wed june 2 / 11 PM
Petes Candy store – 709 Lorimer street
The dynamic and delightful duo reunite and return for a very special performance at Brooklyn’s much loved live music haunt Pete’s Candy Store.
Adorned by their revered hand painted stage dressing, Anxieteam (Jim Avignon and Jon Burgerman) will whisk you away to a land of doe-eyed maidens of tea and carnivorous video game characters. Swooning strums of the ukulele, lacquered in lament and wistfulness, will be charged with the electronic prong of sounds from the dawn of the digital age.
The intimate set will touch upon the key universal themes of the Anxieteam oeuvre; buffets and best-friends, relationships and spaceships, cakes and cats, and of course, salads and ballads.
Guests are encouraged to bring their own salad items to the event to contribute to a communal salad to made by the band during the event.
SEE THIS DUO PERFORM AT FACTORY FRESH GALLERY ON SATURDAY JUNE 5th at 6:00 PM
Arts in Bushwick is an all volunteer organization that serves and engages artists and other neighborhood residents through creative accessibility and community organizing. It is our goal to create an integrated and sustainable neighborhood, and to bring together all Bushwick residents and stakeholders to counter development-driven displacement.
Damn, Son, some street arts artists in BK are seriously bringing it this spring, and the results are there for anybody to see in this gallery of the street.
Here are very recent stencils and wheat-pastes by one of the more enterprising new talents on the scene, The Dude Co.
In this new series The Dude continues to pay homage to BROOKLYN, some of its distinctive landmarks, skater kids, and hip-hop musicians from all over.
Despite the subjects, none of it is POP, rather it can be startlingly sincere. In color, composition, and context you’ll have to admit he’s killing it.
It’s evident that The Dude Co. is a fan of New York, and with this new collection, some New Yorkers will undoubtedly be a fan of The Dude.
One of New York’s Visiting Photographers Shows His Collection of Sticker Pics
New York is blessed with thousands, maybe millions of visitors every year. Some come for Broadway, The Naked Cowboy and Nathan’s hotdogs. Others come for the street art. Richard Skinner from Ireland shows us the cool stickers he shot while here.
~with images and text by Richard Skinner
When I arrived in New York, although I already knew how big street art was, it still amazed me and made me happy to see it in person.
As I looked at all the art I noticed the mass amount of stickers covering the posts and traffic lights all over the city, and I had not really seen it documented properly before, so I started. Walking the city for hours capturing the stickers that a lot of people in one of America’s biggest city’s fail to notice.
A lot of these stickers are very well designed graphically, and I try to capture them in a way that the background compliments this. Some are just plain funny. Sometimes they can be in awkward places so to document them I took a close up. I find it interesting to spot these stickers all over the city and see the length some artists go to have themselves recognized.
I have much respect for all the artists involved and it’s a pleasure to document it. I hope my photographs can make these pieces of art last longer than they might normally.
The brothers of Skewville change their work habits frequently, having worked long days on
unregulated shifts to maintain their status. As a result, in the last decade, the twin brothers
have created many projects on the streets and in galleries. Their aesthetic has been deemed
“Next levelism” in both arenas. Skewville’s newest body of artwork disrupts our visual perception of maintaining a routine and average lifestyle. Such a recurrent interruption of regular life patterns may result in stimulus overflow and excessive awareness.
Further Studies Will Be Done at Factory Fresh, till June 20th.
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This is the final week to view ROA.
We are open this week Wednesday Thru Saturday 1-7pm.
Thomas Buildmore
Morgan Thomas
Kenji Nakayama
Enamel Kingdom
Shock therapy is an attempt to regain control. while everything may seem to be spiraling towards disaster, there are methods to shock it all back in place. Over the years the term has been used to describe methods of medical, financial, and economic rebound, as well as psychological molding. As we see it, Shock Therapy through art is a way to Instill upon others an instant sense of our passion and our desire to create. But also a way to overcome any subconscious hang-ups, to let go and be released from mental confines. A way to control the chaos, while still pushing the envelope. Shocking ourselves and the viewers straight and askew in tandem with a visual onslaught, so that they may see as we do the perplex, all encompassing world we live in.
ENAMEL KINGDOM
Enamel Kingdom is Artist/Designer Ryan Lombardi
Born in Indianapolis Indiana in 1980, Ryan’s family then moved to the Boston area when he was one year old and that’s were they decided to stay. With strong interests in Commercial Art, Graphic Design, and illustration, he headed for the “City of brotherly love” to attend Art Institute of Philadelphia. Through the introduction by a mutual friend, he hooked up with the international Artist collective Project SF in 2005.
Now Ryan lives in Boston, paying the bills with design and painting on the side. His works consist of various enamels applied to found objects such as: wood, metal, fiberglass… and any surface with normally underestimated aesthetic potential. Mainly influenced by urban settings, wild life and hip-hop culture, Ryan continues to draw from any other elements exposed from day to day life for inspiration.
KENJI NAKAYAMA
Kenji Nakayama is an artist originally from Hokkaido, Japan…
Documenting the environment that surrounds him, he spends weeks to hand craft his hand-cut multi-layer stencil work. Kenji flawlessly captures significant moments in his daily life. Serving as a diary from start to finish, his work is deeply personal.
