{"id":837,"date":"2014-02-11T15:38:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T15:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southtampamagazine.com\/?p=837"},"modified":"2016-07-18T02:52:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T02:52:46","slug":"dispatch-from-the-tongue-and-cheeky-world-of-colin-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/southtampamagazine.com\/dispatch-from-the-tongue-and-cheeky-world-of-colin-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispatch From The Tongue-and-Cheeky World of Colin Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div\n\tclass=\"ngg-galleryoverview\"\n\tid=\"ngg-gallery-a086a5b980291c20d67b29db5f3bd297-1\">\n\n    \t\t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-0\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/southtampamagazine.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/colin\/a0094620.jpg\"\n               title=\"\"\n               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           width=\"120\"\n                    height=\"90\"\n                    style=\"max-width:100%;\"\n                \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n        \n\t\t\n\t\t<!-- Pagination -->\n\t<div class='ngg-clear'><\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Written by: Natalie Campisi<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It feels like I\u2019m driving along the fringes of the city. That dusty patch along Adamo Drove smattered with concrete-clad industrial shops, wholesalers and sundry other businesses that aren\u2019t for the pedestrian shopper. A small road, one that wouldn\u2019t accommodate most SUVs, leads me to a warehouse divided by several bays. The sun is beating down along the silvery gravel as I approach the open warehouse where a yet-to-be finished glittering fiberglass sculpture of a (still headless) woman greets me to the soundtrack of ambient electronic music. This is where London-born Colin Christian makes his art.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the first thought that pops to mind is Colin\u2019s story of Will.I.Am, member of hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas, visiting his studio in the dead of night. With a laugh, Colin observes, \u201cPeople don\u2019t know it, but crazy stuff goes on in Tampa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With successful exhibitions all over the world, from New York to Hong Kong along with an illustrious list of clients: Kanye West, jewelry and cosmetics darling Tarina Tarantino and Nike CEO Mark Parker, to name a few, Colin\u2019s unassuming mien is both refreshing and disarming \u2013 a bit like his art.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing from Japanese anime, classic pin-up girl and some of his muses like Jane Fonda\u2019s title character \u201cBarbarella,\u201d as well as film and fashion (his dream clients are filmmaker Christopher Nolan and fashion designer Tom Ford) the sculptures are a clever mix of camp, glamour and sci-fi fantasy. Using auto-quality paints, the effect is a shiny, rock-hard exterior. The faces, which are made from flocked silicone, a process that entails depositing many small fiber particles on the surface to create skin that looks realistic, are painted with 20 different pigments, because, as Colin notes, skin is not just one color.<\/p>\n<p>As far as the sculptures\u2019 sizes \u2013 from five feet to as tall as 10 feet \u2013 Colin explains that it\u2019s all part of the look he\u2019s going for: a living cartoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always want the pieces bigger than people, so they\u2019re always looking down on you. That\u2019s the idea anyway\u2026awe\u00a0 and admiration. They\u2019re always done as figures in charge,\u201d Colin says.<\/p>\n<p>After 15 years of hard work, he remarks that he never thought he\u2019d be here when he was younger, he\u2019s finally at the point in his career where he calls the shots \u2013 the ultimate goal of every artist. While he will take requests regarding color choices (to an extent) his work, which fetches between $10-70k, is truly the product of his imagination.<\/p>\n<p>And what\u2019s next for the man who ironically derives most of his inspiration from nature, especially for color choices \u2013 just look at bugs and fish, the colors are brilliant he exclaims, perhaps furniture or even experimental environments. Wherever his dreams take him, it\u2019s sure to be something we\u2019ve never seen before.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To see more of his work or commission a piece, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinchristian.com\">www.colinchristian.com<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by: Natalie Campisi &nbsp; It feels like I\u2019m driving along the fringes of the city. That dusty patch along Adamo Drove smattered with concrete-clad industrial shops, wholesalers and sundry other businesses that aren\u2019t for the pedestrian shopper. 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