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Channel Iris
If you have been to Detroit, you will understand how unique this city is. Detroit is at a special moment in time, attracting big fashion houses, investors and corporate brands. This also creates big opportunities for artists and creatives. We talked to Ceena and Bryan from the artist collective Channel Iris, about how they use art as a weapon to create a new culture and their own radical expression.
Scooter LaForge: Life Is Art; Art Is Life
Originally from Las Cruces, New Mexico, Scooter LaForge is one of New York City’s most mysterious characters. A friendly, approachable painter with an easygoing style, he constantly code-switches, weaving his fascination with words and everyday details into conversations that are often about conversation itself. His painting works on the same principle. The brushstrokes are the point—frozen movement that reveals moving targets of “meaning.” In his Gesamtkunstwerk apartment, the artist answers some of our questions.
Solitude – the opium of the artist
Chris Morris, the pencil drawing illustrator focuses his work on celebrity portraiture and surreal scenarios of animals helping each other.