Conceived and created by Mosstika, this giant wheat-grass Yeti has made its way to John and Adams in DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) Bklyn.
Mosstika plants urban greenery in DUMBO
Studio visit with Ron English
Last month, I had the chance to visit Ron English‘s studio in New York. At the time, he was just about to ship out his upcoming show at Lazarides Gallery in London, open from June 24th. Here are some photos from the visit:
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Playing Field group show at Carmichael Gallery
Carmichael Gallery‘s next show is Playing Field, a group show of secondary market works. It opens this Saturday, June 18th and runs through August 9th. The line up hits most of the big names you’d expect to see as well as a few surprises: Banksy, Faile, Shepard Fairey, Sixeart, Os Gêmeos, Mark Jenkins, JR, KAWS, Barry McGee, José Parlá, Judith Supine, Swoon, Titi Freak, Dan Witz.
These sort of shows tend to be either really good or really bad. I’m liking the above piece by Barry McGee, so I’m thinking this should fall on the really good side of things. But LA residents can see for themselves starting on Saturday. The opening is from 6-9pm.
Photo courtesy of Carmichael Gallery
OX hits the same billboard twice
Retna: Hallelujah World Tour in London
Last week, Retna’s Hallelujah World Tour stopped in London. The show is open June 27th at The Old Dairy, a warehouse space at 7 Wakefield St, London, WC1N 1PB. If you go to see this show, you may think you’re lost. It does not look like there’s an art show at 7 Wakefield Street, but trust me, there is. It just might take a bit of searching to find. Once you do though, you realize that Retna has taken over a huge space with some equally huge paintings. I’ve seen a lot of Retna’s work over the last seven months, so I’ve been a bit spoiled for choice and certainly have some favorites in this show (the work on metal and a few others) and some that I don’t think were notable at all. Nonetheless, if you are in the UK and have not seen Retna’s work in the flesh, this is a show that you definitely should not miss. I spent about half an hour wandering the show and intend to revisit the it at least once. I just hope that in the future Retna has more time to paint his shows. It looks like most of this one was painted on site in London, which I don’t think nearly as bad a thing as I’ve heard people tell me it is, but it does limit what he can do. Here’s a sampling of the show…
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Photos by RJ Rushmore
Pablo Delgado’s mini-pieces around London
Recently, a number of very small pieces have been popping up around London and they are being attributed to Pablo Delgado (if anyone knows who first figured that out or who Pablo is, let us know). Here are some of my favorites:
Photos by unusualimage and HowAboutNo!
Ron English at Lazarides Gallery
It’s been about two years since Ron English‘s last solo show in London, but he is back in a couple weeks for a solo show at Lazarides Gallery at their Rathbone Place gallery. If somebody could please explain the name of the show to us, that would be awesome. It is Skin Deep: Post-Instinctual Afterthoughts On Psychological Portraiture. So I’m not really sure what that’s about. But I did have a chance to get a sneak peak a much of the work for Skin Deep last month during a visit to Ron’s home and studio and I fell in love with a couple pieces. Expect a photos from that visit posted on Vandalog sometime soon. In the mean time, pop surrealism fans should mark their calendars: Skin Deep will be open at Lazarides from June 24th through July 21st.
Photo courtesy of Lazarides Gallery
Two Everfresh shows
Rone and Meggs from Everfresh Studio each have solo shows opening later this month. Rone will be at Backwoods Gallery in Melbourne. Meggs will be at Redbull Studios in London. Meggs’ so is presented by ZeroCool Gallery, so let’s hope this does not end in a repeat of their show last April. Very Nearly Almost has more info and teasers for both Rone’s show and Meggs’ show, here are the flyers:
Logan Hicks explains his aluminum paintings
Logan Hicks’ show on now at Opera Gallery in NYC has some new work from him on anodized aluminum. Those pieces are of greyscale figures or scenes on what looks like a solid piece of black aluminum. In reality, the aluminum has been anodized/dyed black. In this new video, Logan explains the process of how his artworks on anodized aluminum are made:
Logan Hicks – anodized aluminum from Logan Hicks on Vimeo.
KR.ONE Presents “New Worx from the Old Skool”
Back in the late 70’s and early 80’s, Queens native KR.ONE was hitting NYC’s subway trains, busses, walls and school yards. He was recently featured, in fact, in Roger Gastman & Caleb Neelon’s The History of American Graffiti. These days he’s bringing his old skool graffiti flavor to canvases, papers, model trains, metal surfaces and more. An array of his recent works are on exhibit at Long Island City’s L.I.C.K Gallery at 45-03 Broadway. The work will remain up through the end of August. Here’s a sample:
Photos by Lois Stavsky