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June 12, 2011

KR.ONE Presents “New Worx from the Old Skool”

Back in the late 70’s and early 80’s, Queens native KR.ONE was hitting NYC’s subway trains, busses, walls and school yards. He was recently featured, in fact, in Roger Gastman & Caleb Neelon’s The History of American Graffiti. These days he’s bringing his old skool graffiti flavor to canvases, papers, model trains, metal surfaces and more. An array of his recent works are on exhibit at Long Island City’s L.I.C.K Gallery at 45-03 Broadway. The work will remain up through the end of August. Here’s a sample:

Photos by Lois Stavsky

June 12, 2011

Clownsoldier heads to Pawn Works in Chicago

Clownsoldier is the next artist who will be showing at the Pawn Works gallery in Chicago. His solo show, The Human Cannon Ball will open in just under two weeks on Friday, June 24th. The press release describes Clownsoldier as “an explosion of absurdity wheatpasted onto a wall near you,” and I think that’s pretty accurate, but his gallery work isn’t half bad either! For this show, Clownsoldier has made collages on book covers and original paintings. In case you missed it, check out this studio visit I did with him last month. Clownsoldier’s best collages have a sense of wonder and playfulness. The combination of his fine arts background and seeming relative naiveté about street art culture combine to offer something a bit different from what street art fans have come to expect and yet make him the perfect fit for Pawn Works (whose previous shows have been with Specter and Gaia).

Check out The Human Cannon Ball at Pawn Works in Chicago, opening on June 24th from 7-11pm.

Photo courtesy of Pawn Works

June 11, 2011

Weekend link-o-rama

5794359149_f7e820cd6b_z — "Circus" ad disruption in Philadelphia by Sorry

Wow, last week went by quickly. And Steph moved in with me today, temporarily. Should be a crazy few weeks. Here’s what I’ve been meaning to write about:

JR’s show at Centre Pompidou is open.
Ludo’s got a new sculpture for sale.
Faile’s new print with Paper Monster could have been great, but I think they picked such a weak image to work with. Oh well. I’m sure there will be more and better Faile prints in the future.
The remnants of a historic Cost/Revs piece can now be seen up close from a newly opened section of the Highline in NYC.
Banksy is sponsoring Art in the Streets at MOCA in LA so that visits are free every Monday from 11-5 through the rest of the show’s run.
A large Kaws sculpture moved from the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum to The Standard Hotel in NYC. And there’s this new video interview with Kaws too.
New from Phlegm.
Lois posted some photos, but here’s even more from Logan Hicks’ show at Opera Gallery.
I’ve never heard of Anton Steenbock, but I want to see more like this.
Glen E. Friedman has won his lawsuit against Mr. Brainwash for using Friedman’s iconic photograph of Run DMC. I still say I’d rather have seen MBW win this case. Not because I think MBW’s work based on that photo looked good, but because I’d rather see more room for artists to re-appropriate content and less restrictions on copyrighted material. What MBW did to Friedman’s photograph was transformative. The original photo is a great photo and an iconic one. What MBW did was make it look totally silly. And that should be covered by fair use, for the benefit of better artists.

Photo by Carolinecaldwell

June 9, 2011

Billy and Malarky at High Roller Society

Billy and Malarky, whose collaborations have recently been ending up on roll-down gates around London and Barcelona, have a two-man show opening on Friday June 10th at High Roller Society in London. Summer Breeze is sure to be a fun show, so stop by the opening from 7-10pm on Friday or check it out by July 3rd.

Photo courtesy of High Roller Society

June 8, 2011June 8, 2011

Fafi Pop Up Show in Paris

From June 14th – June 22, for one week only, Galerie LJ in Paris will be hosting a pop up solo show featuring works by Fafi. Not only as in iconic street artist in her own right, Fafi has patented her art and her name to become an incredibly popular international brand. I haven’t seen new work from her in awhile, so this show is an exciting for treat for fans of her brightly coloured empowered female illustrations. The pop-up is mainly to promote the sale of a 10 separate print releases (at 350 Euros each) and an array of collaborations for cheaper goods like shoes and mugs with companies like Vans and Married to the MOB.

To see the invite and a sneak peak at some new prints check out the event on facebook.

Photo courtesy of Galerie LJ

June 8, 2011June 8, 2011

Another Side of Logan Hicks

I’d always identified Logan Hicks with meticulously stenciled urban landscapes. I was awed by his pieces that I saw at London’s Cans Festival in 2008 and at Brooklyn’s Willoughby Windows in 2009. It was only earlier today at Opera Gallery in SoHo that I discovered his stunningly-crafted portraits, including of the lovely Monica LoCascio.

