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SLAMXHYPE - Please introduce yourself and what is your background?

BUTCHER BLOCK -

“Please allow me to introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
I’ve been around for a long, long year
Stole many a mans soul and faith
And I was round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name”

SXH – Can you tell us a bit about your artwork for the show?

BB – “its scrumdidilyuptious!”

SXH – How did you interpret and execute the title “Bailout”?

BB – I tied it’s hands behind it’s back, put a pillow case over its head and shot it through a couch cushion to muffle the gunshot sound.

SXH – What is your take on commercial art?

BB – “If i started murdering people there would be none of you left!”

SXH – How do you plan to celebrate the holidays?

BB – Most likely the family will take a yule goat to slaughter to celebrate the winter solstice, the rebirth of the sun, the promise of spring and life on the darkest day.

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SLAMXHYPE – Please introduce yourself and what is your background?

ANTHONY LISTER – My name is Anthony Lister. My background is in hostage situations and manipulation.

SXH – Can you tell us a bit about your artwork for the show?

AL – No, I don’t remember which piece my assistant sent you, sorry.

SXH – How did you interperate and execute the title “Bailout”?

AL – I bailed out by giving less of a fuck than anyone else involved.

SXH – What is your take on commercial art?

AL – Whatever.

SXH – How do you plan to celebrate the holidays?

AL – With chevy chase

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SLAMXHYPE: Please introduce yourself and what is your background?

EKUNDAYO: My name is Ekundayo IM from all over but HawaII is my home and where i was born. Im the son of a gangster from Inglewood california and my life long ambition is to be free from stress,learn, spread love and if im lucky reach a master level in my craft by the time im 75.

SXH: Can you tell us a bit about your artwork for the show?

E: Well i started feeling like i haven’t been drawing enough lately so I’m working in a style witch incorporates my love for both drawing and painting equally.

SXH: How did you interoperate and execute the title “Bailout”?

E: I look at it like things are teetering on the edge of collapse. Only time will show wether or not the decisions we make today will help or hurt us, not only financially but just with life in general. If things go unchecked for so long we can be in a situation of too little too late.

SXH: What is your take on commercial art?

E: It keeps my lights on.

SXH: How do you plan to celebrate the holidays?

E: In my studio working on my very first solo show in NYC at AD HOC gallery but i also want to relax a little eat some good food chill with the family and be Thankful for all my blessings.

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SLAMXHYPE – Please introduce yourself and what is your background?

MISERY – My name is Misery, I live in Auckland New Zealand. I paint characters of animals and little girls mostly. They are often very sweet and innocent like with a dash of something dark and twisted. I have loved painting and drawing since I was a small child. When I was 16 I became friends with a bunch of graffiti writers. They were always encouraging me to come out and paint with them. I started going out with my paints and a big jar of Indian ink and putting up my characters around Auckland city. This led to many art shows in New Zealand, Australia, USA, Germany, France.

My Misery Characters quickly grew into the production of Clothing, accessories, cosmetics, stationary and animation. There are many things I would love to see my work applied to. For now my focus is first and foremost making art, painting and exhibiting around the globe.

SXH – Can you tell us a bit about your artwork for the show?

M – My work for the show, is based on our environment, the manufactured world we are born in to where consumerism is brainwashed into us right from the start. How we spend everyday feeding the consumer monster because this is what many of us are taught will bring happiness and fulfillment, how we are ruled by the dollar to make what we believe will create a perfect world.

SXH – How did you interperate and execute the title “Bailout”?

M – I wanted to work with the idea of a circus, all the characters are sad with painted on happy faces. The obese clown lady is the consumer machine. Her bottom half is like a meat grinder. people must feed her constantly. She stuffs her face with cakes. The sad clowns turn the grinder which poors out a fountain of oil, in to a sort of underworld. where babies sleep being watched over by a voodoo clown woman cluttering their dreams with the want of manufactured goodies. kids eating fast food. dollar girls that are slaves to the evil ring master being pulled along on his segway.

SXH – What is your take on commercial art?

M – I’m not sure? Commercial art is fine as long as there’s a balance I guess.

I often get hassled if I take on a commercial job, get called a sell out etc. But you know you have to make a living. So as much as I don’t particularly love doing those kinds of jobs sometimes you need to. I’d much rather be making paintings for me. I think that’s the reason I love graffiti/ street art so much. It’s not for money or anyone really, just for fun and cos I enjoy it.

SXH – How do you plan to celebrate the holidays?

M – Probably at the beach, My mum has a beautiful house on Auckland’s West Coast.
I’ll probably hang out there a lot, spend some time with my dog. have dinner parties, I love cooking for people. drink some wine. go for bush walks in the forest by our place. There are a bunch of cool festivals here over summer, so maybe some road trips and a bit of that.

