It is 2am right now in Venice, so I’ll leave the text describing all of this for another day, but here are my photos from the trip. A few of the photos are of work from Shepard Fairey, 2 are of a random stencil I found, a few are of the band Dark Dark Dark performing, and the rest are of The Swimming Cities of Serenissima.
I’m away in Venice, but here’s the latest from Gaia, who has just launched his new website by the way. Pretty sure these are something like 20 by 15 feet. Nice touch putting them around the graffiti.
Photos by Becki Fuller
This week there were a number of great art openings in London. My friend and I went to 3 of them.
First was Charming Baker‘s show “The Meaning of Everything” at The Gallery on Redchurch Street. I know they say to save the best for last, but we decided to mix it up and start where I thought we would see the best work. I was right. Charming’s show was extremely cool. For me, his paintings either click and I think they are just fabulous, or they don’t click at all and I think they’re boing. Not much middle ground. Luckily, this show is full of pieces that really click with me. And the prints are extremely well made, which is always nice. I even went back today to check it all out in more detail. My only real criticism would be that the prices seem a bit high, even though the pieces are big. I saw a few works have already sold, so I could be wrong, but I don’t expect the show to sell out. Here are a few of the paintings. Photos are from S-Butterfly, and here is the rest of her set:
After the jump, my visits to Stella Dore and The Pure Evil Gallery… Continue reading “My Thursday Night”
I haven’t been down to see this show in person yet, but it’s definitely on the top of my list. Slinkachu has a solo show at Andipa Modern. Slinkachu does interesting installations of tiny little people on the street and then photographs them. These could easily turn into really tacky and watered down street art, but I think Slinkachu actually does a pretty good job avoiding that. Here’s a few samples from the show. These photos of Slinkachu’s photos are from s.butterfly. The theme of the show is superheroes.
JR is awesome. I could go on about why, instead I’m just going to post this self-portrait by JR that will be at Circleculture Gallery from this Friday. Can’t believe I forgot to put this show in my post yesterday. It is going to be crazy-good and I can’t wait to get to Berlin in a few weeks to see all the work in person. More info at Arrested Motion.
So these have been online for about two weeks, but I’ve only just seen them. Armsrock is one of the most promising young street artists I can think of, so I’m always interested in his latest work. Here are some street pieces from Berlin. More on his blog.
And here’s one piece from his show at Intoxicated Demons Gallery in Berlin. More info on Armsrock’s blog.
UPDATE 2: Due to weird technical faults for this post, it got deleted. I’ve tried to re-post it in such a way that subscribers won’t see it twice, but I’m sorry if you do.
UPDATE 1: My apologies to Fefe Talavera. Originally, I called her a guy, but she is a woman. Thanks to a few people who spotted this.
Here’s a sampler of some of the galleries with openings this weekend in London and abroad.
In California:
In New York City:
And in London:
And a couple pics from Mood Swings at Carmichael Gallery:
One of the best thrills of street art is walking by a piece a dozen times before realize it is there. Here are a few pieces of unauthorized signage that might just pass at first glance, and then once you get the joke, it’s totally obvious.
This piece by D&D, perhaps the kings of this sort of work, has been up since 2003.
Of course, there are hundreds of these sorts of signs. Leave your favorites in the comments section or shoot me an email. I’d love to do a Part 2 of this post.
Via Wooster Collective and Urban Prankster (Urban Prankster is an amazing source for these sort of things by the way)
So it’s 11:40 and I’ve been too wrapped up in what’s to come with Vandalog and almost forgot to post today. I’ll make it up tomorrow, but here’s a few links that I’d like to share:
So that’s my slightly last minute summary of awesomeness in street art today.
