Stikman seems to be out and about town here, especially in Cambridge. On the pavement, on stickers and as 3-D installations, he’s great company. Here are a few more images:
Photos by Lois Stavsky
An insightful conversation with MOMO
The Living Walls Conference 2012
The 2012 Living Walls Conference is about to begin, and the line-up of events and murals has finally been announced. Once again, I’ll be participating at the conference. I’ll be speaking at a panel on the issue of gender, hosting an evening of short films and maybe doing a Pecha Kucha talk if I come up with something to talk about.
But of course, the highlight of Living Walls is going to be the murals. For this year’s conference, the festival organizers have decided to go with an (almost) all-women lineup of muralists including Fefe, Hyuro, Miso, Cake and Olive47, plus photographers Martha Cooper and Teen Witch.
Other speakers at the conference include Living Walls alums LNY and Gaia, as well as Ian Wilson, who recently organized the Wall\Therapy mural festival in Rochester, NY.
Living Walls will take place August 15th-19th, with special events every day. For the full lineup a comprehensive listing of events, check the Living Walls facebook event.
Photo by RJ Rushmore
Williamsburg murals
Gilf recently organized a legal spot for seven artists, including some of my favorites, at 229 North 10th Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Here are the finished results:
Photos by Gilf
Someone new: Xuan Alyfe
I recently came across the work of Xuan Alyfe for the first time. He seem to fit nicely somewhere between MOMO and Interesni Kazki or Os Gemeos. Alyfe’s work is the sort of thing that only seems familiar when compared to some of the great alternative street artists or great non-street artists like Miro. It’s certainly not standard for street art or graffiti, and I like the change. Alyfe’s walls don’t cry out for attention like some 3rd-tier Warhol-ripoff. They invite you in if you’re interested. Well, I’m interested. If you’re anything like me, there’s more from Alyfe to see after the jump… Continue reading “Someone new: Xuan Alyfe”
Weekend link-o-rama
It’s a mega link-o-rama this week because I’ve been traveling from last Saturday until Thursday morning.
- Here’s a video of Morley’s show at Lazarides Newcastle. When I first saw Morley’s work about a year and a half ago, I thought it was hilarious and touching. Now though, while I appreciate that he has tried to literally make his gallery work 3D and therefore a bit different from what he does on the street, I’m kinda bored of it. Anybody else feeling this way?
- Zeus (the British one) has a pop-up show in London next month.
- Pez has some great commentary on the transition from the street to the gallery.
- Emol, Stinkfish, Zio Ziegler will be showing together at Carmichael Gallery starting August 11th.
- Okay, here’s one of the very occasional Olek pieces that I really like, but she got to start with a great shape so I’m not sure how much the yarn helped.
- Evol hit up some electrical boxes in Warsaw.
- A unicorn expelling rainbows from its mouth and ass.
- Some very odd but also oddly beautiful graffiti from Homer.
- Even Russia has a mural festival. Of course, the work is pretty tame. Nothing like this piece of Russian street art.
- There’s some great work to be spotted along the High Line.
- Pixote recently had a show in NYC. Nothing amazing, but it’s interesting to see what Pixote does besides rollers.
- This mural in Denver by Shepard Fairey is pretty nice. He’s in town for his part in a show at The Black Book Gallery.
- Reka’s in London.
- Ripo has a solo show opening next Thursday at White Walls Gallery in San Fransisco.
Photo by Awer
Philadelphia’s Joe Boruchow
Philadelphia is known, perhaps too well, for character-based sticker art. Even some of this city’s best street artists, like NoseGo, have roots in characters on stickers. But Joe Boruchow is one artist who is onto something completely different. I’ve seen a few of Joe’s pieces in person and they always make me stop to have a closer look. His placement is so spot-on that the work looks legal even when it is not, although his fine-art vibe probably helps a bit too.
Photos by Joe Boruchow and RJ Rushmore
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- Art Southampton – The Premiere International Contemporary & Modern Art Fair in the Hamptons, July 26th – 30th
- Asia Society Museum – Current exhibition of ink paintings by Wu Guanzhong, considered one of the most important Chinese artists of the twentieth century, April 24th – August 5th
Photo by blhphotography
Wild Style Wednesday!
Art for money’s sake. Graffiti for ego’s sake.
Photo by Baddogwhiskas, Dezio One, FunkandJazz, GhettoFarceur, Graphis, Gris One, Lepos, ‘N’ and Startape Photographe
Woodward Gallery Presents “Summer Selections” with Stikman, Kosbe, Darkcloud and many more
I made it over to Woodward Gallery last week to check out its current exhibit, Summer Selections. Described as “a selection of work by legendary and new contemporary masters,” it features some of my favorite street artists, along with such masters as Jasper Johns, Paul Gauguin and Robert Rauschenberg. And what a treat to discover an original vintage Alexander Calder lithograph with drawings by LA ll! Here are some more favorites from the exhibit that continues through this Saturday, August 4th at 133 Eldridge Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side:
Photos of Calder & LAll, Kosbe, Darkcloud and Buildmore, courtesy Woodward Gallery; Celso photo, Tara Murray & Stikman, Lois Stavsky