Harlequinade has been putting up some beautiful wheatpastes in Philadephia. It’s always great to see a little something different like Harlequinade’s work in Philadelphia, where character-based stickers (fun as they are) seem to dominate the city.
Photos by Herlequinade
Know Hope year ended his year with a mural in Altanta for Living Walls, shown above, and began the new year with an outdoor installation in Tel Aviv, shown below.
Photos by Know Hope
A number of months ago a series of Banksy-like images with the face of actor Tom Hanks began surfacing in NYC. I didn’t think much of them, and thought they might be a somewhat clever way to promote Tom Hanks. I couldn’t imagine anyone even trying to spoof Banksy – one of the greatest satirists of our time! Anyway, the images are back again and this time coinciding with a gallery exhibit featuring a range of them. When I stopped by this afternoon, the space was quite busy. It looks like we – the street art aficionados or, at least, those of us who frequent galleries – are the target of this satire, and its creator may be quite clever. After I left, I overheard one passerby explain to another that there was a Banksy show at the gallery. Hanksy – not Banksy!
Here are two Hanksy images that recently surfaced on the streets of the Lower East Side:
And here are three on exhibit in the Krause Gallery @ 149 Orchard Street:
Photos by Lois Stavsky
Roa sent over some photos of what he’s been up to on his most recent series of travels. Well, I guess he always traveling, but here’s what he’s been up to since August or so. Continue reading “A few months of Roa’s travels”
I’ve seen and loved Gabriel Specter’s lyrical artwork on the streets of Brooklyn. But it’s a delightful surprise to see it indoors on the walls of my local community center. Specter’s portraits — inspired by members of the JCC community on Manhattan’s Upper West Side — are now on view until March 1 at the Laurie M. Tisch Gallery of the JCC @ 334 Amsterdam Avenue & 76th Street. Wooster Collective’s Marc and Sara Schiller will join Specter for a talk and a reception this Wednesday evening, January 18, at 7:30. Here are a few of the images that grace the JCC:
Photos by Lois Stavsky & Dani Mozeson
It’s 2012, but trailblazing abstract graffiti artist Futura 2000 is still going strong. His latest solo show, Futura 2012 – Expansions, has just opened at Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont in Paris and runs through the end of February. Looks like a big hit. Arrested Motion has plenty of photos from the star-studded opening (and photos of the art too!).
Here’s a video of Futura at work in the gallery:
Futura 2000 – Galerie de Noirmont – Paris – Live Painting from Guillotine on Vimeo.
And there’s more from the show after the jump…
Photos by Arrested Motion
Brian Barrios is an artist from the Philippines who has been working with posters and murals.
Photos by Brian Barrios
If Chris Stain isn’t already in your street artist repertoire, this is someone you need to know. Baltimore bred and current New Yorker, Stain transitioned from graffiti writing in his early days to the stencil portraits and paste-ups that have made him known around the world today. The beauty in Stain’s work comes from his ability to capture the soul and often overlooked tenderness of the urban world.
1. Describe one of your first experiences with graffiti.
I got into graffiti after seeing the movie Beat Street in 1984. The only type of paint my friends and I had was Testors model car paint. The cans were small and you couldn’t get far with them but it was easily concealable.
We all lived in rowhomes in Balitmore so our main targets were houses on the end of the block because they had the biggest open wall space and traffic on the main streets could see our work. We also wrote in the alleys behind the houses as well, decorating the backs of peoples cinderblock fences. Once the neighbors caught on to who was writing all over the neighborhood we moved on. We really had no idea what we were doing. We mostly just wrote our new chosen aliases in a form of cursive and printing that we combined. Like the beginning of anything new it was incredibly exciting.
Continue reading “Interview with Chris Stain”
For (I think) the first time, Marc and Sara Schiller of The Wooster Collective have curated a show at a commercial gallery. For about a decade, the Schillers have been behind the most popular and well-respected street art blog on the web, they’ve been behind such events as 11 Spring Street and they are reputed to have one of the best collections of art by street artists in America, so I’m excited to see what they’ve put together for this show. Hybrid Thinking includes some Wooster Collective regulars and some surprises: Dal, Herakut, Hyuro, Roa, SIT, Vinz.
Hybrid Theory opens this Saturday (7-9pm) at Jonathan LeVine Gallery and runs through February 11th.
Photo courtesy of Jonathan LeVine Gallery
