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#TheArtOf on @OvationTV featuring WERC & the #Amazing #Exhibition @Camlaorg

Sunday, May 25, 2014 at 7:30 ET/ 4:30 PST Tune in to Ovation TV to check out this amazing exhbition at the Chinese American Museum in LA!!!

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Cheech Marin & Chicanitas on San Diego City Beat

Grateful "El Amazing Donkey Show" is featured in this write up by Kinsee Morlan on the San Diego City Beat!! Click on link: Here!

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Next Saturday Dec. 21 #Chicanitas on view at #mcasd #sandiego #ca On the 19th #CheechMarin will be signing copies of the exhibitis book release!! #werc #elamazing #donkeyshow

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Border Biennal • EL PASO TX USA + CD JUAREZ CH MX 2013

It's with great pleasure to announce that "All in A Days Work" & "Lomas, Palomas, y Palomitas" will be taking part in this years Border Biennal! Tijuana to Brownsville: Contemporary Art along the Border. Presented by Smart at the El Paso Museum of Art & concurrently at the Museo de Arte in Cd. Juarez. Please join us on Sunday, June 2nd, 2013 in the afternoon for the official opening of the exhibit. Ends August 18, 2013.

Here with dear friend & collector Cheech Marin in front of "Lomas, Palomas, y Palomitas" in 2012.

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Chicanitas in Seattle x Whatcom Museum

If you are in the Seattle area be sure to stop by and check out the Chicanitas Exhibition at the Whatcom Museum on view now thru March 24, 2013. For more information please visit the Whatcom Museum's site here: Whatcom!

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Thomas Paul Fine Art a very special evening! Jan 5. 2013

Starting off the year right with Thomas Paul Fine Art & Cheech Marin! Come out to check out this beautiful exhibition curated by Thomas Paul & Cheech Marin, I will be along great company with @Carlos Don Juan @Benito Huerta & Ricardo Ruiz.

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HFAF Best of on Culturemap Houston

Thank you Houston Culturemap and Tyler Rudick for the love. Click on this to check out the best of Houston Fine Art Fair!

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HFAF•HOUSTON FINE ART FAIR

Come by to the Houston Fine Art Fair where I will be exhibiting in Booth #201 Thomas Paul Fine Art & Art of the New America! This weekend September 14-16, 2012. If video does not load, refresh. Thanks.

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Spiritual Graffiti

Estee Ochoa says so! Thank you Estee, Check out the full interview on the arts & culture blog of Estee Ochoa.

photo cred: Estee Ochoa.

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Ill Society Magazine

Check this article on MYTHOGRAFF exhibit here: GO. Here is IMIXICA, Spraypaint on Canvas 2012.

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Mythograff now thru Sept 5., 2012

Click image to enlarge.

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"Ride On"

Please click on image for accurate colors. "Ride On" 48" x 60" Mixed media collage on panel 2012

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MYTHOGRAFF on view Aug. 4. 2012 - Sept. 2. 2012

Click on image for larger view. Thank you everyone that came to support myself, the gallery and our friends. Paz.

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Maria Poppins + MYTHOGRAFF

Now on exhibit at CREWEST Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. Aug. 4, 2012 - Sept. 2, 2012.

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Feeling the Full Moon! Sneak Peak • MYTHOGRAFF • AUGUST 4TH, 2012

Come see it in person at Crewest Gallery! Opening August, 4th, 2012. Click for Complete Work. "All in a days Work" 2012. 48" x 60" mixed media on canvas.

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MYTHOGRAFF+PROCESS

Check out this short video that gives some insight into the making of a few of the works that will be at MYTHOGRAFF•CREWEST GALLERY AUGUST 4th, 2012!!! Thank you GERA & JASUN. Paz.

"MYTHOGRAFF" from Gera Luz on Vimeo.

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08 • 04 • 12 + MythoGraff @ Crewest Gallery LA

It is a true honor & great pleasure to announce my first solo exhibition happening at Crewest gallery in Los Angeles, CA. Opening reception Aug. 4, 2012 8 pm! Crewest has been at the forefront of showcasing works by graffiti writers, & has been ahead of the game in establishing this type of platform for graffiti art.

MYTHOGRAFF is the collection of myths. Werc's first solo show in Los Angeles, MYTHOGRAFF presents a continous exploration of myth culture, consumerism, rituals, archetypal language and design. Werc has been spraying for 20 years and has grown in a journey with the medium by exploring, and deconstructing the spray paint to reinvent his own practice. Traditionally in spray-painting it is all about "can control," by creating artwork that is precise, defined, and clean. This is evident in Werc's "Axis Mundi" series, where he pushes the boundaries of the medium by creating photo-realistic portraits. Through his exploration of refined definition, Werc explores the opposite spectrum of control. In the "Ojo de Dios" series Werc frees himself & the medium with a loose and unrefined spraying technique, where he allows the spraypaint to speak its natural language. Created with minimal immediate spray-paint strokes, the pieces are raw perceptual renditions refined by the eye of the viewer, not the medium. The show will also feature Werc's classic style of multimedia collage, where he playfully re-appropriates commonly consumed logos to create new associations. In all of Werc's pieces there is a sense of magical realism, a hybrid existence of reality where there is a balance between the material world co-existing with the elements of the ethereal.

Werc

Werc was born in Ciudad Juarez, Ch. MX., and grew up in El Paso TX. Werc paints, collages and designs based on inspirations that come from urban & border culture, broad issues of labor, logos, symbols, and the nostalgic humor among immigrant cultures. He is specifically inspired by the creative informal economies of street vendors, and the archetypal language of design. In his paintings, he explores aspects of duality and the politics of identity, hunting and gathering documentation & found objects that later become part of his creations. Werc's murals can be seen around southern California, and throughout the United States and Mexico. His studio-based works have been exhibited in numerous galleries, the Snite Museum, Museum of Monterrey, and are part of the Cheech Marin Chicano Art Collection.

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Cheech Marin + ArtHamptons + Thomas Paul

Together with "A Great Adventure" & "Todo a Color Rosa" on ABC 7 NY.

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Art Hamptons

I will be exhibiting a few works at the ArtHamptons Fair in the Thomas Paul Fine Art - Supported by Cheech Marin - Booth! Visit TPaulFineArt.com for more."Ya Ves, Se Habla E.S.P", "Toca El Pito", & "Lomas, Palomas, y Palomitas" will be there! These are must see in person, otherwise click on image for large preview.