Speak Easy Media.

Over the past year or two, myself and four of my good friends have been plotting and putting together ideas for a company that would benefit a client in so many different areas of art and design. I have always enjoyed working alongside my friends with many of the same clients and we have always seen eye to eye on everything. I thought to myself, why cant I continue to produce good work with these guys forever? Eric Pennycoff, Matt Riefler, Eric Romary, and Corey Purvis are some of my closest dudes and I am glad to finally call these guys my co-workers.

Speak Easy is:
Tanner Wilson (art/design)
Corey Purvis (art/design)
Eric Pennycoff (film, editor)
Matt Riefler (recording engineer)
Eric Romary (recording engineer)

This agency will be like a one-stop-shop for companies looking for work. Instead of looking around the market for artists, musicians, and/or filmmakers, Speak Easy will have everything within one name. From now on, we will all be stamping Speak Easy on every single piece of work we produce. I will keep everybody updated on upcoming projects, website, merchandise, and work!

Eric Romary Business Card

Recently, my good friend Eric Romary asked me to do a business card layout for him and I was more than down. He's an amazing recording engineer/producer and I've known him for a long time. I am very pleased with the outcome...

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Photos from the DDT Opening

The opening was absolutely amazing!!! Holy shit! All of the art looked great on the walls and I was surrounded by my friends and family all night. There was great music in the air, the weather was great, and the beers were cold. I really couldn't imagine it getting any better than that. I want to personally thank Conspiracy for letting us ruin their walls for 4 weeks. Jake, Jes, and Damien are the best dudes in the world and the show is going to be up for another 2-3 weeks so get down there and see some work! We also ended up selling a ton of more work than I expected and that is definitely a plus!

Here are a handful of the photos from the opening night. Courtesy of Bambi Guthrie. Bambi is an awesome photographer and I want to thank her for taking the time to shoot and edit these photos.




Get pumped for the DDT vid Eric is making


Nate and Grey are talking about politics




The DDT pamphlets were a big hit and they are still available at Conspiracy






Big thanks to Molly for makin' it out (awesome photographer)






Dusty and Donny Manco - father and son


My mom and pops kickin' it with Daniel


So pumped that Alan Nauts, Colleen, and Jason made it out


Mike Mankin and his beautiful little girl are teaching me tricks






Look who decided to show up!!!


dad and mom :)


Haleigh reading the artist statements


Ryan and Austin hangin' and slangin'


It was awesome to see my man Ethan make it out


My best dudes

If you have not seen the show, please make it down to Conspiracy Boutique and peep the works! Thanks to everyone for all the support and all the love.

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DDT: TERRITORIAL MARKINGS

If you don't know, NOW YOU KNOW!
This Friday, July 29th Daniel Dienelt, Dusty Neal, and I will be putting on an exhibition of all the collaboration pieces we have been working on in the last 5 months. There are soooo many pieces and I am beyond stoked to see the outcome. The show will be hosted by our good friends at Conspiracy in their shop. This is by far one of the most challenging/rewarding projects I have ever worked on and I know I can say the same for Daniel and Dusty. We have been slaving over this show making panels, mixing paint, cutting ourselves, ruining clothes, making flyers, making pamphlets, destroying shit, sanding shit, spraying shit, etc. You name it, we have done it to one of the pieces. Some range from the size of a cheese slice to the size of a double door. I have no clue how we are going to hang everything on Thursday, but it is going to be done!

I want to thank everyone that is close to me for putting up with my crankiness and nervous attitude over the last couple months. Big thanks to my main man Eric Pennycoff for providing footage (he is shooting the opening as well), Katie Moore, my parents, my two brothers Jake and Wyatt, Jake and Jess Farris, Damien Imel, Grey Gordon, Josh Hire, Chris Zoot, Corey Purvis, Matt Riefler, of course Dusty and Daniel, and anybody else who has helped me out in anyway. I am sorry if I have forgotten anybody.




THE TEASER (made by Eric Pennycoff)

Territorial Markings from Eric Pennycoff on Vimeo.

Art Swap with Rebecca Stockert!

Every once in awhile an awesome local artist comes around with work that I really need to obtain. I had a printmaking class with Rebecca Stockert last semester and I got to witness her making her work first hand. Her work consists of picture-perfect oil paintings, gritty etchings and lithographs, along with a great sculptor's eye. If you haven't checked out any of Beckie's work, you can peep it here:

http://rebeccastockert.blogspot.com

Recently, I traded one of my paintings from the 2011 Student Show "Red Eye" for her four amazing screen-printed set "Hannibal Lector Porn Theatre" which won her some $$$ from Artlink during the National Print Exhibition. She was kind enough to send me photos of what my piece looked like in her house so I figured I would return the favor!

"Hannibal Lector Porn Theatre" in my apt:



"Red Eye" in Beckie's crib:




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Commissioned Painting

For the past couple months I have been slowly working on a painting for an old friend from high school. John Benson is a West Point graduate and is currently a platoon leader for the United States Army out of Steilacoom, Washington. John got a hold of me a couple months ago to arrange a commissioned painting with a certain theme attached to it. The painting is about a cleansing and a redemption of humanity through complete eradication. The figure looms over a world that has been raped and drained of all it's beauty and the result will be a clean slate. I was so excited to hear that he wanted a painting with this kind of content and even more pumped to be doing a piece for someone that wanted my style. It is always a breath of fresh air when somebody doesn't tell you what they want you to paint or how they want it to look. John just came to me with the theme and basically said, "go nuts!" He's the man.


Pushing Up the Flowers
Acrylic, Marker, Aerosol
23"x27"

Sweet Tooth: Satisfy Your Cravings

I was recently asked by my friend Bambi Guthrie to put a piece into her exhibition last Saturday (6/4) inspired by Sweet Tooth Collective. Sweet Tooth is an awesome group of artists (Shaun Malinowski, Bob Storey, and Ricky Racket) dedicated to producing screen prints, clothing, designs, and much more. It is always so awesome to see local collectives like this rise up and gain popularity really quickly...besides, their whole product line is so fucking awesome! These are some really creative guys and I am so pumped to have been asked to be part of the show.

http://www.sweettoothco.com/

The theme of the show: Sweet Tooth

Title: Teething

The medium: Aerosol and Marker on Bristol


*Note - This piece is currently still FOR SALE so if you would like to notify me about purchases then you can email me here: tanner.wilson.art@gmail.com