Bob Vido : http://www.bobvido.com/

Noah Lyon : http://retardriot.com/

Noah Lyon (born September 11, 1979) is a New York City based artist. He lives in Brooklyn and works everywhere. He graduated from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2001.

Noah Lyon is the founder of RETARD RIOT, a network of radical individuals devoted to art, music, philosophy, semiotics and political science. He works under a variety of alias’ in many different mediums; drawing, painting, book arts, sound, video, new media, writing, performance and installation. He has contributed regularly to a number a publications including Fort Thunder’s now legendary Paper Rodeo. He currently writes cultural criticism under the pen name Doctor Ninja. His prolific output includes many self published zines, stickers, Retard Riot Radio programs, collaborative tape music and multiple thousands of homemade buttons.

Retard Riot Buttons

Noah Lyon has created and continues to develop a series of one inch pin-back buttons, creating thousands of hand drawn designs and original texts. The buttons contain a mix of political satire, absurdist propaganda, social critique and simple observations.

Lyon as an artist has been compared to Pablo Picasso, not because of his aesthetics but rather the brut instinct, intimacy and intuitive playfulness that his work reflects.

Exhibition History

Lyon’s drawings have been shown alongside Kenneth Anger, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Rauschenberg and many other of the 20th centuries most influential artists in the international traveling museum exhibition ”Rock N Roll Vol.1” which has toured Scandinavia and is scheduled to open in Paris in 2009. He has shown at Art Basel, The Armory Show,Printed Matter Inc., Anthology Film Archives, Deitch Projects, and many other international galleries. His artist books are in the permanent library collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Tate Britain

Noah Lyon is represented in Stockholm Sweden by Brandstrom and Stene.

(Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Lyon)

Raoul Sinier : www.raoulsinier.com

Daniel Martin Diaz : /www.danielmartindiaz.com

Daniel Martin Diaz is a Latino artist in Tucson, Arizona whose work has gained him international renown. His style is a combination of ancient Byzantine and Gothic, with a touch of Post-Modernism.

While he primarily works with oils on wood, he reaches out in a wide variety of other media, including rag printings, zinc etchings, cut metal, and more. In addition to his public shows, his work has been featured in magazines, TV documentaries, as well as book covers and his own book, Triginta Uno Dies, for which he was chosen to receive an award for Book Design from American Graphic Design Awards, sponsored by Graphic Design USA.

In 2003, the Tucson Museum of Art commissioned a pony for him to paint for the Tucson-Pima Arts Council’s Ponies Del Pueblo, which raised over $430,000 for charity. In February, 2005, Daniel redesigned the stage for the Historic Hotel Congress in downtown Tucson.

Found through the internet, the band P.O.D. commissioned him to design and paint the cover of their eponymous 2003 album. Due to last minute design problems, the band also had Daniel design the entire interior layout, which he completed in under a week.

Daniel was requested to paint a unique guitar for the The Dimebag Darrell Art Tribute Auction on May 17th, 2007. All proceeds of this auction went to Little Kids Rock.

Daniel is a primary member of the band Blind Divine, with his wife Paula Catherine Valencia.

(Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Martin_Diaz)

Bill Barminski : www.barminski.com

Bill Barminski (born 26 November 1962) is an American artist and filmmaker born in Chicago, Illinois.

