JOYENGINE: cause sharing is cool

One of our favorite locally based international art world talents, Alvin Gregorio is working on a new body of work for his upcoming show at Ark Galerie in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital.  Alvin pulled in our mututal friend, sAne (Adrien Robert) to collaborate on a number of pieces.  Adrien’s roots, on his Mom’s side are Indonesian and Alvin figured it was about time to expose sAne’s work to his mother’s native lands.  Frikin’ love it.  We can’t wait to see the full body of work.  Hopefully we’ll be droppin’ more on Alvin’s latest project soon!!!

So between preparing for the show, spending a week out in the Bay, only to come home right in time to perform at Sonic Bloom, it’s been a crazy start to my summer to say the least, but I was finally able to retrieve my images from the opening of 365, which was held at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. with special guests on many creative planes, artist Kris D & ArtNowSF brought together a finely tuned showcase of work from all over the country, and threw a totally legit opening party within the gallery. Featured artists included Kris D, Damon Soule, Gregory Euclide, David Choong Lee, Joshua Mays J Garcia, David Hale, Des10, Rob Pellicer, Xavi, and Myself. Oliver Vernon also made an appearance doing some performance painting, and on the multimedia tip Third Peak brought in great sculptures, and I performed a Visual Set featuring remixes from the show. Musical acts were Daedelus, Free the Robots, Gaslamp Killer, Deru, Alex B, Eliot Lipp & more; they kept the place packed & bumping till late night. Overall the show was super fresh, and I’m humbled for receiving the opportunity to partake in the gathering. Note: if you happen to be in the Bay there will be a closing reception on Friday, June 27th. ArtNowSF brings you a very special edition of their monthly art & dance party Suite Jesus, from 9pm-2am. Performers include VinRoc, I-Vier, Ren the Vinyl Archaeologist, Bootleg, and Adam Twelve.

We’re stoked to announce that our good friend, Adrien Robert (sAne) will be showing at 111 Minna Gallery in SF, for ArtNowSF’s Juxtapoz sponsored Suite Jesus 365 group show & music event. Alex Botwin, another Boulder super-hero beatmaker/producer will be reppin’ on the musical side of the event. The exhibition opens Thursday June 5th and runs through June 28th. sAne had his first ever solo show here at JoyEngine, and we’re pretty amped about his ascent in the art world. Both Adrien and Alex are two young talents to keep your eyes on.

Here’s the lodown on 365, “365 features a provocative variety of contemporary art from a diverse group of 14 of the country’s most forward-thinking, contemporary, nouveau-surreal and abstract modern artists. Featured artists include co-curator of the event Kris D, known for live painting and inventive graphic landscapes; Damon Soule, a contemporary artist whose paintings have a galactic, future-forward sensibility; and Oliver Vernon’s furiously creative studies in color and perspective. 365 also showcases the amazing talents of David Choong Lee, Jason Alberto Garcia, Gregory Euclide, Ethen B. Luce, Des10, Rob Pellicer, David Hale, XAVI, Third Peak, Adrien Robert (Sane), and Joshua Mays.

A defining element of the 365 group show is the music-fueled element of live art, allowing audience, musician and artist to intersect and ultimately integrate the creative process and widen the art’s communicative scope. The auditory experience at 365 opening features a staggering mix of national talents in genre-bending sounds from electro to breaks to indie-jazz to house-soul to live music in Minna’s two rooms of art and music. In addition this month, sAne will further synchronize the multitude of art by dropping a live VJ set, featuring his own original animations, but also including some remixed content from the other visual artists.

The OPENING PARTY line-up, from 6pm-2am, includes Eliot Lipp’s  first ever live performance featuring Alex & Lane of the Pnuma Trio, Daedelus, The Gaslamp Killer, Deru, Free the Robots, Alex B, Odd Nosdam, Jel, DJ Centipede and DJ Pedro. Then on Friday, June 27th, ArtNowSF brings you a very special edition of their monthly art & dance party Suite Jesus, from 9pm-2am. Performers include VinRoc, I-Vier, Ren the Vinyl Archaeologist, Bootleg, and Adam Twelve.”

Pretty fresh.

below: A sneak peek of some sAne’s new works in progress…

sAne is one exceptionally well-rounded individual. He paints, draws, photographs, designs, makes beats, climbs, break dances, and is really, really good at whatever he chooses to participate in. For Adrien’s first ever solo show he covered our gallery in highly illustrative abstracted multi-media paintings on materials ranging from found cabinet doors to canvases.

Originally from Switzerland, Adrien grew up traveling and continues this legacy more than ever. Most things sAne participates in take on a highly multi-media form, and his obsessive curiosity often leads him to revisit, and remix his concepts.� When he’s not roaming the earth for inspiration, he works and performs with Green Spirit Produce (GSP), a live audiovisual quintet.  Look for sAne tobe droppin’ all sorts of art & design goodness!

Our homies on the beat-making/production front, better known as Green Spirit Produce (GSP) have been makin’ moves. They just dropped their new EP to a sell out crowd last week. We didn’t make the shows (2 nights), but word on the street is that the GSP krew wrecked the place. We did however get to listen to the EP (they dropped a copy by the shop) and we can validate its level of freshness. sAne and his extended Freestyle Movement posse we’re runnin’ the visuals. Adrien (sAne) just sent these pics over. He’s been workin’ on some new apparel designs for the ladies and you can get a glimpse of his latest above. Keep your ears open for more from GSP in the near future. They’re motivated and committed to makin’ fresh beats.

