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(Spain)
Born Daniel Munoz Rodriquez, San is an internationally recognized and commissioned illustrator, painter, and street artist. Born in a small Spanish village near the Portuguese border, San currently works and resides in Madrid. His artwork is influenced by magical realism, graffiti, and culinary arts. San has shown his fine art internationally, as well as his street art in cities across Europe.
Henry Lewis is a San Francisco-based painter/tattooer/graphic designer. In his studio is where Henry sits and paints and smokes cigarette after cigarette, ostensibly for hours and hours every single night, after he leaves Everlasting Tattoo.
Henry's been working almost exclusively in oils over the past year, and has become incredibly adept with the medium. Theres something about oil paint that you cant get with any other paint; it has to do with luminosity. The layers all build on each other and when handled with some skill, the canvas fairly glows. Its also a very subtle medium and difficult to master.
(San Diego, California, US)
Deth P. Sun is a painter/illustrator currently residing in Berkeley, California. He studied for two years at San Francisco State University, until he transferred to the California College of Arts and Crafts, where he received his BFA in 2002 in Painting and Drawing.
He exhibits his work about ten to twelve times a year, usually in group shows, but sometimes he takes up a solo exhibition. His work has shown throughout the U.S. and abroad (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, Seattle, Detroit, Portland, New York) for the past few years and he's done illustrations or have contributed stuff to (among other things): Chronicle Books, Giant Robot, Tiny Showcase, Urban Outfitters, Fantagraphics, Poketo, Park Life, The Exploratorium, The Howard Hugh's Medical Institute, The LA Weekly, and Nylon Magazine.
Watch this video of Deth P. Sun's studio in Oakland by Bay Area Vintage Base Ball:
(South Korea)
Che Jen is a Brooklyn-based painter from South Korea, who was raised in Brooklyn. Che Jen has shown around the world in Milan, London, Tokyo and all over the United States, and has been featured in various publications. Growing up in Brooklyn and the Lower East Side in the 1970s "defined the visual abstractions that are incorporated into my being and permeates my personality and my work."
(1979, Brisbane, Australia)
Lister is a painter and Installation artist whoes work presents us with a grimy fusion of high and lowbrow culture with influences from a number of areas and genres, including street art, expressionism, pop art, and contemporary youth culture, often drawing from television and the "misguided role models" that result. Revelling in the "spirituality", and the "heritage" of Western popular culture he takes this joint legacy and remoulds it into something equally alluring and grotesque, a perfect representation of the society he seeks to depict.
Taking influence from the dirtier and rough techniques of "Bad" Painting and merging it with the spirit and practices of graffiti art Lister has embraced an explosive, scratchy, scrawling form of figurative art using a variety of mediums from painting, drawing and installation to film and music.
Lister uses comic book imagery for his own means, redirecting popular culture for personal expression. Heroes and villains are taken out of the panel and placed in a new space, devoid of the usual storyline, dialogue and scenery. His paintings are not controlled by cartoon contexts. Rather, the figures in these portraits are reinvented through the artist’s hand. His mixed media technique, involving layers of ink, spray and brushwork, allow his paintings to simultaneously have soft ethereality and a garish, raw energy.
Watch his interview by We Love Street-Art:
