Brush Slingers

Matt Brown's house is filled with painted doors, boxes of spray paint, secondhand canvases, paintings propped up in corners, and palettes crusted with layers of coagulated colors. He says a lot of cool new Tempe artists drop by just to hang out and paint. "It's my house, but it's also like a big art gallery and studio," he says.

courtesy of Matt Brown

Paint is not the worst thing some guy has applied to our door.

Details

8 p.m. Wednesday, June 22, to 2 a.m. Admission costs $3 in advance, $5 at the door. Call 480-966-5010.

Big Fish Pub, 1954 East University Drive in Tempe

Related Content

• Zen's Cafe Opens Third Location In Tempe
  January 30, 2012
• ASU Basketball In Telltale Series of Games Vs. Oregon Schools
  January 12, 2012
• Want to Write a Song for Bears of Manitou?
  January 4, 2012
• Puppet Show
  December 29, 2011
• Ice Cream Sandwich Specialty Shop, Slickables, Coming to Tempe
  December 14, 2011

More About

• Matt Brown
• J.J. Horner
• Tempe
• Visual Arts
• Art Galleries

Like this Story?

Sign up for the Events Newsletter: What's happening in town? From underground club nights to the biggest outdoor festivals, our top picks for the week's best events will always keep you in on the action.

Privacy Policy Cancel Continue

Brown will treat spectators to a sort of open house by proxy at the Big Fish Pub, when most of the art he's tripping over in his hallway will be on display at the "House of Flying Paint" event on Wednesday, June 22. Brown, who also promotes a weekly Monday night live art event at The Lofts on Mill Avenue, says the "House of Flying Paint" event is the first in a three-part series, designed to raise money for "a new co-op coffee shop/gallery."

Attendees can watch Brown, resident artists from the Paper Heart, and graffiti artists from the two-day Street Dreams urban culture festival create art on the spot. And there'll be some new faces behind the palettes, too, like J.J. Horner, whose door paintings run the gamut from bright red robots to subdued, dreamlike landscapes. Horner will paint doors during the event, along with artists Tara Miller and Ryan Singer, while DJs from Swell and Burn Records work the turntables.

In addition to live painting, completed works will also be on display, like Brown's robot statues. "We go to industrial parks and get random junk," Brown says. "We get a stack of old computers, take a sledgehammer to them, and assemble the pieces into robots."

And of course, most of the art will be for sale, including the painted doors, which Brown says sell for "about 50 bucks" each, or just enough to pay for the materials. Since the doors are donated, Brown admits they've stockpiled paint.

"The event name is literal," he says. "Paint will be flying everywhere."