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Designer gone Street Artist

08/20/2009 - 9:00 pm By Andrea La Valleur
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I found it interesting that Dave Kinsey, a young artist from Southern California, was trained as a designer, designed to be able to afford to paint and now shows his work internationally in gallery s and city streets alike. His hands-on training as a graphic designer, allows him to know how to work layouts in his paintings, he knew how to manipulate type and pieces of paper, layers of color and texture, and this is evident in his paintings and city murals today. Urban settings are frequently the settings of Kinsey’s work, which he doesn’t like to explain, “since it takes away from each person’s experience. (Kinsey) Although he wants “to expose as many people to art as possible and to honor the power art has when it’s created and accepted.” Kinsey says he is his own worst critic, which I can agree is true for myself. Get a glimpse of his life below.

Dave Kinsey Interview from alex deforce on Vimeo.

All images © David Kinsey

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Author: Andrea La Valleur

Andrea is a European transplant now living in Seattle | USA. She is a Freelance Graphic Designer and entrepreneur, loves Beamers, dogs and Americanos with extra cream. Find her tweets @divinefusion.


5 Comments

BebopDesigner

August 21st, 2009

Wow! It looks brilliant. What a great idea. Thanks for sharing. Cheers!

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tamara acosta

August 25th, 2009

greaaaaaaat artist…. didn´t know him

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countzeero

August 31st, 2009

Great “Discovery” Andrea, I love this guys graphical style and his solid attitude. Thanks for sharing!

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Manish Khatri

September 6th, 2009

WOW!! ;-o

sumthing really very interesting…

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tom janneck

January 7th, 2010

This art definitely has the “WOW” effect!
I like it…

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