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My Plans for Thursday

This Thursday is going to be, as it always seems to be, a very busy night for me. I’ll be visiting up to 4 galleries with a traveling brigade of my artsy friends. Here’s the plan:

1. Start at White Cube Hoxton Square for the Marcus Harvey exhibit “White Riot” for the portrait of Thatcher made out of sex toys and the bust of Churchill with a mohawk. Get there around closing time so that we can be unceremoniously tossed out at 6pm.

2. Next it’s off to Stella Dore for the Pam Glew show “Noir”. I’m not yet sold on her work, but I’m definitely open to seeing what she’s doing and the painting pictured on the advert they gave me is pretty sweet.

3. Perhaps the most surprising show of the evening will be at the Pure Evil Gallery. Panik, a member of London’s ATG crew, will be trying his hand a gallery work. I give this a 75% chance of not working out but just being a fun experience. It seems like graffiti artists usually can’t make that jump to the gallery. Panik’s work is awesome on the street, but the gallery is a completely different world. If it works though, as I’m hoping it will, it should be great.

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4. And to cap off the evening, Part2ism has his show at The Art Lounge.

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Armsrock Solo at Andenken

I wish I were headed back to Colorado before this summer, because one of my favorite artists is going to be showing at Denver’s Andenken Gallery this week. Armsrock‘s solo show entitled “The end of the world came and went without Mr. Jones noticing a single thing.” opens this Friday (March 6th).

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Armsrock’s images capture the city and tell raw and unfiltered truths. Sometimes this means the images are violent and a bit scary, but they are always powerful and interesting. Here’s some work for the Andenken Show

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the pig knows we are all bacon

Loving this stuff. Personally, I own two pieces from Armsrock, including a really cool diarama sort of thing that sits nicely on my desk, but this work is a whole new level.

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Considerations by Gaia

I’ve never been to art school and even if I go to an “art school” it won’t be to study art. That’s what makes Gaia‘s new blog so cool. Considerations by Gaia includes the reading he’s currently doing at school as well as his class notes. Check it out. He’s got really good handwriting.

Also, while we’re on the topic of Gaia, his print at Black Rat Press’ print show is beautiful, and he’s put a version of the image up on the streets.

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Photo from Gaia’s flickr

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Tel Aviv Comes To London

Found this wall yesterday across from The Art Lounge. It features work from Mike Marcus, Klone, Foma, and Zero Cents. Mike Marcus lives in London now, but he started out working in Tel Aviv. And Klone, Foma and Zero Cents and some of Tel Aviv’s best known street artists. The only one who seems to be missing here is Know Hope (who, coincidentally, pointed out that Zero Cents and Foma have work in this photo).

Tel Aviv in London

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Mosiac Craziness at The Treatment Rooms

I don’t really know what to say about “The Treatment Rooms” besides “Wow!”

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A team of artists, led by Carrie, have been decorating her house in mosiacs for the past decade. The art looks great, and the message behind the work is touching. One of the walls is dedicated to Luis Ramirez, Carrie’s pen pal who was executed three years ago in Texas. Another wall is for the Angola 3 and Kenny Zulu Whitmore, prisoners who have been unfairly kept in solitary confinement for thirty years in Louisiana.

Carrie is also behind those “Who is Herman Wallace?” tiles found around London. They are to remind people of Herman Wallace, a member of the Angola 3.

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