Art Basel is upon us. I look forward to this insane epic event every year! Art Basel is the the largest art event in the United States and has been called "The Olympics of the art world". One takes place in Miami and the other main event in Switzerland. I will be showing at a couple events (one shown below), painting a mural, and running to as many shows as possible. Below is a list of shows I plan to attend. Overload of creativeness and eye candy will be taking place! I will be visiting these shows: AQUA ART FAIR JOHNATHAN LEVINE : URBAN ALCHEMIST SCOPE BASEL ART WHINO : THE TAKEOVER GRAFFITI GONE GLOBAL : FRESH PRODUCE PRIMARY FLIGHT NEW IMAGE ART MULTIVERSAL See you guys in all the mayhem...
I recently finished a 6x4ft mural for the newest A1A Burrito Work Taco Shop. Each restaurant/shop will be featuring an original mural painted by yours truly. Stop in and get some tasty burritos! Also this weekend if you live in South Florida come out to the 10th annual Art Scavenger Hunt. Run around in the dark and grab yourself some free artwork. Two of my prints and a couple of my posters will be hidden for you to find. Stop by it's a fun event!
10x10 is an installation style art show put on by Kara Walker Tome'. I rarely do these type of shows but they are so much fun to be a part of. I first came up with an idea to cover a room with graffiti art. Bringing the outside world to the inside. Collaborating with Mike Caldarera, the simple idea progressed. Our busy schedules gave us only one day to install. With the painting help of several amazing graffiti friends we pieced together our "Graffiti Dream" Installation. The room included all walls to be covered in graffiti, over 300 used spray paint cans, eight milk crates, seven spray painted Televisions (one playing the classic 1983 film "Style Wars"). Over 750 people came out to the show/event in Lake Worth, FL. Other artists did a great job putting in a lot of effort into some amazing installations. Huge thanks to all the graffiti artists who helped make our room look amazing: Sone, This, Slow, Sentr, & Krang. *Click here to see a slide show of the entire event from New Times*
I have been overwhelmed lately with amazing events, news, shows, and interviews these past couple weeks. It has been none stop and this weekend is no different. I will be showing work at three great looking shows this weekend. Stop by and enjoy these events... "Small Stuff4". Bear&Bird Gallery. Sunday, Nov 21. Small and very affordable art. I'm showing 2 brand new paintings. "10x10". Lake Worth Storage. Sat, Nov 20. This show is always amazing to come check out. It isn't something I normally do but has been so much fun so far. Myself and my friend, Mike Caldarera, are putting together an entire installation entitled "Graffiti Dream". Basically covering an entire room with graffiti art, spraycans, etc. One night only event! I will also have a few smaller works for sale. "Hopes & Hand Grenades". 1310 Gallery. Sat, Nov 20. I will be showing two paintings during this show. Great space in down town Ft. Lauderdale, should be a good show.
Tommy Tant Memorial Surf Classic 2010. Just an amazing 3 days full of friends, love, and helping others in Flagler Beach. I saw many many faces and people I hadn't seen in awhile. It's very overwhelming, especially when you're trying to get a decent mural done. But in the end the art side raised over $1500 for the local food bank and the entire event raised over $40,000! That's more then any year before. More people attended and more money was raised for scholarships. The event started out at a chilly 39degrees and stayed pretty chilly through the weekend, but that didn't stop some amazing surfing, music, art, love, and food fun from happening!
Below are the three murals that we painted live and all auctioned off. Murals painted by Austin England, Patrick Maxcy, & Chris Maslow. Thanks & love to each of the artists for an awesome job! Also congrats and thanks to each of the people who bid and got to take home thier favorite portions of the murals. Flexfit sponsored a huge portion of the art event providing 100+ hats that were painted live and auctioned off during the weekend. Thanks to everyone who bought a hat & for all the time put forth painting them. Hats painted by Stewart Maxcy. So many amazing friends. Enjoy this quick photo montage of the the event... * as always click to enlarge images / pics taken by various people.
Every year it gets bigger. Two days of surfing, concerts, art, food, giveaways, fun, etc. Go to the website to see everything that is going on: www.tommytant.com and/or watch the commercial below.
This year I've organized three different artist to come and paint 3 different murals at once. Each mural will be painted on 6 different canvases that will be auctioned off throughout the Saturday. All of it is to help and support the food banks of Flagler County. Artist include Chris Maslow, Patrick Maxcy, and Austin England. More info and images on that HERE. Come by and bid on the piece you wish to have: This year I will also be donating a hand signed, framed & matted print of one of recent paintings: "The Most Powere Law of Nature." Be sure to stop by and bid on that as well. There is so much history and stories behind this event. It's probably my favorite event because it's held in my small beach home town. Pro surfers Bruce Irons, Aaron Cormican, Blake Jones, Will Tant, Alek Parker, etc will be there surfing during the event and in a new night time surf comp put on by RedBull. The amazing band, Braddigan, will be preforming a live concert on Saturday. Flexfit also donated 100 hats that will be painted during the event by Stewart Maxcy, yes my dad! Come by and get your one of a kind hand painted hats! So much is going on. See you guys there!! WWW.TOMMYTANT.COM
I will be visiting these shows:
10x10 is an installation style art show put on by Kara Walker Tome'.
Over 750 people came out to the show/event in Lake Worth, FL. Other artists did a great job putting in a lot of effort into some amazing installations. 
*Click here to see a slide show of the entire event from New Times*
"Small Stuff4". Bear&Bird Gallery. Sunday, Nov 21. 
"10x10". Lake Worth Storage. Sat, Nov 20.
"Hopes & Hand Grenades". 1310 Gallery. Sat, Nov 20.
Flexfit sponsored a huge portion of the art event providing 100+ hats that were painted live and auctioned off during the weekend. Thanks to everyone who bought a hat & for all the time put forth painting them. Hats painted by Stewart Maxcy. 
So many amazing friends. Enjoy this quick photo montage of the the event... 
* as always click to enlarge images / pics taken by various people.
There is so much history and stories behind this event. It's probably my favorite event because it's held in my small beach home town. Pro surfers Bruce Irons, Aaron Cormican, Blake Jones, Will Tant, Alek Parker, etc will be there surfing during the event and in a new night time surf comp put on by RedBull. The amazing band, Braddigan, will be preforming a live concert on Saturday. Flexfit also donated 100 hats that will be painted during the event by Stewart Maxcy, yes my dad! Come by and get your one of a kind hand painted hats! So much is going on. See you guys there!! 
