Fine art giclee print on 290gsm Moab Entrada paper
Hand-deckled edges
20 x 27.6 inches / 50.8 x 70.1 cm
Signed and numbered by the artist
Printed by Static Medium
$300
Print will be available starting at 5pm this Saturday, June 3 when we open the doors for our book-signing with DULK. No phone or online orders at this time. Thank you.
Any remaining after the opening reception, will be shared on our web shop next Tuesday, June 6 at 10am Pacific Standard Time. Please be sure to use Google to check the time in your area. Thank you.
‘Acadia’
Edition of 100
Fine art giclee print on 290gsm Moab Entrada paper
Hand-deckled edges
20 x 27.6 inches / 50.8 x 70.1 cm
Signed and numbered by the artist
Printed by Static Medium
$300
Print will be available starting at 5pm this Saturday, June 3 when we open the doors for our book-signing with DULK. No phone or online orders at this time. Thank you.
Any remaining after the opening reception, will be shared on our web shop next Tuesday, June 6 at 10am Pacific Standard Time. Please be sure to use Google to check the time in your area. Thank you.
Collector Set from DULK available this Saturday
‘Heritage’ Collector Set
Enamel pin
Five button set (each measuring 1.25 inches) on custom backer card
Custom embroidered patch
Die-cut sticker
Set of six 5×7 inch postcards
Custom printed cardboard presentation box signed and numbered by DULK
Edition of 100
$40 plus tax
The Collector Set will be available starting at 5pm when we open the doors for our book-signing with DULK. No phone or online orders at this time. Thank you.
Any remaining after the opening reception, will be shared on our web shop next Tuesday, June 6 at 10am Pacific Standard Time. Please be sure to use Google to check the time in your area. Thank you.
Wooden Totems from DULK available this Saturday
‘Heritage’ engraved hand-painted wooden totems
Edition of 5 / each unique
12.6 x 27.6 x 1.6 inches / 32 x 70 x 4 cm
Acrylic on engraved wood panel
Hand painted by the artist
Available as Yellow | Verde | Orange | Coral | Blue
$1,000 each
Any remaining after the opening reception, will be shared on our web shop next Tuesday, June 6 at 10am Pacific Standard Time. Please be sure to use Google to check the time in your area. Thank you.
Limited copies of DULK’s new book available this Saturday + book signing with DULK
’DULK: The Art of Antonio Segura’
• Hard cover / full color / 248 pages • 9.7 x 13.4 inches / 24.6 x 34 cm • Includes numerous essay’s on the artist’s work • Comes in a custom cardboard presentation box • Text in English & Spanish • $50 each plus tax
NOTE: Only 50 copies available, while supplies last.
BOOK SIGNING this Saturday, June 3 from 5-6pm with DULK
Any remaining after the opening reception, will be shared on our web shop next Tuesday, June 6 at 10am Pacific Standard Time. Please be sure to use Google to check the time in your area. Thank you.
New sculpture from DULK available this Saturday
‘Heritage’ sculpture
New polyresin sculpture from Thunder Mates
Edition of 50
Figure Specs: 19.5 x 8 x 5 inches / 49.5 x 20.3 x 10 cm
Comes in custom engraved wooden presentation box
Custom Wooden Box specs: 14 x 11 x 24 inches / 35.5 x 27.9 x 60.9 cm
Includes a COA signed and numbered by Dulk
Shipping late July from Hong Kong
$650 figure + $200 per figure for shipping / $850 total
Figure will be available this Saturday, June 3 at 10am Pacific Standard Time via Thunder Mate’s web shop. We will share the link this Saturday morning at 9am via our newsletter list.
40 copies will be made available via the online drop and 10 copies will be held back to be sold starting at 6pm Pacific Standard Time for the public opening of DULK’s new solo show.
Please note that all figures ship from Thunder Mates in Hong Kong in late July. Local pickup is not possible.
Thinkspace is excited to present DULK ‘Heritage‘ where he brings his worlds of stylized animalia and character creatures. Striking an unlikely balance between the playful ease of children’s make-believe and the prescient threat of ecological doomsday, Dulk’s works celebrate the beauty of nature’s biodiversity while simultaneously mourning the imminence of its loss. Much in the same way that fantasy actively invites collusion with nightmare, Dulk’s extravagantly lush imagination, for all of its seductive warmth, is punctuated by premonitory distress, and poignantly aberrant, if not predictive, details.
Our interview with Dulk (aka Antonio Segura) reveals places he’s explored to find his inspirations for his latest collection, about his safari trips, how he makes a great paella and so much more!
What was your inspiration and process for developing the works within this exhibition? Did all the ideas evolve over the last year, or did you peak into past archives and explore previous sparks of inspiration?
In 2017 I traveled to Denver for a mural project and after that me and my wife decided to spend some days to discover the natural spaces close to the city. A friend of us brought us to the Rocky Mountains and I felt so impressed about the amount of wildlife and incredible landscapes that we discovered there. It was truly amazing. Since then, every time that we came back to the US we took some days to scape from the city and visit the natural spaces that we could find around. It’s incredible the diversity of ecosystems that you can find in North America. It’s probably one the most diverse continents on earth. And it’s the only place where you can find every landscape from polar ice cap to baking desert, and everything in between. To prepare this exhibition I spent the last 5 years visiting and photographing most of the places you can find in the artworks. I visited the natural paradise of Alaska, the mangroves of the Everglades in Florida, the magical sequoias forests in California, the astonishing and unique Yellowstone or the breathtaking volcanoes in Hawai’i among many others. In each place I felt something very special and it’s why I decided to produce a body of works to collect all these journeys and experiences as memories.
We know every piece brings forth its own challenges and tests. Did you ever have to start over and completely pivot with a piece in this exhibition? Do you embrace or resist those types of choices?
Not in this show, but I did it many times. For me being satisfied with the result is essential and if something is failed between it I would never hesitate in restart the concept or whatever. I know myself and I know that every time that I look the artwork I would think, why I didn’t changed it? For this exhibition I spent a lot of time in conceptualizing each artwork, this is my favorite part of the process in a project like this one. It has been the longest process I did ever for an exhibition and I’m quite happy with the result. Each time I’m investing more time in the sketching and concept development so when I take the brushes the main idea is already solid. Some small details can change during the progress but not so much.
Who are some our your favorite nature photographers? Have you learned techniques from them that have influenced your own nature photography?
I’m amateur in wildlife photography but it’s a long time since I’m following the work of incredible photographers as Joel Sartore, Shaaz Jung or Paul Nicklen to inspire my work. It was during my first Safari in Kenya when I discover that this discipline could be the perfect starting point of my creative process. Not only to get a good image with my camera, also living the sensation of being in the place surrounded by the inhabitants of it. Nature has a special power and feeling it in first person is just incredible. For me the most special point about this is living the moment and remind it forever. I really enjoy being in the place in the perfect moment, but at the same time is very difficult to complete with a nice picture. To get one OK I normally shoot dozens of them, but when you get the perfect light with the perfect composition that’s magical.
What helps to ground you in the inherently chaotic and unpredictable profession of a full-time artist?
Creative process is something that I always needed. At the same time I always thought that I could never live from my art so that’s the reason that I pushed myself so hard working day at night to get something with this. At 18 I started my university career in economics and I left it two years later to start with the fine arts. I consider myself very young and I try to not thinking in the future so much and work hard day by day. Art scene is very unpredictable and I prefer to work hard and motivate my mind traveling and discovering the nature worldwide to keep harvesting my labor. If I look back I see a strong evolution in my work and that’s what motivate me to keep working hard. Nowadays for me being an artist is my life, it’s not just a work, it’s a way of life.
You’ve shared before that you do not mean to be an activist with your work but merely provide a catalyst for reflection. However, the state of our planet’s ecosystem is definitely a concern and value of yours. Are there activists or organizations you admire and believe more people should be aware of the work they are doing?
