2010

“Paper Monster Ate That Little Boy” Opening Tonight (PHILA)

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Who’s the Paper Monster?

Who’s the Little Boy?

And who are all these ferocious kittens that Paper Monster features on the street and in the studio and gallery, with their piercing sharp stares and barbed wire bangs?  The young NYC street artist isn’t sharing too much about the inner psyche of the creator, but our armchair analyst will only charge you 50 cents to connect the Freudian dots, and it’s worth every penny.

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According to the press release for the show opening tonight, “each piece is a beautiful combination of layered imagery, textures and colors conveying themes of love, anger, fear, passion and mystery.” Truth is, Paper Monster has been banging out successively more intricate and polished stencils of these comely ladies, with their alter-ego wild sides, in the quietly  consistent manner of a panther. Once you get past their jet-black razor wire exterior, you find a lawless riot of fluorescent color and shapes, decorative and comic, leaping and pouncing about inside.

Paper Monster Image Courtesy of the Artist
Paper Monster Image Courtesy of the Artist

Enjoy these pics of Paper Monster and his new show, six months in the making. If you are in Philadelphia tonight, stop by and give him a shout out from BSA.

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Paper Monster (Image courtesy of the artist)

Paper Monster Image Courtesy of the Artist
Paper Monster at work. (Image courtesy of the artist)

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“PaperMonster Ate That Little Boy” running Friday July 2nd to Saturday July 31st

Opening Reception: Friday, July 2nd 6pm-9pm

Vincent Michael Gallery
1050 N. Hancock St. Suite #63
Philadelphia, PA 19147

More information and RSVP Contact: 215.399.1580 x.703 or info@vincentmichael.com

http://papermonster.wordpress.com/

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Elbow Toe Creates Fictions With Little Bits of Shredded Truth

The Street Artist talks about New Collage Series, NPR, and Haiku

Heat waves shimmering
one or two inches
above the pavement.

This is New York right now. Blistering smells of bubbling soot from the street.  Like no other time of the year most of these summer streets are a haven for life and freedom. School’s finally out, few summer jobs are available, and there are more service cuts on the bus and subways.  But in this time of lowered expectations the parks are still open and the free concerts and block parties and parades hint very little at the stress that so many are under.

Elbow Toe

Elbow Toe (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Brooklyn artist and poet of the streets whose moniker is Elbow Toe gets up early to “go to work” on the subway, where he rides and draws portraits of his fellow riders in a sketchbook before returning to his studio.  It’s there, in the air-conditioned underground, that he wakes up and re-connects to his city, loosening up the lines so that they can wend and bend freely, and jotting a little text as it manifests.

His impressive body of work continues to grow and develop both on the streets and, in the last couple of years, into galleries on both coasts and across the pond. Recently kicked out of his studio (another New York artist story), he has settled in to working at home on a new collage series using ripped and shredded paper to create quite detailed pieces that from a distance look like paintings.

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BSA: How’s the new studio? Have you done any work in it yet?
Elbow Toe: The new studio is suitable. I lost the last space when the landlord got in a dispute with the owner and forced us all out. I have been in the new space for a couple of months at this point and it has seen it’s fair share of work. I am primarily working on collages.

At this point I have converted part of my residence to a studio. It is a weird mix because we don’t have any walls in our place per se. And I don’t want to ruin the floors so I had to build a wall that could balance on the floor to provide privacy yet let in some light. I have done well over a half dozen collages at this point so the space is pretty broken in. If I had one complaint it would be that I wish I was in a studio building again so that I could just shut the door at the end of the night. As it is, the pieces sort of nag away at me. Who knows, it might make them just that more intimate with my psyche.brooklyn-street-art-elbow-toe-jaime-rojo-2

She’s seen it all. Two of Elbow Toe’s figures stretch from Madonna’s eyes as Elbow Toe adds to MBW (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA: What’s informing your art right now? What’s inspiring you?
Elbow Toe: I have to hold the cards for what is informing me pretty close to my chest, as I am still engrossed in working out the imagery for the show. But I can say that I spent the better part of a year working out the boundaries and technical hurdles in my approach to collage. Though I am doing some portraits still, the new works are exploring narrative frameworks. I would say that I am creating fictions with a little bit of truth.  I do my best to let my imagination play with the hopes that it know intuitively what stories I want to tell.

