Undergound 2011 by Art & Magic in Dallas TX! A Gathering of Amazing Artists From All of TEXAS!

We had the chance to drop by Art Love Magic‘s annual Underground Art Show, which happens to be one of the most exciting Dallas TX artist gathering of the year. Folks were dressed up as fantasy characters, ladies and guys had their body covered with paint, artists performed live art drawings, and the crowd kept flooding in from the show’s start at 8pm till it cleared out at around 1am.

Art Love Magic‘s initiative to bring together the many talented artists in Dallas TX area was inspiring. It was great seeing all the amazing talent in the building and being able to network and connect with the many artists was a fortunate privilege.

Our homie, TyCity, came through kicking it at Underground!

Look it’s BBOY Vibe (Dave) getting all body painted.

That’s our friend, Cody Phillips AKA MacIX, representing Loyal K.N.G.! That’s major support right there! Shout outs to Cody for holding us down at Underground for the evening.

Here’s Cody and Monster Bot‘s Scott Higgins representing their various amazing collaborative art projects for the evening.

Check out this wicked-sick customized Tofu-Head created by both Scott and Cody. The amount of details on this creature is incredible. In every corner of this monster, Scott and Cody add their personal artistic touch to bring a fun, neck-breaking creature to life. It’s easy to see the master craftsmanship both Cody and Scott are bringing to the table when collaborating together.

Some cool MonsterBots x MacIX collaboration toys. You guys can check more of them out here. They’re limited edition collectibles so be sure to check out all the other cool toys from the MonsterBots x MacIX series.

Some awesome Street Fighter illustration prints by Cody Phillips!

Be sure to catch the rest of the Underground recap after the jump:

A great art piece by Cody. What can I say? Cody is multi-talented in the art-realm.

Tar Ball toy by MonsterBotsScott! Really sweet toy, and just check out that crazy paint work.

Some customized dunnies by MacIX. These figures were acrylic painted with sculpey additions to form this sweet set of Lion & Tamer custom Dunnies!

Photographer, Daniel, and filmographer, Pablo,  both enjoying the evening at Underground! Be sure to click the links in their name and check out their respective works! These guys are really bringing cool work to photography and film.

NReazon with her friend presenting the awesome Custom Munny bunny!

Special customized Munny by N’Reason! It looks even better in person. All the details that comes from the lighted wires really bring this munnie into a different level.

Mauricio and cool ole’ body painted beast man!

Khalid Robertson sketching and coloring some live illustrations! Be sure to catch more of his amazing work at his website.

His current work-in-progress piece! Looks like a MAD FLYING MONKEY!

Artwork were hanging and laying everywhere through the Underground art show.

Joker?!

Painting of Issue No.1 of Superman.

Artists just kicking and maxing.

Jorge Martinez (website) is an amazing painter, and even does live-body-painting performances! You’ll see some example further into this post!

Got that Roy Lichtenstein feel to it.

THE THING!

Lovely paintings hanging on the walls.

Some shots of the people weaving through the truffle of people.

Cool sculpture!

These are just too cool for school y’all.

Really lovely work here.

The Underground show even expanded outside of the building into the halls.

The big wall of doodles.

Remember Jorge Martinez? Well guess who painted Missy on the right? That’s right!

Mauricio and the HULK!

Hey Hulk, your chest is puking…

Now for a barrage of paintings I grabbed photos of: