Paige Smith
Paige Smith (LA) “Untitled”, 2017 Sunset Pavilion, Asbury Park NJ Paige Smith AKA A Common Name, is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer who lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Smith is most notable for creating “Urban Geode,” a street art series of sculptures that resemble geodes, made entirely of paper and resin casts. Always interested…
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Michela Martello
“Dakini”, Sunset Pavilion, 2016, Asbury Park Michela Martello was born and raised in Italy. Martello’s early career was as an illustrator for children’s book. Since 1998, Martello’s has lived in NYC where she has devoted primarily herself to painting. Her work as a painter has included large scale mural installation for corporations and private individuals,…
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Eric Regier (A.K.A hoTTea)
HOTTEA’s work is deliberately created to evoke a sentimental and sometimes even enchanted feeling in those who experience it. The three-dimensional planes of color have beguiled audiences in such varied locations and events as New York Fashion Week, the Mall of America, and concerts, festivals, and museums all over the world. From Sesame Street to…
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Tina Schwarz
Tina Schwarz (Germany) "Absurd", 2015, The Historic Carousel House, Asbury Park, NJ Tina Schwarz who recently spent some time in Los Angeles, completing a residency at Hooper Projects, is inspired by the drawings and graphics of the Old Masters, whose basic designs she deftly sketches on paper or utilizes as the starting point for her paintings.… Read More
Thiago Valdi
Thiago Valdi (Brazil) “Untitled”, 2016 Sunset Pavilion, Asbury Park, NJ Thiago Rogério de Castro Furtado is originally from Florianópolis, a Brazilian island. He’s known in the urban art scene as ValdiValdi, and has been doing graffiti since 2006. His fascination for coast culture and the costumes of the Portuguese and the Spanish matched perfectly with the graffiti…
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Shane Garron (aka B. Ready)
Shane “b. Ready” Garron (NYC) “Yellow Sub”, 2015, The Historic Carousel House, Asbury Park, NJ Every now and then the world comes across an artist that seems to have “been here before.” Not because his work reminds us of something we’ve seen but rather because it gives off the feel that it’s from a time before…
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Bradley Hoffer
Brad Hoffer (NJ) “Self-portrait #8 (CroboRab8) Sunset Pavilion 2016 , Asbury Park, NJ Bradley Hoffer is a multidisciplinary artist born and currently living in New Jersey. His work offers strong and clean images that are based on line and color. The final paintings are actualized and considered to be larger, completed drawings. Bradley’s line creates…
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Dylan Egon
Dylan Egon (NJ) “Boombox Saint”, Sunset Pavilion, 2016, Asbury Park, NJ In mixed-media assemblages, collages, and screen-printed works on panel, Dylan Egon addresses themes that include American values, pop culture, and issues of production and consumption, as well as referencing the history of fashion and design. Egon’s background in anthropology and archeology is evidenced in…
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gilf! (Ann Lewis)
gilf! (Ann Lewis) (NYC, Detroit) “Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean”, Historic Steam Plant Building, 2015, Asbury Park, NJ “Never turn your back on the Ocean is a 50′ mural situated in the windows of the inactive power plant of Asbury Park, NJ. Long before the days of our hyper consumer culture, and the onslaught of…
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