Jeff Soto
Posted on: February 4, 2010 by admin
ART COLLABORATION: Draft, Hybrid
Through striking visual imagery, Jeff Soto communicates profound visions and fears, nostalgia of his youth, and themes of love, lust, and hope. Soto’s distinct color palette, subject matter, technique and bold themes resonate with a growing audience. Inspired by childhood toys, the colorful lifestyle of skateboarding and graffiti, hip-hop and popular culture, Soto’s representational work is simultaneously accessible and stimulating.
Environmental issues also take precedent for Soto, who is concerned with conflict of humans trying to harness, or take advantage of nature. His paintings exude this tension, as robotic creatures duel, organic tentacles and flower bouquets thrive, and black smog looms amidst floating, ominous skulls.
In 2002, Soto graduated with Distinction from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He currently lives in Southern California, with his wife Jennifer and daughter Shannon.
Filed Under: Artists
hey bro… your stuff it´s amazing. i love what you do. thanks for the inspiration. kool
so your art is amazing i love it , but as far as i noticed you only have one of your art peices on a board, im a longboarder and i dont have any room to brag, because im not good, so far i just ride(no tricks yet) i have been going for 3 years skating everymoment i get , just exploring my town in PA, im a artist myself and i need a new long board i ride a arbor pin tail, red wheels and a khoa fish digine, clear tape and its a bamboo board, so any way i was hoping you could respond to this and tell me if you could put you “rustyswingset” pice on a pin tail long board, just like my old one. bammbo ,green weels and clear tape, and tell me what the price of somthing like that would be .
this art makes me think of Armagedon.
[...] Arbor Collective is pleased to announce that the vivid work of high-profile artist Jeff Soto is featured on the new GT Hybrid skateboard which is part of the Concrete Series of all-new 2010/11 [...]