David Choe: Painting
The images shown today are by American artist David Choe. Born in 1976 in Los Angeles, California, Choe is is one of the most diverse and prolific artists working today. His art, photos, and writing have been featured in Giant Robot, and Vice magazine among numerous other publications. His client list includes Marvel Comics, Levi’s, IBM, and Nike.
Choe has spoken and lectured at Princeton, DUKE, Dartmouth and other art colleges. He has designed and created fine art, murals, movie sets, movie posters, album covers, shoes, t-shirts, toys, calendars, commercials, cars, magazines, books, illustrations for porn, children’s story books, comics, and animation. He has curated art shows, art directed books and magazines, as well as self-publishing all his own books which have all won numerous awards.
Choe’s art has been exhibited all over the world and he is one of the youngest artists ever to have a solo show at the Museum of Contemporay Art in Los Angeles. His work is in museums and galleries but he still sells art out of his parents’ garage and his mini van.
For more information about David Choe, visit DavidChoe.com. A trailer of the new documentary “Dirty Hands: The Art and Life of David Choe”, is available on view at DirtyHandsMovie.com.
Sources: Jonathan Levine Gallery, No Walls Gallery, The Agency Group
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November 4th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Ah love Choe’s work, I actually mentioned Choe in a recent t-shirt review featuring Upper Playground (part of the FiftySF24 Gallery), it seems all the best urban artists are branching out and diversifying these days.