Where: Empire Seven Studios
Event Date: December 10, 2016
Event Time: 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Location: 525 No. 7th St San Jose, Ca
Exhibit Dates: December 10 -
For more details: https://www.facebook.com/events/566171846912402/
Mesngr classically trained in the eighties, a generation that took advantage of opportunities to get creative with spray paint on the city’s landscapes. Mesngr has painted several monumental pieces throughout the years and has been contributing to the graffiti movement for several decades now both in the Bay Area and nationally.
His latest work is a combination of aerosol with oil base paints that are used to illustrate a new geisha series; which are definitely a main attraction. Although the traditional conservative narrative is not in play or hold to the conceptual Japanese narrative, each geisha has her weapon of choice and are portrayed as warriors just as a samurai if you may. Mesngr doesn’t really plan to cause conflict through his work but merely expresses a merge of pop, skate, punk, culture he finds interesting and enjoys.
He expresses that “If my work does in fact raise a brow, isn’t that what art is supposed to do? In that sense I’m doing something right.”
Please join us this Friday night 7-10pm for our last show.
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Chris also known as Cristovoe is making his gallery debut this Friday at E7S.
After years of dedication to crushing over thousands of trains, Chris has put his graffiti career on halt when his partner in crime Benny DIAR suffered an accident that tragically paralyzed him. Chris has been caretaker of DIAR and only the closest of friends that attends to his daily necessities.
Chris, also co-founder of the legendary Clout Graffiti Magazine, a publication that served thousands of graffiti writers before the social media and smart phone craze. Writers from all over the country and the world, would snail mail their photographs hoping that they would make the cut.
Clout Magazine Headquarters has also victim to the housing developments. Since closing the shop in 2015, Chris has been running Clout online and focused on painting at his home studio located in the East Side San Jose. His paintings are a kaleidoscope splash tryptic style deconstruction of what his work was with aerosol years in the making.
Join us this Friday as we celebrate our last shows here at Empire Seven Studios.
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SFAUSTINA is an Artist and Graphic Designer who thrives on making works of art and design reflecting the everyday elements in life through merging illustration, collage, graffiti, and graphic design. He has contributed artistically to public works project in the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy. SFAUSTINA has been featured in numerous youth culture publications both internationally and domestically. SFAUSTINA art directed, designed and published the first online graffiti magazine, BLOODWARS. He recently designed and co-authored, Bay Area Graffiti ‘80’s-‘90’s: Early Bombing. For over a decade he’s works for The Family Coppola as Artist/ Senior Graphic Designer.