Artshoot By Cara Michelle Smith!

Last night in the studio, Cara, equipped with her badass lighting system and her even more badass photog-skillz shot some of my work right in the face! Take a gander:

i want to b#$@k your d!#k!

Bring it on!

Skatebeard Sale!

You know what? It's about time I did this...

It's a Good Ol' Fashioned Skatebeard Sale!

By popular demand (at least two people and one Silky Terrier have expressed interest), I'm making my Skatebeards available for sale in the following ways:

Pre-Made Skatebeard: *$35.00

(usually with acrylic paint and some mixed media)

Recycled Deck Skatebeard: *$25.00 with a donated skate deck

(Same materials, but I recycle your deck.)

16"X 24" Original Illustration with Skatebeard Interchangability Action! (Comes with 1 Skatebeard)

*$150.00 without deck donation / *$140.00 with deck donation

*Prices are currently set at a discounted rate

Email me at tolentinoed.artwork@gmail.com for more info!

(Photocred: Roderick Pena)

I can stand the rain!

It's been a boiling hot minute since I've made any updates to this here blog, but I've been busy, I promise! This past weekend, the fine folks at Art Love Magic gave me the opportunity to show my work and do my thang in an artist tent for the DART Green Line grand opening ceremony.

Alongside my homies, C. Kirk, Hal Samples, Frank Campagna, The Traveling Man Robot and many, many more, I set up in the rain and got soaked for about 6 hours. I wasn't about to let the biblical downpour or the lack of easels dampen my day, so I proceeded to use a bit of rope and a dangerously flimsy chair to hang my work and a few of my skatebeards. Here's proof:

Ye Olde Artist Statement gets a Facelift!

In preparation for a show at the Magnolia, the one and only Scott Horn requested a bio and an artist's statement. For the first time in a long while, I decided to sit down and update my creative purpose. And I feel refreshed because of it. 

Check it out:

Academically immersed in theories on race and culture, I am inspired by the prospect of communicating and learning from the diverse human experience. Characterized by figures with gaping mouths and textural formations, “Out of the Woodwork and Beyond” is a series dedicated to the notion of revelations through refreshed perspectives. 
    
By creating palatable scenes with inquisitive creatures, holes, layered wood, mirrors and fiber, I aim to elicit a desire to further explore and engage with each composition. Through a hodgepodge of materials and techniques, I hope to offer the viewer an accessible opportunity to discover diversity. Ideally, this temptation to feel and further investigate the terrain of the art can be applied to our relationships with one another. 

Like the pale figures seen in this series, when we are confronted with the infinite array of components that influence our respective identities, we often stir with confusion and fear of change. However, when we proactively discover various vantage points, we invigorate a consciousness with the capacity to understand. 

We awaken, bright-eyed and bushy-bearded, ready to impact others with the beauty of individuality.

I Will Be Here

tonight. Here are a few photos from dropoff day. Sorry about the blurriness.

I AM HERE.

I promise. It's been total blog fail lately, but things have settled down some after a move, a joint show, a job change, etc. and I'm back in action! If for nothing else, I'll be retroactively posting a few things to document them on the interwebs. 

As for now, the big item on my agenda is the DIAC's I AM HERE show (as noted in the sweet graphic below).

Cara and I are exhibiting next to one another to represent the KUNST! revolution up at Dbros Addison and beyond. Come on by the SouthSide on Lamar to check out 6 pieces by us and a ton of other work by a mixed bag of great talent from Big D.

I also wanted to express infinite gratitude to my homies Dylan Hollingsworth and Zach Saucedo for reaching out and inviting us to show at this event. Much appreciation, fellas.