LA’s Thinkspace Gallery was just in Philadelphia guest-curating a show at Gallery 309. Looks like the opening was absolutely packed, and with good reason. The show, LAX/PHL, includes installation from NoseGo and work by La Pandilla, Pixelpancho and many more. It’s open now through June 21st. I can’t wait to stop by myself as soon as I finish my exams.

Alexis Diaz of La Pandilla

NoseGo

Pixelpancho

Photos by Daniel Weintraub

Dabs Myla

LA’s Thinkspace Gallery is coming to my city of Philadelphia soon for a show they’ve curated at Philadelphia’s Gallery 309. LAX / PHL will include work from dozens of artists including Dabs Myla, Gaia, Ghostpatrol, La Pandilla, and Pixel Pancho, but the highlight is likely to be an installation by NoseGo. Thinkspace Gallery is suggesting that this show includes artists from the “New Contemporary Art Movement.” I call it that movement “The artists that Juxtapoz might cover,” but whatever. The point is, there’s gonna be a lot of really impressive artwork at this show.

LAX / PHL opens on Saturday, May 11th from 6-10pm, and runs through June 21st. There will be a second opening reception on June 7th from 6-10pm to coincide with Philadelphia’s First Friday art events.

Photo courtesy of Thinkspace Gallery

There are a bunch of shows open now or opening in the next month that I’d like to mention, but there are only so many hours in the day. So here’s a bit of a round-up:

• Détournement: Signs of the Times is a group show that just opened at Jonathan Levine Gallery in NYC. It was curated by the legendary Carlo McCormick and features artists who “subvert consensus visual language so as to turn the expressions of capitalist culture against themselves.” Some of those artists in Détournement are Aiko, David Wojnarowicz, Ripo, Posterboy, Ron English, Shepard Fairey + Jamie Reid, Steve Powers, TrustoCorp and Zevs.
• Chris Stain and Joe Iurato are showing together for a two-man show at NYC’s Mighty Tanaka. The show opens on Friday. These are two great and underrated stencil artists. I highly recommend checking out this show, particularly given the superb quality of Stain’s recent indoor work.
• Sweet Toof has a solo show opening this week at High Roller Society a pop-up space in Hackney Wick, London.
• Contemporary Wing’s (Washington, DC) latest group show, opening on the 16th, is an exhibit of secondary market work, but there should some nice stuff, including work by Shepard Fairey, WK Interact, Gaia, Faile and Blek le Rat. I must admit that I’ve included a piece in this show, but I’m not going to say which one (so if you want to help me out, just buy the entire show…).
• Finally, Dabs and Myla have curated a show at LA’s Thinkspace Gallery which will open September 1st. In addition to their own paintings and installations, the show features 32 of their friends, plus a solo show in Thinkspace’s project room by Surge MDR. Those shows open September 1st.

Photo by Susan NYC

Don't Fret

Lots of news to share this week and I’m late with this post, so let’s get on with it…

• This year’s FAME Festival lineup is online.
• Nina Pandolfo has a show coming up this week at Lazarides’ Rathbone Place location. Despite Nina’s talent, it’s unfortunately difficult to shake the knowledge that she is married to Otavio Pandolfo of Os Gemeos and make comparisons to Os Gemeos’ work.
• Some great new prints and t-shirts from Horfe.
• Stick2Target has photos of some great new walls by Vhils.
• Let’s all go make parks.
• Thinkspace Gallery currently has a charity show running to benefit Born Free USA.
• Street Art Is Dead used to be a blog that mostly complained about the bullshit involved in street art. Now there’s a newish blog with that name that indiscriminately posts photos of street art despite quality.
• James Marshall aka Dalek has brought his Space Monkey character back in his work after years of interesting artistic development.
• Animal New York’s analysis of JR’s latest mural in New York seems pretty spot on… “Let’s agree that it is not an vicious affront to the eyes, but it’s not ‘absolutely genius’ either.”
• Banksy updated his website. A couple of really nice new pieces, both indoors and outdoors.
• Carmichael Gallery have a show that just opened with Yue Minjun, Mark Jenkins and Aakash Nihalani.
• The Duke Spirit used Kid Acne’s Stabby Women film series footage and used a version reedited by Dscreet (who also directed Stabby Women initially) for their latest music.

