Guillotine made this video tour of Kaws’ new solo show in Paris at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin:
Kaws – Pay The Debt To Nature – Paris – Opening from Guillotine on Vimeo.
Faile – Bedtime Stories at Perry Rubenstein Gallery
Faile‘s latest solo show, Bedtime Stories, opened a few days ago at Perry Rubenstein Gallery in New York City. I might be in the city next weekend, and this show will be one of my first stops. I’m usually a big huge fan of Faile, so I’m liking the new imagery and styles in these pieces, as well as the revival of some old favorites. And they’re in a “proper” contemporary art gallery, not a place pigeonholed as a gallery for street artists, so hopefully a new audience will be exposed to the madness that is Faile. Here are some pictures from the show:
Photos by Matthew Kraus and Christopher Vidal
Small Acts of Resistance – Swoon, Armsrock and more at BRP
Small Acts of Resistance, the latest show at Black Rat Projects, opened on Thursday evening. It’s another one of my dream group shows from Black Rat, with a number of my favorite artists represented. Peter Kennard in particular seems to have really outdone himself with his installation, although I’m hoping to see some more high-res images of that work. Here are a few photos of work by Armsrock, Swoon, Peter Kennard and Know Hope:
Photos by unusualimage and walkingwalls
Weekend link-o-rama
Just got back from Jordan Seiler’s show at Vincent Michael Gallery. I’ll have more on that in the next few days, but I found an awesome store in the same area as the gallery: Jinxed. It sells cool toys and the like. Here’s what I didn’t write about this week while I was busy procrastinating and thinking about The Underbelly Project.
- Os Gêmeos and other artists are selling posters for a penny each (plus shipping)! I bought some.
- HowAboutNo! and Nolionsinengland found a bunch of new pieces by Burning Candy in London.
- Romanywg has compiled a book for photographs of abandoned buildings.
- Jace paints some nice walls.
- Askew’s essay on the economics of graffiti and graffiti removal needs to be read. I think it’s exaggerated some of his estimates, but his point remains valid.
- Michael Aaron Williams understands placement.
- Best Ever have a solo show opening next week in London.
- JR’s artwork in Shanghai might be some of his best yet.
- Apparently Banksy went to Mexico a decade ago and pictures are just coming to light now.
- Ron English and Chris Brown? Umm…
- Elisa and maybe other Vandalog writers are going to disagree with me on this, but I’m not really digging Aakash Nihalani’s new work at his solo show in New York. I guess I just prefer Aakash outdoors.
- Okay, this is just annoying. When you give people freedom to say anything, of course some asshole is going to be racist once in a while, but that doesn’t mean free speech should stop. These are college students, they should be able to think this through beyond the immediate things going on around them. Or just paint the damn tunnel in murals of people of all races and creeds holding hands?
- Hrag on Hyperallergic points out that in Vegas there are miles of storm tunnels where people live, and parts of the tunnels are covered in really nice graffiti. That’s awesome! He goes on to say that this is much more interesting than The Underbelly Project. I would disagree. Those tunnels are important and interesting, but they aren’t as unique as The Underbelly Project. New York’s own Freedom Tunnel was once a very similar space until it was reopened for trains and I’m guessing that there are similar sites in other cities around the world.
Photo by nolionsinengland
Alex Hornest – Animais de Concreto
I love this piece by Alex Hornest. The colors are awesome and he uses the corner so well!
If you’re in Sao Paulo, Alex has a solo show on right now called Animais de Concreto at Cavalera ART PROJECTS. The works I’ve seen from it look really good. I’ve included one below.
The show runs through November 30. Find out more here.
– Elisa
Photo by FernandoGomes0301.
Block Party at Carmichael Gallery with Boxi, Dan Witz and more
Next week is going to be a difficult one for art fans in LA. On the one hand, Roa has a solo show opening with Thinkspace (but not at their usual space, which would make things easy because Thinkspace and Carmichael Gallery are practically next door as I understand it). And on the other, Carmichael Gallery has Block Party, a solid group show opening on the same night. Both shows open next Saturday. But this is about Block Party.
In addition to street artists Boxi and Dan Witz (you have no idea the joy I felt when I heard that my dad picked up a good Dan Witz painting recently), there are some other interesting artists in the show. Of particular note is probably Gregor Gaida, whose piece was one of my highlights of Moniker last month.
In addition to original works, Boxi will also be doing an installation in the gallery, so that may just tip the scales in the Carmichaels’ favor over Roa for me, but both shows should be something to see for sure.
Photos courtesy of Carmichael Gallery
Erica Il Cane at FIFTY24SF
Erica Il Cane has a show, We Were Living in the Woods, opening in San Fransisco next Thursday at FIFTY24SF. Should be an interesting show. I go back and forth on Erica Il Cane’s art, but when I see his watercolors in person, I tend to fall in love with it all over again. Here’s a teaser:
Photos courtesy of FIFTY24SF
Street/Studio 2.0
This Friday, the Irvine Contemporary will be presenting its second exhibition of multidisciplinary street art entitled Street/Studio 2.0 featuring Swoon, Shepard Fairey, Jose Parla, Chris Mendoza, David Ellis, James Marshall, Rostarr and myself. It is a compelling collection of figuration and abstraction all generated from, but not limited to, a studio practice that is informed by the streets. Detailed information after the jump.
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Coming soon: Roa show in LA
When Roa sent me some photos of his recent work in Moscow, he mentioned that he’d arrived in LA. LA? What was he doing in LA. Then I remembered that his upcoming show with Thinkspace is almost here. I was thinking it was still months away, but no. The show is less than two weeks away.
The show opens November 13th and is going to be at a special pop-up location in LA (2808 Elm Street, Los Angeles, CA). Let’s hope that Roa has time to paint a few walls around LA in addition to whatever he’s up to for this solo show.
Photo by zub4ik
Weekend link-o-rama
I’m racing through my computer science homework right now and also throwing this post together before it gets to be too late. I have to be up early tomorrow to get to Washington D.C. for The Daily Show’s Rally To Restore Sanity. I probably shouldn’t been spending my entire day on my way to and from that rally, but it’s going to be an insane day. So between planning getting 50 students to the rally and teaching a course on street art at my university (not an official course, there’s no homework or exams and I don’t get paid), things had to slip through my fingers this week:
- TrustoCorp had a show in LA.
- Kid Acne has a London solo show coming up in November.
- Who else loves Barbara Kruger? Amsterdam and Juxtapoz do.
- This is sort of an odd project… Graffiti writers painting homages to classic graffiti pieces from Subway Art throughout New York City.
- Artists including Ben Wolf and Swoon recently painted an abandoned town in Connecticut.
- JR was in National Geographic, with an ad right next the article that might rip off his work a bit.
- A 3D painting at Cordy House in London.
- There’s a film about Steve Powers’ A Love Letter For You Project, and it just premiered in Philadelphia. Also, Steve has a new website with some work available to purchase and plenty of photos.
Photo by Luna Park