Having grown up together painting, REVOK and SABER continue to evolve together as friends, individually as artists, and as advocates for the medium that gave them both their identity and put them on their current path. Their recent show at Known Gallery in Los Angeles was a reunion for the painting partners who’d been painting collaborative walls together since ’97. The energy between the two men is like kids, with their own language, unspoken understanding, and, when painting together, the apparent ability to read each other’s minds…. (Read More Here)

http://www.frank151.com/blog/2012/08/17/continued_evolution_revok_saber

Pre-show interview with Saber and Revok:

Saber and Revok have etched their names and reputations wall by wall, outmaneuvering the inevitable hardships and opposition that come with the playing field, continually adapting and impelling in their own creative directions. Such experiences creating public work in their native City of Angels (once dubbed the “Mural Capital of the World”) and beyond, have led them in two distinctly different directions… (Read More Here)

Beautification/Gilgamesh Review:

In the long days and late nights leading to the July 28^th opening of the REVOK and SABER show, the excitement was palpable. Friends and neighbors stopped by as a collaborative three-panel piece was completed in the alley behind Known Gallery in Los Angeles. The pervasive spirit of solidarity and enthusiasm continued into last night’s packed opening, where crew, family, fans and collectors celebrated along with the two artists and long time painting partners. SABER describes the event as, “A major benchmark for myself, for REVOK and Known Gallery, as individuals and as friends… (Read More Here)

HIGH FRUTOSE

ACCLAIM MAG

The LA Egostist

GRAFFUTURISM

ARRESTEDMOTION

Official Flyer for Saber/Beautification and Revok/Gilgamesh show at Known Gallery

Opens: July 28, 2012 | 8-11pm
Runs: July 28 – August 11, 2012

Photo Preview:

http://knowngallery.com/blog/post/saber-beautification-teaser-photos/

http://knowngallery.com/blog/post/revok-gilgamesh/

The Seventh Letter

The Hundreds

Zes, aka Zeser, aka Zes AWR/MSK, is a Los Angeles graffiti artist with a feral stare that you might only notice in serial killers or creative geniuses. He has been one of L.A.’s most prolific taggers for many years. If you look up every now and again, you may have noticed his burners in back alleys or on the ledges of buildings in Echo Park, but until very recently, you wouldn’t see his work in a gallery. And, if he had had his way, you weren’t going to………

Read The Rest @ LA Weekly

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CHECK OUT!! The current May 2012 issue of Juxtapoz Magazine. I am honored to be in this issue with other amazing artists from all over the world that focuses on global public art. Revok and I have a conversation on some of the challenges and triumphs that play themselves out in the current climate of uncertainty and political misfortunes created by corrupt officials here in my native city of Los Angeles.

May 2012 Juxtapoz Cover #1- SWOON

The May 2012 issue of Juxtapoz is our special examination on the state of Public Art in 2012. We have spent over a year discussing the topic of community service and Public Art programs with festival organizers, politicians in the US and abroad, and artists about their experiences developing Public Art initiatives and bodies of work, and how their experiences can be blueprints for other artists and cities to follow to better communities around the world. This issue is what we learned.

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Saber's Skywriting Project Over Los Angeles

Talk about ADD, I’m all over the place!

This is a painting I did awhile back. It represents the vicious cycle of the creative spirit battling the mundane. It’s funny, the world is falling in on itself yet this asshole is still going to go out and buff that tag.