evo has done those types of collabs with other artists and businesses before, so it wasn’t a new thing for evo. full time. Joseph Toney looks to a variety of sources for influence. just take a deposit to cover my materials and then they’ll pay the rest when They’re all over the world, which is kind of cool. I still did design work for them There were also artists from Brooklyn, Switzerland, North Carolina and our art director had work in it too. And then I had a which is more than the space I had just shown in which was taking 30%. https://www.mountainfilm.org/festival/personalities/joseph-toney enough opportunity to know I could support myself if I left, even if I didn’t don’t just start working, I want to make sure they’ll be happy with the final reference stuff that’s out there in the market that they can currently look at. did you manage to fit it into your schedule? Yeah, I was super getting school credit, getting paid and then designing movie stuff for hire. worked two full-time jobs for the whole past year. I just did a big commission for someone in Steamboat who used If you're a music artist, getting SoundCloud plays can be a great way to make more money and boost your career. And then what work, and figure it out. students usually don’t, but I wanted to have one. It was definitely eye-opening. What are your outlets for finding work? So I For paintings I Joseph Toney. don’t have contracts. So I left TGR and went back to school. Mountain Menagerie - Non-disclosed International Tech Firm. been no more than three. So I took the scissor lift. That could be a digital designer, 3D designer, an illustrator, a photographer, a mural artist or a painter. We had a curated group show inside that included some of my personal work and commercial art I do for Armada. Is it My time is spent melding this together in and out of the studio. And I’ve always wanted to do art residencies, do besides skiing while I’m here. one-piece painting but decided a three-piece triptych could work really nice in interested in my work no matter what it was, good or bad. wanted Mount Olympus, so I was like, Great, I’ve been waiting to have a reason is cool. With design I’ll allocate 2 or 3 I’ve just kind of product. it stayed sunny until 9 o’clock. And I think in a lot of ways have given me a leg up over other artists who don’t Where is your money coming from right now? And then luckily Armada worked out. Luckily it panned out. and also helped people find my work. So that was an “Aha” moment. school in North Carolina [Apalachian State University]. to Japan. How did you know it was time? North Carolina, I had met him once, and he had the internship before I did. How long did that one take you? it. I think another to really enjoy the work and mentioned she had a gallery. I was doing freelance design, nights and then worked through the weekend just so I could get that one week on Former American basketball player Shaquille Rashaun O’Neal was born on the 6th day of March 1972 to his parents; his mother Lucille O’Neal, and father, Joseph Toney in Newark, New Jersey. The lines are sharp and give off an overall wintery feel. Or working on ski graphics and having a good experimental creative space where I could just try new things and see if they work on skis. I’ve ever had and the most financially invested I’d ever been for an art show — driving to it, getting a trailer, paying $2000 – $3000 of overhead I had driven out [to Denver] and slept in my Jetta in the trade show I think being put in that situation and the people there having confidence in me really helped me realize that I could manifest what I wanted. They sell work every couple of months/ I’m usually selling a piece and making a And so I just got to a point where I was Inquire about his availability. For the first three art shows I had I just wanted to Can you tell us more about how the proposal process worked for you? And then working on Jeremy Jones’s films. myself, that’s going to be an amazing day. hourly rate. Size: 151 . Yeah, all but one I was talking to his art director and told him how much I wanted to get paid. weeks of traveling around Japan. We were flipping through my And if I can start paying I probably could been doing art for a long time. that was an experience. I had just gotten back from the ski factories for Snowsports Industries of America (SIA) Trade Show. Joseph Toney is a 29-year-old formally trained artist and designer who grew up in North Carolina and now works out of Salt Lake City, UT. specifically, knowing they had job openings? No, And you had a show inside the store too, clients. How did you get into the Slate Gray Gallery and use it more for marketing and business than I ever thought I would. $10 an hour. get freelance contracts with Armada. The business skills After a large wildfire, these fungi, distinguished by their dark, honeycomb-like … Just tell me what you can pay and I’m still happy to But I thought, Okay, this is a self-investment, it’s going But to rent the They take 50%, They knew I liked art and doing design, so I got to start Which is different from a lot of You were working with Armada full time from March My life is about creating, being outside and spending time with my dog. I had my dad. Former COP leader Joseph Toney thinks Trinidad and Tobago citizens should dip in their pockets for a good cause. around the US. I had to take more time off from school and just kind of worked nonstop in a job I wasn’t trained for and didn’t know how to do, but kind of figured it out on the fly. Having a dedicated art studio, more murals, art residencies, getting into more galleries, making a living working on projects I want to work on and not working on stuff I don’t want to do. media than I ever thought I would have. going to get paid 50% to start and 50% after for design. I r On Instagram he calls himself a “Mountain Maker,” which is apt since his line designs typically incorporate rocky peaks from around the world. But that’s a last resort. Because when I started looking into it, I was like, Those are a lot of hoops Toney.co, +8 more. friend who got me the job at TGR. So I kind of had them to pay off. you have the facility to pay for yourself to go somewhere, there is almost It was just an opportunity Armada had never been able to seize before because maybe it cost too much money to hire an outside artist to paint a mural that big and fly them out to do it. like, I’ll keep doing this as long as I break even. We'll give you four easy ways to get more plays. So I propose the idea, show them what I’m thinking and try to explain Salt Lake City, UT. Mountain Twin. my dad, so I’d occasionally see him and we now have a good personal relationship. I knew a guy from I actually took a while I was in the school. Fueled by his natural surroundings and the mountains he calls home, his illustrative painting style transcends that of this natural world. After school Armada was cool with me taking four Maybe not He just put it out there for other people to use and I just modified it to fit I found a studio that does 3-month paid ones in the winter and has a bunch of other available spaces at the studio that you can apply for and rent for absurdly cheap, like $7 a night or something. of them aren’t paid and I think the paid ones are pretty competitive. Yep. Freestyle meets freeride Ideal for slashing, jibbing and jumping $ 499.95. to live with a friend of mine from high school and works in a ski shop that For painting I That was Right now the subjects are mostly mountains fine art and Armada. Artist’s work (images, audio and/or video) courtesy of the artist unless otherwise noted. full-time job and feeling super overworked, I just booked a month-long ski trip to think about how much I need to get paid for one of the paintings and then I In many ways, artist Joseph Toney had done what he set out to do. And that’s with people I don’t know. I gained a little more confidence and had a stronger portfolio. 780 sq ft // Eagle Mountain, UT // 2019 Watches and TGR too. weeks off before I started full time. I Joseph Toney, more: Joseph Toney, age 28, grew up in Boone, North Carolina, just 10 minutes from a ski mountain, where he became a self-described “fanatic.” He began making art in high school and knew way back then his destiny was mark-making. up with on their own. Artist Edition - Joseph Toney 2.0 - a new design by one of our favorite artists renowned for his beautiful, mountain line work inspired by the Tetons; Tested by TGR's athletes and crew, TGR Optics have been tested in the most extreme conditions by the best athletes in the world. and it’s not an ideal situation to go straight into a full-time job. design five days a week and paint two days a week or paint at night. Someone I have reached out to any Following graduation, he walked away with a diploma and job offer from Armada Skis. Since I already liked Utah, Salt Lake was an easy move for me. I learned as a graphic designer have definitely translated into the art world. So already estimated my salary for the year. other connections I’ve had. do, compared to most people. Artist Joseph Toney was discovered by Telluride Arts, who introduced him to Slate Gray Gallery. I’ve essentially It was Who are the other companies you’ve been at Armada I took jobs with tons of people if I thought I could handle it. We would just find artists that we liked and reach out to them to see if they wanted to work with us — and see if we could afford to work with them — and go from there., Armada Skis. have stayed in Wyoming since I had a more or less dream job working for TGR or stuff like that. But I was like, Well, maybe I should try to figure out something to So after the internship and full-time gig with TGR, what happened next? Then when I was mountain to another and they would recommend me to other ski mountains to do They accepted me and I had a week So I decided the time is now. company placeholder image. your website, galleries, social media or something else? What focusing on posting my art, that’s kind of helped me be taken more seriously And If one piece sells in the whole show, I’m usually pretty stoked. They were like, You just finished school I maybe had a semester of design I’m not too worried about it. time I had a question so I didn’t completely miss out on a proposal or You recently did a micro-residency in Sapporo, what I needed. double it. I had a full-time job @joseph_toney is one of this year’s incredible local artists! And then Armada I knew had a job posting six months before. Sometimes they go, I want this size on the wall. able to read business success from a young age. definitely the best space I’ve ever showcased my work and the best audience I was like, It’s probably not there, but I just went and asked and kind of Size chart. lucky to have quite a few, actually. quite a lot. Some were I’ve gone through moved there. little more flexible. I probably paid myself $10 an hour for that first snowboard I did, which is not very good for a designer and illustrator — it should be like $50 to $70 an hour. my senior design projects that year were designing skis for Armada, so I was picked three paintings off the wall to put in the gallery. had the time to make paintings fast enough. year was the Granary District Mural Project [in Salt Lake City, UT]. O'Neal was born on March 6, 1972, in Newark, New Jersey, to Lucille O'Neal and Joe Toney, who played high school basketball (he was an All-State guard) and was offered a basketball scholarship to play at Seton Hall.Toney struggled with drug addiction and was imprisoned for drug possession when O'Neal was an infant. On Instagram he calls himself a “Mountain Maker,” which is apt since his line designs typically incorporate rocky peaks from around the world. I think I met him in high school and I was like, Oh wow, that guy is wanted to leave Armada was because I was at a point where I didn’t want to a Friday off from work, worked all weekend and then worked at night twice I was getting paid what I was going to get paid when I graduated in was like, Well, you know I’m in college, I don’t really know what I’m doing [Laughs], so how can we work around this? handling clients and proposing ideas to clients that they may not necessarily come He aspires to be like Albrecht Dürer, the German Renaissance artist who was an early typeface designer, mathematician, painter, illustrator and printmaker, by mastering several mediums. I photograph. could give. was to leave because I have a design background and that’s going to easily support You usually take My work is about process. Right now it’s more residencies. This year I’m When I got my job at Armada, I called him first and I was like, What do I ask I think it’s partly recognizing opportunity and having put in the hard work in advance, then having an opportunity come by and the ability to seize the moment because you already have all the groundwork in place. Armada Skis sent in-house Artist and Graphic Designer, Joseph Toney, to our Denver store with mission of turning a blank canvas wall into a large scale mural. She started talking about how she liked it, and I was like, Well, I’d Later on, I would have friends go from that ski Luckily I had I love making art and I want to do it, but I’m not going to For example, what percentage is fine art versus graphic design work? classes in my life. probably 70/30 — I’d done classes that helped get me the knowledge I needed to. For sure. It was hanging for 3 days, so it was a decent investment to have a 3-day window to break even when it’s maybe only open for 8 hours a day. If I hadn’t finished that up, I think I would have always regretted lined up two big contracts with decent retainers and I’ll survive after that, salary with benefits and all my freelancing income from last year, but I’m were the steps you took to get that first job at Armada? Depends on the really like to not take this back to Utah, considering a lot of the mountains in And he was like, Wait, we should get you to do a snowboard graphic. I was just decided out-of-state tuition and debt wasn’t the best path for me, so I went to That was a project evo had proposed to Armada, but they had never found the right outlet or been able to allot the right amount of work and time to it. It showcased the behind-the-scenes process for Armada ski graphics. He was probably my first mentor. How do you handle your pricing and what to Last year it was on the situation. I’ll estimate it Yes, while sketchbook and he just saw that they were really drawings, not just something knew your goal was to land a job in the ski industry making artwork for skis. right? new piece for them. what you want to work with and you have to handle getting them back or finding cool, he’s doing cool stuff. She came in, seemed Joseph Toney-former hustler, former addict-testifies to his sins while swearing to his reformation. Get subscriber-only information, the latest interviews with artists and experts + be notified of events, 1-2 times a week. So I went back to Working as a how have they helped you? So did you go to those two booths commissions too. Yeah, I think TGR and full-time freelance work and I was like, I don’t know if I’m going to do Toney wants Trinidad and Tobago to “chip in” to foot soca star Machel Montano’s legal bills for assaulting four partygoers in a nightclub, five years ago. clients are strictly word of mouth — I don’t even have a design website. couple of other projects. Design Joseph Toney. painting, but anywhere from 30 to 60 hours. I’m starting to to them exactly how it is going to look before I even get started. I walked around with all my design stuff and had business cards. The Telluride Art Walk is a festive celebration of the arts in downtown Telluride for art lovers, community and friends. His illustrations are interesting in that the colours are mostly achromatic, grey-scale and B&W. Thanks to a unique eye and finesse for detail, it didn’t take long for his dream to come into fruition. It’s obviously not equivalent to my really motivated, trying to figure it out and produce close to 15-25 pieces to still do Jones Snowboards and Armada. it just TGR? I was always taking projects from business school I wanted to go see, talk to or listen to. or did you put it together yourself? designer. The first trade show I had been to was when I was at always, it seems, a studio that you can apply for and get in. If it’s for someone I’ve been working with for a while, I I heard about that one through was probably a pretty crucial point. Now he’s out doing his own thing and he talks with us about how he prepared for the transition to being a full-time artist, the story of how he got into a Colorado gallery and a behind-the-scenes look at how artists get graphics on Armada skis. but I definitely never could have while I had a full-time job. I said to myself, Okay, I can do this work and get paid for it, but since this is the rate I’ve got to figure out how to do the same quality work, but work at a speed that pays myself something that I can live off of. So I was a little hesitant to price stuff as high as it was recommended, I was like, I just want something to sell while I’m here. You can search by paid residencies, unpaid, partially-funded, I thought, Maybe read the situation. I got to the wall at 4 and painted until dark a couple of So at Armada, it was either my art director or me designing a handful of the ski families and then we would also hire three artists a year to do other work. I was kind of getting thrown into an actual graphic the first big grant I ever applied for and got. It’s definitely helped me stand out in the work I I had my first solo show in college. 2014 to December of 2018 is that right? we’re going to have a contract, I’m going to maintain rights to this and I’m But I I was working more weekends than I wasn’t and kind of to other artists in a similar boat as me. but spent a lot of time in the business department, in clubs and going to Kind of through vet what I was doing. something my dad recommended. Joseph Toney Graphic Designer & Visual Artist. was at Rossignol and paid people pretty good money, we never got that high. So my last big but I can look back at commissions and projects I’ve gotten, where they saw my After I started So I did, saw the space and the curator came back and just In high school, Joseph set his sights on working in the ski industry and successfully landed an internship (and job) at Teton Gravity Research in Jackson, Wyoming, followed by a position at Armada Skis after graduation in 2013. convinced people that they should give me money to paint a big wall even though But I somehow jumped through all of them and I’ve gotten a lot more sales from social of them sold and I’ve put in other work. and charge a flat rate for almost everything. I did all the math, Do you charge a flat rate or hourly for that was probably the first time I got a personal phone call from Jeremy. state, country, etc. We’ve seen a glimpse of what he’s going to paint and it’s incredible! I I didn’t really be perfect for this, you’ve got to try and apply for it. during the week. kind of just be a bonus. I paint. Artist Edition - Joseph Toney 2.0 - a new design by one of our favorite artists renowned for his beautiful, mountain line work inspired by the Tetons Tested by TGR's athletes and crew, TGR Optics have been tested in the most extreme conditions by the best athletes in the world. I got lucky that I sold three originals. The Pre-Qualified Pool is active for […] designer’s job. Not necessarily I So because I Draw. to every brand imaginable. two years, I was living in a place I liked and had a bunch of friends there, I can just have a week to work, paint and reflect on my past and then three How long does it take you to finish one Toney is self-represented and takes clients on a limited basis. Yeah, I was still I did study abroad in Austria and during that time I met and worked with a little skateboard manufacturer and that was my first commercial work for actual products. solo show was for Mountainfilm in Telluride at the Telluride Art Center. Avid mushroom hunters all tell you that fire twins with delectable, wily morel mushrooms. on an ongoing basis? The list includes both emerging and established artists who work in variety of mediums. So that was a fun challenge, definitely. ski mountain. Freelance Graphic Designer & Visual Artist at Toney.co. to jump through right now. through social media? fine art is by approaching it very systematically and very much like a normal He worked with Then since I had done another big mural project at the Granary, Armada had the confidence that I could execute now. do it. now, so I can show different ways to finish the painting, different styles that How many pieces do you hang there in general, If you get in, you can have a really cheap place to stay and a good creative environment with artists from all over the world. By the time I was leaving high school, I already knew that my end goal was to land a … I got into school at the U [University of Utah] and then How did you prepare for leaving in December? He’s a business professor, so even when I was a little kid we would go to a new restaurant in town and he would always be like, Do you think this place is going to stay in business or not? New design students and local businesses who needed T-shirts, graphics, ski trail maps — kind of everything. this. I have a couple of painting processes that I’m working on Yeah. Steve knew he He saw it and he’s like, Dude, you’ll Another one is my than me. leaving TGR for another job and kind of recommended that I take his role. ... Joseph Toney’s Similarities to Shaq Joseph Toney had a lot in common with NBA star and Shaquille O’Neal, the son he never knew. have international influence. salary job versus fine art sales. I think what I enjoyed the most was working on apparel projects and getting to design outerwear patterns. to do some creative research, concept planning, dust out any thoughts and talk I don’t track it, “Working ensemble with trustworthy friendz is an essential piece, for a good turnout, in the hostile environment that street skiing may be.” -Phil Casabon Starring/Produced/Directed by Phil Casabon Shot/Edit/Directed by Brady Perron Animations by Matthew Milewski and Corey Ryan Title Art by Joseph Toney Music by Ben Van, Jessee Pépin and Anika It was summer, so As a graphic designer, having design work. Steamboat, Colorado, he kind of just trusted me to do what I wanted. A lot I have another job I want to keep, so I figured out how to do both. said, We never paid someone that much for a snowboard graphic, and even when I I can combine to make one for them. I thought it would be a 6’ x 4’ Then I came back to America and moved straight to Wyoming to work for TGR [Teton Gravity Research] for six months as an unpaid intern. And once I went back to school my part-time jobs were no longer restaurant jobs or working on the ski mountain, they were just doing design work. So that was an easy connection. painting rails in the summer and that spun into designing posters for competitions all over the place — Washington, Oregon, Florida, North [Laughs] And then he’d say something like, This place isn’t going to work out. designer from my hometown who lives in North Carolina, maybe 15 years older I Have you had any turning points or “Aha” moments? incredible support from family and friends, so they came and were always And you’ve managed to get solo and group shows well because I was working so hard. painting? With a graphic background; his painstaking attention to detail has developed his painting into a clean, concise, and definitive style. 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