Squeegee Masters - Com & Jeff Ross, Screen Print Extravaganza

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นิทรรศการแสดงงานศิลปะ Squeegee Masters โดยสองศิลปิน Com และ Jess Ross ผู้คร่ำหวอดในวงการสกรีนพริ้นท์มาอย่างยาวนาน ครั้งนี้ทั้งสองท่านจะมาโชว์ผลงานชิ้นใหม่ของพวกเค้าที่ร้าน JAM สามารถเข้าชมกันได้ตั้งแต่วันที่ 16 ธันวาคม 2559 - วันที่ 15 มกราคม 2560

รายละเอียดวันเปิดงาน
วันที่ 16 ธันวาคม 2559
เริ่มเวลา 1 ทุ่มเป็นต้นไป
ดนตรีสดโดยวง GALAGA และดีเจโดย DJ Lows

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16 December 2016 - 15 January 2017 at Jam Bangkok
(Screen Print Day - 13 January 2017)

We are excited to announce the screen print exhibition of Com (Kom Chunnual) & Jeff Ross, two original, old school, screen printers from Bangkok and Seattle. Screen printers are often unacknowledged creators whose work we may commonly see although rarely we know who they are. Com: screen printer for over 20 years, creator of the iconic cockroach logo is synonymous with the streets of Bangkok, Jeff Ross: screen printer for over 30 years, responsible designing and printing the early Sub Pop Records (Nirvana, Mudhoney etc) tour posters.

Squeegee Masters, is a showcase of their new screen print work, a recontextualisation of popular culture.


OPENING PARTY DETAILS
7pm - Midnight, Friday, 16 December 2016.
Live performance by spacey, experimental grunge band GALAGA and DJ Lows (Mike Corde) on the ones and twos.


JEFF ROSS
Born in Wurtzburg, Germany, grew up in the United States, currently based in Bangkok. Taught himself how to screen print 30 years ago so he could make T-shirts for his friend's bands in Denver who were going on tour, hand making the screens himself. 3 years later in 1989 he moved to Seattle as the grunge scene was taking off and started his own printing company, designing T-shirts and posters for Sub Pop Records; Nirvana, Mudhoney Afghan Whigs, The Fluid, Reverend Horton Heat etc. This led him to work in snowboarding industry, for K2, Ride, Snowboard Connection and many others.

After printing for 20 years in Seattle for over 500 bands and companies, Jeff decided to focus on purely his own art, also incorporating collage techniques. For the next 7 years he lived as a nomadic artist, doing suitcase art shows across the US, coast to coast, travelling from Pancevo, Serbia; Bern, Switzerland; Berlin, Germany before setting up studio in Bangkok,Thailand 3 years ago.


COM
Born in Nakhon Sawan, lives and works in Bangkok. Thai fashion screen printer by trade who rarely exhibits. Founder of label White Cat Factory. Com, creator of the iconic ‘Warning Cockroach Area’ and the ‘Hello My Name is BKK’ cockroach images. The first of which he started using for over 11 years ago. These images have become synonymous with the streets of Bangkok, having contributed an estimated hundreds of thousands of posters and stickers around the cultural landscape of Bangkok.

“I want to make a sticker for the cockroaches, they are everywhere in Bangkok. The warning says this is his place, make people think that it’s normal, don’t be scared.” Providing an ironic counterpoint to the conventional use of signage within a city. Com further draws parallels between the anonymous and kinetic style of the street artist and the cockroach, “run, stop, run and hide - he’s smart.” On one level his work is a normalisation of what we normally consider repulsive, on another it is a challenge to the status quo, with quite broader implications.

"Take from the street - give back to the street"

His preferred medium of silkscreened stickers and posters is commonly used as a low budget advertising tool reserved for professional scammers and politicians. However, Com subverts this medium with a good dose of humour for artistic expression. Often screen printing his art on discarded material he finds, recycling “old stickers, posters, paper, bus tickets - everything” then putting it back out to the streets where they originally came from.

Com cites his influences from Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Basquiat, Mondrian and Salvator Dali. His series for this show is a tribute to the original ‘Trainspotting’ (1996) film which when released Com found an infinity to its depiction of ‘music, fashion, drugs, sex, (and) partying’ at the time.


GALAGA
Bangkok 2 Piece Duo - consisting of Andre Vogel & Toey Jarturong Singhajatturas. Experimental, Drum Loop, Space-Grunge, Pop.
https://www.instagram.com/galagamusic/