As we mentioned last month, Roa‘s first Australian solo show, Paradox, opened recently at FORM in Perth and runs through min-January. Like D*face’s show in Melbourne, this show is mostly what Roa fans have come to expect, but with Australian animals. Here are a few of my favorite pieces:
Photos courtesy of Skalitzers
JB Rock is an artist working in Rome. Some really great work. It’s graphic and the impact is immediate, but JB Rock also has his own styles and doesn’t look like he’s just recycling stereotypical street art styles. He does go over graffiti though…
Vhils recently chiseled a wall in Covilhã, Portugal for Wool, an urban art festival in a town which has been closely tied to the wool and textile industry since the industrial revolution. The organizers of Wool say “With this piece VHILS wants to talk about the desertification of the interior of Portugal, which appears to be irreversible and portray the reality that we live in a territory with a population growing older, ‘where the cuts and the current measures are felt even more hardness and where most of young people are future opportunities and are forced to seek them elsewhere, either on the coast or abroad’.”
This week just keeps getting better. Looks like we’ve got a bit of NYC coming to Philadelphia with a show curated by Matt Siren. Here’s what I meant to blog about this week:
Photo by Jaz
D*face’s first solo show with Metro Gallery in Melbourne, Australia is open now through November 11th. It looks like pretty much what you’d expect from a D*Face show: Extremely well executed pop-art paintings and sculptures. It’s not going to convert any new fans, but D*face fans in Melbourne will probably enjoy this chance to see a full solo-show from the British artist.
Photos courtesy of Stolenspace Gallery
I’ve recently been spending a lot of my recent free time with a paint roller getting the inside of a building to look very white, so to counterbalance that, I’ve been seeking out some more disruptive uses of paint rollers. Here are a few recent pieces that I came across.
Photos by Luna Park, Alex Ellison, mobstr, Damonabnormal and Becki Fuller
BR1 and Elfo teamed up to make this sculpture in Berlin. It combines so many of my favorite things: Décollage, referencing Gordon Matta-Clark, disrupting advertising and inserting something mildly spectacular into people’s everyday lives. Not the most environmentally friendly work though…
Photos by Elfo
One last post about Faile turn at the Bowery and Houston streets mural in NYC. Over the weekend, we posted Dani Mozeson’s photos of the duo finishing up the wall, but now that the wall has been finished, here are some photos and video of the final product by Matthew Kraus. His got a larger set of images over on flickr.
Photos and video by Matthew Kraus
I don’t think it gets much better than this: Troy Lovegates aka Other and Stinkfish have a show together coming up at New York’s Brooklynite Gallery. For all the talk these days about the end of street art due to rampant commercialism and Johnny-come-latelies, these two artists buck the trend and show that true energy and love of art is still alive and well on the street. Their show is called Thinkers of This. It opens November 5th and runs through the 26th. This will almost definitely be one show that should not be missed.
