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Ken Forbes, also known as "Artboy", is a polyartist who's brand encourages people to be the best versions of themselves. Artboy uses different artistic med
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- in Mexico working on some murals 😵💫🧡🤩
Guess how big this and win a collectible 👇🏽
#art #streetart #popart #instaart #artwork #creative #inspiration #dollar #follow #nyc #brooklyn #popart #delusionalart #365daydrawingchallenge #artist #ink #artcollective #artdealing #artcollector #gallery #artgallery #illustration #digitalart #mexico
- Currently in Mexico working on some murals 🤤😵💫🙏🏾
How big do U think this is? 👇🏽 take a guess. Winner gets a collectible
- “I’m F*cking Broken”
#art #luxuryhomedesign #popart #abstractartforsale #artwork #creative #inspiration #abstractart #nyc #brooklyn #abstractpainters #abstraction #interiorinspiration #artist #artcollective #artdealing #artcollector #gallery #artgallery #illustration #digitalart #kenforbesart #heyartboy
- “Today’s #Mood”
This is an interactive painting that plays the corresponding video on the viewer’s phone using touch technology.
The premise is showcasing how many of us feel today - between the pandemic, war, police brutality, looming recession, and the list goes on…sometimes I wake up and check my feed or the news and immediately feeling like screaming my head off at what’s going on in the world.
I’ll be displaying and selling this painting and others tomorrow/Saturday night at @moonrise_nyc with @klub.kronos and @samsaraofc
Leave some Love if You can relate 🙏🏾🧡
#art #luxuryhomedesign #popart #abstractartforsale #artwork #creative #inspiration #abstractart #nyc #brooklyn #abstractpainters #abstraction #interiorinspiration #artist #artcollective #artdealing #artcollector #gallery #artgallery #illustration #digitalart #kenforbesart #heyartboy #createeverydaychallenge
- @kikibot0 out here serving #lewks with the new signature @official_recowinn x @kenforbesart Weekender Bag. This designer bag is INTERACTIVE - allowing using to place their phones on certain parts of the bag to play a video that corresponds with the “Head in the Clouds” theme.
For marginalized groups like women, POCs, LGBT - when one has high hopes and ambitions, we’re often told we’re dreamers and unrealistic; that we have our “head in the clouds.” This bag serves as not an accessory, but as a statement to always keep your head held high, in the clouds, where it belongs. 🧡🙏🏾
Special thanks to @jesselynncontreras @official_recowinn @mykel_c_smith_creative_ @blockchaincenter_nyc @design_de_luca @juliaalovee_ @suprposition for making this all happen
#art #luxuryhomedesign #popart #abstractartforsale #artwork #creative #inspiration #abstractart #nyc #brooklyn #abstractpainters #abstraction #interiorinspiration #artist #artcollective #artdealing #artcollector #gallery #artgallery #illustration #digitalart #kenforbesart #heyartboy #createeverydaychallenge
- Obligatory Vacation Selfie Loading 🤳 …
#art #luxuryhomedesign #popart #abstractartforsale #artwork #creative #inspiration #abstractart #nyc #brooklyn #abstractpainters #abstraction #interiorinspiration #artist #artcollective #artdealing #artcollector #gallery #artgallery #illustration #digitalart #kenforbesart #heyartboy
- “The Thinker” SOLD! 🔴
Kinda sad to see this one go. She prettyyyy
#art #luxuryhomedesign #popart #abstractartforsale #artwork #creative #inspiration #abstractart #nyc #brooklyn #abstractpainters #abstraction #interiorinspiration #artist #artcollective #artdealing #artcollector #gallery #artgallery #illustration #digitalart #blackart #blackartwork #kenforbesart #heyartboy #blackexcellence #lenster
- Run in the Sun
mornings are darkest for me. Sometimes the push to get up and activated can be very tough. I live an amazing life and I’m very grateful. Coincidentally, mornings are the low point and toughest time of the day.
