I love Illustrated album covers and it seems like this trend has been resurfacing lately check out a couple of covers I really love done by some amazing artists.
Traveling exhibition Esoteric Lore continues when it’s next stop at the Auburn Ave Research Library in Atlanta, Ga opens tonight. Esoteric Lore: Visual Storytelling is a growing collective of eight female artists sharing empowering artwork that engages and responds to one sided and often times negative representations of black women in mainstream media. The collective features an array of talented painters, photographers, videographers and musicians including Corinne Stevie Francilus, Taryn Lee Crenshaw, Iman Person, Nikita Gale, Michelyah, Elizah Turner, Crystal E. Monds, and Faatimah Stevens.
By manipulating objects such as vinyl records, mirrors, wood, canvas, paper, and plastic these women are sculpting eclectic interpretations of process art. According to the artists, “focusing on the end result, we see the value in capturing the method of production. We define process art as the relationship between the creator and the created.”
This past Thursday, we celebrated three years of Art Nouveau Magazine with some very special guests. Brooklyn based rapper Theophilus London made his debut at the show will also featured showstopping performances by Tendaberry, theDOLLDAZE, Rahbi (aided by two strippers, yes strippers!), Ethereal, Aware and many many more. The scene was set to look like a circus featuring visuals from Atlanta’s visual army of GreatEclectic, Sean Fahie, Paper Frank and Corinne Stevie. Check out this video recap shot by K.D.
After the recent Little Dragon show in Miami I ran up to lead vocalist Yukumi Nagano to give her some artwork that I created for her and the band. I’ve been a fan of Little Dragon’s music since 2008 and I gotta thank my homie Tino for putting me on to their music. Thanks Allie for getting me the Machine Dreams album. Little Dragon’s music has enhanced my life in so many ways 
Thank you guys!
We told you we had something big planned for Art Nouveau Magazine’s three year anniversary. Feb 24, at the Deefor Centre in Atlanta, Celebrate this Brand of Insanity with us and a few special guests. For the first time, Theophilus London will travel all the way from his home of Brooklyn, NY to bless Atlanta with his signature mix of old school soul and electro hip-hop. The event also features bass infused DJ sets by GreatEclectic, Ethereal & Savvy Society, pop up performances by Tendaberry, RAHBI, BOSCO, A Ware, Corinne Stevie, theDOLLDAZE, Micah Freeman, Vina Mills, Jay Scott & Ben Carson, live art by Paper Frank and Sean Fahie and GAS Up Radio’s Guy Anthony as the host for the night. With all that and free drinks from 9-10 PM courtesy of Tree of Life you’ll want to get there early.
Tickets for Art Nouveau’s Anniversary Party are on sale now. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Please visit www.an-mag.com/3 to purchase tickets. Accept the Nouveau.
Last week I got to spend some time in Atlanta, GA and catch up with my wonderful friends/family there and I had an Amaaazing time. I celebrated my sister’s friends birthday, performed at a Lauryn Hill tribute show and I got to see one of my paintings featured in Museum Of Contemporary Art in Georgia (MOCA GA) for an exhibition called Movers & Shakers.
They always say don’t judge a book by it’s cover. Agreed. But there’s nothing wrong with being attracted to a book simply by the visual splendor an issue gives. The inside can be magnificent, but if the cover isn’t right, it isn’t going to print. It was months before I found the image I wanted to use for the first issue, shown above a piece by Ron English. Art Nouveau gave artists the chance to submit ideas for the Winter 2010/2011 issue. Six artists including Thomars, GreatEclectic, Corinne Stevie, Mike Antor, Neža Agnes Momirski and Enteni Karyuk were selected out of a pool of hundreds of submissions. Instant iconography and visual madness ensued of course.
This past week I uploaded a pic on my FB from the photo shoot I did in black-lights and I wanted to share more info and pictures from the shoot. For the past couple months I’ve been collaborating and working with a very unique band which I am now apart of called Telekinetic Walrus and the pride of Ions. We were interviewed for a magazine called Grunge Kat and we are also being featured on the cover.The theme for the shoot was black-light tribal or atleast thats how I describe it. After the shoot was over I was so psyched about the whole thing that I decided to take a couple of pics of my own to share.
Many of you probably dont know but Bjork is a huge inspiration to me even tho I mainly spit flows. I wish to be more expressive like Bjork in my music. She’s one of the most diverse,talented, and interesting artists I’ve ever seen with longevity in the game, plus she does whatever the hell she wants to do with her art. Even though I know she’s been around forever I got put on to her music a couple years ago by my friend Faa and I’m so glad she shared Bjork’s music with me cuz it changed my life.In honor of Bjork I wanted to share this “Freestyle” I recorded over the Innocence beat from her Volta album. Check it out.
Last week was freaking insane Miami’s streets was exploding with art everywhere.I finally got the chance to experience Art Basel and I must say it was amazing. Seeing all that art reminds me that art is very important to the evolution of our culture. Even though I was out and about enjoying the art scene I still made time to design some t-shirts for a company called Rah Threads.Enough talk here are the photos
It's been a long time. Have you been missing a Corinne Stevie fix? Well the painter/musician is back with some new music. She recently dropped two new tracks, "I'm Sleep" & "Higher Place," both produced by Brother II Brother.
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