ARTISTS ON THE EDGE :

Bill Traylor, Martin Ramirez & Jean-Michel Basquiat:

Homeless, Addiction, Mental Issues & Edges of life this show is about...

{CORRECTION: PLEASE NOTE} / on Basquiat's life " Basquiat did not live under a {LADDER}, what I meant under a {STAIRWELL} with a matress & TV as a young teenager "

Okay... Folk art & self taught Artists in show... excluding myself : Art Host/ Juan Gomez.

Am extra LOUD in this episode was soo much FUN!!! to RECORD!... if need be, adjust volume levels... 

Relationships of these three iconic artists, who at one time in their lives were homeless... Artists on the EDGE... are before their time, are renowned and loved all over the world today.

Listen to this 40 minute episode when you can, hopefully am able to enlighten every-listener on ME: Bill Traylor, Martin Ramirez & Jean-Michel Basquiat...

DISCLAIMER: All my information are from my personal research, any incorrect facts please clarify... I will add the corrections: HERE on NOTES.

Thank you for taking over 40 minutes of your busy LIFE, learning immersed in my accounts of my young collage life, with 3 other famous ARTISTS as reference of EDGE! until the next episode Adios Amigos!!! 

Your Art Host: JUAN GOMEZ! " FAMOUS ART SHOW" Podcast!

CAPA & GENESIS:

Music influences, and CAPA " The High School for the Creative & Performing arts "

Prog-Rock band "GENESIS" Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks and Steve Hackett... I speak about the song " Supper's Ready "

My childhood/ teenage experiences with music influences from the past.

Talked about my first time listening to Rhandy Rhoads & Ozzy Osbourne in school.

My teenage exposure to the Collage which was annexed with CAPA in 1984.

Thank you amigos! for listening to my stories of my musical influences.

Social Outcast:

Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Wassily Kandinsky also James Dean among many who I consider "SOCIAL OUTCASTS" myself included Juan Gomez.

Talked about my fist exposure to a party & alcohol with the Tiberino Family...

Being 19 years old feeling like the one who never clicked in social life. 

This short 8 minute show is about inter vert & extra vert personality of the artists of the Abstract Expressionists of the 40's and 50's also a little insight of my personal life.

The Illusion of Fame:

Van Gogh letters & preservation of his art by his brother Theo's wife "Johanna Van Gogh-Bonger". Known as the woman who made Vincent Famous.

The Cresson Scholar, Pafa undergraduate success & travel: Juan Gomez

Privilege of life,  with parents during my early career as an artist...

2003 left the nest, there extended the illusion of fame, then reality sets.

I'm Famous already and except my humble life of creative measures & trials.

"Overlooked, Unplanned... Chaos of the Creative Mind"

Art of Chaos & life:

Mark making, childlike yet sophisticated in nature. Dialog of music improvisation, Jazz & Jimmy Hendrix. Artist James Dupree comment reaction of art is every where.

My 50 years of art making & experiences, musical influences and story.

"OVERLOOKED, UNPLANNED  CHAOS of the CREATIVE MIND"

My first ever PODCAST! go easy on me,  LOL!!!

A BIG Thank you!!!

Taking time out,  almost 15 minutes of your busy lives... 

Your art host: Juan Gomez.