Samantha’s been on holiday and returns this week with a stunning find by stencil artist C215. The fine Frenchman has been exploring color over the past year or so and the results are quite effective, as in this portrait outside the Signal Gallery in London.
Image of C215 © RomanyWG, courtesy of Stencil History X
C215 is coming to Brooklyn next month at Brooklynite Gallery with Eelus
Living Walls Atlanta
A GRASS ROOTS COLLOQUIUM
An exhibition and conference focused on street art and its role in engaging public space.
We are bringing in the works of an international selection of artists who typically make use of the streets to showcase their work. We have also sought artists that re-appropriate the public realm, attempting to take charge of their media space.
Artists will be asked, along with submitting artwork, to present some form of documentation of their other works as well as their process in order to illustrate via pictures, video, sketches, words, etc, the scale and context in which the artist typically works in public space.
| Swampy |
| Miso |
| Chris Stain |
| The $tatus Faction |
| Know Hope |
| Gaia |
| Faber |
| Feral Child |
| The DotMasters |
| OX |
| Xomatok |
| Indigo |
| Drone |
| Ever |
| Nadie |
| Sakristan |
| Olivia |
| Dr. Case |
| Jerm IX |
| The Paper Twins |
| Doodles |
| Tereza De Quinta |
| Urka |
| Loaf |
| yoyoBruno |
| Shaun Thurston |
| Jason Kofke |
| Flix |
| Weak Hand |
| Michi Meko |
| Clown Soldier |
| Mad One |
| Yema |
| cin4ski |
FKDL
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Fun Friday 08.06.10
Interviews with Ron English, Skewville, Gaia, and Logan Hicks, and captures a bit of the flava last weekend.
Curator Frankie Velez has a show on West 36th Street in Manhattan that offers itself as a bit of a missing link between a graff, street art, and fine art. Here’s a stern voiced review.
Gaia’s posted his sketch for his piece “should be like a twenty foot wall when done with it. Its skulls from dance with death, acorns, oak leaves, cabins, american stars and possums. All ATL baby!”
Check out Living Walls August 13-15
Nuff said.
Say what?
Remember the lazy days of summer when we were kids, running around in August with our pack of friends making up sh*t to avoid boredom and to look busy so our parents wouldn’t make us do chores?
The excitement of July has passed and August will last forever.
All the stickball, hide-n-seek, and doctor games have gone a little old, like the garbage piled on the curb. The days of August require more creativity to keep us entertained: we insist on building bigger bike ramps, staging grander battles, concocting more complicated schemes that border on true mischief. Those thoughts came rushing back when we discovered the amazing art-fest that Overunder, ND’A, White Cocoa, Gawd and Labrona just smacked up. Imaginations are running wild.
Like a rambunctious pack of happy sweaty kids they are darting around behind trees and corners, counting to 20 and announcing, “Here I come!”. We want to be in the Secret Club of art making – where’s the tree house? Or is it a tepee? Or just somebodies older sister’s bedroom, covered with posters of Katy Perry and Young Jeezy? This new output is generous and inspiring. In a recent interview with Overunder he said “collaborations allow me to drop the draw-bridge and open up the work to new concepts, aesthetics, even accidents.” This stuff show how the draw-bridge has dropped and the concepts are skipping forth.
Street Artist Specter isn’t standing still and for the last sixteen months or so he has been running at top speed working on his gallery shows while at the same time doing what he wakes up for every morning: Creating art to install on the streets.
After a long trip to Russia where he spent several weeks speaking to art students, traveling, and beautifying some parts of the vast country with new pieces on the streets, he returned to Brooklyn where he wasted no time to work on three of his now iconic sculptures and put them on various locations around Brooklyn. -All this while working on his new material for his Solo Show at Pure Evil Gallery in London tomorrow.
Here is a peek at what’s in store for the esteemed people of London: This one was just installed in gallery for Thursday’s show.
