Episode list

Passionate and humble, John Trippe created a website to share his photos and art in 2000, what ended up happening was the creation and curation of a successful art sharing template that would inspire an entire movement online. Trippe moved to San Francisco to pursue skateboarding and art. Before long he was publishing his own art zine called Fecal Face, and when digital publishing was in its infancy, he started fecalface.com. The website would go on to spread art across 50,000 unique visitors a day and inspire generations on how you can adapt to do what you love on your own terms. Fecal Face celebrated it's 10 Year anniversary at The Luggage Store Gallery, a location he had been inspired by as a young art fan in San Francisco. We follow Trippe as he prepares for the blowout group show and reflects on the website's past and future.

Friend to all who are lucky enough to meet this artist and gentleman, Ferris Plock is a loving father and husband who spends his days intensely painting characters inspired by his travels and his love of others. Following a trip to Japan, Plock was inspired to create a body of work that pays homage to classical Japanese pattern-making as well as the comics of Plock's youth. Later, he creates an animation with his friend and animator Jim Dirschberger, and attends an art residency at the San Francisco Recology Recycling Center.

Inspired by his traveling salesman uncle, Jeremy Fish is drawn to the road like a river to the sea. On this three week journey we follow Fish and his trusted van Big Mike up the Pacific Northwest on the tail end of his 2010 summer tour that took him to galleries across Europe and the Southeast United States. Fish created unique paintings for each city on the tour, inspired by their heritage, and tells us about his own upbringing and love of art as we travel through Portland, OR and Seattle, WA.

Artist and designer Mike Shine started making art in college and after landing a job a Chiat Day Ad Agency was able to make art a full time job, but not without sacrificing his love for painting and an epic mission to tell the story of Flotsam, a Faustian character Shine has become obsessed with. More then just creating an exhibition, Shine creates experiences where his audience is thrust into his world and asked to play a game, of course the stakes are not what they seem. Along with a merry band of musicians and carnies, Shine's performances and installations have become legendary and now we have a glimpse into the mind behind Flotsam.

The thoughtfully layered compositions of artist HUSH trace his influences over years of refining his vision and path for the art he makes both in the streets and in the studio. If one looks deep enough, you can see the trail of patterns and hand-styles that the artist has perfected since he began his journey years ago doing graffiti and making fliers for friends' music and art shows in Newcastle, England. During his trip to Los Angeles in 2011, HUSH not only painted a 1,200 square foot wall outside art magnet school Fairfax High, but also created an incredible installation of his paintings at New Image Art Gallery. He was kind enough to spend time with us and talk about his life, process, and future he hopes to catch up to piece by piece.

Carlos Ramirez and Armando Lerma are collectively The Date Farmers. Growing up in Indio, CA, their work was heavily influenced by their desert surroundings and the friends, family, and gangsters that they knew growing up. Their thoughtful collage and intricate crosshatching collide with their mastery of paint as they prepare for their seminal 2011 exhibition at Ace Gallery. It's the biggest show of their career, and they create a knockout exhibit featuring a correlated steel movie theater, a custom bar topped with a life sized shark sculpture, and over 8 rooms filled with their largest paintings yet.

A seasoned muralist, Andrew Schoultz practiced his craft illegally on walls throughout San Francisco before successfully pitching his skills to Aaron Noble and the influential Clarion Alley Project. In the years since, he has refined his work to a state of mastery and continues, both in and out of the studio, to produce an ever changing and deeply profound body of work. In his show "Compound Eyes On The World" at Marx and Zavattero Gallery in San Francisco, Schoultz presented work exploring the blur of mob perspective in the modern world.

Relentless and driven, Richard Colman creates work that questions the role of power. Perhaps this stems from his early years writing graffiti in Maryland, where his EVER moniker became ubiquitous in the streets. After his friend Roger Gastman asked him for paintings for a book launch he was doing, Colman created his first studio work and was very well received, starting Colman on a lifelong journey to create work that meets his own high expectations. He pushes himself constantly and what the world gains is a incredibly detailed and ever changing body of work that continues to shift and invent due to the artist's restless nature. We follow Colman as he creates two knock-out installations at New Image Art in Los Angeles, and Guerrero Gallery in San Francisco.

Inspired by human interactions, Mark Whalen paints using both ancient and modern techniques. His intricate work and hypnotizing use of patterns sing under a layer of resin that creates a slick window into strange parallel worlds. In his ambitious 2010 solo exhibition "Paralleled Opposites" at Merry Karnowsky Gallery in Los Angeles, Whalen designed a large cube to house an installation that featured an intricately stitched paper sculpture, as well as the sonic artistry of Carla Azar.

Taylor McKimens paints the mundane in a profound way. His scenes feature the characters and artifacts of his youth in Winterhaven, CA. Finding inspiration in college, McKimens slowly forged his own unique style, a messy, beautiful vision of everything around him. We follow McKimens as he takes us on a fishing expedition in Brooklyn, and installs a group show for the inaugural The Hole Gallery show in New York.

Cleon Peterson's cruel images of violence assault our senses, yet his goal is not to shock, but to dissuade the negative world he sees unfurling around him. War, rape, distrust, and dishonor are depicted in classical landscapes framed as if an 18th century oil painting. Raised in Seattle, Peterson's mother, a former ballerina, pushed his talent to great lengths, encouraging him to get his GED at age 14 and start attending art school. Brilliant but addicted to heroin, Peterson struggled, eventually ending up in a criminally ordered asylum, where he got clean and started to define his unique vision.

Tiffany Bozic's emotionally charged and thoughtful pairings of animals and other natural elements in her work reflects her deep personal feelings about life and those indescribably strange emotions that run through us all. Her dedication to paint and water color allows her to create incredibly thin paintings on wood and paper, so thin the grain shines through. We follow Bozic as she prepares for her first solo show at Joshua Liner Gallery in 2010 and takes us through the archives of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.

Renowned graffiti, tattoo, and fine artist Mike Giant overcame his vessel to create an incredibly diverse and yet uniquely unified canon. We follow Giant as he creates drawings, paintings and collage for a solo exhibit at Guerrero Gallery in San Francisco, throws up a couple graffiti pieces in San Francisco, and returns to tattooing for a limited basis, all while creating designs for his own clothing label Rebel 8. Giant wears his heart on his sleeve and is a thoughtful and dedicated artist who continues to inspire generations with his giant heart.