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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RAE paints Chicago

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RAE was in my hometown of Chicago a couple of weeks ago showing them how it’s done. RAE was in town thanks to Pawn Works, who had this to say about the visit:

We were very excited to be able to host Rae in Chicago to kick off an on-going mural project in the Historic Pilsen neighborhood on the Southside of Chicago of which we’ve been asked to participate in. We are working with the Alderman’s Office, The Mexican Museum of Art, The Chicago Urban Art Society and other partners to beautify a stretch of wall in the Pilsen neighborhood. With an array of amazing artists planned to come out to participate on our end we look forward to keeping everyone caught up.

Photos by Brooklynite Gallery

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Weekend link-o-rama

M-City in Jarocin, Poland

Let’s see what has been happening off of Vandalog this week.

Photo courtesy of M-City

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Stormie Mills at Greenhill Galleries

Living by the sword can sometimes get in the way of friendships

One of Australia’s ultimate graffiti legends, Stormie Mills, has a solo show running now at Greenhill Galleries in Claremont, Western Australia. We’re a bit late to the game on this one, Dark Lights is only on through the 26th, but hopefully those nearby can still check it out. Luckily, Stormie sent over a few photos from the show…

Paddles
Someday we’ll all be forgotten villains & heroes
Whence is a field of water

Photos courtesy of Stormie Mills

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WALL\THERAPY 2012 – Rochester’s mural festival

Thievin’ Stephen

WALL\THERAPY is a mural event in Rochester, NY being put together by, Dr. Ian Wilson and The Synthesis Collaborative, the same people who organized last year’s Visual Intervention. This year, artists from Rochester and around the world will be painting as part of WALL\THERAPY: Faith47, DALeast, Ben Eine, Liqen, Case, ROA, Cern, St. Monci, Mr. Prvrt, Thievin’ Stephen, How & Nosm and Siloette.

The murals will be painted July 20th-27th, so that might be a fun time to visit Rochester.

For more information about WALL\THERAPY and events surrounding the festival, check their facebook event page.

Photo by Rich Paprocki

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The Painted Desert Project – round 1, post 3

Labrona and Gaia

This is post #3 and in our series about The Painted Desert Project. You can see posts 1 and 2 here and here. The first round of The Painted Desert Project took place last month in the Navajo Nation and was an effort by Jetsonorama and Yote to use art to help improve the local economy. Gaia, Overunder, Doodles, Labrona, Jetsonorama, Tom Greyeyes and Breeze put up art as part of this round of the project, and there will be at least one more group of artists visiting in the future. After the jump, we have photos of work by Jetsonorama, Breeze, Gaia, Labrona and Doodles, as well as a couple of shots of Jetsonorama of the artists at work and play… Continue reading “The Painted Desert Project – round 1, post 3”

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How and Nosm in Philly – finished mural

Photo by Steve Weinik

How and Nosm have finished their mural in Philadelphia, titled Personal Melody. The mural, by former graffiti writers and depicting falling bombs, is a bit of a change from what the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program usually commissions, but Tony Goldman’s Goldman Properties was also behind the project. Goldman Projects owns the Bowery and Houston mural site as well as the Wynwood Walls site in Miami.

Photo by Steve Weinik
Photo by Steve Weinik

 

Photo courtesy of How and Nosm

How and Nosm have more pics of the mural on their blog.

Photos courtesy of How and Nosm and by Steve Weinik

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Brandalism: Mass-takeover of British billboards

Paul Insect in Leeds

Brandalism is a large-scale billboard hijacking project up right now throughout England. The organizers have put artwork over ads in Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and London over the past few days, and they’ve worked with dozens of artists from 8 countries to do it. So far, about 35 billboards have been taken over and replaced with art, but there may be as many as 50 when the project is finished. The project calls itself the “the world’s first international, collaborative subvertising project,” which is not true, but it is still very exciting and a high-impact way to show what could be in our public spaces instead of advertising. Some fantastic artists have contributed to the project including Jordan Seiler, OX, Ron English, Cleon Peterson, Paul Insect and Know Hope.

You can read more about Brandalism in The Independent or on the project website.

Check a bunch more disruptions from the Brandalism project after the jump… Continue reading “Brandalism: Mass-takeover of British billboards”

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Believe the Hype at Pandemic Gallery

The Yok and Sheryo

Brooklyn’s Pandemic Gallery has got a killer group show/art party lined up for later this month withBelieve The Hype!. The artists (including The Yok, Sheryo, Swampy, Darkclouds, COST KRT and UFO) and will be painting the gallery walls and selling smaller gear like zines and t-shirts. From 2-10pm on July 28th, Pandemic will be all about having some fun while surround yourself with some good art.

Photo by Sheryo