Showing posts with label Pilsen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pilsen. Show all posts
Sunday, May 24, 2015
Mole de Mayo Festival 2015 | Pilsen
Mole de Mayo is an annual festival held in Pilsen celebrating the incredible culinary dish from Mexico, MOLE!!
Shon Roka (pronounced Shaun Roca) the DJ also known as Shaun Ortega was born on the west-side of Chicago. He started gaining fame as a bboy in 1991 and later became a member of a well known crew called the BRICKHEADZ. He would perform for such artist and events such as The Roots, KRS One, Immortal Technique, Dougie Fresh, Common, Rhymefest, Cypress Hill, Pharoah Monch, Nas, Diddy, Mariah Carey, Taste of Chicago, Lollapolooza, Looptopia, B96 Summer Bash just to name a few. The BRICKHEADZ also won many breakin' competition nationally and internationally. While Shon Roka was being active as a bboy he was working on his craft of being a DJ.
DJing for w/ Nike, Jordan, Under Armour, Adidas, Vans, Uprise (Chicago) Skateshop for numerous in-stores, sporting events, galleries and corporate outings. Also Shon Roka is a resident DJ post Covid in Chicago at McGee's, Tantrum, Imbibe and Harbee's. While being a DJ, he has been teaching music production and the Art of Skateboarding through Maggie Daley's After School Matters. Also known as Gallery 37.
For more information contact via email.
Saturday, August 9, 2014
9th Annual We Are Hip Hop Festival | Sat 8/9
ElevArte Community Studio's We Are Hip Hop Festival Approaches for 2014.
Join us for our 9th year of exploring the true essence of Hip-Hop and promoting a proactive culture.
Bring your family and friends to the fun-filled festival, to support our youth's talents and passions.
Lineup
1:02 - 1:17 pm House DJ Jay Emm
1:20 - 1:35 pm Sunniē Storm
1:35 - 1:50 pm Jeronimo Speaks ft. Lyric
1:52 - 2:07 pm DJ Moppy ft. Ebonee Cutz
2:07 - 2:22 pm Kuumba Lynx
2:22 - 2:37 pm Roman Flowrs
2:40 - 2:55 pm Hex Hectic
4:08 - 4:23 pm JAM1PHOTO.com
4:23 - 4:38 pm FM SUPREME
4:38 - 4:53 pm Nick Astro
5:00 - 5:20 pm Calez
5:20 - 5:50 pm Legitimate
2:00 - 4:00 pm Graffiti Battle
3:00 - 4:00 pm Breakdancing Battle
Saturday August 9th
Dvorak Park Cermak and May-
Chicago, IL 60608
Free for all ages.
Lineup
1:02 - 1:17 pm House DJ Jay Emm
1:20 - 1:35 pm Sunniē Storm
1:35 - 1:50 pm Jeronimo Speaks ft. Lyric
1:52 - 2:07 pm DJ Moppy ft. Ebonee Cutz
2:07 - 2:22 pm Kuumba Lynx
2:22 - 2:37 pm Roman Flowrs
2:40 - 2:55 pm Hex Hectic
4:08 - 4:23 pm JAM1PHOTO.com
4:23 - 4:38 pm FM SUPREME
4:38 - 4:53 pm Nick Astro
5:00 - 5:20 pm Calez
5:20 - 5:50 pm Legitimate
2:00 - 4:00 pm Graffiti Battle
3:00 - 4:00 pm Breakdancing Battle
Saturday August 9th
Dvorak Park Cermak and May-
Chicago, IL 60608
Free for all ages.
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Hebru Brantley Is Chicago’s Hip-Hop Art Star
BY ELLY FISHMAN/CHICAGO MAG
Hebru Brantley
He was a former street artist born in Bronzeville—and now the 33-year-old’s work fetches thousands from blue bloods and rappers alike.
