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To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Sydney based artist The Ox King has positioned himself as a leading mural painter in Australia through his stylized pop imagery influenced heavily by his obsession with manga as a kid. His strong emphasis on color and design make his work immediately recognizable and easily accessible to the public.

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com The paintings and drawings of Berlin based American artist Allison Sommers act as a portal to a universe very similar to our own but in which some evil genius has altered a few lines of the code. Grotesque in subject matter but handled with exquisite artistic attention, the viewer is left struggling to decide whether they should tur...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Lady Aiko has been a hugely influential force in the "urban art” scene for significantly longer than there has even been an “urban art” scene. Since moving from Tokyo to New York in the early 90s Aiko has been a constant presence and has collaborated with or even played a pivotal roll in the early careers of industry giants such as...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com It is not at all an over exaggeration to say that Paradox (Mr. ParadoxParadise) is one of the most prolific, most unique, and most visible graffiti writer in Berlin, a city full of prolific and unique graffiti writers. Because of that however, they are extremely secretive and anonymous which is why this episode of VantagePoint is so...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com For some people, turning your hobby into your career can suck all of the fun and passion out of it. For others, it allows them to do what they love every day and adds an extra level of excitement and motivation. RAWS stands confidently in the second group. As a teenager he discovered his love for graffiti. At university he studied g...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Kkade discovered his love of letters while writing graffiti in his youth. His love became an obsession when studying graphic design at school and realizing that the middle point between letter styles and design is typography. From his small city in Switzerland, Kkade as gained global recognition for his ultra clean and stylized typo...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Krimsone and Scott Nagy formed a friendship as kids and dove headfirst into the local graffiti scene together. Years later they casually joined forces and have spent most of the past few years painting full time as a mural duo. Their explosive use of bold colors and beautifully composed scenes depicting a wide range of native Austra...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com I am driving with windows down late at night through the sticky Miami heat to meet an artist who has the name of a sci-fi creature and who’s work deals with portals and dimensions of time and space… I have no idea what to expect. When I arrive at HOXXOH’s house what I find is a super laid back guy with a lot to say and a small but a...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Li-Hill was born and raised in Canada but it was while living in Brooklyn that he made his bones in the art world. His rare ability to translate his work across mediums and scale and from 2D to 3D sets him apart and makes him the envy of many artists. From small studio paintings and sculptures to massive murals and public art instal...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com In the late 90s Akut together with two friends formed a crew that would become one of the most influential crews in one of the largest art movements in the history of art. It sounds like an insane statement to make, but the fact is that Akut and the MaClaim crew were expanding the boundaries of what could be done with a spray can an...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Brad Eastman, better known as Beastman, has spent the past decade cementing his place as a leading figure in the Sydney art scene. Although murals and studio work have always been the core of Eastman’s career, the diversity of his work and output is perhaps his most impressive superpower. His ability to balance high-profile commerci...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com To say that Mode2 is a pioneer of graffiti is a monumental understatement. His aesthetic in the early 80s and the crews he formed and associated with would influence the way that graffiti and especially graffiti characters would look for the next 40 years. In 1987 his work was chosen to be on the cover of Spaycan Art, a book that wo...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Fintan Magee has often been referred to as one of Australia's leading muralists but the truth is he’s been at the top of the heap globally for nearly a decade and gets nothing but the utmost respect from every other painter around the world. Although humans are the central imagery in his somewhat surreal paintings, the thought and m...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Born in the Netherlands, raised in Australia, and educated in New York City, the diverse backstory of Kaili Smith parallels the diversity of the work he makes. He first entered the VantagePoint radar a few years ago when his large narrative paintings of urban youth began popping up all over social media. The work had a strength and...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Southern California legend Jeff Soto found big success in the early 2000’s with his mashup style combining graffiti and illustrative imagery with traditional painting techniques. His very distinctive artistic voice eventually caught the attention of Juxtapoz magazine and in 2004 landed him on the cover which introduced the world out...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com The work of Los Angeles based painter Augustine Kofie is visual jazz… an improvised expression of a moment in time, and possibly the artist himself, laid down with a technical precision and delicate subtlety only he is capable of. His paintings are an amalgamation of experiences and influences absorbed over decades of being acutely...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Psychedelic spiritual journeys in the Mexican jungle… beach bumming on the Australian coast… snowy vandal missions blasting 2 story high fire extinguisher tags on Brooklyn rooftops, to ELLE it’s all part of the same story, a mission to compile a life and livelyhood out of a continuous string of momentous adventures. A keen eye will...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com The work of Drew Merritt appears to have been created by the hand of a classically trained painter well versed in the techniques and methods of the Old Masters but the reality of the situation, much like his work, is far more complicated than it seems. Drew’s training and introduction to the arts came through graffiti covered freigh...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Michael Reeder is one of the hottest artists in the Urban Contemporary movement at the moment hands down. With roots in graffiti from his upbringing in Dallas Texas paired with a New York City art school education at SVA, Reeder is the perfect example of what the term Urban Contemporary tries to describe. His forward-thinking approa...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Entering a room inhabited by RABI is like being beamed up into an alien spacecraft. His energy sucks you in and any attempt to divert your attention is futile. It is unclear at any time whether you should be taking this mysterious character seriously or if you’ve somehow slipped into a parallel universe. His artwork holds the same p...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com "Deconstructed Pop Art” is the term used by Matt Gondek to describe his work which features familiar cartoon characters in various stages of decay and disarray. His special blend of appropriation and branding have gained him a massive global following especially in Asia. What started as works on canvases and walls has transitioned i...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Greg ‘Craola’ Simkins has accomplished something that many have attempted but only few have succeeded in doing. He crossed over from the graffiti world into the fine art world with huge success and very little compromise, and in doing so has influenced a generation of artists to attempt to follow his lead. His work is highly sought...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Johannes Mundinger is a staple of the Berlin mural and contemporary art scene. His abstract murals play color against shape while taking influence from the surrounding environment to inform the direction for the artwork during it's creation process. His studio work, much like his murals, can be at times fully experimental and at oth...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Like a cup of coffee on a frosty winter morning in Austria, Frau Isa has a warm and relaxed energy beaming from her that brings a smile to everyone’s face in the room. Her artwork can be described in exactly the same way… subtle, clever, sweet, funny, and distinctively her own. As the only female member of the legendary Weird Crew,...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com The surrealist paintings of Atlanta based Thomas Turner depict scenes from the natural world if the laws of physics didn’t apply. Things such as gravity, color, time and space are solely held in Turners control and he alone decides what is or isn’t. Although widely considered a studio painter, Turner has spent the last few years bra...