Visual Artist Working Across Painting, Drawing & Sculpture: Devon DeJardin – Guardians, Abundance, & Privacy as the Last Luxury

The Gstaad Guy sits down with Devon DeJardin, the visual artist working across painting, drawing and sculpture, whose Guardian figures have travelled from a friend’s apartment floor in North Hollywood to private collections and the cover of a number one album. Devon had never picked up a brush. He had a world religion degree, five hundred dollars to his name, a mattress he folded into a laundry closet each morning and a stack of unsold jackets when a stranger in Indiana paid him a hundred dollars for a ten minute phone call to tell him he was meant to paint. Six months later some of the most prominent collectors in Los Angeles were emailing his studio. The conversation is about what he has built on top of that. Devon makes the case for abundance over gatekeeping, for giving without expectation, and for treating money the way you would treat a current, as something that only works while it is moving. He is sceptical of grinding and precise about why, he keeps studio hours like a day job because discipline is what leaves you ready, and he argues that in a world of total access the doors you choose to keep shut are the last real luxury. Running underneath all of it is the posture he brings to every room he is invited into, which is to assume he is the least knowledgeable person in it and to ask accordingly. Filmed at The Maybourne Beverly Hills Garden Suite. (00:00) Intro 🎙️✨ (00:48) A Brand With His Brother 👕🤝 (02:12) Painted Jackets And Bad Interviews 🧥😅 (06:18) God Told Me To Tell You To Paint 🙏🎨 (07:43) First Canvas From Michael’s 🎨✨ (09:05) The Guardian’s Face 👤🔍 (10:16) A Cheque For Sixteen Grand 💰✍️ (12:50) A Lie About Paris ✈️😏 (15:19) Don’t Wait For The Call ⭐🚀 (17:30) Inside The Art Factory 🏭🎨 (20:53) Kanye, Condo And Hypebeasts 🎧👟 (22:15) The Gunna Album Cover 💎🖼️ (23:44) Midnight Dinner In Dubai 🌙🍽️ (25:12) Calling The Hit 🔥🎵 (27:37) Gunna As His Own Guardian 🛡️✨ (29:41) The Driver Who Had No Idea 🚗😮 (32:50) Privacy Is The Last Luxury 🔒💎 (36:32) The Absurdity Of The Rooms 😂🏛️ (39:41) The Dream He Had 💭✨ (42:35) The Sound Of Grinding ⚙️🔥 (47:12) Abundance And Gatekeepers 🚪🌿 (50:08) Currency Is A Current 🌊💰 (51:46) Ten Years Of LA 🌴⏳ (54:25) Forgiveness At A Distance 🕊️❤️ (56:28) The Studio As A Day Job ⏰🎨 (58:09) Prepare For The Best ✨💡 (59:19) À La Poubelle vs. Fantastique 🗑️✨ (1:06:30) It Makes Sense Looking Back 🔭💡 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices