What Kind of Life Does She Lead?

Spoke Art is San Francisco’s newest art gallery and publishing house. Following a year of pop up exhibits in New York City, San Francisco and Oakland, we have finally settled down into our new permanent space on Sutter Street in San Francisco’s dynamic Lower Nob Hill neighborhood. We specialize in emerging new contemporary artists with a firm emphasis on figurative and illustrative works. Our regular exhibits open the first Thursday of every month, and we specialize in connecting collectors with secondary market works namely in the fields of pop surrealism, low brow and street art.Comprised of character portraits, reimagined locales, and notable scenes from his favorite works, Otaku Obscura is a chance for Budich to acknowledge the anime he loves while simultaneously adding to their legacy with his own artistic interpretations. Growing up during the original Star Wars era of the 1970s and being a fan of science fiction his whole life, it’s no wonder Budich’s interests have found a muse in the history of anime. In an interview with Spoke Art he states “The hyper-stylized, frenetic animation was like a bolt of inspirational lightning to a young artist. Once I got a taste, my eyes were open to whole new world of characters and themes. No longer was I tethered to a bland, pseudo-realistic, Disney-esque approach to the drawing. Anime has had a huge influence in my work.”I live in the Baltimore/DC area with my wife, 4-year old son, and Scottish Terrier. I got into the screenprint business almost 5 years ago, and have about 65 prints in my portfolio so far. Aside from the whole "print-thing", I also like brewing my own beer, grinding my own meat, baking my own pizza, and shooting a great round of golf. I also designed a website to catalog and commemorate the end of my collection of Star Wars action-figuresScreen 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.