BLVD Gallery Presents
“Atomic Autobody – New Works by Warren Dykeman”
November 14 - December 6, 2008
Opening Reception Friday November 14 6p - 10p
BLVD Gallery
2316 2nd Ave Seattle Wa 98121

View available work HERE

BLVD Gallery proudly presents Atomic Autobody, an exhibition of new works by Seattle based painter Warren Dykeman. The artist returns to the gallery with a new body of work comprised of paintings and drawings that draw upon elements of folk art, handmade sign lettering, digital art, and collage. Utilizing a variety of materials, Warren creates work that contains an intriguing awkwardness which produces a rhythm between contour, color, and mistake. With a nod to the past, Warren embraces the new technology of the digital age combining his experience as a graphic designer to create compositions that use vector style graphics as a jump off for his unique take on primitive folk art styles.

Warren Dykeman grew up in the desert of eastern Washington in Kennewick, just outside of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Having lived under the shadow of America’s atomic ambitions, Warrens work is informed by the Cold War era Americana that surrounded him in those formative years. The show’s title, Atomic Autobody, references these early years when his father worked as an Auto Body Man at a shop with that name. Warren is featured in November on Art Zone In Studio with Nancy Guppy on the Seattle channel. Currently, Warren Dykeman is a graphic designer and lives in the Ballard neighborhood in Seattle, WA.

For more info:
Web Site: http://www.warrendykeman.com
Art Zone Video: http://vimeo.com

BLVD Gallery is proud to present for the month of June
“Hairy Metal Vengence”
new works by Bigfoot

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June 13 - July 5, 2008
Reception June 13 6p - 10p

BLVD Gallery
2316 2nd ave
In the Belltown Neighborhood
Seattle Wa, 98121
www.blvdart.com
206.448.8767

BLVD Gallery is proud to present the work of Oakland based artist Bigfoot. Bigfoot is a Bay area Graffiti legend and has been a major influence in the skateboard industry for close to a decade. Originally from New Jersey ,young Bigfoot fled to California to be closer to big trees . Disassociated from art school and human society, in 1994 he started writing “Bigfoot” in the streets of San Francisco with relentless fury .Working often with house paint and wooden panels ,his work depicts the conflict between the respect for nature held by the artist’s cast of Bigfoot characters and the destructive agenda of mankind. Despite his reclusive nature, Bigfoot has managed to stay active in society ,designing skateboard graphics and footwear ,showing in galleries in America and Japan,and the release of his vinyl figure with Strangeco in 2004. His eponymous character and his love of heavy metal play a major role in his studio work as well as his highly recognized street art. Please join us at his opening reception Friday June 13 to Meet the artist and Ride the Lightning.

BLVD Gallery is proud to present for May
“Combine, A group show of Cut Paper, Collage, and Assemblage”

Featuring work by Greg Lamarche, Chris Yormick, AJ Fosik,
Robert Hardgrave, Peter Taylor, Damon Soule, Matthew “Bonifacio” Rodriguez, Monica Canilao, Fankult, George Estrada, and Mark Atherton

May 9 – June 7, 2008
Artist Reception May 9, 6p - 10p

BLVD Gallery
2316 2nd ave
In the Belltown Neighborhood
Seattle Wa, 98121
www.blvdart.com
206.448.8767

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For May BLVD Gallery presents “Combine, A group show of Cut Paper, Collage, and Assemblage”. The title of this show “Combine” is a reference to Robert Rauschenbergs term for the groundbreaking assemblage work that he made starting in the 1950’s. This work as well as the amazing collages of artists like Romare Bearden, Paul Horiuchi, and a multitude of others have paved the way for the current generation of artists who are utilizing collage and assemblage in their work. Whether through the perspective of design or the traditional art world “Combine” takes a look at a group of artists that have incorporated collage in their work as a way to further explore the boundaries of what they are capable of outside of the tradition artistic media.

Greg Lamarche

Robert Hardgrave

Monica Canilao

Chris Yormick

BLVD Gallery is proud to present for April
New works by NYC Graffiti Legend
GHOST
April 11 – May 3, 2008
Artist Reception April 11, 6p - 10p
BLVD Gallery
2316 2nd ave
In the Belltown Neighborhood
Seatttle Wa, 98121
www.blvdart.com
206.448.8767
this show is sponsored by SCION

Available work

BLVD Gallery is proud to present new works from NYC Graffiti Legend Ghost a/k/a Cousin Frank, a pioneering influence for many graffiti artists around the world. Having started writing in the golden age of the late 1970’s, Ghost has first hand knowledge of the many adventures and accomplishments of the NYC subway graffiti movement. The original style, vibrant color combinations, and strong sense of satire of his graffiti has managed to ease the transition naturally to his more gallery oriented pursuits.
Ghost has spent many years dedicated to the formation ( or deformation ) of the standard English alphabet creating limitless possibilities for him to subvert the language in his unique style. He has managed to create work that bears the unmistakable mark of an accomplished draughtsman without it being either overbearing or overwrought. The humor that permeates Ghosts’ work comes from the underground comics tradition from his youth, more Zapp! Comix than Marvel. Ghosts’ improvisational approach to graffiti, he never planned ahead what his work would be like, gives his current series of paintings a lightness and spontaneity that has the feeling of an inside joke between old friends.
Ghost has shown his work in galleries across the globe and has become a major part of the visual aesthetic of companies like respected streetwear brand Stussy. There is also a documentary in production chronicling the many contributions Ghost has made to the global graffiti movement. This show will be the second time that BLVD Gallery has been privileged to work with Ghost whose amazing mural in the “Claimin’ Space” exhibition was a highlight for many at the 2007 Bumbershoot arts festival.

trailer to ghost documentary:

Ghost painting in SF: