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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New Prints: L’Atlas, Dalek, and Miss Bugs

Some great new prints coming out this week:

1. Cosmic by L’Atlas: This print has made me love L’Atlas. A. It looks great, and B. It’s priced very well. It’s two prints actually, one black on white, and one white on black. Edition of just 25 each for $120.

Cosmic (Black) by L'Atlas
Cosmic (Black) by L

2. Winter 08 by Dalek: Again, not just one print, but three. There is Winter 08 (pictured below), with an edition of 200 for $75, and Pink Heads and Green Heads, editions of 150 each for $50. I can’t figure out why they are $25 less than Winter 08 for a smaller edition, but why complain? They all look great.

Winter 08 by Dalke
Winter 08 by Dalek

3. The Year of The Super Rat Nation by Miss Bugs: By far the best piece I’ve seen from Miss Bugs. An edition of only 30, priced at £135. In order to give anybody a fair shot at this print, Miss Bugs is using the FairQ system, so you have to register in advance (before 7pm PST today) to buy the print.

The Year of The Super Rat Nation by Miss Bugs
The Year of The Super Rat Nation by Miss Bugs

Via Feed Your Wall

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Herakut’s Dirty Laundry Show

A few weeks ago I mentioned the new Herakut show “Dirty Laundry” opening this week in Covent Garden. Herakut is the duo of Hera and Akut, and their very unluckly pairing has led to some really great work. I’ll plan on twittering the private opening tomorrow, along with photos, so keep an eye on my twitter. The show opens to the public on Friday.

Here’s a little preview image:

Dirty Laundry by Herakut. Photo from campbarbossa.com
Dirty Laundry by Herakut. Photo from campbarbossa.com

Romanywg has some more photos of the show up already on his flickr here.

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Street Art Awards

The Street Art Awards is coming up next week, and although the deadline for submissions has passed, you can still register to vote for your favorite street art of 2008. And of course, there is the actual awards ceremony on December 4th at Rough Trade East where you can win original art in a charity raffle.

From the website:

Street Art Awards Party and Charity Auction 2008

The first ever Street Art Awards party and charity auction, featuring over 50 international contemporary artists, will be held at Rough Trade East on 4th December.

Urban art business, Auction Saboteur, has organised the awards that will celebrate the best urban and street art offerings from 2008. All money raised will go to the Single Homeless Charity.

The Awards Ceremony

The night will see Rough Trade East turned into an urban art bazaar with attractions including: charity art tombola, pin the devil tail on the banker, hook-a-duck-outa-an-oil-slick, a magician, DJ’s and lots of art related prizes.

Each attendee will be given a ballot paper on entry and asked to vote for their favourite artist from the shortlist. The winners will receive a specially designed sculpture that will also be up for grabs on the night.

The charity art tombola will give people the chance to win anything from a special, one off, custom piece of art, on either a reclaimed record cover or vinyl record, to a jar of jam or bar of soap.

Tombola tickets will be £5 each – a bargain if you win a Matt Small original (his work usually sells in the region of £5K – £6K). If you win the soap at least you’ve contributed to a good cause – your conscience will be clean.

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Urban Angel’s 2

Urban Angel Two Show Flyer

This December, Urban Angel will be having their second show in a physical space (their new gallery to be precise). “2” is going to to to have 11 artists, including two of Campbarbossa’s artists (Case and Holly Thoburn). I’m looking forward to seeing Urban Angel’s new gallery, the idea of an art lounge sounds great. I spent some time helping out at the Corked Show this summer, which was by all accounts a huge success. Hopefully “2” is just as good.

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Black Rat Press: White Noise 2

Amy Winehouse by Luc Price
Amy Winehouse by Lucas Price

This Friday is the invite-only opening of the new show at The Black Rat Press. White Noise (2) is a group show with six artists: D*Face, Nick Walker, Blek Le Rat, Lucas Price, Asha Zero, Matt Small and Brian Adam Douglas. The show opens to the public on Saturday.

I’m looking forward to this show for a few reasons:

1. The Lucas Price works are great, and they really need to be seen in person to be fully appreciated.

2. Asha Zero is showing in the UK for the first time (I think). I’m not really into collage pieces right now, but his technical skills are amazing. His pieces look like collages, but they are entirely hand-painted.

3. The Brian Douglas Adams collages can be amazing.

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Cake and The Community

The Mongrel has an interesting interview up with Cake. Cake is a New York wheatpaster, and she was recently in Prescription Art‘s Outside In show. Regardless of whether you’re a fan of Cake or not, the interview has some interesting stuff about the etiquette of pasting.

Cake and Peru Anna Anna Peru. Photo by Ω ohm Ω
Cake and Peru Anna Anna Peru. Photo by Ω ohm Ω

Here’s a short excerpt

“It is strange for me to see long time pasters still go out and paste blindly- with no regard to what lives on the surface before they get to it. Its complete disrespect. It also says something important about the paster- that they are unaware of the environment in which they are adding to/ working with. Which is also strange- I once put a sticker over Naks and then posted a photo of myself doing it. It wasn’t until the community pointed it out that I realized it. I hadn’t even noticed the tag when I was there. My practice changed immediately after that. Now I am hyper aware of where I place my work. I go out with respect.”

Cake isn’t the first artist that I’ve heard say something like that. Maybe it’s a pattern. Wheatpaste artists start out just pasting anywhere, and then, after a big mistake or two, they get conscientious of the rest of the scene and learn to respect it even more.

Wheatpaste and photo by Cake
Wheatpaste and photo by Cake

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MuTATE Britain Review

Friday was public opening night for the sickest show in London. MuTATE Britain, the opening show for the new Behind The Shutters gallery, was an idea five weeks ago, and now it’s a four or five story tall hodgepodge of (usually good) art. The list of artists would be too long to list here, but here are a few: Mutoid Waste Company, Part2ism, Pure Evil, Snub23, Dr. D, The Krah, Dotmasters, and many many many more.

I twittered photos and a few comments live from the show for a few hours, but I’m sure I didn’t see half the work. Romanywg actually ran out of space on his memory card.

All photos by WallKandy, who has a great set of images on his flickr.

Entering Cordy House, the first room is full of sculptures that are a mesh between man/animal and machine. Sure, it’s been done before, but that doesn’t mean these aren’t still sick. The walls of this room are covered in work by some of the most talented artists that I can’t name, plus some amazing stuff by the Best Ever crew, who also did this piece on Leake Street. Watch your head in this room. There’s literally an anvil hanging from the ceiling.

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How To Find A Hero

Last night I posted about Hero leaving work throughout London today. Well those pieces have dropped now, and Hero’s posted photos on his flickr of where they are. Here’s a few locations, and for the rest, go to Hero’s flickr.

At Hoxton Square. Photo by Hero
At Hoxton Square. Photo by Hero
Photo by Hero
Photo by Hero
Photo by Hero
At Laz. Photo by Hero