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Images Of The Week 01.02.11 : From Miami With Love, Part I

January 2, 2011 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week, Florida, Miami, On the Street, Primary Flight, Week in Images

Now that the thumping headache from too many orange sodas on New Year’s Eve is gone, it’s time to regale little Baby 2011 with some eyeball pleasing baubles from sunny Miami. In early December many Street Artists converged upon this city to add to the sparkling traffic of Art Basel and to crush some major wallage.

Of course, not everybody finished their piece in time because there were parties to attend, booties to shake, and pretty things to watch workin’ it on the street. Dust settled and work completed, last week we climbed walls, squeezed through fences, and raced up railroad tracks to catch all the finished pieces for you. In the process we met some barking bulldogs and charming new friends, because Miami is mad friendly yo, and we even got some inside tips on hidden treasure.

Os Gemeos From 2005 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Os Gemeos Detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tati (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kenton Parker (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lister Detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Chor Boogie and Kofie Detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Aiko (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Cash For Your Warhol (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bask (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tes One (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ephameron (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Roa Detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dabs ans Myla (photo © Jaime Rojo)

David Cooper (photo © Jaime Rojo)

David Cooper detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gaia (photo © Jaime Rojo)

How Nosm (photo © Jaime Rojo)

How Nosm detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)

How Nosm Detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Right, because it’s for the breaded crunchy mac and cheese and green string beans your mom’s gonna make when you get home. Cause your momma loves you, that’s why. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Invader did this, or possibly that drunken tile guy your cousin Barney works with. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unlike what you have heard kids, smoking is cool. EMA+Will Barras+The London Police and Kid Acne (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Nunca (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mr. Yago, Ron English, and Tristan Eaton (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ron English, Tristan Eaton, Mr. Yago and Nunca Detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Skewville (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Surge (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Miami 2010: Tales of the Streets

December 6, 2010 Art Fair, Artists, Events, Florida, Miami, On the Street, Primary Flight

Welcome to Miami! Now go home.

– It’s a paraphrase of the Christmas crabby New Yorker who relies on the tourists who pump money into Broadway and Times Square restaurants and FAO and who actually eat those hot dogs and pretzels on the street. In the case of Miami, Art Basel 2010 draws to a close now and one billion dollars are estimated to have been transacted. When you pair that figure with the estimated 2-3000 artists participating, it looks like the artists must have made out rather well, right?

Certainly there were more Street Artists than ever attending the events and transforming walls everywhere with their work and creativity – at least in the unofficially sanctioned areas. At the moment Miami is “The only city in the US where graffiti appreciates property value,” ironically says Mint and Serf, a Street Art collective visiting the tropical city from frigid New York. In an odd twist on the “broken window theory” and urban blight, artists who are normally looking over their shoulder can actually wave to and talk with police who are driving by in some run-down areas where they are given free reign over large swaths of walls. At this sunny moment in time various agendas are intertwined and one wonders how long this golden age lasts.

Street Art photographer and observer Geoff Hargadon took in the breadth of the week on the street and attended a number of the events over the past weeks’ art orgies. He captured many jewels and quick moments with his camera and his 6^th sense, which are below. As various larger pieces are unfinished right now, we’ll be going back in a few weeks for a year-end overview.

In addition to an intuitive eye about the art trends happening that impact the scene, Geoff gives a commentary about what else he’s thinking about: “Here is the other thing that’s a trend: property owners have their hands over all these walls for artists to takeover, and then suddenly they are leased out to restaurants, coffee shops, and other businesses. It’s hard to know who’s playing whom here – maybe it’s a happy co-existence – but when does the property owner step up to support these guys in other ways? (Unless, of course, it’s already happening.) Either way, artists are playing a big role in the development of these neighborhoods, and whether they know it or not, as the area gets more developed and gentrified, they will eventually run themselves out of town. Whether they are getting paid or not, they are creating their own extinction in Miami.”

Aiko (photo © Geoff Hargadon)

Amaze (photo and clever Photoshop © Geoff Hargadon)

Coco (photo © Geoff Hargadon)

Gaia’s Hands (photo © Geoff Hargadon)

Burning Candy Crew Members Tek33 and Dscreet at work on Dawn Of The Demon.(photo © Geoff Hargadon)

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Cash for your Warhol (photo © Geoff Hargadon)

Invader (photo © Geoff Hargadon)

Lister in progress (photo © Geoff Hargadon)

Gaia (photo © Geoff Hargadon)

The London Police in progress (photo © Geoff Hargadon)

The London Police close up (photo © Geoff Hargadon)

Shepard Fairey (photo © Geoff Hargadon)

Invader (photo © Geoff Hargadon)

Remed in progress (photo © Geoff Hargadon)

Invader and friends (photo © Geoff Hargadon)

Obey Overunder! (photo © Geoff Hargadon)

PopUp Lister (photo © Geoff Hargadon)

Ron English color explosion (photo © Geoff Hargadon)

Obey shop! (photo © Geoff Hargadon)

Ryan McGuinness (photo © Geoff Hargadon)

Skewville gets his wings and soars (photo © Geoff Hargadon)

Mint and Serf (photo © Mint and Serf)

Light Graffiti photo © Vicki Da Silva

Fun Friday 11.12.10

November 12, 2010 Artists, Brooklyn, California, Culver City, Events, Gallery, Los Angeles, Manhattan, new york, NYC, On the Street, Opening

The Community Serviced

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

Invader Goes To Hollywood…and gets chased by the police

“Block Party”

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.

Boxi. (Image courtesy of the gallery)

Nuart 2010 Photography by Carl Fredrick Salicath

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)

See more of Carl’s work here.

“BETA Spaces” in Bushwick Brooklyn Sunday

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.

Preview the exhibitions in the online directory, including images, curatorial statements and lists of participating artists.

To learn more about this festival and to read the full program and juicy details please go to http://artsinbushwick.org/beta2010/

Down on Me

Some killer hip-hop inspiration for your weekend shorty! Keenan Cahill and 50 Cent shredding it. That’s what’s up.

“She want it I can tell she want it
want me to push up on it
fore she know when I’m all on it
we get the party going liquor flowing this is fire“

Fun Friday 11.05.10

November 5, 2010 Artists, Brooklyn, NYC, Philadelphia, San Francisco

Fun Friday 11.05.10

C215 Prepares for “Community Service”: New Show and Book

“Painting in the streets puts limits on you, as far as the number of colours you can bring with you, how much time you have to paint, and even the subject matter since I like to put a link between the stencils I paint and the context around where I paint them.”

C215 speaks about his process, his travels, and his new book that features street images from our own Jaime Rojo and an introduction from our editor. More from the interview with Ripo on No New Enemies.

Aakash Nihilani at Bose Pacia Gallery

Aakash has been riding that tape into the gallery – including this homage to Jeff Koons. Says the gallery for the “Overlap” show that opened last night, “The common denominator of all works in the exhibition is the overlapping of isometric square shapes to create new forms that move towards figurative representation.”

Bose Pacia Gallery.

Photo courtesy Bose Pacia

Swoon

The celebrated Street Artist from Brooklyn talks about her approach to her work, and how it continues to evolve.

Invader Accused of Stealing Cow

This courtesy of graffart.eu, apparently Street Artist Invader has a sidebuster called Id-iom. Invader’s iconic digital spaceship had a rather close encounter of the bovine kind on the street recently.

Nick Walker “In Gods We Trust”

This new video from Nick Walker in an interview at the opening of his current show at Art Sensus Gallery contains two of the pieces he did first with us this summer on a some walls BSA secured for him in The People’s Republic of Brooklyn. The pieces also look great in the gallery, but the time hanging out with this talented and down-to-earth Street Artist was stellar and a really nice memory for summer 2010.

