worldwarwon – Vandalog – A Street Art Blog

October 5, 2011October 4, 2011

Warren Lewis aka WorldWarWon in Amsterdam

Warren Lewis, aka WorldWarWon, has his first solo show in the Netherlands opening this weekend at Amsterdam’s Andenken Gallery. My Name Is only runs from October 8th through the 14th though, so make sure to see if ASAP if you’re interested. Warren’s paintings are much more graphically complex than most of his street art. They look like a physical mash-up of politics, vacuous tumblr/facebook/twitter babble, brand identities and pop culture all roll into one, sort of abstract portraits of modern 20 and 30-somethings.

Warren Lewis is represented by the recently launched Klerkx Art Agency, who also represent John Fekner, Icy and Sot (among others).

Photo by Warren Lewis

March 20, 2011

WorldWarWon’s Winnie-the-Pooh

Haha loving this sculpture from WorldWarWon.

Photo by WorldWarWon

March 18, 2011October 1, 2012

Weekend link-o-rama

So much going on behind the scenes this week for a couple of upcoming events. Can’t wait to say more. Hopefully next week I’ll be able to write about one of them. Here’s what I didn’t have a chance to post about this week:

Sick burner by Jume.
I wish I could have seen Mark Jenkins’ installation at Carmichael Gallery’s Volta booth in the flesh.
OaKoAk: A french street artist who is kind of awesome.
Some shots from Vhils‘ latest solo show in Portugal.
Someone is placing “hipster traps” around NYC.
Shepard Fairey’s Revolutions show looks pretty cool.
Check out Contra Projects’ booth and murals from Scope NYC.
The LA Police are trying to interfere with a graffiti writer’s art career by not allowing him to use his name (Smear) with anything relating to his artwork. And then they arrested him.
Just rediscovered this piece from last year by WorldWarWon where he “graffiti-ed” an iceberg.
Tika has a show coming up in Berlin.
Galo, 2051 and Ottograph have a show opening soon in San Fransisco at Lower Haters Gallery.

Photo by Galo

February 28, 2011

WorldWarWon show in Amsterdam

WorldWarWon has a pop-up solo show in Amsterdam opening on March 4th. Should be interesting. You never know what WWW is going to get up to. Here’s the flyer:

You can rsvp by emailing manuelaklerkx@gmail.com.

Photo courtesy of WorldWarWon

February 24, 2011

Graffiti at Christie’s Amsterdam

My friends are Lebowski Publishers are hosting this event next week at Christie’s in Amsterdam. At the next auction at that Christie’s location, there are going to be a number of pieces for sale from old-school writers, which is how this party has come about. Nothing against old-school graffiti on canvas, but it’s not really my thing. What I’m more interested in with this party is the living painting collaboration between Shoe and Quik, plus whatever Laser 3.14 and WorldWarWon get up to in. WWW is a clever and new street artist in London, and Laser 3.14 does some great text-based street art/graffiti. Also, the first 50 people there will get a copy of a classic book: The Faith of Graffiti.

December 19, 2010

Weekend link-o-rama

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA — Galo and Pixelpancho in Miami (click to view large)

Well, I was expecting to see my family today, but snow in London have half of them stuck there. Luckily, snow where I am in Colorado is keeping me busy. Too busy to post very much unfortunately. Here’s what I’ve been missing:

Roadsworth is Lisbon. Definitely check this out.
Todd Seelie took some great photos of Monica Canilao and Saelee Oh making a beautiful installation in Detroit.
M-City killed it in Miami even though his stencils arrived days after he did.
While I didn’t care for Banksy’s latest print release at all, he did give the proceeds (almost £100,000 in total) to a great cause.
Yellow Pants‘ first show, at Montana’s gallery in Lisbon, looks fabulous. With art from Remed, Zosen, Maya Hayuk and others, how could it go wrong?
I’m way late on this, but Ron English made some shirts with Hurley earlier this year.
Sometimes Mint and Serf (who work together as Mirf) do some interesting things. Other times that say crazy things. In an interview with Brooklyn Street Art, Mint said this “So back in April I designed the original Mirf poster and put a bunch of them in Russia. It was one of the first times I’ve seen graffiti being put up on the street but with wheat paste.” While he’s not taking credit for inventing wheatpasting for graffiti, he’s definitely taking too much credit for something that isn’t particularly innovative in 2010.
DabsMyla and Greg Simpkins teamed up for this great mural in LA.
World War Won’s new logo for Hackney would be a perfect way to spice up their image a bit.
Postermat, the latest show at The Hole in NYC, sounds like it will either be awesome or really really terrible. If you go, let me know what you think.

November 30, 2010

Sorry for the silence

Sorry for the silence over the last few days (yes, I realize the irony of saying that and picking the above image for this post). I was celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday with some friends in NYC and was barely online. Now I’m trying to get as much schoolwork done as possible before heading to Miami on Thursday and then it’s time for final exams… Until at least the end of the week, I’ll probably only be posting about Miami Basel and events surrounding that. Luckily, Stephanie has been picking up the slack and will continue to do so while I’m locking myself in the library.

That said, I couldn’t help writing briefly about worldwarwon. I’ve just been introduced to his street art, and he’s been doing some interesting things on the streets of London recently. Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like street art is getting a bit more conceptual. Maybe as a reaction to crappy stencils? Anyway, worldwarwon is a nice example of an artist possibly inspired by Banksy but going a bit more conceptual and using the streets. Okay, as I’m rereading those last three sentences, I get the feeling that I’m almost definitely overthinking and overexplaining things. Simply put, check out worldwarone’s website for some clever street art and maybe a laugh.

Photo by worldwarwon