About

Though the man who inhabits THH70's identity was born in 1970, but inspired by George Lucas's "THX-1138", the identity of this multimedia artist and creator of AOA was officially born in 1995. Having painted off and on during the 90's but emerging as a full-time artist in 2000, THH70's paintings are born of the basic, primal urge of metropolitan aesthetics. Influenced by artists Cy Twombly, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Robert Rauschenberg and William S. Burroughs, THH70 creates messages with stencils, spray paint, household chemicals and scrawl, layered on crude but painterly ground. Reoccurring messages in the work of THH70 accredit '70's and '80's pop culture, drug references and a modern-day spin on words and phrases, but the work as a whole takes form of stream-of-consciousness as it hits the canvas.

Having sold over 900 paintings since the coronation of his art career in 2000, his paintings hang in private and corporate collections in the United States, Canada, Asia and Europe. After leaving his lifelong home of Los Angeles, California in October 2007, THH70 currently resides in Dallas, Texas. For more detailed biographical information, please visit the official THH70 website and MySpace pages located in the links below.

Born both an artist and scientist, Nix has been creating inventive art forms for nearly 20 years under various aliases.  Past work has included everything from graphic design to visual arts to lighting fixtures to furniture and clothing design.  Throughout the past ten years, the artist has been recognized repeatedly for creating pieces that are innovative, unusual, and striking.

In 2007, Nix chose to stray from the common canvas in an effort to avoid all things ordinary and embrace a combination of fascinations.  The latest use of transparency, light, color, and dimension make Nix's goal of illustrating the imagination a reality and truly embrace the belief that "anything is possible"... 

THE STORY
While attending the Collage of Visual Arts - St. Paul, MN. I began reading a lot of William S. Burroughs and reading the word JUNK and JUNKIE over and over in his books. I also recall a phrase of "being born from junk", hence coining the name JUNKYBOY, the alter-ego of Paul Afong Jr, the strange and wacky side was born. The alter-ego name JUNKYBOY was later changed to JUNKYKID. But it wasn't until a few years later that actual characters began to take form and shape.

THE ARTIST
At times my brain is buzzing with many different ideas, too many at times to do them all...well, only time will tell. Lately, I've been taking on a few other challenges to expand my creativity and exploration. I've experimented on placing my images on several different found or collected objects. Inspired greatly by Barry McGee (aka TWIST), Phil Frost and many other artists. Always, seeking the next inspirational artist or piece to fuel my work. I feel my work will continue to grow and evolve. After all JUNK is all around us to use and transform, but it's how you use it that makes my art challenging and fun for all to enjoy.

I, Lana Guerra, am a hair stylist who works in NYC's East Village & in Portland Oregon. I choose to live here in Portland because i can spend 98% of my time making very unique art wigs that sell all around the world, paintings, dolls, puppets that are life sized & used for performance art, marionettes, clothes, and sculptures. I also work on many photo shoots, both styling hair & applying make up. For my hair styling, I have been published in Bust Magazine, Gothic Beauty, and Voltaire's Oh My Goth Book… I own an art gallery/ wig shop here in Portland called Crude Things Gallery.

Besides visual art i am also in a circus- Societas Insomnia, dj as DJ Big Top, and play loads of music in theatrical bands. My main music project is Power Circus, but i am in other bands as well & i tour a lot in US & Mexico. You can find recordings i have played in on White Rose, Nihilist Records, & Beta-lactam Ring Records. As for my art, i have been exhibiting for the past 15 years in NYC & Brooklyn, Providence RI, NC, Seattle, Canada, and Portland Oregon. Right now you can currently buy my creations on my website, on eBay, and on Etsy.

Born in 1974 in Sacramento, California, Mark Fox is a self-taught artist who uses acrylic, spray paint, and occasionally collage. His work is influenced by raw graffiti styles, urban art, outsider art, and folk art and is shown regularly in California galleries and online. Fox has now sold over 500 paintings via the internet and gallery shows and has amassed world-wide collectors from England, France, Canada, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Puerto Rico, Sweden, and India.

Anna is currently a self-represented artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. She also is the curator of Portland's only 3.5' art gallery, the Core.

the Beautiful and Strange
I do not currently and may never fully understand the meanings behind my paintings. They are intuitive. I do know that with every piece I make, I am pushing my mind as far as I can into the unknown to bring back this raw material from as far as I can reach. It may all be my own mental garbage, it may be messages from ancient whales, it may be a mix of both. One thing is certain though, I will continue making more paintings and I am certain I will continue to improve as I go along.

Erik Von Ploennies began experimenting with art in 2004 (age: 35), after visiting the Guggenheim Museum - NYC and seeing Vasily Kandinsky's, "Painting With White Border". His formal education is in electrical engineering and has no art training. Erik left his engineering career in 2007, and moved to Brooklyn, New York in July 2007 to pursue his interests in art. He is actively exhibiting in New York City. Erik classifies his artwork as modern primitive abstract, and mixes painting, drawing, and a variety of mediums and styles together.

