Ravi Zupa Arna Miller Complicated Friendships Prints

"They Had Never Met" is a new collaboration between Arna Miller and Ravi Zupa, depicting two fellows with similar culinary interests. They tend to dine in many of the same places but surprisingly have never met before.

These other three new designs featuring some complicated friendships are also available for presale. Complicated Friendships prints are 10 PERCENT OFF plus FREE DOMESTIC SHIPPING through Cyber Monday midnight MST.

"Never Met" will continue to be for sale after Cyber Monday at full price. These will be hand-printed by Arna Miller herself and shipped out in time for the holidays.

Buy them all at www.ravizupa.com/store/

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Ravi Zupa It's Time To Pull Off The Impossible Print Release

Ravi Zupa has released the third of five posters in the monthly series, Marvelous Adventures. In Hinduism, Hanuman represents perfect self control, strength, stamina and devotion.

Ravi on the inspiration for this print:

There are many other monkey heroes and trickster characters in mythologies throughout Asia and many of those stories are related to Hanuman.

The story depicted here is one of his most famous adventures. During a battle, his comrade Lakshmana was injured and the only remedy came from a specific medicinal plant which grew on a mountain in the Himalayas. Being the strongest and fastest in the group, Hanuman was charged with the task of traveling thousands of miles to this mountain to retrieve it.

When he arrived, he discovered that many different plants grew there and not knowing which was the right plant, he lifted the entire mountain and carried it all the way across India to the place where Lakshmana was dying.

I love this story. My wife and our team often say “Let’s pull off the impossible” when we take on big art projects and ambitious goals and I think of this story at those times.

TITLE: It's Time To Pull Off The Impossible
SIZE: 24 x 36 Inches
MEDIA: 5-Color Screen Print
EDITION: 50

Buy it at  www.ravizupa.com

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Ravi Zupa It Is Inexhaustible Art Print

As winter fades away and the natural world begins to wake, Ravi Zupa is ushering in spring with the release of the fourth print in the Tattoo Gratitude series. This one depicts a dragon, a cat who has caught a snake, and a peacock.

This fourth piece in the Gratitude tattoo series depicts a dragon, a cat who has caught a snake and a peacock. The words for this print are chapter 35 of the Tao Te Ching, reminding us that we have tools to center ourselves and stay clean-minded regardless of what happens outside of us. Good advice for such a time. Ravi likes this chapter because it describes this kind of clarity as utterly boring and ordinary.

Stay alert, stay ready and always draw from the well of calm inside you. That well cannot run dry. It’s inexhaustible.

There is a single color and 2 color print to choose from.

Buy them at www.ravizupa.com in the store.

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Ravi Zupa Garuda Poster

Ravi Zupa has released the second of five posters in the monthly series titled Marvelous Adventures. All characters for the series are pulled from Hindu mythology (Durga, Hanuman, Rama, Garuda, Kali) and feature some of the oldest superheroes on Earth.

Garuda is the courageous, loyal companion and mount to Vishnu in Hinduism. He symbolizes courage and strength and commitment.

Garuda is a hugely popular character throughout Asia, particularly the south east. His significance varies depending on the region. Much like Pegasus, who in Greek mythology refers to one specific winged horse but has come to refer to the whole race of magical beings, Garuda is the name of one specific winged bird in Hinduism. But, when the character crosses over into Buddhism, Garudas refer to a type of golden winged magical birds.

Many of the prints in the Marvelous Adventures series refer to specific Hindu stories. This piece does not. Ravi made Garuda into an American bald eagle and forced him to team up with his mortal enemies. It seems to Ravi that a little bit less conflict and a little bit more cooperation in our culture is in order.

TITLE: There's Work To Be Done
SIZE: 24 x 36 Inches
MEDIA: 5-Color Screen Print
EDITION: 50

Buy it at www.ravizupa.com/

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Ravi Zupa Buraq & Mahakala Prints

Continuing Ravi Zupa's exploration of spiritual and mythical characters from cultures across the world, he is pleased to present his newest print in the Tattoo Gratitude series. This one features Mahalaka from Buddhism and Buraq from the Islamic tradition.

Ravi has created five unique variants of the Buraq and Mahakala print as part of this release. Each one is printed on hand-finished paper assembled from bits and pieces of prints from previous projects.

