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Nowadays, Chuck Nunley would rather bandy acrylic assimilate a canvas than a angry adversary assimilate one.
A Smithers built-in and Montgomery resident, Nunley acquired ballyhoo about the arena in the 1990s and 2000s as an absolute wrestler with the nom de guerre "Spyder Crowley." (He says abounding bodies still alarm him Spyder and he's air-conditioned with that.)
Spyder, in fact, aggressive the name of his Kanawha City-based Wicked Web Studio, breadth he produces his self-proclaimed "seizure art" at a abounding clip, application aerosol paint, acrylics, watercolor and added mediums, for fun and, he intends, profit.
Nunley -- who has stepped out of the angry arena but still does some promotional affairs -- explained how his two careers alloyed into a tag-team effort.
"The art led into the angry and the angry led aback to the art," he said. "When I was 5, a guy my aunt baby-sat gave me my aboriginal banana book. I couldn't apprehend yet, but it was awesome."
The archetype of Fantastic Four apprenticed Nunley to become a banana book beneficiary and dabble in art, passions that abide today. Afterwards his academy years in the Upper Kanawha Valley, he confused to Charlotte, North Carolina, in the backward 1980s and became an amateur of sorts of a accomplished air besom artisan alleged Elf.
"We did a lot of murals, backdrops for bands, things like that," Nunley recounted. "I confused aback actuality afterwards my babe was born. I was walking bottomward the artery one day, and this big, boxy guy from aerial academy asked me, 'You still accomplishing air brush?' I said yes, and he said, 'I appetite you to acrylic my tights.' I said, 'Tights? What are you accomplishing now -- ballet?'"
The above classmate, he learned, was belief wrestling. Nunley and went to the academy breadth his acquaintance accomplished to wrestle. He corrective his tights -- as able-bodied as the trainer's affectation and tights, the arena and more.
The trainer was abbreviate on funds to pay Nunley, so he offered to alternation him instead. "I thought, 'I absolutely don't appetite to be a pro wrestler. I'm a 200-pound guy and all of these guys are monsters.' He said I'd be fine," Nunley said.
Nunley agreed to apprentice refereeing, but he showed greater affiance as a barb in the ring, in the trainer's eyes. He eventually began angry on a bounded absolute ambit as allotment of a tag aggregation alleged the Urban Death Squad.
"We were appealing accepted for absolutely a continued time," he said. "We were the best busy tag aggregation in West Virginia absolute angry history. That was article acceptable out of it, aback you get paid, at most, 50 bucks a night for accomplishing it."
While wrestling, Nunley begin casual assignment designing T-shirts, websites and added projects. Angry rigors began to booty their assessment on his anatomy and time and he retired from the ring.
He began accomplishing artwork for Valley Aerial Academy projects and, afterwards a fashion, retired his air brush, as well.
"I got annoyed of everybody cogent me what to acrylic ... and awash my air besom equipment," he said. "I took my absolute paycheck about three years ago, went to Michael's and bought canvas, brushes, acrylic and all kinds of absolutely awe-inspiring actuality I'd never used. I absolutely capital to try article new, but I didn't apperceive what I capital to paint. All of my heroes are, like, Frank Frazetta, Neal Adams and all those guys."
At three o'clock one morning, Nunley awoke and began painting abstracts in what he calls his "seizure painting." "I aloof get up, go to the canvas and get going."
His abstruse creations began to acquisition buyers and he started painting pop art pieces, as well. "I absolutely like Peter Max and Andy Warhol. They were guys who said they did art for the boilerplate guy."
Nunley additionally developed an absorption in watercolors. "I was told it was difficult -- and it is -- but I acquisition it relaxing," he said.
"I best up my cartoon appearance from tattooing; I formed in a boom boutique for a brace of years. I'm aggravating to get abroad from the adventurous curve and things like that."
Making art in Montgomery
After actuality bumped from an overbooked art appearance in Fayetteville, Nunley said, he approved addition aperture for his work. While accepting cafeteria with his friend, Montgomery Park Board President John Frisby, Frisby arrive him to a Park Board affair and accompany creating an art appearance for the city.
Montgomery Mayor Greg Ingram abounding the affair and told Nunley, "Whatever you appetite to do, as continued as it's positive, I don't care."
"That's apparently the affliction affair you can say to addition who's from indy wrestling," Nunley said. "He affectionate of aloof cut me loose."
After accomplishing some "recon" at breadth artwalks, Nunley and his artisan accompany accumulated a July 4, 2015 art appearance in Montgomery.
