I am dreXeL. I thought you knew… Art, eating paint, life in Brooklyn. Fear it.

• Here are 4 new pieces that are going to be on display at the “Spray it don’t Say it” group show in Seattle.  In case you didn’t catch the flyer it’s the post below this one.  The opening is August 9th.  And I feel quite honored to be part of it.  The other artists in the show are Jef Aerosol, Littlegirllost, Cash, Soule, Mass Rad, Asher and Joab.  So it’s gonna be a realllllly good time.  Come down if you’re in the area!  XO, dreXeL

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ode to the voices in my head…

spray paint and paint markers on an old record.

peace, dreXeL xo

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I could have sold my old records for so little money I’d have felt stupid going through the effort of having lugged 1000 lbs. of vinyl around to do it.  Or I could have just donated them or thrown them away or kept them in crates in my parents’ basement.  But I was running low on canvases…

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My newest group show is on Friday, March 7th.  If you’re in the area, COME!  It’s at Hope Lounge at that’s ALWAYS a good time.

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Last night was the debut of TooFly’s first jewelry line at All The Right in Queens.  Really good time.  I saw some of my good friends and fellow members of the Younity collective, listened to some seriously old skool tunes (to the point that I woke up this morning with “Lyrical Gangsta” in my head over and over and over), and of course got to rock my new bling…

For all the pics and the show info, click here for Toofly’s blog… 

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I started a series.  Don’t know how far I’ll go with it, but I can come up with hundreds of reasons to like New York, so I could theoretically take it pretty far.

For now here are two…

Reason number 1

Reason number 2 aka “Masked Self Portrait”

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I know I usually post about something having to do with me. My art, my shows, whatever. I mean, it is MY blog after all. But today I feel like talking about other people. Of course it will still be MY opinions about other people.

Anyway…I have some artist friends I’ve made pretty recently, and I’m real proud to know them. So it’s time to tell the world. They have just mad, endless talent. And I have been fortunate enough to hang out with them, paint with them, learn things, watch them work, AND I have some of their pieces on my walls. So yeah, I’m pretty much lucky all around. They’re really well known already, but just in case you aren’t one of the enlightened many who know about them, let me introduce you to AVONE, NOBODY, 2ESAE and SKI.

This piece is by avone. And I OWN it. You should be very jealous.

This one is a nobody(tmnk)/avone collaboration. i *heart* that rust for reals.

Here’s a collabo piece by ski mst, avone, tmnk and 2esae. And one that I dig. like a LOT.

Here’s me holding up a piece that i own, in the spot in Soho where they sell their work. 2esae, avone and ski mst collabo:

Their spot in Soho is corner of Prince and Greene…you know…so you can go out there and buy up all their paintings. Do it. You know you want to.

Thanks to avone for the photos for this post. I yanked em off his flickr page cuz I’m way too lazy to take all those photos myself. And thanks to all four of you for your inspiration, your friendship and for just making the world a more beautiful place. <3
Here are some more links if you wanna find out more…

Ski’s flickr page

2esae’s flickr page

tmnk’s flickr page

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(originally uploaded by jcn.)

This is actually the only pic I have of opening night at my show. It was taken by my friend, Jesse…the link to his gallery is above. Guess I was just too busy shmoozing to bother taking photos. Glad SOMEONE was on the ball that night. Thanks Jesse. You da bestest.

XO Erica

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To all of you who came to my opening this thursday at Sapphire Lounge.  It was a lot of fun and I met amazing people, as well as getting some time to hang out with old friends.  I appreciate you guys like crazy.  Here’s to lots of good times to come!  XO Erica

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