BIOGRAPHIE.
Alexis Stephens, dit BUST THE DRIP, est né en 1983. Artiste peintre issu de l’univers de la danse et du hip hop, ce sont les vibrations de la musique qui l’animent. Recréant le mouvement des corps, il associe le geste à la projection de peinture.
Inspiré autant par l’expressionnisme abstrait, que par le graffiti, sa manière de peindre est extrêmement gestuelle, énergique ; à la fois technique et instinctive.
Ses compositions mêlent spray, acrylique, crayon… Il parle de sa peinture comme d’une chorégraphie de traits et de traces. La couleur prend forme, les fréquences dessinées donnent le rythme.
L’univers musical est omniprésent dans l’œuvre de Bust the drip qui diffuse son art sur les murs de Paris et de la banlieue parisienne comme des ondes positives.
Born in 1983 Alexis STEPHENS aka BUST THE DRIP first dedicated his time to dance in the Hip-Hop Parisian Scene before evolving onto pictural expression the question who lead him to this expression was : How can he transfer the dance energy from 3D to 2D… ?
His message revolves around the love of gesture. We are not made up of much and yet we all carry an internal boil. He likes to think of the body as being a sum of organized waves.
Inspired by abstract expressionism and graffiti, he manages to successfully transcribe movement in his works. Profound but yet subtle vibrations animate and allow the image recreate to the movement of bodies by associating gesture with the projection of paint.
His way of painting is extreme in gesture and energetic. Associating technique and instinct. His works combine mainly acrylic and crayons (graphite) and (oil) .
The line is initially intended to be abstract and jarring, but as it detaches itself from the painting, by taking a step back, the canvas becomes articulated, alive.