Category: Gallery/Museum Shows

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One night only: TitiFreak installation in Newcastle

TitiFreak will be at One Thirty 3, a new space in Newcastle, this month for a one-night-only installation. One Thirty 3 has a ballsy setup: shows run for one night only, the artist does an installation, there’s only one original artwork for sale and one print (in an edition of 33). TitiFreak’s show be open on February 24th from 6:30-9:30pm. If you plan to check out TitiFreak’s show, One Thirty 3’s website recommends emailing info@onethirty3.com to get your name on the list. Should be cool.

Later this year, One Thirty 3 will have shows with Sickboy, Word To Mother, Gaia, Retna and Herakut.

Photo courtesy of One Thirty 3

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New space, TOYKIO, opens in Düsseldorf

TOYKIO have just launched their pop-up coffee-shop/gallery in Düsseldorf, Germany. It looks pretty crazy. Especially since this is just a temporary shop until the real space opens on April 1st. You’re either going to love or loath this place. Me, I’m loving it. The people behind TOYKIO love art with a strong passion, and I think that comes across pretty strongly. And the combination of gallery, just plain showcase of awesomeness and spot to eat sounds perfect to me. Should relieve the stress and seriousness that accompanies most galleries. Check out the photos:

If you can’t make it to TOYKIO in the flesh but like their taste in art, you can still check out their extensive web store.

Photos by Nicola Roman Walbeck

Via Arrested Motion

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Weekend link-o-rama

Unknown artist in TriBeCa

With the riots and protests in Egypt, I thought the above sticker is a worthwhile thing to consider this week. I’m a bit late on this week’s link-o-rama.

Photo by Loisinwonderland

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Sweet Toof at Arch 402 in London

The entrance to Arch 402 with artwork by Sweet Toof and Cept. Photo by Nolionsinengland

Sweet Toof’s show at Arch 402 Gallery in London opened earlier this month. While not a 100% smash hit, there are also some of my favorite Sweet Toof works ever. Some of my favorites from this show are actually the ones that I posted in the preview. The show is open through February 3rd, so you still have a few days to check it out. Well worth a look.

Here are a few of the installation:

Photo by Hookedblog
Photo by Hookedblog

Photos by Nolionsinengland, Hookedblog and courtesy of Sweet Toof

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‘A’ – Remi/Rough and Steve More

Steve More and Remi/Rough have a show opening next week at Blackall Studios in London. A is intended as a sort of checkpoint for what Remi and More call the urban abstract movement (them plus people like Kofie, Jose Parla and Retna). I’m not sure about that, but hey, I like the pictures so I’m not going to complain about a bit of over-hyping. Vandalog readers will probably be familiar with Remi’s abstract graffiti-style canvases, but this is one of the first time I’ve seen a substantial number of artworks by More. Arrested Motion recently did studio visits with both More and Remi, so you can check those out here and here. Here’s some of what you will see in A, and Londoners can go to Blackall Studios next week to see everything (I have a feeling that Steve More’s work really needs to be seen in person to pop):

Steve More
Remi/Rough
Steve More
Remi/Rough
Steve More

Photos courtesy of Remi/Rough

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Sickboy solo show coming up in Lisbon

UPDATE: Sounds like the above image may also have something to do with an issue of Very Nearly Almost coming out in the next two weeks…

Sickboy has a solo show coming up on February 3rd at the Montana Gallery in Lisbon, Portugal with Yellow Pants Gallery. Yellow Pants are new, but their last show looked pretty cool and had a very strong line up, so I’m expecting big things from them, and this Sickboy show might just be one of those big things. Sickboy is a UK-based street artist and graffiti writer and I’ve really enjoy his work indoors and outdoors for the last couple of years. He also really knows how to do a show right. He had a show in Bristol that was only open for 3 hours and one in London that completely transformed a giant space. Who knows what he’ll get up to in Lisbon… Here’s the flyer:

Photos by Viktor Vauthier

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Weekend link-o-rama

Elfo's road sign for an underground robber

Getting back in the swing of things at school this week. Fair warning, today is the first meeting of a class I’m taking about conceptual art. I’m excited and the professor seems awesome, but just fair warning: That class could bleed over into the rest of my life and lead to an increase in bullshitting from me here on Vandalog. Unfortunately, I haven’t sorted out a proper internet connection yet since getting back to school, so I’ve been a bit lax this week. Here’s what’s been going on:

  • This isn’t street art or urban art or low brow or anything really related to Vandalog, but one of my favorite artists, Hiroyuki Doi, has a show on in New York right now. Definitely check it out.
  • Kid Acne has a new zine out.
  • This collaboration between Malarky, Billy and Mighty Mo is great.
  • At first I hated this sculpture from Jeremy Fish, but now I’m thinking I’d love to walk by it every day.
  • Last week I asked about graffiti photographers in Philadelphia, and Fat Cap has found a great one.
  • I think some of these pieces from Phil Jones are old, some just remind me of Asbestos’ Lost series and some are pretty meh, but damn overall Jones is kicking ass with some fun street art.
  • Felice Varini makes me smile.
  • Exit Through The Gift Shop was nominated for a BAFTA and won an award for documentaries. In other Banksy news, someone is trying to sell 5 Banksy works on paper, basically preparatory works, for £125,000.
  • This “news” article reads like a press release for Bonhams, but there is one surprising bit of information in there: Apparently the Shepard Fairey Peace Goddess, which sold earlier this month at Bonhams for £27,600, is the highest price ever paid for a Shepard Fairey work at auction. I would have thought he’d reached a higher number by now, but I guess most of the work that goes to auction tends to be prints and HPMs, not the large collages or retired stencils that might have otherwise already reached that number. UPDATE: Of course, the article is wrong. That isn’t the highest price paid for a Shepard Fairey work at auction. Not sure if this price is the highest, but it’s much higher than the Bonhams result. So I guess that article is just a giant press release. Sorry.
  • And because that last thing was all about money, here’s a relevant old piece from Twist/Barry McGee.
  • Jose Parla has been busy in Toronto (Thanks to Simon for the tip).

Photo by Elfo

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Weekend link-o-rama

ARGH LHR in London

Well I’m on my way back to Philadelphia this weekend. I can’t wait to get there and back into the swing of things. Random comment about Philly: If anyone knows of any photographers who are actively documenting street art and graffiti there, please let me know. Anyway, here’s what we missed this week:

Photo by nolionsinengland

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Hell For Hire

The press release:

Anthony Michael Sneed is an emerging artist who will be having a pop-up show at ARTJAIL in NY this Thursday January 13th from 7-10. his exhibition entitled “Hell for Hire” is the culmination of work that has spanned over two years time. Embodying numerous mediums from canvas to Legos, and varying themes from JFK to the KKK, Sneed has amassed an impressive collection of work not only in scale but in content.

About the artist:

Anthony Michael Sneed is a multi-platform visual artist who lives and works in Brooklyn. As a small child, Sneed suffered an accident that crushed his right hand, temporarily disabling its use and thereby forcing him to become ambidextrous. The implications of being right handed and switching to left as a result of this trauma and the plausible impact it has on his right versus left brain functions fascinates Sneed and inspires inquiry into how that has translated in his work.

Legos, video games, and even the arts and craft association of the artist’s process are derivative of Sneed’s childhood memories. These tools and their application to the large-scale canvas comprise an ultimately self-referential language dominated by the basic geometric nature of the pixel. Angular shapes and rational lines constitute the visual framework across all the mediums in which he works and gives form to ideas, both abstract and conceptual. Rigid angles sharply contrast with the playful, tongue in cheek nature of his social commentary. Often incorporating early 80s 8-bit video game aesthetics, the resulting imagery can seem anachronistic or frozen in a particular time, juxtaposing the contemporary topical content with a conscious approach.

Anthony Michael Sneed has been selected by Shepard Fairey for an upcoming show at Subliminal Projects in LA and has shown with Leo Kesting in New York.