Am I the last person in street art to hear about this, or has it just been kept very quiet? This is a last minute post, but this is something I only heard about an hour ago.
Eine is doing a one night show THIS THURSDAY NIGHT at Nelly Duff Gallery. It’s going to be all about that insanely complex new print he attempted. Here’s the PR stuff:
I’ve got a few bits of Ron English news today.
First of all, his crazy new print. It’s a lenticular silkscreen. I have no idea how this works, but it sounds cool. The image is his Abraham Obama design that he made for the election.
Edition: 7 Unique Colors, 10 Red White and Blue, 30 Silver Text, 157 Gold Text
Unique Colors: $600
Red White and Blue Text: $600
Silver Text: $500
Gold Text: $500
You can buy them from Jetset Graffiiti.
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Only about 2% of Vandalog’s readers are in Germany, but those 2% (and I suppose anybody else in the area between now and August) have the chance to see what promises to be one of the year’s best street art exhibits.
From May 16 to August 30th, the Reinking Collection is showing part of their street art collection at The Weserburg, a modern art museum in Bremen, Germany. Artists in the show include Banksy, Os Gêmeos, Zezão, and Shepard Fairey. Rik Reinking has one of the world’s best collections of street art, so I’m really excited to see a museum doing something so large scale with it.
The press for this exhibition is actually really interesting and worth reading even if you can’t make it down:
Urban Art is everywhere. Unsolicited, it leaves its traces and signs in urban space. It conquers public space with stickers, posters, extensive murals, and stencil graffiti. It’s galleries are the world’s streets. What began as graffiti in the large cities on America’s east coast forty years ago has since experienced a decisive development. Even if the majority of actions continue to be produced anonymously and illegally, it is no longer exclusively a phenomenon associated with youth culture. Many of the protagonists have emancipated themselves from the pictorial language of graffiti writing and experimented with new forms of expression. With their subtle and humorous, occasionally offensive interventions in the urban landscape they attempt to force open familiar visual habits. As a rule, they are not concerned with damaging the urban infrastructure but with participating in a dialogue with the public.
There is a variety of Urban Art. Temporary actions, unusual objects and sculptures, lettering, and characters are woven into the visual flow of the city as stumbling blocks. The possibility that many of the passers-by take no notice of these interventions is consciously taken into account. Thus they comprise a subversive counterweight to the constant presence of advertising, whose blinking images and seductive buying options dominate everyday life. It is not only in this respect that Urban Art is the expression of a critical examination of the social, cultural, and economic dimensions of the city, which in the age of globalization is rapidly and sustainably changing.Urban Art has recently experienced a downright hype. Numerous galleries and museums around the world have organized exhibitions, and works by the most well-known representatives of the genre have gained premium prices at auctions. What some accuse of being commercialization, the loss of authenticity, and the betrayal of original interests is viewed by many artists as a new chance. By transferring their themes and methods in the protected space of the museum, they develop very new and surprising approaches. But what kind of art is this that leaves its ancestral terrain? Do the works not require the city as a resonating space, as an immediate opponent? And is one of the essential features of Urban Art not its impermanence, its spontaneity? The Weserburg will be devoting itself to these questions in a large-scale exhibition centered around works from the Reinking Collection.
Via SlamxHype
One of graffiti’s best known female writers, Claw, will be showing at Eastern District in New York next week. I haven’t seen much of her gallery work (I believe she’s done a bit before, though I’m not sure), but given her successful clothing line, I’m sure she knows how to transition to new mediums.
The PR:
Claw Money -Solo Exhibition-
May 8th-May 12th
Opening reception
6-8pm Friday May 8th 2009
43 Bogart Street, Brooklyn, NY
-Claw Money“Claw Money is a legendary Graffiti Artist, best known for her signature icon, a paw with three claws. This paw could be spotted all over New York during her days rolling with the prestigious graff crews, TC5, 5C, and her own crew, PMS. Until 2008, she was the Fashion Editor for Swindle Magazine.
Keeping up with Claw these days is no easy task. Between maintaining her eponymous clothing and accessories line, which has a celebrity cult following (M.I.A., Kayne West, Amy Winehouse, Santo Gold, Pete Wentz, and Cameron Diaz, just to name a few) and writing furiously for her irreverent fashion blog Blogue, Claw still somehow finds the time and energy to inject major brands like Nike, Calvin Klein, Boost Mobile, K2, Ecko Red, and Colette X Gap with some of her legendary street cred.
Some of Ms. Money’s recent projects include Doug Pray’s 2006 graffiti documentary Infamy and her first monograph, Bombshell: The Life and Crimes of Claw Money, published by PowerHouse books. The 2007 book, which archives a collection of graffiti, high style, and wild times, is already in its second edition printing. Most recently Claw has been on a world tour promoting two collaborative sneakers with athletic giant, Nike. The two styles, a peacock feather-adorned Vandal and lace-infused Blazer are Nike’s first artist releases for women by a woman, setting a new precedent for female streetwear collaborations in an extremely male dominated market segment. In 2009, she has collaborated with jeweler Gabriel Urist to create a range of peacock feather earrings and pendants, the demand for which has been unprecedented. What’s next from Claw Money? That’s anyone’s guess, but stay tuned and she surely won’t disappoint.”
Nice preview video of Luna Park and Billi Kid’s group show “The Great Out Doors” has popped online. Some really cool doors in this show. Personal favorites are the pieces by Imminent Disaster, Deeker, Royce Bannon, and Infinity.
Yesterday I did what I thought was a moderately extensive post on some of the cooler shows opening soon or recently opened, but I realize I missed California completely. Here’s a few things you can go see if you’re in California and looking for some street art:
First, there is The Carmichael Gallery. While their Boxi and Neo-Cons/Zeus shows are still up until the 30th, I’d like to write about what they’ve got opening on May 7th.
In the main gallery, Thais Beltrame has a solo show.
And in their rear gallery is “Get Rich Quick!” GRQ is a show full of secondary market work from top-tier artists like Banksy, Barry McGee, KAWS and Faile.
I know nothing about the show in this next poster except that it is in San Fransisco and Know Hope is involved. That’s good enough for me. Love his work.
The number of interesting shows is really starting to increase as it starts to get warmer. Here’s a number of shows around the world open or opening soon which look interesting:
(this show features Blu, Nunca, Os Gemeos and others)
Last night was the opening of Jaybo’s “The Pocket Show” at Nancy Victor Gallery. I couldn’t make it for the opening, but I stopped by this afternoon.
My friend Rachel and I had split views on the show. For me, although Jaybo is definitely a good painter, it just isn’t my kind of work. Rachel, on the other hand, really liked it. Overall, I’d say it’s a good show, just not for the typical street art fan.
Jaybo’s work is definitely different from what street art fans come to expect. So many of us are used to low-quality stencils, but Jaybo actually knows how to paint. Reminds me of Elbowtoe’s distortion of bodies, but painted.
The really cool work there has to be piece that Jaybo made out of painted match sticks.
Although it wasn’t really my sort of show, Jaybo is talented, and people who prefer a bit more of a painterly style than most street art should really enjoy it.
Photos from Remi
Aaron Rose of Beautiful Losers fame is currated a show currently at Circleculture Gallery in Berlin with Barry McGee, Ed Templeton, and Raymond Pettibon. All the vital info can be found here. A few images below:
More on the show here
I’ve been away from my computer for a few days, and though I’m still on vacation, I’m trying to get caught up on the news of the street art world. Here are a few of the things I’ve been looking at:
