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    Local artist Coreroc profiled in UWeekly

    UWeekly wrote Coreroc dominates

    By Reyan Ali

    October 15, 2008

    Nestled near the back entrance of the creative hive called Junctionview Studios is the three-room spread that Ashley Voss (a.k.a Coreroc) spends much of his life working in. The main room in his enclave has a gigantic sprawl of sizzling graffiti covering one wall, a handful of painted cigar boxes pinned to another, a giant finished canvas consuming a third, and stenciled portraits of Jimi Hendrix and Andy Warhol playing sentry from the doorway of the fourth. In sum, the space is a frenzy of different colors, with patterns of birds, numbers, hand grenades, and landscapes all flourishing in varying forms all around. This is the constantly working world that Voss uses to create his material, and even as he holds a conversation in full, he’s putting fresh fluid down on another canvas and designing something else. Aside from creating painted work on everything from skateboards to records to vinyl figures, he works on the organizational side of the Cowtown Lowbrow art collective, and still finds time to DJ, BMX, and hold down a steady job. In the home of Coreroc, there can be no rest for the ambitious.

    Voss grew up close to the Ohio State campus, and recognizes his first memory of personal artistic achievement being his victory of a Florida-based stamp-designing contest during elementary school, leading to his taking first place. The image was of an eagle on a branch (“something simple, American, traditional”), and the win earned him a newspaper clipping and a paper prize.

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    Walker Evans is the co-founder of Columbus Underground, along with his wife and business partner Anne Evans. Walker has turned local media into a full time career over the past decade and serves on multiple boards and committees throughout the community.
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