Dalek & Delta is the latest show at Elms Lesters in London, and of course it is a two person show with James Marshall aka Dalek and Boris Tellegen aka Delta. It’s open now and a great show for lovers of geometry.
Photos by s.butterfly
Skewville has just relaunched their website. The new site shows ten years of work from examples of the classic Skewville sneaker to art painted just this summer. Mixed in with all the images is a bit of Skewville history. Check out the site at www.skewville.org
Elate is one of my favorite writers in London. In fact, he’s probably my favorite London writer who doesn’t paint characters or have some sort of logo. He showed up with the Chrome and Black shop/crew, and new there something new from him on Sclater Street or Brick Lane every other week.
This is a new collaboration between Elate and Tizer (also very talented).
And this is my all time favorite piece of graffiti or street art on Brick Lane:
Graffiti is more than just pointless vandalism, and if you ever needed proof of that, it has arrived. The EyeWriter, a project put together with help from Graffiti Research Lab and a variety of other awesome sources, is helping people with ALS create visual art. Using a combination of GRL’s Mobile Broadcast Unit (the thing that lets them project live graffiti on large buildings) and a specially modified pair of eyeglasses, the EyeWriter allows people to draw with their eyes. Their first tester, TEMPT, is a graffiti writer who is completely paralyzed except for his eyes.
The result of all their labor can finally be seen, as Tempt writes his first tag in years:
TEMPT + EYEWRITER August 12, 2009 from james powderly on Vimeo.
Check out more on F.A.T.’s website
Got this kind of confusing press release in my inbox today. For what I’ve been able to gather, there is a new London art gallery opening next month in Kings Cross. The Writers Bench is a gallery for graffiti. Their first show will be a solo show with Cept called “A Frozen Explosion.” That show opens on September 3rd and runs for most of the month. For me, Cept’s gallery work can be hit or miss (my preference being his superhero work, not so much the purely text-based paintings or the Zodiac series), but I do like it when I think it works, so I’m curious to see what he’s got in store. And with a show title like “A Frozen Explosion,” I think it’s safe to say we can see cool pieces like this:
The London Police have been making a comeback this year, and their next stop is Carmichael Gallery in Los Angeles. I don’t know if The London Police getting better or I’m just warming up to their style, but their work in Amsterdam and some of these works-in-progress for a show at Carmichael Gallery are looking pretty cool.
“Brothers In Arms,” The London Police’s solo exhibition at Carmichael Gallery opens September 10th, and Dan Baldwin has a solo show opening in Carmichael Gallery on the 10th as well.
Looks like this could be the latest Banksy piece, captured by Romanywg in Westbourne Park, London. It hasn’t been confirmed as a Banksy yet by his own website or anything, but street art authorities are calling a Banksy, the style fits and there is a similar sketch in his show at The Bristol Museum, so I think it’s a safe bet.
Zorro is an interesting subject for Banksy to paint, as NoLionsInEngland has noted on WallKandy: “Zorro defended peasants from the tyrannical authority of officials and aristocrats, as ‘does’ Banksy; Zorro was the alter-ego of a knight or some kind of aristocrat, and certain newspapers seem convinced that Banksy is/was a mild-mannered public school poshie.”
Photos by Romanywg
I just came across this hilarious graphic from the City of Santa Ana’s anti-graffiti website.
It is meant to help parents decided if their child might be a tagger. Further down on that same page is this comment:
GRAFFITI REWARD PROGRAM
The City of Santa Ana also offers a Graffiti Reward Program in the amount of $500 for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of suspects for tagging or graffiti related vandalism.
I wonder if any parents have ever called in for the reward…
On a related note, Los Angeles is trying to stop people from even associating with known taggers and writers.
From Street Level:
To many, tagging is more of an art form than a crime, but if the Los Angeles city attorney has his way, even being seen with taggers will be enough to get you arrested. According to the Los Angeles Times, L.A. city attorney Carmen Trutanich is proposing a series of injunctions that would give the police the authority to arrest taggers and graffiti artists simply for hanging out together — they do not have to be caught in the act.
Street artists love skulls almost as much as Dick Cheney enjoys shooting people in the face (God, that’s a really dated pop culture reference, isn’t it). Here are five pieces by artists who use some form of a skull as their logo:
1. Kaws
Maybe an ad disruption would be a ‘better’ piece by Kaws, I love the way somebody spray painted around this sticker. Very few stickers get that much respect.
2. Cyclops
You can’t mention London street art or graffiti right now without a nod to Burning Candy, and Cyclop’s skulls are in many of their best collaborative pieces.
3. Booker
Booker/Reader/Readmorebooks/Boans… This writer gets up under too many names to keep track of, but one of his many trademarks are these skulls:
4. Katsu
No discussion of skulls on the street would be complete without Katsu.
5. Skullphone
Don’t really know what Skullphone is trying to say with this image, but he’s said it all over the world.
So that’s five street artists and graffiti writers who use skulls as logos. Now the reason I started thinking about this post. This is a new piece by Elbowtoe that I’m really liking:
Word To Mother is the latest to paint at the FAME Festival. I’m booking my flights today to see this in person. FAME opens in Grottaglie, Italy on September 19th.
