20 Feb


Hit the Deck at the United Trade Show went down last week in Las Vegas at the Alexis Park Resort. We arrived the day before the show to set up. The art show portion of United didn’t have the walls up yet, so we waited until about 4pm to hang the decks and ended up staying until 3:30am finishing it up. The show ran from Tuesday, February 13th to Thursday, February 15th with spectators coming in and out of the art room at their leisure. Hit The Deck was made possible by our sponsors, Draven and Ultimate Ears.

Next to Hit The Deck was a few of Dandelion Black’s Flesh series, an Abide Visuals section, and an exhibition from Blood is the New Black’s amazing squad of artists. We had the pleasure of meeting and hanging out with Blood is the New Black’s Travis Millard, Jeremy Relph, Patrick Jilbert and their ringleader Mitra Khayyam who are good people.
We ended up selling 12 of the 60 decks that were exhibited, some of which were arriving as late as Thursday. There are three more showings of Hit The Deck that are in the works. We will keep everyone posted on the progress of these opportunities to raise more money for The Global Fund.

Check out the following video of the United Trade Show, including the art show.
I have randomly cleaned up a few of the decks from the exhibition after the jump. More to come as soon as I can clean up more of the images.
Siana Sonoquie:

Matt Loomis:

Marco of SPRFKR:

Ben Kwok:

Safari:

Pastime (CBS, LORDS):


5 Responses for "Synthesis presents: Hit The Deck Art Exhibition pt. 6"
How much for the BIA BIA skateboard???
Rob McBroom’s is wicked awesome! Lemur’s are the coolest!
What you can’t tell from the photograph is that the circles in the tree, of Rob McBroom’s deck, are made out of various coins that were meticulously hand painted!
damn. ferngully is the shit.
Chachi’s deck is all fucken pro. beyond thunderdome.
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