EPHAMERON
Hailing from Belgium, Ephameron was so excited about the NY4NY project that she stopped by New York City for three days to paint a mural. The art Ephameron makes is sensitive: with images and small texts she tries to recreate everyday feelings and thoughts, to capture moments in life with her art. Recurring themes like hands, birds and girls live in her fantasy world of emotions, colourless backgrounds and huge black tape drawings. Ephameron graduated in fine arts and illustrative design. Now she's a freelance illustrator, curator and designer. In her free time she likes to organize and contribute to worldwide exhibitions all over the world. Right now, she's working on books and illustrations, and teaching at an art college.
http://www.ephameron.com/
LEON REID IV
Leon Reid IV began his career in public art writing graffiti (a.k.a. VERBS) and quickly developed a knack for unconventional practices such as painting street signs and installing them during daylight disguised as a construction worker. His experiments in graffiti lead him to move beyond the genre and pursue site-specific installations under the pen-name Darius Jones. His humorous and romantic themes aim to speak to the average citizen and make art in the public truly accessible, and have been seen on the streets of London, Sao Paulo, Berlin, Paris and New York. He currently works with institutions and communities in the United States and through out the world and hopes to make a positive impact with his public art.
http://www.leonthe4th.com/
LICHIBAN/QUAN LUV/MEGA
Lichiban is a Hungarian born artist, her experiences on the margins of cities, countries and subcultures eventually formed into a semi-consistent life philosophy, which continues to inspire her creative development. She has exhibited her work throughout the United States and has been featured in Younity's HEART & SOUL Book, CLAM Magazine, TRACE Magazine blog, among others. For the NY4NY Project she collaborated with fellow Brooklyn based artists, curators, and full time creative hustlers Quan Luv and Mega. The three artists work together under the umbrella Konogomix on various creative projects
http://www.lichiban.net/
MIKE PERRY
As a designer and artist working in a variety of mediums, including—but not limited to—books, magazines, newspapers, clothing, drawing, painting, and illustration, Mike Perry is compelled by the ways in which the hand-drawn informs and deepens contemporary visual culture. Perry works regularly for a number of editorial and commercial clients including Apple, The New York Times, Dwell, Target, Urban Outfitters, eMusic, and Nike. In 2004, he was chosen as one of Step magazine's 30 under 30, and, in 2007, as a "Groundbreaking Illustrator" by Computer Arts Projects. In 2008, he received Print magazine's New Visual Artist award and the ADC Young Guns 6. His work has been exhibited around the world, and most days
, Perry can be found working away in his Brooklyn-based studio, ceaselessly creating new typefaces and sundry graphics and exercising his belief in the transformative power of making things.
http://www.mikeperrystudio.com/
MORNING BREATH
Morning Breath is Doug Cunningham and Jason Noto. In 1996, the two worked together on skateboard designs at Think Skateboards in San Francisco. There, they discovered they had similar tastes and influences, many of which were associated with the late 70s and early 80s. These included everything from punk rock to racking paint and hip hop. In 2002, Cunningham and Noto formalized their partnership with the creation of Morning Breath, a creative studio located in Brooklyn. Since then, their collaborations have grown beyond skateboard graphics to include, music packaging, apparel, poster design and more for bands and brands including Kanye West, Talib Kweli, De La Soul, Jay-Z, Stussy, and Upper Playground. The two have also been part of many showings of their personal work throughout the world.
http://morningbreathinc.com/
SKEWVILLE
For fifteen years, the artist collective known as Skewville, comprised of twin brothers Ad Deville and Droo, has been making neighborhood-inspired street art throughout New York City. Their innovative street art is as well know for its creative, aggressive questioning of popular street artists' style and choices as they are for being a monumental part of it with their wooden sneaker mission. They have reclaimed space in streets and galleries throughout the world. With their Bushwick Art Park project, Skewville dreams of transforming the neighborhood they call home into an artist-run green space for the community.