I’m finding that little push over the hump, getting sun/nature/getting moving is that spoonful of sugar that invites the beauty and excitement to Get going. 😎🤗
(And if You have a rough morning, day, or week…give yourself grace. Not every moment needs to be magical)
#sun #travel #beach #healthylifestyle #kenforbesart #heyartboy #meditate #meditation #inspirationalquote #inspiration #yoga #yogi #mind #selflove #mental #namaste #headspace #health #fit #kenforbesart #heyartboy
- Todays painting…what should we call her? Let me know ⬇️
#art #streetart #popart #instaart #artwork #creative #inspiration #dollar #follow #nyc #brooklyn #popart #delusionalart #365daydrawingchallenge #artist #ink #artcollective #artdealing #artcollector #gallery #artgallery #illustration #digitalart
- Gm
- “Adrift”
**50WMAT**
**5 Editions**
#art #luxuryhomedesign #popart #abstractartforsale #artwork #creative #inspiration #abstractart #nyc #brooklyn #abstractpainters #abstraction #interiorinspiration #artist #artcollective #artdealing #artcollector #gallery #artgallery #illustration #digitalart
- Just a couple of cool cats…
#art #beauty #love #painting #studio #kenforbesart #heyartboy #abstractexpression #portraitartwork #blackartist #travel #popart #contemporaryart
- SOLD! 🔴 “Kanye West 2022 Freestyle”
This painting is an interactive triptych with hidden messages that allows the viewer to use their phone to interact with a certain part of the canvas in order to release a secret video of “Kanye’s freestyle self diss track”.
#kanye #kanyewest #yeezy
#art #luxuryhomedesign #popart #abstractartforsale #artwork #creative #inspiration #abstractart #nyc #brooklyn #abstractpainters #abstraction #interiorinspiration #artist #artcollective #artdealing #artcollector #gallery #artgallery #illustration #digitalart #ye
- SOLD! 🔴 “Kanye West 2022 Freestyle”
This painting is an interactive triptych with hidden messages that allows the viewer to use their phone to interact with a certain part of the canvas in order to release a secret video of “Kanye’s freestyle self diss track”.
#kanye #kanyewest #yeezy
#art #luxuryhomedesign #popart #abstractartforsale #artwork #creative #inspiration #abstractart #nyc #brooklyn #abstractpainters #abstraction #interiorinspiration #artist #artcollective #artdealing #artcollector #gallery #artgallery #illustration #digitalart #ye
- SOLD! 🔴 “Kanye West 2022 Freestyle”
This painting is an interactive triptych with hidden messages that allows the viewer to use their phone to interact with a certain part of the canvas in order to release a secret video of “Kanye’s freestyle self diss track”.
#kanye #kanyewest #yeezy
#art #luxuryhomedesign #popart #abstractartforsale #artwork #creative #inspiration #abstractart #nyc #brooklyn #abstractpainters #abstraction #interiorinspiration #artist #artcollective #artdealing #artcollector #gallery #artgallery #illustration #digitalart #ye
- a couple of works in progress…
#art #beauty #love #painting #studio #kenforbesart #heyartboy #abstractexpression #portraitartwork #blackartist #travel #popart #contemporaryart
- Anyone have any art connections in Mexico? Liking to do some business down there
#art #mexico #travel
- “Tears in the Rain”
$1500. Acrylic on Canvas 4 feet by 3 feet. Interactive video plays when You place your phone on the subject’s left eye.
Created at the LENS ROCKAWAY GETAWAY
#heyartboy @app_aha #art #luxuryhomedesign #popart #abstractartforsale #artwork #creative #inspiration #abstractart #nyc #brooklyn #abstractpainters #abstraction #interiorinspiration #artist #artcollective #artdealing #artcollector #gallery #artgallery #illustration #digitalart
- ahoy, Lens...
In January 2021, I started a Discord to help keep the creative spirit alive during the pandemic. That same year we successfully created a project entirely produced by followers, fans and frens, '**The Greenhouse Effect Vol. 3**'. It was a concept record about a fictitious school, The **University of College**, and its professor of Horticulture who was secretly growing special pot. When smoked by the right person that pot opened a portal to the *World of Abundance.*
Last year, we continued the collaborative efforts with 'Summer School' beat contests and subsequently 'Fall Semester' songwriting submissions.
This lil community of producers, songwriters and frens has re-inspired me in many ways. Here is a recording that celebrates that collective and helps break down what we're up to at the UofC.
