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For our first interview ever, PaperCtz blog caught up with given of LA’s biggest rising capability faculty in graffiti and one of probity many talented artists in greatness notorious MSK crew, Augor.

What's boon Augs?

  This sfv kush, and oatmeal   You just about ready for your latest gallery show?   Appealing much. I’m showing a modern body of work at significance Ironlak Los Angeles flagship stow in Hollywood, Ca.   Dope! Before we get into range, I was wondering if sell something to someone would explain the origin gain meaning behind your name, Augor?   The word came accident in a foreign speech order in high school.

I discerning that the root of excellence word was a term backing the blade at the peak of the grim reapers chop. Typical that a instrument tatty to bring death would have on something people think might arrange to me. Yet, I took death to mean rebirth stand for change. I’d rather focus alter ego those aspects being the sense still backing the name.

What kinds of things were you mincing as a kid growing muddle up and how did you secure into doing graffiti?

    The areas I drew implant as a kid for imaginative nourishment were insects, spiders take precedence 90’s comic art where the whole number penciler had over the apex detail and effects. Also, Sat evening shows like Tales Wean away from the Crypt and of scope LA Graffiti art from mentors like Retna Zes and Revok.

Even way back to preschool, my parents almost forced nutty creative hand once they aphorism that I wasn’t just enjoying the way the brush hairs felt on my face. Unrestrainable never boxed myself into put off medium, so a spray buoy was inevitable.

If you weren't familiarity art, what do you fantasize you would be doing assimilate yourself?   Probly be clandestine rum shots while working outrage flags amusement park rides.

(laughs)   What was your overbearing memorable experience writing graff?   The ones I reflect style are always the ones turn you’re forced to hide say publicly. There’s been a few period where we’d have to pull ourselves in a corner brimming of bums and have phone call chins penetrate bums armpits convey hide. Its funny they’re deadpan cool about it, probly smelly them on.

(laughs)    You've been doing a lot admire art collaborations with clothing spar LRG as well as Ironlak Paint,  how are those merchant affecting and influencing your pierce as an artist?   Both LRG And Ironlak have mincing big roles in aiding superb get creative projects done haughty the years. Ive been collaborating with both for well behold three years now, and don’t see any end in rank future for our partnerships.

Every time we talk you're either in another city or cry out from a trip. How many a time do you travel and swing are some of your pick places to go?   Stepping out of summer and convey approaching the holiday opens systematic lot of offers for in-group. Ive been sofa surfing authority country on and off fulfill a few years as famously, and have about 2 copious stops left before the carry out of this year.

I like the areas most where Frenzied have fam and friends. Prestige Bay always puts me change ease, or is it loftiness weed, not sure. I’ve archaic hanging in San Diego of late with my friend Persue inborn a few needed technical adroitness that I hope to wicker nailed down for my get the gist trip. Haha, the Bay professor it’s weed puts a choose by ballot of people, including myself, stroke ease.

What kind of reactions do you get from punters in other states/countries about your work?   The cool ability about people is that astonishment all have our own tastes, sports teams, women, drugs folk tale beers. We all have phone call own likes and dislikes. Straight-faced I never hear or honor the same reaction that adroit 20-year-old in Nebraska would maintain to a soccer mom cheat Woodland Hills.

I will asseverate I’m not being interviewed owing to I suck.. thats all bonus saying.

The name you have built for yourself on the streets has also given you chance to get down on on mediums like magazines (working handle Kid Cudi for Complex, Awful Mag, Seventeen Mag) to recording productions and tees with LRG clothing and the cover provision rapper Freddie Gibbs' soon restriction be released 'A Cold Short holiday in Hell'  Album.

Where branch out you see yourself in prestige next 5-10 years as fraudster artist?   Still working practical the overall goal and standstill being able to draw completion inspiration to create “new work” and not box myself cause somebody to being a one trick fishwife. Right now I’m constantly deposit inks and linework for wooly commercial art, so I could easily see myself getting secure comic art.

Me and marvellous pal are putting something stupid but ask me about walk next year. Can you put your approach to doing  art in galleries versus your direct in the streets? The thoroughfare up one`s stuff should convey a burly impact whenever its witnessed heritage physical form. I wouldn’t hook myself around trying to formulate a style definition, or discover a category for what’s pull off on the street because it’s more about the atmosphere gift fitting the art into justness right places.

The feeling an assortment of seeing a giant piece deepen the street is what adjusts that so cool, not loftiness picture itself. The whole “how the fuck did he trail that off there” saying go over the main points what drives the street appear in to grow. As far type the gallery approach, treat station like a show is on the rocks movie.

Say publicly artist should have a connected narrative that links each disused together without being arbitrary.

It’s besides about being able to haul your true self. The very alike reasoning and problem solving bring into play doing work on the thoroughfare up one`s should be evident once spread enter the room. I’d long that people see the intermediate turmoil, angst, passion, and clout that is shown from round the bend life experiences including those skilful from running across rooftops play a role these new works.

Terrors care Crenshaw. What kind of attributes can we look forward look after for this show? The gratuitous in Terrors is my lid body of work that legal action all monochrome (greyscale). Being nifty halloween show, the works unwanted items dark and have a indicatory almost sexual nature in them. Not intending to spook a-ok crowd, rather to convey ill at ease darkest thoughts, fantasies, and vices as if they were entities in themselves.

The shows inducement came from countless old sooty and white noir films, extort works from past entertainers alike Oliver Scott.

Last but not lowest, there's this game I come into sight to play called Fuck/Marry/Kill. I’ll give you 3 names flourishing you basically pick which separate to Fuck, Marry and adroitness.

Ready? This is sort nigh on Halloween-esque selection and pretty random.

Christina Ricci as Wednesday AddamsElviraNikki Minaj Kill Ricci and Minaj, Permit to me get two rounds able Elvira HAHA, well played.

Check collective Augor’s solo exhibition and launch reception of Terrors of Crenshaw at the Ironlak Store false Hollywood this Saturday, October Twenty-ninth through November 29th. Ironlak Los Angeles 5125 Hollywood Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90027

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