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Elbow Toe (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA: You touch on political and social themes in your art. Are you a news junkie?
Elbow Toe: I am a news junkie. It certainly doesn’t help that I get into bouts of listening to NPR for 8 – 10 hours a day. It really makes for great light small talk in social situations, let me tell you.

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Elbow Toe (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA: What’s your best way to get news right now? Radio, TV, or internet?
Elbow Toe: I primarily stream NPR in on my computer.

BSA: What’s the environment that you like to create in your studio while you work?
Elbow Toe: When I start a piece I like the studio to be pristine. By the time I have completed the piece there is very little space to stance, and it is quite visually painful as there is basically a storm of color all over the floor. I generally get so pulled into the process that the chaos works to my advantage as I tend to know where every piece of paper is amidst the chaos. The real problem that arises is when I set my  keys down in the studio by accident.

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Elbow Toe (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA: You’ve referred to classic and modern art masters in your work. Is there anybody in the current crop of contemporary artists who do you admire and with whom you would like to collaborate on a piece with?
Elbow Toe:
There are a lot of artists out there that I really admire. I am always looking. Cutting up Art Forum magazines for my collages keeps introducing new artists to me. As much as I like their work, I am really not that interested in collaborating with any of them. I prefer honing my own vision.brooklyn-street-art-elbow-toe-jaime-rojo-5

Elbow Toe (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA: You are known to write a bit of poetry – what brings it forth? People on the street? Books you read? Music?
Elbow Toe: The quotes that I write around town… They tend to just well up from somewhere inside me. I go draw (in my sketchbook) on the subway in the mornings to warm up, and when I really drop into the work, they just sort of present themselves.

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Elbow Toe (Photo © Jaime Rojo)
Elbow Toe

Elbow Toe (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA: Who is your favorite poet? What resonates about their work?
Elbow Toe: I like the Haiku masters Basho, Buson and Issa. There is such a compactness to the form. And the work is so humble.

I have been a fan of Sharon Olds for some time. There is such a vocal quality to her work. The rhythm is so strong that it completes the ideas perfectly that she is conveying. A particular favorite book of hers is The Father. Amazing.

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Elbow Toe (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Elbow Toe (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Elbow Toe (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

You can see Elbow Toe’s newest piece tonight at the Perry Rubenstein Gallery in a collage based group show, “Shred”. See the press release and his piece HERE.

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San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art Presents: “Viva La Revolucion: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape” Featuring works by Prominent 20 Street Artists from Eight Countries

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Date Farmers, Me No Sugar, 2008, mixed media and collage on found metal. Courtesy of Jonathan LeVine Gallery

Date Farmers, Me No Sugar, 2008, mixed media and collage on found metal. Courtesy of Jonathan LeVine Gallery

For the first time in history, the majority of the world’s population lives in urban communities. The urban setting and its corresponding lifestyle are major sources of inspiration in contemporary culture. This is an historic revolution in visual culture, in which the codes and icons of the everyday—found on the streets in graffiti, signage, waste, tattoos, advertising, and graphic design—have been appropriated and used as an integral part of contemporary art-making. The urban landscape inspires and serves as both a platform for innovation and a vehicle for expression for many artists. The city itself, its buildings, vehicles, people, and advertisements, are not only the surface where the art is applied. The city fuels the practice.

A multifaceted exhibition that explores the dialogue between artists and the urban landscape, Viva la Revolución: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape features works both in the Museum’s galleries as well as at public sites throughout downtown San Diego.

