By Pushing the limit of creative minds, starting a movement and raising money for charity is no easy task. But young entrepreneurs Yan Katz, Andrew Drucker and Josh Berg unraveled their level of potential to a creative group of painters, DJs and musicians Thursday night at the Gaslamp.
This artistic collective threw down their own styles of heavy beats and funky jams to create stunning paintings that were auctioned off for charity, at the first “Unravel Your Mind” art and mind expansion event.
Katz, Drucker and Berg hope to build a company which will provide underground art enthusiasts with information that could once only be acquired through close networking and host events as big as Coachella and Burning Man.
“We believe that Long Beach has a lot of potential,” Katz said. “So what we are doing is providing a visually stimulating, musically vibrant and healing opportunity for people to plug into.”
More than 300 people showed up and rumors of Second Street being a ghost-town were circulating. The auctioned art raised $750 total for the Los Alamitos High school art program.
The event was almost surreal as the various styles of painters (who many are alumni of Los Alamitos High school) created modern, classic and progressive works of art, while dub-step, electro, trance and funky soul beats pounded hypnotically and consumed the ear drums.
Attendees danced and shuffled aggressively into the night and were visually stimulated by impressive effects displayed on a screen by Vinca McKelvie, also known as Ghetto Math.
Alisha Willis, an alumna of Los Alamitos High school who studied business and marketing at Cal State Long Beach, painted a pop-art style purple skull, which was sold to a bidder for $70.
Artist Brian Henry showcased two pieces of his work, while he worked on his latest piece. “Father Earth” was showcased, as well as a visually-assaulting piece that greeted guests as they entered the Gaslamp with beams of light exploding from a man’s head.
Henry captured the creation of his works on Canon Rebel camera mounted on a tripod and set to take one frame every five seconds. Henry will later make a video and use the hundreds of frames to make a stop animation video showing the creation of his work.
All of the future “Unravel Your Mind Events” will raise money for local art programs of local schools.
Katz said, “We are all about helping the community that helped us.”
The next scheduled event, called “Anonymous Party,” is scheduled for Nov. 5. More information can be found at unravelyourmind.com.
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