Dave Kinsey

We are excited to announce the POW! WOW! Asia x 1xRUN featured artist print suite! Featuring select artists from POW! WOW! Japan and POW! WOW! Taiwan! this print suite features new editions from the evergrowing POW! WOW! x 1xRUN family.

Returning to Asia after last year’s inaugural POW! WOW! Taiwan, the world’s premiere mural festival has expanded to Japan with new murals going up in Tennoz Isle, Tokyo, followed by 3 week separate weeks throughout Taiwan! Check out POW! WOW! Asia x 1xRUN releases from:

Ben Horton - Bounce - Case Maclaim - Colasa - Dave Kinsey 1 & 2 - Dragon 76 - Fafi - Kamea Hadar - Mr. Ogay - Shizentomotel and Tamura Yoshiyasu

POW! – It’s the impact that art has on a person.

WOW! – It’s reaction that art has on a viewer.

Together they form POW! WOW! , which is a term that describes a gathering that celebrates culture, music and art.

Centered around a week-long event in Hawaii, POW! WOW! has grown into a global network of artists and organizes gallery shows, lecture series, schools for art and music, mural projects, a large creative space named Lana Lane Studios, concerts, and live art installations across the globe. The central event takes place during Valentine’s Day week in February in the Kaka’ako district of Honolulu, and brings over a hundred international and local artist together to create murals and other forms of art. The festival is expanding to cities and countries such as Taiwan, Long Beach, Israel, Singapore, Jamaica, Washington D.C., Guam, New Zealand, Germany and more.

Dave Kinsey was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1971 and attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and Atlanta before moving to California in 1994 to pursue a career as a designer and fine artist. His work attempts to capture the universal essence of the human condition mainly through a symbolic portrayal of contemporary life. Utilizing a range of mediums, he constructs multi-layered, textured environments that echo the complexities of our existence. His fine art has been shown in galleries and museums worldwide and has been featured in local and international print and online publications from The New York Times and Washington Post to Hypebeast. Among many varied art and design accomplishments, Kinsey was recently selected to participate in an international Absolut artist campaign leading to the commissioned design of a signature Absolut Vodka bottle in 2013.

In 1997 Kinsey founded the design studio BLK/MRKT, working with clients such as Nike, Apple and DC Shoes. In 2002, the company expanded to add a fine art gallery Kinsey/DesForges (formally BLK/MRKT Gallery) and BLK/MRKT Editions. In 2010 Kinsey relocated to the Sierra Nevada mountains north of Los Angeles to pursue painting fulltime.