Nick Walker in Brooklyn with BSA (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Nick Walker in front of “Amerikarma” in Brooklyn. Summer 2010. (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

The BSA Banner when Nick was here. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Our 3 postings on Nick that week

http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=12522

http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=12566

http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=12579

“Yes on 19”

An earnest text-based approach to Street Art, this duo treats their work more like Public Service Announcement than Street Art. The messages posted are in support of Proposition 19, a referendum to legalize use of marijuana this past Tuesday in California, which was voted against by 53.9% of the populace.

Interestingly, the first part of the video is a primer on how to make fresh wheat paste in your kitchen. Suddenly BSA is the cooking channel!

Saber, Shepard Fairey and American Pride

From the West Coast, where smoking pot is still illegal without a doctor’s prescription, Shepard Fairey posted excellent photos by Todd Mazer of a big mural he and Saber recently completed for a project with a name that sounds kind of familiar.

“Saber and I have been friends for over 10 years and previously collaborated on the Brooklyn Projects wall on Sunset in Echo Park. We also both recently coincidentally made art inspired by the American flag,” says Fairey.

Love Letters- Marriage Proposal in Philly

Street Artist Stephen Powers aka ESPO sends this video of an amorous train trip along the same elevated line that affords riders a birds-eye view of his “Love Letters” project in Philadelphia. On the way, the Beatles get involved, and we all start to cry.

Here’s the new video for the next chapter in adoration; Love Letters Syracuse, in a mid-sized city in the center of New York State.

Wunderkammern Presents: Invader “Roma 2010 And Other Curiosities” (Rome, Italy)

September 22, 2010 Artists, Events, Gallery, Italy, Opening, Rome

Invader

Roma 2010 and other curiosities

From 23rd October to 21st December, Wunderkammern exhibition space will host the first Italian solo show of Invader: “Roma 2010 and other curiosities”.

Invader is an artist working in anonymity. Born in 1969 in Paris, he is one of the most important and original international street artists and has exhibited in many prestigious galleries and museums across the world.

Invader is known above all for his public interventions inspired to the Arcade Game Space Invaders, created in 1978 in Japan. His operations are tied up to creative practices of “interference” through which he traces unique trails in the collective space, shaping new signs in the urban landscape. The naturally public formality of his interventions – suspended between visibility and anonymity and between real and virtual spaces – as well as the choice of icons present in the collective memory and practices of the youngest generations, offers a meaningful and original reading of our cultural patrimony.

With the invasion of Rome occurred over the summer, the artist has finally added the Italian capital in the list of the more than forty cities he has invaded so far: from Katmandu to Bangkok, from small urban centres to great city metropolises such as New York, Hong Kong, Los Angeles and above all Paris.

The exhibition at Wunderkammern will present various aspect of his work: from the alias replicating the space invaders of Roma to works made with his original RubikCubism technique, by means of the coloured modules of the famous puzzle, re-presenting images extrapolated from the realm of art history or popular culture, along with specific installations and curiosities. The invasion guide of Roma and the brand new 19th printed invasion map will also be presented in exclusivity at the opening.

On the occasion of the artist’s presence in the city, Wunderkammern’s exhibition space opens once again to the dialectic comparison between ordinary and extraordinary, by drawing its own poetry closer to Invader’s narrative language. The artist revisits the urban space generating wonder and transforming daily routes into unique journeys.

Opening: sabato 23 ottobre 2010 – ore 18.00

Indirizzo: via Gabrio Serbelloni 124, Roma

Date esposizione: Dal 23 ottobre al 21 dicembre 2010. Aperto dal lundedì al giovedì dalle 17.00 to 20.00 o su appuntamento al 349 8112973.

