Category: Gallery/Museum Shows

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Weekend link-o-rama

BEST EVER X Deadleg in London

It’s been a crazy week in London. Moniker and all that. But here’s what has been going on with street art elsewhere:

Photo by unusualimage

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Overlap: Aakash Nihalani at Bose Pacia

Aakash Nihalani has a solo show coming up at Bose Pacia Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Entitled Overlap, the show will feature new works by one of my favorite geometric artists. Including photography, paintings, sculpture and digital design, the November show brings Nihalani’s to another level inside a gallery space. Always coming up with new ways to evolve his art, this show will definitely be one to watch.

PS- Does anyone know what artist’s obsession with balloon animals are these days? Not that I’m complaining, but first Banksy, then this guy La Bouller and now Aakash. Anyone want to make me a life sized one?

Photo courtesy of Jim Kiernan for Aakash Nihalani

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This Land is My Land at 17 Frost

OK I feel kind of like a jerk for not posting this sooner. Because this show literally opens in twenty minutes, but I rarely have access to the internet (although it would seem otherwise) and its better late than right? SO my people cahil muraghu and erik burke are putting on what looks like an amazing collection of their works and collaborations at 17 frost in Williamsburg and it is not to be missed. So get off the computer and get out the door.

17Frost is proud to announce…
This Land Is My Land
Erik Burke & Cahil Muraghu
Opening Fri, October 8th, 2010, 7 – 11pm

Burke and Muraghu’s collaborations are vivid representation of the American landscape. The show’s title, This Land is My Land, taken from Woody Guthrie’s landmark song, embodies the artists’ intent behind both the work and their own lifestyle. Guthrie describes the disenfranchised American staking a hypothetical claim to the landscape, reiterating native American concepts of land ownership. Their work inspired by the New York City graffiti movement and the Hudson River school not only attempts to document the American experience, but lay claim, even if only for a moment, to abstracting our relationship to the landscape.

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Weekend link-o-rama

Recent mural by Eine. Photo by Unusualimage

Well it was the first week of midterms for me, so lots of time was spent locking myself in my room, turning off the wifi and just studying. On the plus side, had a great meeting today trying to get some grant money from my college to bring street artists to campus and I took a nap on what might just be the world’s comfiest couch. So here’s what I haven’t had the chance to blog with all that school stuff going on:

  • I’ll be running a modified version of my street art tours next Friday at the Moniker Art Fair. The tour will be free and we’ll being checking out the fair as well as some of the street art in Shoreditch nearby. That will be from 1-2:30 11:30-1pm and 1:30-3:00pm next Friday afternoon at Moniker.
  • Unurth has photos of Escif’s latest murals.
  • Kaws blogged some teaser shots of his upcoming book.
  • Feral has been posting a lot of photos on his flickr over the past month of the interesting work he’s been making.
  • Mike put together a nice overview of FAME Festival for Arrested Motion
  • The latest in the line of shows Yosi Sergant (previously involved with Manifest Hope and Manifest Equality) has worked on, Re:Form School looks to be another massive group show advocating a good cause. It is open in New York this weekend only.
  • Kofie has a solo show opening this weekend at White Walls in San Fransisco. The opening reception is on Saturday evening. Check out The Citrus Report for more info.
  • LAB (Little Art Book) has a pop-up shop in London starting today through October 23rd. There will be prints for sale priced as low as £30. Their blog has more info.

Photo by unusualimage

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MOMO’s solo show at Anno Domini

Conversations with Kiki

MOMO‘s debut U.S. solo show opened last week at Anno Domini in San Jose. Better Than 2009 is one of the most interesting things I’ve seen recently, since MOMO is just so different from most street artists. Certainly, there aren’t many street artists trying to paint anything abstract and MOMO gets a lot more conceptual than most street artists.

Here are some of my favorite pieces from Better Than 2009:

Miami Heat
House by the Canal
Poetry Seminar Bathroom

There’s more to see from this show on Anno Domini’s website.

Photos by Anno Domini

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Neck Face Returns This Halloween

I’m a huge Neck Face fan. No really, a HUGE fan! From the camo and balaclava clad get up, to his scratchy carvings and cannibalistic creations, the whole Neck Face persona has always intrigued and fascinated me. I mean the name “Neck Face” in itself is enough to warrant a good dose of media and public attention; something that Mr.Neck Face has never shied away from, even snagging himself an up coming documentary involving director Spike Jonze. A quick search of Youtube or Google will find you a number of videos with Neck Face openly embracing the cameras into his world, happily discussing his influences and ideas. But that fact that the very same search exposes the once anonymous graffiti artist from California (if you look hard enough), is probably more then enough reason to lay low and cool off for a while. Right?

Well apparently not because Neck Face is back with a new solo show, Into Darkness – which in true Neck Face fashion is naturally opening this Halloween. The show will feature his latest series of drawings, paintings, and sculptures. While maintaining the hand style and imagery now considered his trademark, this body of work introduces new elements into Neck Face’s visual codex. A collection of watercolors, with vignettes arranged in comic strip format, feature his idiosyncratic, stubble-haired creatures.

Here’s a cool video from the opening night of last years show.

I guess I’d be really interested to see how this show turns out considering the fact that for Neck Face himself, the jig is pretty much up and the novelty mystery that once surrounded who he is has seemingly come to an abrupt end. I mean, what kind of repercussions is that going to have? Do you still turn up with your balaclava on? Who knows. All I know is Neck Face will always be sick! And where as some people may say that having your own shoe line or series of skate decks and/or clothing range might be “selling out”, I say more power to him!  Get with the times people! With or without his mask Neck Face will always be a legend!

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Bumblebee’s First Solo Show

Things have been busy the past few weeks here at Carmichael Gallery – Seth and I have been prepping for Moniker / our trip to London, I’ve been finishing off the next issue of tasj (more about that soon) and Bumblebee has turned one of our back rooms into a full-on studio in preparation for his first solo show, which opens this Saturday at Beyond Eden!

If you live in LA, I hope you can make it to the show. There will be lots of new canvases, mixed media pieces and a big installation on display. He’s worked really hard for it, and it shows. It’s some of his best work yet.

Unurth posted one of Bumblebee’s most recent street pieces, “I’m Not Supposed To Bee Here”, last week; you can see it here.  He also did a cool piece last night called “Sleepwalking”, which you can see on tasj.

– Elisa

Photos by Bumblebee

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The Humble and Sublime: El Mac at Joshua Liner Gallery

There’s less than two weeks until El Mac’s upcoming solo show at Joshua Liner Gallery in NYC. While Mac is best known for his murals, he’s also active in the studio producing work for galleries.

From what I’ve seen so far, it looks like most of the show will consist of Mac’s stunning acrylic on panel pieces. The first time I saw one of these was earlier this year Joshua Liner’s summer group show, and it was definitely one of my favorite works there.

The Humble and Sublime opens on October 14th and will be El Mac’s first New York solo show.

Photos courtesy of Joshua Liner Gallery

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M-city show in Paris

Unfortunately I didn’t hear about this show until after the opening, so I couldn’t give any Parisians reading a heads up about that, but M-City’s show Urban Jungle at Galerie Itinerrance in Paris is still on through October 30th. Pretty much looks like what you’d expect from M-City: crazy stenciled industrial landscapes cut and painted with technical skills that so many stencil artists somehow seem to lack.

I remember the first time I saw M-City’s work: there was a giant M-City piece at the original Cans Festival, but it was in the area where anybody with a stencil could paint (I did, and if they let me in, you know they were looking for quantity of artists, not quality). There were a lot of crap amateurs like me and my friends painting that spot, and then there was M-City (and also Hush). I couldn’t understand why M-City was in that part of the festival, and it made me worry that maybe I wasn’t supposed to be painting there. M-City was no amateur.

Photos courtesy of Galerie Itinerrance