Just got an email from Pictures on Walls which says “a new print by Banksy available shortly…”
And now POW’s website seems to be offline…
New Banksy Print Soon
Sickboy and The Awesome Factory
As I mentioned the other day, Sickboy has a solo show coming up called Stay Free. It opens on December 3rd at The Tramshed in Shoreditch and runs until the 10th.
Okay, so it’s a solo show by a London street artist. What’s the big deal? Well a. Sickboy doesn’t do that much gallery work, and b. the show is inspired by Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. What that means is that 1000 visitors to the show will be given golden keys, and the visitor with the winning key will get “inherit” the a large installation piece from the show. Essentially, one lucky visitor will be given a £20,000 piece of art.
Stay Free will have an entirely new body of work from Sickboy. There will be both prints and originals for sale and, of course, the installation piece.
Street art seems to be in a really giving mood lately. First, Adam Neate’s giveaway, now Sickboy, and on December 4th, The Street Art Awards is raffling off a bunch of pieces on record sleaves. ‘Tis the season I suppose. Can I say that before Thanksgiving?
Andrew From Ad Hoc
When art fans in New York are looking for cutting edge art, they need look no further than Ad Hoc Art in Brooklyn. Ad Hoc Art shows some of the best new street art and “low brow” art for not too much money. Their upcoming show, The Brooklyn Block Party, has work from 11 lino-block cutting artists including Swoon, Imminent Disaster, Elbowtoe, Judith Supine, and Gaia, and their new project room has upcoming shows from some of my favorite artists, C215 and Know Hope.
Ad Hoc Art is also the home of Peripheral Media Projects, probably two the most anti-authoritarian street artists working today.
Andrew Michael Ford is the director at Ad Hoc Art, and he’s been kind enough to answer a few questions about the gallery. Continue reading “Andrew From Ad Hoc”
More on Moss
Last week I posted about “moss graffiti” and how it is made. It looks like the movement’s foremost artist, Mosstika, has been making quite a splash recently. Both Beautiful Crime and Wooster Collective also have posts on Mosstika today.
Beautiful Crime points out that Mosstika is a great example of Disruptive Realism, a term coined by David Hoffer. According to Hoffer, “Disruptive Realism is an expression presented in an everyday context that disrupts peoples perceptions about different things.”
And of course, Wooster Collective’s Q&A with Mosstika is well worth reading.
Below is another photo of Mosstika’s unique work from tedina. More photos here.
New Lister Paste-Ups
Some really killer new work from Anthony Lister. Photos by Sabeth718
More photos after the jump…
Continue reading “New Lister Paste-Ups”
C215 Interview on Wooster
Wooster Collective has a great interview up with C215. Check it out here, and if you haven’t read it already, I also did an interiew with C215 last month.
Titi’s Wolf in Paris
UPDATE: The Uroboros Project
Gaia‘s just sent me some new info and photos for his previously mentioned Uroboros Project.
Uroboros Project is a collaborative effort between artists Rachel
Lowing and Gaia. Spawned from a mutual interest in articulating the
inexorably intertwined relationship between people and nature, we
examine the act of consumption and its implications on contemporary
life.The urban environment is an organism whose growth is dictated by the
symbiotic relationship between the city and it’s inhabitants. It is
the ideology and laws of society manifest, yet simultaneously it obeys
basic, natural properties of formation and development that is shared
by all sentient creatures.By considering our connection and correspondence with the city, we
come closer to understanding the purgatory between nature and culture
that defines our internal struggle as human beings.Collaborate
Late Latin collaboratus, past participle of collaborare to labor
together, from Latin com- + laborare to labor — more at labor
1 : to work jointly with others or together especially in an
intellectual endeavor: to cooperate with an agency or instrumentality
with which one is not immediately connectedUROBOROS
Uroboros is a circular symbold depicting a snake, or less commonly a dragon, swallowing its tail, as an emblem of wholeness, totality or infinity.
Here are some more photos from the recent installation in Baltimore. The project is all leading up to an installation at thinkspace gallery this January. See more of Gaia’s work on his flickr, and more photos of the installation at the Uroboros Project Blog here.
Sickboy Solo Show
HOOKED has info on Sickboy’s first major London solo show. Opening December 3rd in Shoreditch.
I love Sickboy’s work on the street, but I’m cautious about how well it will carry over to canvas. We’ll see in December though.
Street Art in ARTnews
Great article on street art in the fine art magazine ARTnews. Thanks to Andrew from Ad Hoc Art for the tip.
It’s a well written and informative article that is definitely work a read. Here’s a short excerpt:
Fairey is part of a wave of street artists gaining acceptance in mainstream museums. Last summer London’s Tate Modern presented six towering murals on an exterior wall, created by a global lineup of street artists. Among those featured was Faile—the New York City duo known for graphic mash-ups of pulp fiction imagery—as well as Blu, an Italian artist whose monumental black-and-white doodles have long been materializing on abandoned buildings all over Europe, and the Brazilian brothers known as Os Gemeos. The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh has included a sprawling, kaleidoscopic hallway piece by installation artist and celebrated graffitist Barry McGee in its 55th Carnegie International, on view through January 11. McGee has done other museum projects, including covering the facade of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit—at the museum’s request—with a bubbly, 110-foot graffiti tag that reads “Amaze.” Last year the New York–based Espo (a.k.a. Steve Powers) was the subject of a solo show at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. And figurative prints by Swoon, another New York artist, are part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Museum. It’s a surprising turn for an urban art form that until now has received minimal attention from the fine art world—and one that can land its practititioners in jail for anything from vandalism to breaking and entering.