While attending the The University of Texas at Austin as an art major, he was a contributor of satirical cartoons to the student newspaper, The Daily Texan . The cartoon strip, entitled “King of the Pre-Fab”, featured Dick Nixon, a used car salesman and campus gadfly. Despite repeated efforts by the student’s association to have him removed, Barminski went on to create the underground comicbook, “Tex Hitler, Fascist Gun in the West”. Author and cultural critic, Greil Marcus mentions this character in Artforum: “What’s most remarkable about Bill Barminski’s “Fascist Gun in the West” is how quickly and completely it pulls you into its twisted, yet utterly familiar little world”. After dropping out of art school in 1985, Barminski moved to Los Angeles where he continued to produce his hand-bound comic books. He began in earnest to paint. His first show in 1986 in a downtown L.A. gallery, Oranges/Sardines, created a minor sensation and resulted in modest sales. His work caught the eye of record producer, Scott Arundale, who commissioned him to create the album cover for an Industrial/Tribal band, “Death Ride ‘69″. The image of Elvis Presley as Jesus Christ was later acknowledged and reprinted in the Greil Marcus book, Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession (1991), about the phenomenon of the Rock ‘n’ Roll icon in the years since his death. The themes and style of his work critique mass media and consumer culture. His exhibitions usually contain installation elements showcasing a video work produced for each show. His richly textured paintings have been reviewed in numerous publications such as FlashArt, Art in America, Art News, Visions Art Quarterly, New American Paintings, and the L.A. Weekly. Tobey Crockett describes his work in a 1996 article for Art in America: “The advertising-derived images that Barminski incorporates into his paintings are meant to evoke postwar America. Like filmmaker David Lynch and others, Barminski is interested in the ominously surreal side of the good life. “Bill Barminski’s paintings are prominently featured in the movie Horseplayer (1990). The film stars Brad Dourif as a homicidal artist living in downtown L.A. and Barminski makes a cameo appearance. His paintings have adorned the walls of several feature films including Sliver (1993) and Zero Effect (1998) as well as the TV show Friends. In 1996, he designed the album art for the School of Fish recording, Human Cannonball.In 1998, Barminski is credited with designing the largest and most expensive billboard ever commissioned by Absolut Vodka which remained on the Sunset strip for over two years. In 1999, Baz Luhrmann hired Barminski to create a music video, entitled “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen): The Sunscreen Song (Class of ‘99)” based on Mary Schmich’s newspaper column, Wear Sunscreen . The spoken word piece is set to music by Luhrmann and features animation and home movies of Barminski and his family. The video aired on all major networks in the U.S. and was featured on the The Tonight Show, The Today Show and The View, as well as VH1 and MTV. It also appeared in the UK, Australia and Japan.The Goo Goo Dolls commissioned him the following year to create a video to be presented on stage as part of their 2000 summer concert tour. Entitled “Greed in Action”, the four minute piece features stock footage and original flash animations by the artist including American vintage automobiles being dropped from B-52 Stratofortress bombers. Barminski worked with director Peter Howitt and Oscar-winning editor Zach Staenberg to create multiple video sequences for the feature film Antitrust (2001), starring Tim Robbins and loosely based on the real-life creator of a major software conglomerate. In 2001, H&M, an international clothing retailer of Sweden, commissioned him to create a music video to present to its corporate staff entitled “Add Your Note”.Barminski joined forces with Christopher Louie in 2007, to create a fictional film director named Walter Robot. The very same robot stars in his own video for the band Modest Mouse called Missed the Boat.Bill Barminski is an accomplished Flash, Shockwave and After Effects designer with his many musical and digital art compositions available on his website. Macromedia frequently awarded him “Flash Site of the Day” during the late 1990s as he constantly tinkered with and updated his on-line works.Barminski is author and co-creator of “The Encyclopedia of Clamps”, an interactive CD-ROM game featuring an amusement park of games and social and political commentary. It was awarded first prize for Best Foreign Package at the Tokyo MultiMedia Grand Prix in 1997.
During the same year, Barminski created the original character Cyclops Boy, featured in the internet series “Cyclops Boy: The One-Eyed Detective in Satellite Sky”. It won Best Multimedia Award at the FilmWinter Fest, Stuttgart Germany.

In 2006, Barminski created a video for Mortified, the spoken word project ripped from the pages of real life.  Mortified is a comic excavation of adolescent artifacts (journals, letters, poems, lyrics, home movies, stories and more) as shared by their original authors before total strangers. The innovative video has been hailed as a breakthrough in guerilla web marketing.

(Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Barminski)

Shari Elf : http://www.sharielf.com

Jim Avignon : www.jimavignon.com

Jim Avignon (born c. 1967) is a contemporary German pop artist. A lauded and much-respected cult figure in the Techno subculture in Berlin. Currently he lives and works in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and Berlin.

Jim Avignon was born Christian Reisz. He started painting when he was 21 years old, exhibiting in techno clubs. His ideas on art were very clear: “I’d rather sell a thousand images for one dollar, than one image for a thousand dollars.” He demonstrated his commitment to this philosophy when he exhibited his work in Frankfurt in 1995: the public was allowed to take any of the 800 originals on display home for free. This exhibition was aptly named “Get Rich With Art”. At a 1992 exhibition in Kassel, he created one painting each day only to destroy it in the evening. A documentary was made about the exhibition, called “Destroy Art Galleries”. Jim Avignon has proven himself a prolific, provocative and highly original artist. Two of his books are: “Popbones” (1996) and “Busy” (with DAG, 1998).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Avignon