Go check out Broke’s online show
https://www.zogallery.com
About BROKE aka BEER IS GOOD:
For over two decades, BROKE ONE has played an integral role in the Bay Area graffiti landscape.
His stickers, throws, pieces and wheat pastes adorn everything from poles to walls.
Broke’s work inspires residents and outsiders to question the discourse of public versus private space, as well as find humor among the day-to-day patterns we all feel confined by.
Release Event for the SPECIAL DELIVERY Portland 2011 Book,
as well as an Art Show Benefiting the artists participating in this year’s SPECIAL DELIVERY Bay Area 2012 Mural Exhibit (which will open September 8th 2012).
Saturday July 28th, 2012 (Last Saturday) at 7pm
Famous Four Colors Gallery
1525 Webster Street
Oakland, CA 94612
FREE EVENT! All Ages!
Full Color, 64 Pages, $16
Special Delivery 2011 was a mural exhibit that filled a 6,000 square foot warehouse in South East Portland. It showcased over 40 artists who have put in a lot of work on the streets of Oakland, San Francisco and the greater Bay Area of California.
Read more about the book…
www.EndlessCanvas.BigCartel.com/product/special-delivery-portland-2011-book
Many of the artists whom will be participating in this years Special Delivery Mural Exhibit (Optimist, GATS, Upfuk, Attica, Broke, Nart, Dead Eyes, etc.) will be showcasing prints and works on canvas at F4C Gallery (Famous Four Colors) for ONE NIGHT ONLY to raise funds for paint.
Read more about SPECIAL DELIVERY Bay Area 2012…
www.EndlessCanvas.com/specialdelivery2012
Invite your friends to the Special Delivery Bay Area 2012 facebook event page…
www.facebook.com/events/127714507368174
DON’T BLOW UP THE SPOT
Please don’t tag the venue or the immediate surroundings the night of the event.
Thank you to all the writers that always show respect and help us socially enforce this guideline so that we can keep getting invited back to throw awesome events for you guys.
Up Fuk is going to jail soon over graffiti. In solidarity we wanted to try and sell this piece before he goes in.
Available for a limited time here… http://endlesscanvas.bigcartel.com
OUTSIDE
Colt 45: 5:00pm – 5:45pm
Joe L: 5:45pm – 6:30
Sin: 6:30pm – 7pm
General Nao: 7pm – 7:30
Jon Holliday: 7:30pm – 8pm
Lippe: 8pm – 8:30pm
Taso: 8:30 – 9pm
INSIDE
Pony P: 7pm – 7:30pm
Agent A: 7:30 – 8pm
Smasheltooth // BBB: 8pm – 8:25pm
5ill: 8:25 – 8:45
Amuzition + Skreal Nuke’m: 8:45 – 9:05
Primeights: 9:05 – 9:30
Grand Invincible: 9:30 – 10pm
Kodac 10pm – 10:30
Who Cares?: 10:30 – 11pm
BOGL VS DIALS: 11pm – 11:40pm
Djunya: 11:40 – 12:20am
NastyNasty: 12:20am – 1:10am
NiT GriT: 1:10 – 2am
FREE BEER FOR THE FIRST 40 PEOPLE!
Come hang out at this classy free art show on the water front in Emeryville.
About OPTIMIST
Optimist grew up in Oakland California and started doing graffiti at an early age.
Inspired by the dozens of graffiti legends painting in Oakland in the 90’s, he couldn’t help but become addicted to Graffiti. After visiting the SF MOMA during a Gerhard Richter exhibit in 2002 he decided to try his hand at painting with a brush instead of a spray paint can in an attempt to mimic the skills of Richter. This led to another addiction to painting.
Optimist went to University of California Berkley and received a degree in Conceptual Information Arts and painting in 2005. After Graduation he rented out a small studio in San Francisco and began painting, blending photo realism and collage and techniques learned from graffiti into his own unique style. He spent most of the day painting in the studio working on new ideas and visual metaphors for his fine art and at night painting freight trains or the city streets in an attempt to keep a balance between the two.