Buy them  www.ravizupa.com/store

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Ravi Zupa The Queen Justice Print Release & First Marvelous Adventures Poster

Ravi Zupa has released the first of five posters in a new monthly series called “Marvelous Adventures.” All characters for the series are pulled from Hindu mythology (Durga,Hanuman, Rama, Garuda, Kali) and feature some of the oldest superheroes on Earth.

The release marks a return to Zupa’s childhood drawings, many of which emulated the look and feel of comic books. “At some point, I abandoned that style when I discovered the magic of German renaissance printmaking, which behaves similarly but is more ordered and technical,” Zupa says of the design.

Inspired by Marvel and DC comics from the 1960s and ‘70s, the throwback nature of the series has been an enjoyable trip down memory lane for the artist. “Drawing in this way was surprisingly comfortable and fun for me, like returning to the places in my
childhood neighborhood where I used to play and explore.”

Zupa’s decision to launch the series with a print featuring a strong female archetype was intentional. “The last several years have been marked by Durga’s persistent efforts and I imagine she will continue. To a large degree, she is the same archetype as Wonder Woman.”

The series of five prints (each with five colors, 24” x 36”) will be released as limited editions of 40 each over the next five months. To order your own, visit Zupa’s online store HERE.

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Ravi Zupa Medusa and Rangda Art Print

This new print by Ravi Zupa print depicts two very similar characters from very different cultures: Greece’s Medusa and Bali’s Rangda. It is available as a 1- or 2-color print.

The words for this print are from a chapter in the Kalevala that is rather harsh. In it, an old woman tells a young bride how her new life with her husband and his family will be painful, lonely and difficult. She gives detailed instructions on how to best perform all her arduous chores despite the thanklessness and cruelty she will receive in return. The old woman then goes on to tell how she did all of this good work and ended up hated, rejected and homeless after doing everything right. It’s a rough go.

Prints are 18 x 24 screenprints with the 1 color having an edition of 200 and the 2 color has an edition of 50. All prints come signed and numbered.

Buy them at www.ravizupa.com/store/

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Ravi Zupa Pixies Poster Release & Art Print

Ravi Zupa designed a poster for a recent Pixies show in the Denver area. He also created an art print with the same design.

He talks about the design:

This is one of the most complicated poster designs I’ve created. The process was inspired by lithographs from the late 1800s. I drew the entire image six separate times, once for each color. When combined using the correct order, registration, and ink opacity, the layers create a great deal more complexity and texture than other screen printing methods.

I dedicate these to my lovely brother, Idris Zupa, who loved Frank Black and the Pixies, perhaps more than I do. Idris lost his life to his own mind in 2006 and the fine art version of this print is a supplication to stay alive and be great. Who is better qualified to have this complicated discussion than the magnificent Virginia Woolf. Love. -RZ

On sale Monday at 2pm MDT at  https://www.ravizupa.com/

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Pearl Jam Rio Print By Ravi Zupa Release

Ravi Zupa has released his Pearl Jam Rio poster and it's a 3 color screenprint measuring 18 x 24 inches and a signed edition of 100.

I’ve been so moved by the response to this poster from the people of Rio. To those doing the hard and dangerous work of fighting for your humanity and ability to exist, I send my love and deep appreciation. Myself and my studio partners will take your lead and use my art to support you in whatever way you find use for it. - Ravi

 Because of the response to this image, Ravi will create an edition of screen printed fine-art posters without the Pearl Jam show information. These will be donation-based and all profits will go to local organizations in Rio’s favelas.

On sale now at www.ravizupa.com.

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Ravi Zupa Love Thy Enemy Letterpress Print Release

Shepard Fairey is proud to announce the upcoming release of Ravi Zupa‘s “Love Thy Enemy” letterpress and his guest artist series for Obey Clothing. Ravi Zupa is a rare find as an artist, with an astounding command of a broad range of techniques and aesthetics. Ravi demonstrates mastery in a renaissance painting style, collage, printmaking, and drawing. The rich fusion of techniques in his work could be presumed to be appropriation, but it is not… all of the elements are rendered by Ravi.

Love Thy Enemy. 10 x 13 inches. #Letterpress on cream cotton paper with hand-deckled edges. Signed by #RaviZupa. Numbered edition of 200. $55.

Available Tuesday, October 24 at 10 AM PDT on ObeyGiant.com in Store under Prints.