The exhibition includes a diverse range of 20 artists from 8 countries that are linked together by how their work addresses urban issues — Akay (Sweden), Banksy (U.K.), Blu (Italy), Mark Bradford (U.S.), William Cordova (U.S.), Date Farmers (U.S.), Stephan Doitschinoff [CALMA] (Brazil), Dr. Lakra (Mexico), Dzine (U.S.), David Ellis (U.S.), FAILE (U.S.), Shepard Fairey (U.S.), Invader (France), JR (France), Barry McGee (U.S.), Ryan McGinness (U.S.), Moris (Mexico), Os Gemeos (Brazil), Swoon (U.S.), and Vhils (Portugal).

Viva la Revolución: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape is curated by guest curator Pedro Alonzo and MCASD Associate Curator Lucía Sanromán.

Members Opening: Viva la Revolucion

Saturday, July 17 at MCASD Downtown, Jacobs Building
7-10 PM
Members: Free
General: $20

1100 & 1001 Kettner Boulevard
(between Broadway and B Street)
San Diego, CA 92101
858 454 3541

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Mighty Tanaka Presents: “City Scapes” A Four Person Photography Show Featuring the Works of Vinny Cornelly, Mari Keeler, Shane Perez & Bryan Raughton

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Mighty Tanaka

Mighty Tanaka

Mighty Tanaka is excited to present our next show entitled CityScapes, a four person photography show that delves into and documents a variety of perspectives in and around NYC.  Featuring the work of Vinny Cornelli, Mari Keeler, Shane Perez & Bryan Raughton, each photographer individually deciphers their own unique interpretation of the City through a myriad of techniques and inspirations.

CityScapes invites the visitor to explore the seemingly ubiquitous and familiar environments of New York City through the eyes of the photographers, as they excavate new vantage points through their exceptional observations.  From grand panoramas to the subtle details, the show looks to provide the viewer with an in depth examination of the urban environment that most people are likely to overlook.

From multiple exposure photography and models posing in precarious locations to textured urban environments and the grimy gems of the City, this New Century art exhibition aims to uncover the hidden treasures constantly found on the streets of NYC and fuse them within our daily lives.

Featuring the photography of:
-Vinny Cornelli
-Mari Keeler
-Shane Perez
-Bryan Raughton

OPENING RECEPTION:
Friday, July 16, 2010 – 6:00PM-9:00PM, and closing August 6, 2010

Mighty Tanaka
68 Jay St., Suite 416 (F Train to York St.)
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Hours: M-F 12PM to 7PM, weekends by appointment only
Office: 718.596.8781
Email: alex@mightytanaka.com
Web: http://www.mightytanaka.com <http://www.mightytanaka.com/>;

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Dan Witz Tonight at Spoonbill and Sugartown

Street Artist Dan Witz Signs Copies of His New Book “In Plain View”

Dan Witz is a 30+ year veteran of New York City street life, beginning in the late 70’s as an art student in the bombed out East Village, inspired simultaneously by the punk rock explosion and an analogous expression of the discontent that graffiti contained.

Since then he has explored a great deal about how we relate to art on the street, bringing a skilled analyst mind to play with perception, feeling, and our peripheral intake of information. In recent years his studio work has finely combined new digital possibilities with the more traditional oil based tools, producing startling realism and an auric glow that calms and unsettles.

Dan Witz "True Love"
Dan Witz “True Love” (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Witz’s hyper-real street installations have become known for being missed by the busy passerby because of his uncanny and witty ability to integrate them into the urban environment below our perceptual radar. More recently his pieces have grown thematically darker and evermore perfect in their placement, daring you to overlook them.

With the release of this 30 year collection of work, Witz can clearly stake his claim as one of the forerunners of the current explosion of street art and it’s various discontents. Even in his controlled approach to study, practice, and implementation, the underlying punk rocker rips through the fabric of any bourgeois malaise you may be tempted to slip into.

