Here are about π of my favorite pieces by Dast: some square from Bogota, Colombia.
Photos by _DAST_
Last week, this video was posted of our friend Ever‘s recent trip to Mexico. Ever is one of the best young muralists in South America right now and this video provides some rare insight into his work, so it’s well worth watching.
Remi/Rough‘s only UK solo show of the year has recently opened at Unit44 in Newcastle. How To Use Colour And Manipulate People has some very new and different work from Remi/Rough, with the most interesting and unexpected piece probably being the above painted animal skull. Here are a few of the other pieces:
Photos courtesy of Remi/Rough
Visually and conceptually engaging, Moody’s current exhibit at Pandemic Gallery is a trip into an alternative universe reflecting Moody’s dual graffiti and street art sensibilities. His witty and exquisitely executed “street art” pieces seem to mock not only the corporate world, but the sanitization of graffiti as it evolves into “street art.” Here are some images from the exhibit that continues through July 15th at Pandemic:
Photos by Tara Murray & Lois Stavsky
One of the best things that street art can do, which doesn’t happen often, is that it can truly engage with people and inspire them. There are two whimsical projects potentially happening this summer which, while not traditional street art, come from that same place. And they need some support or else they might not happen.
First, there is Release the Wolves, a go-karting project by Gold Peg and Pelucas. These two artists are trying to build a go-kart track and go-karts with local kids in South London. They need another £6,500 to make the project a reality. When I was living in London, Gold Peg was one of my favorite local street artists/graffiti writers, and this project fits her to a T. I remember the opening night of The Thousands, a show that I curated back in 2009, where Gold Peg decided that, rather than put a painting in the show like the rest of the Burning Candy crew (in addition to the mural that they painted), she wanted to give out ice cream at an ice cream stand. And so she made a custom ice cream stand and had her friends serve everyone ice cream. It was probably the most popular part of the show, until the ice cream ran out. That was great fun and a bit whimsical, but it was for a crowd of Shoreditch hipsters like myself. With Release the Wolves, Gold Peg is taking that same spirit of fun and exuberance and bringing it to kids who probably didn’t show up for ice cream at The Thousands. I hope she can pull this project off. To help make Release the Wolves happen, you can pledge your support here.
And then there is the latest installment in the Swimming Cities project, which is probably best-known as that crazy series of junk boat projects that Swoon had a hand in. While Swoon is no longer at the helm, Swimming Cities has continued. This year, the group is hoping to float down the Ohio River. The Swimming Cities team is hoping to raise about $20,000 in the next 15 days. It’s a lot, but Swimming Cities is quite a project. I was fortunate enough to ride on one of the Swimming Cities vessels in Venice a few years back. It was the experience of a lifetime, and even just seeing the performance that took place on the boats was spectacular. I cannot say enough good things about this project. I hope that they reach their funding goal and send out some positive energy all along the Ohio River. You can help Swimming Cities here.
Photo by RJ Rushmore
Ron English, Shepard Fairey, TrustoCorp and Risk painted last week at the London Pleasure Gardens, a brand new cultural center of sorts from the folks behind MuTate Britain. Fairey has had some involvement with MuTate Britain organization before, but I’m not sure about the other artists. Whatever the case, there’s some nice work that went up at the gardens, including Fairey’s tallest mural to date and some great work on airplane nosecones by Risk and English (shown above).
Swap Fairey for Saber and you have the line-up at Letters from America, the show Corey Helford Gallery is putting on at Black Rat Projects starting July 4th, so if you like this work, definitely check out that show too.
Here’s some of the work at the London Pleasure Gardens, and we’ll probably do a part-2 of with more work in a few days:
Photos by S.Butterfly
It’s time to read about the news I missed this week, if you missed it too.
Photo by Rai Cruz
Roa just sent over some photos from his travels earlier this year. Amazingly, these pics only cover from January through April, and we aren’t posting all the pieces he’s done in that time.
More after the jump… Continue reading “A travel update from Roa”
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