Freeman Art Company

Brandon Wisecarver is a NYC-based artist, focusing on virtual-reality art. After starting his career in fine art at Marin Community College, Brandon moved to NYC to find work as a creative, doing anything with fine art, eventually finding work as a janitor with the Con Artist Collective and working his way up to being their Studio Manager. Brandon has garnered a healthy following on TikTok, where he makes virtual-reality art in only a few minutes, describing art history in the meantime. This was a very fun conversation, with a man that is not only talented, but also well read.

0H10M1ke (pronounced Ohio Mike) is an NYC-based artist from, you guessed it, Ohio, specializing in one-line portraits but also known for his contemporary paintings and stickers. Growing up, Mike was the kid in class always drawing, and as he grew older, it transformed into graffiti. When he got to NYC, performance art stuck out to him, eventually being asked to draw live while a band was playing, as the art was being projected onto the band itself. Ultimately, Mike combined all these experiences into what he is gaining attention for: one-line portraits. It is art, it is performance...

Ian Cinco is a NYC-based artist, comic book creator, and filmmaker. He has always been an artist, knowing at a young age he had a passion for comic book novels and film, later in life earning a job at an education tech company as a video and animation designer. Currently, he is working on making more art and including tattooing. A true renaissance man of the arts, Cinco's greatest ambition is to bring high quality and emotionally charged stories to life.

Erick Teran is a creative, visual artist, and native New Yorker, born and raised to immigrant parents in Jackson Heights, Queens. A life-long resident of NYC, Erick’s unique environment shaped much of himself and how they view the world. He sees NYC and its people as a constant source of inspiration and tries to capture its grandeur within his artwork. CITYPRINTSNYC prides itself in working with local artists and makers who align with our core missions of visibility, representation, inclusion, and safety. We believe there’s room for everyone, and everyone deserves respect, and that’s “Our Story.” You’re invited t...

Adrian is an NYC-based painter and curator, putting together art shows for other artists throughout the various boroughs of NYC.

Gera was born in Athens, Greece and is a visual artist that started in graffiti in 2009. He graduated with a fine art degree from Thessaloniki and now lives and works in Athens Greece. He has taken part in several exhibitions in Europe and this year he starts his exhibition career in the United States. His work focuses on glitch art and is characterized by realistic portraits and abstract forms that coexist in a space full of slides and intense color contrasts.

Jian is an LA-based painter and muralist. Through a professional career working with production studios and big brands, Jian has created a style of his own. For the past year he has focused on growing his personal brand as an artist and has been growing in popularity since then.

"A history in movement inspires my work. Dance, martial arts, and acrobatics have shown me the multitude of intentional and unintentional positions the body can take on. Through my work, I explore the ambiguity of gesture, inviting the viewer to interrogate how they inherently read and ascribe meaning...

Cole Newman is an action painter based in Dallas, Texas. His artwork is inspired by the use of gravity, physics and unique patterns of paint on a canvas to create a one-of-a-kind expression. He's drawn influence from the likes of Jackson Pollock and aims to challenge the idea that art is only for the few. His work has been featured on NBC's Texas Today, Art Insider, BuzzFeed and Bored Panda, and he recently held a successful private event entitled "Triptych". Through his artwork, Cole seeks to inspire and provoke the same epiphany he experienced seeing Jackson Pollock's Cathedral, and...

Manuel Skirl is a person, born and raised in Vienna. His distinctive style is defined by organic structures resulting from black and blue lines. The artist uses self-made painting tools, he develops in a continuous process. He applies his technique at various scales and on multiple surfaces and leaves an unmistakable, more or less abstract mark.

Curtis Ankin, better known as Keemo, is a US-born, Michigan-based artist who has worked for himself since 2007. Prior to going full-time as an artist, Keemo spent about 8 years developing and designing websites in the "corporate world". This early career choice set him up nicely to be more in control of his brand and business. In this episode, we discuss many things, including managing relationships, both with other artists, as well as galleries and collectors, as well as talk shop about managing COGS and balancing time between painting and fulfilling online orders. Let's get started!