Kenji is currently working and residing in Boston, Massachusetts. Showing his work both inside and outside of Boston.
MORGAN THOMAS
Hailing from Philadelphia, PA, Morgan Thomas has spent the majority of her life in observation of the people around her. She has studied art and art history around the world and graduated in 2007 from Williams College with two degrees (in studio art and sociology). Thomas’ main subject is human but she strives to examine human action, emotion, history and communication further than the classic portrait. Utilizing a semiotic vocabulary built up through the existence of the human race, Thomas records the world around her as she perceives it visually and spiritually. She aims to communicate to her audience the honest image and heartfelt meaning of a moment in time as it can be understood through form, color, and symbolic imagery. Thomas’ work is sociological, allegorical, and historical record. It does not try to comment on an event, but rather represent it for the audience to bring judgement to.
THOMAS BUILDMORE
Thomas Buildmore received his diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 2004. Since then, Buildmore has taken part in and/or curated many fine art installations in a variety of arenas, receiving acclaim from publications such as The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The New York Daily News, And the Philadelphia Inquirer. In 2007 Buildmore established Overkill Studio in South Boston, Massachusetts. In 2008, Overkill Studio relocated to Philadelphia with Thomas Buildmore and Morgan Thomas at the helm. They are enjoying the lively and energetic Philadelphia Arts Community.
Also on display, the amazing video work of
DONALD O’FINN “I appropriate samples from disparate TV media sources. I re-purpose, re-contextualize, effect, alter,
and weave these constructions into the dreams a television may have” www.donaldofinn.com
gallery hours:
mon. – fri. 11-6
sat. – sun. 10-7
andemic Gallery
“Shock Therapy!”
Sat. June 19th 7-11pm
featuring works by:
Thomas Buildmore
Morgan Thomas
Kenji Nakayama
Enamel Kingdom
This past week New York experienced a deluge of Street Artists getting up on the city’s famed walls. We are very lucky to live here and to capture the bounty before it disappears.
While in town for his first solo show in NYC at Factory Fresh Gallery ROA has been busy getting up in Brooklyn. His new piece is nothing short of magic.In an unusual twist on a street art act usually considered a dis, ROAactually goes over himself — and transforms his gigantic hog into a dead rabbit..
Here is the original swine portrait, which ran for more than a year solidly without interruption (with some help from Noah Sparkes in the colorful background).
And here is the brand new rabbit pulled out of his imaginary animal kingdom. Following one of his themes, ROA reveals the inner skeletal structure of the animal – it’s bit educational for those who may be taxidermically inclined.
Thanks to everybody for the shout-outs about Fun Friday. We love you too.
Style Curator Natalie Kates Went to the “Street Art New York” Auction with her Video Camera
I saw her at the party/auction/fundraiser on April 24th at Factory Fresh but I didn’t know she was shooting a video! So cool because she captured the fun crowd and the funnier DJ mixologists Sifunk and Garmunkle, who really rocked our already over stimulated brains with a rhythmic cut-copy-paste blend of funkiness. (get Paul’s New Mix FREE here) Anyway, thanks Natalie!
Free Arts NYC
And on that note, thank you to all of the street artists who generously donated their time and work and creativity to the auction, which raised $16,000 for the programs at Free Arts NYC. Thank you also to the staff and many volunteers who helped make that show work – BSA recommends these people and these programs that provide valuable services to our neighbors and to NYC kids. A number of Street Artist already know about their programs and have volunteered as Big Brother/Sister mentors and worked with kids and families in the programs. Here, Cynthia and Alexis talk about their experience:
This year again, Free Arts NYC has committed to serving an additional 1,000 children to meet the high demand in New York for their programs. We hope you will consider donating today by clicking here to help them reach this important milestone and close the remaining $25,000 gap needed to expand their programs.
“UR New York” Shows You How They Do It
UR New York, true born and raised New Yorkers, not transplants like most of us, are taking their street art game another step forward in a positive way. You see their cool canvasses, but do you have any idea how many steps are involved in making a print?
Here’s a studio stop-action video that shows how the New York Duo 2Easae and Ski just churned out their first print called “Arsenic” with Art Asylum Boston. They only made 10, but it looks like a lot of effort. Using cans and brushes, these brothers are combining the best of their experience into their work.
Ron English Hits the Welling Court Walls Early
UR New York, Street Artist Ron English has put up a bunch of new wheat paste posters on theWelling Court Mural Project in Queens, NY. The festival starts tomorrow and already the stuff that is up is worth the trip for this community event. English is taking the opportunity to lambaste Consumerism, Greed, Militarism, Religious Hypocrisy, Romanticizing Guns, and Advertising Hammerlocks on your Head — you know, all the lite topics – with a variety of graphic lampoons a la Mad Magazine in the 70’s.ee
Ron English's new work at Welling Court Mural Project this weekend (image courtesy Ron English)
You may have missed this, and I’m so happy with it – so that’s two really good reasons to post this new NEW YORKY video we made with ROA this week. Have a great weekend!