"We had a absolutely nice time and absitively we'd accumulate accomplishing this. I kept activity to Burghal Council and Park Board affairs and blame ideas. It seemed like aggregate I said, they were, like, 'Sure. If you appetite to do that, go ahead.' It wasn't costing the burghal anything. The burghal was absolutely supportive," Nunley said.
Nunley and his friend, Eric Thompson, are the co-chairmen of the afresh formed Montgomery Arts Group.
"We started talking to BridgeValley Association and Technical College," Nunley said. "They arrive us to a affair and told us they capital acceptance to be added chip in the boondocks and accept a added accommodating relationship. They were absolutely about allowance the community.
"Montgomery has had a little bit of a acceptability for a while," he said, "and a lot of it was not deserved. Bad things appear everywhere. It's aloof that it's a abate town, so aback one affair happens, by the time it gets all over town, it's been amplified -- it's like the old blast game."
The Montgomery Arts Accumulation has additionally amorphous discussing projects, such as murals, with new Montgomery establishments the Upper Kanawha Valley YMCA and KVC Health Systems, he said.
The arts accumulation is additionally actuality provided flat and arcade amplitude in the above West Virginia University Institute of Technology Engineering Architecture in the abreast future, through BridgeValley, Nunley said.
"That was a huge footfall for a guy who was aloof mad because he didn't get into an art show. I've approved to go 150 percent on everything, and the bodies about me -- I absolutely got lucky. It was the appropriate time for all of us.
"This accomplished summer, I was activity through my hometown of Montgomery, it was about 10 o'clock at night. ... I was attractive around. There was annihilation activity on. The bodies I did see out were not activity to be in abbey on Sunday, let's put it that way. So, I anticipation there has to be article we can do," said Nunley.
Last March, that "something" was Nunley activity to Lowe's; purchasing wood, PVC and added abstracts and architecture an "art cart."
"I absitively I was activity to do the aerosol acrylic art like you see in above cities," he said. "I was activity to do some artery art."
The burghal awash Nunley a peddler's admittance and he set the art barrow in motion on Montgomery streets. "It has beaming acrylic all over it, lights -- we had a disco brawl on it. We fabricated it as animal and as loud as we possibly could so it would allure attention."
It worked. The aboriginal night out, he said, "I had bodies everywhere. Consistently through the summer, we had 20 to 30 bodies surrounding me and some others who were out there. We would set up tents and be there from 4 p.m. to midnight. From 8 p.m. 'til midnight, I would do a alive appearance on Facebook. ... A lot of the kids capital to try it, so I would cull a brace of kids over to the barrow with me ... and let them accomplish planets and things like that.
"The point of aggregate I'm accomplishing is that I appetite to do article for the community," Nunley said. "What absolutely absorbed me was aback I saw some of those kids advancing aback every week. Some of them would accompany me paintings or assets they had done. ... I like to accomplish abiding every kid leaves smiling."
Nunley's son, Trey, 14, has additionally developed an absorption in aerosol acrylic art and abutting his ancestor at art barrow programs and a appearance beforehand this year at Appalachian Power Park.
"There were 4,500 bodies there, I believe, and I was afraid about my son actuality nervous, but he was accomplished and zoomed appropriate through it. I should accept accepted -- he's a little bit of a show-off like I am sometimes," Nunley said.
"I've met bodies from Fayetteville, Charleston and Huntington ... I do aerosol acrylic art at shows. I aloof did my aboriginal arcade appearance in Sistersville, with a guy alleged Bill Hill," he said.
"Since we accept art in Charleston and art in Fayetteville, Montgomery is appropriate there in the middle. We're aloof aggravating to accord bodies a acumen to appear beyond that arch and appear into boondocks and adhere out," said Nunley. "We accept a lot of mural projects activity on this summer."
He said actuality a able artisan in a beyond bazaar ability prove added advantageous for him, but "I don't appetite to leave here. I adulation West Virginia. I adulation Montgomery -- it's a abundant little town. ... We've apparent some haters online, but there are a lot of bodies who are seeing absolute things accident in Montgomery. We absent one school, but now we accept appealing abundant two -- and a YMCA. We've got the Burghal Hoops association basketball affairs for kids 5 to 14, which I assignment with. Bodies ask me why I accord up my Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. to sit with about 300 or 400 kids. It's because they're accepting fun, and if they're accepting fun, they're activity to be added advantageous in academy and in activity and at home. I aloof appetite to affectionate of ablution abroad all of the bad actuality in Montgomery and accompany in the good. It's alive out."
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