An hour with the graffiti-artist-turned-painter Hebru Brantley in his Pilsen studio—a large warehouse loft full of cluttered tables piled with spray paint cans, bags of Skittles, and half-finished canvases—feels like a minor lesson in multitasking. In a matter of minutes, the six-foot-eight artist checks the sales numbers on his online store (hebrubrandstore.com), fields phone calls from a Hong Kong collector, and puts the final touches on one of his comic-book-style pop-art paintings. He will later hop on a plane to London, where he has a solo show at the gallery Mead Carney. “It’s a little crazy right now,” says Brantley with a sly smile.
At 33, Brantley is one of Chicago’s fastest-rising artists, with some of his works commanding upward of $100,000 and a rapidly growing collector base that includes entrepreneur Matthew Pritzker and rap impresario Jay Z (who spent $20,000 on a Brantley painting in 2012). In the last year alone, Brantley has had work in 10 gallery shows and was the featured artist for both Chicago Artists Month and Chicago Ideas Week. Now, on June 14, he will premiere nearly 40 new works in Parade Day Rain, a solo show at the Chicago Cultural Center. “It’s a big moment,” he says. “This is my chance to put you in my world.”
Brantley’s Instagram feed depicts a world right out of a Kanye West music video. There are photos of him skateboarding with Lil Wayne, smoking cigars with Carmelo Anthony, and hanging with Lenny Kravitz. In an era when most street artists find fame from the shadows, Brantley has built a brand by broadcasting his ties with America’s glitterati.
Growing up in Bronzeville, he spent most weekends cruising the South Side looking for walls to tag and train cars to mark. “We’d scratch-bomb on trains, tag freight cars—you know, do throw-ups across the city,” Brantley says of the ’90s graffiti scene. “It was all about getting your name up wherever you could.”
He didn’t discover high art until he was 16 and his mother, Pamela Glover, an assistant at Johnson Publishing Company, gave him a book on Jean-Michel Basquiat. “I was entranced by him. It was like looking at the guy who did it first,” says Brantley. “He was a rock star.”
Two years later, in 1999, Brantley headed to Clark Atlanta University to study film. But he quickly soured on the industry (long hours, little creative control), preferring to sneak into art classes at the Art Institute of Atlanta. “I started exploring different things beyond Basquiat. I was honing my own style,” he explains. “It was like a crash course in painting.”
For the next couple of years, Brantley made ends meet working at HMV Records while painting on the side. Then, in 2002, he made his first sale. “My friend [Philadelphia record producer] DJ Drama bought a painting for $800. It was a big confidence boost,” Brantley recalls. “After that, I started thinking about just doing art.”
Today, Brantley’s work, like Basquiat’s, nods to black American history and gritty urban life. But he also brings his own affinities—Marvel comics, hip-hop music—to the canvas. His 2012 piece Captain, O’ My Captain, for example, depicts a black Captain America taking a cigarette break. “The paintings don’t take themselves very seriously,” he says. “I’m a kid at heart. But they still have some of those darker undertones.”
Some of that darkness comes from Brantley’s own life. Five years ago, he lost both his mother and stepfather to cancer within a six-month period. “I wasn’t painting much at that time,” he says. “I had moved back to Chicago to take care of my parents, and I felt drained. But I started to carry a sketchbook. I figured at the very least I could journal what was happening.”
It was during those doctor visits and hospital stays that Brantley began sketching work for a solo show, Fade Resistant, at Three Peas Art Lounge, a now-defunct gallery in the South Loop. “My mom just really wanted to make it to the show, but on the day I was going to take her, she lost vision in one eye and didn’t have the strength to walk,” Brantley says. Though Glover never saw the show, Brantley recalls that she gave him a piece of advice that stuck: “Be shark-like. Always moving, never stopping.”
To hear Brantley tell it, his rapid rise is due as much to his role as a savvy salesman and networker as to his art. “It’s all about growth. I want to do films, heavy licensing deals. I want to run the whole gamut,” he says. “I want people to come out of the shower and step on a Hebru Brantley rug.”
