The GOODS from The Waldorf Hotel

Vancouver, BC | Step right up and win a prize! One of the main attractions at the Waldorf four-day Halloween bash will be the Artists Midway. For this installation, we’ve enlisted some of the city’s most inspiring artists to create games of skill and luck that you can play to win fabulous prizes. Participating in the event are Andy Dixon, El Ballistico, Justin Gradin, Kevin House, Kaput, Office Supplies Incorporated, Kaput, Andrew Pommier and Peter Ricq. The Midway runs from 8pm -1am every night of Halloween at the Waldorf. Purchase tickets here and learn about the artists after the jump…

About the Artists

Andy Dixon
Andy’s Neo-Expressionist paintings and drawings are a staple of the Vancouver art scene. A former member of d.b.s., Andy continues to be heavily involved in Vancouver’s underground music scene, performing under the moniker Secret Mommy and running Ache Records.
www.andydixon.net

El Ballistico
This legendary magician from Catalonia, Spain was coaxed out of retirement to produce a game that stimulates the senses and confounds the mind. Unseen. Unheard. He is the man who knows.

Justin Gradin
The former proprietor of the infamous Emergency Room venue and the frontman for Random Cuts, a band that features him and three female mannequins. An equally talented and interesting visual artist, Justin has shown his surreal and outrageous paintings and sculptures at galleries across North America.

Kevin House
Kevin is a self-taught artist and musician. Inspired by ephemera, signage, Coney Island and hoax histories, his Outsider art has been shown in galleries across North America and featured everywhere from Raw Vision to the Discovery Channel to the CBC.
www.flickr.com/photos/kevinrhouse

Kaput
One of the city’s top graffiti artists. His wildly fun and comic style recently caught the eye of Juxtapoz Magazine, who ran an 12-page feature article on the Vancouver artist in their September 2011 issue.
www.wackytupaky.com

Office Supplies Incorporated
Known for dressing up city walls with large scale wheat pastes—with or without permission. In early 2011, The Vancouver Art Gallery commissioned him to decorate the gallery’s walls (3 outside, 1 inside) for their WE: Vancouver exhibition.

Andrew Pommier
His instantly recognizable style has been adorning skate decks and fine art gallery walls around the world for over a decade. His work was recently featured on the cover the spring 2011 issue of Color Magazine as well as at the “Some Paintings” group exhibition at Equinox Gallery in Vancouver.
www.andrewpommier.com

Peter Ricq
During the day, Peter creates animated children’s television shows. During the night, he’s half of the critically lauded electro-rock group Humans. Somehow he finds the time to be an equally talented visual artist. Heavily influence by animation and comic books, you can see Peter’s work at Ayden Gallery in Vancouver.
www.parnellcollective.com
www.myspace.com/dashumans

About Halloween at the Waldorf

One year ago, the Waldorf re-opened its doors by throwing the mother of all Halloween parties. To those in attendance one thing was clear: Halloween is something we take very seriously. This year we feel we’ve outdone ourselves and are throwing a four-day festival that will be the greatest Halloween spectacle Vancouver will ever witness! Running from Friday October 28 to Monday October 31, the festival will feature a 16 story drop of death and midway games designed by some of the city’s best artists in our parking lot, haunted hotel rooms, an erotic holographic theatre, a Dinner for the Dead, daytime events for families and four nights of top entertainment.
Full lineup here