Hennessy Blending of Art
Featuring The Roots, Q-Tip, Questlove, Kid Sister and more...
A limited edition BOTTLE Collaboration by Myself and Questlove of The ROOTS

lending Art and Music is nothing new. Having the world's Largest and most Prestigious Cognac Brand BLEND together artists to create Custom Bottles is. I had the opportunity to sit down with Questlove and create a bottle design which spoke about each of us. Quest has a massive Vinyl collection, over 70,000 strong... I've got a much more modest collection but I put in years in Florida, Diggin' in the Crates. This bottle is about music in it's purest, original form. Vinyl.

The Bottle will be made available in limited numbers in 2011. It is a custom die-cut label with Gold-Foil and Embossing... The Gold details spell out our names respectively. I tried to push a lot of hidden details in this bottle that would become apparent only after someone spent some time sipping on the Henny with the bottle in hand. Check it out.
Head over to the BLENDING OF ART Website for Interviews, Videos and More: HENNESSY BLENDING SITE

Images above taken from the HENNESSY ARTISTRY 2010 : Blending of Art Launch event at Cipriani's NYC. Featuring performances by Erykah Badu, The Roots, Mary J. Blige and yes, Ronald Isley... It was Epic!
This was a massive project involving many talented individuals. I'd like to thank my Co-Collaborators ( Josh Vanover, PJ, Dust La Rock... I see you ) as well as everyone else who contributed to the entire program ( Ahmir, Munir, Alloy, LVMH, The KDU who made this all happen.)

RE:FORM Charity Gallery Exhibition & Art Auction
Featuring Shepard Fairey, Michel Gondry, Swoon, WK Interact and more...
And the Debut of a new Large-Scale Calligraphic work

E:FORM School by REDU is a charity exhibition geared towards changing the failing American school system... I'd been fortunate enough to have been invited to create artwork to be shown alongside such altruistic luminaries such as Shepard Fairey, WK Interact and old friend Swoon.

I created a large-scale Calligraphic Piece, scribed on Mid-19th Century to Early 20th Century Text-Book papers... All drawn in an amalgamation of Sumi-e and traditional Western and Arabic calligraphic styles.
Title : LIBRO y CULEBRA ( Book & Snake ) : 48" x 60" : Ink on Antique Papers

The piece was a re-writing of Genesis 2:16-17 which recounts GOD's reference to the TREE of KNOWLEDGE. I also intertwined passages from the epic of GILGAMESH which cross-reference the idea of a Tree of Knowledge.

I'm proud to say that the piece was SOLD during the exhibition and that I am donating a portion of the proceeds to the RE:FORM SCHOOL CHARITY. Many thanks to everyone involved in this great event, especially to my good friend YOSI SERGANT who crafted and created this whole event and was gracious enough to invite me to participate. Click here to check out more work on the RE:FORM site: RE:FORM LEX