DWS Retrospective Art Exhibition Opening

The three artists met in the mid 1990s, and quickly discovered a lot of shared ground. It extended approximately from
skateboarding to record collecting, and from “yo momma” jokes, all the way to the far side of early cartoons.  Once these disparate points were plotted, the theoretical space their borders defined was gradually filled with turntables, graffiti tools, “kick me” signs, fireworks, Rodney Dangerfield
movies, dice, polaroid cameras, Cheech Wizards, skateboard decks, and stacks of
back issues of Mad Magazine.  All of these items were eventually moved to an actual physical space – a house, in fact, where the three lived together for
a few years around the turn of the century - a period that allowed them to
collaborate more regularly on a wide variety of projects, both musical and
visual.

These collaborations, as well as constant
access to each other’s record and movie collections, paintings, reference
materials, and sketchbooks, led to an even more closely shared sphere of
influence, and though each artist clearly experienced it through their own
distinct filter, it’s clear they all did (and still do) influence each other
heavily.  While all 3 artists still do personal projects on the side, they
have also spent the past decade envisioning and executing creative projects in
a wide variety of mediums, both individually and as a group, for a client list
that includes Def Jam, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Saturday Night Live,
Rockband Games, 7Ply skate shop and Coca Cola Japan.

Now, these 3 once again find themselves sharing a space, as they fill the OneWay Gallery
Narragansett with a retrospective of the work they have collectively done over the
course of a two-decade friendship.