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Here’s two beautiful pieces from one San Francisco’s talented young artists on the rise Matthew Palladino. …Click Here For More

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Anyone who’s put their neck out there to pursue their creative passion knows it can be an unclear, apparently risky path to go down. I mean if you pursue art as a career, how do you get from obscurity and struggle to stability and success? How do you mix art and commerce and maintain your integrity? How do you …Click Here For More

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So… sometimes it’s tough being an artist. Not only do you have to figure out how to navigate the murky waters of life just to get some QT in the studio, but also once you start doing a little research you find out that someone out there has already painted everything you want to paint (and maybe they’ve even done it better than …Click Here For More

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This was the first time I ever painted a donut on anything. I remember waiting for Sibl in an SF donut shop late one night before we went out to paint. While sitting with junkies & Muni workers on their graveyard shift lunch break, I sketched out my …Click Here For More

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I just rocked this stadium jacket for KIKSTYO. …Click Here For More

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KIKS TYO is dropping more goods with my Junkie graphic for Spring 2010. Get ‘em if you’re in Tokyo or at www.kikstyo.com.

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Here’s a new painting I’ve been working on over the last couple of weeks. Instead of just showing you the final piece, I thought it would be cool to share a few pictures of my painting process and make a few comments about it.

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I wanted to make another painting with imagery jumbled all over it. Sometimes I feel like all the iconography thrown on one painting helps me to communicate/ explore more complex ideas. So this time I wanted to …Click Here For More

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New Jor t-shirts & sweatshirts available now! Click HERE to shop my e-store!

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New Jor X KIKSTYO arrivals available in Tokyo’s KIKSTYO Shibuya store & on Kikstyo.com

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Word on the street has been that Deitch Projects will be closing up shop so that Jeffrey Deitch can run things at LA’s MOCA. Deitch Projects is one of my all time top favorite galleries in the whole wide world, and I always secretly wished that one day …Click Here For More

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