King of Diamonds

Get Up Gallery’s brick and mortar space has manifested itself via the success of Drymounted.com and Getupgallery.com’s celebration of all things street art and print making. The Gallery resides within the Emergency Arts collective (formally the Fremont medical building) in Downtown Las Vegas. ‘The Royal Couple’ is Get Up Gallery’s inaugural exhibition and will celebrate the aesthetics of the King and Queen associated with playing cards. The five artists listed below will produce their artistic interpretation of the King, Queen, and Joker. Get Up Gallery was opened on December 2nd, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Owner Derek Douglas is a Las Vegas native who graduated from UNLV in 2004 with a Bachelor Of Arts Degree. With many years of enjoying street art in its various forms, and eventually collecting work created by Street Artists around the world, the dream of opening a gallery with an emphasis on street art finally materialized. Based on the foundation of Derek Douglas’s popular online blog Drymounted.com, and the relationships he has built throughout the years with artists from around the world, the goal of bringing the streets from all cites to a gallery in Downtown Las Vegas is now a reality. Get Up Gallery prides itself on displaying the most talented street artists from all over, as well as those located in Las Vegas, under 1 roof. Get Up Gallery not only displays original artwork, but many exclusive limited edition prints, print sets and skateboard decks will be on display, which will appeal to collectors of all types. Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image onto a substrate. A roller or squeegee is moved across the screen stencil, forcing or pumping ink past the threads of the woven mesh in the open areas. Screen printing is also a stencil method of print making in which a design is imposed on a screen of silk or other fine mesh, with blank areas coated with an impermeable substance, and ink is forced through the mesh onto the printing surface. It is also known as silkscreen, seriography, and serigraph.