vblast

WELCOME TO MANLAND ART LABS The home of the artist vblast. We'll be hanging here when we aren't on our uber website www.vblasto.com . take a trip there there if you want to see my entire library of works.
Events and Shows Ginomai, March 13th West Seattle Art Walk
Lux Collective Gallery, May 1st, First Thursday Art Walk, Pioneer Square Seattle
Confluence Gallery, Twisp Wa, June 7th - July 26th
Strange Life Our environment, associations, and history always affect the process of the art we create. Inescapable mutations that result across a variety of mediums and support are a product of the whole. The totality of our lives at that moment we fling paint over canvas in an attempt to relay a meme string to others and continue the cycle of growth/ evolution.
Across the span of years I have had a variety of occupations in between the bouts of artistic conflict I refer to as painting. I have dug graves, built houses, poured beer, tossed drunks, tattooed, printed shirts and sold art in the pursuit of filthy lucre with which to buy my paint, canvas, brushes and liquor.
The same can be said for the people I have met in this perilous journey between the straight and narrow. From God fearing Christians, to junkies and killers of men. Bikers, rock stars, has been and never were, barflies, fellow artists, and suicides. From friends now dead and enemies who have yet to grace me with their demise, they have all left a mark on me like the slingers ink staining my skin beneath the comfort of a good shirt.
All this comes to pass in the works I put forth now and throw to the tender mercies of the public. These markers of the journey through a strange life.