Hanging with the Greys in COSM blog

In winter 2008 I went down to Manhattan to meet visionary master painter Alex Grey, who I am a big fan of. I got my obligatory photo with him. After a couple more encounters (and photos) at Burning Man, Toronto and Hawaii, he finally started to remember me and my art. Always a pleasure and honor.
Now last month I saw him and his wife Allyson in Australia and it was them who asked me to get a photo with me!! What?!! They just posted it on their blog on th Eclipse festival we participated at. I am super stoked. Also stoked that I will be hosting an "Art Church" at their new COSM land in upstate New York, August 4th 2013. Hope to see some of you there!!  http://www.cosm.org/blogs/index.html

33 Mag Blog

Yesterday I was nicely surprised by my friends at 33 Mag, a popular Montreal website, who posted a nice blog post about me and my art. Was pretty stoked. Check it out HERE.

New Stickers!!

I got a bunch of awesome full color vinyl stickers available for you now!!  It's 25$ for 8 or 5$ for 1. 5$ for worldwide shipping either way. Hook yourself up HERE.

QBNYC group show

My buddy Keith QBNYC will be having a solo show at "Le Dep" (downtown Montreal, Peace Park) and I will be one of his special guests witha  couple of boards on teh wall. See you there December 15th!! For more info, go HERE.

Moksha Art Fair 2012

For those of you rocking the Miami Art Basel scene today: I am jealous of you. Also, you should go n check out the Moksha Family Art Fair. My art is on the flyer and I will be having some paintings in their gallery. Couldn't go personally this year, but these events are always epic, so don't miss out!! For more info, go HERE.

Metropolitan group show in Berlin

If you happen to be in Berlin this 7th of December, make sure to pass by Strychnin Gallery. My good friend Christian Rothenhagen is having a solo show n book release there, as well as a group show he curated, which includes an original drawing done specifically for this event. For more info go HERE.

Carrito Loco Interview

An online skate magazine from Argentina called "Carrito Loco" just released an 18 page article/interview with me. You can go n check it out HERE.

The Vision Lab

The Vision Lab from Georgia just launched their new webpage where people can order and or create art prints t-shirts, etc. I also have an artist profile there, you can check it out HERE.

Australia tour photo album.

 For the past 3 weeks I was touring the north east of Australia making and showing art. You can now see all the fun photos of this on an album HERE.

Project LOVE tonight!!

Tonight in Montreal (Espace Griffintown) there will be this great conscious party called "Project LOVE". I will have some of my art on teh wall, along great food, people, yoga and music. Make sure to check it out if you can!! For more info, go HERE.

Infinitus group show opening today

Today!!! Is the grand opening of this awesome group show at Infinitus Gallery in the northern Australia rain-forest village of Kuranda. I will be there at night and during the day I will be at the old market painting a mural for Compound Skate shop. So stop by n say hi!!

Tapestries Online sale

I am now selling my 2 tapestries online. 30$ plus 10$ shipping worldwide. 60 x 90 inches, hand made in India with 100% cotton. Go and grab one today HERE.

Vans Mural video

Vans Mural by Chris Dyer at Projet 45 from Vans Canada on Vimeo.
Vans shoes just put out this video of the mural I painted for them recently at Projet 45 DIY skate park. Warning, I am skating in it!!

Original Drawings SALE!

For my recent solo show at Green Light Gallery (still up till the end of the week), I showed a bunch of my commercial hand drawn graphics. They ended being a hit and many sold. So to raise some extra money for my Australia trip, I just uploaded the left overs on my Facebook page for sale for very affordable prices. Go and scoop yourself some goodness HERE.

Australia Tour

So, It seems like Australia is a go!! Stoked to cross the world an meet my ozzy family. Other than live painting/exhibiting at the week long Eclipse Festival I already posted about here, I will be participating in a few other awesome events!

Just as I arrive, Sunday November 4th I will go straight to Entheogaia Festival, to live paint on the last day of that event. Sounds nice. For more details of that festival, go HERE.

After the Eclipse Festival I will be at the opening of a group show called "Divine Align" at Infintus Gallery. For more info, go HERE.

And then on my last week there I will be taking and teaching a workshop by Adam Scott Miller and Amanda Sage, also at Infinitus gallery. For more info on that, go HERE.

