June Promotion

June Promotion
Originally uploaded by Sticky Ricks'

In conjuncttion with Peel Here, Sticky RIck's is giving FREE ground shipping for our Two color & FULL color sticker runs.
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Peel Here July 17th. THe line up is Deep & Diverse. "BRACE YOURSELF

A minute with "WIth We Kill You"

First became aware of WKY you in 2005. Was featured in our "Hallow Wheat Paste" show on Halloween in 2006.....we just printed these little beauties for WKY......in the meantime, enjoy a "pit stop" with WKY for a Q & A quickie....S.R.~

S.R.: in reading your bio, I see your hs school teacher supported what you were doing.
How did that person have a genuine & direct impact on your art?

WKY: Not really, she was kinda crazy because she she used to date the drummer of Pink Floyd and do a lot of drugs. She did though allow me to used as much of the schools supplies as i wanted which was pretty awesome. I guess though it was in her class that i really decided that this was something that i wanted to do for my future.

S.R.: the reason for that brand of character. You must have many to choose from but the one most often I identify to are the Big Round Black Eyes & jagged teeth coming at you man. What gives with that? Reminds me of piranha. (I may have gotten away with two in one here; haha)

WKY: Ya that face seemed to be the first thing that i started to do and it would appear on all the different monsters that i would post around the place. Its become the logo for my work, and evidently, the sticker i have come to you to create! Over the past half year though i have been starting to paint some characters that have lots of eyes and look very hairy. i guess ill see how the 2 worlds collide!

S.R: also from the bio, you say you became experimental & saw the need for art in your life.
How so in both cases? How experimental & how the need in your life?

WKY: Towards the end of high school i realized that there were 2 things that kept me most happy: skateboarding, and art. I would stay up all night on my computer trying to learn the adobe suite of programs and on my weekends, would put all my money towards screen printing supplies and making shirts. I was never really great at learning through the school system so had to find ways to do it on my own. Today all the toys that i make, the paintings, the computer based work, everything really was all self taught. School did not really teach me anything

S.R.: your installations are dope. what is the largest install to date you have done?

WKY: Hmmm well i just had a show in San Francisco in March and my friend Mikie and I turned the gallery into the inside of an old house. The front window had a lawn and front of a wooden house with a drunk dude passed out on the lawn, and the inside was covered with old wallpaper and had a fireplace and old books and stuff along side my art and toys. This summer i have a bunch of installations planned for the street with old decorated furniture and dummies. it should be good!

S.R.: where can we find WKY here in Cali.?

WKY: Right now i sell everything online at http://www.wekillyou.net. I will be spending the summer in Toronto, but when i get back to LA i will be doing some installations on the street there and hopefully get some toys and shirts into a few stores!

for more on We Kill You go to www.wekillyou.net

"Evoker" Save The Date

"Evoker" Save The Date
Originally uploaded by Sticky Ricks'

Peel Here is a celebration of adhesive art "art show".....going on it's 5th year....The Peel Here Sticker Art Show has been an unbiased forum for sticker & paste up artists around the globe.....this year, out theme is "Brace Yourself" which is inspired by & focuses on current social, political, economic & environmetal issues seem from the artists perspective; this year's line up includes; TLP, Obey, Ras Terms, FLying Fortress, ChrisRWK, MCA, Evoker (seen in photo), Olive47, Vivianna Rodriguez, Restitution Press, TImoi, Ashes57, Vyal & more..... more info www.PeelHere.COM info@stickyricks.NET

Save The Date/ Saturday July 17th

In conjuction with Self Help Graphics & Art Sticky Ricks presents PEEL HERE V "Brace Yourself" Sticky Ricks presents… PEEL HERE 5 “BRACE YOURSELF!” …a celebration in adhesive art. Going on its 5th year…The Peel Here Sticker Art Show has been an unbiased forum for sticker and paste up artists around the globe.
This year show themed “Brace Yourself” is inspired by and focuses on current-social, economic & environmental issues seen through the artist’s perspective. The entire event will be a single installation with the message from the urban underground.
What: Peel Here V “Brace Yourself”

When: Saturday July 17th
Where: Self Help Graphics and Art
3802 Cesar Chavez Avenue
Los Angeles, Ca. 90063
Time: 6pm to 11pm
Admission: $5 Art, Stickers Stickers Stickers, Food, Music & YOU!!!!!!
All ages welcome

More information WWW.PEELHERE.COM info@stickyricks.NET

Art piece by Evoker.......

Peel Here V "Brace Yourself"

Peel Here V "A celebration of adhesive art".....this years theme "Brace Yourself" speaks to the current condition of world issues we all face. ....this year, we collaborate with Self Help Graphics & Art in East Los Angeles....featured artists from The London Police to Favianna Rodriguez have been invited for event number five (5)......we will transoform Self Help Graphics parking lot into "Sticker Disneyland" as some have called it.

Featured artists have been asked to Paint on a 20"x 27" sticker sheet.

We also have an OPEN CALL for Stickers from the Sticker Community.

These stickers will be passed out, put up on our installation as well as traded in our Sticker Trading Zone.....every year we host about 800 sticker hounds searching for the one thing that bind us all, Ah yes ADHESIVE better known as Stickers.......send in as many stickers as you like. Posters will also be accepted & put up but only in News Print form........send your sticker to:

Sticky Ricks'

P.O. Box 63271

Los Angeles, Ca. 90063

323.881.6447 for more information or sales@stickyricks.NET Be sure to sign our mailing list.