For more information about the show go here:
http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=13087
To read our interview with Specter go here:
http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=7362
To see Specter’s work in Russia go here:
http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=10919
To see Specter’s new sculptures in Brooklyn go here:
Bronx Tats Cru muralists How and Nosm Perre hit Brooklyn last week with their buddy Aryz to put up a new piece on the side of a deli while stray cats wandered out from the fence next door to take a look. While BSA watched, the guys climbed up and down ladders and showed solid technique like the pros they are.
The globe trotting twins, born in seaside San Sebastion in the Basque region of Spain, grew up in Dusseldorf and fell in love with the New York style of graffiti in their teens. When they joined the Tats Cru in New York in the late nineties they had already proved their skillz as graff artists and begun to explore Street Art and muralist technique.
With Aryz visiting from Barcelona it was a perfect time to hit the streets of Williamsburg and get a piece up before the skies darkened further. “Death of an Era” appears to pay tribute to some of hiphop and graffiti culture’s early icons and surround them with a rising tide of blood. A critique of the darker powers of commercialism, it may also be homage to a romantic vision of a dirty and dysfunctional city that increasingly looks Disneyfied. While homogeneity threatens the character of some of our neighborhoods, work like this ensures an expression of individuality that keeps the streets alive.
With one eye on an impending summer storm and another on their wall, the guys busily consulted sketches and wielded their cans in a race against time.
Pure Evil Gallery
Specter Sho-Shin. Image Courtesy of the Gallery
Thursday August 05 at 7:00 pm
Pure Evil Gallery
108 Leonard Street
London, EC2A 4RH
Lab 24/7
Pop Up Studio
They say that people shouldn’t put up walls. We disagree.
Lab 24/7, Coup D’etat BK and Street Level Initiative Present…
POPUP STUDIO: THE DAWN OF CELLOGRAFF
Witness the latest innovation in graff, popup events and all things DIY as four artists paint live on temporary shrinkwrapped, cellophane walls. CelloGraff’s a game changer, providing endless possibilities for expression as new walls can be thrown up, on a whim, almost anywhere. But if you don’t give a shit about the art, there’ll be potent bevvies, two of our favorite DJ’s, and some of the bestest people in Brooklyn.
– Artists: SEEONE, RIMX, MARTHALICIA & GIA GUTIERRREZ
– Vibes By: DJ P.U.D.G.E and Daniela
– $3/$4 Drinks
– Come early for lite grub
ABOUT CELLOGRAFF
Cellograff challenges the notion that graff needs an existing wall to paint on, and chooses instead to put up their own walls, using industrial shrinkwrap. Check out videos of the original CelloGraff crew here: http://www.cellograff.com/home.html
Saturday, August 7th
8pm – 1am
Lab 24/7
247 Stuyvesant Ave, BK (@ Putnam)
Door-to-Door Directions
Joshua Liner Gallery
Image Courtesy of the Gallery
We are pleased to present the 2010 Summer Group Exhibition showcasing 24 artists, including established gallery regulars, emerging artists, and newcomers to Joshua Liner Gallery.
The exhibition will feature painting, assemblage, drawing, and sculpture, with works by:
Cleon Peterson, David Kassan, Dennis McNett, Evan Hecox, Ian Francis, James Roper, Jeremy Fish, Jessica Joslin, Kenichi Yokono, Kris Kuksi, Mac, Mi Ju, Mike Davis, Oliver Vernon, Pema Rinzin, Pete Watts, Ryan Bradley, Ryan McLennan, Shawn Barber, SWOON, Tat Ito, Tiffany Bozic, Tomokazu Matsuyama and Tony Curanaj
The opening reception is Saturday, August 14th from 6 – 9 pm. Many of the artists will be in attendance for the opening reception.
Please contact the gallery if you would like to be placed on the preview list for this exhibit.
