I haven’t had a chance to read this book in person yet, so I have to refer to to what Hurt You Bad says about the book. Sounds like a pretty good overview of London’s graffiti scene.
If you’re looking for a copy, the gallery is open from 12-6 on Saturday and from 12-3 on Sunday, or you can order the book online.
Prescription Art has given Londoners a reason to take a quick seaside holiday over to Brighton. For two more weeks, “Tales From The Seaside” features work from artists like Pinky, Zeus, Aakash Nihalani, Skewville, and Case.
Here are a few photos from the show:
Some nice street art shows taking place around the world this week! Here are a few:
Thursday July 9
LA: Eine @ Carmichael Gallery, 7-10pm
Paris: Group Show (featuring Barry McGee) @ Galerie Olivier Robert, from 6pm
Friday July 10
NY: Willoughby Windows presented by Ad Hoc Art (event takes place at 89-106 Willoughby), 2-7pm. Check out Gaia’s preview of this event.
Toronto: Steve Powers, Greg Lamarche, Greg Gossel @ Show & Tell Gallery, 7-11pm
Berlin: XOOOOX @ Circleculture Gallery from 7pm
Saturday July 11
LA: Meggs Solo & Inkie-curated Group Show @ Cerasoli Gallery, 7-11pm
SF: Becca @ White Walls Gallery, 7-11pm
Denver: The Date Farmers and Albert Reyes @ Andenken Gallery
Brighton: Group Show presented by Prescription Art (event takes place at 115-116 Church St, Brighton)
Buenos Aires: Group Show @ Casa L’Inc Gallery, 7-11pm
Thursday July 16
London: Summer Group Show @ Urban Angel, 6-9pm
Hong Kong: Zevs @ Art Statements
Here are some photos from an amazing two days of preparation for the Willoughby Windows Project. Beautiful photos and on point documentation from the omnipresent Luna Park and Rebecca Fuller. Check out Luna’s flickr set for the in depth coverage.
Garrison at Ad Hoc writes:
Ad Hoc Art presents
“Willoughby Windows”
Friday, July 10th, 2 – 7pm
An ambitious creative venture featuring 12 storefronts on an entire block (89-106 Willoughby) of downtown Brooklyn which will highlight installations by 15+ artists. The opening will be a street party on Friday, July 10th, from 2-7pm.
Some of New York’s artistic finest will be representing to the fullest. (DO I feel a Biggie Smalls homage here?) Some of the artists included in this event will be Ad Hoc Art staff/interns, Cannonball Press, Chris Stain, Cycle, Dennis McNett, Ellis G, Gaia, Greg Lamarche, John Ahearn, Josh MacPhee, Lady Pink, Logan Hicks, Mare139, Michael De Feo, Morning Breath, and Tom Beale.
The party will be featuring entertainment by DJ $mall Change, DJ Painted, Lady Circus, and Mickey Western and food from local vendors.
More pics coming soon as the project unfolds,
Very Best, Gaia
Forgot to introduce myself with my first guest post. My name is Elisa Carmichael and I co-own and run Carmichael Gallery in LA. Over the next few weeks I’m going to be providing a weekly mini calendar of street art-related events opening around the world, plus little updates on things I hear about in the art world.
Here is a taste of what’s coming up this week. If you know of anything else that’s going on, please email me at elisa (at) carmichaelgallery.com and I will add it to the list. Thanks!
