“PERMANENT COLLECTION”: ARTWORKS & LIVE TATTOOING
"PERMANENT COLLECTION": ARTWORKS & LIVE TATTOOING
by Artists:
THE YOK AND SHERYO
LILKOOL
REGINALD PEAN
& MOM TRIED MYLES
Opening night Friday October 16th
6PM - 10PM
Free Beer from 6-7pm
Along with exhibiting new works, the Artists will TATTOO ON-SITE images from a collection of extremely Limited Edition "Flash" style designs!
:::: OPENING NIGHT ONLY:::
Exhibition runs October 16th to October 21st
Sheryo & The Yok hail from Singapore & Australia respectively and the two have collaborated extensively since 2012, producing epic, fantastical murals of their original characters all over the world. Their work can be seen in Mexico, New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Miami, Africa, Belgium, London, Seoul, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Australia, Cambodia, the list goes on.
Sheryo and The Yok’s personal interests of urban and island exploration, street food such as pizza/tacos/hotdogs, weed as a lifestyle/wavelength and skateboarding as a preferred form of travel, intermix nicely in their friendly monsters. The characters they paint are weird and alive- Sheryo paints pizza slices that look like friendly teenage ratfink scumbags happily skipping school with heavy-lidded stoner eyes, with legs like a california raisin and hightop sneakers. The Yok paints wise-faced weed puffing deities, long winding DragonballZ sized chillers that exist Where the Wild Things Are meet the Neverending Story Jim Henson imagination machine.
In the past year alone, Sheryo exhibited in Jeffrey Deitch x Meghan Coleman’s “Women on the Walls” at Miami Art Basel, the duo headlined Pow Wow Taiwan, completing a mural at the Taipei Zoo, they had a two person show in NYC’s Lower East Side as well as being prominently displayed in New York City’s most visited public space, Times Square, where they did live painting from a scissor lift across massive hundred foot billboards for Ink Master Rivals on Spike TV.
This past year Sheryo has been listed as one of the “15 street artists to watch in 2014” by Complex Magazine as well as one of “6 woman street artists you should know” by CBS New York. In 2013 Complex Magazine named Sheryo & The Yok one of “10 street artists to watch in 2013.” In their first year of collaborating Juxtapoz Magazine featured them online and BrooklynStreetArt.com featured the duo in their “Best Images of the Year 2012.”
-@spacecandy & @__theyok (http://www.yokandsheryo.com/)
LIL KOOL’s doodles, eye-candy color trips through a parallel cartoon universe, fill volumes, walls, canvases and even come to life as fashion lines, pop-up-shops and installations, both in New York and Hong Kong. His post-Pop cartoons are made up of a cast of questionable characters in a colorful range of sub/urban landscapes.
-@lilkool (http://www.lilkool.info/)
A born and bred New York native, Reginald Pean is a staple of the underground NYC art community. Pean’s pieces are spooky, intimate, and otherworldly- a tarot deck for adults found within a unopened pack of Marvel cards.
While Pean’s topics and themes have evolved over the years, his style is unmistakably his own. His images are sharp, yet wavy- as if seen through the heat cooked air of a desert, even hooded death himself looks like a beautiful mirage.
Pean has exhibited his work in galleries throughout America such as Mighty Tanaka, Treehouse Gallery and Superchief Gallery NYC and LA, most recently for the bi-coastal Booty Worship Show and for BeStreat’s Bootleg Bart Art Show. His artistic endeavors have been covered by the Village Voice, Paper Magazine, New York Observer, The Hundreds, Hyperallergic, Juxtapoz Magazine, and Complex Magazine, to name a few.
-@frenchinald (https://frenchinaldpean.wordpress.com/)
Mom Tried Myles Smutney is a Brooklyn-based artist exploring the darker side of beauty through her silkscreen prints, pen-and-ink illustrations and mixed-media installations. Borrowing from the iconography of classic tattoo flash and punk rock subculture, Smutney embodies the homegrown, D.I.Y. attitude and aesthetic. Her momento moris embody the fragile and fleeting nature of life. In Smutney’s universe; symbols of fortune, strength, and eternal love are all woven into her compositions.
-@momtried_myles (www.MomTried.com)
Each Artist will be tattooing limited edition designs onsite from custom "Flash Sheets" they've created for this event & Additional Artwork will be available for purchase.
All to add to your personal and permanent collection.
66 Greenpoint avenue,
Brooklyn, New York 11222
