PODCAST · arts
Happy No Fear
by The Art of Chase
A podcast hosted by CHASE (@theartofchase) // Tune in for talks with artists and creatives discussing life in the arts and tricks of the trade.
Episodes
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Episode 41: Pref_ID
PrefID (@pref_id) is a British artist who paints around the world. We talk about dating fellow artist Adele Renault, hard kombucha leading to amnesia, moving to LA, how their dog came into their life, his love for Belgium’s excellent beer and food items, his process, the reason for not using tape...
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Episode 40: Scien (123KLAN)
We talk about recently surviving a heart attack, working at Riot Games as an Art Director, moving to Venice Beach from Montreal, the benefits of Kung Fu, discovering Hip Hop and graffiti in the late ‘80s, working with the first Mac to start working with Adobe Illustrator, being vectorheads,...
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Episode 39: KLOR (123KLAN)
Klor is a French artist and partner with Scien in 123KLAN, who paints worldwide. We talk about growing up in the north of France/south of Belgium, being there at the beginning of the movement, being married to Scien for 28 years, working on each other’s work with full trust, coming up as a girl…
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Episode 38: Davey Leavitt
Davey Leavitt is an artist and designer and the former co-founder of Cyrcle. He lives and works in Los Angeles. We talk about low-key chic living in Los Feliz, the apprehension for learning new things, Kung Fu George popping up at the right time, joining a lesbian basketball league, becoming...
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Episode 37: Skount
Skount is a Spanish artist and a master chef living in Amsterdam. We talk about the Holy Waters of Lourdes, the almost non-existent lockdown during the pandemic in Amsterdam, turning clubs into gyms, the can-do spirit of the Dutch, painting in Copenhagen, the crazy story of how he ended up living...
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Episode 36: Steve Saiz
Steve Saiz is a legendary professional skateboarder and artist/designer living in Los Angeles. We talk about the US Angeles group show he curated, skating with Spike Jonze, Freestyler Magazine, the resurgence of skateboarding in the ‘80s, touring Europe with the Bones Brigade, the beauty and far...
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Episode 35: ZLA
ZLA is an artist an illustrator in LA. We talk about having a studio for the first time, making the switch from working for an advertising agency full-time for 10 years to working part-time to focus on making art, growing up in Glendale drawing mazes, why the senses are time-machines, having an...
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Episode 34: Kii Arens
Kii Arens is an illustrator, artist, musician and director who lives and works in Los Angeles. We talk about painting the facade of the Roxy on the Sunset Strip, spin art, opening up for Gangstarr back in the day, performing at Prince's 31st birthday party, designing the last Van Halen poster…
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Episode 33: John Park
John Park is an artist living in LA who paints around the US. We talk about Cannibal Flower, coming up in Ohio, attending RISD, the CIA using Modern Art in a covert operation in the '50s to combat the cultural Cold War, soft power flexes, Alphonse Mucha, Frog Tape, the 28,000 square feet Nike…
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Episode 32: Nychos: The Awakening
Nychos is an artist from Vienna who lives in LA and works around the world. We talk about his upcoming show with @mirusgallery in LA: 'The Awakening' and the 100+ paintings in it, getting healthier and more clear in mind,body and soul the closer he got to finishing the work for the show, painting...
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Episode 31: Rizon
Rizon is a 3D Designer, Illustrator and Creative Director who lives in Antwerp, Belgium. We talk about the early graffiti days in Antwerp, first trips to NY, glass eyes in sandwiches, seeking refuge in clubs because it was too cold outside, the beauty of early adoption and fighting for the art...
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Episode 30: PEZ
Pez is a Spanish artist who paints worldwide. We talk about early beginnings, positive graffiti, Barcelona shutters, his show at Thinkspace Gallery in LA, the barrier of the mind, the scene in Bogota/Columbia, cops that write graffiti, the Visual Arts Rights Act, Amsterdam adventures and more.…
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Bonus: The Making of the Angelina Print
Recorded at Modern Multiples Studio with Lionel Deluy and Montana Mills on the signing day of "Angelina", we talk about how the collaboration edition came about, details of the production, the story behind the Angelina Jolie shoot back in the early '90s and how she knew exactly what she wanted,...
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Episode 28: Montana Mills of Modern Multiples
Montana Mills is the Director of Modern Multiples, a fine art printmaking studio in Los Angeles specializing in serigraphs and digital giclees. We talk about the founder of the studio and Montana's uncle, the artist and printmaker Richard Duardo and the legacy he created and left behind, LA's...
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Episode 27: Fabian Alomar
Fabian Alomar is a professional skateboarder and actor living in Los Angeles. We talk about being freshly released after being locked up in Pelican Bay State Prison for 4 years, making the 'Cholos Try' videos, staying sober and clean, celebrating too much, self-help programs in prison, the...
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Episode 26: Nychos
Nychos is an artist who was born in Vienna but now lives in Los Angeles and paints around the world. We talk about quitting sugar and alcohol, meeting at See No Evil 2 in Bristol back in 2012, getting into Lords Crew and JBCB, opening the Rabbit Eye Movement Gallery and Studio in Vienna, doing 4...
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Episode 25: MADSTEEZ
MadSteez is an artist living and working in New York. Recorded at his studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, we talk about making up meanings for the paintings after the fact, why Mr. Ween is number 1 and how the Weeniverse got started, working at Rusty as an assistant Art Director without them…
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Episode 24: Enrique Lorenzo
Enrique Lorenzo is a professional skateboarder who lives in Barcelona. Recorded from the steps at MACBA in Barcelona we talk about funny trick trends poppin' up accidentally through the socials, skateboarding being an art or a sport depending or your perspective, how he ended up skating for World...
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Episode 23: Allison Bamcat
Allison Bamcat is an artist living and working in LA. We talk about growing up with Scientologist parents, how Dianetics saved the day when food-poisoned once, starting to paint walls two and a half years ago at the age of 30, getting taught by graffiti artists, the scene in Boston, how to get...
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Episode 22: Gsulf
Gsulf is a graffiti artist from Paris who now lives in LA. We talk about moving to LA in January of 2020 right before the pandemic, the power of the bidet, wiping from the front just to be safe, abandoning the technical side of painting, spray paint as a tool, focusing on gesture, being free to…
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Episode 21: Shplinton
Shplinton is a Los Angeles based artist. We talk about being locked down, Covid craziness, erring on the side of caution, people moving away from LA, doodling in his Bible as a kid, growing up in South Central, art as escapism, the gentrification of Venice, AR, renting out paintings, washing…
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Episode 20: Keta Meggett
Keta Megget is an actor, fighter, pro-wrestler, 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu Purple Belt and the founder of Team Bully Buster. We talk about having helped saved a stranger's life who was just hit by a car who turned out to be a Trump supporter from Minneapolis, why it's time to be sensitive and...
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Episode 19: 2501
2501 is an Italian artist that travels and works worldwide. We talk about how we came up with his name, Brasil, painting graffiti and trains for 10 years in the 90s, why painting letters and characters became too restrictive, the journey of making work, the scene in Milan at the turn of the...
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Episode 18: SheOne
SheOne is a British artist who lives and works in Barcelona, Spain. We talk about the presentation and arrangement of the work, the importance of scale, abstracting the alphabet, painting for your peers, starting writing graffiti in London in 1984, Covent Garden meetings, the medium being the...
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Episode 17: Zosen
Zosen in an artist living in Barcelona and working around the world. Recorded at his studio in Barcelona, we talk about hijinx with David Choe and Saber in Barcelona, the pill of youth, the early scene in Barcelona, backjumps with Flying Fortress in Lisbon, Zorlac shorts and Pushead graphics…
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Episode 16: Jaune
Jaune is a Belgium-based stencil artist who is active worldwide. We talk about the meaning behind his name, the benefits of working with modular elements, working site-specific in an improvisational way, traveling with suitcases filled with stencils, working on a 100 square meter commission,...