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Ravi Zupa NØISE Remixed Poster

Serigraphic Systems Incorporated and released a new poster for their Noise Project by Ravi Zupa. The poster is 18 inches x 24 inches screen print on cream Speckle Tone paper. Numbered edition of 400. Signed by Ravi Zupa.

Buy it at  http://www.noiseproject.com/buy/ Scroll down and click on the title for the buy window to open up.

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Shepard Fairey And Ravi Zupa Noise Project Posters Release

Shepard Fairey's music project NØISE, a collaboration with music vets John Goff, Merritt Lear and Joe Cassidy has come to life. If you're in LA, come to Shepard's gallery Subliminal Projects this Sunday, September 18th for the record release party starting at 7pm. He'll be DJing with Scott Kirkland (The Crystal Method) and John Goff (NØISE). He'll also be selling NØISE’s “Little Lions” 7-inch vinyl, only 500 signed, and the limited edition double vinyl “Little Lions” remixes featuring art that Shepard created as well as art created by one of his favorite artists and friend Ravi Zupa. Shepard will be selling limited edition prints that he made for NØISE and prints that Ravi Zupa created for the project as well. Check out the flyer and be sure to RSVP@SubliminalProjects.com if you wish to attend! More information about NØISE can be found online at http://www.noiseproject.com .

When: Sunday, September 18, 7pm - 10pm
Where: Subliminal Projects, 1331 W Sunset Blvd, 90026

NOISE LITTLE LIONS POSTER
Screen printed, 18 inches x 24 inches
Screen print on cream Speckle Tone paper. Numbered edition of 350.
Signed by Shepard Fairey. Limit of one per person/household.
releasing 09/22/16 10:00am PST on NoiseProject.com 

NOISE REMIXED POSTER by Ravi Zupa
Screen printed, 18 inches x 24 inches
Screen print on cream Speckle Tone paper. Numbered edition of 400.
Signed by Ravi Zupa. Limit of one per person/household.
releasing 09/22/16 10:00am PST on NoiseProject.com

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Ravi Zupa Opposable Thumbs Tiger Print Release

Black Book Gallery will be releasing a print from Ravi Zupa that was one of the main pieces of art in his recent solo show.

What Do We Do With Opposable Thumbs? – Tiger
2 color screen print on paper, 24 x 36 inches
Signed & Numbered Edition of 50

Available Friday, April 1st between 10am – 11am Mountain Time Zone at BlackBookGallery.com

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Ravi Zupa Pearl Jam Santiago Chile Poster Artist Edition Release

Last fall Ravi Zupa did his first ever poster for Pearl Jam and now you can get one of the artist edition signed & numbered posters.

PEARL JAM - SANTIAGO CHILE 2015 - ARTIST EDITION
18″ x 24″ -3 color screen print
Signed & Numbered Edition of 80

Available in person at gallery on Friday, February 19th from 5-6pm - Cash preferred - One per person/family
Black Book Gallery 304 Elati St. Denver, CO 80223

Limited quantity available online Saturday, February 20th randomly between 11am-1130am
http://www.blackbookgallery.com/prints/ravi-zupa/

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Ravi Zupa Pearl Jam Chile Band Signed Poster & Set List Charity Auction

Most hard core Pearl Jam fans know Kille Knobel as the bands lighting designer and director. She is raising funds for the Echo Center in Culver City, CA. The Echo Center is a pre-eminent program to educate children who are deaf and hard of hearing where they learn alongside their hearing peers in the mainstream environment of the Echo Horizon School http://echohorizon.org/domain/8. 2 of Kille's children have hearing loss.

So she has Pearl Jam's Santiago, Chile poster signed by entire band and copies of set lists from each city on their 2015 Latin America tour including Chile, Buenos Aires, Porto Alegre, Sao Paolo, Brasilia, Belo Horizonte, Rio, Bogota, and Mexico City. All up for auction.

Bid on this killer bundle of stuff over at https://www.charitybuzz.com/catalog_items/2015-pearl-jam-signed-poster-with-set-lists-from-latin-999800?preview=1

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Ravi Zupa It Will Be A Hard Day Print

The print by Ravi Zupa is an homage/reference to Mad Max - Here is what Ravi has to say about it

“IT WILL BE A HARD DAY”

Much has been written about the feminist themes that run through “Mad Max Fury Road”. It’s worth giving some attention to some of the others too.

