London Miles Gallery
Westbourne Studios. 242 Acklam road.
Unit 303. London. W10 5JJ
info@londonmiles.com
phone: (44) 020 3170 8618
London Miles Gallery
Westbourne Studios. 242 Acklam road.
Unit 303. London. W10 5JJ
info@londonmiles.com
phone: (44) 020 3170 8618
This October 2010 London Miles Gallery presents a three person male group exhibition featuring all new artworks from over the Atlantic including New York Based artist Morning Breath, Hawaiian artist Ekundayo and Brazilian artist Fernando Chamarelli. Each of whom compliment each other with their iconic and vivid imagery spanning from design to surrealism. Covering a wide spectrum of career stages and maturity.
About: Morning Breath
Morning Breath is Doug Cunningham and Jason Noto. In 1996, the two worked together on skateboard designs at Think Skateboards in San Francisco. There, they discovered they had similar tastes and influences, many of which were associated with the late 70s and early 80s. These included everything from sniffing glue and punk rock to racking paint and hip hop.
In 2002, Cunningham and Noto formalized their partnership with the creation of Morning Breath, a creative studio located in Brooklyn. Since Then, their collaborations have grown beyond skateboard graphics to include, music packaging, apparel, poster design and more. The two have also been part of many showings of their personal work.
Today, Doug and Jason split their creative energies and time between commercial and personal work. In 2006, their first book was published: The Early Bird – The Art and Design of Morning Breath. They have also had much of their work published worlwide in many design magazines and books, Most recently -Dirty Fingernails (rockport publishers 2009)
About: Ekundayo
Ekundayo (Dayo) was born in Honolulu, Hi, in 1983 where he lived with
his mother and father until the age of five when his mother and father
could no longer get along. Ekundayo's father snuck him out of the state
without his mother’s knowledge, and for seven years Ekundayo and his
father moved from place to place living a life on the run. Meanwhile in
her desperate need to find her son, Ekundayo's mother helped start
Hawaii's first clearing house for missing children. The life on the run
ended in 1994 when his father moved to California with Ekundayo's
sister because his father was dying from cancer. In early 1995,
Ekundayo's father passed away from lung cancer; Ekundayo was eleven…
Ekundayo lived with his sister, brother in-law, four nieces and his
sister’s mother in a small three-bedroom and one-bath house in Pacoima,
Ca. It was in this house at the age of 13 that Ekundayo discovered his
love for art. After being involved in school fights, stealing and
hanging with the wrong people, he was suspended from school. One day
while in the garage, he found one of his uncle's black books. This
uncle wrote for a graff crew in L.A. called C.H.B. This book completely
changed Ekundayo’s life. He became obsessed with drawing and copied
every single page in that little book. Meanwhile, the Dept of Justice
had located Ekundayo at his sister's home and returned him to the
custody of his mother. Ekundayo went back to Hawaii to live with his
mother. His drive to create didn't stop, and the encouragement from his
family only fueled that ambition. Shortly after graduating high-school,
Ekundayo moved back with his sister and brother in-law in much more
spacious accommodations. He attended Pierce College in Winetka, Ca,
where he practiced his craft and worked on his portfolio until 2003
when he was accepted into Art Center College of Art and Design on a
scholarship.
Although the teachers he studied under and the friends he met while
going to Art Center were priceless to his development, Ekundayo dropped
out after completing his foundation courses in order to create his own
path in the fine art world. He combines both subversive graffiti
aesthetics in combination with art-historical erudition using acrylic,
gouache, watercolor, ink and various carving techniques. Ekundayo's
work expresses the struggle of life and how those struggles and burdens
can either inspire us to change in a constructive way or weigh us down
by our own inability to change.
About Fernando Chamarelli
Fernando Chamarelli is a graphic designer, illustrator and visual
artist. After initially drawing cartoons, caricatures and portraits he
later became involved in street art and tattooing: it is by merging
these different mediums that he creates his art.
Chamarelli lives in Brazil, a multicultural country of contrasts, many
of which are reflected in his work. Everpresent, is the influence of
Brazilian popular culture and pre-Columbian indigenous art on the Sao
Paulo-based artist. His work includes mosaic, geometric elements,
organic forms and harmonic lines connecting symbols, legends,
philosophies, religions and customs of ancient and modern civilizations.
Chamarelli has to date exhibited extensively in North and South America, as well as in Europe.
Exhibition: October 2010