If you don’t know the story of Saber‘s American Flag/Health Care Reform video, it’s quite crazy. In this video, Saber walks through the whole story in his words as well as presents a new screenprint he has made based on the original video:
The prints are available on Jetsetgraffiti.com
Over the past two nights, M-City and I painted this collaborative mural on Malcolm X Blvd under the auspices of Brooklynite Gallery. It was a pleasure to work with this incredible artist and frankly the painting went swimmingly, without so much as a single conflict in our styles or vision. A big shout out to Mikeion for the fantastic documentation and the wonderful Brooklyn Street Art for the coverage
Continue reading “M-City and Gaia Collaborate in BedStuy”
A Cry For Help runs from January 8 – February 5 at Thinkspace in LA. Not only does it feature a long list of great local and international artists, the show supports animal rights and protection so there will be adoptions throughout the opening weekend and the opportunity to donate food, toys and blankets to local shelters. If you love art and care about animals, this is the show for you! We also previewed it in the January issue of The Art Street Journal.
Above are pieces by Bumblebee (who also did a big install in the gallery window, plus a cool street piece nearby: see below) and Gaia, but as there is a lot of great work to be found in the show, I recommend you go check it all out for yourself here.
– Elisa
Zezão has been painting some of his trademark abstract pieces in the catacombs of Paris recently. Spectacular. Here are a few pictures of him painting a piece.
Photos from Zezão’s flickr
I’m not big on blogging about products here. Mostly because a lot of graffiti/street art related products are kind of silly (see: the graffiti mug). But Uncommon makes what seem like very cool cases for your iPhone. I’ve never seen one of these in person, but I might buy one. The artist line up is pretty solid.
Uncommon lets you design your own case using your own artwork or artwork from their catalog. The concept is interesting enough, and the lineup of artists is just perfect: Ron English, San, Mode2, David Ellis, Tinho, Anthony Lister, Herbert Baglione, Date Farmers, Usugrow, Dennis McNett and Monica Canilao just to name a few (and these are just the artists they are starting with, who knows how many more will be added in the future). One of the great things about these cases is that the artists haven’t contributed just one image each, some have contributed a dozen. And while those in a hurry can buy a “premade” case (like those pictured above), creative risk takers can customize their case by placing the graphic themselves: you can blow up the imagine so that the all you see is Ronald Mcdonald’s giant head painted by Ron English or shift the design so that a Date Farmers drawing appears at the top, center or bottom of the case.
Here are two cases I designed from the same image by David Ellis:
The cases aren’t cheap ($39.95), but that seems like a small price to pay when you spend hundreds of dollars on a phone and most other cases make it look so ugly.
Here are two more premade cases:
In short, these are pretty cool.
Buy them at getuncommon.com
artrepublic has put together a competition for street artists to get legal wall space and raise awareness of homelessness in the UK with the charity StreetSmart. The competition is being judged by Inkie, Pure Evil, Static and Ben Eine. Here’s a video about the competition:
The winner of the competition will be announced on January 28th, so if the work is any good, you’ll see it here on Vandalog.
Aakash Nihalani’s solo show, On & Off (Often On), is opening in a few weeks at the Carmichael Gallery in LA. I’m a fan of his public work and indoor installations, and I’m really curious what sort of pieces could be for sale and what the metal sculptural pieces will be like.
In January 2010, Carmichael Gallery presents On & Off (Often On), the first West Coast solo exhibition of Aakash Nihalani. In addition to a characteristically arresting site-specific installation comprised of brightly colored tape, Nihalani introduces a new artistic direction by using metal and plastic to create sculptural objects.
There will be an opening reception for On & Off (Often On) on Thursday, January 21 with Nihalani in attendance. The exhibition will run through February 18, 2010.
Aakash Nihalani is fast becoming recognized as one of the US’s most striking emerging installation artists. Celebrated for his ephemeral modifications of the urban landscape, the young Brooklyn-based tape specialist wields an abstract narrative of isometric shapes and flamboyant hues grounded in quiet irony and idiosyncratic precision. The fluidity of his simple, colorful style, which employs familiar shapes to produce unexpected visuals, initiates an inviting, living dialogue that traverses the chaos of city streets, the white walls of the gallery and the constancy of home.
Nihalani has built a global fan base by selectively placing his artwork on sidewalks and public spaces around New York. His squares, rectangles and cubes, which are constructed from strips of instantly identifiable fluorescent tape, give three-dimensional qualities and a new, often humorous, perspective to the windows, doorways, cement pavement, floor tiles, chain-link fences, bricks, building contours and
subway spaces within which they are embedded. Nihalani completes all public art pieces on site with little to no advanced planning. His style readily adapts to the interior gallery space and into individual works of art, thereby escaping its customarily fleeting existence while continuing to fuse his aesthetic and conceptual objectives.
Nihalani has fashioned a visual language all his own. The neon in his work highlights details that might otherwise go unnoticed, while his minimalist patterns form self-contained pockets which encourage examination both within the isolated space and of the world at large. His work often engages the public by creating three-dimensional environments that can be physically entered, transforming passersby or gallery visitors into participants and offering them a momentary escape from daily life.
What to do with an abandoned old tower built in the middle of Berlin… I know! Paint it! Flying Fortress, Craig “KR” Costello, Honet and Sozyone are doing just that in a few months. From April 1st to May 15th, those four artists will be painting The Bierpinsel tower in Berlin, which stands 46 meters (151 feet) high. I don’t know much about the project, but I’ve got a feeling that it could be something really special. This could become an iconic part of Berlin, or at least, something really cool for the locals. And Just will be there to take photos, so you know that the entire process will be well documented. Check out more on the event’s website.
Here’s a video about the event:
Turmkunst 2010 from webaffairs on Vimeo.
Via Urban Artcore
Most live painting, especially when it involves silhouetted artists and fancy editing, comes off as really corny, but this video from SUSO33 is an exception to that rule.
Via Wooster Collective (where they have some photos of his street work too)
I did not spend nearly enough time at Basel Miami this year, but I did have a chance to stop by the Deitch Projects booth, because they are amazing. Here’s some of what I saw (though I think one of those Keith Haring pieces is from another gallery):
