Ludo is finally having his first solo show, La Belle Vie. It opens next month in Zurich at Starkart Exhibitions. Should be an interesting one. I think Ludo’s stuff works great outdoors, but I wouldn’t immediately put the same things indoors myself. I could imagine him just printing these posters and mounting them on old wood, but that’s difficult to pull off well. Ludo doesn’t simply do that though. From what I’ve seen and the below preview, seems like he actually makes some really nice drawings on paper. I’m curious to see what La Belle Vie will all look like.
Last year we mentioned a print available by The Phantom Street Artist, an artist probably best known for his art on the cover of Rage Against The Machine’s album The Battle of Los Angeles. Now, a variation on that image has been put on a t-shirt through Morelworks. I’m a big fan of artists doing t-shirts (wearing my Barry McGee shirt right now), so this news was really exciting to me. The Phantom’s Art Saves Lives t-shirt is available online for $25, but Morelworks also have one shirt to give away to a lucky Vandalog reader.
HOW TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY: Just comment on this post (make sure to include your email address so you can be reached if you win), tweet a link to this post on Twitter or share a link to this post on Facebook. Do one of those things before midnight on Friday (eastern daylight time aka the time in NYC), and you will be entered in the random draw to win an Art Saves Lives shirt (in the size of your choice).
Another Robbo show, this time at Signal Gallery. Opening April 8, the gallery walls will be graced again with Robbo and friends’ cheeky works making fun of some of his more famous contemporaries. Maybe this time he will do something more original since people still seem interested in what he has to contribute to “art.”
I was fortunate enough to be able to spend two weeks prior to the opening of Resplendent Semblance getting up in Chicago with the incredible support of the folks over at Pawn Works. Literally every night was spent in preparation and posting work. Being able to get up on Cabrini Green, the Robert Taylor Homes, and the projects by midway was a dream come true and made the trip that much more worth while. We’ve developed a google map of all of the legal and street locations which can be viewed here. This post doesn’t have them all but you get the idea, the rest after the jump.
So even though Vandalog is an online blog, we are always trying to expand into different media. We have our Twitters (RJ, Tom, Elisa and myself, Facebook page, Flickr, Babelgum videos and now we have Tumblr. It is a bit daunting, but we like to post so many different bits everywhere that it just makes sense. The Tumblr page will primarily be run by myself and will be a mix of Vandalog posts, reposts from other people’s blogs, rants, raves and just generally more informal writing for those of you who appreciate my sarcastic style. So if you have a Tumblr follow us at: Vandalog.tumblr.com
And if you are that keen to follow my personal page (which I doubt unless you want to hear talk from a 22 year old female) you can find me here. Convince RJ to make one too. His personal life is far more interesting than you all know.
Making a stop in Lisbon, Conor Harrington, put up a beautiful piece the other day that Stick2Target captured. I really think his outdoor work is so much more impressive than his indoor pieces, especially in-person.
And as RJ stated on Twitter last week, I am interning at Lazarides, so I will try to avoid writing about LAZ artists and upcoming shows, but this piece is pretty awesome and I couldn’t resist. Was, is and always will be a Harrington fan.
Well, I’m just gonna brag for a second. Haverford College just got way cooler. M1 from Dead Prez is doing a residency here. Gonna go see him perform tonight in our tiny music venue. And yes, I am aware of the apparent hypocrisy of being a white male at a private educational institution and getting excited to see M1 perform. Anyway. Back to the art.
This group show in Oakland, CA which includes Deuce 7 looks pretty cool.
Here are some pictures sent to us by JR for his latest project in Tunisia. In his true fashion, the photographer/street artist took pictures of residents around the country. Calling the project “Artocracy,” the outdoor works consist of one of the first organized street art exhibits in an Arab country. Posting the works in symbolic areas correlated with the revolution, JR received a lot of backlash from people in the area, but has managed to capture some beautiful portraits with six Tunisian photographers- Sophia Barakat, Rania Dourai, Wissal Dargueche, Aziz Tnani, Hichem Driss amd Hela Ammar.
Rhythm is a Dancer is Kid Acne‘s latest solo show, opening next week at Stolenspace Gallery in London. The show will focus on Kid Acne’s art fag characters. While Neckface utilized the pun in a similar way earlier, Kid Acne has done some cool stuff with this series. Also, I think Neckface just did cartoons of “fags,” not “art fags.” Anyway, Kid Acne’s art fags are fun. It should be interesting to see them come indoors (especially since that’s what so-called “art fags” do, right? Bring their street art indoors and sell out?). Kid Acne definitely knows how to have a little laugh at himself, and I like that.
The show opens on the evening of March 31st and runs through April 24th. Check it out.
New York is (slowly) recovering from what one could call its monochromatic season. So as much as I’m ready for all the black and white and grey to be over with, I still ended up catching Mallick Williams‘ grayscale show Hueless a couple days agobefore it closes on April 13th. Turns out, in some cases, lack of color isn’t so bad.
Opening just over a month ago, Hueless is a “monochromatic exhibition” with some paradoxical diversity. It’s got black and white and grey, but also silver, cream, brown-black and pretty much every non-pigmented hue in between. With work from Shephard Fairey, Faust, Katsu, Skullphone, and others, the work under color-constraints was (thankfully) more unified than most group shows, and showed off medium/form (there was sculpture, a neon sign, screenprint, paper cut and painting) and content in color’s absence.
There was a requisite Andre the Giant (not for sale, just for show), but the other two pieces from Fairey were among my favorites.
Fairey's "Glass Houses" and "Rise Above Control."Katsu's "Self Portrait."
Also enjoyed Skullphone’s “Here’s Your Nightmare.” It’s enamel on aluminum, but in person looked sort of like a micro, non-electronic version of his billboards.
Skullphone's piece, photo via Arrested Motion. "I Want to Go Home" by Distort. "Tree" paper cut by Nathan Pickett.
Hueless runs through April 13th, and the gallery opens the color-themed group show Spectrum on April 21st, with pieces from Word to Mother, Erik Otto, and others.
Skullphone photo by Arrested Motion, other photos by Frances Corry.
