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Fun Friday 06.11.10 on BSA

Fun-Friday

Fundraiser, Print Show, New Gallery Opening in Brooklyn

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Don’t miss the opening and fundraiser tonight of Brooklyn’s newest gallery, called 99%. The silent auction will feature new prints by Swoon (left) and Gaia (right) as well as Bast, Chris Mendoza, Cycle, Dennis McNett, Doze Green, Ellis G, Eric White, Esao Andrews, EZO, Ian Kuali’I, Imminent Disaster, Jeremiah Ketner, Jose Parla, Kenji Hirata, Lady Pink, Martha Cooper, Martin Wittfooth, Maya Hayuk, Mel Kadel, Morning Breath, Nathan Lee Pickett, Orlando Reyes, Rage Johnson, Ricky Powell, Rostarr, Ryan Humphrey, Skewville, Tara McPherson, Tono Radvany, Voodo Fe, Xiaoqing Ding, Yuri Shimojo

See our interview with gallery owners Andrew Michael Ford and Mikal Hameed HERE.

For more info go to http://www.ninetyninegallery.com/

Collabo With Blu and Os Gemeos for Crono festival in Lisboa (Portugal)

see the finished wall here:
http://cargocollective.com/crono
Os Gemeos blog:
http://osgemeos.com.br/
about Blu:
http://blublu.org

Guy Denning and David Walker Show Tomorrow

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The Village Voice said it’s good and that’s all that matters. More info about the Guy Denning and David Walker show at Brooklynite here.

GUY DENNING • DAVID WALKER
June 12 – July 10

Musical Guest: DJ REKHA

Happy World Cup!!!! Here is Tsatsulow,the Best Soccer Freestyler in the World

FIGMENT on Governors Island – Interactive Art for Everybody (Free Free Free)

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The Figment Festival on Governor’s Island boasts so many live arts and activities for free this weekend that it is guaranteed to relax and exhaust you simultaneously. A number of street artists are going to be there performing live, as well as a number of interactive installations and performances to challenge and titillate.

Governors island continues to expand and grow, and FIGMENT this year is no exception. Check the ferry schedule (free). There are ferries from Brooklyn again this year. Visitors are encouraged to bring bikes and food.

Figment all Weekend http://figmentproject.org/2010/events/figment-nyc-2010-event-projects-artists/

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How Fast Can You Paint a Portrait?

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Images of the Week 06.06.10

Our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Dain, Bast, Bortusk Leer, Ludo, Elbow-toe, Shin Shin, Shin Shin, Tazmat, Fumero, Bast, Gaia, Yote, Lucy McLauchan, Shepard Fairey, and Mr DiMaggio

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Dain (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BortusK Leer (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dain and Ludo (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dain and Ludo (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Elbow Toe with Shin Shin, Tazmat, Fumero (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Bast (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Summer Sweet Corn by Yote (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Dain (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BortusK Leer (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BortusK Leer (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Gaia (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lucy McLauchan
Lucy McLauchan (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Shepard Fairey
Shepard Fairey (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mr DiMaggio (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mr DiMaggio (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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FAILE & BÄST PRESENT “DELUXX FLUXX ARCADE”

FAILE & BÄST PRESENT “DELUXX FLUXX ARCADE”, Brooklyn Street Art

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For Immediate Release

FAILE & BÄST
DELUXX FLUXX ARCADE

April 30 – May 27, 2010
Opening Friday, April 30, 2010, 7:30 – 10:30 PM

What do you get when Brooklyn-based duo Faile and collaborator Bast take over a disused store front on the Lower East Side? Deluxx Fluxx, a functional video arcade that will be open to the public from April 30th to May 27th.

Originally conceived as a one-off project in London, Deluxx Fluxx allowed Faile and Bast to indulge nostalgia for the classic video arcade while exploring the tactile possibilities of the wooden cabinet as sculptural medium. In its New York incarnation, the retrofitted machines run new games by Adapted Studio based on Faile and Bast’s omnivorous visual language, with sounds produced by Seth Jabour of the noted band Les Savy Fav.

