Dan Witz‘ new Japes Crew project is pretty fun. Basically, each artwork is made up of stickers and dirt. In the above photo, the red balls are printed stickers. The shadows are made of smudged dirt. These were all done in Poland, where Dan worked with at-risk youth and taught them how to get their stickers floating. Keep an eye out for a video on how to do this yourself soon…
Photos by Dan Witz
Street Cred: Graffiti Art from Concrete to Canvas is a show opening this month at the Pasadena Museum of California Art focusing on the graffiti writers and street artists who have come out of the LA scenes. Artists in the show include Chaz Bojórquez, Craola, Kofie One, Risk, Jeff Soto, Retna, Revok and Saber. Perhaps just as important, the show will include photographs of graffiti by Steve Grody, because any graffiti art exhibit would definitely be incomplete without documentation out actual graffiti outdoors. Additionally, Retna will be painting a mural on the outside of the museum.
Sounds like Street Cred will be a good compliment to Art in the Streets at MOCA. A number of people I’ve been speaking with recently have argued that LA graffiti has not been given its due in the wider history of graffiti, so maybe Street Cred will help to correct that.
Street Cred opens May 14th and runs through September 4th.
Photo by Lord Jim
OverUnder has been busy lately. Here are a few of his new walls, plus he’s got a solo show opening towards the end of the month at XYandZ in Minneapolis. He’s also got a piece in Up Close and Personal, which runs next Thursday through Sunday in NYC.
Photos by OverUnder
Typoe, one of my favorite writers, just painted this recently mint-condition car. Looking good. And of course, there’s the free Revok comment.
Photo by Typoe
It’s definitely not something I’m great at doing, but everyone once in a while I randomly stumble across some artist’s flickr that I immediately like. Most recently, that’s been Simek1‘s flickr. He’s painting some really cool walls in Greece, often with Greg Papagrigoriou.
Photos by Simek1
Credited with having introduced street art to the Islamic world, A1one also spends many hours in his studio. I particularly love his stencils and his Persian/Arabic — styled calligraphy. Among the images he recently shared with me are these:
Photos courtesy of A1one
Just thought I would share with you guys some images of new Banksy works in his installation at Art in the Streets at LAMOCA. The Steamroller piece was also “updated,” but not for the better I think.
Photos by Waltercrunk
Via Nuart
Seeing as it is almost Mother’s Day in America, Jeff Waldman at ohSanFran and Dave Harmatz decided to help out the lazier among us (aka, people like me) who might forget that it’s Mother’s Day or just not make the effort to write a letter. They put out a series of pre-stamped envelopes with letters inside near mail boxes in San Fransisco. All people had to do was write a quick letter to Mom and pop it in the bin. They made two holders, each with 15 envelopes, so, hopefully, 30 more moms will be getting Mother’s Day cards this year. Such a nice project. Check out more on this over at ohSanFran.
Photo by Jeff Waldman
Street and fine artist Julian Kimmings latest solo show will open in London at the K West spa in Sheperd’s Bush on May 17th. Teaming with the curatorial team at Laura Mcnamara, the show will feature Kimmings latest body of work of realistic portrait style women. I was first introduced to him at Moniker and fell in love with some of his past canvases online, so I am pretty excited to see his work in person.
If you want to attend the private opening on May 16th from 530 – 7pm e-mail laura@lauramcnamara.co.uk to be on the list.
To see more work from the artist visit http://kimmings.co.uk/
The Hunts Point section of the Bronx has some of the most intriguing and varied walls around. Particular faves that I came upon this past week are by Tats Cru, Cekis and Fred, THC aka Nesto.
Photos by Lois Stavsky
