Author: RJ Rushmore

RJ Rushmore has been involved in contemporary art as a writer, curator, photographer, arts administrator, and fan since 2008. With a focus on street art, graffiti, and public art, RJ facilitates and promotes catalytic and ambitious art outdoors, in galleries, and online. He founded the street art blog Vandalog and has worked at The L.I.S.A. Project NYC, Mural Arts Philadelphia, and Creative Time. Currently, RJ is Co-Curator of Art in Ad Places.
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Pasting Miami

Olive47

While Vandalog and a lot of other art blogs have been focusing and will continue to focus on the murals that recently went up during Art Basel Miami, it’s worth noting that the streets also got plastered in posters. Unless otherwise noted, these images are by Mike Pearce, who has the best set of images of this year’s Miami street art extravaganza that I’ve seen so far. Here are some posters by Olive47, Vort, Don’t Fret, Clown Soldier, Clandestine Culture and others.

Don't Fret
Clown Soldier
Clandestine Culture
Clown Soldier
Don't Fret
Vort. Photo by Vort
Unknown (CDVB?)
Unknown

Photos by Mike Pearce and Vort

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Weekend link-o-rama

Sorry in Philadelphia

Just a heads up in case you don’t like murals, unless I get really into procrastination through blogging (which isn’t unlikely), the blog will probably continue to be pretty Miami-centric for the next week or so as I’m bogged down in finals. Now that you’ve got fair warning for that, here’s what I’ve missed covering over the last two weeks in art:

Photo by Caroline Caldwell

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Miami murals captured in progess

Eine

Mike Pearce was in Miami last week taking photos of the murals getting painted. As it has been over the past few years, Wynwood was overrun (in, I think, a good way) for about a week with artists working outdoors on any wall they could get permission to paint or get away with painting. Here are a few of Mike’s pictures of the artists at work…

La Pandilla
Free Humanity, Anthony Lister and Col
Pixel Pancho
Augustine Kofie
Greg Mike
Hebru
Tati Suarez
Entes and Jade
Buff Monster
Trek 6

Photos by Mike Pearce

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Giveaway: A painting by Lewis

For the upcoming holiday season, Lewis and Vandalog are giving away one of his paintings: The above piece, titled “Claim Corners”. Vandalog readers might be familiar with Lewis’ old pseudonym, World War Won. To win it, just tweet at Lewis (@likelewis) and Vandalog (@vandalog) and tell us why you want Lewis to give “Claim Corners” to you. The winner will be chosen on December 12th. While giveaways like this might be rare on Vandalog, they’re actually pretty common for Lewis, since he gives away a painting via Twitter every day. Check out more from Lewis on his tumblr or his twitter.

Photo by Lewis

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Hyuro solo show this week in Zurich

Valencia’s Hyuro has a solo show, Casual Anomalies, opening this Thursday at the Starkart gallery in Zurich, Switzerland. In an email, Hyuro laid out 8 rules that she imposed upon herself for this project (sort of):

  • Take a step out from my old way of working.
  • Avoid previous ideas before start working.
  • Believe in the process rather than in final results.
  • Contemplate new elements into my language.
  • Dont be close just to the drawings format….be open to knew shapes.
  • Work more from the unconnscious side rather than the rational one.
  • Be less narrative and more poetic.
  • Dont take it like a dogma…its just a text for this flyer!

And here’s an animation that Hyuro has made for Causal Anomalies:

Image by Hyuro

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Banksy news update

Photo by S.Butterfly

We’ve got a few bits of Banksy-related news to share, so it’s all being lumped together here:

  • It looks like there will be a new Banksy print this Christmas March 2012 from Pictures on Walls (no surprise). The print will be based on this gorilla image, which was recently buffed accidentally. Even Pictures on Walls’ description of the print in a bit tongue-in-cheek about the recycling of this older image into a print with different glittery color options.
  • A number of people have emailed me after seeing this Banksy installation (photo by Just) at Pictures on Walls’ winter group show (which Just has plenty more photos of) because it looks a bit like this sculpture by Giles Walker and Peter Dunne from a couple of years ago. Personally, I prefer Dunne and Walker’s piece, but I don’t think the pieces are too similar for comfort. Could Banksy have seem the work by Dunne and Walker and been inspired partially by that? Definitely. But it’s not just an outright copy, and I’m often hesitant to say that any Banksy idea has been outright stolen from another artist, since most of his ideas rely on pretty simple themes and symbols, so it’s likely that others have tried similar things before whether Banksy knew about it or not.
  • It now seems unlikely that we will ever get confirmation from Banksy’s website that the piece pictured at the top of this post and covered on Vandalog last month is a Banksy. Foreignstudents.com happened to catch some photos of the work being put up. No faces of the artist or his crew, but the site did get images of a scaffolding being put up that covered the work while it was being done, and they say a man posing as a security guard stayed at the scaffolding for some of the time that it was up. So if this wasn’t Banksy’s work, someone may still come forward claiming responsibility. I’m confident however that this was the work of Banksy, so given these photos and any more that might be out there, taking responsibility seems risky for his anonymity.

Photo by S.Butterfly

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Weekend link-o-rama: Miami edition

Know Hope for Primary Flight and Living Walls in Miami

In case you’d like to be in Miami right now for Art Basel Miami and the associated craziness of the season, but you’re stuck at home like me, here’s a small segment of what we’re missing (focusing on indoor events because a lot of the murals are still in progress):

Photo by Ian Cox