***********************************************************************************************************
Hebru’s World
Brantley’s work ranges from pop-art paintings to life-size fiberglass figurines.
A Dedication (Spielbergian) (2013)
Contra (2013)
Untitled (2014)
The Watch (2013)
An hour with the graffiti-artist-turned-painter Hebru Brantley in his Pilsen studio—a large warehouse loft full of cluttered tables piled with spray paint cans, bags of Skittles, and half-finished canvases—feels like a minor lesson in multitasking. In a matter of minutes, the six-foot-eight artist checks the sales numbers on his online store (hebrubrandstore.com), fields phone calls from a Hong Kong collector, and puts the final touches on one of his comic-book-style pop-art paintings. He will later hop on a plane to London, where he has a solo show at the gallery Mead Carney. “It’s a little crazy right now,” says Brantley with a sly smile.
At 33, Brantley is one of Chicago’s fastest-rising artists, with some of his works commanding upward of $100,000 and a rapidly growing collector base that includes entrepreneur Matthew Pritzker and rap impresario Jay Z (who spent $20,000 on a Brantley painting in 2012). In the last year alone, Brantley has had work in 10 gallery shows and was the featured artist for both Chicago Artists Month and Chicago Ideas Week. Now, on June 14, he will premiere nearly 40 new works in Parade Day Rain, a solo show at the Chicago Cultural Center. “It’s a big moment,” he says. “This is my chance to put you in my world.”
Brantley’s Instagram feed depicts a world right out of a Kanye West music video. There are photos of him skateboarding with Lil Wayne, smoking cigars with Carmelo Anthony, and hanging with Lenny Kravitz. In an era when most street artists find fame from the shadows, Brantley has built a brand by broadcasting his ties with America’s glitterati.
Growing up in Bronzeville, he spent most weekends cruising the South Side looking for walls to tag and train cars to mark. “We’d scratch-bomb on trains, tag freight cars—you know, do throw-ups across the city,” Brantley says of the ’90s graffiti scene. “It was all about getting your name up wherever you could.”
He didn’t discover high art until he was 16 and his mother, Pamela Glover, an assistant at Johnson Publishing Company, gave him a book on Jean-Michel Basquiat. “I was entranced by him. It was like looking at the guy who did it first,” says Brantley. “He was a rock star.”
Two years later, in 1999, Brantley headed to Clark Atlanta University to study film. But he quickly soured on the industry (long hours, little creative control), preferring to sneak into art classes at the Art Institute of Atlanta. “I started exploring different things beyond Basquiat. I was honing my own style,” he explains. “It was like a crash course in painting.”
For the next couple of years, Brantley made ends meet working at HMV Records while painting on the side. Then, in 2002, he made his first sale. “My friend [Philadelphia record producer] DJ Drama bought a painting for $800. It was a big confidence boost,” Brantley recalls. “After that, I started thinking about just doing art.”
Today, Brantley’s work, like Basquiat’s, nods to black American history and gritty urban life. But he also brings his own affinities—Marvel comics, hip-hop music—to the canvas. His 2012 piece Captain, O’ My Captain, for example, depicts a black Captain America taking a cigarette break. “The paintings don’t take themselves very seriously,” he says. “I’m a kid at heart. But they still have some of those darker undertones.”
Some of that darkness comes from Brantley’s own life. Five years ago, he lost both his mother and stepfather to cancer within a six-month period. “I wasn’t painting much at that time,” he says. “I had moved back to Chicago to take care of my parents, and I felt drained. But I started to carry a sketchbook. I figured at the very least I could journal what was happening.”
It was during those doctor visits and hospital stays that Brantley began sketching work for a solo show, Fade Resistant, at Three Peas Art Lounge, a now-defunct gallery in the South Loop. “My mom just really wanted to make it to the show, but on the day I was going to take her, she lost vision in one eye and didn’t have the strength to walk,” Brantley says. Though Glover never saw the show, Brantley recalls that she gave him a piece of advice that stuck: “Be shark-like. Always moving, never stopping.”
