Erik Siador . My work comes as a reflection from beneath. In my Illustrative work, I want to show that the CulpritResearchProject is a living and breathing "machine". An operating world that thrives off of being connected to the CulpritResearchProject. Within all the intricacies and detail i put into these Illustrative works, I make the work known that it's an entity that is alive and breathing through the medium.

In my Fine Art, I don't shy off of the connection to the CulpritResearchProject at all. With a sprinkle of opinion and emotion, my Fine Art shows my arguments, beliefs and disbeliefs of the world around us. I strongly put my mind on a platter when it comes to sharing my opinions about the situations around us. Unlike my Illustrative work which hides my messages beneath intricately tangled images, my Fine Art is blunt and clear as to what is going on in my mind about the subject.

I have learned much from both worlds of Illustration and Fine Art. Illustration is more of a vehicle in making intricate and unreal concepts come to life. And Fine Art is a place where you can go for expressing thoughts, beliefs and feelings about anything. Whether it's through Illustration or Fine Art, it is definitive that they both tie into one another sharing the concepts and beliefs through the CulpritResearchProject.

Stats: Age: 23 Gender: Man Location: San Francisco, CA Hometown: Stockton, CA (Born in Urdineta, Philippines)

-Q & A-

Childhood Influences: Transformers, G.I Joe, Robotech, Star Wars, Voltron, Mask, Thundercats, Skeletor, The Centurians, Batman, Superman, X-Men, Older Women, Toys, Comic books, Aliens the Movie, Twilight Zone, Nightmare on Elm Street, Jason, Michael Myers, Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson, MTV, Cheesy Butt Rock Videos, Top Ramen Breakfast with Pepsi, Matchbox Cars, Plastic Green Army Men (and making parachutes with plastic bags), Sports Cars, Recess, Cheap Horror Video Rentals from the grocery store (thanx dad!), Ice Cream Trucks, Eating ants and coins, lowriders, gangstas', Zap-It water guns, Webster, Hyper Color, Being scared to death of porcelain clowns, scary religious statues in my grand parents house, and wanting to draw like my cousin Glen.

Current Influences: H.R Giger, Yoji Shinkawa, Carlos Huante,Geoff Darrow, Hugh Hefner, The Aliens Quadrilogy, The Matrix Trilogy, Hate and Envy, The Cell, Brave Heart!, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, McFarlane toys, Nikes, Vice Magazine, My hate for Meter Maids!, Money, The Food Network, The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, WW2 German Graphic Design, Jay-Z and the Roc and Todd McFarlane for being savage hustlers, Old Skool Rides, Choppers, Lowriders (bikes and cars), Carbon Fiber, Retro Kicks, All the artist i invited to the C.R.P, Pimps & Ho's, Fried Chicken, Gold Teeth, Jack Daniel's, my shity day job (Im tired of lifting heavy ass boxes at 5am), Technology, the poopies, Boo and My Moms, Dads and Stef. Did I mention I fucking hate Meter Maids?!

Favorite thing that tastes like chicken: K.F.P (Kentucky Fried Panda).

Current Creative Occupations: I'm mostly doing freelance Graphic Design but im out there doing shows for the Fine Art part of it all and im also working hard on getting my Illustration Career going. Oh yeah, and running C.R.P 24-7.

Current Projects: I got the gig with Scion to do full scale paintings which are gonna be entirely wrapped around two of their vehicles, the Xb and the new Tc which is due out this summer. Im also working on a lowrider bike thats fully customized to fit the look of CRP. I am also working on a coupla paintings and toy sculptures for my Illustration portfolio and for some upcoming shows in the summer.

Current and Upcoming Shows or Events: The Scion/CRP project and the lowrider bike will be revealed at "Traffic" at Union Square July 10th. 2004 along with a showcase im putting together with all the CRP artists. With the Scion/CRP collab, im trying to get gigs at the 111 Minna Gallery and The Canvas Gallery to show off the cars more along with exhibiting the CRP artists. Im apart of an exhibition at the Massachussets Museum of Contemporary Art which opens May 30th, 2004. I was just in "Paper Politics", a poster show out in Chicago that opened April 15th and lasts until June 5th at the "In These Times" Gallery. Im also apart of a toy themed show on August 26th at the Canvas Gallery. And im also gonna be published in the Illustration annual "Spectrum" due out in October.

Mediums: Oil, Acrylic, Pen & Ink, Digital paint, All sorts of digital media from Photoshop, Flash, Maya etc, manipulating paint to look and feel like burnt flesh and anything else I have to learn and do to get the job done.

Specialize in: Multi Tasking like i have five brains, ten hands and nine legs.

Dream Career which makes you hate your current job: I just wanna be able to create what I want and hopefully make a good living from it so I don't have to work shity part time jobs anymore. Oh yeah, and be so cool that I have time and money to travel the world.

Print Publications: Spectrum 11 out October 2004.

Other Web sites: Check out www.ErikSiador.com for my more "Conceptual" Illustrative Art. Also check out a interview i did with an online magazine called the "Collectiv" about C.R.P. www.Collectiv.com

All Works on this page are © Copyright of Erik Siador 2004.