Off to the Art Show

One of the most awesome people in Norfolk, Miz Hannah Serrano (AltDaily's publisher), has convinced the city to let her curate an art show at Selden Gallery. This is rad. 

The opening is tonight and I'm stoked. Pictures to come soon, as I'm shooting all over Norfolk tonight. Below are some of the artists from the show whom I dig, what (if anything) I've said about them in previous blogs, new discoveries, and AltDaily's take  on their talent and creativity. 

Nichole Ashikis aka Dripping Neon Design

Nichole does a lot of sketchy-type drawings with sometimes violent strokes of neon.  Here's her AltDaily article.  I've only seen her stuff a couple of times and recently hung out with her at the Brenn show, where she was drawing the band while I was shooting them. There wasn't any light though, so I don't know if she ended up with anything.

Richard Perkins

Richard Perkins' photography is worthy of being seen. I've written about him before. AltDaily's written about him before too. I love his blog. He's primarily a documentarian of the party scene, with a good many of his shots taken at local promotors' events. While those shots are rarely posed or artsy, they're one hell of a representation of time and place, and remind me of Vice-style shots. I like his posed, conceptualized stuff better, though.

Stuntkid aka Jason Levesque

Stuntkid is one of our strongest local artists, imo. Here's my previous thoughts on him. Here's AltDaily's.  I couldn't decide between the two, radically different, pictures above so I listed both. I just like how his mind works...

Sam V. aka Sam Vanagas

Something about his work reminds me of the Metallica video for "The Unforgiven." Its sad and alone yet full of energy and mayhem. Here's what AltDaily says.


Tim Skirven

I'll be honest. I didn't totally know Skirven's work before this project. Not sure how I missed AltDaily's article on him last year, but I did. I just read it and really liked his realistic, yet determined outlook on working professionally as an artist. I also like that he won the same JMU Graphic Design award as an old, good pal of mine did a decade ago.