I wanna see your (original) art. I've only recently become a collector. I was originally thinking stuff you've bought or traded for or whatever... but shit, OKartists, if you wanna get down on this and post up some of your work gon' head.

So here are some pieces I own.

http://i.imgur.com/7aFgY3c.jpg
Purchased in Cuba. Alley scene showing La Bodeguita del Medio; the place the mojito was invented.
11x22ish

http://i.imgur.com/cH9PDGc.jpg
Won at an auction. Artist was live painting. I was familiar with his work and put in the first bid just as he was getting started. Won.
29x36ish

http://i.imgur.com/CDCTUwv.jpg
Purchased from local artist. Calaca.
18x24

http://i.imgur.com/1u8OfVk.jpg
Purchased from local artist. Part of her Aquemini series. Rosa Parks.
18x24

http://i.imgur.com/wQH2Pyv.jpg
Purchased from a local artist. Same one who did the auction piece.
11x55ish

I've got a few more pieces. A couple tiny ones that a friend bought for me in Brazil. One painted for me by one of my students. A small print I bought in Mexico that was 1/50. I've got some really, really dope prints by an LA artist that put EVERYTHING else that I have to SHAME. But they're not originals so I didn't post them.

Show me what you got.

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"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."

i aint got no pictures of pictures, besides i have mostly prints so doesn't count.

Forget about them counting or not.
That was an elitist qualifier for me to put on there.

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"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/74366000/jpg/_74366491_steve-mcqueen-ashes-2014-.jpg
it's a still from a short film he shot called 'Ashes'

i have this in reverse (white with red print)
http://www.lazinc.com/content/images/mailout/2012-12/zevs-liquidated-coca-cola-luminescent-print-edition.jpg
Liquidated Coca Cola by Zevs

some 'tourist' art from DR and Cuba. A print on canvas of 'The Toilet of Venus' by Velazquez.

how are the cuba and dr "tourist" pieces?

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"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."

i haven't seen the original piece in person but the gallery was giving out prints at some art fair.

the DR piece is a very cool large painting, but the one from Cuba is a more bog-standard wood sculpture - although i love it, so i don't really care.

i have a lot of not-art art, like framed vinyl (how hipster, i know), posters, postcards, textiles & other crafts.

if you have a chance.

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"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."

the one of the blonde dreadlocked boy?
yo, i just READ the description and it had my all hyped up
i've only seen a handful of his video pieces and i've loved everything
dude is so amazing

*edit i just realized your print is the piece i was referring to! lol

it was just so...understated and beautiful and tragic.

i happen to have 3 copies of the poster, i can mail you one if you want.

that kind of elegance, that's what i strive for in my work
thats the kind of work i want to make

>it was just so...understated and beautiful and tragic.
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>i happen to have 3 copies of the poster, i can mail you one if
>you want.

When they were talking about the cover
A very fuuuuuuuck moment
That feeling is why I won't watch the wire it hard for me to look at Latoya rubys work
I sometimes wonder if it's ptsd
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When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.
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You cannot hate people for their own good.

Matarrita, and a print by Revok MSK

Josama's stuff

https://www.facebook.com/Josama2013/media_set?set=a.2213647015498.2121330.1077225313&type=3

Marthalicia's stuff

https://www.facebook.com/marthalicia.matarrita/media_set?set=a.10151258705083835.554091.809333834&type=3

Print from Revok's Uphill Both Way series:
https://www.google.com/search?q=revok+jonathan+levine&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=fe22VIzHNPDasATMhYLgBw&ved=0CDEQsAQ&biw=1759&bih=622&dpr=0.9

But the other two have some nice stuff.

The Revok stuff uses color in a similar way as Eric Inkala. Another former graf writer.

http://instagram.com/p/xxl0KrzDNG/?modal=true

http://instagram.com/p/xQCqTYzDOW/?modal=true


I like his work. Far too rich for my blood though.

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"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."

It's hard to describe his work, it's so steeped in verbal puns and double meanings. It helps to have him tell you the story about each painting. I have one of his with a holy man feeding a bomb to a shark and a young buddhist monk taking a picture down a watery sinkhole into the abyss in front of a waterfall.

http://instagram.com/josama_eye_dios_mio/

>I have one of his with a holy man
>feeding a bomb to a shark and a young buddhist monk taking a
>picture down a watery sinkhole into the abyss in front of a
>waterfall.
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"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."

the stuff he's been doing since he left LA for the D is great. you can tell his inner self feels free after all the hassle LAPD was giving him aroun 2010/2011

That Marthalicia stuff is nice too

of 'graff' gallery art and focused on creating from a real novel point of view

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Roy_Lichtenstein_Drowning_Girl.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/78/Blue_Nudes_Henri_Matisse.jpg

i have a version of this in my kitchen

http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/8/884/9LXJ000Z/posters/chocolat-menier.jpg

and this actually hanging in there.
http://instagram.com/p/s-ei4WiJwu/

Lichtenstein and Matisse pieces?

