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Fun Friday 10.14.11

October 14, 2011 Amsterdam, Art Fair, Artists, Brooklyn, California, Gallery, L.A., Los Angeles, Manhattan, NYC, Opening, The Netherlands, U.K.

1. MONIKER in London
2. CASH FOR YOUR WARHOL with Garage
3. Dabs & Myla with Shea&Ziegler from London
4. D*Face with Stolen Space
5. Able and Baker Gallery from Cologne: Ben Aine. ROA. Pure Evil. Herakut. Rero.
6. AIKO with Andenken Gallery from Amsterdam
7. AIKO Solo Show at PURE EVIL (London)
8. Word to Mother solo show “Essence of Adolescence” Friday Stolen Space Gallery
9. “Ok, Enough, Goodbye”, film at MOMA
10. How and Nosm solo show “Achtung!” Saturday at Known Gallery (LA)
11. WRONA at Pandemic Saturday (Brooklyn)

MONIKER in London

Let’s all head to Shoreditch in East London this weekend for the Moniker International Art Fair, where there will be new stuff from a bunch of Street Artists . In addition, some of the galleries at the fair are having openings back home. Here are some of the exhibitors to help you find your way:

CASH FOR YOUR WARHOL with Garage

Cash For Your Warhol. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dabs & Myla with Shea&Ziegler from London

Image from Dabs and Myla in Los Angeles at ThinkSpace Gallery 2011 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

D*Face with Stolen Space

Stolen Space Gallery will be having a print release of ‘Going Nowhere Fast’ By D*Face on Saturday 15th at 11 am at Moniker Art Fair.

Image of D*Face in Los Angeles 2011 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Able and Baker Gallery from Cologne: Ben Aine. ROA. Pure Evil. Herakut. Rero.

Image of Herakut in Los Angeles, CA (photo © Jaime Rojo)

AIKO with Andenken Gallery from Amsterdam

Image of Aiko in downtown Los Angeles, 2011 with LA Freewalls Project. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

For full details, schedule of events and venues for Moniker International Art Fair click on the link below:

http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=25420

AIKO Solo Show at PURE EVIL (London)

AIKO’S solo show “Unstoppable Ways” at Pure Evil Gallery opens today from 6 to 9 pm

Aiko at work on a wall in Los Angeles Arts District for LA Freewalls Project (photo © Jaime Rojo)

For more details regarding this show click on the link below:

http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=25406

Word to Mother solo show “Essence of Adolescence” Friday Stolen Space Gallery

‘Essence of Adolescence’ is an enlightening glimpse into the artist’s visually obsessed mind. Word To Mother invites the viewer to take a glimpse of his inner mindscape. An outward manifestation that combines references drawn from his childhood and the visual stimulation that he absorbed; cartoons juxtaposed with more serious emotive thoughts and fears that face him as an adult living and painting in East London.

Word to Mother. Los Angeles 2011. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

For more information regarding this show click on the link below:

http://www.stolenspace.com/section.php?xSec=3

“Ok, Enough, Goodbye”, film at MOMA

Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia will be on hand to answer questions when they screen their new film “Ok, Enough, Goodbye” at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City this weekend.

Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia. “Ok, Enough, Goodbye” Still from the movie.

The screenings with the Auteurs in attendance will be held this weekend on Friday and Saturday.

For more information about times and tickets please click on the link below:

http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=25441

How and Nosm solo show “Achtung!” Saturday at Known Gallery (LA)

How and Nosm in NYC 2011 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

For more information regarding this show click on the link below:

http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=25158

WRONA at Pandemic Saturday (Brooklyn)

Wrona solo show “Pretty Horrible” opens on Saturday at Pandemic Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn where there is always assured a good time.

For more information regarding this show click on the link below:

http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=25446

NOMADE Points to the Lights of Metropolis L.A.

October 11, 2011 Artists, California, Los Angeles, On the Street

Street Art collective Nomade continue apace with reinventions of their fearless painting Roman soldier – that spear is a paintbrush by the way – in LA once again. The piece is 89 feet long by 22 feet high (27m x 7m) and located in the heart of the Arts District in Downtown LA, their sixth installation over the last couple of years with the LA Freewalls Project. The group boasts designers of various stripes who have been actively involved in a number of LA industries and who collectively bring this metaphor to life in new ways, each time with elements of photorealism, illustration, and a generous amount of propagandic heroicism from classical antiquity.

Nomade for LA Freewalls Project (photo courtesy © NOMADE)

“Heartship” Takes Flight: How and Nosm Complete Mural in LA

October 10, 2011 Artists, California, Los Angeles, On the Street

Street Artists How and Nosm have just completed a 6 day installation of a brand new piece with the LA Freewalls project here in the Arts District of downtown Los Angeles. With occasional interruptions for rain and food and sleep, the twins methodically knocked out a complex and detailed mural 106 feet wide and 60 feet tall (32m x 18m) that effectively nails their reputation as two of the most talented artists on the Street Art scene today, not that it was in doubt. With two decades of work under their belts, it is a rare combination of focus, relentless creative exploration, and artistic integrity that has shifted the work of these guys into an international limelight over the past couple of years.

How and Nosm. (photo courtesy LA Freewalls Project © Birdman)

How and Nosm. In this image you can appreciate the scale and proportion of this mural on the far right. (Photo courtesy LA Freewalls Project © Birdman)

Named “Heartship” the gargantuan mural is on a mission to entertain, elate, and educate about what self-taught artists with heart can produce and add to the man-made environment. In a direct way the whole project strikes at the center of the current “mural moratorium” in LA, which many local artists view as narrow, marginalizing, and inept.

“The fact that this mural exists contrary to any official public art policy in Los Angeles is a miracle, and a testament to the courage, will, and determination of everyone involved in the project,” says Daniel Lahoda, who’s LA Freewalls Project has routinely advocated for a review and revising of the City’s official policy toward public art and Street Art.

How and Nosm. (photo courtesy LA Freewalls Project © Birdman)

This Saturday (10/15) the brothers will also be celebrating “ACHTUNG!”, their first solo show, with 50 new original works at Known Gallery in LA. Expect to be suitably blown away, and to see a huge crowd.

See BSA’s interview with How and Nosm this summer in Juxtapoz here.

How and Nosm. (photo courtesy LA Freewalls Project © Birdman)

“Heartship”, by How and Nosm. (photo courtesy LA Freewalls Project © Birdman)

With special thanks Daniel Lahoda and to Dante at Madison Realty Group. All photographs © “Birdman Photos” (@birdmanphotos on Twitter).

Images of the Week 10.09.11

October 9, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, California, Chicago, L.A., Los Angeles, Manhattan, NYC, On the Street, Pasadena

Here’s our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring: Nice One, Jim Darling, Cardiff, NohJColey, El Sol 25, Dan Witz.

Dan Witz. fresh from his participation in NUART 2011 Dan give us his take on “Equus” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dan Witz. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NohJColey. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NohJColey. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NohJColey. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NohJColey. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Nice One. Last month photographer Brock Brake spent some time with Street Artist Nice One on the same rooftop in Chicago where Ludo put his piece in August. Nice One departed from his usual wheat pastes or air brush compressor and painted this piece with the can. (photo © Brock Brake)

Nice One. (photo © Brock Brake)

Jim Darling new mural in LA. (photo © Jim Darling)

Cardiff. Street installation in Pasadena, CA (photo © Cardiff)

El Sol 25. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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

El Sol 25. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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

“The benefit of death is you know not to waste life living someone else’s choices. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition” Steve Jobs. Stanford University, 2005. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Post No Bills Present: Ron English “English 101” (Venice Beach, CA)

October 5, 2011 Artists, California, Events, Gallery, Opening, Venice Beach

Ron English
ENGLISH 101- the exciting new RON ENGLISH exhibition showing October 6th thru October 30th at Post No Bills in Venice Beach (owned by Jordan Bratman and Steve Lazarides). ENGLISH 101 will feature exclusive new limited-edition prints and hand-finished multiples (with prices ranging from $20 – $4000) by one of today’s most prolific artists, Ron English, who has bombed global landscape with unforgettable images including famed characters MC Supersized and Abraham Obama.

Post No Bills, an inventive print shop with a focus on handmade limited-edition multiples, is proud to kick off the show with an Opening Reception on October 6 from 7-10 PM at their Abbot Kinney-based shop. Ron English will be in attendance and available for signings. Please see invite and press release attached. We are also happy to provide you with images and any other information you may need. Let us know if you are interested in covering and/or coming by the Opening!

Old Crow Tattoo Presents: Optimist “Man. Animals & The Machines” (Oakland, CA)

October 5, 2011 Artists, California, Gallery, Oakland, Opening

Optimist

“If you consider Graffiti as an art form reaching the widest audience it has in decades, I think it’s really important to promote active writer’s. The current norm is moreso based on promoting folks who are only painting commission murals, and /or are creating gallery and museum art from graffiti backgrounds. I think the current state of graffiti is being shaped by not only the street but also those who are moving from the street into the gallery. To be making gallery ready artwork with such a high amount of illegal graffiti running is amazing, dangerous and for some humbling. That being said, Optimist is a very well rounded and he personifies what it is to be a writer in this specific and changing time for Urban art” Terry OCT

Optimist (photo courtesy of Old Crow Tattoo)

Known Gallery Presents: Daze “The Gray Scale” (Los Angeles, CA)

October 4, 2011 Artists, California, Events, Gallery, Los Angeles, Opening

DAZE

DAZE – The Grey Scale

October 15 – November 5, 2011

The Grey Scale Paintings
Walking along what seemed like an endless series of tracks my senses became accustomed to the dark labrythiniun tunnels that lay below. My eyes adjusted to the darkness and my ears acclimated to the endless series of subtle noises. Dripping water, the squeal of rats chasing each other, the release of train compressors, the clicking of the tracks as a train approached the next station, then, all at once, the roar of a passing train echoing through the tunnel, and then, silence.
This new series of works entitled “The Grey Scale” is an exploration into the context in which many of my subway works were created. Walls layered with years of tags and signatures, gravel floors covered in dust and debris, flickering lights, and the gleam of sharp steel tracks piercing the darkness are all portrayed in the context of subterranean tunnels that lead to nowhere. This is a world in which we are encouraged to stay away from the light at the end of the tunnel. These new works call to mind some of the layered complexity of Rauschenberg’s early black paintings or perhaps the subtlety of Cy Twombly’s blackboard paintings. Others yet clearly show references to the gritty urban landscapes of the New York ash can school: John Sloan, William Glackens, Robert Henri, and later most of all, Reginald Marsh. These artists chose, as I do, the streets as their primary source of inspiration. The paintings are a kind of hybrid that draws from the vocabulary of both the graffiti world and urban realism.

Known Gallery

441 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Hours during shows:
Wednesday thru Saturday: 12 – 7pm
Sunday: 12 – 6pm
+1.310.860.6263
info@knowngallery.com

Known Gallery Presents: How & Nosm “ACHTUNG!” (Los Angeles, CA)

October 4, 2011 Artists, California, Events, Gallery, Los Angeles, Opening

How and Nosm

HowNosm – ACHTUNG!

October 15 – November 5, 2011

The staid cleanliness of a single-colored surface is a disturbing testament to society’s uniformity and the pressure society places on one to conform.

Such a surface, standing alone and dull, cries out for attention.
Answering its call ‹ and recognizing its potential ‹ HOWNOSM bless the surface with confidence, courage, action, vitality and just a touch of the world’s inevitable darkness and death, transforming it into a truer reflection of both the world around it and their own varied lives.

ACHTUNG! is a collection of pieces that resemble broken mirrors, each filled with messages that are, by turns, sharp-edged, blurred and fast-changing. They serve as a reminder of the need to, and the dangers of failing to, walk alertly through this life.

