My POWER POWER exhibition is finally touring London at the DAVID DAVID gallery in Covent Garden.
Come along to the opening night next Thursday.

DAVID DAVID GALLERY PRESENTS
POWER POWER 3
AN EXHIBITION BY MAYA WILD

Opens – 21st June 2012 / 6.30-11.00pm

22nd june – 6th July 2012
3 Earlham St, London WC2H 9LL

David David contact – daviddavidlondon@gmail.com +44 (0)7840 365936
Sponsored by PERONI

POWER POWER 3 IS A TOURING EXHIBITION BY THE ARTIST AND ILLUSTRATOR MAYA WILD. THE EXHIBITION WAS FIRST SHOWN IN SAN FRANCISCO, THEN GLASGOW, AND NOW TRAVELS TO ITS FINAL DESTINATION, MAYA’S HOME TOWN OF LONDON.

MAYA SPECIALISES IN PORTRAITS OF MUSICIANS AND THE SHOW EXPLORES THE POWER OF MUSIC, COLOUR, PATTERN AND MOVEMENT THROUGH PENCILS, COLOURED PENCILS AND COLLAGE. THE EXHIBITION INCLUDES DRAWINGS OF PRINCE, PATTI SMITH, DIE ANTWOORD, M.I.A, GRACE JONES, DIZZEE RASCAL AND MANY MORE. MAYA HAS ALSO MADE A PRODUCT RANGE INCLUDING TWO LIMITED EDITION POWER POWER T SHIRT DESIGNS ESPECIALLY FOR THE SHOW.

MAYA’S CLIENTS HAVE INCLUDED DAZED & CONFUSED, NYLON MAGAZINE, EMI, ADIDAS AND THE ROLLING STONES. SHE HAS PREVIOUSLY EXHIBITED HER WORK IN PARIS, NEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCO, LONDON AND TOKYO.

GLASGOW RECOAT GALLERY CREW. Wearing my Power T shirts.
From left to right – Gordy, Ali who runs the gallery, Mark, Emma, Marcy the dog and Amy who also runs the gallery.

BIG Thanks to everyone who helped me set up my show in Glasgow. If you live in Glasgow or are visiting check out the Recoat Gallery. They are always putting on great exhibitions and organising interesting projects with artists from around the world.

As part of my exhibition in Glasgow me and the Recoat team made two POWER murals outside the gallery. It was the first time that I have ever made my work on such a large scale. I wouldnt have been able to do it without the help of the Recoat gallery team. Especially Ali, Amy, Gordy and Snookie. You have inspired me to make many more.

In May 2011 I had my first POWER POWER exhibition at Nooworks in San Francisco. The amazing Rael Razor screen printed me up 2 Power Power T shirt designs and I made a Power pack full of stickers, badges and a postcard especially for the show. It was great spending time in San Francisco and meeting other artists out there and made all more fun with help from my Power Team – Jennifer D’Angelo who runs Nooworks, Noo Noo (the amazing dog) and power pro Philip Manley.

I made this drawing called ‘Painted Love’ for the group exhibition ‘Love From Darkroom’ which was a Valentine charity exhibition held at the Darkroom concept store on Lamb’s Conduit Street in London.

The show took place 2 weeks before Valentines day in 2011 and all proceeds of the works sold went to the great Kids Company a charity that works with vulnerable and neglected young people across London.

CUT IT OUT! was a group art exhibition of things made with scissors. I made 2 new pieces of work for the show. The exhibition was curated by Mike Perry and was held back in March 2009 at the Open Space Gallery, Beacon NY USA.

OPEN SPACE GALLERY
www.openspacebeacon.com
510 Main Street
Beacon NY 12508
USA

CUT IT OUT contributors:
MAYA WILD, GLUEKIT, OWEN GILDERSLEEVE, ASHKAHN SHAHPARNIA, WYETH HANSEN, RACHEL DOMM, DEMO DESIGN, MARIO HUGO & CHARLIE BROKATE, DAN FUNDERBURGH, GARRETT MORIN, DAMIEN CORRELL, BRIGITTE SIRE, LUKE RAMSEY, ANDREAS SAMUELSSON, ANNA WOLF, ANTHONY SHERET, DAN BLACK, ED BROGNA, HEARDLAND HEART LAND, JEREMY DEAN, JIM DATZ, JIM STOTEN, KEETRE DEAN DIXON, LUNG, MARCO CIBOLA, MICAH LIDBERG, MICHAEL COLEMAN, MICHAEL WORFUL, NAMDEV HARDISTY, NAOMI REIS, PAUL CLARK, PIETARI POSTI, RT PETERS, STEPHAN MARX, TRAVIS STERN & ZACH GIBSON.

My painting/collage above ‘Girl with Wolf’ was inspired by the photographer Elijah James.

My drawing of the band Trans Am was in the 2008 group exhibition DRAW at the Stolen Space Gallery in London.

DRAW was an exhibition featuring original drawings from over 300 vanguard artists in the urban, tattoo, design, illustration, skateboard, and music worlds. The show is a tribute to the often-underrated but fundamental building-block of visual and graphic art: the drawing.

The following is a sample of the artists whose work is included in the show: Moby, Barry McGee, HR Giger, Clive Barker, Gibby Haynes, Ron English, Kat Von D, Tim Biskup, Ben Cho, David Ellis, Mark Gonzales, Derek, Hess, Rich Jacobs, KAWS, NeckFace, Rick Griffin, Vaughn Bode, Hank Williams III, Kerry King of Slayer, WK Interact, Chris Johanson, Aurel Schmidt, Kathy Grason, Jeff Ladouceur, Gordon Hull, Doze Green, Chris Johanson, Dalek and David Choe.

DRAW was curated by Erik Foss and Curse Mackey and co-curated by Jamie O’Shea, Tim Barber, Sto, Cinders Gallery, Damian Wiencrants, Jacaber Castor and Mike Aho.

Many years ago in 2004 I had my first solo exhibition at Surface to Air in Paris. Back then I had only just started to draw professionally and I hadnt a clue what I was doing. I had half of my drawings for the show printed out and blown up to 10 times their size. I think I thought the bigger the better. They were massive and looked awful! I only sold one piece from the whole show. This was a tiny pencil drawing of a fried English breakfast on a plate! I sold it for £50. Above are two of my favourite drawings from this Paris show.

This self portrait is me in the tiny kitchen of a bedsit that I lived in when I first moved to London back in 2002. I called this place Matchbox Mansions. I didnt have a desk so I used to draw on the floor and mice would run over my paper. I had good times there though.

The top drawing was also shown in 2005 at a group exhibition called Jumble in Tokyo and the self portrait was more recently published in the Nylon magazine book – ‘PLAY: The Nylon Book of Music’.