Chris Dyer's Creative Friends

In this 23rd Episode of Chris Dyer's Artist Podcast show, he interviews his artist friend El Chimu!  Chimu is a shamanic tattoo artist based in San Diego, California.  
They talk about how they met on Instagram and then how El Chimu came to Quilmanà, Peru to tattoo Chris, El Chimu's American and Peruvian origins, how he started creating tattoos, opening up his first shop in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, going to pow-wows and being inspired by indigenous dances and dresses, deciding to spread pre-hispanic art, the many cultures of Latin America, shared imagery between traditional art, the risks of cultural appropriation when spreading indigenous art, the wisdom of Bruce Lee, mixing races and cultures, the ceremonial use of peyote, and an ayahuasca and art retreat in the jungle, as well as what it was like to work as a tattoo artist during COVID.

In this 22nd Episode of Chris Dyer's Artist Podcast show, he interviews his artist friend Conrad Florez!  Conrad is a studio and street artist based in Lima, Peru.  
They talk about Conrad's roots, art in the neighbourhood of Callao, the influence of Entes and his graffiti crew DMJC, Conrad's studio in Miraflores, painting murals in the neighbourhood, how they met at Chris' solo show in 2013, Miami Art Basel, Spawn comics, Todd MacFarlane, Korn, Iron Maiden and when rock bands started to play in Lima, Vanilla Ice in 1992 and today, making huge banners for stadium rock shows, his new painting style, Inca Cola, Cypress Hill, live painting at festivals, his new graphic painting style, the seven letter crew, painting huge walls with Pesimo, tattoos, Peruvian culture, the social media game, working with Nike and other brands, COVID's effects on the Peruvian art scene, protesting against Presidential coups and corruption in Lima, and gang alliances against corrupt cops.

In this 21st Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews his rock star friend Miki Gonzalez!  Miki is a legendary musician living in Lima, Peru.   
They talk about learning English, Peruvian culture, the neighbourhood of Barranco, how Chris' mother came to Peru, how they met in Wappinger's Falls, NY, surfing around Peru and the endless left of Chicama, Peruvian culture in the 1970's, moving to Cusco to be closer to indigenous culture, witch doctors and psychedelic drugs, mescaline, San Pedro, LSD, cultural upheavals, discovering Andino music, creating indie folk music, learning to play the blues, Brazillian influences on jazz, living under curfews due to terrorism and military rule and the all-night parties that happened due to that system, writing political protest songs, Afro-Peruvian reggae, changing musical styles, discovering electronic music, recording and remixing Andean cultural music.

In this 20th Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews his artist friend Entes!  Entes is a popular street and studio artist based in Lima, Peru.  
They talk about his new studio in Barranco, how they met at Chris' show at the Punctum Gallery, how Entes started creating graffiti with his soccer team, partnering with Pesimo, getting walls in Miami at Art Basel, opening the Museum of Urban Art in Lima, saving walls with epoxy, new mediums, oil paints and sculpting, getting sponsorships and teaching companies how to connect to the urban art community, street protests at the Peruvian government coup and political art, racism in Peru and around the world (especially Miami), reconciling street art and graffiti, galleries and museums vs social media for sharing art, and hopes for 2022.

In this 20th Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews his artist friend Psy Conscious (psy.conscious)!  Psy is a psychologist and visionary artist based in the Miraflores neighbourhood of Lima, Peru.  
They talk about how they met, Visionary art in Lima, the Miraflores neighbourhood, going to Catholic school, studying communication and then psychology, discovering drawing and painting, the link between psychology and art, using psychology to heal humans, using psychadelic medicines, meditation retreats, answering the call of Ayahuasca, discovering visionary art naturally, Dietas and bathing with flowers, going from Lima to the jungle, traveling to see art in Florence, Italy; making digital art, paintings vs digital art, making art merchandise and clothing, healing with art and psychology together, the effects of COVID and reactions to the disease in Peru, Presidential coups and street protests in Peru, and youth power against government corruption.

In this 18th Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews his artist friend Mauro Reategui (@visionary_art_by_mauro).  Reategui is a visionary artist of the Amazonian jungle in Peru.  
They talk about how they met at the Temple of Visions Gallery in Los Angeles, growing up and making art in Pucallpa, studying painting with Pablo Amaringo, death threats from bad Shamans, the importance of working with a teacher for dietas, medicinal lessons, lessons in the darkness, learning to paint Ayahuasca visions, studying shamanism, not needing to do drugs to see visions and make art, Amazonian influences in his art, Dietas, the term shaman, travelling and exhibiting art, Lima as compared to the provinces of Peru, the growing appreciation of Peruvian visionary art, Ayahuasca culture in Peru, building a spiritual center in the jungle, the personal effects of COVID-19, and natural medicine to improve health

In this 17th Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews his artist friend Antoine Tava!  Tava is a pop artist based in Montréal.  
They talk about how they met at an En Masse jam, working as an animator and artistic director, getting inspired to go it alone as a working artist, quitting his 9-5 job, selling his condo and car to focus on art, working with Galerie LeRoyer, Station16 and European galleries, partnering with a Chinese multimedia company, cracking the Chinese art market, travelling to China, perspectives on China and working with the Chinese people, travelling to Italy, old perspectives on Mussolini, milk drips in art, the Italian quality of life, the Italian community of Montreal, working with brands, 1990's nostalgia in art, Tava's street art and murals, wheat pasting, canvas art, Tava's collaboration with Wizard Skull, collecting art, growing up in Ville-Emard, making Montreal better, planting seeds outside your community and bringing back rewards to the city, Tava's Panda Boxing Gym and its problems with pandemic legislation, and the collateral effects of COVID rules.

In this 16th Episode of Chris Dyer's new Podcast show, he interviews his beautiful ex-wife Valerie Lambert! Valerie is an artist and spiritual healer from Belgium, but based in Montréal.    

In this 15th episode of the Chris Dyer's Creative Friends Podcast he interviews the glass-blower Oak Locoboro, who is based in southeast Quebec.  They talk about Oak's name, growing up in Southern California, glass blowing, how they met, learning to blow glass, his signature glass chains, collaborations while glassmaking, Oak's Fukushima fish and Chris Dyer's fishbomb mural, messages in glass blown art, collecting art and figurines, sculptural influences in glassblowing art, getting quality materials, the Mike Gong Acid Eater, Oak's glassblowing inspirations, glass coins, the Starshp of Eugene, Oregon, alternative currencies, comparing California's scene to Quebec's growing and smoking weed, medical cannabis, the qualities of quality weed, and problems with cannabis legalization.

In this 14th episode of the Chris Dyer's Creative Friends Podcast he interviews his friend Make Noize, a street artist based in Montreal.