Notice lines like *`"your mood could be messing up, the crew help you get above it..."`*
or *`"...reaching new people, the feats be the features - leap to new peaks, speak the future into see soon..."`*
That special pot was clearly smoked and that portal has opened because here we are at the *World of Abundance*...**Lens**.
- **Mario’s Day Off**
*30 Editions*. *Free to* #collect
Lens Limited Drop. Collab with @kosukejames.lens @calicho.lens @cinco.lens
#art #streetart #popart #instaart #artwork #creative #inspiration #dollar #follow #nyc #brooklyn #popart #delusionalart #365daydrawingchallenge #artist #ink #artcollective #artdealing #artcollector #gallery #artgallery #illustration #digitalart
- A few shots from last night at the residency at 190 Bowery 🙏🏾🧡
#moodyports #moodygrams #nftartists #artoftheday #portrait #artist #artoftheday #modernart #nftcommunity #artofvisuals #artistsofinstagram #painting #artgallery #modelling #womenartists #artistsoninstagram #creative #love #femaleartists #contemporaryart #fineart #art #originalartwork #painting #model #artwork #blackartist #artsy #nft
- Hey all! Taking a social media break to enjoy the holidays with Loved ones and be present. I’ll be back in the new year. Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukka! Happy New Year and everything in between!!! Much Love 🙏🏾🧡 #merrychristmas #happyholidays #happynewyear
- This holiday season remember to put the work down and ENJOY YOURSELF!!!
#happyholidays #merrychristmas #work #play #art #artists #happynewyear
- Some more photos from Sat’s show thanks to @lensprotocol @allhailart.lens #art #artshow #painting #collab #lensprotocol #artist #nft #gallery #livepainting #digital #comic #documentary #music
- Todays session: “Ether”
**Limited Edition of 5**
50% referral
- Anyone have any art/photograph/music groups or hashtags they follow on lens?
**Let me know below ⬇️**
***80% mirror***
#art #artshow #painting #collab #lensprotocol #artist #nft #gallery #livepainting #digital #comic #documentary #music
- Some shots from this weekends amazing show! thanks to @allhailart.lens and @lensprotocol !!! #art #artshow #painting #collab #lensprotocol #artist #nft #gallery #livepainting #digital #comic #documentary
- Introducing DMs on @lensport.lens 📢 📨
Powered by XMTP, LensPort DMs allow you to talk to any other @lensprotocol user!
The coolest part? It's interoperable with Lenster!
All of your Lenster messages appear on LensPort and vise versa
For now LensPort and Lenster have DMs, but we expect many more frontends to implement them soon!
A single unified messaging system across multiple apps really shows the power of XMTP and Lens 🌿
The ability for Lens users to message each other using different apps is exciting!
Thank you to @petermdenton.lens and @prashantbagga.lens from XMTP for the support!
- How do we like this interactive Jay Z x Basquiat? Let me know ⬇️
#art #music #painting #interactiveart #hiphop #polyartist
- DIVIDED
This piece depicts duality. Originally hand painted in ink and gouache, it's one of my best selling prints and will most likely be the cover to ERRATICA (my art book series) volume 2.
I'm keeping the price low and mintable editions to 5.
Anyone who purchases the NFT in the United States will receive an 11"x14" print of the piece.
@allhailart.lens
- Custom Air Force 1s. Hand painted in acrylic leather paint.
- This Saturday, swing by @empiredao to see a special exhibition featuring a curated roster of @app_aha artists showcasing pieces they created during the #ahahideaway in Rockaway.
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Doors open at 7:30pm - Free Entry & Free Drinks
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🎨: @calichoart @eyeantic @kenforbesart @ian_cinco @jesselynncontreras @josiewoodss @kosukejames @lala_lonnie @mxd.wrld
📍: @empiredao 190 Bowery Ave, Floor 2
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About AHA! : AHA! is a new type of infrastructure for the creative world. AHA!’s tech leverages creatives, their data, and their community to boost awareness, match unique, high-performing key players (creatives, fans, spaces, and investors), and strengthen those connections to drive revenue for all.
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About Lens: Lens Protocol enables creators to take ownership of their content and their followers. We’re seeing web2 social media and creator platforms charging or taking a fee for using their platform to earn a living. It’s your content, and you should be in charge of who gets to remix it, how to monetize it, and more. Lens understands and addresses this basic need and that’s why creators love Lens.
