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White Noise 2(night)

Black Rat Press’ group show White Noise opens tonight (in a few minutes actually), and as usual, I’ll be twittering live.

The show has work from a very diverse group of artits, from Matt Small to Blek le Rat.

Just a reminder for those who are a bit confused when I say I’ll be twittering the show: Twitter is a “micro-blogging” site, and when I go to openings, I post comments and photos live at http://twitter.com/vandalog. That means that even if you can’t be at the opening you’ll be among the first to see images and hear about it.

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Concrete Canvas’ The Krah Interview

Locked Up by The Krah. Photo by RJ
Locked Up by The Krah. Photo by RJ

Concrete Canvas has just posted a great interview with The Krah. Among other topics, The Krah’s recent project of locking pieces to the street is discussed:

We featured your ‘locked up’ work on Concrete Canvas last week, what inspired you to do this and do you reckon those pieces will avoid the buff?
I got inspired by Revs from New York, he never used pad locks but what he did was welded sculptures of graff letters in the streets. I got fed up of people stealing my work, I found that whatever I put up was gone a day later. So I locked them to fuck with people.The thing that I don’t like is that they don’t take it because they like it they take it to sell it on. The good thing is that it confuses the authorities they just don’t understand it, is it graffiti? Is it DIY gone mad? What is it? Its quick to put up and the scavengers find it harder to steal so it stays up the longest. I will be making sculptures that will get locked up and I also have lots of other tricks that you will see soon.

Check out the rest of the interview here.

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Swoon Print For Charity

Those familiar with Swoon may know about her work in Braddock, a suburb of Pittsburgh. Basically, she’s working to revitalize the area through art. It’s a great project headquartered here. Well anyway, Swoon released a print on Just Seeds recently to raise money for rebuilding a church that is being taking over by artists in Braddock. Alden is a great image (I’ve got two versions of it), and this looks really great. The print is only $400, which seems low for an edition of 55. Why not support a great cause and get a beautiful piece of artwork in the process? (Sorry if this all sounds a bit like an advert, but I really think that these things that Swoon does for charity are great)

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New Prints: L’Atlas, Dalek, and Miss Bugs

Some great new prints coming out this week:

1. Cosmic by L’Atlas: This print has made me love L’Atlas. A. It looks great, and B. It’s priced very well. It’s two prints actually, one black on white, and one white on black. Edition of just 25 each for $120.

Cosmic (Black) by L'Atlas
Cosmic (Black) by L

2. Winter 08 by Dalek: Again, not just one print, but three. There is Winter 08 (pictured below), with an edition of 200 for $75, and Pink Heads and Green Heads, editions of 150 each for $50. I can’t figure out why they are $25 less than Winter 08 for a smaller edition, but why complain? They all look great.

Winter 08 by Dalke
Winter 08 by Dalek

3. The Year of The Super Rat Nation by Miss Bugs: By far the best piece I’ve seen from Miss Bugs. An edition of only 30, priced at £135. In order to give anybody a fair shot at this print, Miss Bugs is using the FairQ system, so you have to register in advance (before 7pm PST today) to buy the print.

The Year of The Super Rat Nation by Miss Bugs
The Year of The Super Rat Nation by Miss Bugs

Via Feed Your Wall

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Herakut’s Dirty Laundry Show

A few weeks ago I mentioned the new Herakut show “Dirty Laundry” opening this week in Covent Garden. Herakut is the duo of Hera and Akut, and their very unluckly pairing has led to some really great work. I’ll plan on twittering the private opening tomorrow, along with photos, so keep an eye on my twitter. The show opens to the public on Friday.

Here’s a little preview image:

Dirty Laundry by Herakut. Photo from campbarbossa.com
Dirty Laundry by Herakut. Photo from campbarbossa.com

Romanywg has some more photos of the show up already on his flickr here.

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Street Art Awards

The Street Art Awards is coming up next week, and although the deadline for submissions has passed, you can still register to vote for your favorite street art of 2008. And of course, there is the actual awards ceremony on December 4th at Rough Trade East where you can win original art in a charity raffle.

From the website:

Street Art Awards Party and Charity Auction 2008

The first ever Street Art Awards party and charity auction, featuring over 50 international contemporary artists, will be held at Rough Trade East on 4th December.

Urban art business, Auction Saboteur, has organised the awards that will celebrate the best urban and street art offerings from 2008. All money raised will go to the Single Homeless Charity.

The Awards Ceremony

The night will see Rough Trade East turned into an urban art bazaar with attractions including: charity art tombola, pin the devil tail on the banker, hook-a-duck-outa-an-oil-slick, a magician, DJ’s and lots of art related prizes.

Each attendee will be given a ballot paper on entry and asked to vote for their favourite artist from the shortlist. The winners will receive a specially designed sculpture that will also be up for grabs on the night.

The charity art tombola will give people the chance to win anything from a special, one off, custom piece of art, on either a reclaimed record cover or vinyl record, to a jar of jam or bar of soap.

Tombola tickets will be £5 each – a bargain if you win a Matt Small original (his work usually sells in the region of £5K – £6K). If you win the soap at least you’ve contributed to a good cause – your conscience will be clean.

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Urban Angel’s 2

Urban Angel Two Show Flyer

This December, Urban Angel will be having their second show in a physical space (their new gallery to be precise). “2” is going to to to have 11 artists, including two of Campbarbossa’s artists (Case and Holly Thoburn). I’m looking forward to seeing Urban Angel’s new gallery, the idea of an art lounge sounds great. I spent some time helping out at the Corked Show this summer, which was by all accounts a huge success. Hopefully “2” is just as good.

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Black Rat Press: White Noise 2

Amy Winehouse by Luc Price
Amy Winehouse by Lucas Price

This Friday is the invite-only opening of the new show at The Black Rat Press. White Noise (2) is a group show with six artists: D*Face, Nick Walker, Blek Le Rat, Lucas Price, Asha Zero, Matt Small and Brian Adam Douglas. The show opens to the public on Saturday.

I’m looking forward to this show for a few reasons:

1. The Lucas Price works are great, and they really need to be seen in person to be fully appreciated.

2. Asha Zero is showing in the UK for the first time (I think). I’m not really into collage pieces right now, but his technical skills are amazing. His pieces look like collages, but they are entirely hand-painted.

3. The Brian Douglas Adams collages can be amazing.