Artists that were part of the “Street Art New York” Auction Benefit for Free Arts NYC were Abe Lincoln Jr., Alex Diamond, Anera, Avoid Pi, Billi Kid, Bishop 203, Blanco, BortusK Leer, Broken Crow, C Damage, C215, Cake, Celso, Chris RWK, Chris Stain, Creepy, Dain, Damon Ginandes, Dan Witz, Dark Clouds, Dennis McNett, Elbow Toe, EllisG, FKDL, Gaia, General Howe, GoreB, Hargo, Hellbent, Imminent Disaster, Infinity, Jef Aerosol, Jim Avignon, JMR, Joe Iurato, Jon Burgerman, Keely, Know Hope, Logan Hicks, Mark Carvalho, Matt Siren, Mint and Serf, Miss Bugs, NohJColey, Nomadé, Peru Ana Ana Peru, PMP/Peripheral Media Projects, Poster Boy, Pufferella, Rene Gagnon, Roa, Royce Bannon, Skewville, Specter, Stikman, Swoon, The Dude Company, Tristan Eaton, UR New York (2esae & Ski), Veng RWK
Giant green flowers with closed circuit televisions instead of pistols, drone planes with insect legs, cacti that turn into syringes, a cabbage that features a hardened metal dome and 5 gun turrets – all in black and acid green, all surreal hybrids of natural beauty and man’s darker nature.
That’s what LUDO has been creating in Paris and London and Milan for three years or so as part of his “Nature’s Revenge” series of wheat-pastes. The marrying of these two worlds is jarring and uncomfortable, and that’s his point. He wants you to think about man’s march toward technologically more sophisticated ways of being inhuman, of our mindless oggling of the next shiny electronic bauble and our subsequent shameless allegiance to it.
In a way, the nature/technology hybrids are not as futuristic as we may like to think – nanotechnology has been talking about flying insect sized cameras since the dawn of this century – and greater awareness of the precarious discoveries man is making and his inability to meet them may be a side effect of the series. Plumes of oil, anyone?
Now in New York, LUDO is already making us think, and I’ve got to admit I’m thrilled. I like it when art makes me think, even if it is about things I don’t understand or am uncomfortable with. It’s kind of like cloud computing. Or James Dobson. Or blue cheese.
BSA: Did you ever see the movie called “Little Shop of Horrors” ? LUDO: No.
BSA: Because it’s about a man-eating plant… LUDO: No. I have to see it.
BSA:Okay, one down. So it’s true that you studied sociology and graphic design. Do you see any connection between sociology and your street art? LUDO: Yeah, certainly I am interested in people. I am interested in bringing a message to the street that can easily be understood. Certainly street art is a bit of sociology. I mean you try to grab what you can from the society and incorporate it into your work and then take it back out to the streets with your personality in it.
BSA:So you are using your art to communicate with people on the street? LUDO: Yes, actually I try to go out in Paris on Sunday during the day – and while I am putting work out sometimes people come to talk to me. Just normal people who just want to ask me about the work. It is good. Okay, maybe it is a little for your ego, or a lot for your ego but then it for me a study. I won’t doing any art so people will hate me, or to fight with me. I’m not interested in that. It’s better to have them in a good mood.
BSA: Tuthfully, you also like to watch the reaction of people who see your work. LUDO: Yes because they are interested in the fact that it’s a kind of a naïve subject; with a flower or birds but they like to get a little closer and see that there are guns – it’s nice, it’s interesting.
BSA: Right so let’s talk about that ; Guns, violence, implied threats of violence, high technology – is it about fear? LUDO: No, it’s more about everything that stupidly rules the world. I mean guns, technology, humans, new gadgets – That is what I like to take and remix and give a message.
BSA:Do you have any animals at home? LUDO: Yeah, an English Bulldog.
BSA:That’s it? LUDO: No no, I don’t have any insects. I do have a garden for food, and an aromatic garden (herb garden).
BSA: You’ve been doing the “Nature’s Revenge” series for about two years? LUDO: Maybe like three. This butterfly is a new one for me. I try to go out maybe every time with a new piece. I’m not interested in always put up the same stuff. I try to see the spot and imagine the pieces.
BSA:Why was this butterfly so difficult today? LUDO: The wind! The paste too. Usually the paste I use is really strong and with a big piece it sticks immediately.
BSA:You have done some gallery work, mostly group shows. When street artists transition from the street to the gallery, many artists change their work. When you think about street artists that go into the gallery, who do you like?
LUDO: I am a big fan of Neckface. And I’ve always been really interested in how he works in the streets. And his gallery work is awesome; it is so strong; it’s thin lines, it’s clean, it’s perfect – even if the message continues to be so strong. That is what I like. If someone who is a street artist does gallery work, I think it has to be different, it needs to reach a different level.
BSA:So who are some of your favorite street artists right now? LUDO: Yeah Neckface will always be. I love Bast. I like also Sweet Toof. Yeah so those are the three.
Artists participating are 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.
Our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring 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, Veng, Faile, Shepard Fairey, Various & Gould, Ron English,Mr. Kern, DAIN, and Primo.
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