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Episode 15: Malkovich
Malkovich is an emcee and a world traveller. We talk about his #onebag project, his Iranian roots, recording albums with producers around the world for the last 7 years, how to set up shop in a new country in a day flat, understanding big data, being in prison in Namibya, living in Vietnam…
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Episode 14: Rise One
Rise One is a graffiti artist, illustrator and painter from Antwerp, Belgium. We talk about his show at Ewkuks in LA, organizing the Meeting of Styles in Antwerp, earning the right to paint big walls, bad curation, working with commercial clients, the American Dream, painting clean, having a dad...
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Episode 13: Vyal One
Vyal One is an artist who lives and works in LA and around the world. We talk about going from letters to painting characters, painting the OG graffiti pits in Venice Beach, the pre-internet world, following freely, funny posts on Craig’s List, gentrification, working with kids, early Chicano...
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Episode 12: Cocovan
Cocovan is a singer and a performance artist who lives in New York and Paris who works all over the world. We talk about making the shift from being a pop singer to becoming a performance artist, being inspired by 'Exit through the Gift Shop', her first performance piece on a bed in the streets…
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Epsiode 11: Sean Kushner
Sean Kushner is a painter and sober companion who lives in Venice Beach. We talk about surfing with sharkie-sense, growing up in south Florida, going down the deepest burrow of the rabbit hole, waking up with seizures in ambulances, coming to California and getting sober, getting into social...
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Episode 10: Bue the Warrior
Bue the Warrior is a Belgium-born artist who lives and works in Mexico. We talk about hitting the road and painting all over Europe together, the way things were back in the days, improvisational painting, doing your own thing rather than following trends, why painting tons of small walls is more...
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Episode 9: Nina Minnebo
Nina Minnebo is a painter that lives and works in Belgium. We talk about color as therapy, leaving a cushy graphic design job to start painting again, working with clients, giving paintings what they want, why cars are always male, gangbanging Barbies, working with Union LA, Erewhon, her…
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Episode 8: Topo
Topo is a traveling tattoo artist. We talk about the nomadic lifestyle, self-publishing, Riso printing, social capital, getting tongue-raped, working with the legendary Lyle Tuttle, psychedelics and bad trips on busses. IG: @topofoto
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Episode 7: Jules Muck
Jules Muck is an artist that lives in Venice Beach. We talk about getting started in graffiti, cement legs, the total acceptance of Venice, being obsessed with painting, patrolling walls, growing up in Greece and New York City, being mentored by the legendary Lady Pink, painting cross-country,...
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Episode 6: Regan Jackson
Regan Jackson is a production designer who lives and works in Los Angeles. We talk about getting lost in the outback, making tea on set, learning as-you-go, hosting the Bong Olympics, working with Spike Jonze, working with 2PAC, why Alan Watts is the man, how he started working with director Hype...
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Episode 5: Lionel Deluy
Lionel Deluy is an LA-based photographer. We talk about his dog pooping in Johnny Rotten's front yard, growing up in a small village in the South of France, shooting his first fashion magazine covers in Mexico, photographing Angelina Jolie before she was famous, immigrant mentality, his…
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Episode 4: Gino Perez
Gino Perez is an artist / ex-professional skateboarder that lives and works in Los Angeles. We talk about Highland Park, the dark side, the Golden Era of skateboarding, having Mark Gonzales as a mentor, Mexican UFOs, his upcoming show at the Heritage Museum, kleptomania and being the first beard....
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Episode 3: Stefan Kleinschuster
Stefan Kleinschuster is a Los Angeles-based oil painter and writer. We talk about alternative venues to show art, not giving up on a painting, vibrational energy, working with clients, the problem with aesthetics, form as a communicant and embracing the unknown. https://www.stefkleinschuster.com/...
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Episode 2: Teddy Kelly
@teddykelly is a Los Angeles-based artist and designer. We talk about the use of projectors, blue tape, surfing, Mazatlan and time crunches. https://www.teddykelly.com/ IG: @TeddyKelly
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Episode 1: Caratoes
Welcome to the first show! Caratoes is a Belgian-born artist that travels the world to paint walls. We talk early beginnings, growing up Chinese in a small village in Belgium, bio-chemistry, self-reliance, spoiler alerts, tagging in Hong Kong and leaving a cushy job to start painting, hustling...
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