Bowed (yellow)

Labrona has been busy lately working on seven new screenprints. They are all available online now. As a fan of ridiculously affordable prints, my favorites have to be Bowed and Crossed, which each come in a red colorway and a blue colorway and are part of Brooklynite Gallery‘s Snub Nose series. That means, that not only are that beautiful, but they are super-affordable. Each of the Bowed and Crossed prints are a 6×8 inch edition of 30 available for just $25. These prints are available online here, here, here and here.

Crossed (blue)

Back home in Canada, Labrona has his Zombie Stance and Dog Man Rides Again prints at station16. Zombie Stance is 22×22 inches and an edition of 15. Dog Man Rides Again is 22×30 inches, an edition of 13 and available in both a yellow/blue and green/pink colorway. Zombie Stance and Dog Man Rides Again are each available online here for 100 Canadian dollars.

Zombie Stance

Dog Man Rides Again (yellow/blue)

Images courtesy of Labrona

ND'A and Labrona. Photo by Lois Stavsky

While Labrona was in town for his show with OverUnder and ND’A at Pandemic Gallery, he and ND’A got up around Williamsburg.

ND'A. Photo by LNY

Labrona. Photo by LNY

ND'A. Photo by LNY

Photos by Lois Stavsky and LNY

For the past few months I’ve been marveling at ND’A’s and OverUnder’s pieces that have been surfacing regularly in Bushwick and Williamsburg. I’m less familiar with Labrona’s work, though I loved what I saw of his in Carmichael Gallery’s “Re-Creation 2” at the Ogilvy Chocolate Factory last year.  Williamsburg’s Pandemic Gallery is currently featuring the work of all three artists.  The exhibit, PAPERBOYS, continues through Sunday, December 11^th and is definitely worth checking out if you are anywhere in the NYC vicinity. Here are a few of our favorite images:

OverUnder, photo by Lois Stavsky

OverUnder, photo by Lois Stavsky

Labrona, photo by Tara Murray

Labrona, photo by Tara Murray

ND'A, photo by Damien Kelly

ND'A and OverUnder, photo by Lois Stavsky

Photos by Lois Stavsky, Damien Kelly and Tara Murray

OverUnder, Labrona and ND'A

This is a show that I’ll probably make the bus ride from Philadelphia to NYC just to see: OverUnder, Labrona and ND’A are showing together in Paperboys at Pandemic Gallery. These three guys make great images and do it with a smile and a drive for adventure (well, actually I can’t speak for ND’A, but I assume he smiles and searches for adventure too). It opens on November 19th and runs through December 11th and is practically guaranteed to be a fun show.

OverUnder and ND'A at work

One of OverUnder's artworks for Paperboys

Photos courtesy of OverUnder

Labrona and Gawd

Long-time collaborators Labrona and Gawd have been busy lately, and here are few of my favorite new pieces by them:

Labrona

Gawd

Labrona for Living Walls Albany

Photos courtesy of Labrona and Gawd

Ever and Freddy Sam. Photo by nickmickolas

In what is likely the second-t0-last post of murals from Living Walls in Atlanta, here’s work by Ever, Freddy Sam, Never, Gawd, Labrona, OverUnder, LNY, Sharktoof, Feral Child, Entes and Pesimo.

Feral Child. Photo by Feral Child

Labrona, Overunder and Gawd. Photo by nickmickolas

Entes and Pesimo. Photo by nickmickolas

Never. Photo by nickmickolas

LNY. Photo by nickmickolas

Sharktoof. Photo by Greg Mike

Photos by Greg Mike, Feral Child and nickmickolas

Doodles, Swampy and Greg Mike at Living Walls 2010

Later this month, Atlanta is going to be taken over by street artists from around the world for this year’s edition of the Living Walls conference, Living Walls: the City Speaks. From the 12th-14th of August, there will be film screenings, lectures and artists painting murals around the city. Living Walls have brought together an impressive artist roster from around the world including (but not limited to) Doodles, Swampy, Gaia, Roa, Labrona, OverUnder, Sam3, Freddy Sam, White Cocoa, Nanook, Greg Mike, Paper Twins, Clownsoldier and Gawd. And I can’t complain about the keynote speakers either: Tristan Manco, Gaia, Ricky Lee Gordon and me.

So if you’re in Atlanta, come out check out the opening party at The Sound Table on Friday the 12th, lectures at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia on the 13th during the day, a party at The Goat Farm the night of the 13th and a tour of all the new murals on the 14th. I’ll post more details about exact times later. And of course, I’ll be posting plenty of photos from the conference as well.

In September, another Living Walls event will take place in Albany, NY. More on that later.

Photo by Greg Foster Photography

Labrona and Gawd. Click the photo to view it large.

Last night might have been my busiest 1st Thursday ever, and I didn’t even stop off everywhere I wanted to. Either way, I’ll have to go back to a few galleries this week to actually look at the art properly. Even with a cursory glance though, the Charming Baker show was the highlight by a mile. I’m not sure how sustainable it is to sell paintings at the prices they sold for last night, but damn it looked good. Here’s a few things I could have posted about last night, had I not been out being a gallery-hopping scenester…

• Probably the coolest thing I’ve seen all week: Nug (this guy) visited FAME Festival.
• Everfresh have created the graffiti writer’s dream machine: The Graff Mobile.
• Conor Harrington has been painting some murals of bulls in Ireland. I like this one. This one, not so much. Unfortunately, I cannot figure out why that is about either of the walls.
• In addition to his LA show, Lush is doing a show in August at Fifty24SF.
• As usual, Dal does something visually stunning.
• Leon Reid IV is doing a Kickstarter campaign for his latest potential public sculpture in New York City.
• Meighan O’Toole at My Love for You has done a podcast where she interviewed up with Steve Powers, the first in what will hopefully be a series of podcasts from her.
• A new print from Shepard Fairey is being released, partially for charity, in New York this weekend.
• Showpaper has done round 2 of its Community Serviced project where they get artists to paint newspaper bin boxes for Showpaper. Check out all the photos from round 2 here.

Photo by Labrona

A few days ago Couture Gallery in Stockholm opened their latest show Strange Fables. The exhibit features new works by the likes of Herakut, Saddo, Labrona, Other, Ruskig, and Angest. Here are some shots sent to us by Labrona that I thought I would post.

Herakut

Labrona

Labrona and Troy Lovegates aka Other in Chile

Freshman year is almost over and soon I’ll be leaving Philadelphia for NYC and London (just for the summer though). And yet, I still have finals to study for, so I didn’t get time to write about these things…

• Matt Small’s first LA solo show opened this week.
• Juxtapoz visited Deuce 7′s studio.
• I did a little interview for my friends at Primary Flight, but Anthony Lister’s answers to the same questions are much better.
• Ricky-Lee Gordon aka Freddy Sam painting in Woodstock, South Africa.
• If you are interested in buffing or Escif, you need to hear this story.
• Herakut, Bumblebee, Case and others at LeBasse Projects.
• A fantastic project from Liqen.

Photo by Labrona