Testo critico di Achille Bonito Oliva

Geoff Hargadon on the Scene (and behind it) for la Revolución

July 26, 2010 Artists, San Diego

Unprecedented Access to an Unprecedented Street Art Show

The Street Art photographer gives us a personal look with some of his favorite shots in a photo essay on “Viva La Revolucion”

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Shepard Fairey in action on Kettner Street not far from the museum (© Geoff Hargadon)

It’s very exciting to be a part of a growing and ever-evolving art movement comprised of so many diverse artists and talents. Among them of course are the photographers who enable us to see what is happening without leaving our computers. Sometimes they are simply documenting pieces so you have the opportunity to see what the street artist created. Other times a photographer will open other doors of understanding, write a bit of poetry with the moment.

We are so impressed with Geoff Hargadon and his deft positioning of the frame and his storytelling ability. During the installation of the city-wide street art show “Viva la Revolución” that is running right now in San Diego, Hargadon was given unprecedented access to the artists as they immersed themselves in their work. We asked Geoff to tell us a story with his images of that exceptional experience.

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Two team members of French large-scale Street Artist JR helping with his installation on 5th-Ave (© Geoff Hargadon)

Geoff explains:

” ‘Viva la Revolución,’ curated by my good friend, Pedro Alonzo, opened last week at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Pedro and I got to know each other well during Shepard Fairey’s museum show in Boston at the Institute of Contemporary Art, which he also curated, and through that show he became acquainted with the photography I had done on Shepard’s work in Boston and Miami. When I heard he was putting this show together, with 20 of the best artists in the world, I urged him to document the outdoor work well, and offered to spend 10 days following the artists around.

My proposal was to be everywhere at once, and to get as close to them as possible without getting in the way. Without exception, the artists were gracious and welcoming. The result was 45GB of photographs, from which the museum will select a bunch for inclusion in the show’s catalog, media coverage, and potentially some commemorative prints. Here I have selected, with some difficulty, a handful that attempt to capture the diversity of the work, the varied processes the artists used, the wide range of locations in San Diego, and the spirit of street art itself.”

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Brazilian brothers Os Gemeos piece on a parking garage (© Geoff Hargadon)

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French tile wizard Invader did a number of well placed pieces in the city (© Geoff Hargadon)

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The preparation of a piece by Stephan Doitschinoff, also known as Calma (© Geoff Hargadon)

The finished Calma piece (© Geoff Hargadon)

Os Gemeos in the studio space (© Geoff Hargadon)
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Brooklyn Street Artist Swoon’s piece being installed with help by her team. (© Geoff Hargadon)
A JR installation in progress with the help of an intern at the museum.”It’s the left wall of a mini theatre in which he shows
one of his recent video works – a brilliant and moving piece.”(© Geoff Hargadon) Brooklyn-Street-Art-copyright-Geoff-Hargadon-Dr-Lakra-D3S_9511

Mexican tattoo artist Dr. Lakra installed a mural in a lot next to this low rider, which continued to beckon him during his work. (© Geoff Hargadon)

San Diego’s Streets Alive as “Viva la Revolución” Opens at MCASD

July 19, 2010 On the Street, San Diego

Opening night at MCASD’s first Street Art exhibition this weekend – a crushing crowd in two lines which formed an hour before the doors opened. (photo © Geoff Hargadon)

“Never Trust Your Own Eyes. Believe What You Are Told,” says the ironic slogan in the freshly wheat-pasted graphic piece by street artist Shepard Fairey on the side of a clothing store in San Diego, the town that chased him out for doing street art. One may believe Fairey’s politics to be Orwellian reference. Just as easily it could be applied to the academics, historians and would-be art critics struggling daily to describe with any authority what street art is and how it should be regarded. Luckily, we have been able to trust our eyes to make this analysis so far.

Invader and friends in San Diego (image © Geoff Hargadon)

Invader Uses GPS to Map Attack of San Diego

July 8, 2010 Artists, Brazil, France, Italy, Mexico, San Diego, Sweden, U.K.