Photo by Don’t Fret

Morgan's Last Supper by Ron English

I love the idea behind The New Blood, a show that Morgan Spurlock (of Supersize Me) has curated at Thinkspace Gallery: He asked established artists to each select one up-and-coming artist whose work they want highlight, with both artists having work in the show. Here’s what Spurlock has to say about the show:

I’m a massive art collector who, by way of my habit formed a relationship with Thinkspace’s Andrew Hosner, and when he offered me the opportunity to curate a show I jumped at the chance. The concept of the show is how the torch is passed from one artist to the next. One opens the door so another can follow. And this show is all about artists who I think have and are continuing to impact and change the art world, and each one of these artists is bringing along an ‘apprentice’ or ‘protege’ who they think we all need to know about, the artists they believe are the ‘New Blood’ of the art world.

The line-up looks really exciting…

Camille Rose Garcia / Travis Lampe
The Date Farmers / Albert Reyes
Dzine / Jesus Bubu Negron
Elizabeth McGrath / Morgan Slade
Gary Baseman / Jesse Dickenson
Gary Taxali / Adrian Forrow
Jonathan Yeo / Charlie Gouldsborough
Mark Jenkins / Sandra Fernandez
Nicola Verlato / Marco Mazzoni
Ron English / Kid Zoom
Saber / ZES
Shepard Fairey / Nicholas Bowers
Tim Biskup / Patrick Hruby

The New Blood opens at Thinkspace Gallery on April 28th and runs through May 19th.

Image courtesy of Thinkspace Gallery

Anthony Lister at Venice Beach

Brooklyn Street Art and Thinkspace Art Gallery have put together a huge group show called Street Art Saved My Life: 39 New York Stories. It opens next Friday, August 12th at C.A.V.E. Gallery in Venice, CA (not Thinkspace). The 40+ artists (39 names, but some are duos) come from around the world, but mainly New York. There’s a great range of artists from up-and-coming guys like Radical! to legends like Futura.

Photo by Anthony Lister

Roa’s pop-up show in LA with Thinkspace Gallery opened last week at New Puppy Gallery. Arrested Motion was there taking pictures. Here are some of my favorites, but you can see more of the show on Arrested Motion.

Photos by Arrested Motion

Some more Roa news: Remember that Roa’s solo show with Thinkspace in LA opens tonight and runs through November 24th. Here are a few pictures of the show getting prepared…

Photos courtesy of Thinkspace Gallery

Roa in Moscow

When Roa sent me some photos of his recent work in Moscow, he mentioned that he’d arrived in LA. LA? What was he doing in LA. Then I remembered that his upcoming show with Thinkspace is almost here. I was thinking it was still months away, but no. The show is less than two weeks away.

The show opens November 13th and is going to be at a special pop-up location in LA (2808 Elm Street, Los Angeles, CA). Let’s hope that Roa has time to paint a few walls around LA in addition to whatever he’s up to for this solo show.

Photo by zub4ik

Nathan DeYoung

This June California’s Thinkspace Gallery will be teaming up with the UK’s very own London Miles Gallery for what promises to be a ground breaking group exhibition. Righteously titled The Next Generation; the exhibit will feature a 45 strong selection of international artists from the burgeoning New Contemporary Art movement. The London Miles Gallery will be housing a number of works of art from a fastidiously handpicked selection of emerging and established artists as it aims to bring the best new international talent to the doorstep of London’s Contemporary art community.

The Next Generation opens on June 11th (7pm to 11pm) and will be on view until July 4th.

Here’s a full list of the artists that will be featured at the show

Aaron Nagel
Adam Caldwell
Allison Sommers
Amy Sol
Andy Kehoe
Anthony Clarkson
Anthony Pontius
Audrey Kawasaki
Brett Amory
Bumblebee
Caia Koopman
Cherri Wood
Chris Murray
Craig “Skibs” Barker
Dabs Myla
Dan-ah Kim
David MacDowell
Derek Gores
Gaia
Jacub Gagnon
Jeff Ramirez
Jen Lobo
Jesse Hotchkiss
Joseph “2H” McSween
Josie Morway
Kelly Vivanco
Lesley Reppeteaux
Linnea Strid
Liz Brizzi
Mari Inukai
Mike Russek
Moki
Nathan DeYoung
Nouar
Pakayla Rae Biehn
Paul Barnes
Peter Taylor
Rebecca Hahn
Sarah Joncas
Seth Armstrong
Stella Im Hultberg
Timothy Karpinski
Tony Philippou
Tran Nguyen
Yosuke Ueno

Grab a sneak peak of the exhibition coming together here