There will be more, but it will rise up organically, so hopefully see you there!!

En Masse in Underworld

Tomorrow night En Masse will be showing some canvases at Cabaret Underworld (1403 Saint Elizabeth, downtown Montreal) and painting the wall as well. So come and join us!!
For details go HERE.

Pics in Hot Breath Mag

I just caught a couple of pics of my art that I had at Ck Expo in Santa Monica last May, in Hot Breath Magazine. To check out the virtual version of the mag, please go HERE>

Paradox Grip tape

Paradox Griptape from San Diego and Creation skateboards has collaborated in making this new skate grip with my art printed on it. Hook up your feet!

Hellahigh Solo Exhibition

Though I've had some pretty solid solo shows in the last few years, it's been in places like Peru, Belgium, California, Mexico, etc. Last week I was asked if I wanted to do one at the Green Light Gallery in The Plateau of Montreal and I agreed. Since a big portion of my art is stored in California, I am forced to show some new stuff, along skateboard prints and I will also have some cheap original drawings for sale, so its a good chance to scoop an original for cheap!

See you next Friday october 5th at Green Light Gallery (3878 Saint Laurent). Other than my art and live painting we will have reggae n hip hop djs and beers.
Event Page HERE>.

Fine Art America Prints

Ok, straight up this Fine Arts America webpage is corporate n cheesy. But it is a cheap easy way to grab canvas prints of my art. So hook yourself up with some nice wall goodies. Go to: http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/1-chris-dyer.html .

Reload Blog Holland

Reload is a very cool magazine from Holland that covers cool art and sports. I was stoked to find today that they posted about my new video n other stuff on their Blog. Check it out HERE.

New Italy Art Journey Video

Today I am releasing my newest video. In this quick fun one I am taking an art seminar in a small Italian village along some epic visionary artists and also do an effort to combine those vibes with some spray paint art for the locals n fellow students/teachers. Hope you enjoy!!

Eclipse Festival Australia

 

This coming November (10 to 16th) is Eclipse festival in north east Australia. My art will be shown there and I am scheduled to be there in person doing my thing too. I am now waiting for a grand from the Canada Council of the Arts and if it comes through I can afford my flight ticket and join artists like Alex Grey, Martina Hoffman, Luke Brown, Amanda Sage, etc. Should be a pretty epic event so i hope it all works out well and I can go and meet personally my Australia friends. For more info, go HERE.

The end of Fresh Paint Gallery

Tonight is the final event at the community Street Art Gallery Fresh Paint in downtown Montreal. This was a place many artist used a a platform to do and show their work to our city. For this Elise Luong, the original curator has been flown from Europe to attend. There will be a fun art battle and I also have a couple of my paintings on the wall. See you there!!

Creation Skateboards Trailer!!

I am stoked that I can finally share the trailer for the Creation Skateboards video I have been directing the past few months. As you can see it will be lot sof fun, with a solid skate team, good art n animations and quality music (like Frank Zappa here). Anyways, hope you enjoy this teaser and please spread it around so more can see. Big Ups!!

Staf Blog Interview

Staf is a new popular culture (skate, surf, street art, low brow) Blog from Spain that recently did an interview with me. This week they released it at one of their "Quickfolios". Even though it is in spanish, please check it out HERE.

Chuck Treece X Positive Creations

A Positive Creations suporter in Philadelphia just sent me a picture of Chuck Treece and one of my prints. Chuck used to be a pro Skateboarder in the 80's fro brands like Santa Cruz and Powell Peralta and is also a well respected base player that has done things with Bad Brains, Pearl Jam, Tommy Guerrero, Sting, Billy Joel, etc. Stoked he is into my art too!

New Creation Catalog!!!

For the last few months I have been working super hard putting together the new catalog of Creation Skateboards, for the Fall 2012-Winter 2013 season. Check it HERE.
Though I only have 2 new graphics of my own art, I curated the art of many friends (like Peru, Entes-Pesimo, Sego, Android Jones, Randal Roberts, Adi, Bobby Brown, etc.) and laid it down as board graphics. I also managed to hunt down the legendary traveling pro skater Kenny Reed to be part of our team, which will show the world that Creation is not only still alive, but growing. I thank you for your support and if you want any of this niceness for your feet or wall, please ask your local skate shop to hook it up for you! Skate shops will only order if they see a demand from the streets, so it's in your hands.