Cold reasoning does not change people. Emotion is necessary, as Jacques Cousteau said, “Man only cares for what he loves, and only loves what he knows.” That is why I am convinced that my images can help. Shocking, exciting, moving. And with this helping many people, especially the youngest, to fall in love with nature and therefore decide to protect it throughout their lives. I have worked and shown my work in many corners of the planet. In presentations, workshops, murals in many countries. I have seen and heard comments of love, emotion, even tears. It is then when I consider that I have contributed something to the message of change. With art we extol an element, we can do it with the nature. I consider myself as an artivist. We can educate people and organizations through artistic expression, to convey the importance and urgency of conserving and promoting the wealth of natural heritage. I collaborated with some organizations like Olpejeta Conservancy in Kenya, Pangeaseed foundation or WWF Spain and I’m totally open to do it more often as an important goal as an objective.
How has fatherhood influenced your art and practice? What element of fatherhood is most rewarding at the moment and most challenging?
Being a father made me view life with another eyes. It has awakened something in me that I did not know and I could never expect in any way. Since then every day has a moment of joy saved for you and that’s magical. Luckily me and my wife, Sara, are a strong team, personal and professional. She is my manager, so we travel together most of the time. It makes everything easier in terms of organization. We travel a lot and since we are parents it is a bit different because we no longer go alone, sometimes it is complicated but all the times it is a joy to be all together. A young kid demands a lot and it is difficult to balance it with an artist’s life but I think we do our best with him. Sara is the best and she manages the home and the studio as no one could do it. She deserves the best from us. I try to do the best I can do and it’s not easy but seeing how a two and a half years old kid has visited places all over the world makes me look at him and feel proud to be able to offer that to my son. I think traveling is very important to open minds and learn about different cultures and places. Looking at him amazed observing the whales of Alaska, the dolphins in French Polynesia or the sequoias in California makes me shed a tear.
You have ventured into collaborations with clothing brands and jewelry, along with regularly producing amazing sculptures and traveling for mural opportunities. Do you have support for these business ventures, or do you manage both these efforts along with your painting independently? And advice for other artists looking to expand their revenue streams?
We are a team of 5 people in the studio right now. It truly helps to get new goals and expand my work to new places that I could never get working alone. It let me focus myself in the creative process and in the painting development. Collaborations with brands that have on mind the same goals as ours and spread your message make me comfortable of working together. I enjoying viewing my work growing to new directions without losing the essence of itself.
If you could bring any extinct animal back, which one would it be and why?
I don’t have any preference on that. I would prefer choose the option of not losing more. It’s going so fast and it’s real. Day by day we are losing species worldwide and people doesn’t pay the necessary attention. Art is an invaluable tool for create awareness in people about the risks and dangers of climate change, as well as inspiring a commitment to address it. The works can help people to understand the importance of acting to prevent climate change and promote sustainability.
What is one of your most memorable meals? It could be because of the food you ate or the company you dined with, but a meal that has stood the test of time.
If I have to choose one I choose the Paella, we love cooking at home but my work each weekend is cooking it for the family or friends. The Valencian paella is the most famous Spanish dish worldwide and I learnt it from my grandma. I’m cooking it for my friends since I was 15 years old and I never stoped. For Valencians cooking the paella it’s like a religion and I’m not a believer but I think I do it quite well haha.
How do you like to enjoy your time outside of the studio? Do you celebrate the completion of a body of work?
Normally if I’m in town a normal day would be being in the studio around 7 hours, I’m an early bird and I’m much more productive the first hours of the day. The rest of the day is being with my family and do some trail in the mountains. We got a nice house close to there and doing sport makes me release my mind after a hard working day. I enjoy being involved around nature, running or wildlife photography would be my favorite activities out of the studio and of course traveling with my family.
When I finish a body of work is something unique. The feeling of finally see in front of you the idea and concept that you had in mind 8 months ago done is amazing. This time we celebrated with the studio team at home having a lunch party and relaxing a bit after a several months of hard work.