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SHOE SHINE 2007 was awesome to put it simply. Huge props go out to Musa (Pulse Arts) and Lily (FIRELILY) for throwing a righteous sneaker driven event/party. With NIKE, the400, Vitamin Water, nin/ether, Ins+allation/Sa+ellite, INDYINK, Buffalo Exchange, Platic Chapel, triggerhappy, EMAGE, yours truly, KevinKAIN Ent., BEG, LOCAL STUDS, and Education Outweighs Them All (EOTA) all kicking down to support the event it was shapin’ up to be a DOPE gathering and that’s precisely what it was. There was tons of art on display, all sorts of both custom and classic kicks, live sneaker customization, live screen printing, live graffiti via Denver’s very own Magnet Mafia, a playground style shoot out provided by our homies over at ins+allation, and steady beats all evening. Fortunately, we shot tons of great pics so we’ll let the photos do the rest of the talkin’…

Checkout this pic, doctor’d up sAne-style of Adrien’s entry into the “Best Overall Custom” category. Homey painting a matching piece to sync up with his NIKE Dunk Highs. Oh, and look out cuz snap… one of MAD’s (aka Jeremy Madl) Bent World Vandals is comin’ in for the BUFF. Waaaaa!!!

sAne stopped by to kick it and work on some beats, his homey Sleepyhead (check him out) rolled through and they got down… just another day at JE headquarters.

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sAne, just sent over a lil’ update. He’s been in town for a bit, painting, working on some new apparel designs and doin’ his thing.

“Hey all, just wanted to let you all know that my friends at euphonic conceptions threw an afterparty at the boulder theater that featured my new work (live & gallery) alongside some of today’s most influential electronic musicians. Filmed by the pnuma crew (Columbia music label) the short video features yours truly, and the b-life shoe .. i posted it on the Freestyle Movement official myspace page (www.myspace.com/FsMcrew) for exposure .. the show went off as good as can go, with the theater pretty much jam packed until 6am..

also attached is one of my more recent studio pieces .. be well”
- Adri.n Robert [sAne.] || The Towne Cryer

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” Working in close collaboration with Timberland™ JoyEngine & Cypher13 helped concept and bring to life “The Collective.” “The Collective is a collaboration of athletes and artists conceived in partnership with shoemakers and technology experts. The Collective is a mash-up of ideas and influences, functions and features. All to create atheletically capable, artistically expressive footwear.” The artist side of The Collective is comprised of Adrien “sAne” Robert, Alex “JR” Henry, Jason Thielke, and Todd “teebee” Berger. The first round of artwork adorns the “Factur” and the “Factur Lace” and the kicks will begin dropping worldwide sometime around January/February of ‘08. Other gear and new footwear styles will follow for the fall of ‘08 as will new, fresh, graphics on both Factur variants.

“The Collective” Spring 2008 lineup previewed at Outdoor Retailer in Salt Lake City, UT last week and folks were fired up. sAne and teebee were out there for the most of the week hangin’ out, kickin’ it with the Timberland™ crew, and creating some live, booth-side art. The OR preview ended with a typically JoyEngine arty party inside the Timberland™ booth. sAne dropped beats and ran some live freestyle graphics via laptop to a massive projector screen, all at the same time while Todd sceenprinted a grip of custom Timberland™ artist series t-shirts for all in attendance.

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“ReGeneration was a two day festival thrown by sound tribe sector 9, featuring them as well as glitch mob, telefon tel aviv, goddess alchemy project, lyrics born and more.. it took plpace in small but conscious Asheville, NC .. 2000 people showed up, mainstage was very impressive with a super pro lighting rig operated by saxton, and 7 visual artists doing live performance paintings.. they provided a gallery space to showcase/sell our past work as well as newly created pieces.. the visual artists included kris d, j garcia, robpea, catherine stinson, david hale, Des10, and Myself, the latter who i ended up collaborating with a bunch this weekend. the crowd was very open- and supportive- of everyone’s art, i think everyone sold at least 2-3 paintings that weekend.. i was hosted by david hale, who lives in a yurt community nearby… having never stayed inside a yurt, i was utterly surprised by the space and comfort such low impact living can have. working with such an incredible talent pool of artists was humbling in itself, and watching everyone’s progression throughout the weekend was impressive. this weekend also marked my first time swapping paintings with someone else midway through, which proved to be an exciting challenge with surprising results in the end. overall, the energy at the festival was overly positive, and it was a pleasure and honor to have had the opportunity to attend and participate as a visual artist.” - sAne | freestylemovement.com

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Our boy sAne (Adrien Robert) of freestylemovement.com, has been drawin’ hi face off. Most recently he’s been creating a sort of sAne-esque forest of palms. Here’s a glimpse into sAne’s process and peek at one of his palms. Most of his digital art begins with pencil, then goes to pen & ink, then comes into illustrator… after that anything goes. Check it out. sAne’s palms’ll be droppin’ on a t-shirt near you soon!

EXTRA-SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: The Body Tension Project

This summer sAne is hittin’ the road with the intention of finding Freestyle Movement as a common thread between artists of all types; performers, musicians, scholars, painters, and shakers alike. He will focus on today’s most up and coming forms of art as well as provide formal documentation of past disciplines, and their persistence and evolution in today’s world . He relates today’s emerging subcultural art forms as synonymous to a modern Hip Hop movement, except with many more elements.. His vision will encompass an ethnographic dialogue on underground creative movements, revealed through an extensive photodocumentary, verbal narrative & interviews, and eclectic artistic collaborations. He will turn his findings into his first book and audio compilation for this multi- year project, hopefully by this fall. Stay tuned with us for a more in depth description and website on the project. Until then check in for updates at freestylemovement.com.

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