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Andy Jenkins is a multidisciplinary artist, artistic director and creative conduit. He orchestrates and collaborates with outstanding multi-media artists to generate innovative results to helping develop and elevate brands,
He is currently working as art director and artist wrangler at Mesa Distribution’s, Uma Landsleds. As a freelancer, Jenkins has collaborated with a wide range of clients, in multiple industries, as an illustrator, graphic artist and writer. He has also been a featured artist for influential brands as diverse as Nike, Oakley, Sonos, Beats, Levis, Mountain Dew and Product (RED).
At 17 Jenkins moved to Denver, Colorado where he attended art school. By 20 he departed the Rockies to start a job as the managing editor of a new BMX magazine, Freestylin' in Los Angeles, California.
He spent the following decade working in and around magazines, as an editor, writer, illustrator and art director, with his friends and partners, Mark Lewman and Spike Jonze. The three co-created lifestyle magazines, Homeboy and Dirt. The list of other publications Jenkins worked with includes, BMX Action, Transworld Skateboarding & Snowboarding, Poweredge, Snowboarder, Warp, Raygun, Level, Big Brother, Monster Children and Grand Royal.
Andy Jenkins, Spike Jonze and Mark Lewman; The Master Cluster, 1994.
In 1994 he went to work for the Girl Skateboard Company as art director, and later, the creative director, where he helped guide the multi-brand company (including Girl, Chocolate, Fourstar Clothing, Royal Trucks and Lakai Footwear) into becoming one of the most beloved and influential institutions in skateboarding. It is at Girl that he founded the infamous Art Dump collective, featuring the artists that contributed to all the Girl brands over the years — a highly regarded list which includes Geoff McFetridge, Evan Hecox, Kevin Lyons, Tony Larson, Misato Suzuki and many more. His work with the Art Dump and on a personal level, has been shown in dozens of exhibitions in the United States and across the globe (Japan, England, Australia, France, Spain, Mexico, Holland) and featured in dozens of books, magazines and videos.