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Pawn Works Gallery Presents: Gabriel Specter “Repeat Offender” (Chicago, ILL)

May 2, 2011 , , , ,

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Pawn Works Presents

GABRIEL SPECTER: REPEAT OFFENDER

May 14- June17, 2011

Opening Reception Saturday, May 14, 2011/ 6-10pm

Brooklyn-based, Gabriel Specter is internationally known for precise street installations that revitalize forgotten environments. Taking an anthropological approach to his subject matter defines Specter’s aesthetic. Striking paintings and sculptures document change, celebrate the marginalized and ultimately become monuments to common urban experience.

In his first Chicago show Specter addresses the culture of repetition in street art that he notoriously denounces. He generally refuses to work in multiples, but in this work, REPEAT OFFENDER, Specter plays with repetition on his own terms.

First, he garners images from previous projects to hand-paint, carve and paste a central, large scale 8’ x 8’ piece. Using that as a reference he re-paints selected sections resulting in works that vary in scale, color and medium from that of the original. Specter stretches his muscles in figurative and abstract painting with this new body of work. Each piece is meticulously made employing a range of techniques and materials to impart an authentic, ‘stolen-from-the-street’ quality.

We will be hosting an event on Saturday May 14 from 6-10pm for Gabriel Specter: Repeat Offender at Pawn Works; Artist will be in attendance.

PawnWorks
1050 N. Damen Ave.
Chicago, Illinois 60622

Ph: 312.841.3986

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Fun Friday 03.25.11

March 25, 2011 , , , , , , ,

Fun-Friday

GAIA in Chicago Tonight

If you blow into Chicago this weekend check out New York Street Artist GAIA’s solo show at Maxwell Colette Gallery, “Resplendent Semblance”

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(photo courtesy © of the gallery)

To read more details about the show, time and location click on the link below:

http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=19595

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Gaia at work on  “Resplendent Semblance” (photos courtesy © of the gallery)

Celebrate the Rockin Life of Liz Taylor

London Police and David Choe at Eatern District Tomorrow

VIDEO Show at Eastern District in Bushwick Saturday

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And if you are in New York this Saturday head over to Eastern District for an Art and Video installation featuring original works by David Choe, The London Police, Franki Chan, Cherly Dunn, Gluekit, Matt Goldman, Cody Hudson & Jared Eberhardt, Mackie Osborne, Souther Salazar, and SSUR

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Pop Plus Punk Sunday with Exit Art show at Littlefield in GOWANUS

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This Sunday head over to Brooklyn’s Gowanus section for Exit Art’s Pop Art Explosion. A fun group show and punk music  featuring works by Street Artists Tip Toe and Pork among others.

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Click on the link below to learn more details, time and location of the show;

http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=19565

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Maxwell Colette Gallery and Pawn Works Present Gaia “Resplendent Semblance” (Chicago, IL)

March 22, 2011 , , , ,

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Maxwell Colette Gallery and Pawn Works have joined forces to bring internationally lauded contemporary artists to Chicago, who are known for their involvement in the Street Art movement. The first of these joint ventures, GAIA: Resplendent Semblance, launches this month with a series of projects showcasing the artist Gaia. The events will include a show of new, large scale paintings and decollage on wood art works at Maxwell Colette Gallery, a site specific installation and show featuring additional pieces at the Pawn Works space and a massive window installation at State Street and Adams presented in conjunction with The Chicago Loop Alliance’s Pop Up Art Loop initiative.

Maxwell Colette Gallery and Pawn Works will co-host an opening reception for GAIA:Resplendent Semblance on Friday, March 25th from 6 – 9 pm in Maxwell Colette’s space at 833 W. Chicago Ave, suite 200.

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Specter Finds His Sisters In Paris and Chicago

December 2, 2010 , , ,

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“Class, today we are going to make puppets. Jimmy sit down please. Did everyone remember to bring a sock to school today as I had requested last Thursday? Yolanda do you have yours? Jenelle?  Good. Let’s see everybody hold their sock in the air. Okay good. Jimmy… Okay these are going to be our “pretend friends”.  And does everyone have two buttons for the eyes?  Okay, I’ll wait until some people in the back stop talking – I’m sure we all would like to get on with the project.  Tony and Lindsay, do I need to split you two up?”

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Art classes at school are just about the funnest thing there is – mostly because they combine work and play and imagination. Brooklyn Street Artist Specter has been making his own imaginary friends on the streets of Paris and Chicago this fall. To be more precise, he’s been making sisters – the ones he says he wished he could have  when he was a kid.

The new series is called “Les Filles”, and it is “about my mate’s five sisters and my desire to have sisters my entire life. Now I feel like I have what I’ve always wanted,” explains Specter excitedly, as he contemplates eating some paste while Miss Pennywhistle writes something on the chalkboard.

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Street Art Against War, Supports Vets in Chicago

November 24, 2010 , , ,

Justseeds and IVAW collaborate on “Operation Exposure”.

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“Operation Exposure: War is Trauma”, a coordinated Street Art action to raise awareness of the poor way veterans are treated after they are injured, took place on the streets of Chicago last week.  Sponsored by Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) and the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, the postering campaign took over public space that is usually reserved for encouraging citizens to think of themselves purely as consumers.

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The wheat-pasting collaboration with Street Artists and war veterans tells of a suicide epidemic in the armed forces and the practice of re-deploying of troops multiple times despite serious debilitating injury, and the silent suffering of neighbors who are touched by our wars.  Veterans, artists, and volunteers met in Rogers Park and divided into teams for the installation. They divided up posters that Justseeds had designed for IVAW and then hit the streets.

Click here to continue reading this article on Justseeds…

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