Buster Bear Clothing...

So, My Colored friend Alex "lefty" Cohen has started a T-Shirt company thing called Buster Bear Clothing. All of his shirts are one-of-a-kind, both in artistic Gesturality & quantity. If you've heard me refer to myself as "Lonely Boy" in the past it is due to the first line of Buster Bear that was made with Red shirts and a Magnum 44 marker, mine saying lonely boy at the bottom. They are Abstract to say the least. He listens to Jay-Z or Nas and puts paint to shirt, he KNDA has an idea in his head at the moment and expresses it in the form of vibrant color contrasts of paint & fabric. In the first picture you can see Alex, or Turbo as he likes to be called when referring to his art, in his natural state of being in four places at once trying to hold a conversation on the phone, trying to skate, trying to walk, trying to get Gestural. All the while being Abstract. The shirt he is wearing is from the "Turbo Collection" a first run of personal shirts he made for himself.
In the bottom pictutre is the art he does at home, they vary in size and format, some are made on 8x8 to 20x30 canvas some are made on pieces of wood and others, like his mask series, are made on old discarded eggs boxes from the supermarket. I have three of these masks from his first experiments, one says "Forgive" the other "ADHD" and #3 is a double mask, and most gestural, with a Wyte & Black face stating "KKK Slave, Civil War". I cherish this [piece] because it describes our friendship on so many levels. He runs the blog Get Pumped in his spare time between school, art & skateboarding to express his inner most feelings about life, racism & sexuality.
He Currently has them for sale at some shoppes, one skate shop in Bartlett, IL called Yay! A Place for Boards which you've seen in my previous posts and two in the city, but I only know the name of one so that's what the seven of you get, it is called Wolfbait & B-Girls and my friends Shirley & Jenny own it. It is a Shoppe showcasing the talents of local Chicago based Artists, Jewelers, Fashion Designers & Silk Screeners. Wolfbait is located in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood on the Circle. Support local artists & local businesses, support the little guy. Help someone out that is trying to make a name for themselves, if you support from the beginning you will be remembered in the end. These people do it for their personal passion, not just to make a buck.
At the time of the end of this post I am currently listening to "Splitting Sky" by Throbbing Gristle from the album "Now" 2004.