Kenny Scharf will be at MOCA this weekend as part of the Levi’s Film Workshop video series at Art in the Streets for a Q&A about Kenny Scharf: More, Newer, Better, Nower, Funner, a short film that Malia Scharf and Nathan Meier have made a short film about Kenny. The film will also be premiering at the event, before being available online. The Q&A/screening will be at 3pm on Sunday. RSVP for free online.
Photo courtesy of the Levi’s
While I should probably be studying for final exams right now, I’m spending just as much time getting ready for Up Close and Personal, which opens next week in NYC. Check out a preview on Brooklyn Street Art. Here’s some stuff I would have liked to have covered this week:
Photo by TresOhUno
Retna has begun his mural at the Pasadena Museum of California Art for their Street Cred show that I posted about earlier. It’s looking good so far…
Photos courtesy of the Pasadena Museum of California Art
Street Cred: Graffiti Art from Concrete to Canvas is a show opening this month at the Pasadena Museum of California Art focusing on the graffiti writers and street artists who have come out of the LA scenes. Artists in the show include Chaz Bojórquez, Craola, Kofie One, Risk, Jeff Soto, Retna, Revok and Saber. Perhaps just as important, the show will include photographs of graffiti by Steve Grody, because any graffiti art exhibit would definitely be incomplete without documentation out actual graffiti outdoors. Additionally, Retna will be painting a mural on the outside of the museum.
Sounds like Street Cred will be a good compliment to Art in the Streets at MOCA. A number of people I’ve been speaking with recently have argued that LA graffiti has not been given its due in the wider history of graffiti, so maybe Street Cred will help to correct that.
Street Cred opens May 14th and runs through September 4th.
Photo by Lord Jim
OverUnder has been busy lately. Here are a few of his new walls, plus he’s got a solo show opening towards the end of the month at XYandZ in Minneapolis. He’s also got a piece in Up Close and Personal, which runs next Thursday through Sunday in NYC.
Photos by OverUnder
Just thought I would share with you guys some images of new Banksy works in his installation at Art in the Streets at LAMOCA. The Steamroller piece was also “updated,” but not for the better I think.
Photos by Waltercrunk
Via Nuart
Street and fine artist Julian Kimmings latest solo show will open in London at the K West spa in Sheperd’s Bush on May 17th. Teaming with the curatorial team at Laura Mcnamara, the show will feature Kimmings latest body of work of realistic portrait style women. I was first introduced to him at Moniker and fell in love with some of his past canvases online, so I am pretty excited to see his work in person.
If you want to attend the private opening on May 16th from 530 – 7pm e-mail laura@lauramcnamara.co.uk to be on the list.
To see more work from the artist visit http://kimmings.co.uk/
Days is Steve Powers‘ latest solo show, and it opens next Friday at V1 Gallery in Copenhagen. Should be a good one. It runs through June 4th.
Freshman year is almost over and soon I’ll be leaving Philadelphia for NYC and London (just for the summer though). And yet, I still have finals to study for, so I didn’t get time to write about these things…
Photo by Labrona
In two weeks, Vandalog and Murals Around New York (MANY) will be putting on a pop-up show in a New York City apartment. Up Close and Personal mostly came out of two ideas: 1. Street artists tend to work large outdoors and we wanted to challenge people to make art on a small scale and 2. We’ve all seen artwork in galleries that either would only look good in a gallery but not in a home, or is just too big to fit into a typical apartment and we wanted to see something different from that. With Up Close and Personal, the show itself is taking place in an apartment on the Upper West Side, and we have capped the size of the artwork at 30 x 30 inches, with an emphasis on going as small as possible.
I’ve worked with Keith Schweitzer and Mike Glatzer of M.A.N.Y. to curate this show, and we’re really excited with the line up that we’ve managed to put together: Aiko, Chris Stain, Clown Soldier, Don Leicht, Edible Genius, Elbowtoe, Gaia, How & Nosm, Jessica Angel, John Fekner, Know Hope, Logan Hicks, Mike Ballard, OverUnder, R. Robot, Radical, Retna, Skewville, Tristan Eaton, Troy Lovegates aka Other and White Cocoa.
Up Close and Personal opens May 12th from 7-9pm. We’ll also be open from 7-9pm on the 13th. Then noon-9pm and noon-7pm on the 14th and 15th respectively. Particularly on the 12th, it is possible that we’ll be shifting people in every half hour or so, since the space is a small apartment. The show is taking place at 217 West 106th Street, Apartment 1A, New York, NY 10025 – Between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues.
Hope to see you in a couple weeks!