Dan Witz (Photo© Jaime Rojo)
Dan Witz (Photo© Jaime Rojo)

Wednesday June 30th

Spoonbill And Sugartown
At 7:00 PM In Williamsburg

Spoonbill and Sugartown

218 Bedford Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211
718/387-7322
www.spoonbillbooks.com

Dan Witz, born 1957, Chicago, IL, attended Cooper Union in New York City’s East Village. In 1982 he received a NEA grant and in 1992 and 2000 fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts. His first book, “The Birds of Manhattan” was published in 1983 by Skinny Books. Solo exhibitions include Semaphore Gallery NY (1985,1986), Clementine Gallery (1996), StolenSpace, London (2007); DFN Gallery NY (2003-5, 6, 7, 8, 10) and Carmichael Gallery, LA (2009). Group exhibitions include: Buying Time: Nourishing Excellence, Sotheby’s NY(2001); and Fifteen, NYFA Fellows at Deutsche Bank, NY (1999). Submission (curated by Juxtapoz) Fuse Gallery NY (2005); From The Streets of Brooklyn, Think space Art Gallery, LA (2009) and Beach Blanket Bingo, Jonathan Levine Gallery NY(2009). Dan lives and works in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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Edgeware Gallery Presents: “Out From Underground” A Group Show With Shepard Fairey, Chor Boogie, Jaime Rojo and More…(San Diego, CA)

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For Immediate Release Contacts Joshua Bellfy       (San Diego )          619-788-9665

David Gillerman  (Los Angeles,)       818-625-7872

Edgeware Gallery Hits the Street (Art )

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San Diego Gallery to debut Street Art Exhibition July 24, 2010

San Diego’s Museum of Contemporary Art is having the first major International Street Art Exhibition, Viva La Revolucion, which opens on July 18, 2010 and features works by artists from 8 countries, including Banksy, Shepard Fairey, and Invader.

To coincide with this show and capitalize on the media attention and public awareness, Edgeware Gallery in San Diego will also be having a street art/modern pop show,  Out from Underground, which will open July 24, 2010 and run through early September.

Edgeware will boast its own A-list of artists at the exhibition including Shepard Fairey, Chor Boogie,  Brett Amory, Acamonchi, Michael Cuffe, Mark Rimland, Frank Vicino, Bryan Snyder, Caryn Southward, SkEm oNe, Eric Wixon, Jaime Rojo and artists to be named later.

Media ranges from canvas to posters to photos of Banksy’s April San Francisco bombing, to a live painting by spraymaster Chor Boogie, who is in the permanent collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego.

Edgeware Gallery is run under the auspices of the Autism Research Institute.  100% of the net profits from art sales go to fund autism research.  At Edgeware, talented West Coast artists are exhibited alongside Mark Rimland,  Edgeware’s gifted resident artist with autism.

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Out From Underground:              Opening:   July 24, 2010     5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Regular Hours:   Wed, Fri :   5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Sat, Sun :   1:00 p.m. to  7:00 p.m.

Runs:  July 24 to September 17, 2010

Edgeware Gallery:  4186 Adams Ave, San Diego, CA  92116   (619) 534-8120

www.edgewaregallery.com info@edgewaregallery.com

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Stencil Top 5 on BSA : 06.29.10

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The Stencil Top Five as chosen by Samantha Longhi of Stencil HistoryX featuring Joe Iurato, Flying Fortress, Indigo, Broken Crow, and Lee Cofa

Joe Iurato just launched a new series of portraits featuring a selection of musicians performing the famous song “Summertime” from Porgy and Bess. The first of them is Tom Waits in a stencil style unique to Joe Iurato; delicate and poetic.  Summertime remains one of my cult songs so I’m personally looking forward to the portrait of my favorite, Janis Joplin, and also the very sexy Scarlett Johansson. Thank you Joe. (image courtesy the artist)

Flying Fortress & Indigo at the Café Belgique, Amsterdam (image courtesy Indigo)
Flying Fortress & Indigo at the Café Belgique, Amsterdam (image courtesy Indigo)

A new blue ram from Broken Crow in Minneapolis (image courtesy Stencil History X)

A new blue ram from Broken Crow in Minneapolis (image courtesy Stencil History X)

Anonymous, original drawing by Bill Watterson (image © Psychonautes)
Anonymous, original drawing by Bill Watterson (image © Psychonautes)