When Reza was a child, his parents noticed he could draw, and began buying him magic markers and colored pencils. To impress them, he would arrange the markers in order of color, from the brightest to darkest. Little did he know, he had most of the colors misplaced. His mom noticed the problem, and took him to an eye-doctor (The opto.........), where he was diagnosed with Red-Green color-blindness. The doctor explained to him that he could be anything he wanted to be, except a pilot, because he may land the plane in the ocean, instead of the runway! That was never an issue, since he never wanted to become a pilot, but always liked to draw, and later started to paint. To this day, his color blindness has not hindered his artistic endeavors. Once in a while he even gets compliments on his color choices. While color-blindness has been a constant, his images would change with time. Today, besides having color, his art has other intentions. Reza paints whatever crosses through his mind. His on-going “ Random Thoughts” series is a life project which takes different directions with the flow of time.

Reza’s work has been on HBO television show “Six Feet Under”; on permanent public display at the UCLA medical center in Los Angeles, on display in California State University Northridge, in galleries, and many private collections worldwide.

My name is Thierry Jaspart and I'm a young belgian illustrator. I'm a member of the art collective La Banque Mondiale et son Orchestre. I publish illustrations in some comics magazines and I frequently exhibit my work in art galleries. Thank you for your interest.

Nils Jawa is an artist and designer from London. Now residing in Los Angeles, Jawa creates sketchy and expressive characters combined with raw typography from an imaginary future in his signature fluid style.

Having exhibited in London at the Tate Modern, Spitalfields Gallery, and The Pool, and all over California, Nils Jawa is bringing messy back. Jawa's work often adorns canvas, walls, sneakers, bits of wood, cardboard, and occasionally helmets.

“On the surface my paintings appear to be about corporate America, expressed through abstracted/deconstructed men in suits. On another level, I think my paintings are about people, and the fragile nature of the human condition. ”

Born in Portland on August 22, 1965, Charles G. Daniels began working commercially in television and film in 2003. The most notable project to date is a film called Coraline, directed by Henry Selick and scheduled to be released in February 2009.

A native Texan, Jeremy "Jeru" Gabriel began his pursuit of art as a toddler when he first drew on his wall with his mother's nail polish. Since then he has been a passionate artist applying his abilities in the areas of underground art, graffiti, portraits and graphic design. In 2004 he began participating in numerous art shows and has showed no signs of slowing down, displaying work regularly in his local Dallas/Ft. Worth area as well as California and Northern Ireland.

Rarely sketching out full ideas before painting, Jeru's work is more about the spontaneous creation he experiences in the moment and the visual response by the viewer once the art is complete. Label it however you wish, the end result is a bucket full of brightly colored eye candy created in various mixed mediums including oils, spray paint, acrylics and markers.

Lauren Gardiner’s tiny paintings are intricate and intimate portraits portraying each subject’s every lash, wart and twangy hair. These characters, whether human, animal or insect, are observations of how people present themselves for prosperity as well as how they react in front of the camera. Her use of ambiguous backgrounds, uncomfortable glares and awkward postures, typical of professional portrait photography, are humorous yet cynical little vignettes that give a brief glimpse into the human condition.

Lauren was born in the U.S., but grew up in Singapore, Australia and England. After graduating in Illustration in 1998 from the Rhode Island School of Design, she moved to Los Angeles where she observes the many aggravating facets of human life that help provide the inspiration for her little portraits and paintings.

i was born in saint louis, missouri
my mother found out she was pregnant with me, two weeks after my father’s funeral.
took up drawing at age 3 and never put down the crayons.
i went to washington university in saint louis/school of fine arts,
where I graduated with a bachelor of fine arts.
luckily, i landed one of the only art related jobs in saint louis,
hired as a fashion illustrator at jeans west,
next i moved to chicago,
after being hired at evans furs as an art director.
my next job was for marshall fields department store,
which i stayed at for the next three years.
my next move was new york city,
where i was hired as art director at bloomingdales.
from there i freelanced art directing and illustration,
tired of living in the city i moved to rural new jersey in hunterdon county.
but things changed, within a 4 year period,
i lost my significant other to a car accident,
lived through 9/11 and was laid off my last job.
my priorities changed and what is important shifted.
got a new job in new jersey
i realized i needed to start drawing and painting again
and try to be a full time artist.

when describing my art
you can call it primitive narrative, childlike, colorful,
self-revealing, erotic, funny, strange and lots of eyes.
my inspirations come from many places –
people I see and work with, dreams,
plants at the nursery, news items,
guests on the jerry springer show and nature.

Residing in Catanzaro, Italy, Claudio Parentela is an illustrator, cartoonist, collagist, painter, photographer, and freelance journalist. Active for many years in the international undergound scene, he has collaborated with over 100 contemporary art magazines, publications, and comics. Marked by it's obscure and twisted content, Parentela's work is currently being shown in galleries around the globe and online.