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To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com The strength of some artists lies in their mastery of a medium, technique, subject matter, or style. Other artists thrive off of diversity and exploration across many different artistic endeavors. Brooklyn based SPECTER definitely falls into the latter category. Wheat-pastes, public ad-busting and takeovers, photography, painting, s...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com As an artist grows and progresses though their career they constantly search for new ways to break the rules and make discoveries. Italian artists Moneyless has made a name for himself doing exactly that. As a teenager growing up in Milan he hit the streets with the rest of his friends writing his name and studying graffiti culture....

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Growing up in Iran in the 90s and early 00's presented challenges for a young man that most of us around the world could not even imagine. Icy and Sot, two brothers separated in age by 6 years compounded these challenges when they took up street art as teenagers and then later more seriously and professionally as young adults. In a...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Coming off of a strong year of huge projects including a solo show in Berlin and mural projects spanning the globe from Miami, to Chennai India and numerous points in between, LOOK appears to be attacking the art world with both eyes wide open. As one of the founding members of Peachbeach (a successful design firm with partner and V...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com As the world submits to the undeniable fact that the internet has changed how we live our lives and how we perceive and interact with the world around us, it has become glaringly evident that the people shaping this online world have great influence over how and what we see and base our opinions on. This "information food chain" is...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com It's hard to imagine that at such a young age one artist could accomplish as much in the contemporary art and mural scene as Gaia has. As one of the go to names in the early days of the mural explosion, Gaia cemented himself as a major player from very early on. His work can be found all over the globe, he has participated in some o...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com On the second floor of one of Berlin's most lively and rambunctious event spaces lies something quite beautiful and special. Through the beer soaked exhibition hall which has housed some of Berlin's greatest urban art and graffiti shows of the past few years, past the bathrooms so plastered with stickers that it is anyones best gues...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com As one of the OG's of stencil art and street art in general, Jef Aerosol knows a thing or two about urban art and how to stay relevant over long periods of time. Inspired by punk rock music and the French contemporary art scene at the time, Jef began cutting and painting stencils throughout his small town in central france as early...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Floating somewhere between the straight up graffiti scene and the high end gallery art market Stohead has managed to blow up in the last few years while remaining somewhat anonymous at the same time. Known primarily for his drip heavy hand-styles and square format text driven paintings, the Berlin based Stohead has quietly taken his...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com With a previous career in New York's punk rock music scene Jonathan LeVine gained an early feel for outsider art and the underground. It would be this same sensibility that would a few years later fuel his fire to open his own art gallery featuring visual art with a punk rock vibe. A few years and a handful of smart moves later Jona...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com As one of Berlin’s leading young female painters, Julia Benz has a thirst for life and experience which seems to be perfectly matched to her determination and dedication to her craft. Taking on new projects in unfamiliar territory seems to have been the theme of the last two years for Benz but all the while holding strong to her die...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Imagine a "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" type situation where a young punk rock kid from Brooklyn finds himself time traveling back to 17th century Holland and stumbles into the painting studio of one of the classic Dutch Masters. Accepting this odd twist of fate, he dutifully studies the teachings and techniques of his mentor...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com At the beginning of January of 2014, two guys in Berlin set out to document the Urban Contemporary art world armed with little more than a few microphones and a Zoom recorder. The plan seemed simple enough… "Lets find some artists, sit them down for an hour and talk to them about their work. We'll record the whole thing and release...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com 'Armature' is the english word for the skeletal structure upon which a sculpture is constructed. When all detail and mass have been stripped away, the Armature is all that remains. Likely as a result of his early training as a sculptor, the work of Chinese born, South Africa based painter Dal East resembles that of a metal or wooden...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com It has been said that Graffiti and street art is the most widespread and influential art movement in history. A lot of the worldwide reach that graffiti has enjoyed has much to do with with it's timing and connection to the birth of the internet age but before that even, Kids around the globe were catching the graffiti virus through...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Her story plays out like a hollywood film… strong, independent thinking young girl grows up in suppressive socialist Poland only to find herself rebelling agains everything around her. She eventually scraps together enough money and guts to buy a one way ticket to New York City where she arrives with hardly more than a few dollars i...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Axel Void is a true child of mother earth. With ancestral roots in Spain and Haiti, he has moved around a lot in life. Born in America, raised in Spain, Axel even called Berlin home for some time before moving back to Miami where he currently resides during his down time from a life of travel and exploration. The effect of this trav...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Possibly more than any other guest on VantagePoint to date, Mark Lyken epitomizes the connection that visual art and music can and very often do have. As an accomplished artist in both fields Lyken bounces back and forth between the two with an ease that is more impressive than he may be willing to admit. What's more, is that if one...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com An artist's journey is often full of surprises and unexpected turns. One opportunity can lead to another and to another and next thing you know, you've got a solo show in a gallery half way across the world. Such is the story of Paola Delfin. In her home town of Mexico City, Paola has been painting for many many years, but an opport...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Take everything you know about graffiti and street art dudes and throw that right out the window. This guys approach is unlike anything you’ve seen before. At first glance it appears that he absolutely does not give a fuck about anything or anyone and could not care less what you think about him or his work. But the more you talk to...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com it’s 3:00pm on a tuesday afternoon at a crowded train station in Berlin. A young lady tucks her newspaper under her arm as her train pulls into the station to take her home. From the corner of her eye she sees something move in the bushes just past the end of the train platform. She gasps. It’s a dude with a ski mask over his face c...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Now a days in the art world it can seem as though marketing and a strong (social) media game are just as important as artistic vision and talent. It can also sometimes seem that those who run the scene’s blogs and print media hold supreme power over who does and does not succeed and rise to the top. Because of this, we here at Vanta...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Here on VantagePoint we like to have fun and few shows were more fun to record than this one. A bottle of Jameson , a room full of beers, and our very first ever live studio audience surely set the tone for this weeks show. For episode 017 of VanteagPoint we are very happy to bring to you, from the dirty streets of London straight t...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com Any close observer of the work of German artists BASE23 can easily see the connection between the boxy geometric characters that he paints and the 70′s era Japanese toys and robots that he’s been obsessively collecting for decades. His effortless understanding of shape, form, color, and perspective speak to his background in graphic...

To hear the full version with music, visit  Vantagepointradio.com To step into the studio of TWOONE is to step into the reality that some artists are simply able to shine in multiple mediums and make it look easy. Painting, sculpture, murals, etchings… there’s very little that this guy doesn’t do and do well. Born in Japan, and aged like a fine wine in Australia, TWOONE is now making a heavy prese...