Lee Cofa (image courtesy Stencil HistoryX)

Lee Cofa (image courtesy Stencil HistoryX)

“Summertime” Tom Waits

(all images courtesy Stencil History X and their photographer)

See more at StencilHistoryX.com

See more Joe Iurato images here

See more Broken Crow images here

See more Indigo images here

See more Le Cofa images here

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Images of The Week 06.27.10 at BSA

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Our weekly interview with the street: this week featuring street art by Bast, Billi Kid, Bishop203, ,Brummel, El Sol 25, Faile, Grimus, Girl With Bikini, Homosapien Erectus, Kosbe, Mike Graves, Monkey, Over Under, WDZ, and ZHE155

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Kosbe (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Bast (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Billi Kid (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Bishop 203 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

El Sol 25 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

El Sol 25 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Faile (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Zako. Girl with a paper bikini (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Grimus (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Grimus (photo © Jaime Rojo)

    Billi Kid tribute to Buz Blurr from the Road to Colossus (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Billi Kid tribute to Buz Blurr from the Road to Colossus (photo © Jaime Rojo)

El Sol 25
El Sol 25 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Homosapien Erectus (photo  © Jaime Rojo)

Mike Graves
Mike Graves (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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M is for Monkey. Brummel (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Overunder (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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WDZ (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Zhe 155 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Zhe 155 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Street Artists Faile Talk About the Social & Political

Single Moms, War Profiteering, Church Pamphlets, and Drag Queens

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June 27, 1969. The Streets of NYC.

That’s where the modern day Gay Liberation movement was born.  Instead of getting punched and kicked, intimidated and humiliated by the police as usual, people pushed and punched back into the street. In the small riots and demonstrations in the streets of New York over the following days, people who once were hidden now marched out in the streets – a tradition that grew and continues to expand across the globe.  Today that march for equality includes what is known as the GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, Transgendered) community.

June 27, 2010. The Streets of NYC.

The streets of NYC will have a GLBT parade with roughly 1 million spectators and with 18 year old Mississippi native Constance McMillen as The Grand Marshall because she stood up to the administration of her high school who cancelled the prom this year rather than permitting her to bring her date.  The public message, delivered on the streets, remains a potent and powerful force.

This month of June we also began seeing new pieces on the street by the Brooklyn street art duo Faile, who have frequented the social and political spheres with their stenciled messages numerous times over the last decade.  Among the pop and pulp inspired images were a couple of GLBT themed pieces, not usual in the Street Art or graffiti world. BSA had the opportunity to ask Faile about these new pieces and their significance to the artists.

Faile (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

“The wording inspired from an old church pamphlet. Given the controversy of Gay Marriage and Equal Rights swirling around, this new image and wording seemed a perfect symbol to embrace this and be open to love in all it’s forms.” Faile (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA: You still see and hear words like “faggot” and “homo” thrown around in graff and street art community occasionally. How would you describe the attitudes you see in the street art culture, and before that, graffiti culture, toward people in the GLBT community?
Faile: I don’t think we’re around this that often. At least not among the people we hang with. These words are thrown around casually by some, unfortunately, though this is not specific to street art. Either way, this isn’t a place we really dwell. We’re a little more lone wolf than pack hunters, on the street anyway.

BSA: What drew you to the topic of equality for gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered people?
Faile: We didn’t specifically set out to make work about this topic. Many times, and especially recently, our image-making process is loose and experimental. We’ve been having fun with that again, really just playing. As some of the new images have come together we found something very provocative about an image of two girls locked in a passionate kiss. It was only later that in passing the image back and forth we placed this type from an old church pamphlet I found in my Grandma’s house. “No change my heart shall fear” seemed to speak so honestly, when paired with this image, to this crossroad in our culture. Where there is a group of people that are unfairly singled out and not given the same rights, especially with regard to marriage equality. It was this change that we spoke to, though in the image’s openness it can be interpreted in many ways.

The image-making is like this at times. You’ll create an image or collage something and it will just sit like that for some time. At times, it doesn’t need anything more and it’s better left open-ended and other times it really helps complete the idea; coming alive when there is type or a message paired to it.

