Things are really taking shape at the osgemeos/Nina/Finok wall on NW 2nd Ave here in Miami. If you liked the twins’ work in NYC back in the summer (also made possible by Deitch Projects and Goldman Properties), you are going to love this. Check out more progress shots of the foursome in action below!
We gallerists have all been extremely busy here at SCOPE today. Take a look below at some of the work we’ll be showing at the preview tomorrow! I’ve tried to stick to mainly images of urban-related art (and there’s a lot to be found here!) Allow my buddy Ellis G (below), one of the fair’s featured artists, to guide you.
Maya Hayuk at Anonymous Gallery.
Judith Supine at New Image Art.
Evol at Wilde Gallery
AJ Fosik at Jonathan Levine Gallery (not street but a very cool piece). That’s a chunk of a very long James Jean in the background.
Calma at Jonathan Levine Gallery.
Sixeart, Nunca, Mark Jenkins at our booth (Carmichael Gallery)
Hush (also at our booth)
Dave Kinsey, Tomokatsu Matsuyama, Cleon Peterson at Joshua Liner Gallery
Another piece by Tomokatsu Matsuyama at Joshua Liner (not a very nice photo, but this piece is beautiful in person)
Ok, that’s it for now!
Seth and I haven’t even been in Miami twenty-four hours yet, but I wanted to quickly share a few of the things we’ve seen so far. There’s still time to buy a plane ticket if you haven’t already – this year is going to be one of the best yet and you don’t want to miss it. The piece above is by Nina, one of the artists participating in Deitch’s Wynwood Walls. osgemeos are beginning their work alongside her below (that’s Otavio in the pic).
A block away is the Barry McGee building.
Then Shepard’s wall, the first of several he’ll be working on in Miami.
Then there’s the main complex; when we were there last night, Nunca, Aiko and Clare Rojas were hard at work.
Then there’s SCOPE, not too far down the street. This is the Vandalog fair! Gaia’s piece is looking amazing outside.
And here’s a peek at our booth, #127. Just waiting for Nunca’s piece to come back from the framers, then we’re ready to hang!
If you will be in Paris between November 26th and January 23rd, here are a few shows for you to go see.
– “Art Mosh” (from November 26th), a big eclectic group show that includes case, Faith47 (image above via Campbarbossa), Pam Glew, Herakut and Alexandros Vasmoulakis (plus non-street-related artists such as Yoskay Yamamoto and Tessar Lo, both of whom are worth checking out if you don’t know their work already).
Doors Studios | 9-9 Bis Rue De Lesdiguieres | 75004 Paris
– “EmanEssence” (December 3rd – January 14th), a solo by Koralie.
Galerie LJ | 12 rue Commines | 75003 Paris
– “Btoy” (December 10th – January 23rd), an eponymously titled solo by Btoy (Ilia Mayer, above, and Andrea Michaelsson, below).
This show is organized with the assistance of Samantha Longhi from Stencil History X so check her blog for updates.
Galerie Itinerrance | 7bis, rue René Goscinny | 75013 Paris
The latest from Blu after his work in Bogota – looks like he might not have finished it yet, although it’s already looking amazing! More to come. Images via him.
We picked the December issue of The Art Street Journal up from the printers last night and have spent the day sending it out around the world! This is a fun issue – it has a guide to what’s going on in Miami next month (all the fairs, Primary Flight, Graffiti Gone Global, etc – and as RJ mentioned, the whole Vandalog team is going to be there so make sure to come hang out with us if you will be, too!), plus interviews with Kelsey Brookes and Ethos (more on his upcoming show soon), features on osgemeos’ amazing show at FAAP and Barry McGee and Phil Frost at Prism, another great page curated by Vandalog’s close friend Sebastian from Unurth, and a lot more.
If you’d like a free copy of the paper to arrive on your doorstep every month, sign up here!
One for Vandalog’s Sao Paulo based readers! My friends Cena7 and Anjo plus a bunch of other great artists are taking part in a show on Saturday, November 28th – go support them if you can! Graffiti RUA is a project which works to bring together old and new school graffiti writers. Check out more info here.
Cena7 (courtesy of him)
Anjo
Don’t think Kelsey Brookes‘ new show, Bigger, Brighter, Bolder has been mentioned here yet. It opens Friday, November 20th at Quint Contemporary Art in San Diego. Kelsey’s both a great artist and a lovely human being so I’m really looking forward to spending some time with him and seeing these pieces, which look awesome in these progress pics, in person.
See a few more studio shots over on SlamxHype.
Images Courtesy Ross Morrison.
I’ve really been enjoying watching this beautiful installation take shape at Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo (Masp) recently. Curated by Choque Cultural, it features Titi Freak, Zezão, Stephan Doitschinoff, Ramon Martins, Carlos Dias and Daniel Melin, a list that includes some of the Brazilians I’m most excited about these days. Entitled De dentro pra fora / De fora pra dentro, the exhibit opens this Wednesday, October 18th.
These pics are off Facebook so the resolution isn’t great. Best to check out Louise and Ignacio of Lost Art’s gorgeous documentation of the work in progress.
I can’t believe it’s already been a week since WK Interact‘s latest solo exhibit, How To Blow Yourself Up, opened here in LA. For anyone Cali-based who missed the reception, you can still check out the work and installation at Subliminal Projects until December 5th. And for everybody else, here are a few pics from the night! It was definitely one of the most fun events over this way in a while.
Aside from the excited buzz in the air and line out the door of people waiting to get photographed and fingerprinted for WK’s awesome mug shot wall, the work itself did not disappoint. The gallery was decked out with a fantastic range of three-dimensional mixed media pieces (from wood panels, skate decks and boxes to a custom-built bike and a series of doors you have to see to believe) and there was even one of his mind-blowing Motion Portraits (my personal favorite).
Hype aside (and he’s underrated, in my opinion), WK is simply one of the most important street artists in the world and those who have the opportunity to see or own his work are just plain lucky.
Pictures generously supplied by the lovely Lord Jim.
