Ron English goes Bovine Bombing

Ron English just posted these photos on his blog. Nice stuff. Check out a bunch more on Ron’s blog.

The UK Premiere Screening of “New Brow”

This looks like a really cool film. New Brow: The Rise of Underground Art is a documentary about the new brow/low brow/pop surrealism/graffiti art/street art/enjoyed-by-Juxtapoz art movements. The film made the rounds at film festivals in the states, and now next month is the UK premiere, thanks to London Miles Gallery.

The press release:

London Miles Gallery is proud to host the premiere UK screening of Contemporary Art documentary, New Brow – The rise of Underground Art, a feature film presented by Humble Pictures in association with The Shooting Gallery from San Francisco, California. The documentary features some of today’s most influential and groundbreaking artists from the New Contemporary Art movement, such as Shepard Fairey, Ron English, Silvia Ji, Gary Baseman, Shag and many more, who speak openly and enlighteningly about the growing art movement and its origins. The documentary not only includes first-hand accounts from an impressive list of pioneering artists, but also showcases the important galleries and collectors who adopted, and continue to drive the New Contemporary Art movement today.

New Brow has been the official selection of the San Francisco Film festival, Rader Hamburg Film Festival, The Tulsa United Film Festival, The Hot Springs Film Festival and the Golden State Film Festival. New Brow premiered at the 2009 Golden State Film Festival where it received the second largest attendance behind a special screening of Star Wars, the Empire Strikes Back. It has been screened in cities across America and has made its way to Europe, Australia and now to London this February.

London Miles will be screening New Brow on Saturday the 20th of February at 4:00pm and the 27th February at 2:00pm and 5:30pm. Tickets are £8.00 and the film will be shown in the Project Room in Westbourne Studios, 242 Acklam Rd, London, W10 5JJ. Please purchase advance tickets at www.londonmiles.com, or reserve by email to info@londonmiles.com.

And the trailer:

New Brow Trailer 1 from New Brow on Vimeo.

Ron English paints Homer Simpson

While I acknowledge his importance in the scene, I’m not a huge Ron English fan, but this painting looks pretty cool. It’s Homer Simpson painting a Jackson Pollock-esque piece. Apparently it was used in a recent episode of The Simpsons in America, but I’ve yet to see the clip so I dunno. This time lapse painting of the piece turned out great though:

Primary Flight

My highlight of Art Basel was almost definitely Primary Flight, the huge mural project in the Wynwood district. They had over 100 artists painting murals, from big names like Shepard Fairey and Nick Walker to local graffiti writers. Here’s some of what they did.

Joe and I made a video about the project:

NohJColey. Photo courtesy of NohJColey

Pose

Ron English

Jeff Soto

Jeff Soto. Photo courtesy of Jeff Soto

Gaia

Many many more photos on Jeremiah Garcia’s flickr

Primary Flight Begins

Shepard Fairey

Logan Hicks sent out this email last night:

Primary Flight begins!

It’s the eve of the official Primary Flight event and two seasoned veterans of street art took to the streets early. Around midnight Shepard Fairey and Ron English started making their mark on the neighborhood of Wynwood for the Primary Flight event.

Shepard Fairey will be doing his largest mural to date this year for Primary Flight. With a wall that is nearly 20 ft tall, and 200 ft wide, this monster wall will be finished over the next few days. During this night session he was visited by KAWS and Jose Parla who got a sneak peek of what was to come over the next few nights.

Ron English worked into the morning hours doing the prep work on his mural which will be approximately 30ft wide by 15ft tall.

These are only 2 of the nearly 80 artists that will be participating in Primary Flight.

For info visit: www.primaryflight.com

Ron English

Preview: Murals in Miami

This year the art fairs in Miami are going to be complimented with two massive mural projects.

First, the classic: Primary Flight came out with their promo video yesterday. PF have been doing a mural project in Miami for a few years, and their line up is a grab bag of awesomeness with artists like Ron English, The London Police, Logan Hicks and Revok. Here’s the video:

Primary Flight 2009 Teaser from Primary Flight on Vimeo.

And then there is a the guy in town: The Wynwood Walls is a project by Jeffrey Deitch. The line up isn’t as expansive, but the names are all international superstars like Swoon, Barry McGee, Futura, and Os Gemeos.

There’s even a lot of overlap between the projects with artists like Shepard Fairey and Aiko painting for both groups.

Naturally, I’ll be there filming for Babelgum and taking photos for Vandalog.

Green Day and The Art of Rock

Logan Hicks

Thursday night was the opening of Green Day’s The Art of Rock at StolenSpace Gallery. It would have been easy for Green Day to put together a street art show full of random artists that street art fans would hate but Green Day fans would like because it has the Green Day name on it. Instead, The Art of Rock was curated by Logan Hicks and he got some really talented artists involved.

My personal favorite was this piece by Chris Stain, one of his best I think:

Photo by Paulo20210

And I think you really have to see Logan Hick’s laser etched pieces in person, but this shot should give you some idea. The background is laser etched.

Each piece in the show (other than Logan’s portraits) is based on the lyrics from a song off of Green Day’s latest album.

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Sixten

Broken Crow, Ron English and The London Police

If you ever liked Green Day, you need to check out this show. The lineup is solid, the art is great and the connection to music is different.

Photos by S.Butterfly

Nimbus Vapor – Curated by Ron English

Nimbus Vapor is a Ron English curated show at the Opera Gallery in New York. It opened last Thursday and includes some big names like Keith Haring, Basquiat, Banksy, Shepard Fairey and Logan Hicks. Plenty of pics can be seen on the show’s website.

Green Day meets street art

By Logan Hicks

Green Day and Logan Hicks have teamed up to create a traveling street art exhibition which will be with Green Day on their world tour. Some of the artists involved include Logan Hicks (of course), M-City, Ron English, Broken Crow and Sixten. These artists have created pieces which are inspired by Green Day’s latest album, 21st Century Breakdown.

As a fan of Green Day (don’t lie, you know you like American Idiot as much as I do), I’m excited to see them bringing street art to a new group of fans. Here’s a sample of what will be in the exhibit:

By Ron English

By Meggs

Check out an interview with Logan Hicks about this show on Brooklyn Street Art.

Ron English at Elms Lesters

Went to Elms Lesters on Thursday for the opening of Ron English’s first UK solo show, and I was pretty impressed. Although I’m not as big of a Ron English fan as some people, there were definitely a few pieces that stood out for me.

Mandala Grin by Ron English

And if you like that image, check out the almost life sized toy version.

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