TEKTY at artondeck.com Tekty - Brady Tekty is an artist from southeastern Ontario with a passion for skateboarding, snowboarding and art. His designs are truly fun and carefree, presented with a playful innocence and a dose of curiosity and mischief mixed in. Tekty's unique collage art depicts thematically complementary images with smooth transitions and blended edges, which offers a refreshing departure from the more jarring juxtaposition of images found in traditional collages. His art does not shy away from themes of violence, cynicism, sex and street life, but without bringing you dow ..read more

Ben Wannamaker – Contrapposto Magnetics - Ben is an artist and skateboarder in Toronto, Canada, and I found his extraordinary work online a few years ago on Instagram. I discovered his skate brand; Contrapposto Magnetics, was catering to local skaters who needed specific shapes and designs to ride. I was really impressed by this community approach Ben was taking with his company, and how his focus was on helping local skaters and contributing to the local skate scene in this positive way.   Ben’s art and skateboard graphics are immediately visually striking and bold. He doesn’t sh ..read more

"Dwelling" by Gloria Kagawa x Art on Deck Collaboration Gloria Kagawa- Artist Profile* Gloria Kagawa is an established Japanese American/Canadian printmaker, painter and mixed media artist who has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions across North and South America, Europe and Asia. Her professional art practice began in 1982 after earning an Honours B.A. in Fine Arts at the University of Waterloo. Kagawa's works are in public, private and corporate collections across the world. Locally her work is part of Kitchener, Ontario's Kilometre of Culture Public Art Collection and is o ..read more

Sandy Richter - Artist Profile* Sandy Richter is an emerging Canadian digital and traditional mixed media artist and designer whose works has been shown at galleries in North America and are held in private collections worldwide. She is passionately committed to daydreaming which reflects in the dream like quality of her fantasy, surreal and abstract portraits. Artist Statement My artwork represents the dream world, a world of fantasy, surreal and mystical. A world where anything is possible! The good, the bad and the ugly. I observe the world to understand others and to better underst ..read more