Actually it’s just a street art tour, complete with map

French Street Artist Monsieur Invader, a favorite of New Yorkers and Jonathan LeVine Gallery, has created a 21 stop Invader Tour in the streets of San Diego for visitors to the new show “Viva la Revolucion: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape” opening at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCASD).

The show features 21 artists from 8 countries including Akay (Sweden), Banksy (U.K.), Blu (Italy), Mark Bradford (U.S.), William Cordova (U.S.), Date Farmers (U.S.), Stephan Doitschinoff [CALMA] (Brazil), Dr. Lakra (Mexico), Dzine (U.S.), David Ellis (U.S.), FAILE (U.S.), Shepard Fairey (U.S.), Invader (France), JR (France), Barry McGee (U.S.), Ryan McGinness (U.S.), Moris (Mexico), Os Gemeos (Brazil), Swoon (U.S.), and Vhils (Portugal).

Invader in New York (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Heavenly Invasion, Space Invader (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Images of the Week 05.02.10 on BSA

May 2, 2010 Artists, Brooklyn, Manhattan, NYC, Queens

Our weekly interview with the street; This week featuring Veng (RWK),Hellbent,Invader, Shepard Fairey, Showta, Gussa, Clown Soldier, Alec,C215,Chris (RWK), Skewville, DAIN,TrutoCorp, Trust Corp, Jaime Rojo

A new rare red frog from Veng RWK (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Hellbent (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Images of the Week 02.21.10

February 21, 2010 Artists, Brooklyn, BSA Images Of The Week, Manhattan, NYC, On the Street, Week in Images

Images of the Week 02.21.10 Our Weekly Interview with the Street

WK Interact has been very busy on this spot in Manhattan – a wild untamed tableau that borrows from fantasy and nature. Looks like Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat. The obstructed view below it is an existing WK piece from a little while ago. (photo @ Jaime Rojo)

Stikmen on a tightrope, with some of those wiggly ones on the sides – for the Woodward Gallery. (Stikman) (photo ©Jaime Rojo)

Looks like one the members of Insane Clown Posse ran away to New York and joined the Dandy Mob! (Primo da Clown) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Images of Week 12.13.09

December 13, 2009 Artists

Our weekly interview with the streets.

It’s a Faile Christmas. The Faile Collective found their stolen Prayer Wheel, painted it white, and now re-painted it for Christmas (photo ©Jaime Rojo)

“Yow-sah! Did you see those furry boots on her?” “I know! …But are you sure those were boots?” (Invader and Stikman) (photo ©Jaime Rojo)

Oh, I don’t know, Doc, I just can’t concentrate. It’s like all my thoughts go straight and then turn at sharp angels and radiate — I don’t know, it’s hard to describe. (Over Under) (photo ©Jaime Rojo)

Images of Week 08.02.09

August 2, 2009 Artists, Brooklyn, BSA Images Of The Week, On the Street

Our Weekly Interview With the Streets

Ripoff, Isoceles (Akash Nihalani) (photo Jaime Rojo

Serious thug back in da day (Dain 1943) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Parrot Flame Thrower Dissed (photo Jaime Rojo)

Honey I decide to put on a quilt, light up, and get off the grid! (El Sol 25, N.Y.D.F. ) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Gallerie D’ BQE (photo Jaime Rojo)

Installlation (Gallerie D’BQE) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Strong images speak for themselves (KNF) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Lady Trapeeze (photo Jaime Rojo)

The headmistress hurriedly rushed to the choking child to provide resuscitation (OHM) (photo Jaime Rojo)

A thin filmstrip from Peru Ana Peru (photo Jaime Rojo)

Please Do Not Forget Me (photo Jaime Rojo)

REVS (photo Jaime Rojo)

Smile (photo Jaime Rojo)

Space Invader (photo Jaime Rojo)

Elbow Toe and OHM (photo Jaime Rojo)

OHM (photo Jaime Rojo)

Cash Cow (Gaia) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Revs (photo Jaime Rojo)

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