‘Surrender’ - With ZLA in West Adams, Los Angeles. Shouts to Mike and Sandy!
in the West Adams District of Los Angeles
For Red Truck in the West Adams District of Los Angeles. Shouts to John!
For Boston Properties - Santa Monica
For Boston Properties’ LA Office in Santa Monica
1-800-CONNECT on Jefferson blvd
Upgraded public pay phone on Jefferson blvd next to the legendary Mel’s Fish Shack.
It goes without saying, but world was a different place before the internet and before cellphones. We used to leave in the morning to go skate or paint or whatever and meet friends at a few different spots in the city. If u didn’t see your friends at one spot, you’d run into them at another one or on the way there. You knew at around what time dinner was and just found yourself back at the house for that without the possibility of being reached. Being connected the way we are today is great, but we are also constantly distracted - if not addicted - to looking at our phones. We can’t help it , the dopamine-driven feedback loops in our brains reward us for the texting, checking our likes, shooting and posting stuff, etc.
Aside from the nostalgic feeling they give me, I feel pay phones represent a certain time period that was free and innocent in certain ways, without the constant distractions that keep us from being fully present in the moment. With the last pay phone recently removed from NYC, this is my attempt to (hopefully) make them a little harder to remove from the streets of LA.
On Slauson at La Brea
For SportieLA on Slauson at La Brea in Los Angeles.
In Downtown LA
For Modern Multiples in Downtown LA with ZLA and Karpart
For Copyland in West LA
For Copyland on Pico Blvd in West LA
On Pacific and Brooks in Venice
‘Awareness is Key’ - On Pacific and Brooks in Venice
For EmSculptNeo in Venice Beach
For EmSculptNeo in Venice Beach at Windward Circle. Shouts out to Evan Meyer, John Park and Beautify Earth!
It's like a jungle sometimes...
For a 1920s building in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
With Nychos in Sand City
“The Birth of a Dimension” - collabo with Nychos for We Create Art in Sand City, California. Big shouts to Pat Milbery and the crew! #cosmicegg #healingserpent
On Main St in Santa Monica/Dogtown
On Main St in Santa Monica/Dogtown for Star Liquor
In Koreatown, Los Angeles
For an apartment building in Koreatown, Los Angeles
ANGELINA drops soon
Collaboration Edition with photographer Lionel Deluy
7-color serigraph on archival digital print
Published by Modern Multiples ( https://www.bigbropub.com/ )
dropping soon
Warm and Cool Colorways in 2 sizes:
30" x 22" (72.2cm x 55.8cm)
Straight edge
Signed and numbered
Studio chop
Edition of 30
52" x 38" (132cm x 96.5cm)
Deckled edge
Signed and numbered
Studio chop
Edition of 9
ANGELINA drops soon
“Angelina” is a Fine Art Multiple printed on heavy-weight Hahnemuhle Photo Rag. The edition was created by silkscreening overprint and 7 colors (up to 6 layers of ink per color) onto an archival pigment print of the photograph. Published by Modern Multiples and printed by Master Printer Ivan Alpuche, this edition marks the first-ever collaboration print for both Lionel Deluy and The Art of Chase.
The widely known photograph, by Lionel Deluy, features a pre-fame Angelina Jolie in one of her early modeling shoots. Shot in the early '90s in a classic Hollywood apartment, this image is part of his eminent “Bathroom Series”, originally published in Vogue magazine. The photo session was one of French-born Lionel’s first shoots in Los Angeles and would serve as an iconic start to a long career of celebrity portraiture.
Chase’s signature psychedelic eyes drip down over the image as if to mark the passage of time. LA has given so much to the Belgian-born street artist, and he has given much back in return. His uplifting artwork has adorned countless walls around LA—and the world—for decades.
Both Lionel and Chase have been LA residents for 25+ years.
For WholeFoods in Venice
For WholeFoods at their Venice location. Follow the leafy greens to the art installation, the interactive pop-up will be live all summer.
For The Hive in Santa Monica
Refresh of some of the walls at superfood cafe The Hive located in Santa Monica, California.
In Dogtown/Santa Monica
For The Hive in Marina Del Rey
Pray to the Gods of Honey // After lots of design and paint work, The Hive’s second location is finally open. I painted a total of 6 areas which include tributes to Albrecht Durer (who first drew the ‘Study of the Hands of an Apostle’ in 1508, and to Okusai, who created the woodblock print ‘The Wave’ in 1829.
The superfood cafe is located at the ground floor of AMLI, a luxury apartment complex in Marina Del Rey.
Restroom murals for The Hive Marina Del Rey
The restroom walls were improvised and are a partial tribute to a great young artist from my hometown of Antwerp, Ben Sledsens.
The superfood cafe is located at the ground floor of AMLI, a luxury apartment complex in Marina Del Rey.