www.scion.com/installation

Launched in 2003, Scion Installation is a revolutionary art tour featuring work from an

unprecedented collective of contemporary artists. For 4 years the tour has evolved, and

each year the medium with which the artists showcase their work evolves. For Installation

4, the theme “It’s a Beautiful World” was interpreted by each artist in one of four mediums;

painting, photography, sculpture, and collage. Scion Installation 4 has visited 9 cities around

the country with its final stop in Los Angeles where all of the artwork will be auctioned off the

to the public. 100% of the money raised from the charity auction will go to Art From Scrap.

For more information on the tour, the artists, the artwork and details from previous years

tours please visit www.scion.com/installation

aRt FRom scRaP

Art From Scrap (AFS) is a non-profit art and environmental education program in Santa

Barbara, California with a mission of promoting a greater understanding of environmental

issues and encouraging creative expression in the arts. Children and adults in Santa Barbara

County and beyond participate in a variety of programs including Green Schools environmental

education, a community Arts Center, and a Reuse retail store.

Hands-on art activities and shows at the AFS Gallery encourage the innate creativity of

thousands of people each year - proving that each one of us is an artist. AFS encourages kids

and adults to rethink the way they view “discarded” materials and to seek creative solutions

for their reuse through Art Workshops, Birthday Parties, free art activities at many community

events, and at shows at the AFS Gallery. Our major fundraiser is an Assemblage Art Event held

in July - featuring artworks by many local assemblage artists, an auction, and entertainment.

Art From Scrap is one of the leading environmental education organizations in Santa Barbara,

California. Each year AFS Green Schools reaches over 15,000 children through lessons and field

trips. Students learn the waste reduction methods of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Compost,

pollution prevention actions to improve creek and ocean water quality, and contribute to a

sustainable community through organic gardening and service learning projects.

The AFS Reuse store is a great low-cost option for clean, reusable materials when making your

own arts and crafts projects, holiday decorations, costumes and other creative endeavors. The

selection of materials changes constantly and you’ll be amazed at what you can find! Local

businesses donate thousands of pounds of materials each year, keeping them from ending up

in the Santa Barbara County landfill.

For more information visit our website at www.artfromscrap.org.

aRtists

Andrew Pommier

Andy Mueller

Angela Boatwright

Blaine Fontana

Blek Le Rat

Books IIII

Caia Koopman

Chris Yormick

Cody Hudson

Dalek

David Choe

David Ellis

Eye One

Francesco LoCastro

Freddi C

J. Shea

James Jean

Jeff Soto

Joshua Krause

Kelsey Brookes

Kenton Parker

Kofie

The London Police

Mel Kadel

Michael Sieben

Mike Giant

R. Grimes

Rammellzee

Retna

Ron English

Sage Vaughn

Tim McCormick

Travis Millard

Yoskay Yamamoto

AnDREW POMMIER

Andrew Pommier lives on the west coast of Canada in a small village know as

Vancouver. He enjoys steamed broccoli, hates winter and only has a passing

interest in hockey.

AnDY MUELLER

Andy Mueller was raised in the midwest on a healthy diet of BMX, skateboarding,

music and magazines. In 1993, Mueller founded OhioGirl, a small design/photo/

film studio. In 1999, Andy relocated to California to become art director for Girl

Skateboard’s new shoe company, Lakai Limited Footwear. Much of Mueller’s

work has appeared in graphic design annuals and design books, as well as aired

on MTV, and published in numerous magazines; he has also shown his artwork in

the U.S., Europe, U.S.Japan, Australia, and Canada. Andy Mueller currently lives

in Los Angeles with his wife, son, two cats, a bird and a ping pong habit.

AnGELA BOATWRIGHT

Angela Boatwright is from Ohio, lives in new York City and has been taking

photos for a job since 1997. She loves Def Leppard and hates it when men wear

flip flops. When not taking photos she can be found scanning photos, thinking

about photos or keeping up on the business of photos. She recently just bought

a new guitar with the intention of learning more Runaways songs and is really

into Leeway right now.

BLAInE FOnTAnA

Blaines interests and inspiration come from wold folklore and myth, 60’s

design books, the animal kingdom, japanese print composition, his back yard

and upbringing. He currently lives on Bainbridge Island, WA as a full time fine

artist, illustrator and graphic designer with his wife and creative/managing

partner Eugenie Jolivett.

BLEK LE RAT

From 1981 to 2005 Blek le Rat’s work has focused on urban art in different cities of the

world. He is the pioneer of stencil graffiti art, introducing the technique into graffiti

in Paris in 1981 and now followed by many artists across the world. He introduced to

the urban art landscape the concept of creating life size figures of people.

BOOKS IIII

One thing about BooksIIII is that he does not like writing of himself in third person

or over sensationalizing his position. Therefore, my greatest influence over the

years has been my family’s history and collections. never the less, graffiti is a

huge influence, but what has become my greatest interest are the most rotten get

ups, beautiful hand styles, and the aging process. The layering the streets attain

reminds me of my grandmother’s scrap booking and these simple methods are

what I have taken for myself as style.

CAIA KOOPMAn

Caia Koopman was born in 1968 and raised in Livermore, California, just outside

San Francisco. She majored in fine art and earned a B.A. at UCSC in Santa Cruz,

California. Caia explains her addiction to art, “I’ve always been an artist-as a

kid I would draw to escape, to travel, to explore...and I still do”. She is currently

working as a freelance illustrator and painter in Oceanside,California. Caia is

inspired by color, dreams, politics, and life.

CHRIS YORMICK

Chris Yormick lives and works in new York City. In the nations capitol is where he

cut his teeth on an unhealthy diet of skateboarding, graffiti, and harDCore music.

A self taught artist and designer, he was also the art director for Skateboarder

Magazine, éS skateboard footwear and worked for such clients as Def Jam and

Comme De Garcons. In the past four years, Chris has weaned away from design

and concentrated his time purely on art away from the computer. Chris has

shown his work across the globe and is constantly working on ways to expand his

vision and voice in the art world.

CODY HUDSOn

Cody Hudson is a Chicago based painter, also known for his commercial art and

graphic design contributions under the name Struggle Inc.

DALEK

James Marshall, also known as Dalek. Born in 1968, the painter has made a

reputation with a distinctive and innovative style, unlike any other Pop-Inspired

painter working today. Stylistically synthesizing the American traditions of still

animation and cartoons, his remarkably complex compositions resemble a direct

lineage to the expressive Japanese Superflat movement, and the zany everyday

apparitions found in nature.

DAVID CHOE

David Choe is one of the most diverse and prolific artists working today. He is one

of the youngest artists to ever have solo show at the MOCA. He has had his art

shown on every surface from canvases to human bodies to third world, war torn

walls, it can be found in every facet of society, from fancy galleries, museums,

t-shirts, shoes, movies, billboards, cars, murals, buildings, from new York City

to the Congo, Africa to everywhere in between.

DAVID ELLIS

David Ellis lives and works in Brooklyn; where his “motion paintings” travel

through time like music, where beats are orchestrated and performed on

“drum paintings” stretched and tuned to bass, snare, etc. and played via analog

drum machines propelled by air, where player pianos meet SP1200s meet

improvisational wild style sign painting.

EYE OnE

Eye One resides in Los Angeles and is a member of Seeking Heaven and Second To

none. He publishes the highly-acclaimed publication Lost: Graffiti in the City of Angels.

FRAnCESCO LO CASTRO

For the last ten years, Francesco LoCastro has been South Florida’s thoroughfare

to the national Lowbrow art scene, as both a respected artist and as the curator

of intrepid art exhibitions. As a painter, LoCastro’s works are bound together by

a hallucinatory surreality. As a curator, Francesco LoCastro’s electrifying shows

in Miami’s Design District and Wynwood Arts District have ushered in a caliber of

Lowbrow art previously unseen in South Florida

FREDDI C

Freddi C is originally from London, England but has made Los Angeles her home

for the past nine years. In 2003 she opened her own gallery - The Lab 101 Gallery

that has exhibited the most outstanding of emerging urban artists. In January

2008, Freddi opened her second gallery The CERASOLI gallery in the former Lab

101 Space and moved the Lab 101 across the street into the front of her art studio.

When she finds free time she still paints.

J SHEA

After graduating from the Art Institute of Boston, Shea built a career as an

Illustator, sneaker designer, rock poster artist, and puppet fabricator. Shea’s

personal work combines processes from the Commercial Arts he’s worked in to

create mixed media paintings and sculpture that combine folk art, Pop art, street

art and assembledge.

JAMES JEAn

James Jean is a Los Angeles-based artist who has most recently collaborated

with Prada on their Spring/Summer 2008 collection and campaign. The album

art he created for Reprise Record’s My Chemical Romance was also recently

nominated for a 2008 Grammy award. He has won five consecutive Eisner

awards, three consecutive Harvey awards, two gold medals and a silver from the

Society of Illustrators of LA, and a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators

of nY for his work with various clients. A hardcover collection of his work was

published by Adhouse books in 2005 called Process Recess, and a subsequent

oversized collection called Process Recess: Portfolio was published in 2007. In

2008, Chronicle Books will publish a postcard book of his images called “XOXO.”

JEFF SOTO

Through striking visual imagery, Jeff Soto communicates profound visions and

fears, nostalgia of his youth, and themes of love, lust, and hope. Soto’s distinct

color palette, subject matter, technique and bold themes resonate with a growing

audience. Inspired by childhood toys, the colorful lifestyle of skateboarding and

graffiti, hip-hop and popular culture, Soto’s representational work is simultaneously

accessible and stimulating.

JOSHUA KRAUSE

Joshua Krause is a primarily self-taught artist driven by hope and humor. His art

is an obsessive search to find his individual path in a world that seems to be on

another page. Influenced as much by dreams as by stupid movies, Joshua relies

on intuition and the unconscious to guide his work. Born in nYC in 1977, and

raised in Florida, Joshua lives and works in San Diego, CA.

