Chris Saunders is a brilliant animator I met while living in Venice Beach. We collaborated and then the art got picked up to tour a music festival circuit sponsored by Pepsi and Billboard.
VIDEO: Portugal Street Artist Collaboration
Irish Curator Kelly Murtagh living in Vilamoura, Portugal contacted me via Facebook to see if I would be interested in bringing The Lost Warhols to Portugal. I agreed to 10 artists that summer mostly from Portugal for a pop-up gallery. Here is how it manifested with a vision and a couple words from the curator.
I am honoured to bring to Vilamoura this wonderful collaboration of art between so many established Portuguese and international artists. It was my vision to make an exclusive collection of works for the first edition of ART Vilamoura - something that we could enjoy and celebrate in the spirit of Andy Warhol. It has been so enjoyable watching this project blossom week after week and seeing it come to life as a valuable legacy for our community.
Each of the eleven established artists have created a photograph in their own style making the Portugal Collection of “The Lost Warhol’s” a truly unique set of artworks. This is LA based artist Karen Bystedt’s first inaugural European exhibition, a truly avant-guarde experience in the art of collaboration.
I set up Omey Project’s in 2015, bringing to Portugal the Algarve’s first urban contemporary art consultancy. We specialize in the hospitality and leisure industry with a spirit for curating “The Story of Art”. Bringing new art experiences and events to the Algarve is something we are very passionate about. Our special partnership with Vilamoura World in creating the V-Art concept stamps the beginning of our commitment to promote the arts in the Algarve.
We hope you enjoy our exhibition as much as we have enjoyed creating it.
Kelly Murtagh
VIDEO: Chris Brown formerly KONFUZED Painting LIVE
The reason I met Chris Brown: I had been a hip hop fan since 2005 when I use to listen to
"The Game and 50Cent." Once I started collaborating on The Lost Warhols I decided I wanted to team up with a recording artist to paint on my photograph of Andy.
When Orlando Aguillen proposed to have me collaborate with Chris Brown I loved the idea.
I had been listening to Chris since he was 15 years old and I knew what a talented singer, dancer, and performer he was. At the time, I did not know how talented he was as a painter. I printed out one of my photographs of Andy on canvas and set up an easel with a bunch of spray cans that he had chosen at a studio in Culver City where we rendezvoused along with an Andy dollar stencil.
WATCH: Chris Create
VIDEO: Meditations w/ Andy by Raul 33 X Karen Bystedt
My friend Destiny @desuntitled brought the Artist Raul over to my studio, maybe it was destiny. He asked me if he could paint his symbols on top of my gold queen decals. I fell in love with what he painted.
Consequently that lead to us collaborating in "Meditations with Andy" for my NY show and our current collection at www.MediationswithAndy.com