In 2007 he moved to Taipei Taiwan.
The move to Taipei was a self experiment in an attempt to see what kind of effects moving to a completely new and strange environment would have on his Art and self expression. This new body of work is the result of that experiment, and intense collage of images and statements describing the ever changing landscape of Taipei as well as the social and economic metamorphosis that is taking place. Optimist’s paintings depict the shift that is occurring in Taipei because of the influence of capitolism and materialism of the western world.
In 2009 he moved back to Oakland and continues to make art daily and graffiti nightly.
Available for a limited time in our store… endlesscanvas.bigcartel.com
– 18 by 24 Inches
– Two Color Serigraph
– Archival Bristol Paper
– Reflective Metalic Silver
– Small Edition of 10
– Signed and Numbered
– Will be shipped safely in a hard cardboard tube
Drawn before the car accident, printed the day of the accident and signed after.
Ras Terms was very recently involved in a car accident. The car he was in along with his partner was struck by a speeding car that was evading the police. The right side of his body is completely swollen. Terms is a full time artist and thus receives no benefits or insurance. You are the only community there is to help him pay for his medical bills and to assist him while he is not able to work.
Ras Terms was born and raised in Miami. As part of the BSK and FS crews he was a pivotal figure in the Miami graffiti scene. Terms is a gifted illustrator and painter who has provided many images for the Rastafarian community. Since his arrival in the Bay Area he has established himself as a character graffiti artist and has lent his talents to serve the community.
Available for a limited time in our store… endlesscanvas.bigcartel.com
Available for a limited time at endlesscanvas.bigcartel.com
– Around 10 x 10 Inches
– Mixed Media
– Stretched 1/2 inch deep canvas stapled on the back
Ras Terms was very recently involved in a car accident. The car he was in along with his partner was struck by a speeding car that was evading the police. The right side of his body is completely swollen. Terms is a full time artist and thus receives no benefits or insurance. You are the only community there is to help him pay for his medical bills and to assist him while he is not able to work.
Ras Terms was born and raised in Miami. As part of the BSK and FS crews he was a pivotal figure in the Miami graffiti scene. Terms is a gifted illustrator and painter who has provided many images for the Rastafarian community. Since his arrival in the Bay Area he has established himself as a character graffiti artist and has lent his talents to serve the community.
I just flicked this Ras Terms truck next to Souley Vegan in Oakland and thought it would be a good excuse to repost the plea to help Terms.
Ras Terms was very recently involved in a car accident. The car he was in along with his partner was struck by a speeding car that was evading the police. The right side of his body is completely swollen. Terms is a full time artist and thus receives no benefits or insurance. You are the only community there is to help him pay for his medical bills and to assist him while he is not able to work.
Ras Terms was born and raised in Miami. As part of the BSK and FS crews he was a pivotal figure in the Miami graffiti scene. Terms is a gifted illustrator and painter who has provided many images for the Rastafarian community. Since his arrival in the Bay Area he has established himself as a character graffiti artist and has lent his talents to serve the community.
Anything at all helps!
Ras Terms was very recently involved in a car accident. The car he was in along with his partner was struck by a speeding car that was evading the police. The right side of his body is completely swollen. Terms is a full time artist and thus receives no benefits or insurance. You are the only community there is to help him pay for his medical bills and to assist him while he is not able to work.
Ras Terms was born and raised in Miami. As part of the BSK and FS crews he was a pivotal figure in the Miami graffiti scene. Terms is a gifted illustrator and painter who has provided many images for the Rastafarian community. Since his arrival in the Bay Area he has established himself as a character graffiti artist and has lent his talents to serve the community.
Anything at all helps!
Here is an interview with him from last year…
http://endlesscanvas.com/?p=425
