2010

DAIN’s ERA-Mashing Piece Donated for the Auction

April 20, 2010

Hollywood starlets and sweethearts from your grandma’s 1943 high school yearbook have been peering at passersby from doorways in Brooklyn and Manhattan for a couple of years now. These black and white portraits, posed formally yet calmly reassuring in their steady gaze, are festooned with flourescent splashes, symbols, overlays, and hand sprayed plumes.

Brooklyn-born DAIN has been updating a bygone period when the “greatest generation” flourished, the modern war machine was birthed, and “middle class” almost became a birthright.  His rowdy re-working of those symbols from a genteel age into a modern street context stays just this side of sentimentality or cute – rather DAIN’s balance keeps off just enough for you to know what a badass he really is.  Here is DAIN’s generous contribution to the Street Art New York Silent Auction Benefit.

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We’d recognize those eyes anywhere…

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Stencil Top Five 04.19.10 from BSA

April 19, 2010

Stencil-Top-5The Stencil Top 5 as picked by Samantha Longhi of StencilHistoryX this week featuring Andrea Michaelsson of the collective BTOY, Stencil History X, BTOY, Orticanoodles, C215, Fark-fk, Stéphane Moscato

BTOY

Andrea Michaelsson of the collective BTOY in Barcelona just did this layered piece using stencil, screenprint, and acrylic on canvas.

Orticanoodles
Italy’s Orticanoodles did this multi-layered stencil for the door at Galerie Itinerrance in Paris.

"In the Mood for Love" by C215
“In the Mood for Love” by C215

Stencil artist Fark-fk from the UK custom stencilled this bus for the Fat Face store in Brighton
Stencil artist Fark-fk from the UK custom stencilled this bus for the Fat Face store in Brighton.

Stéphane Moscato

From the series "Passengers of the Night" by Stéphane Moscato

(all images courtesy Stencil History X)

See more at StencilHistoryX.com

See more BTOY images here

See more Orticanoodles images here

See more C215 images here

See more Fark-fk here

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C215 Donates a Smoking Piece to the Auction Benefit

April 19, 2010 , ,

It isn’t unusual to look at the heavily lined faces of this artist and find that you drift away for a moment, lost in a thought. This particular portrait by French street artist C215 of Jon Cartwright has appeared on the streets of New York, London, Paris, and Sao Paulo.* C215, well known for his intricate stencils and portraits of people that somehow allow their inner glow to come out, generously donated this piece for the Street Art New York Silent Auction Benefit this Saturday.

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Using the bottom side of what was once a letterpress sorting drawer of heavy wood, C215 chooses a subject that looks off into a haze of smoke, reflecting for a minute on the issue of the moment, or remembering someone, a conversation, or a phrase.

* source Metro.co.uk

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BILLI KID AND LUNA PARK PRESENT: “EAMES INSPIRATION”

April 18, 2010

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FOR  IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Public Works Department’s ‘Eames Inspiration’ Online Charity Auction to Benefit
Operation Design, a Creative Mentorship Program for NYC Public School Students
Limited-Edition Collection of Eames Chairs Re-Imagined by 20 Graffiti and Street Artists to be Featured in Barneys New York Windows.

May 11th through June 1st

Aakash Nihalani, Billi Kid, Blanco, Cake, Celso, Cern, Damon Ginandes, Darkcloud,
David Cooper, Elbow-Toe, James and Karla Murray, Joe Iurato, Matt Siren, NohJColey, Peru Ana Ana Peru, Skewville, Sofia Maldonado, Stikman, UR®New York and Veng.

April 14, 2010 (New York, NY) – The Eames Foundation, Eames Office and Herman Miller have teamed up with the Public Works Department of New York to present an online auction featuring a unique collection of iconic Eames® Molded Plywood Chairs as re-imagined by some of today’s most celebrated graffiti and street artists.  Beginning May 11th, the limited edition “Eames Inspiration” collection will be on display in the windows of Barneys New York

(Madison Avenue and 61st Street) and auctioned online to benefit OPERATION DESIGN, a creative mentorship program that organizes architects, artists and related professionals to work with New York City public school students to create motivating and inspiring projects.

MORE INFO FOR THIS EVENT TO UPDATED LATER

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Images of The Week 04.18.10

April 18, 2010 ,

Our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Aakash Nihalani, Jaime Rojo, REVS, Banksy, Celso, Woodward Gallery, El Sol 25, Veng (RWK), QRST, Emma, Lattice Crow,

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A geometric box flower blooms for 70’s power rock. (Aakash Nihalani) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Revs
REVS is in the soup. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Could this be Bansky checking out the poster for his "documentary"
Could this be Bansky checking out the poster for his “documentary”? YOU decide what the truth is. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

See the BSA review of “Exit Through the Gift Shop”

Celso pays homage to a Modern Master
Celso pays homage to a Modern Master at Woodward Gallery’s outside installation (photo © Jaime Rojo)

"I give up. How many time do I have to tell you to not leave your shoes outside!"e
“I give up. How many times do I have to tell you:  Don’t leave your shoes outside!” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

El Sol 25
Edwin Von Hopper strains to remember the rules about mixing stripes with plaid. (El Sol 25) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Veng RWK
Veng RWK (photo © Jaime Rojo)

QRST
QRST (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Emma has beef on her face
Emma has beef on her face (Emma, Buildmore (?)) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lattice Crow with Sword
Lattice Crow with Sword (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Fallin' in Love
Fool in Love, yeah (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Fun Friday 04.16.10 : “Glamorous” Pandemic Takes Street Art to the Mall for a “Photo Shoot”

April 16, 2010 , ,

Scenes of Glamorous Pandemonium in Brooklyn

It seemed innocent enough, the invitation said it was a “Closing Party” for the very successful “Stokenphobia” show with GoreB and a cast of thousands at Pandemic Gallery last Saturday night. To our shock and utter glee, it was rock-out with your wig-out, replete with cameras, costumes, props and backgrounds to boot.  Before it all devolved into a silly soup of smeared lipstick on collars and assorted body parts, an assemblage of posing and preening was captured in the moment.

Hold on a sheckunt honey, Momma jus gonna have a little of thish cake.
Hold on a sheckund honey, Momma jus gonna have a little of thish cake.

"You, the bow-legged one, yeah, wass your name? Damn, that sounds sexy!"
“You, the bow-legged one, yeah, wass your name? Damn, that sounds sexy.”

Identities have been hidden to protect the guilty.
Identities have been hidden to protect the guilty.

And this season's ingenue....
And this season’s ingenue….

“AND IIIIIII-EEE-IIIIIIIIII WILL ALWAYS LUV UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU !”

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You want fries with that?
"You better be good to me!"

"You better be good to me!"

See more of the stunning array of glamouuuur at their Flickr page

All images courtesy of Pandemic Gallery and © Derrick Y. Noh.

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JMR Solo Show Tonight, and His Donation to the Silent Auction

April 16, 2010 , , ,

JMR has arrived back in New York from Dallas, where he’s living these days, for the occasion of his solo show at Mighty Tenaka this Friday and to deliver his contribution to the Street Art New York Silent Auction Benefit.

JMR takes his usual pristine ne0-abstract lines and let’s them run in a new direction here – downward. An experienced muralist who can knock out 40 foot long walls in a couple of days, you can see his work on a building sized mural at the Pod Hotel in Manhattan, as well as a number of commissioned projects in Brooklyn.

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Stikman Never Gets BOARD; New Piece for Silent Auction

April 14, 2010 ,

The Ever Clever Stikman does a little robotic dance to spring!

There is no end to the permutations that street art icon Stikman takes; a 3-D sculpture of sticks, screen printed on vinyl, doing a wiggly move on a page of notated music, and of course, smashed into the pavement for you to gaze upon while waiting for the “WALK” sign.

For the Street Art New York Silent Auction Benefit, Stikman has mutated and mounted a weathered piece of lumber, looking in context!

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BARRY McGee Video – Setting up at SFMOMA

April 14, 2010 ,

One of the most influential artists to come out of the graffiti and street art scenes, Barry McGee, was recently asked to reinstall a work of his at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for their 75th Anniversary retrospective.
 Guess they really like this pimple-shaped protrusion of framed sketches, drawings, tags, photos, and geometric patterns

– it’s the 4th installation of the piece at SFMOMA since 1996.

In the video, McGee talks about his first creative impulses and practices, “I drew a lot as a kid, but I didn’t know I was going to be an artist.”

Thanks to G. Lewis Heslet, of The Creative Lives, for alerting us to this video.  For more about the project go to http://thecreativelives.com/

Barry McGee Feature from TheCreativeLives

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Exclusive Pics of ROA’s Rooftop in Old Street, London

April 13, 2010 ,

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In town for his smash solo show that opened this week at Pure Evil Gallery , street artist ROA flew to a nearby rooftop to install some sort of long-beaked bird. Thanks to eagle-eye photographer Sarah Didry, we can see the scene as it takes flight right now under sunny London skies.

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The next shots will be straight from the Pure Evil helicopter, which is currently in the English countryside taking Charley to a croquet game. Stay tuned!

images © Sarah Didry

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Chris Stain Skateboard Piece for Auction

April 13, 2010

Street Artist Chris Stain always complains that he doesn’t get to skateboard anymore because he has grown-up duties and there is just no time. Boo hoo.

Maybe that’s why he designed this custom one-of-a-kind deck for the Street Art New York Silent Auction Benefit.  – At least he can be close to this symbol of teenager-hood while he’s painting.

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Two things I really dig about this is it includes A.) the ironic and personal statement across the bottom, “To Hell With Kevin”, which cracks me up, and B.) one of the tags on the water tower is by another artist in the very same auction.  Can you guess which one?

AND IN OTHER EXCITING CHRIS STAIN NEWS:

Congratulations to Chris for being featured in the prestigious photography magazine WINK, produced by impresario editor Charlie Fish who did a whole 8 page spread on some of his recent work, including a big mural he did in their offices. See the full online version of the magazine HERE.

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