DrawEverywhere Studios @theepitomegallery
DRAWEVERYWHERE STUDIOS is the brain child of Forest Stearns. Forest Stearns is a creative powerhouse. His art is literally in space, anyhow, I am getting ahead of myself. Forest attended College of the Redwoods, and Humboldt State University back when it was called HSU. He is a founding member of the art collective Empire Squared and he showed extensively throughout Humboldt County, even doing live art performances at Reggae on the River. After receiving his BFA in painting from HSU, he moved to the Bay Area to pursue a MFA in illustration. Forest was the Art Director of Deviant Art Inc and next he began working for Planet Labs, where his art was laser etched onto satellites and shot into space. He is currently working for Google where he puts art all over their quantum computing lab. This guys art is bigger than life. As a friend, collaborator and fan of his work, I couldn’t be prouder to have the Art of DRAWEVERYWHERE STUDIOS at The Epitome Gallery for the month of November. -Jeremy Hara
Please Join us Saturday, November 5th, 2022 Arts Alive 6pm-9pm for the Artists Reception
Opening: November 5th Saturday 6-9pm Arts Alive!
The DRAWEVERYWHERE Website has this to say about Forest Stearns:
Forest Stearns is the Principal Artist at DRAWEVERYWHERE where he produces uniques artworks and leads collaborations connecting artists and institutions. He has a passion for founding Artist in Residence programs that connect art, science, and technology. Currently he is the Creative Innovation Consultant and Artist in Residence co-founder at Google Quantum AI in Santa Barbara Ca.
Collaboration with artists is a huge part of Stearns’ creative adventure. As an art director, producer, facilitator and public speaker. Always leaning in to bring other artists into unique situations to share creative permission in the common conversation.
Stearns is an academically trained prolific illustrator, an arts educator, creative facilitator and community builder. Also an engaged father and supportive partner. Earning a very technical Masters of Fine Art in Illustration in 2010 and a more conceptual BFA for Painting in 2005. This Academic achievement is matched by an empirical practice of daily art making.
An avid illustrator for over 20 years. Forest Stearns has been creating illuminated drawings and hand lettered scripts on every surface available from art gallery walls to spaceships, there is nothing the artist won’t draw upon. His artistic portfolio radically spans media and substrate from endless sketchbooks of organic characters, laser etched drawings covering hundreds of satellites that orbit the Earth, art on Quantum Computers, and giant murals on surfaces ranging from buildings, radomes, and rocket ships.
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DRAWEVERYWHERE STUDIOS, based in Oakland, Ca:
An illustration focused creative studio with styles connecting nature to technology. We produce artworks and installations across a vast array of mediums from rocket ships to quantum computers.
Each unique production requires different creative talents. We bring together a select group of professional artists and designers to provide the client with an amazing creative product that fits the exact intention of their specific design brief.
Our intention is to make work that excites and engages the viewer through hand drawn adventures for more than a moment. More moving than mere-marketing and more organic than advertisement. Humans are a mark making species and our studio collaborates to bring those marks to any surface everywhere.
