I have got to admit that this piece is one of my favourite walls of the year, if not my number one favourite…
Native Australian duo, Dabs and Myla have crashed head on with Remi/Rough and this explosion of colour is the result. Old Street has never looked so good!
Photo by Remi/Rough
Target has just turned me on to Bordalo II, an artist in Lisbon who is doing some of the coolest pieces I’ve seen this fall. There are a lot of people messing around with found materials and spraycans and that sort of stuff, but for some unexplainable reason Bordalo II stands out to me. Maybe it’s just that he’s not well known outside of Portugal, but he’d probably already have a nice career carved out for himself in London with this sort of work, but I’m pretty sure it’s more than that. He’s taking pretty standard “urban art” techniques and actually doing something interesting with them, as well as pushing found materials further than most. Here is some work from his recent show at Montanta’s Lisbon gallery, Turning the ordinary into original. Target has more images on his blog.
Photos courtesy of Target
Always delighted to come upon Paul Richard’s elegant portraits of gentlemen on NYC sidewalks, we couldn’t resist checking out his portraits framed on the walls of the Rivington Design House Gallery. Here’s a glimpse of both:
Photos by Lois Stavsky
Radical! is a young street artist based in upstate New York. This year, he’s been included in shows curated by Vandalog as well as Brooklyn Street Art as well as Living Walls Albany, but I’m pretty sure that his show opening this week at Munch Gallery is his first solo show in NYC. Upside Down Frowns will be full of entirely new work from Radical!, as well as site-specific pieces. The opening is on Friday from 7-10pm and the show runs through November 20th. Also, MaNY just uploaded a video of Radical! painting a mural a few months back.
Photo courtesy of Munch Gallery
Stormie Mills asked some of his favorite artists to paint three self-portraits from different perspectives. The result of that brief is For, Against, the Truth, a show opening this week at Linton & Kay Contemporary Art in Perth, Australia. The show includes Vandalog regulars Remi/Rough, John Fekner and Jordan Seiler, as well as Kenton Parker, Jaybo Monk, Matt Doust, Marco ‘Pho’ Grassi, Jade Palmer, Amanda Lynn and Darren Henderson.
Photo by Jordan Seiler, flyer courtesy of Remi/Rough
This is an old video, but definitely a must-see. Ron English is one of the most intelligent and politically aware artists I can think of, and this video explains his billboard takeover activities perfectly. Thanks to Bomit for the reminder that this was out there.
Photo courtesy of Ron English
Draw The Line, the mural festival in Campobasso (Italy), finished up recently. Here are the final two murals for the festival. The above wall is by Sten and Lex, and Erica Il Cane’s is below.
Photos courtesy of Draw The Line
Featured in USA Today’s Pop Candy blog as one of three coffee table book recommendations, Graffiti 365 by Jay “J.SON” Edlin is much more. An ambitious global survey of the key graffiti writers and street artists of our time, it serves too as an ideal reference guide. Here is a small sampling of images that accompany the writing:
Jay will be at Art Basel Miami Beach in early December. Meanwhile, my favorite post-publication photo is the one captured of former NYC mayor Ed Koch, who waged an aggressive campaign against graffiti back in the 80’s, signing GRAFFITI 365. (Thanks, Jay, for sharing it!)
Photos courtesy of Jay Edlin
Earlier this year, in August to be precise, 72 artists descended on Bristol for See No Evil. Equipped with over 13,000 spray cans they set about transforming Nelson Street into a massive outdoor art gallery. Hurricane Media were on hand to film the whole event and this is the outcome, a fantastic documentary short on the event and the rise of the global street art movement.
