Year: 2009

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Very Nearly Almost Issue 8

I read plenty of street art blogs, but only one street art magazine (for now that is, please sugest others). That magazine is Very Nearly Almost or VNA.

VNA 8

Issue 8 of VNA was released a couple weeks ago, but I’ve just bought my copy last weekend. Issue 8 is probably the best one yet. It features interviews and essays from Kid Acne, Adam Neate, Herakut, and more. Of course, VNA also features photos of the best street art that’s been gone up in London since issue 7.

You can pick up VNA online or at Stella Dore for just £3.50. It’s perfect for when you’re on tube and can’t read Vandalog (or you want to read interviews with artists I’ve never interviewed and see work that I hadn’t seen before they were in VNA).

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TOX09 Screenprints

Tox, one of London’s best known writers, is actually releasing a screenprint. For years, Tox has written his tag along with the current year throughout London. He’s so notorious that he’s even made it into an exhibit at the transport museum and this Banksy canvas.

Tox Tags

So this screenprint of TOX09 is an edition of 75, which can be bought at Souled-Out Studios for £75. Although Tox is a piece of London history, I’m not paying £75 for a screenprint of his tag. Of course, the speculation is the entire thing is just a joke, and I love to laugh at myself, but not to the tune of £75. If Tox wants to send me a free one though, I promise I’ll frame it and hang it in my room…

tox09 print

What do you think of Tox and his screenprint? Is it all fun and games? Are these going to be selling at Bonhams in 6 months? Are the people buying it just stupid?

Photo from jovike

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Roa: My Favorite Artist You’ve Never Heard Of

If I were to buy one big original work by a street artist tomorrow, it would probably be something by Roa. Roa’s from Belgium, and doesn’t do that much work outside of his home country (at least not that I’ve found), but he’s just done some amazing walls in New York.

Roa Factory Fresh
Roa at Factory Fresh. Photo by Luna Park

Roa paints animals, usually in black and white, and sometimes includes their skeleton or internal organs. And he goes big.

Roa

Roa Rabbit and Bird

More photos of Roa’s work after the jump… Continue reading “Roa: My Favorite Artist You’ve Never Heard Of”

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My Plans for Thursday

This Thursday is going to be, as it always seems to be, a very busy night for me. I’ll be visiting up to 4 galleries with a traveling brigade of my artsy friends. Here’s the plan:

1. Start at White Cube Hoxton Square for the Marcus Harvey exhibit “White Riot” for the portrait of Thatcher made out of sex toys and the bust of Churchill with a mohawk. Get there around closing time so that we can be unceremoniously tossed out at 6pm.

2. Next it’s off to Stella Dore for the Pam Glew show “Noir”. I’m not yet sold on her work, but I’m definitely open to seeing what she’s doing and the painting pictured on the advert they gave me is pretty sweet.

3. Perhaps the most surprising show of the evening will be at the Pure Evil Gallery. Panik, a member of London’s ATG crew, will be trying his hand a gallery work. I give this a 75% chance of not working out but just being a fun experience. It seems like graffiti artists usually can’t make that jump to the gallery. Panik’s work is awesome on the street, but the gallery is a completely different world. If it works though, as I’m hoping it will, it should be great.

panik

4. And to cap off the evening, Part2ism has his show at The Art Lounge.

Part2ism

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Armsrock Solo at Andenken

I wish I were headed back to Colorado before this summer, because one of my favorite artists is going to be showing at Denver’s Andenken Gallery this week. Armsrock‘s solo show entitled “The end of the world came and went without Mr. Jones noticing a single thing.” opens this Friday (March 6th).

Andenken Armsrock

Armsrock’s images capture the city and tell raw and unfiltered truths. Sometimes this means the images are violent and a bit scary, but they are always powerful and interesting. Here’s some work for the Andenken Show

Armsrock

the pig knows we are all bacon

Loving this stuff. Personally, I own two pieces from Armsrock, including a really cool diarama sort of thing that sits nicely on my desk, but this work is a whole new level.

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Considerations by Gaia

I’ve never been to art school and even if I go to an “art school” it won’t be to study art. That’s what makes Gaia‘s new blog so cool. Considerations by Gaia includes the reading he’s currently doing at school as well as his class notes. Check it out. He’s got really good handwriting.

Also, while we’re on the topic of Gaia, his print at Black Rat Press’ print show is beautiful, and he’s put a version of the image up on the streets.

Gaia

Photo from Gaia’s flickr

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Tel Aviv Comes To London

Found this wall yesterday across from The Art Lounge. It features work from Mike Marcus, Klone, Foma, and Zero Cents. Mike Marcus lives in London now, but he started out working in Tel Aviv. And Klone, Foma and Zero Cents and some of Tel Aviv’s best known street artists. The only one who seems to be missing here is Know Hope (who, coincidentally, pointed out that Zero Cents and Foma have work in this photo).

Tel Aviv in London