The Gender Bender image of the “girl” at the urinal was again coming from a place of rawness and just the fun of making imagery. Sometimes it’s not until later that these have a power once they are out in the world, independent of our intentions. The work really invites the viewer in this way to bring their own interpretation to what’s there. The Bunny Boy image is a great example of that, it’s enticing and visceral in its mystery. Images speak to people in a variety ways.

Faile (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Faile (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA: Recently, a piece on the street by Faile expressed support for single moms and you’ve talked about war profiteering.  How important is advocacy of social or political opinion in your street work?
Faile:
Well if we are trying to say something or place a message in our work then it’s there for a reason. We were really raised by our Mom’s as products of divorced parents, despite having great Dad’s, but we can relate to that.

War profiteering was a response to an intense time in the world and an ongoing issue that related to a series we were exploring at that time centered around oil and the war in Lebanon.

But I think our work is more emotional. It’s more about the wonder and the mystery than it is meant to be so literal. You have to see some fantasy in the world; a place for the imagination to run and have room for daydreaming. Often, our work lives here. The product of overly-stimulated and media-saturated people living in a city that never sleeps. If you still can’t find the quiet spaces and those tiny moments where everything just lines up you’re in trouble. We hope to create those moments in the work and on the street.

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Faile Supports Single Moms, Faile (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA: From a broader perspective, what role do you think Street Art can or should play to affect social or political change?
Faile:
It’s a form of communication for the people. Meaning it’s direct and aims straight to the masses. In it’s most sincere form it’s there for anyone and not wrapped up in a hidden agenda. In this way, it has great power and people respond to that. I think it has saturation points and has been co-opted by some along the way, but I also believe there is a huge energy there and when struck in the right way can move mountains.

Projekt Projektor in Dumbo, Brooklyn as part of Under the Bridge Festival September 2008 Image of Mary by Faile photo by Jaime Rojo for Brooklyn Street Art

Image of Jesus projected on the Manhattan Bridge during BSA’s “Projekt Projektor” in Dumbo, Brooklyn in September 2008 (photo and projected image © Jaime Rojo)

BSA: Punk posters in the 70’s and 80’s used assemblage of text and images to create messages that struck at the heart of a system people considered hypocritical or sick.  How much of your work feels like punk to you today?
Faile: Our process has always resembled this loose and fast critique on society, whether it be literal or figurative. Our image-making has at times been very methodical and researched, other times it’s been experimental and dirty. Street art at it’s roots is “punk.” It set out to critique and comment on a world it felt outside of. I don’t know if it’s for us to decide really. We are just doing what feels right to us. If people see this as that, then so be it.

Detail (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Detail (Photo © Jaime Rojo)


Banner image from Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution, by David Carter

See Faile’s Website HERE

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Sneak Peek at “Death Warmed Over” Show Tonight

A Group Show of Street Artists and Photographers Opening This Evening

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Becki Fuller, Cake, Luna Park, Chris RWK and Veng RWK will be hosting a COOL new show about warming. Death warming. Re-heated. Warm Death. Each artist has embarked on an exploration into the many nuances to be found in the meaning of ‘death’ and have incorporated their unique interpretations into their art.

Also at the show will be the musical stylings of DJ Royce Bannon, Live Painting in the backyard, and a Scavenger Hunt!

Becki Fuller (Photo © Jaime Rojo)
Becki Fuller (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Veng RWK (Photo © Jaime Rojo)
Veng RWK (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Luna Park (Photo © Jaime Rojo)
Luna Park (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Cake (Photo © Jaime Rojo)
Cake (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Chris RWK (Photo © Jaime Rojo)
Chris RWK (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

“Death Warmed Over”
Paintings by Chris RWK, Veng, and Cake
Photography by Luna Park & Becki Fuller

Opening Reception
Friday, June 25th, 2010
7-10pm

Fresthetic
560 Grand Street
Brooklyn NY, 11211
(between Lorimer St & Union Ave)

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