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UP Magazine’s Event Recap 2022
This year we’ve compiled an event recap, to reflect on all the exhibitions, art battles, artists talks, and release parties we’ve helped produce. Though saying the pandemic is over will probably jinx it and ensure another season of doom-and-gloom, 2022 was the first year we’ve been able to focus more of our energy ramping up live painting and in-person events, as COVID-19 faded to the background of societal consciousness.
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NYC Storefronts: How One Illustrator Boosted Small Businesses During the Pandemic
What started as a hobby for illustrator Joel Holland, became a fundraising campaign for local businesses and a love letter to New York City.
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Home, Hockey, and Heart with Elsie Designs
Meet Shirley Vuong, the entrepreneur and artist behind Elsie Designs, a Canadian art company spreading positivity, good food, cute animals, and…hockey? Greg Hamm speaks to Vuong about the NHL, her artistic journey, and what’s next for her business.
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Storm Ritter, Queen of the Cool People
Ambidextrous artist Storm Ritter is a surrealist painter who harnesses the power of her synesthetic mind to create esoteric landscapes filled with spiritual symbols of divine magic, tarot cards, and numerology. As an entrepreneur, her business ventures have included a brick-and-mortar store, ecommerce website, custom fashion pieces, jewelry and digital NFTs.
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Glaieul Samadani Finds Her Rhythm
UP speaks to abstract expressionist color field painter Glaieul Samadani, based out of Los Angeles, about her the process for her evocative and dreamlike color field paintings.
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Lala, The Surreal Cartoonist
Miranda interviews Lala, a Brooklyn-based rising star cartoonist whose work confronts the male gaze and what emotions are considered acceptable for women.
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UP5 Preview – The Iconic Humanism of Bob Ross
Claire paints an introspective perspective on the legacy of Bob Ross, and how his gentle words of encouragement shaped a generation.
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Josie Woods: Fuck Around and Find Out Why
Fuck around and find out how multimedia artist and Sour Mouse regular Josie Woods developed her vivid, ostentatious style and how art helped her heal.
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UP5 Preview – Transcendent CRASH: John Matos
Vittoria explores the remarkable career of John Matos, best known by his graffiti alias CRASH. From painting subway trains as a renegade teen, to painting guitars for Eric Clapton, CRASH demonstrates that a lot of hard work and a little luck can transcend you to the upper echelons of the art world.
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Los Bravu’s Happiness Renaissance
Inspired by the eternal Renaissance, Las Bravu creations bring humans to a central spot and represent the ruins of culture and the misery of a civilization incapable of focus and surrounded by constant inputs. However, there is always room for hope. At the end of the day, Los Bravu are here to remember us why being happy and expressing it through art is now more relevant than ever.
