Planning Your Artistic Future

The art scene in Detroit is growing. More artists are moving into the metro area and there is a pretty healthy vibe going on all around. The caliber of art is amazing, artists are pushing boundries in all disciplines. Newer influences are mixing with old and the majority of galleries are making ballsy moves and showing virtual unknown first time artists. Of course there are still a few galleries sticking to the L.A./Juxtapoz Magazine mold of only showing a small stable of proven seller artists, a crop of about 20-30 artists within the state and nationwide that create the same "low brow" art that collectors hoard digital prints of. 

But for the most part, galleries in and around the Motor City are giving the little guys a chance, and looking at art with open minds. 

Which brings us to the fact that there is massive competition that pushes us artists to either keep reinventing ourselves, or perfecting our styles with deadly ambition. 

My approach as an artist has been all over the map. It's not a strategy of making "something for everyone" to appeal  to a broader audience, it's just the simple fact that my mind is exploding with different ideas in a scary amount of different genres. I do graffiti art, oil painting, screen printing, acrylics, watercolors, sculptural, abstract, realism, impressionist and on and on, which kind of screws me in the long run because it's like, what the fuck can I really label myself as an artist? 

I want to learn glass blowing, photography, pottery etc., but I have to stop at some point and perfect what I know. Selling art pays bills, not constantly learning art. 

I'm getting older (cringe), and I have to start focusing on what I know. I want to focus on spray paint art, oil painting, drumming and restoring and customizing vintage BMX bicycles. (What?? Vintage BMX bikes? How is that art?) 

Yep, bicycles. I raced BMX in my "wonder years" growing up, I know everything about them, so why not take my artistic mind and create rolling works of art? Fuck it. Do what you know asshole. (This is my self mantra) 

So along with my Winking Zombie banner I paint under, there is my new venture; Detroit BMX Customs. Fuck you if you don't like it. 

This is my future. I now have a map, a plan, ambition and a place to build it all. 

What are you going to do?

Sinister