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JULIAN
CALLOS
see what
de v elops
Juliana Neufeld04
Jesse Balmer 08
Julian Callos 12
Helen Eady 18
David Serna 20
EAMO 24
Paul White 26
Jeremy Geddes 28
Rik Lee 30
You may have noticed a brand new look for the cover of this edi-
tion. Officially marked as the re-brand issue twenty2wo magazine will
now be known as 22 Zine. The abbreviated moniker does not mean a
slimming of the content and the focus on highlighting great artwork is still
here. The redesign is meant to open us up to experimentation and pub-
lishing more diverse projects from new and exciting artists.
A special thank you goes out to Adam Fuhrer from PICDIT and
Daniel Hadiwibawa of The Grafik Museum for being contributors to this
issue.
Adam Beneke
editor twenty2wo
http://mag.twenty2wo.com/
opposite page
“Animal Collective”
Exclaim Magazine
Watercolour with
Digital illustrations
8 x 12” 2009
this page
“Forest”
Element Skateboards
T shirt design
Digital Illustration
8 x 8” 2008
Juliana Neufeld
Self proclaimed Queen of the wild things, Illustrator and graphic Artist,
Juliana Neufeld spent her childhood in the country building forts, scout-
ing for Bigfoot and hunting for buried treasure. Today, Juliana spends
her time exploring the concrete jungle of Toronto, claiming territory and
fraternizing with other creative animals while striving to create a body of
work that reflects the optimism and adventurous spirit of her youth. Ju-
liana was recently promoted as Element skateboard’s first ever Canadian
Advocate, giving her the opportunity to design for the company world-
wide as well as travel and promote her art abroad. Juliana’s artwork was
also recently featured in the Bruce McDonald directed episode “The raw-
side of Brendan Canning” for IFC Canada. Her work has been featured
various magazines including The Globe and Mail, Colour, Driven, SBC
Surf, Pound and Exclaim! She was also kind enough to tell us about her
inspirations and future plans.
My inspirations are pretty broad, I guess. Rang-
ing from other artist’s work to things I see everyday.
Curious children. funny lively animals. art brute, graf-
fiti, Basquiat, Sendak. Other peoples journals. There
is so much amazing art out there that blows me away
everyday. It can be intimidating, but also so, so inspir-
ing.
In terms of media and mediums I use, I like
starting with watercolour or india ink. The looseness in
line that it affords. And then I might scan the sketches
or artwork along with other bits and pieces and assem-
ble them together in a digital collage or I might add
below right
“Silence” “Boo”
Digital Photograph with Digital Photograph
digital illustrations. with digital illustrations.
Photo: Sammy Rawal Photo: Sammy Rawal
8 x 11” 2009 8 x 11” 2009
http://www.juliananeufeld.com/
right
“Zap Crack Boom”
Digital Photograph with
digital illustrations.
Photo: Sammy Rawal
8 x 11” 2009
A Conversation with Artist Jesse Balmer
Q’s by Adam Fuhrer http://picdit.wordpress.com/ Tell us about the process behind the creation of your
A’s by Jesse Balmer http://www.jessebalmer.com/ work.
Tell us a little bit about yourself!
People often ask: Do you have an idea in your head or
I grew up in Orange County and have been drawing do you just start drawing? And the answer is: Either
since before I was born, which as you might have - depending on the temperature. Sometimes I like to
guessed, is where cave painting originated. I don’t be- work with layers and color... other times I like to keep
lieve in God, really. I believe in the boundless com- things very simple black and white. Sometimes I catch
plexity of the universe. I’m currently living in San myself drawing for no other reason than that I have no
Francisco but I don’t think I’ll live here forever. life outside of drawing.
Thanks Jesse!
left
Protector of Heaven
above
Parasitic Relationship
left
Whats Mine is
Yours
right
Marvin O’Ryan
below
Lock and Key
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JULIAN CALLOS
Quiver II - Mixed media on board (cradled) 24” x 24” x 2”
SEE WHAT DEVELOPS
Sink or Swim Ink - Acrylic, and colored pencil on paper (mounted on cradled board) 16” x 16”
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Los Angeles based illustrator Julian Callos has a colorful dreamy style that
captivates and brings the viewer into this imaginary world. I was lucky enough
to talk to Julian about his art and the busy gallery schedule that has him pro-
ducing a fantastic portfolio of work at a very quick pace.
