CIRCLE⭕️COMPLEX: The Forgotten Dreams - An Art & Music Collaboration by Nate Schmold & Josh Klassen

Name: CIRCLE⭕️COMPLEX: The Forgotten Dreams - An Art & Music Collaboration by Nate Schmold & Josh Klassen
Start: 2025-08-30T18:00:00-07:00
Location: Artful : The Gallery

Schedule

Sat, 30 Aug, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Artful : The Gallery | Courtenay, BC

Josh Klassen & Nate Schmold are lifelong creators whose work spans walls, waves, pixels, and emotional wavelengths. Josh brings a grassroots spirit—cutting his teeth on boxcars and murals, community projects and café shows—balancing fine art and poetry with hip-hop and hands-on hustle. Nate channels his energy through illustration, painting, music, video games, and live theatre, often orbiting themes of absurdity, inner states, and the weirdness of being alive.
Joined by a mutual love and respect for the same artforms, Josh and Nate have begun to create work in unison. Through their music project CIRCLE⭕️COMPLEX, they bend soundwaves through live improvisation into rhythmic, hyperdimensional transmissions; and their collaborative mural paintings combine organically mutating shapes with a crisp cartoon-pop street art style.
Together, their individual practices reflect a shared belief in art as a tool for abstract expression, community connection, and personal transformation—whether it’s spray paint on a door or a glitchy naked spaceman in a digital dream.
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For their show "The Forgotten Dreams", Nate & Josh bare their souls in an evening of live art-making and sound. The walls are lined with fragments from each artist’s past—paintings, drawings, and moments that spiral toward a shared portal-like center: a large blank canvas, waiting to be activated.
As the night begins, they take turns—one painting live, the other performing a solo music set—trading roles and building something layered, strange, and alive. By the end, the canvas becomes a shared artifact: a new piece grown from both of their histories.
To close the night, they join forces as CIRCLE⭕️COMPLEX, performing a final live music set to pull it all together. It’s a night of color, rhythm, improvisation, and deep creative trust. Hypnotic, a little chaotic, and very human.