To hear Brantley tell it, his rapid rise is due as much to his role as a savvy salesman and networker as to his art. “It’s all about growth. I want to do films, heavy licensing deals. I want to run the whole gamut,” he says. “I want people to come out of the shower and step on a Hebru Brantley rug.”
***********************************************************************************************************
Hebru’s World
Brantley’s work ranges from pop-art paintings to life-size fiberglass figurines.
A Dedication (Spielbergian) (2013)
Contra (2013)
Untitled (2014)
The Watch (2013)
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
GRAFFRO | Rahmaan Statik's portrayal of Natural Beauty.
Chicago Weekend Events not to be missed, Rahmaan Statik's potrayal of Natural Beauty Show titled, Graffro. Showing old and new works, plus some perfomances and live paiting.
The show, "Graffro" will explore the self esteem of women who don't ascribe to unnatural means of achieving beauty. The body of work will depict various women with natural hair and natural beauty. Within the hair of the women, there will be positive and inspirational words written in graffiti letters. This show will be an inspiration for women. If women realize that they can be beautiful without anything extra, they will be able to realize that their natural beauty is good enough, and even more valuable than the form of beauty they achieve by altering their hair, wearing makeup, or having cosmetic surgery.
when
Saturday April 5,2014 from 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Show
Gallery Bar Chicago
738 N. Clark St., Chicago, Illinois 60654
Live painting by Rahmaan Statik
Performance by Radius
Dj 007 and MC Tree Turner.
$8 Statik one cocktail specials
$3 whiskey shots
RSVP missy@gallerybarchicago.com
To see 15 years of work by Rahmaan Statik go to www.STATIKONE.NET .
The show, "Graffro" will explore the self esteem of women who don't ascribe to unnatural means of achieving beauty. The body of work will depict various women with natural hair and natural beauty. Within the hair of the women, there will be positive and inspirational words written in graffiti letters. This show will be an inspiration for women. If women realize that they can be beautiful without anything extra, they will be able to realize that their natural beauty is good enough, and even more valuable than the form of beauty they achieve by altering their hair, wearing makeup, or having cosmetic surgery.
when
Saturday April 5,2014 from 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Show
Gallery Bar Chicago
738 N. Clark St., Chicago, Illinois 60654
Live painting by Rahmaan Statik
Performance by Radius
Dj 007 and MC Tree Turner.
$8 Statik one cocktail specials
$3 whiskey shots
RSVP missy@gallerybarchicago.com
To see 15 years of work by Rahmaan Statik go to www.STATIKONE.NET .
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Chicago History w/ Bboy Trixter | WindyCityWednesdays | www.tckpro.com
Shon Roka (pronounced Shaun Roca) the DJ also known as Shaun Ortega was born on the west-side of Chicago. He started gaining fame as a bboy in 1991 and later became a member of a well known crew called the BRICKHEADZ. He would perform for such artist and events such as The Roots, KRS One, Immortal Technique, Dougie Fresh, Common, Rhymefest, Cypress Hill, Pharoah Monch, Nas, Diddy, Mariah Carey, Taste of Chicago, Lollapolooza, Looptopia, B96 Summer Bash just to name a few. The BRICKHEADZ also won many breakin' competition nationally and internationally. While Shon Roka was being active as a bboy he was working on his craft of being a DJ.
DJing for w/ Nike, Jordan, Under Armour, Adidas, Vans, Uprise (Chicago) Skateshop for numerous in-stores, sporting events, galleries and corporate outings. Also Shon Roka is a resident DJ post Covid in Chicago at McGee's, Tantrum, Imbibe and Harbee's. While being a DJ, he has been teaching music production and the Art of Skateboarding through Maggie Daley's After School Matters. Also known as Gallery 37.
For more information contact via email.
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