Deluxx Fluxx aims to make art less sterile, more fun, and accessible to a broad audience. This sensibility harkens back to the golden age of arcade games; a time when the Lower East Side itself was still a redoubt for punk rock and graffiti culture. These foundational roots of the neighborhood are apparent in the show’s DIY and street art production values. Faile and Bast rebuke the contemporary art world’s fixation on ideas of relational aesthetics and democratization, and give their audience a chance to genuinely engage the work without the looming formality of the traditional gallery. Deluxx Fluxx is entirely interactive, and invites viewers to play a round of psychedelic foosball and take part in the art itself. It is the artists’ intention that viewers will forget they are looking at art, and be captivated by the carnivalesque. The video arcade may be a lost form, but in Faile and Bast’s re-imagining, it gets a temporary and much needed revival.

Faile is represented by Perry Rubenstein Gallery in New York. This autumn they will have a solo exhibition with the gallery in New York.

For more information about Deluxx Fluxc, please visit:
www.DeluxxFluxx.com

For more information about FAILE, please visit:
www.perryrubenstein.com

Deluxx Fluxx
158 Allen Street (Between Stanton and Rivington)
New York, New York
Tuesday – Sunday, 3:00 – 11:00 PM
Opening Reception, April 30, 2010, 7:30 – 10:30 PM

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Faile Retrospective at Lazarides; a Bastion of Color Up the Street (plus new Deluxx Fluxx Video)

A Blur of Excitement at the two Lazarides galleries in London this week. One of Brooklyn duo Failes's carved and painted spinny poles on display. (photo © Ian Cox)
Chop-Chop! It was a Brooklyn blur of excitement at two galleries run by Steve Lazarides in London last week. Here we see three of Failes’s carved and painted spinny poles on display for their 10 year retrospective. (photo © Ian Cox)


Plenty of room to rollerskate in the Faile retrospective showroom. (photo @ Ian Cox)

Plenty of room to skateboard in the Faile retrospective showroom before the opening. Might scuff up the floor a bit though. (photo @ Ian Cox)

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And then people started arriving. © Ian Cox

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Outside the main retrospective, we trundle up about five blocks to the Bast & Faile show called "Faile Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade." (photo © Ian Cox)

Meanwhile in the Bast & Faile Arcade across the street

Meanwhile back in the Bat Arcade - is that RJ Tweeting his Space Invaders score? (photo @Ian Cox)

I used to have an Elton John flourescent poster in my closet when I was a kid. Just sayin.

Remember Elton John played the Pinball Wizard in Tommy? Guess Who had the black-light poster of him as the Pinball Wizard in his closet when he was a kid? Pass the bong please. (photo © Ian Cox)

Rumor has is that there will be a line of Faile bongs out in time for Christmas. (photo © Ian Cox)

Naturally, the show opening was catered. This woman in a colorful cat-suit was offering flourescent Doritos and dip. (photo © Ian Cox)

More of Ian’s images HERE

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BSA Exclusive FAILE & BAST before the Deluxx Fluxx

Scenes from The Faile Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade

Faile & Bast three Brooklyn street art creative forces of nature are mounting an experiential exhibition at Lazarides Greek Street Gallery in London right now. Longtime collaborators, the trio have combined their signature elements to create a distinctive conceptual show that includes an arcade installation, the Virgin Mary, Humpty Hump, and high-heeled boots.

Here are some behind-the-scenes teasers from street art photographer Ian Cox.

Lazarides Greek Street Gallery is be-decked with new wildness from Faile and Bast
“Just a little more flourescent pink and orange, and we can throw the doors open!”  Lazarides Greek Street Gallery is be-decked with new wildness from Faile and Bast.

A begging dog, high-heeled stilleto boots, and a soapbox - looks like the S&M Circus is back in town!

The Stars and Zig-Zags Forever.

The Stars and Zig-Zags Forever.

A bit of Bast's Humpty Hump and a Bit of Faile.

A bit of Bast's Humpty Hump and a Bit of Faile.

See more of Ian’s images HERE.

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Bushwick Beat: Stalking the Wild Street Art with Vincent Cornelli

by photographer Vincent Cornelli

Sure, Jef Aerosol had his show 2 Fridays ago, and he’s now back home in France. But it seems worth revisiting the amount of amazing moments I captured in Bushwick that day as a result of his energy and inspiration while he was in New York; One cannot help but feed off of it.

I want to give you some behind-the-scenes photos of the art and street scene that surrounded the artist at work. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did photographing and capturing them.

Carlito Brigante and C215 in an unlikely collaboration © Vincent Cornelli

Carlito Brigante and C215 in a subtle collaboration © Vincent Cornelli

Te Amo © Vincent Cornelli

Te Amo © Vincent Cornelli

© Vincent Cornelli

C215 on a firebox © Vincent Cornelli

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© Vincent Cornelli

© Vincent Cornelli

© Vincent Cornelli

Know Hope © Vincent Cornelli

Know Hope © Vincent Cornelli

© Vincent Cornelli

© Vincent Cornelli

Bast and Clown Soldier © Vincent Cornelli

Bast and Clown Soldier © Vincent Cornelli

© Vincent Cornelli

© Vincent Cornelli

© Vincent Cornelli

© Vincent Cornelli

Robots Will Kill © Vincent Cornelli

Robots Will Kill © Vincent Cornelli

Mac and Remed © Vincent Cornelli

© Vincent Cornelli

Eine in the center of the Ad Hoc entrance © Vincent Cornelli

Eine in the center of the Ad Hoc entrance © Vincent Cornelli

See more of Vinny’s work HERE

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Year In Images 2009 from Jaime Rojo

Street Art photographer Jaime Rojo captured a few thousand images in 2009 to help document the wildly growing Street Art scene in New York.

A veteran of 10 years shooting the streets of New York, Rojo has amassed a collection of images that capture the scene with the appreciation of an artist. To celebrate the creative spirit that is alive and well on the streets of New York, this slide video gives a taste of what happened in ‘09, without pretending to present the whole scene or all the artists, known and anonymous, who add to the ongoing conversation.

Included in this collection of images (in no particular order) are pieces by Skewville, Specter, The Dude Company, Judith Supine, C215, WK Interact, Anthony Lister, Miss Bugs, Bast, Chris from Robots Will Kill (RWK), Os Gemeos, Cake, Celso, Imminent Disaster, Mark Cavalho, NohJ Coley, Elbow Toe, Feral, Poster Boy, Bishop203, Jon Burgerman, Royce Bannon, Damon Ginandes, Conor Harrington, Gaia, JC2, Logan Hicks, Chris Stain, Armsrock, Veng from Robots Will Kill (RWK), Noah Sparkes, Robots Will Kill, Heracut, Billy Mode, Revs, Skullphone, Spazmat, Mint and Serf, Roa, Aakash Nihilani, Broken Crow, Peru Ana Ana Peru, & Cern

All images © Jaime Rojo

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Images of The Week 12.20.09

Brooklyn-Street-Art-IMAGES-OF-THE-WEEK_1009Our Weekly Interview with the streets

Avoid for Sale
It’s official. Avoid Pi is for Sale (© Jaime Rojo)

5003 DADA
5003  & Hobby Horse (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bast
The never bashful Bast (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Deeker
Honey, why do you still go with that man?  You know he’s just trash! (Deeker) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Imminent Disaster
Imminent Disaster (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kosbe
Kosbe is rocking it  (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kosbe (detail)
Kosbe is a detailed mess of color (detail) (© Jaime Rojo)

Horse Imminent Disaster (detail)
Horse Imminent Disaster (detail) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Imminent Disaster (detail)

Imminent Disaster (detail) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Imminent Disaster (detail)

Horse Imminent Disaster (detail) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Police
New technology aids the crime fighters. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Paper Monster
Paper Monster made this hot babe in a fur trimmed winter coat to keep her warm. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Swoon
Swoon is chained to the gate.  (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Swoon (detail)
Swoon (detail) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Peru Ana Ana Peru
See no evil, see no evil (Peru Ana Ana Peru) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

We Are Coming
Simultaneously? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

UFO 907
UFO 907 is blasting off in all kinds of directions these days; All hail the alien. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Veng RWK
A very funny move toward cut outs in this piece by Veng RWK (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Images of the Week 10.04.09

Images of the Week 10.04.09

Our Weekly Interview with the Street

Bast Krsna
$469? I can’t pay that much for a sports coat!  I just need it for an interview anyway, I’m not going to wear it hardly. (Bast, KRSNA) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Super Tanned Bangel. Bishop 203
A flash of calf makes me flushed and tingly with excitement (Bishop 203)

(photo Jaime Rojo)

Blu at Deitch Studios LIC
Blu at Deitch Studios

(photo Jaime Rojo)

Blu (detail)
Blu (detail) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Blu (Detail) Money Does Not Grow on Trees
Blu (Detail) Please make your rent payments in crisp unmarked one-hundred dollar bills. Sincerely, Acme Landlords Inc. (photo Jaime Rojo)

Celso and the Bridge
An odd little blue tarp that reminds you of those Mexican decorations – Papel Picado. (Celso) (photo Jaime Rojo)

From the International Folk Museum, an example of papel picado
From the International Folk Museum, an example of papel picado

Chris Uphues
My heart is so bluuuuuuuuuuue without youuuuuuuuuuuu. (Chris Uphues) (photo Jaime Rojo)

GreedAnd now, a word from our sponsor. (photo Jaime Rojo)

The siege of Obey by lightining and serpents. Shepard Feirey Hellbent Christian Paine
The siege of Obey by lightning and serpents. (Shepard Fairey, Hellbent, Christian Paine) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Hellbent

Blaaaaaaaa! Me hates bad coffee! (Hellbent) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Hugh Leeman Shin Shin Billi Kid
Yeah, this skinny-butt anchor lady said I needed a makeover before I could go on her interview show.  I said, “Fine, but I’m not putting out my cigarette.” (Hugh Leeman, Shin Shin, Billi Kid) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Matt Siren
It is our fervent hope that New York never stops being a freakshow. (Matt Siren) (photo Jaime Rojo)

The Dude Company

The Dude Company

Shin Shin Cornucopia
Autumn’s bounty of genetically modified apples, and a box of DickChicken McNuglets  (Shin Shin, Dick Chicken) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Yep, the leaves are just starting to turn in the Big Apple – a little color in the trees, temperature is a little cool so you might feel a bit frisky in your 70’s shorts now. Sunny day like this is a good time to go running in the park – you never know who you gonna meet.  Hopefully, she’s not already taken…

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Images of the Week 09.20.09

Our Weekly Interview with the Street

Anera
When I get nervous I always bite his fingernails (Anera) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Bast Benjamin Heathrow
A triptych with a diptych in the middle (Bast, Benjamin Heathrow) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Bishop 203
Hi guys, can I come too? (Bishop 203) (photo Jaime Rojo)

D*Face  Triptych
D*Face trilogy, trine, trinity, triple, triplet, triplicate of rollergates (photo Jaime Rojo)

D*Face
No one would have guessed that, in the 1980’s, Ted in Accounts Receiveable had one of these with a crucifix hanging off his right earlobe. (D*Face) (photo Jaime Rojo)

D*Face Distich
Is that the Colonal? D*Face Distich (photo Jaime Rojo)

