Unification Theory F

Yo', my name is Overton Loyd and I'm a visual artist who lives and works on Gallery Row in Downtown Los Angles.   My art has been featured in various magazines, television programs and album covers.  I've done a gang o' doodles for George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic and have been associated with the band for decades.
I'm also part of the Los Angeles uber-funky underground Hip Hop community.

What's dope about these art forms is the way that they've pulled people together through the years.  In the early 70's it was still damn near illegal for faces of different races to chill in some places.  Funk and then Hip Hop began to shift all that. 
It brought mugz together on a whole new common ground.  It inspired us to play amongst ourselves while the rest of the world was beefing.

Today, me and a crew of cutting (and edgy) artists developed a little performance band called Unification Theory.  Unification Theory was conceived by artist/writer Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca, MTV graffiti artist Man One, Terrence Mclain (aka DJ Joy Fanatic), and myself.

The concept of Unification Theory is street futurism: visualizing the possibilities of the future through the prisms of Graffiti, Hip Hop, Spoken Word, Digital/Video Artwork, Techno, Funk and Jazz. The unification of these diverse creative minds builds new visual and sonic structures.




The footage that you're wittnessing is from a recent performance at Crewest Gallery in downtown Los Angeles.
 
Madd props to George Clinton, Man One, Gustavo and Landmark Education for inspiring me to flip paradigms like pancakes!
 
If you want to know more, you can reach each of us at our respective websites:

www.overtonloyd.com
www.manone.com
www.chamanvision.com
www.myspace.com/joyfanatic

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