At one point a character named the “People eater” opens his ledger where he has carefully recorded the heavy expenditures of this short war. “We’re down 30,000 units of Gasoline, 19 canisters of Nitro, 12 assault bikes, 7 pursuit vehicles…And now sir, you have us stuck in a quagmire” This he says while the wheels of their vehicles are stuck in an actual quagmire.

Soon after, a character named “The Bullet Farmer” who wears a bandoleer of 50 caliber bullets draped on his head like a judge’s powdered wig is sent to safely retrieve the “assets” (the women that are the entire reason for this expensive war) and after loosing his vision he fires two identical machine guns at them with indiscriminate abandon. “I am the scales of Justice. Conductor of the choir of death.” This he shouts while wearing the same blindfold that Lady Justice wears.

To me the most compelling and carefully hidden theme is that of non-violence. More specifically a forceful and powerful form of non-violence. When Splendid is handed a weapon and urgently ordered to reload it. She looks down at the gun resting on her pregnant belly and she hesitates and says that she can’t. The moment passes quickly and another woman impatiently takes over making Splendid seem inept or overwhelmed. She is neither of these however (evidenced moments later when she uses her own body and the life of her fetus as a shield to protect her companions). Rather, she is taking a profound ethical stance. A refusal to carry out violence at any level, even the justifiable act of loading a gun that will be fired by someone else. A refusal that a pregnant woman might very well be entitled to.

This film has, like other great pieces, transcended the confines of genre fiction and earned a seat as a fine art masterpiece. Not unlike “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “Slaughterhouse 5” (the book only).

“It Will Be A Hard Day” is my way of giving a shout out to such an accomplishment. It describes yet another theme in the film. I’ve used the overly dramatic poses and the line sensibilities of German Renaissance print artists like Albrecht Durer and Hans Holbein. - ravizupa.com

Print is available here:http://store.subliminalprojects.com/products/ravi-zupa-it-will-be-a-hard-day-2015

The print is18 x 24 inch screen print on cream speckle tone paper. Signed by Ravi Zupa. Numbered edition of 200.

Yes his Pearl Jam poster will be on sale in the future as well.

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Ravi Zupa An Extremely Old Problem Print Release

Black Book Gallery will be releasing a great new print by Ravi Zupa this week titled An Extremely Old Problem.

The print is an 18″ x 24″ 2 color screen print with a signed & numbered edition of 125.

From Ravi Zupa:

After all this madness began in Baltimore, I watched “Do the Right Thing” again for the first time in many years. In one scene, Mookie is walking to make a delivery and Da Mayor stops him just to say, “Always do the right thing”.

“That’s it?
“That’s it.”
“I got it, I’m gone”.
He does do the right thing in every choice he makes.
If you haven’t seen “Do the Right Thing” or haven’t seen it recently, Now is the time.
I lost two members of my immediate family to very complicated and troubling violence. I feel so sad right now. For Freddie Gray and everyone else who has been murdered by police.

I will be giving $25 from the sale of each print to the Fund for Rebuilding Baltimore.
http://www.bcf.org/tabid/168/default.aspx?f=388394&c=REBUIL

On sale Friday at May 15th at Noon Mountain time which is 10am EDT at  http://www.blackbookgallery.com/prints/ravi-zupa/

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Ravi Zupa Now And At The Hour Of Our Death Prints & Original Artwork

1xRUN have added another new artist to their roster that some of you may be familiar with, Ravi Zupa of Boulder Colorado. His first print with them is Now And At The Hour Of Our Death along with some original pieces as well.

"These prints are a continuation of a theme that I featured in my exhibition at Subliminal Projects last fall. For that show I released a print called La Santa Muerte. Santa Muerte is a uniquely Mexican character, particularly in Mexico City. People in DF (distrito federal/Mexico City) have independently canonized her as a Catholic Saint. Saint Death.

Obviously the Vatican is horrified by the idea but in parts of Mexico City, like Zocalo where I saw her, there are people who find Saint Death deeply comforting and liberating. In her shrines, a skeleton is erected and dressed in robes like those of a pope or a monk and covered with jewels, money and flowers. They are unbelievably beautiful. I was told that, worshipers will visit these sites and often leave offerings at her feet, both in gratitude and repentance. Things like money, candles, photographs, drugs and weapons." - Ravi Zupa

The prints and 8 original pieces of art go on sale Monday at NOON EDT at 1xRUN.com

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