Your style brings me back to my cartoon days as a kid, has drawing al-
ways been something you were involved with? Where do you draw inspi-
rations from now?
I’ve been drawing ever since I was a little kid. It’s just There are a lot of contemporary artists I admire, such
always something I did in my spare time (and when as the ones I’ve already mentioned, as well as illus-
you’re a kid, what else do you have but spare time?). I trators like the Hanuka brothers and James Jean, who
would often draw while watching cartoons, so at first definitely stand out. I’m a huge fan of James Jean, and
I was always trying to copy the characters I saw on a lot of my work has been compared to his, but I’m
TV. Eventually I started creating my own characters, trying to veer away from being so heavily influenced
but I think, in one way or another, they’ve always car- by a single artist in order to avoid being labeled a mere
ried the influence of those cartoons I loved when I was “imitator.” I think the best artists are the ones who syn-
younger. thesize all their loves and influences and inspirations
into one unique voice. I’m still growing and trying to
These days I draw inspiration from a larger pool. I was find my voice.
never really into comics when I was younger, but I’ve
been introduced to a lot of indie comics over the past Can you describe your experience being part of the
couple of years and I’ve fallen in love; Jordan Crane, Kids Are Alright show? It seems like a great show
Paul Pope, Sammy Harkham, and Jason are just a few to get your feet wet so to speak as an emerging art-
inspirational comic artists that come to mind. ist.
It’s also been really important to me to see what’s been The Kids Are Alright tour is a great experience. It keeps
done in the past and what’s going on now in the illus- me on my feet, because there’s a show practically ev-
tration world. Standing out in a market saturated with ery month for a few months and each show requires
so many wonderfully talented illustrators is tough, so new work based on certain restrictions in size or me-
I think seeing what others have done and what others dia. It’s also excellent exposure, as the tour takes us to
are doing to stand out is crucial; I can learn from them, galleries across the US and a couple galleries outside
and hopefully build upon that knowledge to develop the country. It’s definitely bulked up my portfolio!
my own unique voice and hold my own in the art com-
munity. For more visit, http://juliancallos.blogspot.com/
left below
Thanks Jules!
Deep Thoughts- Electricity-
Ink and acrylic on paper (triptych; from left to right: “The Line,””Electricity,”
(mounted on cradled and “The Key”)
board) Ink and acrylic on cradled boards
16” x 16” (each 8” x 10”)
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Power, or a Pride of Lions Ink and acrylic 16” x 16”
Fall of the Forest King Ink and acrylic on 12” x 12” paper
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HELEN EADY
Helen Eady is a designer and il-
lustrator living in Canada. Work-
ing mainly in fashion she has a few
shows this year and a film showing
in an art festival in Sapporo, Japan
called Magic Camp. Eady will also
spend some time as artist in resi-
dence at Blim Gallery in Vancouver.
http://www.crossmyhart.com/
both pages
Algonquin
Media: pencil and wa-
tercolour on watercolour
paper
(detail of a 5’x5’ piece)
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David Serna is currently an art
student in Florida who is show-
ing some great talent. He was
kind enough to tell us about his
work and where he hopes to
take it.
http://webspace.ringling.edu/
~dserna1/portfolio.html
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by EAMO. Jacky
Winter Mixie, 2008,
ink and brush, digital
colour.
