“Ignite What’s Next” Art Tour comes to Portland
Date Posted: September 13, 2007 Posted By: ArtPDX
Upper Playground Portland is proud to host the Portland stop on the “Ignite What’s Next” Art Tour, sponsored by Sparks, Upper Playground, and Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine. The tour will showcase two of the top artists from the world of contemporary art - David Choe (Los Angeles) and Saber (Los Angeles).
Live art installations will take place at Upper Playground in the afternoon of Wednesday, September 19th. Later that evening, the trio of artists will paint again at the inner-SE music venue Rotture, accompanied by a DJ set from former Portland resident, D.J.P.
David Choe is a painter and graphic artist, who is known as much for his exaggerated vulgarity as for his aesthetic sense, and whose inspiration for his art comes from international hitchhiking expeditions. His art graces all facets of urban lifestyle, from t-shirts, to shoes, to video games and even hotel rooms.
Saber is a longtime fixture on the Los Angeles street art scene. He’s best known for completing the LA River Piece, the largest graffiti piece ever created.
D.J.P is one of the pioneers of “blending,” a style that has recently become commonly known as the “mash-up”. He can mix Pat Benatar’s “Love Is A Battlefield” over the Pharcyde’s classic “She Keeps On Passing Me By” and turn it into a Drum’n Bass blend about love lost that gets everyone on their feet, even people who think they don’t like hip-hop. P’s mix CDs have become underground classics, featuring in several year-end critics polls (Village Voice and Rolling Stone, among others).
Wednesday, September 19th
David Choe and Saber
Painting at Upper Playground
23 NW 5th Ave, Portland, Oregon
3pm
No cover
Wednesday, September 19th
David Choe and Saber
Painting at Rotture
along with D.J.P (DJ set)
315 SE 3rd Ave., Portland, Oregon
9pm
No cover
