'I'm impressed that no one's thrown up yet': Crash Gallery artists paint upside-down
With time ticking down, the artists keep painting through this strenuous challange
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Ambidextrous artist Jace Kim, illustrator Tori Swanson, and painter Arlana Green battle gravity and the clock to paint revealing audience portraits while suspended upside down. Two light-headed winners advance to the final, where futuristic digital graffiti wall awaits.
Watch episode 3 of season 2 of Crash Gallery this Sunday at 9:30pm to see just how good these artists are at painting with their world flipped around.
Meet the artists
Tori Swanson — For Tori Swanson, drawing a nude portrait promotes liberation and healthy body image. Her primary focus is on nude commission portraits with charcoal, or as she puts it: "I see a lot of naked people on the regular." Watch Tori talk about the liberation that comes through the vulnerability of being painted nude.
Arlana Green — Arlana connected to art in her childhood: "I was really shy as a child, and I found art was a really good way to express myself without having to speak." Now Arlana is "really focused on bringing awareness to black issues." She feels that art is a "a great conversation piece for that and a way that people can come together in a really positive and loving way." Watch Arlana talk about bringing people together through art, and representing black children in storybooks.
Jace Kim — When Jace Kim moved to Canada as a teenager, art helped him overcome the language barrier. Through art, Jace found a way back to interacting with other people: "People knew me as 'oh that kid with drawing skill'." Watch Jace talk about how drawing dragons led to him making friends.
Crash Gallery is back for a second season. In each episode, three talented artists of various disciplines go head-to-head against each other in a real-time creative arena, giving the audience a front row seat to the creative process.