Logan in London — @ Cans Festival, London, 2008

Willoughby windows — @ Willoughby Windows, Brooklyn, 2009

monica@opera — @ Opera Gallery, NYC, 2011

Photos by Lois Stavsky

June 6, 2011

More from Street aka Museum in Portsmouth, NH

Case, Pleasant St, 2011 — Case aka Andreas von Chrzanowski

On now around Portsmouth, New Hampshire and at the Portsmouth Museum of Art is Street aka Museum, a show of indoor and outdoor work by street artists curated by Beau Basse from LeBasse Projects. The line up is Bumblebee, Herakut, Shark Toof, Alexandros Vasmoulakis and Case aka Andreas von Chrzanowski. The show is open now through September 11th. I recently posted a link to some of the murals that are part of this show, but here’s some work the indoor and outdoor work that wasn’t included in that last post…

Shark Toof, No Parking, 2011 — Shark Toof. I'm not normally Shark Toof fan, but I do like this

Photos courtesy of the Portsmouth Museum of Art

June 4, 2011

Barry McGee and Josh Lazcano curate a show

3400357483_bbe91142ae_z — Lydia Fong aka Barry McGee at New Image Art Gallery in 2009

V1 Gallery in Copenhagen has a group show opening next Friday curated by Barry McGee and his long-time assistant/collaborator Josh Lazcano aka Amaze. Let’s Go Bombing Tonight will open on Friday June 10th and runs through July 9th. The show consists of artists who come from or who have worked in San Fransisco. Keep in mind when you read the line up that a number of these artists are known by pseudonyms or are using here. We’ll give you one: Lydia Fong is one of Barry McGee’s pseudonyms.

Here’s the flyer:

June 4, 2011June 4, 2011

Weekend link-o-rama

You know what’s weird? Hanging out with all your friends from high school and then actually seeing current high school students from your school. Those kids are so young! While I was freaking out about no longer being a teenager and enjoying the beautiful London weather (I’m serious about this one), here’s what I almost missed this week:

Ok let’s start with something self-promotional – I was interviewed and photographed by my friends at The Ripe Apples. Definitely the most relaxing and fun situation to have ever involved my face in front of a camera.
The full Da Mental Vaporz crew (Dran, Bom.K, Sowat, Brusk, Lime, Kan, Iso, Blo and Jaw) put together a show in Toulouse. The crowds look massive and the art looks great. S.Butterfly has all the photos you need here and here.
Neckface used his installation in Art in the Streets to film a movie trailer.
Jordan Seiler at PublicAdCampaign took Neko around NYC and the result was a series of beautiful ad disruptions.
~~Sometimes~~ Every time I think about it, I get annoyed by the close relationship of Juxtapoz and Upper Playground (Matt Revelli is editor-in-chief at Juxtapoz and founder/creative director at Upper Playground). Not so much because of any “journalistic integrity issues,” but because Juxtapoz gets lots of great exclusive Upper Playground related content. This time, they have photographs from a trip on freight trains with Swampy, and they’ve interviewed Swampy for the July issue of Juxtapoz. Definitely check those out. Swampy of course has a show opening next week in San Fransisco at Upper Playground’s Fifty24SF.
Myne has a nice new print out.
This piece by Simple is crisp.
One of my favorite painters in New York, Don Pablo Pedro, is in a group show opening today in Brooklyn.
If you’ve spent time in Williamsburg, you’ve seen that pink cloud and lightening bolt logo around and probably wondered about it. Well, it’s by Abel Macias, and he’s got some really nice Pink Cloud shirts available.
Anthony Lister is going to do a 6-day painting marathon in Berlin starting June 9th. And you’ll be able to monitor his progress online.

Photo by Luna Park

June 3, 2011

A preview of 3rdEye(SOL)ation’s first street art exhibit

3rdEye(SOL)ation, Bushwick’s newest urban art space, is the perfect setting to exhibit street art. The somewhat gritty neighborhood, the inviting site itself, along with the vibes of the folks who hang out there, make it the ideal fit. When I stopped by earlier, most of the artwork for tonight’s opening was already installed. Here’s a preview:

Photos by Lois Stavsky

The exhibit opens tonight from 7-10pm @ 1501 Broadway in Bushwick, Brooklyn.