41st St
Seattle, WA 98195


AUCTION:
Friday, April 30, 2010
6:00 – 9:00pm

City Hostel Seattle
2327 2nd Ave
Seattle, WA 98121




About: S3A has partnered with Henry Art Gallery’s “Open Floor” program to bring more awareness to an under-represented genre of art and artists in the Seattle area. The Open Floor program is a monthly laboratory of ideas coordinated by the Henry Art Gallery staff. Each month Henry Staff, local artists, musicians, performers, and filmmakers present work with the hope of generating new creative relationships.

"W3AVE" was brought to life by S3A founding members Bherd Studios, Twilight Artist Collective and Halogen.

A Family Affair: Family Fortune Event at Nectar Lounge on Wed, Apr 7

You won't want to miss out on Family Fortune's big event at the Nectar Lounge in Fremont this Wednesday.

- Official release of the Ladies Line
- Top Notch DJ's laying down the beats
- Seattle Tribal Belly Dancing on Stage
- Funk Band RCurtis playing
- Custom Solace's Wanderer Sets for photo ops
- Family Fortune Line "Walk-off"
- Plus Live Mural by Weirdo


Wed, April 7 from 8pm - Close
Nectar Lounge
412 36th St
Seattle, WA 98103

"Awake to a New Aurora" Mural Unveiling on Tue, Mar 23rd

Mural in progress shown above.

On Tuesday, March 23 from 6:30-7:30pm join the Aurora Avenue N neighborhood in celebrating the unveiling of the first of two murals. Sustainable Green Lake, Greenwood Aurora Involved Neighbors (GAIN) and the City of Seattle envision Aurora as a street full of thriving businesses and shoppers – one with a vibrant business center that attracts local residents to walk and bike to stores and restaurants for their weekly shopping and entertainment. To encourage this, a temporary installation of artwork is being placed in the windows of an empty storefront. A second location is being sought.

Sustainable Green Lake received funding to do a mural from a grant through the City of Seattle Department of Neighborhoods. GAIN provided some additional funding. The project is modeled after a similar and successful one done in the Columbia City neighborhood in the 1990s.

Zach Bohnenkamp, John Osgood and Kevin Sullivan from Seattle Mural Art, a local muralist team whose most recent work was installed next to Taproot Theatre after the arsons, have been commissioned for the new Aurora murals. The mural features the theme “Awake to a New Aurora” with a vibrant scene transitioning from green space to a rising sun backdropped with the downtown cityscape view as you go over the Aurora Bridge.

“This is a great project bringing together artists, community groups and businesses to improve Aurora," said Andy Leong, property owner of 7615 Aurora Avenue N.

Come watch the mural unveiling, meet the artists and your fellow neighbors and enjoy free pizza and soda.


7615 Aurora Avenue
Seattle, WA 98103
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
6:30 – 7:30pm
(unveiling at 6:45pm)

The Greenwood Collective Highlights for March 12th Art Walk

Hobo Eaters: Agents of Chaos

This show is a collection of Beery's coveted hobo characters that maniacally made their way into Seattle’s streets and the hearts of our NW culture. The collection consists of original pieces that are hand inked and painted with wood stain on various wood panels in a variety of sizes. Besides the originals there will also be limited edition prints, jumbo posters, and a line of limited edition tees that all reflect these grungy agents of chaos. He will be giving away a free print and a free tee randomly to those who sign up at the Band Vibes space. Come join Beery for a night of bad-ass art and mayhem…It’s gonna be an epic event of diabolical debauchery full of twisted 50’s animated style hobos!

The term hobo-eater refers to an entity who, through ritual means, would take on by means garbage and liquor the sins of a deceased bum, thus absolving his or her soul and allowing that person of the street to rest in peace.

What was once a ritual performed by beggars and vagabonds in certain villages of bygone years is now performed in a reverse of roles by animated entities who take on the form of the hobo whose diabolical lifestyle is reflected upon the appearance of the hobo-eater. The hobo-eater would be brought to the dying vagrant’s curbside or stoop, where a neighborhood drifter would place a crust of dumpster pizza on the chest of the dying and pass a 40 oz. of malt liquor to him over the corpse. After reciting the ritual, he would then drink and remove the crust from the derelict tramp and eat it, the act of which would remove the sins and deadbeat-scars from the dying transient and take it into himself.

Often times hobo-eaters are not only filled with the sins and scars of the deceased but take on a ghostly appearance, ragged with the lines of deceit and chemical abuse of the former vessel. The result is a vaporous apparition whose tattered clothes and grungy attitude is forever portrayed among the urban environment. Thus the ethereal term Agents of Chaos has come as a contemporary descriptor for these aeon old hobo-eaters who are destined to drift the streets perpetually consuming fiendish souls.




Presenting the urban contemporary work of Jeremy Gregory, PaperMarbleS and John Osgood. Although each artist has their own distinct style, they have many common elements that they use throughout their work, including their odd sense of humor, strange character portraits and twisted sensibilities. The artists did not talk about what themes they were going to create for the show ahead of time. As you'll see there are some uncanny correlations in their artwork, almost as if they were psychically picking up on each others thoughts (kind of creepy!).




Contemporary artwork by Tessa Hulls.Plus live music by Decateur Buff, NW Twang & Grove Band from 8-9pm.

Free Art Friday is Back Tonight in Greenwood!

"Left Turn" is going out to the peeps in the greenhood tonight. If you happen to be around we just dropped the FAF piece. Here are a few photo hints to help you find it...



There is a huge island in Alaska that this bar is named after...


Not far from that is the drop point...


The piece has found it's temporary hiding place until someone notices that there is a FAF on the loose!


Trick or Treat Greenwood!

Love,

Your friendly neighborhood art gallery, Bherd