That guy that paints letters has an upcoming show in LA called Innocence, at CGH Circa (a new art venue from the people at Corey Helford Gallery at 8530-A Washington Boulevard in Culver City). The show opens on June 15th at 7pm and will run until July 13th. The show will feature letters painted in such a way that calls attention to the relationship between art and vandalism, and that’s why the show is called Innocence.
Photos courtesy of Corey Helford Gallery
Sorry for all the downtime on Vandalog this week. I dunno what’s up with Vandalog’s web host. If you have suggestions of a good web host that I could move to (even though I just switched to Gandi), let me know. Anyway, here’s what I’ve been reading:
Photo by RJ Rushmore
Bast‘s latest solo show opens later this month at Eric Firestone Gallery in East Hampton, New York. I can’t wait to see what Bast has made for Seafoam. This is the first time in my memory that Bast has exhibited his sculptures (save for the Deluxx Fluxx Arcade where he collaborated with Faile). Of course, I could be completely forgetting something at the moment. Can you think of other sculptures by Bast? Regardless, the sculptures in Seafoam are made from detritus found at Coney Island.
Eric Firestone asked me to write something about Bast for this show, so here are my thoughts about the man… Bäst has spent over a decade stenciling, postering and tagging the streets of New York City, where he has proven himself a master of a gritty urban aesthetic and a representative of the resilient spirit of the city’s underdogs. Through the complex physical layering of collage, figures, advertisements, and patterns, Bäst often represents contradictory conceptions of the city in a single artwork, hiding the rough-and-tumble reality of life within beauty, humor, and Disneyfication. Is Bäst an untrained obsessive-labeled-artist or a master observer and creator? The man behind the name hides in the shadows as one of the last great anonymous street artists. Bäst is a man who knows his city, but we may never really know him.
Seafoam opens June 15th (6-8pm) and runs through July 3rd.
Photo courtesy of Eric Firestone Gallery
D*face will be the last artist to exhibit at London’s StolenSpace Gallery in their current location, fitting since he owns the place. D*face’s New World Disorder show runs from June 7th through the 23rd and will take place both in StolenSpace and in D*face’s studio in The Old Truman Brewery, just above the gallery. Much of the work from the show is inspired by the tragic death of Pat Tillman and the cover-up surrounding his death.
Photo courtesy of StolenSpace Gallery
Update: Ron English just announced TWO MORE events of his opening this Saturday in Beacon, bringing the grand total up to four.
Ron English is taking over Main Street in Beacon, New York this week with two shows opening at 6pm on Saturday. Both shows offer insights into English’s artistic process, showing a bit of behind-the-scenes preparatory work. At X on Main, English’s Between The Scenes show is made up of his first new series of photographs in 25 years. The photographs will be the ones he uses as studies for his paintings, which are often based on extremely complex dioramas that he creates in his studio. Between The Scenes runs through July 26th. Just down the street at Clutter Gallery, Thought Factory will be a show of the sketches and drawings that serve as the basis for English’s toys (plus some custom toys and special releases).
Caroline and I will be there, and we’ll be coming up from Philadelphia, so surely some New Yorkers should be making the trip as well.
Photo by break.things
Mata Ruda’s portraits exude a distinct soulful beauty that splendidly captures the essence of the immigrants and other outsiders that speak to him. Mata Ruda’s first solo exhibit, “Incurable Otherness,” in conjunction with Bushwick Open Studios, provides us with an intimate look into the artist’s sensibility and aesthetic.
This exhibit is open to the public this weekend at The Schoolhouse at 330 Ellery Avenue in Bushwick. The turn of the century site of Public School 52, The Schoolhouse is the perfect setting.
Photos by Lois Stavsky
Another massive month in Melbourne in April with some great events, shows and work on the streets. This month I’ve also decided to include a bit more on graff and also some work off the streets in some of Melbourne’s awesome abandos.
There’s been an explosion of panels running in Melbourne recently, including a couple of whole cars. Whilst some of the pieces are not the best in quality it’s still rad to see so much graff on trains again lately. Are the authorities asleep? Or is it our lack of trains to meet demand to blame so they HAVE to run them? The best of Melbourne graffiti Facebook page is a good place to keep up with what’s running, they cover anything running each day on the Melbourne rail network (good and bad). Here’s my favourite flick from the page for April. Continue reading “Melbourne Monthly Madness – April 2013”
In/Between, Hyuro‘s solo show at ArtRebels in Copenhagen, is on now through June 15th. It includes 19 watercolor and ink drawings of her street pieces. I’m curious what fans will prefer, the watercolors or the street pieces?
Photos by Henrik Haven
Olive47‘s latest solo show, bonita bonita, opened a few weeks ago and runs through June 1st at Breeze Block Gallery in Portland. Olive47 describes the work as “a visual dissertation on Joseph Campbell,” but I haven’t read anything by Campbell since high school, so if anyone wants to explain the connections that they catch, please do so in the comments.
Photos courtesy of Olive47
I’m in London this week, and next, so come and find me wandering around Shoreditch. Just a few links today.
Photo by Luna Park
