Colorful image mashups form vibrant murals by tristan eaton. He has since become a driving force in the world of art toys, designing the dunny and munny figures for kidrobot. At its best, art is a game of subtlety and nuance, discrete and elusive, ideally left to masters who can strike that. Universal unveils giant monster mural on studio lot. These days, eaton is one of the most prominent street artists working today. Primarily known for his toy designs and street art murals, eaton is also a graphic designer and illustrator. Since he was a kid, artist, designer, and vinyl toy impresario tristan eaton has been obsessed with the nostalgic look of 3d imagery. With over 100 works by some of the biggest names in contemporary art today, this 265 page musthave book features many modern works in a medium that is rarely used today, retro 3d. The mural took 12 days, 500 cans of spray paint and 4 people working 12 hour days to finish this 8,000 square foot, ginormous mural.
Fans used to wonder what drugs he was taking, but he claims everything comes from his amazing imagination. Tristans work can be seen in galleries around the world and in the permanent collection of the new york museum of modern art moma. Eatons largescale mural work features a meticulous, visual collage of pop imagery mixed with his unique personal style, all executed with freehand spray paint on a colossal scale. The forthcoming presentation is a miniretrospective in.
Eaton now focuses on his fine art and largescale mural work fulltime. A new book compiled by tristan eaton features over 100 works by upandcoming artists, all of which require you to don lofi red and blue 3d. Growing up on comic books, graffiti and skateboard culture, tristan began pursuing street art as a teenager, painting everything from walls to dumpsters. Tristan eaton bio, artworks, exhibitions and more artland. Tristan eaton is a graffiti artist, street art muralist, illustrator, and toy.
After growing up on comic books, graffiti and skateboard culture, tristan designed his first toy for fisher price at 18 years old and began working as an artist fulltime. Tristan eaton outdoor, public art is the most important to me. Tristan eatons largescale murals select language spanish afrikaans arabic catalan chinese traditional danish dutch english filipino french german greek indonesian irish italian japanese. These 4 paintings were commissioned in 2015 for the jonathan drew collection. I decided to put all of my energy into one thing, and one thing only. Tristan eaton wynwood walls wynwood walls urban graffiti art. This is the facebook page of esao andrews, the easiest and most unobtrusive attempt to keep you uptodate. May 02, 2018 new paintings by uber talented american street artist tristan eaton. The comic and toy fueled childhood of tristan eaton has materialized and matured into an impressive series of public murals. Tristan eaton is a creative artist, who was born in the the united states, like other wellknown artists such as colette calascione, michael kindred knight, joel schlemowitz, luka kurashvili, and mylo mu. Brooklyn based artist, tristan eaton known for being a jack of all trades concerning art, being a graffiti artist, street art muralist, illustrator and even his skills being transferred to toy designer. I took all of my skills and all of my aesthetics and baked them together to make a perfect whole. He began working for dc comics during the 1970s filipino invasion but quickly revealed himself to be totally unique in his imaginative work.
Dec 03, 2018 multifaceted visual artist tristan eaton will kick off a popexhibition at the wynwood arcade as part of the art basel 2018 festivities. Jul 19, 2014 tristan eaton is a graffiti artist, street art muralist, illustrator, and toy designer. In the 3d art book, he parlays this fascination into a carefully curated selection of over 100 works by established and upandcoming contemporary artists. I took 20 years of experience and mashed it together. A street artist whose portfolio includes multistorytall murals and designer toys has ventured into a new genre space art. Apr 01, 2011 tristan eatons the 3d art book prestel takes us to a quirky, retro world of threedimensional fine art pieces, viewed through oldschool redandblue shades. After four years in the making, tristan eaton has finally finished his new undertaking with prestel publishing called the 3d art book. Art provided an outlet for him that eventually led to him designing a toy for fisher price at 18 years old. The estimated speaking fee range to book tristan eaton for your event is available upon request. Tristan eaton these days, eaton is one of the most prominent street artists working today. Hes chose to tell bostons story through a visual collage of pop imagery, executed entirely in freehand spray paint.
Since tristan eatons new show uprise opens this month at galerie itinerrance in paris, were revisiting the essay on eaton by carlo mccormick from our july 2017 issue. In the 3d art book, he parlays this fascination into a carefully curated selection of over 100 works by established and upandcoming contemporary artists, expertly rendered as 3d images which can be viewed with red and blue glasses included in the book. Jul 15, 2014 tristan eaton is a graffiti artist, street art muralist, illustrator, and toy designer. From his beginnings as a troubled teenager his street art was expressed via billboards and dumpsters and has grown ever since. Tristan eaton the revolution will be trivialized gold. May 16, 2018 this pin was discovered by czar subang. The designer of the now iconic dunny and munny toy forms for kidrobot, he is also a leading figure in the world of advertising and commercial art.
