17 Frost Gallery
the Infamous dint wooer krsna Solo art Exhibition at 17 Frost Gallery. with a live performance by The Phonometricians on Cosmic Fire, & street art photography by Diana Trent. opening reception is December 4th (7-10pm) & runs until January 8th. 17 Frost Street (between Union & Lorimer), Williamsburg, Brooklyn. L train to Lorimer, G train to Metropolitan, or B48 bus to Frost Street. for more information please visit:
Our weekly interview with the street narrows this week to show you photos of a visit to Brooklyn from French Street Artist “The Dude Company” and a cool shot of Lister at the end.
A glorious autumn day and room to experiment a bit on a rooftop in Brooklyn. BSA invited The Dude Co. to put up an installation on a rooftop in Brooklyn and he happily and giddily obliged. The space was open to his interpretation and he decided to try out a repetition across the middle expanse as tribute to one of the best American actresses this country has given to the world, Gena Rowlands, who turned 80 this summer.
The repetition of her head in the installation is a nod to her depiction of a person unglued and in turmoil as her life swirls nervously beyond her control; Rolands’ emotional, Academy Award-Nominated performance in the movie “A Woman Under The Influence” in 1974, directed by her husband John Cassavetes?
Providing a bookend effect are his skater boy (created from a photo by Brooklyn artist Carlito Brigante) from earlier this year and an old favorite, his stencil of singer Erikah Badu.
And to end this week’s selection we offer a bonus image of a Lister we found while window shopping in Manhattan. Think there were some masks by the artist inside too.
K-Guy
K-Guy “See-no-hear-no-speak-no” Photo © Jaime Rojo
Brooklyn based Street Artist Judith Supine remained perfectly chilled in A/C comfort during our hot-as-hell summer sojourn in New York City and never hit the streets as far as we can tell. But the leaves in the park have turned red and yellow and orange and Judith must have been inspired by the colors flying through the gritty air, swirling in with plastic bags and flyers for winter tires. Of course, even those natural shades are too bland and dull for Supine.
The acid hued street surrealist is back and we have solid evidence here. These collages all fluttered in and smacked up like radioactive leaves against the wall this week. Somehow the reappearance of their disjointed magic realism is as reassuring as the change of the seasons in dirty old Brooklyn.
Not to be confused with the similarly named C215 show opening in Paris tonight, “The Community Serviced” this Sunday showcases 12 uniquely produced Showpaper newspaper boxes designed by 24 artists. After the opening night, the works will be placed around the city to serve the community both as public art pieces as well as an expansion of Showpaper’s distribution network of their bi-monthly publication.
Sure to be a raw fun show free of pretension with artists: Amy Smalls , Dennis Franklin, Maggie Lee ,Jennifer Shear, Oliva Katz ,Keith Pavia, Peter, Andrew Sutherland, ADAM COST, DARKCLOUDS , SADUE, FARO, GROSER, COOLCAT, GEN 2 , OZE 108, GOYA , NSK, NET, DROID, VUDU , INFINITY,WOLFTITS , CAHBASM
The Carmichael Gallery is throwing a “Block Party” tomorrow (10/13) and they have a stellar line up of artists that will be showing work at the Culver City gallery. Some street art roots on display in the lineup: Boxi, Krystian Truth Czaplicki, Gregor Gaida, Simon Haas, Dan Witz and Sixeart.
Like Martyn Reed says, this local photographer in Stavanger, Norway, where the Nuart 2010 festival of street art murals happened this fall, shows some of “Street Art photography at its finest”.
Street Artist Vhils at Nuart 2010. (Image © Carl Fredrick Salicath)
A free one-day festival of conceptualized and thematic group exhibitions that focuses on curatorial experimentation and collaboration. There will be over 50 shows, including the work of over 400 individual artists, in spaces ranging from galleries to studios to apartments to mobile trucks and smart phone apps.
To learn more about this festival and to read the full program and juicy details please go to http://artsinbushwick.org/beta2010/
Some killer hip-hop inspiration for your weekend shorty! Keenan Cahill and 50 Cent shredding it. That’s what’s up.
Showpaper
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THE COMMUNITY SERVICED:
12 public space Showpaper newspaper boxes
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Sunday November 14, 2010 at 7pm – 10pm
at The Showpaper 42nd st Gallery
217 East 42nd st (btwn 3rd and 2nd ave)
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with artists:
Amy Smalls and Dennis Franklin
Maggie Lee and Jennifer Shear
Oliva Katz and Keith Pavia
Peter and Andrew Sutherland
ADAM COST
DARKCLOUDS and SADUE
FARO, GROSER, and COOLCAT
GEN 2 and OZE 108
GOYA and NSK
NET and DROID
VUDU and INFINITY
WOLFTITS and CAHBASM
Curated by: Andrew H. Shirley
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“The Community Serviced” showcases 12 uniquely produced Showpaper newspaper boxes designed by 24 artists. After the opening night, the works will be placed around the city to serve the community both as public art pieces as well as an expansion of Showpaper’s distribution network of their bi-monthly publication.
On Sunday November 14, 2010 at 7pm please join us at 217 East 42nd st (between 3rd and 2nd ave) for the send off of these public works of art.
Charlie Ahearn and Parakeets will be providing music.
Showpaper is a non-for-profit organization committed to establishing a greater network of emerging young artists and musicians throughout the tri-state area. In conjunction with providing a database of more than 50 show spaces for young performing artists and a comprehensive listing of over 300 all ages music events every two weeks, each issue has a full color print by a current and upcoming artist.
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JOE AHEARN | Showpaper
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// phone: (646) 881-4397
\\ email: joe@showpaper.org
// site: www.showpaper.org
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THE SUPERIOR BUGOUT
Film / Video & Multi-Media Arts
Brooklyn, NYC
http://www.chickenpoxthefilm.com
email:andrewhshirley@hotmail.com
Mighty Tanaka
| Mighty Tanaka LLC |
Opening Reception:
Friday, November 12th
6pm – 9pm
(Show ends Friday, December 3rd)
Mighty Tanaka
68 Jay St, Suite 416
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(F Train to York St)
Block Party
Brooklyn Street Artists Paint 200 Foot Wall, Burning Candy Crew Debut Film at Bushwick Block Party
All City, the international street art and graffiti app, is partnering up with Factory Fresh gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn to open up 200 feet of wall and turn it over to Brooklyn street artists. Chris Stain, Gaia, Skewville, Imminent Disaster and several guests artists will be tackling the project. Tek33 and Dscreet of London’s Burning Candy crew will also be in town painting and premiering their film Dots.
All City Block Party
Saturday, November 20
2:00 PM, Dots premiering at 7 PM
Factory Fresh – 1053 Flushing Avenue – Bushwick, Brooklyn
* Live painting
* Calexico taco cart
* DJs
* Beer
* Art for sale from participating artists
* Burning Candy’s Dots film premiere
Dan Witz
DAN WITZ “IN PLAIN VIEW: 30 Years of Artworks Illegal and Otherwise”
Limited Edition Release
Reception and Book Signing
Monday, November 22, 2010
6:30-8:30pm
Limited Edition hand painted signed and numbered copies of Dan Witz’s will be available for purchase.
NEW YORK, November 9, 2010 – Clic Gallery is proud to present the book release and signing of internationally recognized street artist Dan Witz’s new book “IN PLAIN VIEW: 30 Years of Artworks Illegal and Otherwise” on Monday, November 22, from 6:30-8:30 pm. At the evening event, Dan Witz will not only be signing books, but will also be hand painting the cover of a limited edition of 120 copies. Each signed and numbered edition will feature a fine linen, hand painted cover, in a classic tromp l’oeil style by the artist, merging his two worlds of fine art and street art through a new medium: the printed book. Hardcover, clothbound, 216 pages, 250 color illustrations, 9” x 12” (229 x 305 mm), $150, Ginko Press.