Known Gallery

441 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Hours during shows:
Wednesday thru Saturday: 12 – 7pm
Sunday: 12 – 6pm
+1.310.860.6263
info@knowngallery.com

Fountain Los Angeles: Sneak Peek by Birdman

October 1, 2011 Art Fair, Artists, California, Events, Los Angeles

New York’s Fountain is spraying westward this weekend in LA and photographer Birdman gives us an inside look at some of the preparations of the Street Art contingent for this show. Somehow Fountain manages to keep a loosely organized chaos on point wherever it goes, a perfect bit of ground between the cracks of the concrete where things of beauty are likely to pop up.

Can dynamo and Street Artist Chor Boogie getting up with a nice selection of paint (photo © Birdman)

Eddie Colla. (photo © Birdman)

Eddie Colla catches a stencil tag. (photo © Birdman)

Indoor installation in progress (photo © Birdman)

Gilf! has some instructions for this outdoor mural in progress. (photo © Birdman)

An organic sculpture of paint can tops is growing with anticipation of the opening at Fountain LA 2011 (photo © Birdman)

Fountain Art Fair includes a Street Art outdoor exhibition with: GILF!, Eddie Colla, Tiki Jay One, Shark Toof, Chor Boogie, Hugh Leeman, Billi Kid & CIG, Ian Ross, and Cryptik.

For more information regarding location, time and schedule of events please click on the link below:

http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=24957

Fun Friday 09.30.11

September 30, 2011 Art Fair, Artists, Brooklyn, California, Events, L.A., Los Angeles, Manhattan, Norway, Nuart, NYC, On the Street, Opening, Performance, Queens, Stavanger

1. Fountain LA This Weekend
2. NUART 2011 – Stavanger, Norway
3. “Bring to Light” in Greenpoint Brooklyn for the 2nd Year – Saturday Night!
3. “Rituals” on 14th Street, Art in Odd Places
4. Pantheon Projects at THE NEW YORK ART BOOK FAIR AT MoMA PS1
5. Art Platform Los Angeles
6. RETNA at Art Platform (LA)
7. Brian Adam Douglas at Art Platform (LA)

Fountain LA This Weekend

New York’s own specially warped outsiders are in LA this weekend, and BSA is happy to sport support for whatever madness they can stir up, including the Murder Lounge, which Dave Ill says will be in full effect. (Murder- .slang. To defeat decisively). When you are milling around the big LA shows this weekend make sure you stop by Fountain and say hello to Señor Kesting and check out the Street Art contingent doing their thing on the Left Coast ya’ll.

(Image Shark Toof © Jaime Rojo)

Fountain Art Fair includes a Street Art outdoor exhibition with: GILF!, Eddie Colla, Tiki Jay One, Shark Toof, Chor Boogie, Hugh Leeman, Billi Kid & CIG, Ian Ross, and Cryptik getting up in the courtyard.

For more information regarding location, time and schedule of events please click on the link below:

http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=24957

NUART 2011 – Stavanger, Norway

Dan Witz “King Baby” (photo courtesy of NUART © Dan Witz)

NUART 2011 has arrived and the streets and buildings of Stavanger are a heating up with all the artists getting up and doing what they know what to do best: Paint. Brooklyn’s own Dan Witz already hit the streets with his “King Baby” street installations on faux city street signage. Tonight (Friday) their is a panel debate with artists, Carlo McCormick and Juxtapoz Magazine that we wouldn’t miss.

Artists include DAN WITZ (US), DAVID CHOE & DVS1 (US), VHILS (PO), HERBERT BAGLIONE (BR), DOLK (NO), LUCY McCLAUCHLAN (UK), HERAKUT (DE), TELLAS (IT), ESCIF (ES), HYURO (ES), PHLEGM (UK)

For a complete listing of events and schedules please visit the NUART site:

http://www.nuart.no/

“Bring to Light” in Greenpoint Brooklyn for the 2nd Year – Saturday Night!

“All manner of projectors blasted on the walls with myriad images, forms, and shapes, some breathtakingly beautiful. Other artists created sculptures and installations that worked as light vessels and amorphous creatures while collaborative dancers entertained groupings of appreciative observers.” from BSA’s review on Huffington Post

Bring to Light Nuit Blanche New York 2010 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

OCTOBER 1ST, 2011, Greenpoint, Brooklyn New York. 6:00 pm to Midnight.

Bring to Light is a free nighttime public festival of art in New York City that takes place simultaneously with “nuit blanche” events in cities around the world. Inviting emerging and established artists to make site-specific installations of light, sound, performance and projection art, the event creates an immersive spectacle for thousands of visitors to re-imagine public space and civic life. Bring to Light will transform streets, parks and the industrial waterfront of Greenpoint, Brooklyn set against dramatic views of the Manhattan skyline.

Nuit Blanche (French for “white night” or “all-nighter”) is a global network of locally-organized nighttime contemporary art events. Originating in Paris in 2001, the nuit blanche concept now involves millions of people in cities around the world.

One performance we will NOT miss will be Chris Jordan and Josh Goldberg, who have serious chops in public projection work, presenting CHRONO GIANTS.

Still from the work in progress for this year’s NY Nuit Blanche from artists Chris Jordan and Josh Golberg. (photo © Chris Jordan)

Also included will be Chris’s timelapse of Hurricane Irene – Projected inside a Giant CLOUD:

For further information, schedule, directions and full details visit Bring to Light site:

http://www.bringtolightnyc.org/

“Rituals” on 14th Street, Art in Odd Places

Art in Odd Places 2011: RITUAL features a wide variety of actions, participatory performances, theatrical presentations, public installations, and small and large-scale interventions all of which revolve around the concept of ritual.

Alejandro Guzman “El Guaraguao in the Barrio”, 2011 (photo courtesy © Alejandro Guzman)

Art in Odd Places (AiOP) presents visual and performance art in public spaces with an annual festival each October along 14th Street in Manhattan, NYC from Avenue C to the Hudson River.

Opening Reception for Art In Odd Places Festival 2011

Friday, September 30, 6-9pm

Theaterlab
137 West 14th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues

New York, NY

For a complete listing of artists and a full schedule of events and locations visit Art In Odd Places site:

http://www.artinoddplaces.org/index.php

THE NEW YORK ART BOOK FAIR AT MoMA PS1

This art book fair always rewards you – just walking around the floorplan of MoMA PS1 is a trip and the books are tripped out. This year we are in a new one – The Pantheon Catalog from Joyce Manalo and Daniel Feral;

“The street has always been the thumping beat that pumps the pulsing lifeblood through creative New York. Yes, there is a lot of action behind the walls in the offices and galleries and studios and stages and clubs and boardrooms, but everyone knows it is the kinetic electricity of life on the street that inspires New Yorkers to dig deeper and dream bigger and play hard.”

~ from the essay Street Art New York, The 2000s, Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo of Brooklyn Street Art.

If that is not enough to make you absolutely plow down crowds to get there, consider the real talents who are going to be there to SIGN YOUR COPY:

***Catalog Signing on Sunday, October 2nd, 3-3:45 PM featuring***

Charlie Ahearn, Chris Pape aka Freedom, KET1 RIS and Toofly

Joyce will be waiting for you!

Join Pantheon Projects at The NY Art Book Fair
September 30-October 2, 2011, 11AM-7PM, at PS1/MoMA, Free Admission
Hours: Friday–Sunday, 11AM-7PM

THE NY ART BOOK FAIR
September 30–October 2, 2011
MoMA PS1

MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Avenue
Long Island City, NY (map)

Art Platform Los Angeles

From their press release; Art Platform – Los Angeles will demonstrate the rich and vibrant cultural landscape of Southern California and underscore Los Angeles’ influential position within the contemporary art world. MMPI is one of the largest show producers in the world, including a growing portfolio of premium art shows. We have assured the continued development and enhancement of the Art Show division by bringing together some of the top minds in art fairs under one partnership”

For more information, location and a complete list of exhibitors please visit Art Platform at:

http://www.artplatform-losangeles.com/

RETNA at Art Platform (LA)

If you can’t wait to see the Retna spread as shot by David LaChapelle in October’s Vanity Fair you can check out these new pieces at Art Platform and see BSA’s photos from his New York show this spring.

New Image Art Gallery will be exhibiting at Art Platfrom Los Angeles Featuring new large-scale paintings on canvas and paper by RETNA Visit them at booth #108

Brian Adam Douglas at Art Platform (LA)

Andrew Edlin Gallery will exhibit Brooklyn Fine and Street Artist Brian Adam Douglas along with Henry Darger, Thornton Dial and Jeremy Everett. Visit them at booth 814.

Brian Adam Douglas

The Center Cannot Hold, 2011

cut paper on birch panel with UVA varnish

6 foot diamater

Anthony Lister Talks to BSA : Analysis and Constant Consideration

September 29, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, California, Features, Florida, Interview, Los Angeles, Manhattan, Miami, NYC, On the Street, San Francisco, Street Talker Interview, Venice Beach

“I’m like a hairdresser I guess.”

Painter Anthony Lister is also a Street Artist. His surreal pop and celebrity culture-infused abstractions are candy encrusted apples which may have something sharp inside. Many are figurative studies and wire frames bending wildly into characters who cavort and mock with blunt swipes of color, overlaid by costumed sexual role play… or is that a personal projection? Did I mention elegance, defiance, wit? Wait, there is so much here! Truth is, his work can be a cock-eyed psychological tempest, jarring to the head, strangely sweet.

A decade of discovery under his superhero belt, Mr. Lister continues to analyze and build his creative practice and it always includes work inside the gallery and outside on the street. He’s currently preparing for his solo show in Sydney called “Bogan Paradise” at Gallery A.S. At the same time he’s part of a group show with a gaggle of his Aussie expats on view at 941 Geary in San Francisco for “Young and Free”, including Kid Zoom, Dabs & Myla, Dmote, New2, Ben Frost, Meggs, Ha-Ha, Reka, Rone, Sofles and Vexta. Not to mention his participation in our show last month in Los Angeles at C.A.V.E. with Thinkspace, “Street Art Saved My Life : 39 New York Stories“.

The artist took some time recently to talk to Brooklyn Street Art about his practice;

Brooklyn Street Art: How much of one of your painted portraits is autobiographical? In other words, what portion of Mr. Lister is super hero, super model, furtive schoolboy, or Homer Simpson?
Anthony Lister: I don’t really think about myself when I paint. My figurative works are more like reflections of characteristics I absorb from real life day to day.

Brooklyn Street Art: If you were to wear colored glasses, which color do you think you would most likely screen the world through?
Anthony Lister: Pink, like John Lennon.

Brooklyn Street Art: Francis Bacon said, “The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.” Would you drink that cocktail?
Anthony Lister: Nice words. I agree.

Brooklyn Street Art: What role does analysis play in your creative process when bringing a painting to fruition?
Anthony Lister: Analysis is the outcome of considered processing. Constant consideration is crucial.

Brooklyn Street Art: A big piece you did on Metropolitan in Brooklyn – you reworked that face a couple of times over a period of months, producing what appeared as a slowly morphing image. Were you covering up tags, or were you unhappy with the original, or maybe combating the effects of age with a little nip and tuck?
Anthony Lister: When I re-work street paintings I think of it like I am a hairdresser. When something is in the public it has a different existence to something living privately in a residence. I’m like a hairdresser I guess.

Brooklyn Street Art: You have spoken about your work as reality, or a reaction to realities. What realities are you depicting these days?
Anthony Lister: I just finished a body of work for a solo show in Sydney. This next body of work is about contemporary Australian culture. The exhibition is titled “Bogan Paradise.”

Brooklyn Street Art: When you consider the Street Art scene that evolved around Melbourne, how would you characterize its nature in a way that differentiates it from the work in other cities around the world?
Anthony Lister: No different. This whole street art thing has sprung up post the turn of the digital revolution so it is on the Internet quick and the artists who inspire others and the ones who are easily inspired are constantly swimming in the same aesthetic pools of consciousness. Not to mention that most of the prominent artists travel lots so it is easy to see work of the same artist in multiple cities around the world at the same time.

Brooklyn Street Art: The titles you give your gallery pieces are entertaining, instructive, illustrative. Do you ever want to place a placard near a piece you’ve done on the street – just to make sure the message gets across?
Anthony Lister: No. My street practice is less thoughtful and therefore needs less commentary.

Brooklyn Street Art: When is a painting complete?
Anthony Lister: When it tells me so.

Want to see more work? Just “Lister” it.

www.anthonylister.com

West One Presents: “Freedom Suite” At Environment (Los Angeles, CA)

September 28, 2011 Artists, California, Events, Gallery, Los Angeles, Opening

West One

WEST ONE “Freedom Suite” At Environment 8126 Beverly Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90048   September 30, 2011 – December 30, 2011 Opening Reception September 30, 2011 7-10pm

WEST, the renowned graffiti artist-turned-abstract painter, has joined forces with furniture company Environment for a public mural and solo show titled “Freedom Suite” that will be unveiled at a kick-off event September 30, 2011. WEST will exhibit new paintings inside the showroom and will paint a large-scale mural on the exterior of Environment’s Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles location creating community through shared ideas, knowledge, culture and art. Some proceeds will be donated to the charity Jamaican Kids <http://www.jamaicankids.org/Jamaican_Kids/Our_mission.html> .  “We live in a vast city where everything’s at right angles,” WEST said. “My work is movement and energy. It’s organic. The viewer will see different things – maybe themselves, maybe the city. Maybe the broader environment. I hope to make us look at our space, our environment, a little differently.”

Open to the public starting September 30, 2011, the WEST exhibition will be on display at the Environment Furniture Showroom, 8126 Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles through December 31, 2011.

ABOUT WEST:

http://www.westonefc.com/

Recognized as one of the most prolific artists in the New York Graffiti scene throughout the 1980’s and 90’s, West has been painting publicly since 1984. Born and raised in New York City, the great grandson of Russian-Jewish immigrants, West began painting on the number 1 Broadway local subway. Throughout the mid to late 80’s West became known for his clean letters, and as one of the last of a handful of artists who was actively painting just before the demise of subway Graffiti in New York. Throughout the 1990’s, West, along with his crew Fame City, was a major influence in the New York City graffiti movement by spearheading concept-driven, thematic productions which are now standard in large scale graffiti mural painting.  Since 2001 West has taken a radical departure from the uniform structure of traditional graffiti letters and technique. In his current work he has pushed into the realms of abstraction and stripped the art form of all of its traditional trappings of color, medium, and process. As a result a new and unique language has emerged in his work.  West first exhibited in 1985 with Librizzi Gallery’s ‘Graffiti & East Village Artists’ show, and has since exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in New York, and internationally.

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MONIKER in London

CASH FOR YOUR WARHOL with Garage

Cash For Your Warhol. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dabs & Myla with Shea&Ziegler from London

Image from Dabs and Myla in Los Angeles at ThinkSpace Gallery 2011 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

D*Face with Stolen Space

Stolen Space Gallery will be having a print release of ‘Going Nowhere Fast’ By D*Face on Saturday 15th at 11 am at Moniker Art Fair.

Image of D*Face in Los Angeles 2011 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Able and Baker Gallery from Cologne: Ben Aine. ROA. Pure Evil. Herakut. Rero.

Image of Herakut in Los Angeles, CA (photo © Jaime Rojo)

AIKO with Andenken Gallery from Amsterdam

Image of Aiko in downtown Los Angeles, 2011 with LA Freewalls Project. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

AIKO Solo Show at PURE EVIL (London)

AIKO’S solo show “Unstoppable Ways” at Pure Evil Gallery opens today from 6 to 9 pm

Aiko at work on a wall in Los Angeles Arts District for LA Freewalls Project (photo © Jaime Rojo)

For more details regarding this show click on the link below:

Word to Mother solo show “Essence of Adolescence” Friday Stolen Space Gallery

Word to Mother. Los Angeles 2011. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia will be on hand to answer questions when they screen their new film “Ok, Enough, Goodbye” at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City this weekend.

Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia. “Ok, Enough, Goodbye” Still from the movie.

How and Nosm solo show “Achtung!” Saturday at Known Gallery (LA)

How and Nosm in NYC 2011 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

WRONA at Pandemic Saturday (Brooklyn)

Nomade for LA Freewalls Project (photo courtesy © NOMADE)

Nomade for LA Freewalls Project (photo courtesy © NOMADE)

Nomade for LA Freewalls Project (photo courtesy © NOMADE)

How and Nosm. (photo courtesy LA Freewalls Project © Birdman)

How and Nosm. In this image you can appreciate the scale and proportion of this mural on the far right. (Photo courtesy LA Freewalls Project © Birdman)

How and Nosm. (photo courtesy LA Freewalls Project © Birdman)

How and Nosm. (photo courtesy LA Freewalls Project © Birdman)

How and Nosm. (photo courtesy LA Freewalls Project © Birdman)

How and Nosm. (photo courtesy LA Freewalls Project © Birdman)

How and Nosm. (photo courtesy LA Freewalls Project © Birdman)

How and Nosm. (photo courtesy LA Freewalls Project © Birdman)

How and Nosm. (photo courtesy LA Freewalls Project © Birdman)

How and Nosm. (photo courtesy LA Freewalls Project © Birdman)

“Heartship”, by How and Nosm. (photo courtesy LA Freewalls Project © Birdman)

Dan Witz. fresh from his participation in NUART 2011 Dan give us his take on “Equus” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dan Witz. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NohJColey. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NohJColey. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NohJColey. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NohJColey. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NohJColey. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NohJColey. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Nice One. Last month photographer Brock Brake spent some time with Street Artist Nice One on the same rooftop in Chicago where Ludo put his piece in August. Nice One departed from his usual wheat pastes or air brush compressor and painted this piece with the can. (photo © Brock Brake)

Nice One. (photo © Brock Brake)

Nice One. (photo © Brock Brake)

Jim Darling new mural in LA. (photo © Jim Darling)

Cardiff. Street installation in Pasadena, CA (photo © Cardiff)

Cardiff. Street installation in Pasadena, CA (photo © Cardiff)

El Sol 25. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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

El Sol 25. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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

“The benefit of death is you know not to waste life living someone else’s choices. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition” Steve Jobs. Stanford University, 2005. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Optimist (photo courtesy of Old Crow Tattoo)

Can dynamo and Street Artist Chor Boogie getting up with a nice selection of paint (photo © Birdman)

Eddie Colla. (photo © Birdman)

Eddie Colla catches a stencil tag. (photo © Birdman)

Indoor installation in progress (photo © Birdman)

Gilf! has some instructions for this outdoor mural in progress. (photo © Birdman)

An organic sculpture of paint can tops is growing with anticipation of the opening at Fountain LA 2011 (photo © Birdman)

Fountain LA This Weekend

(Image Shark Toof © Jaime Rojo)

NUART 2011 – Stavanger, Norway

Dan Witz “King Baby” (photo courtesy of NUART © Dan Witz)

For a complete listing of events and schedules please visit the NUART site:

“Bring to Light” in Greenpoint Brooklyn for the 2nd Year – Saturday Night!

Bring to Light Nuit Blanche New York 2010 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Still from the work in progress for this year’s NY Nuit Blanche from artists Chris Jordan and Josh Golberg. (photo © Chris Jordan)

“Rituals” on 14th Street, Art in Odd Places

Alejandro Guzman “El Guaraguao in the Barrio”, 2011 (photo courtesy © Alejandro Guzman)

THE NEW YORK ART BOOK FAIR AT MoMA PS1

Art Platform Los Angeles

RETNA at Art Platform (LA)

Retna in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Brian Adam Douglas at Art Platform (LA)

“I’m like a hairdresser I guess.”

Anthony Lister in Brooklyn (photo © Jaime Rojo)

WEST ONE “Freedom Suite” At Environment 8126 Beverly Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90048   September 30, 2011 – December 30, 2011 Opening Reception September 30, 2011 7-10pm