SUBMISSIONRyan MooreI’ve painted on the grip of the skateboards...

SUBMISSION

Ryan Moore

I’ve painted on the grip of the skateboards I have ridden since ‘98. At first I used white out smudged with my thumb to create my images. Naturally I moved onto stenciling. My output was always limited by how many boards i rode a year but that also encouraged me to put more effort into each one. After a number of yrs doing this the next logical step was to put the griptape into frames. To do these I take a picture of the subject and hand cut multiple stencils to layer white spraypaint on black skateboard griptape with paint application giving the different grey scales.. As you can imagine this is a really time-consuming process & I like to think of them as a modern b&w alternative to the velvet paintings that fasinated me as a child.  All works are one offs.