SheOne recently painted this mural in Brighton, thanks to Wet Paint Productions for setting up the wall.
Photos courtesy of Wet Paint Productions
Cement Eclipses: Isaac Cordal’s book
Isaac Cordal‘s book Cement Eclipses launches this Thursday evening at London’s Pure Evil Gallery. Or you can purchase the book online now. Isaac will also have a show on the walls at Pure Evil through Saturday.
Photo by Isaac Cordal
Videos of Roa in SF
Here are a few videos of Roa‘s recent time in San Fransisco painting walls and doing a show at White Walls Gallery (there’s a bit of overlap as the first video is by Colin M Day and the next three are a separate series by Spencer Keeton Cunningham):
ROA – White Walls from Colin M Day on Vimeo.
ROA from Spencer Keeton Cunningham on Vimeo.
ROA part II from Spencer Keeton Cunningham on Vimeo.
ROA part III from Spencer Keeton Cunningham on Vimeo.
Photo by y3rdua
Artist puts Ai Weiwei’s face on Chinese consulate
The disappearance of the artist Ai Weiwei is something that I haven’t mentioned on Vandalog, but it’s been at the front of my mind offline for almost two months now. Weiwei has been missing for more than 50 days. If you haven’t heard about this (or you just want to keep up to date on the news), check out this site.
Last Friday night, Geandy projected an image of Ai Weiwei on the Chinese consulate building in NYC. Here’s a video:
Via Hyperallergic (who also interviewed Geandy)
Photo by Steve and Sara
Steve Powers on video
Two things to note today about Steve Powers on video.
First, these guys made a video about Steve painting the 100th painting in his series of Daily Metalations, a series where Steve is trying to paint one painting a day for the entire year. The video is called DAYS and here it is:
DAYS by Steve Powers from Georgia on Vimeo.
Second, New Yorkers who are fans of Steve Powers may want to check out this film screening in Harlem on Saturday evening. Under The Influence of ESPO will include 4 films by or about Steve Powers, in including both Style Wars The Musical and A Love Letter For You, the film about/revolving around (I’m not positive since I haven’t seen this film myself yet) his project of the same name. Thanks to The Street Spot for the tip.
Photo by RJ Rushmore
Spencer Eldin pop-up show in LA this week
Spencer Eldin, known for being an assistant to Shepard Fairey and “The Nirvana Baby” from the cover of Nevermind, will be showing some of his artwork at a pop-up show this weekend in LA. Cash Only is only open for 5 days, and opens on Thursday night from 8-11pm. Eldin is a young artist, but he’s definitely got at least the technical side of things down already. Should be an interesting event.
In Swampy’s room
Swampy, one of the craziest writers/artists/travelers in North America as far as I can tell, has a solo show opening next month at UpperPlayground’s Fifty24SF Gallery in San Fransisco. In My Room opens June 11th, and I can’t express how excited I am about this show. That’s all for now, but hopefully I’ll have more news soon.
Photo by Rebirth Cycle
Weekend link-o-rama
If you looked at Vandalog this week, you’d think it was a slow week in street art. That’s not so, but I’ve been locked down working on Up Close and Personal (opening pics here). So here’s some of what I missed covering this week:
- This post at Brooklyn Street Art has the info on a number of shows that are opening or have opened recently (Hellbent and John Breiner in Brooklyn, Matt Siren in NYC, Chicago street artists in Chicago, Ad Hoc Art’s show at New Puppy Gallery in LA, Specter at Pawn Works in Chicago and The London Police in Denver).
- Moneyless has hit FAME Festival.
- Great ad disruptions in Lisboa.
- Just photographing Boxi.
- Emarama has a zine of her Dropmen characters (available here).
- I’m a fan of TYPE’s work in London, and Richard Mellor has put together a Google Map of the pieces.
- Gaia has put up one of my favorite pieces from him ever, and has a show opening with the talented Nanook next week in Baltimore. My Love For You’s post on all that is pretty much exactly what I would have posted.
- Roa’s been getting up in San Francisco with some great pieces.
- Malarky, Sweet Toof and Mr. Penfold have been collaborating on roll-gates in London.
- Eine’s latest print, Change, goes on sale at Nelly Duff on May 18th. 30% of profits will go to charity.
Photo by Sabeth718
Up Close and Personal from Vandalog and MANY
Thursday night was the opening of Up Close and Personal, and it was a pretty great (although my opinion is biased since I helped curate it). We’re open through Sunday evening, so if you’re in New York, please stop by and check it out and let me know what you think. Up Close and Personal is taking place at an apartment on the Upper West Side; it’s not the traditional setting for art, but trust me, buzz and somebody will let you in. We’re at 217 West 106th Street, Apartment 1A, New York, between Broadway and Amsterdam.
Here’s some photos from last night:
Photos by Michael Pearce and RJ Rushmore
