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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Sam3 collaborates with the buffman

Sam3‘s latest piece is this wonderful attack on buff. His forced collaboration with the graffiti removal squad/person re-energizes the wall and makes the mismatched buff into something to be noticed. I wonder what the next bit of buff on this wall will look like. Maybe this can be an ongoing collaboration, like this piece by Mobstr.

Photo by Sam3

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Do not miss: Jaz in Barcelona

Jaz at his show

Franco Fasoli aka Jaz has his first European solo show on right now at RAS Gallery in Barcelona. It looks absolutely stunning. I was fortunate enough to see one of the canvases from this show while it was being finished recently in Baltimore, but I’m extremely jealous of anyone who is lucky enough to see this full show in person. SUBEN, who produced the show, have more info about it as well as available works on their website.

Here are just a few of my favorite pieces from this show:

This piece, like many pieces in this show, was painted primarily with tar

More photos after the jump… Continue reading “Do not miss: Jaz in Barcelona”

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Missed connections

I Wish I Said Hello is a project that plays with the missed connections section of Craigslist and turns those missed connections into stickers that are then put up in the spot where the missed connection happened. Lisa Park and Adria Navarro have started the program in New York City, but they hope that others will pick up the idea and place the stickers around the world. Very sweet idea. Here are a few of the first I Wish I Said Hello stickers.

Photos courtesy of I Wish I Said Hello

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Preview: Young New York auction

Overunder

As Caroline mentioned earlier this month, the group Young New York is having a charity art auction this Tuesday at White Box Gallery in New York to raise money for their restorative justice art workshops with teenagers who have been put into the adult court system in New York.

Here are just a few of the dozens of artists with work in the auction: Steve Powers, NohjColey, Joe Iurato, Cake, Overunder, Gaia, Rudie Diaz, LNY, Blackmath, Mare139, Doodles, ND’A, Radical!, C215, Clown Soldier, Jill Cohen, Labrona and Luna Park. And here are a few of pieces that will be on offer:

Cake
Sean Lugo and Blacksmith
Radical and C215

Photos courtesy of Young New York