Here’s a new artist (or new to me at least). New York Ghost is one of a few artist/activists in New York with a habit of taking over public advertising spaces like bus stop advertisements. These are some of his works:
Sure, these two pieces would look better if they were printed on one large piece of paper, but the concepts are interesting.
And this is just cool.
Armsrock recently went to Athens for a project at the Museum of Cycladic Art. I have no idea no the Cyclades were, but I do like Armsrock (which reminds me, if you visit The Thousands you can see one of his drawings and maybe a diorama too if I have the space for it).
Normally I don’t post about shows at The Brick Lane Gallery, but this is an exception. Zoo has work from Bortusk Leer, Pez, Snub23, Roa and El Bocho.
The Brick Lane Gallery is proud to present “The Brick Lane Zoo” where exotic and wild animals fresh from the city streets cross the globe to showcase at The Brick Lane Zoo.
15 international Street and Urban Artists from the UK, France, Spain, USA, Argentina, Belgium and Germany come together under one roof armed with spraycans, paste ups and stencils to unleash their wild beasts into our urban jungle. Feral animals will roam the gallery walls and stray between the visitors. The upper canopy will be adorned with a striking array of animals ranging from skeletal rhinos and grizzly bears to happy fish.
Combining the exceptional talents of our street artists the walls of the gallery will come to life.
The Brick Lane Zoo
8th – 19th October 2009
Private View Wednesday 7th October 6:30 – 8:30 pmOrganised by Daphne Polski
Curated by Daphne Polski and Y-NOT
MuTATE Britain: Behind The Shutters was one of the best art exhibitions in London last year. And now the MuTATE crew is back with MuTATE Britain: One Foot in the Grove. One Foot opens October 9th at the corner of Portobello & Acklam Roads in London. Just like last year, the list of artists involved is staggering, but here are a few: Matt Small, Paul Insect, Best Ever, Part2ism, Pure Evil and Dr. D.
A few images have started to leak out, and here’s one of a piece Best Ever is painting:
See you there next Friday.
And for updates, make sure to check out the official MuTATE blog.
One of my favorite Shepard Fairey prints of the year, and it’s for charity. Awesome. Well, except for the fact Peel Magazine is in trouble, which is the opposite of awesome.
From Shepard Fairey:
Dave and Holly Combs are wonderful people as well as the founders of PEEL Zine. They took the risk of following their artistic passion and have paid the price of losing their home. I created this print with and for them to raise money to help with their huge debt. PEEL has helped to support and grow the street art community and I believe they deserve to have the favor returned. Profits from this print go to help the Combs family. Please help out.
The print goes on sale on October 6th for just $45. It is from an edition of 450.
More info on the print at Obey Giant
Thought I’d post a few photos from Asker, an Italian graffiti artist whose work I’ve really been enjoying recently.
Check out more on Asker’s website.
Dennis McNett just made me feel much better about going to school in Philadelphia next year. Finally, there is a cool art gallery I can point to and say, “See, there’s still art for me in Philadelphia” when people ask how the hell I’m going to handle being so far from the art I like.
Here’s the info on his latest show at Space 1026:
“Year of the Wolfbat”
An installation by Dennis McNettShow dates: October 2nd –October 31st
Opening Reception: Friday October 2nd 7-10pm
Where: Space 1026, 1026 Arch St. Philadelphia, PA 19107The “Year of the Wolfbat” began in NYC in June and has since trekked across the US stopping for exhibitions, artist talks and workshops along the way. The migratory flight of the Wolfbats has swooped in for shows at Fecal Face Dot Gallery in San Francisco and Thinkspace Gallery in Los Angeles. Their tour will culminate at Space 1026 in Philadelphia with an installation of print-derived sculpture and mural, accompanied by unique and editioned works both large and small.
You can expect to see a loud psychedelic woodcut landscape covering several walls of the gallery in which nature’s bass has been cranked up to 11. Duck your head walking in and make way for an entire flock of hotheaded Wolfbats swooping overhead, not to mention the supercharged eagles diving out of their path to let them through.
Also on view will be several new wood carved pieces, relief cut prints, masks and oversize tapestries. Leopards with serpent tails, goat heads wrapped in snakes, angry beasts, eagles fighting snakes, bats, and of course, Wolfbats are just a few of the images you’re likely to come across.
For information please contact Space 1026 gallery@space1026.com
An overdue post. Fame Festival opened almost 2 weeks ago now and I haven’t properly covered it. There were a few of us who traveled to see the festival (some from as far away as LA), and if you couldn’t make it for the opening, I have to recommend it for a weekend getaway or something. Everybody had a great time. There was good food, good company and good art.
The gallery component of the festival was nice, but the highlight of Fame isn’t the temporary gallery exhibition but all of the street work. Artists have painted all over the small town of Grottaglie, Italy. Here are some of my pictures:
While it is great to wander around the town and see so much street art almost wherever you look, the highlight of Fame Festival is the monastery. There is an abandoned monastery where I am told the local teenagers usually go to bunk off school, and it has been transformed by artwork. It also happens to be where the Blu/David Ellis film Combo was filmed.
To enter this monastery, you have to go down a road out of town, walk past what I think was a small vineyard, find the wall that surrounds the monastery and follow it until you see some red drips of paint. Then you climb over the wall by standing on a shaky pile of rocks. The other side of the wall looks like a park that has been left to grow for a few decades. There are a few paths where you can see that plenty of people have walked, and you have to find the correct one to follow. Eventually, you realize that you’re on the roof on the monastery and you have to find your way inside. Once you’re finally inside though, it is immediately worth the trouble of finding your way there. I spent maybe 1.5 hours there and still didn’t see all of the artwork. Here are a few of the pieces I did find though:
More photos from Fame in my flickr set
Two major graffiti shows have opened (and one has closed) without me saying a thing. Sometimes I get too involved in street art and forget about graffiti and its awesomeness.
First is Futura’s Odyssey Two which was in Berlin but closed on the 27th. Futura is a graffiti legend, so I’m always interested in seeing some new work from him. Here are a few pics and a video interview:
More photos from the show at urbanartcore.eu‘s flickr set.
And the video:
futura 2009 from TausB on Vimeo.
And graffiti show number two is all the way in Santa Monica, California at Robert Berman Gallery. Retna and Mac are big names in California, but have yet to really become as well known over here in Europe. Known Gallery has a bunch of pics you can check out from the private view, but unfortunately I can’t download them to use on Vandalog so here’s the show’s flyer:
Just in case you needed a reason to visit New York City…
BLU in New York from Charles le Brigand on Vimeo.
Via Arrested Motion
