New Alchemy- Carlos Mare Abstract Paintings
In 2011 Carrack Modern Art and The Hip Hop Theater Festival, friends and fam rallied around a Kickstarter project for my exhibitions ‘Structural Interventions” at the Carrack Modern Art in Durham NC and at The Co11ective for Art Basel Miami. While in Durham John Wendelbo and I combined our styles to create the single edition...
M139 New B-Boy Abstracts 2012
Back again in the studio and was inspired by a recent class visit of the legendary B-Boy Ken Swift who teaches theory and the fundamentals of the dance here in NYC. One of the challenges in this drawing style is to distill an attitude not just a minimalist drawing, it must have a gesture that...
Know your Rights!- right!? Pt-1
Recently as I was doing some research I came across a designers site that had a rug for sale that had the exact style of my friend Keen One, I thought to myself how unlikely that he would do such a commercial project so I passed the link for confirmation. As it turned out it...
One9 Interview – Art, Music and Chess
One9 is one of those artists that slips under the radar of the culture, a virtuoso of many skills and interests whom Ive known for some 12 years now. In that time I have come to appreciate his journey and early history in the Washington DC graffiti scene, one which is often overlooked but relevant...
Getting Up the Tempt One Story
Tempt Uno is a personal friend an inspiration and pioneer in his own right. For years after we first met I admired him as one of the best hand style masters of his generation, a true student to the art and culture he was also an activist and a publisher alongside Relic they launched BigTime...
‘His’ story ‘Our’ story
‘we can only advance our culture only by our own accounting’- This is my sentiment heading into the new year 2012. Ive questioned post graffiti early on since my early visits to N.O.G.A (Nation of Graffiti Artist- circa 1978), the first place I had every seen graffiti painted on canvas by the likes of Kase2,...
Recap- Structural Interventions-Mare139 at Carrack Modern Art Pt1
I was invited by sculptor/gallerist John Wendelbo to exhibit and collaborate with him at the Carrack Modern Art Gallery in Durham NC. With the support of the gallery, Clyde at the Hip Hop Theater Festival, friends and public sponsors we Kickstarted this unique project that eventually lead us to the Miami Art Basel re-exhibition at...