Artists
Hammon Buck: Born and raised in New Mexico and have been producing visionary art for 20 years. Graduated from the University of New Mexico in 2000 with a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts. Owner and operator of Mythic Gateways Productions graphic design company specializing in art forms that promote and celebrate positive consciousness and awareness. My hobbies are skiing/snowboarding, traveling, attending various rock/bluegrass festivals, film acting and directing, playing music, raising awareness about Tibet and last but not least, creating works of art.
Collection(s): Fall ‘09
Tripp Shealy: Tripp is a self-taught screen printer from North Carolina. He has been designing art since 1995, and began printing shirts in 1998, and on paper in 2002. Aside from individual prints, Tripp also designs and prints clothing with original art designs for Taboot Art, which intends to help new artists get their work seen. Tripp has also been printing commission work for bands in an increasing number with good success. Currently residing in Denver and touring nationally with the music festival circuit and rock/jam shows alike, Tripp has been involved in the music related art scene heavily since spring of 2002, and has been touring since 1997 seeing bands such as Phish, Widespread Panic, STS9, and the Grateful Dead, as well as related events and festivals. Nearly all designs are hand drawn. Most prints are acrylics on watercolor paper and are archival and acid free. All prints are created through silk-screening using a manual press, where the printer lays on each color separately, and are hand signed and numbered.
Collection(s): Fall ‘09, Winter ‘09, Fall ‘08, Summer ‘08, Spring ‘08, Winter ‘07, Fall ‘07, Summer ‘07
Angela Porter: I am a 46 year old largely self-taught artist who lives in South Wales. I’m fascinated by the patterns, shapes and forms found in the natural and man-made worlds. I’m particularly inspired by La Tene culture art, Romanesque architecture, flowers and leaves, the microscopic world, fossils, shells and machinery. Sometimes fantasy creeps into my work too. I enjoy exploring how to express my inner true-self through my art, and every step along this pathway is fun! Sometimes this is expressed through detailed observational drawings/paintings of something that has caught my attention. Sometimes it is through allowing my memories of these shapes and forms to flow onto paper in an abstract manner, still with the detail there, but creating new patterns and forms as they become combined. The more intricate the work, the more I enjoy it!Although much of my recent work is in pen and ink, I like to work in many different media. Pencil drawings, watercolours, and textiles are my favourite media. And I often mix media. I make textile jewelery, which is again very intricate and organically flowing. There’s a large part of magpie in me as I do like to make my textile work (and sometimes other work) sparkle!
Collection(s): Fall ‘09
Jack Shure: Originally from Nederland, Colorado, Jack enjoys traveling. His style is heavily influenced from street art. He likes printing shirts.
Collection(s): Fall ‘09, Winter ‘09, Summer ‘07
Ardian Radityo: Ardian Radityo is from Indonesia, you can call him Radit or Rad..for short, well that is his real name. But you will always find his name as “seventharmy” in internet or in his link. Ardian Radityo was born in Yogyakarta..a beautiful city in Java Island, the city have a lot of culture and heritage and also the nice girls too… LOL. Ardian Radityo like listening music and drawing so much… he graduated from Design College in his country and take his Bachelor Of Art there. He like a lot style of art : psychedelic, cute character with colorful design, abstract, and many more. Now he have a graphic studio called 37 Studio ( read : three seven studio ) the studio is specialized in apparel graphic and did so many works overseas.
Collection(s): Fall ‘09 & Winter ‘09
Justin Kephart: Justin Kephart designs and prints clothing blending hand drawn and airbrushed aspects, photography, computer graphics, and silkscreen techniques to create an art that is worn and thus experienced. The METASYN designs are intended to invoke a mystical participation in the modern dream and the emerging mythos of this end of time. Justin’s studio is located in downtown Denver and also specializes in Art Glass as fine art and for architectural embellishments.You can contact him at jrkephart@gmail.com.
Collection(s): Fall ‘09
Allison Clayton: Allison actively works in several disciplines including; oil paint, intaglio, graphic design, digital photography, sculpture and black and white photography. She graduated from the College of Charleston in 2003 with a BA in Studio Art and a minor in Art History. She concentrated in large scale abstract oil painting and Intaglio. Upon graduation she continued her career in the arts by founding an after school art programs well as teaching elementary age students art and art appreciation. She also freelanced murals, paintings, and designs for private clients and local businesses. Extensive international travel in South America and Europe gave Allison insight and inspiration into the culture and art communities of several countries around the world. She is now settled in Denver attending RMCAD in pursuit of her second degree in Graphic Design.
http://rmcad.digication.com/allisonclayton/Graphic_Design
Collection(s): Fall ‘08
Matt Dulin: Artist based out of Denver, Colorado
Collection(s): Winter ‘09
Steven Schaffner: Steve was a late-doodler of sorts as he really didn’t start taking his art seriously until almost 20 years of age. Eight years later, the never-ending contour line continues to grow and the pencil never leaves the paper. Steve said goodbye to Illinois in 2001 and finished an arts degree with a focus on photography here in Denver at UCD. These days, he resides 30 ft. above the ground, painting the night away, near a capitol, on a hill, and spends most of his time thinking about all the things he should be doing. If you’d like to see a small selection of his photography and oil paintings you can go to his unofficial poor man’s website: www.myspace.com/sschaffner_art
Collection(s): Winter ‘09, Spring ‘08
Jamie Callahan: Of New Jersey, said when he was just 5 years old, there’s nothing happening at all. More than anything, he wanted superpowers; specifically to shoot brightly-colored energy from is fingers; to be used for the forces of good and beauty. Painting is exactly like that, only much much slower process. A self-taught, late bloomer of an artist, Jamie was inspired to paint after a (third) eye opening-experience in October of 1999. Ever since then, with increasing intensity, he has worked to bring the internal, the invisible, the infinite realm of imagination into the worled, by very slowly shooting colored patterns of energy out of his hands. Pew Pew Pew.
http://www.artbistro.com/member/theriverrunpast
Collection(s): Winter ‘09
Barbara Ana Gomez: Spanish illustrator and graphic designer based in London. Barbara was born in Valencia (Spain) but moved to Madrid very young. There, she studied Advertising and Graphic Design, and had four years of experience in the business. In 2007 she decided to move to London to study Illustration. She got a Distinction Award at the London University of the Arts and focused her career in Illustration. Barbara likes to draw about music, space, circus and freak people.
Collection(s): Fall ‘08
Marcus Gunnar Petterson: Marcus Gunnar Pettersson is an autodidact who always had his interests in being creative. Art, illustration and music lays close to his heart, from the very first day he was born in Arvika (Sweden). He has had a few exhibitions and the latest one this year brought him to where he is now. Nowadays he lives in the Swedish capital town, Stockholm, hoping for more work to come.
http://marcusgunnar.blogspot.com
Collection(s): Fall ‘08
Rex: I like to do things. I like butterflies. I like certain kinds of cheese, baby elephants, and dinosaurs. RAAAAUUHGRRRR!!!!!(Thats my dinosaur impression) I also like to draw cause it’s fun. I think drawing is fun. Would you like to see my drawings? Cool. I also play Bass, Guitar, and Piano.
Collection(s): Summer ‘09, Summer ‘08, Summer ‘07
Sei Rey Ho: Us & Them Studio is located in urban Seattle, WA. It is a studio focused with their love for music, art, culture, and life. Sei Rey Ho, one of the Us & Them art directors, trains day and night doing push ups and karate chopping things to pull the next greatest and latest print. His posters have included work for The Flaming Lips, Sound Tribe Sector 9, and Prefuse 73.
http://www.usandthemstudio.com
Collection(s): Fall ‘07
Stuart Shockley: A Landscape Architect in Denver, CO who likes to draw. Most of his work is done in a small format such as sketchbooks, on top of and around meeting notes, and on napkins. The drawings are then scanned and all of the work is cleaned up and modified in photoshop and illustrator before final output. If Stuart can’t be found sitting at his desk rocking some CAD, or sitting somewhere drawing, he is probably on tour with Danity Kane…again.