Joshua Liner Gallery
548 W 28th St. 3rd Floor
New York, New York 10001
212-244-7415
joshualinergallery.com
Main Street in Beacon, NY for example. Electric Windows, the Street Art event put together by the tireless duo Dan and Kalene (owners of the Open Space Gallery) and three other friends, is a prime example of what’s good in our country these days. Appreciation for the creative spirit that lies inside each person brought together a large and a very diverse group of people to this small town on Saturday. Music (live and DJ), street dancers, screen printing on your clothes… Folks were moved, changed, challenged and inspired by the art being made in front of their eyes: Unrestricted, unfiltered and in direct contact with the artists that were creating it.
The day was glorious not only because of the low humidity and breezes up the Hudson Valley but mostly because we had the opportunity to witness the faces of delight of the community while watching the artists do what they love to do most: Paint. Saturday was important to America not because Chelsea Clinton was getting married a few miles north of Beacon but because a whole town literally opened its doors to everyone that wanted to come and make and experience art: Free of charge and uncensored.
We love art and artists of course but when we see people actually enjoying it and supporting it in a respectful and festive environment we are reminded once again that the stories that we are told about ourselves on TV are not often real or true. We are better than we are being told we are. We need to do a better job at getting the word out and at making sure that the good stuff gets reported.
Carmichael Gallery
For Immediate Release:
Vol II, Issue I of The Art Street Journal is now out! This improved and
expanded edition of the journal is printed on more archival paper stock,
features four interior color pages and at 24 pages in total, is the
longest,
most comprehensive issue of tasj to date. The cover and a few sample
pages
are attached, along with information on what else can be found inside
and
how to receive a copy yourself below.
There will be an issue release party at Carmichael Gallery on Saturday,
August 7th, from 7-9pm. Come for a drink, pick up your free copy of the
journal, and check out all the great shows opening in Culver City that
night.
Please spread the word and read on to find out what’s in this issue!
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The Art Street Journal (tasj) is an international art publication
mailed and
distributed free of charge from our base in Los Angeles, California to
homes, museums, galleries, cafes, bookshops, schools and other locations
around the world. People can sign up for a free subscription at
www.theartstreetjournal.com. If you would like to receive a copy
yourself,
you can either register through the site or send us your full name,
mailing
address and the best contact phone number and we will post one your way.
Vol II, Issue I includes:
– Cover pages by Boogie and M-City
– NEW Calendar of International Shows and Events
– Interviews with Boogie and Escif
– Features on Viva La Revolucion at MCASD, Ian Francis at Lazarides, M-
City
at Carmichael Gallery, Wangechi Mutu at The Art Gallery of Ontario,
108 at
Fame Festival, Ben Eine and EuroTrash at Lazarides, Beverly Hills.
– Reviews of Charming Baker in New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat at
Fondation
Beyeler, Yoshitomo Nara at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Nina Pandolfo at
Galeria
Leme, Hush at The Shooting Gallery, Ai Yamaguchi at Mizuma Art
Gallery, Guy
Denning at Brooklynite Gallery, SHRED at Perry Rubenstein Gallery,
Herbert
Baglione at Iguapop Gallery, Ericailcane at POPUP! Festival, Dan Witz
at DFN
Gallery, William Kentridge at Jeu de Paume, Marlene Dumas at Fundacao
Serralves, Marcel Dzama at Musee d’art contemporain de Montreal and
Simon
Birch’s conceptual circus in Hong Kong.
– Auction Report: Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips de Pury Spring
Sales
in New York and London
– Art Fair Coverage: Art Rotterdam, The Armory Show, Hong Kong
International Art Fair and Art Basel
– Our monthly Unurth.com curated street art photo page – newly
expanded to a
two page spread
– The tasj bookshelf page, featuring the best in art books, magazines
and
other publications
The Art Street Journal is distributed worldwide. Contact us if you would
like to be a distributor or advertiser at info@theartstreetjournal.com.
The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday 1:00PM – 7:00PM and by appointment.
Contact us by email or call 323.939.0600 for more information.
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