Exhibition on view June 3 – June 24, 2023 at: Thinkspace Projects 4217 W. Jefferson Blvd. Los Angeles, California 90016
Thinkspace Projects 4207 W. Jefferson Blvd + 4217 W. Jefferson Blvd. Los Angeles, California 90016
GALLERY I:
DULK (aka Antonio Segura) ‘Heritage’
Antonio Segura, known internationally by the pseudonym Dulk, brings his worlds of stylized animalia and character creatures to Thinkspace Projects with ‘Heritage’. Striking an unlikely balance between the playful ease of children’s make-believe and the prescient threat of ecological doomsday, Dulk’s works celebrate the beauty of nature’s biodiversity while simultaneously mourning the imminence of its loss. Much in the same way that fantasy actively invites collusion with nightmare, Dulk’s extravagantly lush imagination, for all of its seductive warmth, is punctuated by premonitory distress, and poignantly aberrant, if not predictive, details.
Dulk’s work seems to evolve as quickly and drastically as the climate crisis itself. Dulk, always in pursuit of capturing the immensity of the moment, has assembled a series of work that represents a new level both in terms of its technical eloquence and its urgency. For all of their surreal elements and his immense gifts for personification, Dulk’s paintings are the immediate byproduct of his travels into remote areas.
Every one of these works in this collection is tied to his memories of a natural wonder and wildlife, some as close as the deserts of the southwest, to the mythical redwood forests of northern California to his travels into the arctic circle of Alaska. He has witnessed first hand both the beauty of these landscapes and the terrible collapse that is creeping over them like a fatal tide. He works hard to capture both elements because above all he is asking us to go out and do the same. By painting something beautiful he asks audiences to gather the strength to look away from art and toward nature, as painful as that may be. Dulk’s works always seem to possess their own magical dream, their own colors and narratives, but at the core every work has one single voice and one message; he is asking us to wake up.
With a specificity of imagery that rivals that of a miniaturist, with hidden vignettes, characters, subplots, and gems peppered throughout his tightly composed images, Dulk’s work is breathtaking. The breadth of his inspirations alone, including everything from contemporary illustration and graphics, graffiti and public muralism, ensures Dulk’s world is as expansive and elated as it is heartbreaking and wounded.
About Dulk: Valencian artist Dulk, Antonio Segura, is one of the most important names in Valencian painting of the moment internationally. His body of work begins to form in urban art and mural painting—to which he remains closely linked today— along with study work, but does not stop there. He continues to research and constantly create new forms of expression through different media, drawing, sculpture or photography among others. True to its essence —with a strong ecological conviction to defend ecosystems and the most vulnerable species— this work invites the viewer to be part of a unique imaginarium, full of energy and with a special sensitivity to color. A dream world with animals and natural spaces that tells personal, universal and unique stories.
GALLERY II:
CHARLIE IMMER ‘Glow Up and Down’
Thinkspace Projects is pleased to present Charlie Immer’s ‘Glow Up and Down’ in Gallery II. His spectacular and surprisingly inviting world of candy-coloured-gross-out-flavored mayhem offers truly wondrous visual feasts for those who are unperturbed by oodles of goo, slime, blood and the occasional severed head.
Due to the jubilant carnage occurring between Immer’s protagonists and their merry little victims, who incidentally range from dancing skulls dripping with jellied ooze, to fruity characters in varying stages of dismemberment, one cannot help but get swept up in the high spirited horror and overall exuberance on display. These expertly rendered gory happenings carefully tread the fine line between repulsion and attraction, exploring the duality that exists and striking an extraordinary balance; the result is a masterclass in titillation that also succeeds in tickling funny bones.
“Titled ‘Glow Up and Down,’ my upcoming exhibition encapsulates the joy of radiant exploration. Each piece aims to capture the allure and mystique of glowing forms, inviting viewers to bask in the radiance of peculiar characters as they navigate through ambiguous spaces. As with all my work I hope it makes the viewer smile.”
About Charlie Immer Charlie Immer is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1983 in the state of Maryland. In 2008, Charlie graduated with distinction from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, gaining himself a BFA in Illustration. His artwork has since been shown in prestigious galleries around the world, and has also been published in prominent art magazines, such as Juxtapoz and Hi-Fructose, earning him a large following and considerable acclaim.
GALLERY III:
SENTROCK ‘Two Birds, One Stone’
Sentrock’s ‘Two Birds, One Stone’ fills Thinkspace Projects’ Gallery III this June. In a collection of paintings and drawings, Sentrock reflects his mental perspective at this time in his career and stage in life.
‘Two Birds, One Stone’ highlights the dichotomy of who he is as an artist and who he is as a person, bringing to light the relatable internal struggle of simultaneously being more than just one thing.
The works highlight the times of his introspection, aiming to capture the raw energy or the fleeting moment. In works on canvas and on paper, Sentrock presents something that is deeply personal, but rings true to many. Further emphasizing duality and contrast, Sentrock presents large scale works as pivotal statements of the show and smaller sketches as a more intimate display.
Through his creation, Sentrock has become a catalyst for his community. His work presents undertones of hope, freedom and expression, encapsulating his background, history, upbringing, empathy, and compassion for his community.
About Sentrock Joseph Perez, best known as “Sentrock” is a self taught street artist. Sentrock witnessed street art as a form of expression, birthing his interest to pick a spray can and continue his artistic voice. His early works were developed from graffiti writing in Mexican-American neighborhoods. Sentrock’s signature bird-mask over a human figure has become his most recognizable declaration. Sentrock describes his bird-mask as analogous to humanity: a person who is able to find or escape to their freedom by placing them in a different reality.
GALLERY IV:
TOYAMEG ‘The Pinkish Paradise’
Japanese artist Toyameg brings her own personal fantasy to life, filling Gallery IV of Thinkspace Projects. Known for her vicious pop illustration, she brings her signature style to a fictional world of her creation.
Drawing on her experiences in apparel and the music industry, Toyameg creates an engaging scape inspired by a dream. Affectionately called ‘The Pinkish Paradise’, the artist welcomes audiences to the pink desert she dreamt of.
Describing the scene, the artist says, “All people and animals love each other there. It was a very happy place and I thought it was paradise. I have created works that imagine the people and plants living in this paradise.” The resulting collection is heart-warming and vibrant.
About Toyameg Toyameg is an artist based in Fukuoka, Japan. She is self-taught and started her career in music culture and the streets. She describes her art as “pop with a pinch of poison.” She holds solo exhibitions throughout Japan and provides illustrations to musicians, apparel brands, and other clients.
Thinkspace Projects, Spoke Art, Joyeria Suarez, and DULK are happy to announce a special fundraiser involving the new Rhinoceros ring “Sudan” that Suarez has designed and produced together with the artist. The rhinoceros-shaped ring is one of a kind and it’s made with 18-carat pink and white gold with brilliant-cut champagne diamonds alongside brilliant-cut brown diamonds and round-cut pink sapphires.
The artist has decided to donate all profits from the sale of this special ring to the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Nanyuki, Kenya where he recently went and discovered first hand all the good this special organization does for the wildlife there, specially for the rhinos. After this visit, DULK wanted to pay tribute to the last male northern white rhino that lived there with this jewelry ring piece named “Sudan”.
Thinkspace Projects in Los Angeles, California, in partnership with Spoke Art in New York, New York, will be handling the sale of this incredible piece of jewelry as part of DULK’s current solo exhibition in NYC “Ephemeral Treasures” and will also be donating all their shares to the conservancy, along with the producer of the ring, Suarez, as well. 100% of the profits from this incredible piece of craftsmanship will go to Ol Pejeta Conservancy.
“Ephemeral Treasures” will be the debut NYC solo exhibition of Spanish artist DULK. Curated by Thinkspace and co-hosted by our good friends at Spoke Art, the exhibition will feature new canvas works, a sculpture, and unique jewelry pieces.
On view: February 20, 2020 – March 13, 2021
Taking Place At: Spoke Art 210 Rivington St, New York, NY 10002
’DULK: The Art of Antonio Segura’
