OverUnder has been busy lately. Here are a few of his new walls, plus he’s got a solo show opening towards the end of the month at XYandZ in Minneapolis. He’s also got a piece in Up Close and Personal, which runs next Thursday through Sunday in NYC.
Photos by OverUnder
Typoe, one of my favorite writers, just painted this recently mint-condition car. Looking good. And of course, there’s the free Revok comment.
Photo by Typoe
It’s definitely not something I’m great at doing, but everyone once in a while I randomly stumble across some artist’s flickr that I immediately like. Most recently, that’s been Simek1‘s flickr. He’s painting some really cool walls in Greece, often with Greg Papagrigoriou.
Photos by Simek1
Seeing as it is almost Mother’s Day in America, Jeff Waldman at ohSanFran and Dave Harmatz decided to help out the lazier among us (aka, people like me) who might forget that it’s Mother’s Day or just not make the effort to write a letter. They put out a series of pre-stamped envelopes with letters inside near mail boxes in San Fransisco. All people had to do was write a quick letter to Mom and pop it in the bin. They made two holders, each with 15 envelopes, so, hopefully, 30 more moms will be getting Mother’s Day cards this year. Such a nice project. Check out more on this over at ohSanFran.
Photo by Jeff Waldman
Days is Steve Powers‘ latest solo show, and it opens next Friday at V1 Gallery in Copenhagen. Should be a good one. It runs through June 4th.
Freshman year is almost over and soon I’ll be leaving Philadelphia for NYC and London (just for the summer though). And yet, I still have finals to study for, so I didn’t get time to write about these things…
Photo by Labrona
While Steph and I aren’t fans when he paints indoors, I do like Buff Monster on the street. Buff Monster is in the UK for his show at Stolenspace in London (opened this week), and he painted wall mural in Bristol.
Photos courtesy of Stolenspace Gallery
In two weeks, Vandalog and Murals Around New York (MANY) will be putting on a pop-up show in a New York City apartment. Up Close and Personal mostly came out of two ideas: 1. Street artists tend to work large outdoors and we wanted to challenge people to make art on a small scale and 2. We’ve all seen artwork in galleries that either would only look good in a gallery but not in a home, or is just too big to fit into a typical apartment and we wanted to see something different from that. With Up Close and Personal, the show itself is taking place in an apartment on the Upper West Side, and we have capped the size of the artwork at 30 x 30 inches, with an emphasis on going as small as possible.
I’ve worked with Keith Schweitzer and Mike Glatzer of M.A.N.Y. to curate this show, and we’re really excited with the line up that we’ve managed to put together: Aiko, Chris Stain, Clown Soldier, Don Leicht, Edible Genius, Elbowtoe, Gaia, How & Nosm, Jessica Angel, John Fekner, Know Hope, Logan Hicks, Mike Ballard, OverUnder, R. Robot, Radical, Retna, Skewville, Tristan Eaton, Troy Lovegates aka Other and White Cocoa.
Up Close and Personal opens May 12th from 7-9pm. We’ll also be open from 7-9pm on the 13th. Then noon-9pm and noon-7pm on the 14th and 15th respectively. Particularly on the 12th, it is possible that we’ll be shifting people in every half hour or so, since the space is a small apartment. The show is taking place at 217 West 106th Street, Apartment 1A, New York, NY 10025 – Between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues.
Hope to see you in a couple weeks!
Lichtraum III – an urban showcase from sweza on Vimeo.
I really like Sweza‘s latest lightbox, Lichtraum III, because it’s graffiti but it also still requires the permission and interact of people, so what’s inside becomes a bit of a gift as well. Anyways, cool stuff as usual from this street artist who does things just a bit differently.
As mentioned a couple of days ago, Revok was arrested last week in LA and held on $320,000 bail. The LA Times is reporting that Revok has been sentenced to 180 days in jail for violating his parole on a misdemeanor vandalism charge after he failed to repay restitution for damages. I don’t think I need to say this, but I am pretty upset about this. Best of luck to Revok in fighting this extremely harsh sentence.
Photo by S.Vegas
