MAY 19th @ The New Parkway | Join us for the official Oakland Premiere of Free Angela and All Political Prisoners! RSVP and get your tickets today the show will sell out!
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#FIRSTFRIDAY The Film
Nice crowd here at the trailer screening of #FirstFriday the film.
“Gareth Can Fly” coffee, charcoal & ink on archival paper, 16 x 20 #Shine #TheStorytellers
“Secret of the Jab Molassie” #Shine #TheStorytellers
Check out Scott La Rockwell’s “Sunday Wanderings” photo set of the artist Wendell McShine exploring Oakland with friend and creative compadre Joshua Mays.
“Imagination is in constant evolution” #WendellMcShine #Oakland #TheStorytellers photo by @scottlarockwell (1 of 6)
Wendell Mc Shine breaking down his artistry. #TheStorytellers #BettiOno
MY ART, MY CULTURE - WOMEN, MEDIA, & HIP HOP SERIES
presented by BETTI ONO - DAUGHTERS OF DILLA - 70X30
When jamming the radio, or hitting the club, it can be hard to hiphop spaces that have a genuine interest in the experience of women. It’s usually a male-dominated narrative of strip clubs and cash. As someone who loves a good twerk session, I needed a place (outside the club) where I feel like I could have a genuine dialog about female empowerment in hiphop media without feeling like my opinion would be instantly alienated.
The “My Art, My Culture” event series is DEVOTED to fostering a community of female solidarity and empowerment within the hiphop industry while showcasing local artists, and the event delivered. The women-worshipping “Better than Perfect” exhibit by Jessica Sabogal provided the perfect backdrop to the night, with art from Lexx Valdez of Daughters of Dilla in the atrium. (You may recognize them from previous posts here, here, and here).
The event donned an all-female local music line-up (Queens D Light, Dway, Dom Jones) complete with female DJ (Deeandroid). Panels consisted of the performers along with radio personalities and media makers in the industry.
Take away points:
-Should you say it? Don’t hold back on calling out your experiences as a woman in the face of turning off a top 40 audience. There’s a deficit of stories being told. Tell yours and stay raw, not a copy.
-Should you dance to it? More often than not, bangers are in the production. Your lyrics don’t have to make grandma faint in order to be club hits- get them instrumentals.
Most of all, this event was inspirational because it let me know that there is a community in hiphop with women’s interests in mind, and that all we ARE working on all levels of the industry to introduce new visions and we are doing it and doing it and doing it well.
Need a role-model? Have a deeper look at the panelists here!
Coffee, Charcoal, Ink, Aerosol, Animations, Acrylic, re-purpose materials all collide into a world of politics, metaphysics and sinister plots attempting to convey an allegorical ideology for a cast of characters within a fantasy realm. Men who create awakened shadows at the fall of the evening sun. Sub-worlds where lines become cages; ink stains form the spirits of those
who wear the chicken pox mask. Women who had long left this place for the dimension of harmonic memories of a time when sweet water filled the land.
BETTI ONO PRESENTS: THE STORYTELLERS
A solo Exhibition by Visual Artist: Wendell Mc Shine, April 5th,2013
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY:: WENDELL MCSHINE
Stitching together illusive dreams,memories and observations into a visual code of dramatic imagery, Wendell´s murals, installations, charcoal drawings, papel maché characters and canvases, tell a multilevel narrative that hunts the mind and provokes intimacy into self. His organic animations serve as a catalyst, the analytical ethos within his work tying together his compelling stories of sub-worlds. ¨It is where I can extend my questioning to the world within and around me, filtering fragments of my art back into the pure cycle of contemplation and creativity.¨
Living and working out of Mexico City, a place he calls ¨the free enchanted spirit¨, his onslaught of visuals carry with them influences of Mesoamerica, African, Caribbean Carnival folklore and urban street life, ride on a nostalgia derived from the artist birth place of the colonial diaspora, Trinidad. There is a symbiotic union linking in studio and community work in Mc Shine´s art making process. Making public art through campaigns such as Adidas Originals and imparting international hands on workshops through his brainchild Art Connect is how his vision of ¨making art accessible¨ takes life.
His most recent group and solo shows are¨Who´s More Sci-Fi Than Us¨Kunsthal Kade Museum NL, ¨Rockstone & Bootheel¨ Real Art Ways USA, “Art Auction Mexico Vivo¨ Museum of Modern Art Mex, ¨The Ceremony¨Anno Domini Gallery US, ¨Behind the Blue Doors¨Gallery Fifty24 Mex
Published in ¨Walls & Frames: Fine Art from the Streets¨ and ¨Nuevo Mundo: Latin American Street Art¨ Contemporary Art Books from Gestalten Press Germany, numerous Art blogs and magazines.
Lectures at Royal College of Arts UK, University of Trinidad and Tobago T&T, ¨Postopolis¨ Museo Experimental El Eco MX. Recipient of the Belle Foundation Art Grant US, Reuters News Foundation Grant UK, Atlantic LNG Grant T&T. Art Residency at the Bluecoat UK. Two time Animation Award for ¨Prosper¨and ¨Rainbow Hill¨ Animae Caribe.
Artist Statement::
I believe that imagination is in constant evolution; it is important for me to create from a space thatembodies higher consciousness so that a positive unified experience can be shared amongst all.
My art brings the invisible/spiritual realm into the tangible. I explore by sometimes gazing into our human condition, it is my questioning that takes prominence over the resolve of what I create; cycles ofdeath and rebirth, stories of gods, technology versus nature, all of which constitute the ethos of how Iconstruct my visual investigations.
I am visual artist with an untamed compulsion to create. I reference great inspiration from dreams,cultural anthropology and the o-cult creating highly personalized visual dialogues which allow me todigest the many complexities of this occidental reality. I am in a constant pursuit of a free state ofexpression…Art belongs to everyone.
“I believe that imagination is in constant evolution. I am a visual artist with an untamed compulsion to create” #WendellMcShine #Storytellers #Mali #Nommo #Dogon #WestAfrica #Space #Travelers
#International #street #artist #Fresh off the plane from #MexicoCity to #Miami to the #BayArea #WendellMcShine #Storytellers
Welcome to #Oakland #WendellMcShine #Storytellers #BettiOno April 5th!!