Rootwire Results

 This past weekend I took a plane from Belgium (n back) to Rootwire Festival in Ohio. It was a really beautiful and intentional event. I got to show my art along many other spiritual expressors, collaborated with them, painted a few murals and even live painted in front of a few thousand peoples during the performance of a popular jam band called Papadosio. All in all it was a real nice time and was stoked to share my art with so many.
For more photos of the event, you can check my facebook album HERE.

My art on CNN

Today I was surprised to see some of my art on CNN. Here is a video about my dear city of Montreal, which starts in my lil hood, with a shot of one of my murals. No credit given, but stoked either way! I Love Montreal and I can't wait to be back home.

New Tapestry

Sunshine Joy just released this new hand printed tapestry with my art. It is on sale online HERE for cheap and it comes with a pair of 3D glasses so you can look at it pop (and eat your brains out in this case...).

Walsh n piece on the news

My good friend Barry Walsh was on the news again a couple of days ago. This time it's about his ghetto youth skate school, that is under danger because NDG skate shop got flooded and is dieing... Other than the news, you can see one of my spray paint pieces in the background, giving you the finger!

Back from Italy!!

 So, I haven't made a post on this blog for over a month cause I was off travelling and doing art away from computor boxes. I spent 3 weeks of this time in a small Eco village called Torri Superiori in Italy, where I took a visionary art techniques intensive with epic artists like Amanda Sage, Andrew Gonzalez, Maura Holden, Laurence Caruana, etc. In between learning the ancient Misch technique, I also got to give a quick "visionary graffiti" workshop, which was a first but wont be the last!
After that I kept on cruising with my dear wife Valerie (celebrating our 2nd year anniversary) to epic Florence and Geneve in Switzerland. The world is full of great art and natural beauty, and Im always happy to see that. Anyways, here's a couple of pics but if you want to see more you can go to my Facebook. A lil video about it will also be in the works.

Quintin Co. Video of me in Los Angeles

Here is a quin n fun video that Quintin Co. hats just released about my resent visit to Los Angeles. We did a collaboration hat together so they filmed and edited this piece to help me get the word out. If you would like a hat, you can get them HERE.

New Blotter Art Available!

 In my recent trip to LA I got to meet Ken Kasey's son Zane. He still drives the famous "Further" bus that Ken and his band of Merry Pranksters used to cross the states in 1964 doing acid everywhere. It was also featured in Tom Wolfe's famous book "The Electric Kool-Aid Test". Zane now sells blotter art on the back of this historical bus, which now include some of my own pieces in that mix. You can buy them off him at west coast festivals, or from his website: http://www.key-z.com/special.html .

Lil G Group Show

I will be part of this very cool group exhibition this Wednesday in San Diego. They gave us these new Boom box vinyl toys where ipods can go in n play music. Should be interesting to see how each artists did it up.
You can see a full article on this show on Spanky Stoke's popular blog: http://www.spankystokes.com/2012/05/spankystokes-x-lilg-mini-boomboxs.html .

Timelapse of Belgium Collabo with Bue n Scarpulla

 Last week I jammed a garage door in Gent Belgium with a couple of local painters from there. Bue the Warrior and Scarpulla collaborated with me as you can see on this fun time lapse. You can see the whole report and pictures on the Belgium Street Art Webpage here: http://streetartbelgium.com/2012/06/chris-dyer-bue-the-warrior-and-sam-scarpulla-timelapse/ .

BESO TV video interview

Here is a cool video of an interview I did with Beso TV. They are a group from Montreal that does a bunch of well made videos about our cities special cultures. There has been a few video portraits done of me the last few years, but this is one of my favorites! Check out more Beso TV at http://besotv.com/index.eng.html .
Also, check out this other video they made about Montreal, where I also give my 2 cents on our special city.

Belgian Graff Jam

Tomorrow I will take part of this Spray Paint Jam here in Belgium. The flyer aint so exiting but the event promises great artists and Im stoked to link up n play with the locals.

Transworld Business Interview with Jordan Utz

My partner in crime, Jordan Utz is the graphic designer at Creation Skateboards (and the other High Grade Distribution brands). Today he got an interview come out in Transworld Business. He talks about the brands, our upcoming skate video and even mentioned me in that mix. Check it out HERE.