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RIDES OF PASSAGE SNOWBOARD ART EXHIBIT Curated by Bruce Bart and Curse Mackey, and co-sponsored by BURTON SNOWBOARDS, this exhibit featured 117 BURTON Snowboards painted, mangled, mauled, carved, made pretty, or pretty dangerous by some of the world's finest tattooists, visionary artists, graffiti artists, and illustrators. The exhibit is currently on a World Tour. It debuted as part of Bart and Mackey's Woodstock Tattoo & Body Arts Festival in Sept. 2004 and had enormously successful openings in New York City at Milk Gallery, and Los Angeles at La Lu De Jesus Gallery.
It also had three showings in Austria as part of the
BURTON SNOWBOARDS World Tour. The openings were a blast with many of the
artists, celebrities, press, as well as some of the top pro snowboard
riders in the world in attendance. The exhibit travels to Tokyo in the
fall of 2005 insuring its place as one of the dominating art exhibits in
recent years and it is also the largest exhibit of fine art works by
tattoo artists ever assembled.
l to r, "Flaming Wind" by Damien Bart, "Salad Days" by Lance Violette, "Untitled" by Jimmy Mariani
"A Rose by any other Name" by Eric Merrill.
A 180-page hardbound book documenting the
snowboard-tattoo-art exhibit "Rides of Passage" has been produced.
Photographed by Rick Levinson, one of the top snowboard photographers in
the world, (who shoots the Burton, Gravis, and Analog catalogs)
the book features full page shots of each board, as
well as a great section of tastefully shot details that capture the
elaborate detail and painstaking processes undertaken by the creative
masterminds involved in the show.
Click for larger images The "Rides of Passage" Tour in Woodstock, NY and Burton Party, NYC 2004 featuring interviews with Shaun White, Hannah Teter, and Jake Burton who says "pray for snow."
The "Rides of Passage" Tour in Woodstock, NY and Burton Party, NYC 2004 featuring interviews with Shaun White, Hannah Teter, and Jake Burton who says "pray for snow." |
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