I hate on the former, love the latter

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yes i have prints.

pics of Matisse and Lich, if you had mass produced prints

cause you did post an actual picture of a piece in your home, so I was like QUE?

>pics of Matisse and Lich, if you had mass produced prints
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>cause you did post an actual picture of a piece in your home,
>so I was like QUE?

or anything dealing with artistry?

anyway, i just bought these two pieces but for about half of the price from the price online.

i got the man and the woman

they are incredible to be seen in person

still boxed up tho:

https://cantoni.com/shop/modern-home-accessories/modern-art/floor-sculpture/marathon-man

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pink toes: http://i.imgur.com/WN7DPL1

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http://imgur.com/nbWzbqZ

i believe i copped from Front Street in Capetown
memory is foggy
i just remember it was a BITCH smuggling them back in in my carry on luggage as each piece is carved out a single tree trunk and weighs like 80lbs each

so i lugged them all through CPT
then alll through JNB
all thru MAD
then all thru JFK

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pink toes: http://i.imgur.com/WN7DPL1

Why did you have to smuggle 'em though?

I had to smuggle the painting i got from Cuba so it wouldn't get confiscated. Travel ban and all.

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"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."

>Why did you have to smuggle 'em though?

Because certain trees/plants abroad contain certain bugs/insects that can ravage USA tree/plants/crops
I could have imported a whole colony of termite that has never been seen in America and those termites could wipe out all Eucalyptus trees on the west coast of California



>I had to smuggle the painting i got from Cuba so it wouldn't
>get confiscated. Travel ban and all.


I brought stuff back from Cuba but they were them janky ass paintings all artist do on the beach.
Same kinda paintings I bought in DR and Haiti and Jamaica

I'm mad as hell I didn't but a piece I looooooved in Morocco
I attended some big known Moroccan artist's showing and his masterpiece was only like 100,000 dirham
i could have put that on the credit card and ate top ramen the rest of the winter and had it paid off
but i relented and now i'm mad

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pink toes: http://i.imgur.com/WN7DPL1

aside from the obvious piece about it being expensive... you gotta be ready to go at a moment's notice unless you know the artist.

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"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."

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http://www.indigoarts.com/gallery_brazil_prints1.html

i have a few different prints and an actual factual woodcut thingee used to make a series of prints from Jose

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pink toes: http://i.imgur.com/WN7DPL1

One:
http://www.bluecanvas.com/art-detail/317988

two:
http://www.bluecanvas.com/art-detail/317969

three:
http://www.bluecanvas.com/art-detail/502860

four:
http://www.bluecanvas.com/art-detail/502856

five:
http://www.bluecanvas.com/art-detail/440903

Either way they're pretty dope.

I especially like #1.

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"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."

prints are available

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in my house.

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One Hundred.

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Sitting in my dining room right now: http://imgur.com/rUpM2pc


Series that she did for a friend's coffee shop: http://imgur.com/SN5R3r6


Maiden series (a whole bunch of these around the house): http://imgur.com/2vP25DJ


New series she started producing last year: http://imgur.com/BY2uE7l

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One Hundred.

I only have two original pieces
canvas paintings done by one of my best friends

here for dis.

http://www.mtv.com/onair/cribs/assets/flipbook_season12/ep1202/ep1202_06a.jpg

Sorry Kara Walker. Sorry Kehinde Wiley.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

http://blackpeopleonlocalnews.tumblr.com/

Haven't thought about that piece in a minute.
So much wrong. So much glory.

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"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."

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http://i.imgur.com/hcwx8JM.jpg
local artist. Made with traditional japanese sumi-e ink. Daruma on canvas 11x14

http://i.imgur.com/uG8umU4.jpg
local artist. On canvas. 29x36

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"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."

Brianna McCarthy - Golding XII (original)

http://www.liveunchained.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Goldings-VIII-XIII-Ink-and-Gold-Leaf-5-X-7-TTD-900-Brianna-McCarthy.jpg

Kwesi Abbensetts (prints)

http://abbensettsstudio.tumblr.com/post/73963274371/pamelashepard-squad-up-shayla-cox-lookbook

http://instagram.com/p/nI8fLjJkJN/

http://instagram.com/p/m9DiN5JkPt/

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