The making of my mural for Pantone's 2016 #ColorOfTheYear campaign.
Project managed by Crewest Studio.
Video and editing by Reggie Reagor.
Man One Art © 2016
MAN ONE X PANTONE
Every year Pantone announces it's color of the year to a global audience of eager fashion designers, interior decorators, brands, designers, and basically anyone who deals with color in their perspective fields. Pantone reached out and asked if I would participate in helping them with the early December launch for the color of the year. Of course I said yes!
This year was a first on many levels for starters there would be 2 colors of the year not one for 2016. Named Rose Quartz and Serenity I was asked to bring my creativity to the table. So using Venice Beach as my back drop I created a signature "Man One" graff style focusing on the pastel hues at hand.
That day the sky decided to be in agreement and mimicked the colors I was working with. Wow! Couldn't have asked for a better result. I also created some bespoke Pantone inspired spray can labels just to add that extra touch. Thousands of international Instagram views and comments later, I say it was a successful launch!
Man One signature spray can series for Pantone. Coming soon??
Getting likes on Pantone's official Instagram account.
The morning after.
Thanks to this collaboration I was featured on a few websites like: LATACO and PFSK
Aside from my mural here in L.A., we (CrewestStudio.com) helped orchestrate other murals in Miami and New York at the same time. Check out the work over there by my crew mates Marka27 & Werc.
Photos: Reggie Reagor © 2015
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Source: http://www.manone.com/
ORIOL...NEW MURAL IN ECHO PARK
I've just recently completed my newest mural under my self funded mural campaign; #FacesLA. For this mural, I chose to do a portrait of my friend and fellow artist Mr. Eriberto Oriol on the side of an often tagged wall in Echo Park, just off Sunset Blvd. Eriberto is not only a talented photographer but an incredible artist and one of the first to curate a graffiti show in Los Angeles. He is one of LA's very own that we should all know about. I'm honored that he allowed me to give him props through this mural.
Eriberto in front of my mural.
My pops helping me out on clear coating the mural.
Kicking it with Eriberto.
Just checking out the block.
"Oriol" by Man One © 2015 (Echo Park)
If you take a flick of this piece, remember to use the hashtag #FacesLA.
Onto the next one..
LIVE ART AT FOLAR FANDANGO
As many of you know, I've been a longtime supporter of the Friends of the LA River. This coming weekend they are hosting their big gala, FANDANGO.
I will be there painting an 8'x8' live mural that will be sold off in 64 individual panels! I will also have other available art up for auction.
Below is the flyer and a link for more info if you're interested in attending or simply supporting the great work that they do for our LA River.
I leave you with my quick tag video that we've been using on social media.
(Click on the flyer for more info about this event)
PUBLIC ART FORUM: LONG BEACH, CA
The City of Long Beach Department of Parks,
Recreation and Marine Mural & Cultural Arts Program is hosting:
October is Arts Month
FREE! Public Art Forum
Sunday, October 11th from 3pm – 5pm
Location:
Sterns Champions Park
Community Center
4520 East 23rd Street
Long Beach, CA 90815
(562) 570-1685
We will be discussing the creation, maintenance and community/private or city/state government ownership of public art. The pros, cons of community art, who decides on the artists, funding for projects, local artists versus a regional, state, national, international call for artists, etc.
Artist Panel Includes:
Man One
Elliot Pinkney
SwissPrecise (aka Kenneth S Cassidy)
MODERATOR: Craig Cree Stone
is a Professor of Art in Public Practice and the Director of the American Indian Studies Program at CSULB. Known for his public artworks that often incorporate the use of shadows to allude to the history and activities of the area where they are located, Stone’s art in the public sphere is located throughout Southern California. Ranging from a block-long building in the fashion District of Los Angeles to a park atop a hill in Signal Hill, to the entrance to City Hall in Manhattan Beach, a building lobby constructed as an artwork to a street long project entitled, Shadows Casting on the Shore, (1995) that is literally permanent “street art” where images of shadows extend from the parking meters along Second Street in Belmont Shore, on the sidewalks and up the walls of buildings. His most recent effort entitled: Image Emergence: Promenade of Clouds (2011) consists of the design of a plaza including five large sculptures for the first block of the Promenade in Long Beach.
For more information please contact:
Heather Green, Cultural Supervisor
Heather.Green@longbeach.gov
MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART
SOMEWHERE OVER EL ARCO IRIS: CHICANO LANDSCAPES; 1971 - 2015 September 19 through November 15, 2015
I am currently showing at this wonderful group exhibition at MOLAA (Long Beach, CA) curated by Julian Bermudez.
My piece "ALIENATION" 48" x 96" aerosol and acrylic on wood panel. 2015
Courtesy of Castulo de la Rocha/AltaMed Art Collection
MOLAA’s first exhibition to present works solely by Southern California-based Chicano artists, introduces audiences to this unique school of American art through a series of landscapes spanning 40 years. The exhibition features paintings, drawings, photographs, mixed media works and rare studies by artists such as Carlos Almaraz, Yolanda González, Gronk, Wayne Alaniz Healy, Ramses Noriega, Frank Romero, Jamex and Einar de la Torre, John Valadez, Patssi Valdez, Shizu Saldamando, Roberto Gutíerrez, Jose Ramirez, and Ana Serrano. In addition, street artists Man One, Jaime “Germs” Zacarias, Vyal Reyes, and Johnny KMDZ Rodriguez have been invited to create new, original artworks—inspired by some of the works on view in the exhibition—to convey the breadth and relevance of today’s Chicano art.
Here are some pics from opening night but there is much more to enjoy in person.
*Extended through January 31st, 2016!