By: Gavin Weaver Slide 2 Jack of all trades: Owner of Toy
Machine Skateboards Professional Skateboarder Graphic Designer
Painter Photographer Video Producer Slide 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvC C7VtMc3I Slide 4 Background: ED
TEMPLETON BORN 1972, Orange County, CA Lives and works in
Huntington Beach, CA Ed Templeton was born in Orange County, a
sprawling suburb of Los Angeles. He became interested in
skateboarding when he was in junior high school and devoted all his
time to it. Templetons interest in fine art began as a teen with
shopping mall books about canonical painters such as Picasso, Dali,
but it was his later discovery of Egon Schiele that would have a
profound effect on him. Templeton eventually became a professional
skateboarder, which allowed him opportunities to tour Europe. While
there, he spent every free moment absorbing its galleries and art
museums. Soon after, he realized his first exhibition, a skateboard
art show in Chicago. Templeton is owner and creative director for
his company, Toy Machine Bloodsucking Skateboard Company. He has
also executed design work for Spin, as well as Grand Royal, Geffen
and Factory Records. Templeton considers his painting and
photography pursuits separate from his skateboarding and design
work, which is more graphic based. He has exhibited his work
worldwide including exhibitions at Alleged Gallery, New York,
Roberts and Tilton, Los Angeles, Modern Art, London, and Aki-X
Gallery, Tokyo. Solo museum exhibitions include Museum Het Domein,
Netherlands (2000), and Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2002). Templeton
currently lives and works in Huntington Beach, California.
https://www.iconoclasteditions.com/EditionsArtists.aspx?ArtistID=314&Section=BIO
Slide 5 Artistic Style Ed considers his photography and painting to
be separate from his design work. However, both his paintings and
design work feature a simple almost-child like look to them, which
is contrasts sharply with oftentimes highly sexualized and violent
scenes. Slide 6 Painting Slide 7 Slide 8 Slide 9 Slide 10 Slide 11
Use of Color Ed typically uses a palette of muted pastel colors in
his work. The softness of the colors contrasts with the often
strange and somewhat disturbing content of his work. Othertimes, it
adds a sense of calm and simplicity to the work. Slide 12
Photography Ed first received attention in the art world for his
photography book called: Teenage Smokers Slide 13 Ed has described
his photographic style as voyeuristic. He prefers to document what
happens while not interfering. Slide 14 Slide 15 Slide 16 Bib
http://www.huhmagazine.co.uk/701/ed- templeton
http://www.huhmagazine.co.uk/701/ed- templeton
http://www.toymachine.com/ed/ http://www.toymachine.com/ed/
http://blog.leica- camera.com/photography/m-
system/rolling-through-the-shadows-ed- templeton/
http://blog.leica- camera.com/photography/m-
system/rolling-through-the-shadows-ed- templeton/ Teenage Smokers
Ed Templeton Teenage Kissers Ed Templeton
