Logan Hicks sent me some more pictures from Wide Open Walls in Gambia. Lucy McLauchlan’s piece looks awesome.
Photos by Logan Hicks
More from Wide Open Walls
New Sten and Lex in Bushwick
Hot on the heels of their most recent opening, “Portraits”, at the Brooklynite Gallery with yours truly, Sten and Lex collaborated on a new wall deep in Bushwick on Waterbury street. For this piece the duo returned back to paint instead of their most recent process of poster-stencils.
Roa’s work threatened by Hackney Council
As most of you may know, one of Roa‘s beloved works in East London is facing removal after the owners of the building were told they have 14 days to remove it or the Council will. The whole ordeal is a bit ridiculous, since the Hackney Council is calling the piece a “blight on the environment”even though the owners the building gave the artist permission to paint int he first place. An online petition is going on to save the work and pretty much tell the Council to back off. So sign it and try to save the piece. I would hate to start seeing even more works under glass…
More info at The Guardian and Londonist.
Photo by Matt From London
Taking From The Tip Jar – Jordan Seiler in Philly
Jordan Seiler is one of the artists that I’ve been most interested in recently. Through a great coincidence, his upcoming solo show at the Vincent Michael Gallery is the first gallery opening that I’ll be going to in Philadelphia. Taking From The Tip Jar opens on November 5th (also Guy Fawkes Night, which is sort of fitting I guess since Jordan is trying to change the world, but not by blowing things up) and you can be sure that I’ll be there.
For this show, Jordan has made art and framed it in phone booth advertising cases that have been removed from the street. This way, even in his gallery work Jordan is working to eliminate public advertising on some level.
Everything that I know about Jordan tells me that he is one street artist who is really at it for the “street art” and activism, not just to get his name in the press and get his art in galleries. And he’s not the type to take the transition indoors lightly. Although he’s produced work for group shows, this is Jordan’s first solo show in over 5 years. I can’t wait to see it in person.
Photos courtesy of Vincent Michael Gallery
Fata Morgana – a Swoon solo show in Paris
Swoon’s solo show Fata Morgana opened at Galerie LJ in Paris this weekend. The show is a huge installation with full-sized woodblock prints like Monica and the portrait of her father, but to me the best bits seem to be her papercut pieces. Some truly amazing work from my favorite living artist. Guillotine has lots of images from the show.
Photo by Guillotine
Weekend link-o-rama
Some friends came over today and we had a bit of a photoshoot for the upcoming line of Vandalog t-shirts. More about that in the next few days. Here’s a teaser of the shirts. So next week is going to be an exciting one on Vandalog. In the mean time, here’s what I wish I’d spent more time covering (it’s kind of Swoon and Retna heavy this week though):
- David Choe and James Jean have a show coming up in Japan.
- This, I may actually write about again before the show opens and I’ll certainly be mentioning it after the opening: Street/Studio 2.0 at Irvine Contemporary in DC. It’s a group show in two venues with artists including Swoon, David Ellis, Gaia and José Parlá. The show opens on November 6th.
- Also on November 6th, Kaws has a solo show opening in Paris.
- The first two Untitled street art books were interesting, now there’s a third.
- Juxtapoz brought a bunch of artists including Swoon and Retna to Detroit to paint some houses.
- So apparently Swoon had a show open in Paris tonight?
- Os Gêmeos have been painting a bit in Brazil.
- Miso and Ghostpatrol have some nice new pieces up in Fitzroy.
- Bo130, Microbo, San and 2501 were recently busy painting some walls in Milan.
- I’m only half way through this video so far myself, but the producer and editor of Exit Through The Gift Shop recently took part in an in-depth video interview.
- Retna has just released 12 beautiful monotypes. As of this post, some are still available online.
Parallel: The Bus Shelters of Dennis Adams
Once and a while I am going to post art works, whether they be installations, video, or other ephemera, that exist in the public realm and have existed parallel to contemporary street art but have been categorized into other art movements. Since the dawn of modernity and urbanization, there has been a rich history of artists using the city as their medium and subject, from impressionism to fluxus. Yet interestingly, these street practices that have existed before contemporary Street Art do not have much of a presence on the internet and the dissemination of these works are still limited to access to institutions and exhibits.
I would like to take this opportunity to present the Bus Shelters of Dennis Adams. The installations here were erected between 1983 and 1988. The aluminum and steel structures each featured a light box that presented the pedestrian with an image or text, the result being a didactic conflict with the routine of daily life. The pictures of political scenes becomes innocuous without context, like any floating image, and are a disparate discourse from the everyday. To gain more insight his various political projects check out this interview
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Video interviews with Steve Powers and Eine at Moniker
While Ben Eine and Steve Powers were painting at Moniker Art Fair last week in London, Babelgum spoke with them about their work and what they were doing for the fair.
Here’s Steve:
And Here’s Eine:
Best Ever at Stroke.03 in Germany
Here are two pieces that Best Ever painted for the Stroke.03 fair in Berlin earlier this month. The above piece was outside, and I believe this second piece was inside the fair (click on the image to see a larger sized photo):
Arrested Motion has more photos from Stroke.03 including walls by Roa and Alexandros Vasmoulakis.
Photos by Best Ever
Brazilian artists and Panik ATG at Pure Evil Gallery
Sort of killing two birds with one stone here.
Right now through October 30th, Pure Evil Gallery is showing Culture Shock, a show put together by the fine folks at Choque Cultural. Of particular note are the two large canvases by Zezão and that stunning Fefe Talavera and Doze Green collaboration on glass that has been in the gallery for quite a while (what can I say? I guess I’m a sucker for anything from Doze in black and white). That said, all those pieces are downstairs in the gallery and there are a few pieces upstairs by Presto, so it may be best to just run downstairs and enjoy that part of the show.
And November 11th at Pure Evil Gallery is the opening Panik’s latest solo show.