From
Down
Under
A selection of Australian artists curated by
Daniel Hadiwibawa from The Grafik Museum
h t t p : / / w w w. t h e g r a f i k m u s e u m . c o m /
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EAMO
Eamo Donnelly is an Australian
based illustrator who is best known
for his intricately hand inked, char-
acter driven illustrations, infused
with an eclectically dynamic colour
palette. His love affair for Austra-
lian eighties nostalgia prompted
him to create works that reflected
the beauty and uniqueness of the
culture he grew up in. His work has
been seen on Jeeps, wallets, shoes,
t-shirts, esky’s (ice coolers), stubby
holders (drink coolers), clocks, in
exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney
and in the U.S and the U.K, bar
walls, street posters, magazine cov-
ers and editorials.
http://www.eamo.com.au/
above
Softcore Muppets,
Blender Magazine 2008,
ink and brush, digital
colour.
above
Final Destination 3D,
COMPLEX Magazine
2009, ink and brush
digital colour.
left
Blue Blazer, PLAYBOY
Magazine 2009, ink and
brush, digital colour.
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LAPD Hollywood (Hol-
lywood Blvd & Highland
Ave)
Pencil on paper
65 x 90 cm
PA U L W H I T E
Paul White is a visual artist currently living in Melbourne Australia. He com-
pleted his undergraduate degree at the University of Western Sydney in Sydney
Australia and his postgraduate degree at CalArts in Los Angeles California. His
artistic practice is multi disciplined, incorporating at times elements of drawing,
sewing, installation, painting, sound works and found objects.
Artist Statement:
I am interested in objects and images that are part of the everyday and
popular culture. I am particularly interested in those that are suggestive of no-
tions of obsolescence and decay—once thriving objects or elements that have
succumbed (or will inevitably) to a process of history and time. Objects of
comfort, desire, dreams and necessity often become altered, transformed or lost
through time. They often survive numerous individuals’ interactions, becoming
signifiers or remnants for a time gone and these interactions.
In relation to this, aesthetics, styles, and fashions are constantly recycled,
re-evaluated and re-used through time and in relation to the ‘now’. They become
a measure for the body/self via the various physical and conceptual structures of
the everyday that contain/surround it.
This examination of notions revolving around evolution, extinction and
the ever-changing nature of the universe, becomes a celebration of the cyclical,
constantly evolving, recycled and tenuous nature of culture and the ‘everyday’.
This in turn leads to a hope for transformation, growth and renewal as much as
an act of remembering or nostalgia for the past.
http://www.paulwhiteart.com/
Just Off Sunset
Pencil on paper
40 x 40 cm
Under an overpass on the edge of Chinatown in Downtown LA is an allotment where wounded and out of service LAPD vehicles are
rested. Rows upon rows revealing varying signs of altercations and stripped of their sirens, stickers and other police department para-
phernalia. Alongside them lay civilian vehicles, perhaps innocently or not caught up in battle, wrapped up in grey sheets like Christos’
preserving their decency or signs of criminal activity. One imagines this could be a film set, not real. Frozen in time, once furious in
the heat of the moment they now lay silently in this open graveyard.
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“Cosmonaut 6” Oil on board 33x34cm
JEREMY GEDDES
Jeremy Geddes is a Melbourne based painter. He has been published in several
books and magazines, including a Spectrum Gold Award for his comic cover
Doomed #4 and several shortlist awards for illustration work on The Mystrey of
Eilian Mor childrens book written by Gary Crew. bottom of page
below “There is Glory in Our
“Alley” Oil on linen 79 Failure” Oil on linen
http://www.jeremygeddesart.com/ x 27cm 91.5x152cm
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“Fullerton, California” - 2009, pencil, ink and photoshop.
“Mount Heart Attack”
- 2009, pencil, ink, pastel
and photoshop.
Rik Lee
Rik Lee lives and draws in Mel-
bourne. He is a founding member of
And Collective, which has released
four publications. He finds dead-
lines inspiring. He has worked for
Nylon USA, Vibe, Vice Australia,
Girlfriend, The Sunday Telegraph,
Graniph, Clandestine Industries,
T-Bar, Mooks, Stussy and Oyster
Magazine. He works with grey lead
pencils, textas, watercolours and
his computer. He enjoys the radar
on the Bureau of Meteorology web-
site. In the future he intends to draw
more, travel more, get more tattoos,
drive a ‘67 Chevy Impala and move
down the coast with his girl and his
dog.
http://riklee.wordpress.com/
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