Murals on the Chain

Risa Tochigi, aka Boogie, is one half of the dynamic duo boogieREZ. Boogie is a Japanese American street artist who crafts detailed imaginary creatures, flowing abstractions and fun and uniquely creative loving characters. Her body of work taps into the flow of the streets and the vibrations of the dance culture. Her creative spirit blends the technical mastery of traditional Japanese prints with urban imagery, materials and locations.

She is an illustrator, painter and muralist who truly lives life to the fullest. She can’t stop, won’t stop creating! She works on a wide range of projects in a number of mediums. Recently, she has been deeply involved in using plywood to bring her illustrations to life. Her imagination and love of nature and design has led her to create many organically inspired pieces. Some of these projects include, No Boarders, ART @ WTC, Poughkeepsie Gateway Project, Amsterdam Whitney Gallery, Anderson Contemporary Gallery, Clinton Street Gallery, Cryptic Gallery, Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Nord Anglia International School, Art 4 WTC, Jonathan Levine projects, O+ Positive festival, Sun Rise Steam Shack, Int-O Yellow, First Street Project, Gownus Mural Project, Raw Brooklyn, Star Street Art Project, Meeting Of The Styles. 

Cory Van Lew is a rising star in the NFT and digital-art landscape. Over the past year, Cory has amassed a large following and collector base with marquee pieces selling on Super Rare, Rarible, and OpenSea. Cory is known for his vibrant color palette featuring stunning shades of blue, pink, and orange/red tones that pop off the canvas in all of his pieces. Prior to the collaboration with Mike Tyson, Cory collaborated with Jake Paul on a 1of1 NFT drop, and also worked with Pac-Man Genies on their OpenSea drop this past Spring. With such a bright color palette and even brighter future in the NFT and larger art landscape, Cory Van Lew is truly just getting started.

Annabelle Popa is a freelance Illustrator and Muralist living in the Hudson Valley. Growing up in Queens and having a lack of the natural world instilled an incessant longing for magic, nature, and tall tales. Painting and creating is her outlet to weave personal mythologies together and reach undiscovered worlds. Gaze long into the paintings but take care – they gaze back.

Ramiro Davaro-Comas is an Argentine/American artist and entrepreneur living and working in Brooklyn New York. He is the creator and director of Dripped on the Road, (a traveling artist residency program based out of an RV) and an artist on the road at times. His dedication for painting, traveling and community work have allowed him to travel through his career and collaborate with other artists, and the combination of all three passions after many years led him to launch this unique program and artistic career.

Davaro-Comas is currently directing the artist residency program, painting murals, working on creative projects for design clients, and showing his work in different gallery exhibitions and public projects. His artwork is heavily influenced by his travels, street life, comic books, South American/European muralism, skateboarding culture and animation. Davaro-Comas works within his own vocabulary of characters, symbols and iconography, creating fantastical worlds in which his characters float and loom about. With a mix of illustration, painting and mural work, Ramiro’s work is bold and expressive, and launches its viewer into colorful mystical world.

Grace is a mixed media artist based in Brooklyn and upstate New York, where she creates both two and three-dimensional work to tell stories of triumph. Continually preoccupied with the concept of personal “demons,” her work reflects the internal struggles that plague us all, creating visual expressions of those dark little thoughts that are at once frightening and sort of funny. Much of her work stems from the belief that these personal demons are not necessarily enemies but, rather, aspects of our selves that can be utilized for good. The figures in Grace’s drawings, paintings and sculptures are manifestations of her hopes for herself and for creatures everywhere. With each difficult experience, our armor grows and we become the warriors of our own worlds.

Shannon J Ramos is an illustrator and tattooer inspired by nature, fashion, and traditional tattoos. Currently apprenticing at Smoke Signals located on Main Street in Poughkeepsie, NY. Barry Barsamian is my tattoo dad.

Sean Donovan is a Hudson valley based painter, muralist and graphic designer. Taking inspiration anywhere from advertising to comic books to street art, Sean utilizes bold and colorful techniques to relay his message in his work.

Stetz is a self-taught mixed media reactionist based out of New York

Born into a family of perpetual travel, having moved from one place to the next while living out of, in, and on the four C’s since birth: campgrounds, couches, cars, and casinos. This life of constant travel has given Stetz an endless source of inspiration and opened him up to many different forms of art.

In his youth Stetz had developed a speech impediment. Not being able to fully utilize his voice as an expressive outlet it was his aunt, a painter and teacher of the arts at university, who introduced him to the paintbrush shortly before she had passed away. Immediately realizing the pen and brush are a much stronger voice Stetz had begun scribbling on anything in his path. Carrying a marker since the age of 5 would enable him to draw on everything from car windows, to the backs of paintings in hotel rooms, to bus benches, all just to kill boredom. Unaware that what he was doing would be the seed that later leads him into a life of illustration, design, publication, production, photography, videography, graffiti, fine arts, and street expression. This love for creating public works of art has given much momentum to the lifestyle of perpetual travel allowing Stetz to show artworks and paint murals on an international scale.

Over the years Stetz has fabricated a fast and loose painting style molded by the traditional arts and refined in the dark of night utilizing the quickness of the spray paint can. This love for creating public works of art has given much momentum to the lifestyle of perpetual travel allowing Stetz to show artworks and paint murals on an international scale.

(b. Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 1980)
Growing up in New York with an early love for Comics, skateboarding and graffiti John’s maintained a career as an Illustrator / fine artist and muralist for well over two decades. While the focus of his personal work revolves around the reuse of found items, (specifically old paper, books and book jackets) he’s also paints large-scale murals, various private commissions and designs as well as curated a number of group art shows and installations.

Creator of visual noise over multiple media, work is done traditionally, digitally, large scale, installation and cross platform to speak narratives, incite emotion, or spark curiosity.  Sometimes a series, sometimes stand alone, every work visually offers a new perspective.

H. Lauder is a working painter, illustrator, muralist and designer in the New York Region.

Growing up around Westchester, Danbury, and visits to NYC I saw a lot of really good graffiti. It was the coolest shit I’ve ever seen. I practiced on paper at school and picked up a spray paint can around 14-15 And I’ve been doing it ever since.