More than just a documentation of Witz’s public artworks, this book is a diary of three decades of thoughtful and emotional engagement with the ever evolving surfaces of New York City. Embracing a meticulously disciplined aesthetic inspired by the old masters, Witz has spent the last decades making easel paintings as well as street art, leaving various love letters in plain view on the doorstep of his beloved New York City.
Dan Witz is in conversation with both the conventional and street worlds of art. His work is inclusive. It is obsessive. It is acknowledged as an original voice, an inspiration and a catalyst.
Fine art prints by Dan Witz will be on view and available for sale as well as signed copies of his Hummingbirds 2011 accordion calendar, also published by Gingko Press. The Birds of Manhattan was the first of Dan’s large scale street art projects where he painted over 40 hummingbirds in lower Manhattan below fourteenth street. This twelve month calendar draws on a selection of the artist’s hummingbirds painted in 1979, 2000 and 2010, bringing the collection full-circle and completely up-to-date. The Dan Witz In Plain View book signing event is free and open to the public.
About Dan Witz
Since receiving his BFA from Cooper Union, Dan Witz has received a grant from the NEA and two fellowships from the New York Foundation of the Arts. His first book, “The Birds of Manhattan,” was published by Skinny Books in 1983. Solo exhibitions include Semaphore Gallery NY (1985,1986), Clementine Gallery (1996), Stolen Space, 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). Today Dan lives and works in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Clic Bookstore & Gallery
424 Broome Street
New York, NY 10013
Tel: 212-219-8006
Today we’re sticking to the little pieces; those quickly appearing peeled objects that people smack up on just about every smooth surface around the city. Getting your name, your art, your product out there for people to see has blossomed into a genre of it’s own, fostering shows, mini-conventions, websites, magazines, books, and collectors trading clubs dedicated to the sticky-backed missives some people call ‘slaps”. From individually handmade to glossy mass-produced pieces, the city is a magnet for these adhesive miniature works of art, accumulating them quickly in some locations like snow piling up in a doorway corner during a Nor’easter.
Photo © Jaime Rojo
Books have been documenting the world of sticker art of late. Most notable are Martha Cooper’s tomes “Going Postal” and “Name Tagging” from Mark Batty Publishers and this fall Rizzoli released a new book on stickers called “Stickers From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art” by DB Burkemen in collaboration with Monica LoCascio.
The humble sticker is an art medium that does not require a big production and carries a very low risk when being put on the streets and gets the job done. Doors are often the hot spots where the stickers live together in a seemingly harmonious life – and the rules applied to other forms of Street Art regarding space and real estate on a surface roughly apply here too; “Don’t overlap your sticker on mine or Imma bust you head, son.” In addition, getting up in as many places as possible, preferably where your fellow sticker artists can see you, is a goal.
Here are some images of richly textured surfaces around town that are “wall-papered” with a myriad of stickers. Even if we knew all the artists, it’s impossible to note them all here.
Photo © Jaime Rojo
Photo © Jaime Rojo
Photo © Jaime Rojo
Photo © Jaime Rojo
Photo © Jaime Rojo
Photo © Jaime Rojo
Photo © Jaime Rojo
Photo © Jaime Rojo
Photo © Jaime Rojo
Photo © Jaime Rojo
Photo © Jaime Rojo
Photo © Jaime Rojo
Photo © Jaime Rojo
Photo © Jaime Rojo
Photo © Jaime Rojo
Our Weekly Interview with the street, this week featuring Chelsea Girl, ECB, Faile, Frog, Radical!, REVS, Think Fly, and Tono
Pandemic Gallery
On Friday, Nov. 12th Pandemic is very proud to host a dual exhibition of two astounding Brooklyn artists,
“Sew Draw”
Richie Lasansky and Allison Read Smith
The show, comprised of drawings, prints, and sculpture of various mediums
relays an incredible balance of styles and process, that when combined simply take ahold.
Absorbing the viewers into the compelling visions these two have portrayed.
"Riche Lasansky "Fish Girl" engraving. copyright 2010. Image courtesy of the gallery
Allison Read Smith "Frog King" sewn rubber. copyright 2010. Image courtesy fo the gallery
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