Year: 2012

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Thank You to Our November Sponsors

We would like to take a brief moment to thank this month’s sponsors. These are the organizations and companies that keep us publishing, so be sure to check them out!

Featured Advertisers

  • Guggenheim – The “Conversations with Contemporary Artists” series presents the opportunity to hear and meet artists such as Gabriel Orozco and R. H. Quaytman as they discuss themes in their work as well as current issues in the art world.
  • Asia Society Museum – Bound Unbound: Lin Tianmiao represents the artist’s first major solo exhibition in the United States
  • Artspace – Insider access to art from the best artists, museums, and galleries in the world
  • Art Miami – Miami’s premier anchor fair showcases the best in modern and contemporary art from more than 100 international art galleries.
  • Miami Project  – A new contemporary and modern art fair consisting of presentations by 65 galleries from around the world.
  • Pacific Northwest College of Art – For over 100 years, PNCA has served as a creative hub for artists and designers with an educational philosophy that emphasizes individualized curricula, independent inquiry and cross-disciplinary exchange.
  • NYU Steinhardt – The M.A. in Studio Art program in Berlin, Germany provides artists, students of art, and current and prospective art teachers the opportunity to do  high-level studio work over three intensive summers

Network Sponsors

  • American Apparel – Made in Downtown LA—vertically integrated manufacturer, distributor, and retailer of clothing
  • Mixed Greens – Currently on view are Christina Mazzalupo’s Prognosis: Doom paintings and Jonathan Feldschuh’s window installation Large Hadron Collider.
  • Pernod Absinthe – The Art & Absinthe Guide to Brooklyn – mobile interaction with the thriving arts community of Brooklyn, NY
  • Fountain Art Fair – Exhibition of avant garde artwork in Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach
  • School of Visual Arts – Graduate MFA programs including one in Critical Theory and the Arts, and another in Photography, Video and Related Media
  • East Tennessee State University‘s Positive/Negative National Juried Art Exhibition aims to serve as platform for diverse visual art production
  • New York Academy of Sciences – Science and the Seven Deadly Sins is a vice- ridden series of events featuring scientists, authors, urban planners and many more
  • Tim Roseborough – The Art Rap EP by D. Skilling
  • TheBowerbirds – Collection of art from various Asian artists available to everyone as art prints
  • NY City College – MFA programs in Digital & Interdisciplinary Art Practice or Studio Art, and MA programs in Art History or Art Education for K-12.
  • Nauset Press – Online publisher of idiosyncratic books and art inspired by creative collaboration
  • Art Systems – Professional art gallery, antiques and collections management software
  • ASP Fine Arts Services – Art installation, transportation, storage, and logistics services with locations in New York City, Los Angeles, and Miami

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Photo by Lena Nicholson

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The Walls Project in London

Chase

The Walls Project is a series of legal spots organized by the folks behind Global Street Art. To date, they’ve organized over fifty of spots in London for local and international artists to paint. A lot of the spots they find are the roll-down shutters for shops in East London. It’s great to know that there are a couple of friendly guys in London who are simply interested in helping artists find more spots to paint and making their daily commutes a bit more interesting. You can see more of the walls and a map here.

A side note: Global Street Art are currently working on releasing their first book through Unbound, a sort of Kickstarter for books.

Here are a few of my favorites shutter pieces from The Walls Project:

2Rise and Gris
Ador
Roma

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High Roller Society’s “Espanish Conexion”

If you hang out at art galleries in London long enough, you’re eventually going to meet my friend Esther F. Castelo. She’s finally stepped into curating with Espanish Conexion, the next show at High Roller Society. The show includes some of the best of the Spanish street art and graffiti scenes such as Suso33, Pez, Liqen, and Kenor.

Espanish Conexion opens November 30th from 6-9pm and runs through December 16th.

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Paul Insect – “Out of Chaos”

“Butterfly Face Hoodie”

As a great follow-up to their Ron English show, the next show at Opera Gallery’s New York location is a solo show with Paul Insect. Out of Chaos is Paul’s first solo show in New York City, despite seriously great and equally successful solo shows in London and LA in the past. The show opens November 29th from 6-9pm. I’m going to miss it, but I have a good excuse: I don’t live in the state. If you do live in New York, you’d best be there.

I’m a fan of a lot of Paul’s work on the street and in the gallery (as are people like Damien Hirst and Patrick Miller and Patrick McNeil Faile), so I’m excited that New York will finally be properly introduced to him (although he has had work in group shows at Opera Gallery in the past). Arrested Motion has photos from a studio visit with Paul Insect with more previews of what to expect at Out of Chaos. There are definitely a few pieces in the post on AM that could be mistaken for Banksy pieces or look heavily influenced by Banksy, but it’s worth noting that Paul Insect has some close ties to the Banksy camp and Opera says that Paul has been involved in “graphically developing [Banksy’s] work.” So, can you really blame a guy for making work that resembles the work of another person whose work he has helped to develop? While the Banksy-esque stuff isn’t usually my favorite of what he does, I’m also not going to call Paul Insect just another Banksy rip off artist either, because that’s not what Paul at all.

Photo courtesy of Opera Gallery

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The Yok and Sheryo paint their way around the world

Sheryo and The Yok in Wollongong, Australia

Sheryo and The Yok have spent the last few months traveling, and as a result they’ve painted in a lot of different cities over the last few months. Here are some of my favorite recent-ish walls from them in the USA, Vietnam, and Australia.

Sheryo and The Yok in Sydney, Australia
The Yok and Sheryo in Perth, Australia

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