Chris Dyer's Creative Friends

Chris goes to Queens, NY to visit fellow artist friend, Nicole Palapoli at her cool Art Studio! The two talk about her tattooing and art career, what inspires her, her approach towards and appreciation of hand crafted artwork, how art can heal us, what the bleep she sees happening in the world and how to navigate.

About the Artist:

“My artwork exists to illuminate our soul’s experience in human form; the duality of love and heartbreak, our connection with nature, sacred symbols and the unified field of consciousness.”  

Website:  https://www.innerspacegallery.com/

Instagram: @NicolePalapoli

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Today we’re going to Brooklyn! Chris visits Pop/Street artist Wizard Skull at his Bushwick studio. Alex shares with us some of his early-on art adventures, inspirations and lessons that lead to him becoming the artist he is today. 

The two also chat about his involvement with skateboard graphics, Zines, street art, inflatable art, observing the “Art Game” and social media offerings.

About the Artist:

Painter and illustrator Wizard Skull’s humorous and often raunchy riffs on cartoon characters and mascots poke fun at pop culture and commercialism. Wizard Skull transforms recognizable characters from Homer Simpson and Mickey Mouse to Gumby and SpongeBob SquarePants into hybrid mashups, squiggly portraits, and obscene portrayals of fetishistic sex acts.

Website: 

https://shopwizardsworkshop.com/

Social Media (IG): 

@WizardSkull

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Long time artist friend, Lindy Kehoe, stops by Chris' house where they chat about the importance of cuteness, synchronicities, the dream like worlds she channels through her art, the messages they bring forth, caring for ourselves, our earth and our future generations.

About the Artist:

Lindy Kehoe enjoys living a spacious and peaceful life, choosing to reflect that quality within her dream-like work. Contemplative and quiet, her paintings are portals into the subtle realms of remembrance, shape-shifting in care of the viewer.

Website:  www.LindyKehoe.com

Instagram: @LindyKehoeArt

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Chris meets up with street artist friend Chaz Barrisson from the “London Police”  at The Wynwood Walls where he and art partner Bob Gibson are in the midst of creating an impressive new mural.

These two jokesters sit down over some beers and talk about what The Wynwood Walls is, Art Basel, street art, graffiti, the purpose of creating, and why “those birds are throwing nuts” at them!

About the Artists:

Chaz Barrisson and Bob Gibson, originally from the UK, began their artistic voyage on the streets of Amsterdam. 

25 years later they have painted in galleries and on walls all over the world.

Chaz makes the iconic Lad characters which are married with Bob’s illustrative architecture and portrait style.

Website: 

https://www.thelondonpolice.com

Social Media (IG): 

@TheLondonPolice

Amidst the hustle and bustle of Miami Art Basel, Chris sits down with artist friend Mear One during his “Metaphysical Surrealism” solo show. The two discuss graffiti history, Mear’s involvement in it, how it differs from street art, psychedelic research, his artistic inspiration and the messages he is currently conveying through his body of work.

About the Artist:

Mear One is an American artist based in Los Angeles, known for his often-political street graffiti art. Mear One is associated with CBS and WCA crews. As a graphic designer, Mear One has designed apparel for Conart, Kaotic, as well as his own Reform brand.

Website:

mearone.com

Social Media (IG):

@Mear_One

Legendary Folk Painter and Installation Artist Shrine was in Saint Petersburg for a job with a tattoo shop so spontaneously dropped by Chris' home. In that visit he quickly painted his staircase and stayed for a nice coffee and conversation we share with you here!

Shrine has been around the block a couple of times, thus why he is so well known and respected in the festival scene. So the conversation is deep and poignant, touching many deep matters to artists and humans in general.

About the NonProfit:

The Highway Sanctuary is an ongoing experiment of creative expression— creating the kind of world we want to live in.  https://www.highwaysanctuary.org/

Social Media (IG):

@ShrineOn

Chris sits down with legendary artist Roger Dean to philosophize over the art and architecture movements, what influenced them into what they are today, his extensive career, working closely with the progressive rock band “Yes” and what the future of the world may hold.

About the Artist:

Roger Dean is a world renowned artist and designer, known for his unique style of album cover paintings, logos, typefaces and organic architectural designs. He was born in Kent, England and graduated from the Royal College of Art as a silver medallist.

Website:

https://www.rogerdean.com

Social Media (IG):

@rogerdeanofficial

Chris and Gavin Gerundo aka Gavinger, sit down amidst the weird and lively Secret Dreams Music Festival. Gavinger shares about his role in producing this and other events, The Gallery Society, art curation, what’s so great about festivals, creation, inspiration, the myriad of mediums he works with, his journey with psychedelics, sexuality and social evolution.

About the Artist:

Gavinger is Gavin Gerundo, a visual artist on a mission to challenge our perceptions and inspire moments of awe in our everyday lives. Drawing inspiration from the natural and scientific worlds, Gavin combines the geometric with the organic in artwork ranging from canvasses to interactive pieces of hand painted furniture. He utilizes a variety of medium to portray fantastical states of consciousness, drawing influence heavily from dreams and lofty waking moments of grandeur.

Website:

https://gavinger.com

Social Media (IG):

@gavinger_

Chris visits long-time artist friend Sweet Melis at her mountain-top art studio in Asheville. In their chill conversation they discuss the birth of live painting into the east-coast festival scene, the community and artists formed from and around it, composition, snowboarding, graphic design, becoming a fine artist, the importance of finding your own artistic voice, running a small business, social media pitfalls, empowerment through motherhood and the ongoing changes amidst the festival scene and world at large.

About the Artist:

“I am passionately living a dream of constant creation. I am inspired by the earth and the sky, by color and design. I want to project the beauty of nature and its synchronicity in my work. I want people to see the beauty I see in this world, to feel it, to live presently in it.” 

— Melissa Leigh

Website:

https://www.sweetmelis.com

Social Media (IG):

@Sweet_Melis

Get ready for a playful and curiously philosophical ride with Chris and his artist friend Damon Soule!

The two discuss living off grid, chickens, creative inspirations, the human process, making an effecting upon others, toroidal fields, energetics, natural law, divineness, universal origins, religion constructs, Damon’s role in The Furtherrr Collective and what it means to be a creative.

About the Artist:

Soule’s work is highly complex and imaginative in both practice and concept. Fueled by his inherent investigative and obsessive curiosity, he employs an array of scientific and artistic systems to create his paintings including polarity, abstraction, alchemy, geometry, quantum physics, surrealism, molecular biology, meta physics, ancient symbolism, cosmology, Buddhism, sci-fi fantasy, cyber- infrastructures, the global, digital subatomic and infinitely vast multiverses we may find ourselves in at any given moment.

Website:

https://www.damonsoule.com

Social Media (IG):

@DomonSoule