monty montgomery

Thanks to all you guys out there that voted for me in the **COMMUNE** “Featured Local Artist” contest. I got the good news that I won for the month of March so pop into the COMMUNE site and read the interview! The Commune site updates the new winners from each month but leaves up the past winners as well so you just need to scroll down a bit through the site. Have a great day!

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I hit the Cover of City Beat Magazine on the October 7th Issue. One of my works titled, “Going Bananas” was featured. There was a web article and pic with a little scoop on my vision. It was distributed all over the City of San Diego, California.

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Psyched that “SAUCE” made it to Boston safe and sound! I got a mail from “G” Love and he attached this pic holding the painting in his crib in Beantown! It was so dope painting this “LIVE” with the band jamming on stage with palm trees swinging, oh Cali!

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The concert in Del Mar, California with “G” Love and Special Sauce went awesome!!! I was able to finish the painting in under 90 minutes and it turned out pretty dope. All of the pics are posted on the website in the “Snapshots” section so check them out! “G” loved the piece and it will join the others that hang in his studio and in his house in Boston/Philly! Here’s a pic of the final piece!!

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The Doctor filled the prescription! I painted this piece during a very delicate period of my life and new that one day it would hit somebody the way that it has always hit me. It’s been my medicine through many many trials and now it will keep another healthy and safe. Jenny Jacobson of San Diego hooked up with the piece. Enjoy your painting Jenny!

After almost ten years of traveling through life with me and my career as a painter, “Enter” which has been my baby through the years has now found a home. Pumped that a new, great friend of mine, Bryant Katzen of San Diego, Ca. purchased the piece for his East Village pad. It’s hard letting go of a piece of work that means so much and has carried you through many testing moments, but it’s a super cool feeling when you completely know that it is with the right person.

A new piece titled “3″ was so many intense emotions from a past situation turned into a positive changing motion that we all need to go through.. Read about what you must do to feel these emotions under the piece in the “2009″ paintings section. This piece now hangs with “Instant Instinct” and “My Condition” in the collection of Amy Lemley who lives in Charlottesville, Va.

I wanted to take a minute and say thanks so much to C-Ville weekly for an awesome “Best of C-Ville” party and to the City of Charlottesville, Va. for all of your votes that enabled me to pick up “Best Artist”. I am very honored to be selected and appreciate all of your support. Without the energy from everyone in the community I would have never been able to create and see the way I do. I will continue to do all I can to build the arts in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Monty Montgomery

“The founder of Cilli Original Designs and CODG gallery, Montgomery is sharp and focused, yet full of energy and ideas, much like the brightly colored, pop-influenced paintings he produces. He also offers his own clothing line. Runners up were oil-painter Robin Braun and watercolorist Lee Alter. ”
-C-Ville Weekly Magazine

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