Anthony Christopher Brown Jr., known as Tony Concep’ is A multidimensional artist and designer born in New Orleans, L.A. raised in Charleston S.C. Tony earned his BFA in film animation from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. He is a trained Illustrator, Creative Director, and a Visual artist producing works that center around iconic portraits with a mixed media streetart aesthetic.
Currently residing in the Greater San Diego area, Tony has developed a language unlike any other. He merges social political ideas with textures, patterns, and typography, blending imagery from his childhood and life experiences. Tony began a signature style of art expressed as “trapart” in 2011 focused on engaging kids from the inner city to empower them to think positively about their environment and how art can inspire them to pursue their dreams through varied mural projects and art collectives.
Tony was able to present his work to the First Lady Michelle Obama on her guided tour of works featured at the New Museum, NY, and he has also been featured in a publications like Vice, Fader magazine, among others and worked with the MTV networks, Nike, Adidas, Fast Company, Beats By Dre, Marithe Francois Girbaud, and a list of apparel brands from streetart to branding. Tony is currently creating large format mixed media paintings for a new solo show effort along with producing NFT's and Ai. generated works in the Web3 space.
