Art Show
Coming Soon
FEST 10 ART SHOW!
Thursday October 27th- Sunday October 30th
@Display, 439 S. Main Street, Gainesville, FL.
Curator: Edie Snyder
Contributor: Samantha Jones
Opening Party: Thursday Oct. 27th, from 7-11pm featuring Dj Curbcut and CAVE RAVE.
Art Walk: Friday Oct. 28th, from 6-11pm
FEST 10 ART SHOW will be open to the public throughout FEST 10 weekend, from 1pm-9pm.
ARTISTS
Derek M. Ballard
Derek M. Ballard is a cartoonist/illustrator living in Gainesville, FL. He has done work for Faesthetic, Threadless Select, Giant Robot, VICE Magazine, the Typhon Anthology, Diamond Comics of Portland, Drag City Records, and many, many others.
http://derekmballard.blogspot.comSkott Cowgill
Skott Cowgill is a San Francisco based oil painter who has embarked on a navigational experiment into the altering of body weight due to alcohol consumption and in doing so has become a piece of ongoing artwork in itself This 20 year project has sculpted the actual human body into a rounded mass much like Rodin did in marble. His pallet of human flesh has expanded his lower portions to a pyramid shape as a nod to the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt. Blending this style with the musings of Duchamp and a Christo-like covering concealing the project itself while inviting spectators; A traveling gallery complete with audio tour guide. The simple price of admission a mere can of Pabst and a shot of Tequila. He has done artwork for Nothington, This Bike is a Pipe Bomb and David Dondero. His work has been in the movies Beautiful Losers, The Mission Movie, Mango Kiss and Joan of Arc: The Musical. His interests include opera singing(check out the new blank fight record on silver sprocket) and plant wizardry.
http://www.skottcowgill.com/Lauren Denitzio
Lauren Denitzio is an artist and illustrator operating out of a sunny studio space in Bushwick, Brooklyn. She received her BFA in Illustration from Rhode Island School of Design in 2006 and is currently an MFA Fine Arts candidate at Parsons. Lauren is a member of the For the Birds feminist collective and frequently collaborates with Razorcake Magazine, Pedal Printing, No Idea Records, and various social justice organizations on visual art and design projects. She has played The Fest for the past 5 years in The Measure [sa], who will be playing their final show at this year's Fest X.
http://blackandredeye.com/Valerie George
Valerie George’s project “Nam June Psyche” revolves around the intention to record and create experimental forms of documentation of particular performance events that are DIY in nature. Her website and Video/Cassette archive currently holds five volumes of such works, having recorded multitudes of site specific sonic events including This Bike is a Pipe Bomb, Rymodee, Garret Pierce, @ 2011 SXSW-Tuneyards, Car Sick Cars, Mike Watt, Supercute, and many others.
http://valeriegeorgeart.comSean Mahan
Sean Mahan was born in 1976 in Florida. For the first year of his life, Sean slept in a dresser drawer in the back of his parents red and white VW Bus. His father, also an artist, worked o the designs for the first space shuttle and sailed through a hurricane. In the 80’s, his Mother, a hardcore DIY advocate, sewed all of Sean’s Jams and fixed the engine of their bus. Sean’s grandfather worked with Einstein, invented white lab coats, and threw Sean (age 7) off a sailboat and told him to swim a quarter mile to an island in the Banana River. Sean has done work for the bands Twelve Hour Turn, Daitro, Dauntless Elite, Jets vs. Sharks, Planes Mistaken for Stars, Beat Buttons, North Lincoln, Fires, Del Cielo, The Gifthorse, Mouthbreather, Sneders, Little League, Back Pocket, Small Talk, Solid Pony,Laura Minor, Verde, Kinds on Bikes and more.
http://seanmahanart.comMegan March
Megan March is well known around the D.I.Y. punk scene for playing in bands such as Street Eaters, Wild Assumptions, Younger Lovers, and NeverEnding Party, but she was a visual artist well before she was ever playing drums, singing, or strumming a guitar. From Oakland California, Megan has been a painter and sketch artist since her early teens, when she developed a taste for her darkly-impressionistic color palette and fantastic imagery inspired by everything from the human form to dreams to classical mythology. By the end of Megan's teenage years, her growing involvement in music began to dovetail with her proclivity for visual art as she created compelling imagery for her bands. Megan discovered a passion for silk screening through the tried-and-true method of making her band's own t-shirts, but this soon expanded into a much broader interest in printmaking and poster art that utilizes everything from spray paint stenciling to screen ink to sharpie marker, sometimes all on the same poster. Eschewing most mechanization(such as multiple-color presses), Megan's work is mostly free-hand anddesigned in such a manner that the looseness and variation fromprint-to-print tends to actually enhance the work, making each piece beautiful and one-of-a-kind.
http://streeteaters.comJoshua Mikel
Joshua Mikel of Sharkguts Design has does illustration, graphic design, and music videos for Fake Problems, Broadway Calls, Ninja Gun, Little League, Greenland is Melting, Blacklist Royals, The Menzingers, Billy Wallace, Look Mexico, and a whole bunch of others. Earlier this year he illustrated and animated the video for Ninja Gun's "That's Not What I Heard." He just recently wrapped as producer on the video for Fake Problems' "Song For Teenagers." His official FEST Tourists, Party Animals, and Skeletor Wins shirts are available at The FEST merch booth.
http://www.facebook.com/SharkgutsDesignShaun Pereira
Shaun Pereira is a member of the bluegrass/folk-punk band Greenland is Melting. He designs all of his bands Album art as well as the t-shirts, poster and other band merchandise. Shaun has recently designed a series of hand painted pocket watches. Each piece is unique, and embodies a traditional art concept known as "Memento Mori" or "Remember you have to Die", which serves to remind us all to enjoy what we have while we have it. This year is Greenland is Melting's second year playing FEST and Shaun's first year in the Art show.
http://greenlandismelting.comNate Powell
Nate Powell was born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1978, and began self-publishing at age 14. He graduated from School of Visual Arts in 2000. His work includes Any Empire (2011, Top Shelf), Swallow Me Whole (2008, Top Shelf; Eisner Award winner for Best Graphic Novel, LA Times Book Prize Finalist, and Ignatz Award winner), Please Release (2006, Top Shelf), Sounds Of Your Name (2006, Microcosm Publishing), It Disappears (2004, Soft Skull), Tiny Giants (2003, Soft Skull), the self-published Walkie Talkie series, and The Schwa Sound zine. 2012 will see the release of The Silence Of Our Friends (First Second Books), Year Of The Beasts (Roaring Brook Press), and fill-in writer/artist duties on the Vertigo Comics series Sweet Tooth. From 1999 to 2009, Nate worked full-time supporting adults with developmental disabilities. He managed DIY punk record label Harlan Records for 16 years, and has performed in the bands Universe, Soophie Nun Squad, Wait, Divorce Chord, and Boomfancy. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana with his wife Rachel Bormann, a bastard kitty and an overly-sensitive dog.
http://www.seemybrotherdance.orgLaura Predny
Laura Predny does black & white oil portraits & figurative paintings and pencil drawings. Born and raised on the south side of Chicago, she moved to Gainesville back in 1990. She was one of the founders of Wayward Council, wrote intermittently for the local Satellite magazine, is a DJ for Grow Radio and an artist-in-residence at The Doris Bardon Cultural Community Center here in Gainesville. She has done work of and for many of the past & present FEST bands.
http://www.laurapredny.comAdee Roberson
Adee Roberson is a visual artist living in Florida. She believes in ART as a commemoration of the natural world and our ancestors. She creates through MAGIC, DREAMS, and INTUITION. As an independent, self-taught, mixed media visual artist, Adee has curated exhibitions and shown her art in numerous galleries and alternative media/art venues across North America and Europe. Her rich mixed media paintings, drawings, photo images, and fabric collages are influenced by punk and hip-hop music, ‘60s and ‘70s African psychedelic art, animals, nature, and her own personal experience.
http://pineappleblack.blogspot.comMike Salay
Mike Salay is a tattoo Artist from Gainesville Florida. His paintings are done mostly with watercolor and acrylic paints and ink. He’s been tattooing for 10 years, 6 of those years as a professional.
http://www.anthemtattoo.comParis Visone
Paris Visone is a documentary photographer based out of Boston. She graduated from the Art Institute of Boston where she currently teaches. Paris was chosen as a 2010 Getty Images Editorial Photography Grant recipient for her series "Gender Roles and Appearance". She recently finished touring with and photographing the legendary punk/new wave band, Blondie. She has since been to Japan, photographing the band Toto. Visone is best known for her ever continuing documentary work on her family and friends. She just had a solo exhibition titled "Culture of Looking" at Suffolk Gallery in Boston, MA. Paris's photographs have been featured in multiple publications including Fiasco magazine, F-stop Magazine, and Performer Magazine. She is currently working on a life long series that follows a group of people through their life. For this work and other projects, visit
http://www.parisvisone.comErin Tobey
Erin Tobey is a multimedia artist and musician living in Bloomington, Indiana. Born in 1981 in Lansing, Michigan, she has been performing music since 1999 and making art for much longer than that. She most often draws and paints but is also a seamstress, printmaker, cartoonist, graphic designer, quilter, weaver, and web designer. She graduated with highest distinction from Indiana University with a BA in Studio Art in Spring of 2010.
http://erintobey.comPeter Wonsowski (pw!)
Peter Wonsowski (pw!) is a Jersey born, Texas raised, Philly honed, Harlem NYC based artist who specializes in elaborately packaged and illustrated vinyl records, dabbles in comic books, relishes in a wide variety of projects, products, styles, & interests, and occasionally plays the singing saw (and accordion) in his non-existent free time. He has been cartooning and collaborating with bands, labels, & friends the whole world over since he was 16, and it all started in Gainesville FL with Less Than Jake's "evolution kid". The Fest is near and dear to his heart for these reasons, and will be creating something new out of thanks and admiration for its 10th year. He'll be marrying his sweetheart elsewhere, but promises to hang out with everyone in person next year
http://www.peterwonsowski.com