Thursday June 25
NY: Aakash Nihalani, Cui Fei, Minette Margahas @ Arario Gallery, 6-8pm
Friday June 26
NY: Gaia and Imminent Disaster @ Ad Hoc Art, 7-10pm
NY: Plenty Of Room On The Couch @ Eastern District, from 7pm
NY: Fundraiser for India Street Mural Project @ Gallery 1889, 7-11pm
NY: Visual Slang 2009: The Modern Urban Imagination @ Abrons Arts Center, 6-8pm
AZ: David Choong Lee @ Joseph Cross Gallery, 5-7pm
London: 25th Anniversary of Subway Art @ Black Rat Press, 7-9pm
Bristol: Urban Art Auction @ View Gallery, from 6:30pm
Stuttgart: Case, Satone, Smash137 @ Galerie ABTart, from 8pm
Vienna: Connect 4 @ INOPERAbLE, the Sixxa Store and the Street Art Passage in the Museums Quartier, from 7pm (continues Sat June 27)
Sat June 27
LA: Park Life: The New Utopia @ Subliminal Projects, 8-11pm
NY: WK Interact and Invader @ Jonathan Levine Gallery, 7-9pm
Mon June 29
Paris: Street Art Auction @ Art Curial, from 2:30pm
WK-Interact has been around forever and I think his style is pretty identifiable on the street, but his latest show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery is a new direction for WK. “12 Angry Men” opens on the 27th, and while the fascination with motion is still clear, there is a new focus on faces. Can’t wait to see the whole series.
Also opening that night at the same gallery is a solo show by Space Invader. Although I love Invader’s little mosaics, this show seems MUCH less interesting. The rubik’s cubes were cool at first, and I respect that he actually takes the time to properly put the colors in the right spots on each cube, but these album covers seem boring to me. Have a look:
I know next to nothing about Skullphone, except he’s known for putting his logo up everywhere. Found this recent project of his yesterday though, and it looks pretty cool. Hate the recession, but you gotta love the recession inspired street art.
Skullphone has been finding abandoned/dead gas stations and putting up these posters:
On a related note, Skullphone and some other artists have a show on called “This Must Be The Place” starting June 20th in LA at the Scion Space.
Via Sour Harvest
Now I’m just going to take a guess here and say that 72% of my readers live in Norway. Okay just went to check my Google Analytics page, and it turns out that very few of my readers actually live in Norway, though the city of Kristiansand does have a surprising number of Vandalog readers, so thanks guys.
Even though not very many Vandalog reader will probably have a chance to see this festival, it needs to be mentioned. Nuart is the annual street art festival taking place in Stavanger, Norway. This year the lineup looks better than ever with some of New York City’s best street artists making their way to Stavanger to work on installation pieces.
Nuart 2009 will play host to Swoon, David Choe, Ben Wolf, Graffiti Research Lab, Brad Downey, Judith Supine, Leon Reid IV, Chris Stain, Logan Hicks and Skewville.
So if for whatever reason you find yourself in Stavanger around September 10th, now you no where to find your street art fix.
Let’s say you own Black Rat Press. You want to do a group show with three of your artists who challenge people’s preconceptions about painting and street art. Who do you choose?
That’s right. You bring together Swoon, Matt Small, and Brian Adam Douglas (aka Elbowtoe).
Swoon is a female wheatpaster who spawned an entire school of street art in New York City, and she spends her time building rafts and crashing art festivals.
And any art critic who says urban artists don’t know how to paint doesn’t know Matt Small. A few years ago, Matt was a runner up for one of the top prizes in the British art world.
Elbowtoe has had a presence on the street art New York City for years as part of the school of lino-block cutters that Swoon influenced, and now as Brian Adam Douglas he is making intricate collage works that look more like impressionist paintings than thrown together magazine clippings. For me, the collages can be hit or miss, but when they work, they really work.
Well that’s exactly what “Ways of Seeing Is,” BRP’s next show which opens on July 2nd.
The official word from Black Rat Press and some photos after the jump… Continue reading “Ways of Seeing at Black Rat Press”
The photos are finally online from 2012 which is Avoid, Bloke, and Faro’s show at Factory Fresh. Their crew, the ADHD Kids, is doing some really great work in New York, so I’m excited to see them in a gallery as well. The work is very cool, and they seem to have completely transformed the gallery into a world of graffiti. And if you’re in the buying mood, I wouldn’t say these guys are an investment, but I love some of the work and the prices are super low on a lot of the smaller pieces.
Photos by Katherine Murphy