- IXCXEX
2022
GIF generated by custom software
1920x1080 pixels
256 colors
180 frames
- "Between All Time" 2/3
"Between All Time" is a liminal dreamscape exploring themes of consciousness and self awareness. Created with circuit bent video hardware, AI and video synthesis 📺
- “The Universe in the Palm of Her Hand…”
#art #digitalart #universe #bigbang #love #god #feminisim #infitity #painting #ai #life
- What’s everyone’s thoughts on AI generated art??
I’ve got notes…
share your thoughts below ⬇️
- Art Show this Saturday night
12/17 at 190 Bowery at 730PM!
Interactive art, collaborative art, music videos, free drinks, free entry, all vibes 🧡
#artshow #music #concert #immersiveart #supreme #nyc #lens #livepainting #vibes @lensprotocol @iancinco.lens @josiewoods.lens @calicho.lens @kenforbes.lens @kosukejames.lens @allhailart.lens @jesselyn.lens @eyeantic.lens
- **@zoeydeutch takes us around the country while showing off her accents! #FallonTonight**
- **Ambrosia 3**
Number three of the three pieces we are posting for the @refraction X @lensprotocol fellowship.
"Ambrosia 3" we mixed medium format captured photographic images with 3d elements used in the original design of the clothing, collaging it together beyond recognition, our model becoming fused into the clothing pieces themselves. An internal landscape of colour and texture, this piece was made in collaboration with artist Sam Rolfes.
**Ambrosia 3 will be limited to 100 pieces.**
Thank you for collecting ✨✨✨
- “Through the Mist” from the **Abstract** Express **Yourself Collection**.****
What do You see/feel from this painting?
50% referral fee
- *'THE PERSISTENCE OF MAGNIFICENCE'*
the first artwork for **"EXHIBITION"**
a @lenster based role-playing gallery simulator
**24 hour Open Edition**
**50% mirror referral**
- **Desert Shards**
Number two of the three pieces we are posting for the @refraction.lens X @lensprotocol fellowship.
“Desert shards” was shot at the Trona Pinnacles in Death Valley, in the height of summer, the day time temperature exceeded 110+ degrees fahrenheit. While capturing images of mirrored portals the heat cracked them, creating “Desert Shards”. As the sunset, an other-worldly light gave the environment the surreal quality captured here. The desert is beautiful but with more than a hint of menace.
- **BTS explanation of my “Jay Z x Basquiat: Thanks For The Love” Hidden Video**
#art #painting #thanks #love #music #ai
- Yes or NO if you have finally recovered from #miami #artbasel ?
(hint: today's my first day actually feeling like a fully functioning human again :/ )
#thestrugglewasreal
- "Saturn" from the **Abstract Express Yourself Collection**
Bright bold colors and swooping strokes and crescent shapes create an abstract celestial landscape of the rings of Saturn in the horizon.
#art #painting #polyartist #abstractart #popart #contemporaryart #nature #beauty
Canvas and prints available for purchase
- "Smile Jack" from the **Abstract Express Yourself Collection**
For the artist, this painting portrays a Halloweenesque Nightmare before Christmas vibe of Jack smiling back at the viewer. What do You see?
#art #painting #polyartist #abstractart #popart #contemporaryart #nature #beauty
Canvas and prints available for purchase
- "Sweater Weather" from the **Abstract Express Yourself Collection**
This painting was inspired by a photograph by the artist of autumn leaves in a pile on the ground on a wet day in the fall.
#art #painting #polyartist #abstractart #popart #contemporaryart #nature #water #beauty
Canvas available for purchase
- "The Monarchy" from the **Abstract Express Yourself Collection**
Vague shapes portray the ruffles of an ordained royal family in bold hues.
#art #painting #polyartist #abstractart #popart #contemporaryart #nature #royalty #beauty
- "The Surfer" from the **Abstract Express Yourself Collection**
A beautiful surfer sits by her board, watching the waves crash.
#art #painting #polyartist #abstractart #popart #contemporaryart #nature #water #beauty
- The secret unlock able video for my **"Jay Z x Basquiat: Thanks for the Love"**
#jayz #painting #art #beyonce #basquiat #art #abstractexpressionism #popart #streetart #interactiveart #ai