Collection(s): Spring ‘08
Scott Partridge “Jeva”: Scott Partridge was born in Louisville Kentucky in 1973 and lived in Maine, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania before coming to Charlotte, North Carolina in 1994. For his artwork, he uses the moniker “jeva” which is more of a brand name than a pseudonym, and suggests Mr. Partridge’s ideal that his work is not so much of his own making, but rather a natural outcome of his presence in the world. Mr. Partridge, like most people, has been artistic since he was very young, but continued the pursuit of artistic expression throughout his life. Painting, drawing, sculpture and digital media all figure into his work. “Overall, my style can be most closely compared to early 20th century surrealism,” he says, although pop culture and natural science references are common. “I need two things to paint a picture,” he says, “an emotion, and some sort of subject matter. The subject matter (which can be figurative, or contain sea and city imagery, organic forms, and so on) is a framework upon which to drape the emotional content of the piece. The feelings that go into the work dictate the style with which the subject matter is executed.” The work ranges from deeply personal and esoteric to what Mr. Partridge considers “accessible, but not overly so.” Mr. Partridge describes his work as “a means of confronting the question of my own existence, but I have become more concerned over time with the way in which my work connects me to (or isolates me from) other people, my culture, and my society. The artistic drive can be framed physiologically as creativity encourages the activity of certain neurotransmitters in the brain, not the least of which is dopamine — the chemical associated with an increased and more enthusiastic involvement with one’s environment, and which is triggered by exposure to novel circumstances. Certainly, many of my aesthetic choices have been informed by sensitivity to my own physiological response to whatever it is I am doing.” He says that “the greater challenge is to incorporate the products of this self-serving physiological urge into the world around me in a meaningful way. This requires sensitivity not only to my own internal milieu, but also to the needs of humanity in general, even if ultimately that is too great a task. “It’s necessary to try, for I believe that creativity is crucial for societies to be able to innovate in ways which are adaptive to environmental challenges both cultural and ecological.”
www.jevajeva.com and www.myspace.com/jevajeva
Collection(s): Spring ‘08
Lisa Gitelman: Lisa Gitelman, donned ‘Giggleman’ by her second grade teacher, has not really changed much at the core..at all! She’s only been promoting her prints for a few months, but she has certainly been art-ing since she before could write. Just a quirky, art-y, science nerd from the East Coast, currently residing the Appalachians in Western Maryland, she’s finishing up her education (to become a HS Chemistry teacher).
http://lisagiggleman.deviantart.com
Collection(s): Spring ‘08, Fall ‘07
David Alan Goldberg “DAG”: My idiosyncracies are drop-shipped every morning in an open field in the middle of Kansas to seed the soil far and wide to germinate love without judgement and allow for others to do the same all the while saying I’m here, too you may not understand me yet, I’m still one of you this is my boyhood dream you’ve gotta listen to me when will my quirks have illicit affairs and dance like Italian clowns on ecstasy? when will my fingernails write poetry on her skin again and drunk dial my very married cerebral lover? when will my painted Chucks get noticed by the Greek goddess of my dreams who dreams about licking the sweat off my back? it’s a two-way street, ya know? I’m not kidding, folks. For forty-two years I have been the Kid Icarus on a slow burn melted encaustically across the sky in reds and blues and streaks of fiery orange that scream in shrill neon: “My heart for your attention and my kingdom for your kisses!” and if I can’t get any of the above I will gladly settle for Boston Red Sox season tickets for the rest of my life.
Collection(s): Fall ‘07
Sutton Stephens: Born and breed in Music City (Nashville), Tennessee. Enjoys paisleys, My Morning Jacket, well loved hoodies, the “perfect” tshirt, and doodling. Big fan of quiet moments alone in nature.
http://ontheroadlesstraveled.wordpress.com
Collection(s): Summer ‘07