http://www.skewville.org/
http://www.skewville.org/
THEN ONE
Then One is an artist, illustrator, and muralist. He uses bold colors and imagery to create pieces of art that represents a visual manifestation of his feelings and the world that surrounds him, by incorporating his unique outlook on the world, exploring his Parisian-Iranian decent and how it fits as well as clashes within American culture. Though cultures may clash, Then One is able to incorporate chaotic themes and communicate them in a visually complementary way. He started out by exploring graffiti in his youth and perfecting the craft by creating large paintings with bright colors that lined the concrete walls of various city's and began to seek other creative outlets which led him to study Communications Design at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. With continued growth and an expanding work of art, his work continues to gain interests from peers, media and companies alike from Microsoft Zune, Tribeca Grand Hotel, Cornerstone Promotions, and Married to the Mob.le dreams of transforming the neighborhood they call home into an artist-run green space for the community.
http://www.thenoneart.com/
THUNDERCUT
The New York duo known as Thundercut is a collaborative effort between Kalene Rivers and Daniel Weise with help from their son Easton. They have been creating art for the street since 2001. From custom wood cuts to wheat pasted posters they have explored many mediums and enhanced the cityscapes in citys across the United States. They are most know for the clever "Walker" series of intricate hand cut vinyl outfits meticulously adhered to the crosswalk signs across NYC. By way of Brooklyn and now located in Beacon, NY which is home to their art and design studio. Thundercut runs a multitude of projects from their gallery Open Space featuring the works of artists they find inspiring, to Sherbet Magazine
an independently published art and literature magazine, and Electric Windows a large scale Mural Project bringing together great artists from around the country to transform the windows of an abandoned 19th century factory building in Beacon.
http://www.thundercut.com/
THE LOVE MOVEMENT
The Love Movement was established with one concept in mind, to make a difference. A collaborative effort of public and gallery projects by a group of designers and artists from different backgrounds; TLM's mission is simple, to create art that critiques and pokes fun at society and pop culture while also drawing awareness to current issues throughout the world. The Love Movement has been known to make a difference in society. Through their art sales TLM provided a fresh water well for the village of Cotonou in the African country of Benin; payed for the school supplies, transportation, and fees for children in Colby, Benin and Bali, Indonesa; and curated and orgazined the NY4NY Mural Enrichment Project for the Canarsie High School Campus in Brooklyn, New York.
http://lovetlm.com/
TOOFLY
Maria Castillo goes by the name TOOFLY, given to her by her graffiti peers back in the early 90s. As a teenage graffiti writer putting my name on a wall was exciting and rebellious. However, she enjoyed creating illustrations much more than tagging and created a female character to represent the person that she was. The image quickly gained popularity among young women given that there were very few women writing in the early 90s. Her warrior character's flowing hair and fierce attitude gave her strength to get through the trials and tribulations of being a female artist in a sometimes limiting, ego driven, and hyper-masculine graffiti culture. Over the years she also co-founded Younity, a women's urban art organization, and STAY TRU, an independent design company. Stay true to yourself and what you love.
http://www.tooflynyc.com/
SOFIA MALDONADO
Born in Puerto Rico in 1984 to Cuban and Puerto Rican parents, Maldonado grew up in the San Juan metropolitan area. She moved to New York in 2006 where she continues to live and work. In 2008, she received her MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in New York. A year later she was awarded a fellowship to participate in the Vermont Studio Residency Program. Most recently, Maldonado has developed public art projects in collaboration with Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT; Graphopoli, An Urban Art Biennial at Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico in San Juan; the Tenth Havana Biennial in Cuba; the Time Square Alliance in New York City; and El Museo de Arte Contemporaneo in Puerto Rico. In May 2011, her work was part of Beyond Bling, a group show based on artists that work with hip hop aesthetic, at the The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, in Sarasota. And in June 2011 the broken-boards pieces were featured at El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files, in New York.
http://www.sofiamaldonado.com/