Event Date = Saturday July 17th
Location = Self Help Graphics & Art

3802 Cesar Chavez Avenue

Los Angeles, CA. 90063

Time: 5-midnight

$5.00

First 50 people in line recv. a gift bag. Lots of giveaways & surprises.

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Stay Sticky~

Peel Here 2010 World Celebration in Adhesive Art

Eye-One's Tribute to a now very worldly known photo of Che' Guevara....over 500 of his red man-stickers to do this master piece. Size = 3.5"x 4.5"....this piece first shown Peel Here 06' @ the Ghetto Mansion. if you have been to any of tour four shows, then you just know & am sure have some kilah story to bump about. I'd like to hear em......this year Peel Here V "Brace Yourself" will be hosted @ Self Help Graphics in East Los Angeles. All are welcome to send in stickers for our intallation......Peel Here has escalated in its popularity & growth & following with every event Sticky Ricks puts or supports...we believe stickers are the voice of today. Doesn't matter what; the participators wether trading, putting up, collecting, creating workshops, putting on art shows, making the sticker (thats where the fun is)......the movement are the ones who create the movement & support it. Peel Here creates a platform, a place to voice & show your work off.......Peel Here is a "World Celebration in Adhesive Art".
Stickers cross many genres; monsters, skateboarding, basecard, model toys, taggs, garbage pale kide or wacky packs, its on like Donkey Kong. ....this years show will include hitters such as; SMEAR, GERMS, EVOKER, BRIAN EWING, ChrisRWK, Friends With Benefits, Damon Robinson, Timoi, Ashes 57, Obey, El Phantom & many more.
hope you come out. Peel Here is:
July 17th
Where: Shelf Help Graphics
3802 Cesar Chavez Avenue
Los Angeles, Ca. 90063
323.881.6447
Time: 5pm-midnight.
Fee: $5.00
First 50 through doors get a gift bag. First ten will get a sticker pak as well......cant make it; art sales will be available through web cam.....more to come.....Sticky~

Q&A with SMEAR & Cris Gheorghiu

Last Wednesday SMEAR aka Cris Gheroghiu dropped by the studio with an out of town friend.....we cought up with SMEAR via a three (3) Q&A Hit & Run session.....SMEAR is very outspoken & brutally honest which you'll see here right now.....he has been writing in the streets for longer than he cares to recal....so with out any further ado, "take it away Johnny".....

SR: from street to gallery; is it difficult taking your work into gallery settings, does that compromise you as SMEAR? When I saw "your" I am talking about SMEAR.

SMEAR: My work fits in a gallery setting like a d**k fits into a p***y...I dont do graff on canvas and try to take it out of it's element (the street) and put it into a gallery...only monkeys that. I'm not a monkey. And no, it doesn't compromise me as Smear...cause there is nothing to compromise...I always did my own thing, even on the streets, I never really gave a f**k what the next man was doing...I've always done what I do for myself, not for anybody else. I've never followed the "rules" of the graff world. I hate rules. Instinct and impulse is what I follow, always. I may come off as cocky, but I'm not...I'm just honest, as f**k.

SR: you have a following from RTH & SMEAR all by itself. My understanding, you have been
hitting the streets (as your web site home page states) "longer than I care to disclose". Are we talking decades? In a nut shell, what was the progression of SMEAR & or how did it evolve.
(I cheated; two questions in one)

SMEAR: started writing on stuff cause of my homies older brother (Suet C.O.I, R.T.H) he was doing that graff/breaking shit since like 84'...we looked up to him, he gave me the name Smear...the old f**ker created a monster. He gave me the name in like 90' or 91' Before that I had gay ass names like "Gizmo" and "Shreds"...god, what was I thinking...but I was just a dumb lil kid, so whatever. In 92' I got caught up in that whole 90's tagbanging thing...I didn't snap out of it until 97'...that'd when I started really getting up...like a mad street pervert. I felt liberated after years of guns, drivebys and other such strangness...it was a weird time in my life. I'd never want to go back, but at the same time I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything. The rest, as the cliche goes, is history.

SR: I hear you like romantic walks on the beach,,,,,kuz messn. Hahahaha, couldn't resist...here you go on the real;...what gallery would we see your art & where would SMEAR want to see his work & where would Cris Gheorghiu like to see his work?

SMEAR: I actually honestly do like romantic walks on the beach...but I prefer them alone, and at night.

As for the gallery that I'd want to see my art in? I would have to say that I don't really have a specific gallery targeted,like a lot of my friends seem to...I'm not into swinging off nuts, feel me? Smear and Cris are having a battle of wills over this whole art identity thing at the moment...Cris keeps saying that he doesn't need Smear and Smear keeps saying that Cris G. ain't shit without the big S...we will have to wait and see who comes out on top. But it may take a while to be revealed.



Quickie:
Top Ramen or Mac & cheese
SMEAR: Top Ramen,beef...with an egg dropped into it when it starts boiling. And maybe
some dried seaweed strips thrown in there for good measure.

Illustrator or paint Paint
SMEAR: fuck that computer bullshit.

Krink or Sharpie None
SMEAR: I prefer a good streak...or, if I had to chose, I'd make my own "Krink".

Coke or Diet Coke.
SMEAR: Can't drink either...not since I drank that Etch, Savage stomach pains and all that.

Handmade or machine made vinyls (be honest now)
SMEAR: I like both.

$1 PBR on Tap All Night or Mai Tais on the beach in Baja?
SMEAR: I'll go with the PBR on the beach in Baja...how's that?

Thanks to SMEAR & Cris to drop though for a minute. SMEAR will be featured artist at
Peel Here V this year @ Self Help Graphics.

for more on SMEAR go to http://theartofsmear.com/home.html