FADER TV...from exhibitalia

check out this awesome video that Fader TV made from the Fiat Exhibitalia project! vry cool...i mean, except for the fact that my name is spelled wrong hahaha

FADER X FIAT X EXHIBITALIA: the werk!

Well, after painting my Friends & Lovers installation for a month straight, I kind of figured I was done for Basel...I even took the week off of werk so I could relax, party and view some amazing shit. But when The Fader hit me up about this Exhibitalia project and said I could paint the hood of a car, I was like HELLLL yeah!

I love old school hot rod art, pinstriping, sign painting, tattoo ish...you know what I mean...those genres share so many people and styles. Anyway, I was siked to do it, but not so siked on live painting. The whole time I was there, they were shooting pics and video, and we had to do interviews and stuff, which made makes me feel weird...I wore sunglasses the entire first session haha. But it was alright since the Fader crew was so rad....

They asked us to be there for four days, and everyone finished way ahead of me. I started to get annoyed and was beyond exhaustion, but I know how my process works (lots of refinement) and that I would finish, but would use every second I had. And I love painting by myself, so I am glad the other artists left haha...except Gustavo...I like him :)

I am super happy with how it came out! I wanted to treat it like a car by highlighting its curves, and using a textile-like pattern. And since i LOVE racing stripes, I made some out of diamond...I wanted it to look like they could fly off of the car when you start driving fast! Annnd I got to bring in some of the new striping elements I have been working on in secret, so all in all, it was great! Thanks Fader and Fiat and everyone who came out!

FADER X FIAT X EXHIBITALIA: presses

soooo, after 4 days of live painting, I finished my Fiat 500 hood at the Exhibitalia Show for Art Basel! i can't wait to see when the interviews come together and all of the footage of the event is out and about online. BIIIIG shout outs to the FADER FAM! they were so awesome to set this up and were super cool to hang with and of course, lots of love to my painting buddy PESSSSSST! in the meantime, heres some love from online:

village voice slideshow

The Fader blog

annnd some random pics i found around the interwebbbbs...twitter and whatnot:

FADER X FIAT X JESSY NITE X EXHIBITALIA

so I am super siked to have picked up a last minute gig with The Fader to paint the hood of a Fiat 500 at Exhibitalia tonight :) come by and check out some Italian artists and keep me company while i paint rainbow diamond racing skripes!