New Music Video! Check out our latest collaboration with Calico Club

Nighttime Roller Disco by Calico Club
Video by Fabian Villa & Steven Casanova for Essentials Creative
Movement by Mickey Severance

Artist Portraits by Essentials Creative

Artist Portraits by Fabian Villa / Essentials Creative: https://lnkd.in/exFQpik  
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Manik Raj Nakra

Manik Raj Nakra Photographed by Fabian Villa / Essentials Creative

Troller

Troller Photographed by Fabian Villa / Essentials Creative

Curved Light

Curved Light Photographed by Fabian Villa / Essentials Creative

PrintAustin Invitational: flux

PrintAustin Invitational: flux

January 27 - February 18, 2018

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 27, 7-9PM
Location: Link & Pin Art Space, 2235 E. 6th Street, Austin, TX 78702
Gallery Hours: Friday - Sunday 11AM-4PM, or by appointment. To set up appointment call (512) 900-8952. For more information or for a guided tour of the exhibit, email Paloma Mayorga at art@palomamayorga.com, or visit bit.ly/PAflux.

Austin, TX -- The 2018 PrintAustin Invitational presents emerging perspectives in printmaking. Guest curated by Paloma Mayorga, flux explores the fluidity between traditional and nontraditional mediums. By fusing various disciplines with serigraphy techniques, featured artists Essentials, Mirjam Dijkema, Nansi Guevara, and Michael Menchaca offer local and international approaches to this medium.

The versatility of serigraphy lends itself to negotiate formal aspects of creating prints. A technique that was conventionally limited to a two dimensional surface, now permeates dimension and inhabits the viewer’s physical space. From collage to installation and textiles, the works in this exhibition make room for underrepresented narratives to flourish in a tradition-dominated field.

PrintAustin is a nonprofit organization working with organizations and individuals throughout the visual arts community to showcase fine art prints during an annual month-long event from January 15 through February 15, 2017. To learn more, visitwww.printaustin.org. The PrintAustin Invitational is PrintAustin's official exhibition of selected contemporary works in print.

ESSENTIALS: BIOCROMATIC - LUMINARIA 11/10/2017

Essentials

Essentials is a multi-media collective producing holistic applied arts experiences. These multi-faceted events incorporate disciplines such as photography, fashion, graphic design, video, projection, animation, music, and installation. Although a single image may include many Essentials members, there is always a unified vision of experimentation, fluidity, and diversity. 

Essentials creates a platform for underrepresented artists to express themselves and find support within their field. In the search for emerging talent, innovative voices, and unseen narratives, collaboration with other creatives is celebrated. Essentials is composed of and embraces artists of color, women, and members of the LGBTQ community. 

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Biochromatic 

Biochromatic examines the limitations and exploitations of human perception. Photography, print, projection, and installation are utilized to explore uncommon arrangements of light, such as those found in the fringes of the natural world or on the edges of the human visible spectrum. These medias are combined to reproduce the sensations one cannot directly experience, just as observational instruments require translation to explain such phenomena. 

In a second sense, Essentials subverts the pastoral narrative of natural discovery by presupposing the entrance of mass media. The eye is able to absorb an almost constant onslaught of information; but for all its abilities, modern media technology devalues and erodes this task of prehistoric survival. Advertorial predation on the sublime, and the relentless hypermedia that follows, is used to confront the resting state of perception. 

Biochromatic, loosely meaning “light produced by living organisms”, encompasses curiosities whose luminescence is unfamiliar, and the wholly human venture of illumination. 

FASHION & ART SHOW IN Los ANGELES

Join us for this fashion & art presentation by King Design and Delhacienda
Projected art by ESSENTIALS
6/24/17

The Art of Looking

Response to Mastered's first 2017 Collaboration Brief, set by acclaimed Art Director @fabienbaron 

Theme: 'The Art of Looking'

Creative Direction: ESSENTIALS @essentialscreative
www.essentialscreative.com
Art Direction: Misa Yamamoto & Fabian Villa
Photography: Fabian Villa & Nina Hawkins
Video: Steven Casanova
Styling: Kaiden Ho & Nina Hawkins
Hair & Makeup: Fabian Alejandro Diaz
Models: Annaleesa & Arianna Wissinger
Location: San Antonio Central Library

Looking at shapes, angles, light and shadows of the architecture, our team was drawn to the San Antonio Central Library for it's multiple viewpoints. In my youth, I flipped through books, rented foreign movies and educated myself about arts and culture. I return to the library to photograph twins with fashion styling that flows with the geometric forms of the building. The final step is the layout for Instagram emphasizing geometric shapes of the architecture. For me 'the art of looking' is about walking around, seeing art from different perspectives, contemplating, and being on the lookout for inspiration.  -Fabian Villa @fabianvillaimage

NOLAN #SHOTBYESSENTIALS

Photography by Fabian Villa
Styling & Modeling by Nolan Robert

 

GANG GANG ギャング ギャング Fashion Film

Watch our GANG GANG ギャング ギャング Fashion Film! Styling by Kristina Elle aka Cybergirl
https://vimeo.com/204418286