MONSTER COMICS STREET ART
HEY APATHY! STREET ART CHRONOLOGY
HEY APATHY! Street Art 2004. I first started experimenting with street art performances in the spring of 2004. My early display fit entirely into a small black tool kit. The exhibition consisted of some really creepy monster drawings scribbled on ripped illustration boards, photo copied comic zines about a lost little skeleton, and a handful of pins. With a little black cloth for a shop I worked with bamboo pens and black India ink making creatures on the sunny Torontonian afternoons.
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MONSTER STREET ART 2005 During my second season as a street artist, the display of artworks started to grow. By this time I was using up four times the side walk space with an array of absurd atrocities. I started printing t-shirts and continued to carry buttons while hanging out on the street. I still had the little black tool box, only it was now accompanied by a knapsack. On weekdays I worked on a graphic novel followed by live painting on the weekends.
LIVE PAINTING 2005 The monstrous metropolis is under attack by Giant Robots devouring the city in an hallucinogenic and apocalyptic disply! As I spent more time working in public the street exhibitions continued to evolve. The Hey Apathy! portable arsenal now included framed ink sketches,published comics,and live 6 x 4 foot ink drawings. The little black tool kit was no longer of any use and my knapsack was replaced by a large travel bag to transport all the gear.
ON HAVING NO HEAD! 2006 Monster Comics, Heads Exploding, Surreal Robots and the City of Gears! 2006 was a busy year as the streets filled with tourists and endless artisan's alike.The HEY APATHY! artworks splattered across 12 x 8 feet of concrete every single day.At this time I was making live poster sized artworks in under 2 minutes and selling them almost as quickly.
Enter the Buddha Monster, Pig Face, and transformations of personified fears!
HEY APATHY! MONSTROUS METROPOLIS Large Monster faces, Surreal Decapitations, exploding buildings, technolgical epidemics and creepy creatures all spontaneously created in the streets of the big city. The artworks kept growing through out 2006. Using brushes to draw quickly I made hundreds of instantaneously hideous caricatures on the streets. Some the installations included 10 x 4 foot mural paintings made in under 30 minutes.
MONSTER COMICS STREET ART! The city is a giant gear propelled by all the crazy and weird denizens moving through it! Superheroes Samurai and the City Monster battle as Seeing Tower watches over the madness with indifferent veracity. The city monster rises and multiplies as the heroes, villains and commuters attempt to co-exist. The 2007 HEY APATHY! street installations included 10 x 15 foot live ink drawings both faster and more detailed than any of the earlier works.
HEY APATHY! CITY OF GEARS Giant Monster Comics Ink Murals made in the Streets of Toronto. 10 by 15 foot surreal cityscapes created in a matter of hour! A technological virus is rampaging through the city but the musicians and superheroes are on the case! Weird Comics books ( about being a street artist) limited edition prints, and crazy huge ink on paper performances. Performances include Nuit Blanche, Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition and the Hudson's Bay Co.