KELSEY BROOKES

Kelsey Brookes was born in 1978. A formally trained scientist who spent years

tracking viruses for the U.S. government, he now lives and works in San Diego

as a painter. His art can be found broadly throughout the US and Europe and is

represented internationally by the Lazarides gallery (London).

KEnTOn PARKER

Los Angeles based Kenton Parker is an artist and designer. Gathering inspiration

from popular culture and everyday life, Parker draws and paints a rich vocabulary

of icons and motifs. He has maintained both a progressive edge and timeless style

in all his work. Producing both design and fine art, Parker maintains a constant,

provoking communication with his viewers.

KOFIE

Born & raised in Los Angeles, Kofie’One is a multi-tasking independent & the

illegitimate son of Jim Brown & Racquel Welch.

THE LOnDOn POLICE

The London Police started when big english geezers headed to amsterdam in

1998 and started rejuvenating the visually disappointing streets of the drug capital

of the world. The goal was to combine traveling and making art to create an

amazing way of life not seen since the days of King Solomon. London Policeman

have come and gone but founding members are still known to walk the streets

of every city in the world spreading love through pens and stickers. Dont be like

that. Who cares wins.

MEL KADEL

Mel Kadel was born in 1973, and grew up in the suburbs of Harrisburg, PA. For the

last 9 years, she has been living and working in Los Angeles, CA. Her drawings

are made with tiny pens, paper, q-tips, and glue.

MICHAEL SIEBEn

Michael Sieben lives and works in Austin, Texas where he juggles his time

between writing and illustrating articles for Thrasher Magazine, co-owning and

operating Okay Mountain Gallery with his fellow mountaineers, and freelancing

for numerous clients in the skateboard industry. When not working, Sieben can

be found in his backyard riding the mini ramp or hanging out in drainage ditches.

Sieben’s personal work has been exhibited throughout the United States as well

as England, Japan, Australia, and Mexico.

MIKE GIAnT

Birth. Upstate new York. Drawing. new Mexico. BMX bikes. Heavy Metal.

Skateboarding. Punk rock. Hip-hop. Thailand. College. Dishwasher. Raves.

Lorelei. First tattoo. San Francisco. Dharma. Think Skateboards. Angi. London.

Adult bookstore. Computer animation. Tattooing. new York City. newskool.

Skullz Press. Everlasting. Track bikes. Brooke and Leia. Tokyo. Tattoo 13. Plum

Village. Albuquerque. Stay Gold. Rebel8. Manifestations. Penny farthings.

Ordination. Megan. 35. Right here. Right now.

R. GRIMES

R. Grimes is a self taught artist whose methods of producing work would seem

archaic to most people. He avoids the use of presses and other machines to

produce his art and various projects. By minimizing the use of machinery, Grimes

preserves the human element in the art of creating.

RAMMELLZEE

Performance artist RAMMELLZEE (pronounced RAM-EL-ZEE) personifies your

gothic futures. The equation was born in 1979. The RAMM:ELL:ZEE, through

various mediums, such as paints on canvas, resin frescoes, drawings, sculptures,

carpet and performance art, including literature, lectures, poetry and music,

maintains his intellectual factory as a stable foundation for this artistic expression

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RETnA

When Los Angeles-based graffiti artist RETnA’s work first appeared in the mid-

nineties, what made it stand apart from the rest was its unique layering. His color

palette was so intricate, so carefully chosen, his pieces often looked to have been

daubed on with a paint-brush. Quite the achievement when you consider he was

painting on walls, trains, bridges, and freeway overpasses in the black of night.

ROn EnGLISH

Ron English, a new York-based painter, has exhibited in galleries and museums

worldwide for over twenty years. His unique sensibility, in which the familiar is

reflected through funhouse mirrors into something startlingly new. He is also a

premier street artist, most widely known as a “billboard liberator” and one of the

seminal members of the culture jamming movement.

SAGE VAUGHn

born 1976

an hour and a quarter after the bicentennial

in Jacksonville Oregon.

lives and works in Los Angeles.

has a wife and four cats.

TIM MCCORMICK

Tim McCormick brings to his work a unique perspective on issues of fame, pop

culture, and self. Perceptions of suburban banality set against the surreal backdrop

of Hollywood as well as the influence of San Diego’s early surf and skateboard

subculture. With a self-taught methodology McCormick currently exhibits in Los

Angeles, San Francisco, new York, and throughout the greater U.S.

TRAVIS MILLARD

Travis Millard (Born 1975 in St. Joseph, Missouri), grew up rocking out in Olathe,

Kansas. He founded the Fudge Factory Comics operation in 1997, and has been

producing small run zines, prints and comics under the umbrella since then. He

lives in Los Angeles, California.

YOSKAY YAMAMOTO

Yamamoto discovered a way to fuse the two different cultural backgrounds

together into his work. Yamamoto nostalgically blends pop iconic characters

from his new Western home with traditional and mythical Japanese elements,

balancing his Asian heritage with urban pop art.

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