06.19.2009

Stina Persson

ART COLLABORATION: Eden, Eden Tee,

Stina Persson is based in Stockholm, Sweden. She originally studied fine art in Perugia and fashion drawing in Florence. Her European style incorporates ink, watercolor and collages with ceremonial Mexican cut papers to create art that is vivid and elegant. She fuses the tradition with an edge to introduce a modern look to illustration. Perssonâ€™s feminist artistic style is a perfect match with Arborâ€™s Eden, the board for women who what to ride it all.

06.19.2009

Yoskay Yamamoto

ART COLLABORATION: Push

WEBSITE: yoskay.com

Yoskay Yamamoto is a self-trained illustrator born and raised in Toba, Japan who moved to the United States at the age of 15. Yamamoto’s distinct style is based on a combination of two different cultural backgrounds including nostalgically blending pop-iconic characters from his new western home with traditional and mythical Japanese elements from his Asian heritage. Yamamoto’s urban pop art is a perfect fit for women who want to surf the mountain on Arbor’s Push.

06.19.2009

Sylvia Ji

ART COLLABORATION: Cadence, Oso, Bamboo Bug

WEBSITE: sylviaji.com

Sylvia Ji was born in 1982, and raised in San Francisco, California, where she received her BFA at the Academy of Art University. After graduation, she relocated to Los Angeles where she currently resides. Jiâ€™s work encapsulates an alluring beauty that is cutting-edge and a nod to time-honored technique. Her paintings are symbolic reflections of herself, portraits of people she knows or nameless faces set in a landscape of fleeting and decaying beauty. Sylvia Ji released the piece that graces the top of the women’s Cadence in her 2008 collection titled Por Vida.

06.19.2009

Mike Benninghoven

ART COLLABORATION: Coda, Bamboo Pocket Rocket

WEBSITE: cultivatedlove.com

Mike Benninghoven resides deep in the heart of the Colorado Rockies. He operates his own retail outlet in the downtown area of Steamboat Springs. The shop is known as Cultivated Love named after his popular original paintings and apparel line. Benninghoven is a diehard local Steamboat Mountain shredder and considered by many to be an artistic genius. His medium is layered cut vinyl and spray-painted images and each piece typically is based in a political statement. Now, he has found a new canvas for his works, on the bamboo topsheet of Arbor’s park and mountain shifter, the Coda.

06.19.2009

Brian Morris

ART COLLABORATION: Element

WEBSITE: www.ooo000ooo.com

Brian Morris is an artist from the South side of Chicago, Illinois who likes to break out of the studio and put his skills to work on a canvas of skin in the tattoo parlor and on classic Cadillacs in his garage. I eat red meat, prefer whiskey over beer, my favorite color is black and I was born in 1976, says Morris. I work in digital advertising, I’m married, I have a 1962 Cadillac in my garage and I don’t believe in god, I believe in people. I’m a heavy metal poser, I like country music, Sharpies, and I have a beard and tattoos and long hair. I’m deeply in love, early to bed, early to rise, and a saver not a spender. I think old is new, new will be old and that you can’t take it with you. Iâ€™m a shit-talker who is trying to get back to the basics. His unique urban-tattoo style graphics brings a powerful look to Arbor’s legendary ride-it-all powerful performance snowboard known only as the Element.