Fresh Paint Gallery / Under Pressure in Montreal has a really nice show up now and for about the next two months featuring some of my favorite Canadian artists like Labrona, Gawd and Roadsworth. There are plenty of photos of the show here, and these are a few of my favorite bits:
And keep an eye on Vandalog for some more news about Labrona coming very soon…
Photos by Aline
Dabs, Myla and Kems got together recent to paint this truck, which they are calling The Mustard Tiger. I’m not sure where this was painted (guessing LA), but it’s almost definitely the coolest truck in any city.
Photos courtesy of Dabs and Myla
In an interesting pairing, Cake and Don Pablo Pedro are showing together this week at Mighty Tanaka in Brooklyn. To be a bit boring and quote from the press release, it’s certainly true that their work “both compliments and conflicts.” I find that with Cake, I’m drawn in by the beauty of the work overall only to then look at the actual content of the work to see more disturbing elements that are not so beautiful except in the way they are depicted. With Don Pablo Pedro’s work, I tend to be drawn in by the disturbing/erotic/perverted/disgusting/surreal content of his paintings, only to then notice how beautifully made they are. Either way, they each seem to have found something that works.
The show, Inside Out, opens on Friday the 17th and runs through March 9th at Mighty Tanaka.
Photo courtesy of Cake
This year’s OFFSET conference is less than a month away. OFFSET is a conference in Dublin for creative folks. For this year’s line up, they have some really interesting speakers including Shepard Fairey, FriendsWithYou and Conor Harrington. You can find the full lineup here. The conference takes place March 9th-11th. Tickets are available now for as low as 50 euros for a day pass (if you’re a student).
OFFSET has videos online from past conferences, including presentations by Wooster Collective, Gary Baseman, David Shrigley and James Jean.
Photo by Willy Volk
Kid Acne and Ema were recently in Beijing for Kid Acne’s Cloak and Dagger show at Other Gallery. This video shows a bit of what went down:
And here are some images of the show:
Photos courtesy of Kid Acne
The Boneyard Project at the Pima Art & Space Museum in Tucson looks absolutely fantastic. Saner, Faile, Bast, Aiko, Shepard Fairey, Tristan Eaton, Nunca, Futura, Retna and many other artists have been brought together by Eric Firestone Gallery to paint old airplanes and airplane parts. Of course, the full-sized planes look to be the most impressive parts of the show. Just imagine watching Nunca’s plane, shown above, landing at your local airport. The Boneyard Project is on display at the museum through May 31st. For more photos of the show, check Arrested Motion and The Flop Box
Photos courtesy of Arrested Motion
In honor of Bradley Manning being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, here’s photo of a mural that Bamn painted in Brooklyn of Manning.
Photo by Bamn
Link-o-rama. ‘Nuff said.
Photo by Troy Lovegates
There are so many interesting shows opening in the next week or two that I thought I’d just throw them all together into one post. Here’s what I think looks worth checking out:
Photo courtesy of Da Mental Vaporz