"Call in Sick" D*Face
“Call In Sick” D*Face (photo Jaime Rojo)

"This is Not a Urinal" Elbow Toe
Sure looks like one to me, but what do I know? What’s that hole in the front for? (Elbow Toe) (photo Jaime Rojo)

"You Never Wash Up After Yourself" Elbow Toe
Elbow Toe “You Never Wash Up After Yourself” (photo Jaime Rojo)

Elbow Toe (Detail)
Elbow Toe (Detail) (photo Jaime Rojo)

"You Never Wash Up After Yourself' Elbow Toe
Elbow Toe (Detail) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Phone Call
What is that little black stone he puts to his ear? Hugh Leeman (photo Jaime Rojo)

Knitta Please!
KnittaPlease did this installation piece sponsored by a hotel in the meatpacking district to celebrate Fashion Week in New York. (photo Jaime Rojo)

Gentleman (photo Jaime Rojo)
Gentleman Hugh Leeman (photo Jaime Rojo)

QRST Fat Cat with a Mouse
QRST Fat Cat with a Mouse (photo Jaime Rojo)

Ed Van Tag (Dirty Vandal) On top of the World. Ronzo
Ed Van Tag (Dirty Vandal) On top of the World. Ronzo (photo Jaime Rojo)

The Guardian of 445
The Guardian of 445  Hugh Leeman(photo Jaime Rojo)

Tip Toe
Explaining his depth of feeling to Juanita, “I come to you with my heart in my hands”. (Tip Toe) (photo Jaime Rojo)

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Week in Images 09.06.09

Our Weekly Interview With the Street

Fat Kat in Brooklyn QRST

Fat Kat in Brooklyn (QRST) (photo CJ)

Bast
Michael (Bast) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Bangel is feeling ignored and is heart broken. Bishop 203
How come every time we start to talk about something important she has to take a call? (Bishop 203) (photo Jaime Rojo)

WK Interact
The guy in this WK Interact motion picture also seems put off by this obsession with digital devices (photo Jaime Rojo)

Fat bottomed girl David Choe
Fat bottomed girl (David Choe) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Happy Birthday Freddie Mercury September 5th!

Duce Seven Other
Look who was in town and at Secret Project Robot! (Deuce Seven & Other) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Duce Seven Detail
Deuce Seven Detail (photo Jaime Rojo)

The Kent Avenue Facade of Secret Project Robot
The Kent Avenue Facade of Secret Project Robot (photo Jaime Rojo)

Love Love Love to Imminent Disaster
Love Love Love to Imminent Disaster (photo Jaime Rojo)

Keely
Keely (photo Jaime Rojo)

Mr Graceful
Mr Graceful (photo Jaime Rojo)

NohJ Coley

Jonathan See Lim (The 2nd from the series Sprayed N Stone) (NohJ Coley) (photo Jaime Rojo)

NohJ Coley Detail

Jonathan See Lim (Detail) (NohJColey) (photo Jaime Rojo)

NohJ Coley Detail

Jonathan See Lim (Detail) (NohJColey) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Other
The invisible man (Other) (photo Jaime Rojo)

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Yes, there are a lot of these around town (image VisualFunHouse.com)

Other Detail
Other (Detail) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Royce Bannon
Royce Bannon monsters at the Woodward Gallery’s outside exhibition space. (photo Jaime Rojo)

Space Invader is on the spot light
Space Invader in the spotlight (photo Jaime Rojo)

Your invasion is being recorded Space Invader
I’m Looking at You (Space Invader) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Heavenly Invasion Space Invider
Heavenly Invasion (Space Invader) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Veng RWK
A porthole into another world (Veng RWK) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Vlok  (Pig on the foreground)
VLOK Crew truck (photo Jaime Rojo)

Vlok truck in progress
VLOK truck in progress (photo Jaime Rojo)

Vlok Truck in progress
VLOK truck in progress (photo Jaime Rojo)

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