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SLAMXHYPE – Please introduce yourself and what is your background?

MICHAEL LEON - Michael Leon. My background is in skateboarding related art and design. Currently working in Portland Oregon as Design Director of Nike SB. Capricorn rising.

SXH – Can you tell us a bit about your artwork for the show?

ML – I’m using a format that I’ve been using for some time, the shape of a skull, sometimes wearing sunglasses. This time I’ve reinterpreted by doing a series of photographic portraits that are contained within that shape and photocopied onto large sheets of paper. The photocopy is a format that I have a connection with from doing zines and I like that it feels disposable. I think of them like pages ripped from a giant zine.

SXH – How did you interperate and execute the title “Bailout”?

ML – Loosely, I wanted to make something really straightforward and plain, stripping away all the parts I usually use with the skulls and focus on the faces, so hopefully when they are all tiled on the wall it will feel kinda confrontational. I guess just the fact that they are multiples of one format is a nod to the theme of the show, but I didn’t take it super literal.

SXH - What is your take on commercial art?

ML – My introduction to commercial art was through skateboard graphics. Doing art for a client (skateboard company) was part of it from the beginning for me. It was something I aspired to do. So I guess my take is that I feel lucky, in addition to my artwork, to be able to create work that serves another purpose.

SXH -How do you plan to celebrate the holidays?

ML – Visit with friends around Portland and my Mom in North Carolina.

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SLAMXHYPE - Please introduce yourself and what is your background?

STEVEN DAILY – Hi I’m Steven Daily, I’m a painter, designer, all around dork.
SXH – Can you tell us a bit about your artwork for the show?

SD – Nope!
SXH – How did you interperate and execute the title “Bailout”?

SD – Isn’t this the same question re-frased? I based my piece on the lies were fed. It’s my interpretation on how its all up for sale.
SXH – What is your take on commercial art?

SD – It pays the bills,
SXH – How do you plan to celebrate the holidays?

SD – Eating food and getting drunk with Tomi, Mike, Roman, and Chris, in the whales vagina area.

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SLAMXHYPE – Please introduce yourself and what is your background?

ANDREW POMMIER – My name is Andrew Pommier, I’m a drawer and painter and an artist for hire. I graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design with a major in Drawing and Painting. I currently live in Vancouver BC. and I have been here for about 5 years. At present live in a downtown drafty coach house with my girlfriend and a cat.

SXH – Can you tell us a bit about your artwork for the show?

AP – The drawing came about as just a funny maybe even stupid image I came up with one day while riding my bike around. When I was contacted about this show this seemed to be the most fitting image for the show. The nice thing was it was an idea I had already thought about so it didn’t get labored down with the pressure of doing something

SXH – How did you interperate and execute the title “Bailout”?

AP – The thinking about this piece is that the mouse costumed figure is on a lunch break from his job as a mascot in an amusement park so he’s grabbing an instant soup. The scene is in a time where iconic characters have merged together. The Hello Kitty head could be his mask or another mascots. It is meant to be unclear.

SXH – What is your take on commercial art?

AP – It pays my bills.

SXH – How do you plan to celebrate the holidays?

AP – My girlfriend and I are driving up to my mom’s for the holidays

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SLAMXHYPE – Please introduce yourself and what is your background?

JEFF MCMILLAN – My name is Jeff McMillan, I’m a freelance artist/painter/illustrator. I graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 2004 with a BFA in Illustration. I enjoy odd topics and figure I should paint them. I live and work in Long Beach, CA.

SXH – Can you tell us a bit about your artwork for the show?

JM – I did one piece on a fictional blue demon character that spits gold that lives up in the himalayas, he fancies a middle eastern boy scout uniform and hangs out with a dodo bird, he is the demon of want. I did two other pieces that comment on the identities of fast food chains.

SXH – How did you interperate and execute the title “Bailout”?

JM – I did one piece that comments on the act of being bailed out and what kind of strings are attached. The knight in shinning armour is a mysterious blue demon boy that spits out gold. He provides and we take, but there is always a price.

I did two other pieces that show the dark underbelly of the fast food chains, when people are pinching pennies they go for cheap food ex. “McDonalds” basically the monopolization of what to eat when times are tough.

SXH – What is your take on commercial art?

JM – Some of it is very cool, and some of it is very lame, it depends on what your purpose is. In the end, if your still doing it for the right reasons then it’s fine.

SXH – How do you plan to celebrate the holidays?

JM – Relaxing then stressing then relaxing, I’m not sure if it’s in that order.

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