Street artist tristan eatons inspirational tribute in the era of covid19. The exhibition features a wide range of new works including large assemblages of spray paint on canvas, skateboard grip tape, auto body paint and laser etched textures. Excerpt from the 2015 book the murals of tristan eaton culture, as a creative force of youth, has a kind of migratory madness never staying in one place too long, as if knowing that stasis is where industry, imitation and exploitation ossify its energies into the cooptions of middleaged, middleoftheroad sellouts. Tristan eaton is one of the most outstanding artists who, with his pop art painted on large scale murals, paints the main cities of the world with colors. The studio recruited street artist tristan eaton who created posters for obamas 2008 campaign to capture frankenstein, the wolfman and more on a soundstage wall.
This is the most complete archive of my work to date. Painted in west palm beach, florida in march of 2014, this is the largest mural tristan has ever painted. His lively and largescale spraypainted works often juxtapose part of an illustrated, monochromatic face with a colorful mashup of imagery. New mixed media artworks by tristan eaton daily design. Tristan eaton dead press art basel 2018 miami hypebeast. Tristan eaton in the third dimension interview magazine. Tristan eaton generally travels from and can be booked for private corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. The paintings in this book are the result of that effort.
Artist tristan eaton collaborated with montefiore health system and alto nyto create an iconic artwork that captures the heroism of our nurses and medical staffs efforts. Tristan eaton s largescale murals select language spanish afrikaans arabic catalan chinese traditional danish dutch english filipino french german greek indonesian irish italian japanese. Tristan eaton speakers bureau and booking agent info. See more ideas about street art, street artists and pop art. The sold out edition of 110 regular sized prints 18 x 36 were released with static medium in 2017. Available for sale from marcel katz art, tristan eaton, the revolution will be trivialized gold 2017, giclee print on archival paper with gold foil le. In the 3d art book, he parlays this fascination into a carefully curated selection of over 100 works by established and upandcoming contemporary artists, expertly rendered as 3d images that can be viewed with red and blue glasses included in the book. Tristan eaton strange future an exhibition of new works. Bare with me as i create full history of my work to be displayed here. Street artist tristan eatons inspirational tribute in the. Jan 28, 2011 tristan eaton curated a book of art from a collection of artists and used the almighty powers of photoshop to render each piece in 3d.
In this exhibition, hollywoodborn eaton explores the topic of legacy, in his most personal and introspective exhibition yet. Tristan eaton vandal new york tao group hospitality. Eatons artwork is part of a massive multipronged montefiore appreciation campaign to give nurses a deserved digital tickertape parade, despite lockdown, by extending new york citys famed canyon of heroes to every new york hospital door. Detroitbased contemporary and fine art gallery, library street collective. Contact all american speakers bureau to inquire about speaking fees and availability, and book the best keynote speaker for your next event. He designed his first toy for fisherprice at 18 years old and soon became a driving force. The most instagrammed artworks from art basel in miami beach. After growing up on comic books, graffiti and skateboard culture, tristan designed his first toy for fisher price at 18 years old and began working as an artist. Tristan eaton is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics. Be sure to check out tristan eatons website and instagram for more. In this installment of no curator, artist tristan eaton discusses how his childhood love for comics lead him to become a worldrenowned painter, muralist, and toy designer.
Check out the photos from his new show in the image gallery, and our feature on tristan eaton below. A beautiful tribute to all the healthcare workers around the world. Fluent in both, tristan eaton is the symptom and solution of our contemporary discomfort, an artist whose circumstances have so often driven him to subversive strategies while tethering him to the basic necessity of making an art that can pay the rent. This page showcases a few of my favorite projects over the last few years from across the globe. Public art has the ability to inspire and transform our communities. Dec 12, 2018 tristan eaton had a pop up in wynwood showcasing his prints and latest book. Buy the 3d art book book online at low prices in india. Tristan eaton we brought in street artist tristan eaton to create a colossal 65ft. I see myself as a painter, but over the years ive done a lot of toy design, illustration, murals, brand collaborations, motorcycle paintingall kinds of stuff. Tristan eaton is founder and creative director of thunderdog studios, a brooklynbased creative agency and vinyl toy brand. See more ideas about street art, graffiti and artist. Thanks for visiting the early, mini version of my new site. Eatons colorful mural on the back wall at the library at vandal, was painted onto four custom bookshelves and depicts beautiful retroinspired portraits of women alongside large text fantastic fantasy. He designed his first toy for fisherprice at 18 years old and soon became a driving force in the world of designer toys.
New mixed media artworks by tristan eaton inspiration grid. Thanks for visiting the official tristan eaton fan page. November 7 november 14, 2015 detroitbased contemporary and fine art gallery, library street collective, is pleased to announce legacy, a solo exhibition of new work by tristan eaton. The handsome volume was four years in the making and draws on eatons curatorial experience at kid robot and his own brooklyn creative collective, thunderdog studios, to bring. This print is based on an original painting from tristan eaton s geisha gifted to a friend that he redesigned to incorporate 3d elements that work with anaglyphic 3d glasses. The commissioned mural is on the outside of the former headquarters of southern bell telephone company. Tristan eaton is a graffiti artist, street art muralist, illustrator, and toy designer.
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