Conor Harrington and Paul Insect have a few bits and pieces over that the Shop at Lazarides starting this week. Here are some samples:
Oh and speaking Conor Harrington, he has a solo show opening at Lazarides Gallery’s Rathbone place location in October.
Thank God. Looks like all is back to the way it should be with Conor Harrington’s impressive painting in New York City. Here’s what happened.
First it was like this and everybody was happy:
Then NPA came along recently and made it look like this:
Nobody (except maybe Steely Dan and NPA) was happy about that.
Luckily, the law was taken into the hands of the citizens of New York City and now Conor’s painting looks like this again:
Thanks to PublicAdCampaign and DickChicken for getting rid of those ads. Always good to see a painting revived when I thought it was lost to adverts.
Also, I’ve emailed NPA asking for some information about this incident, so we’ll see if I hear anything back from them.
I am going to presume that, as a reader of this blog, you are just as excited about FAME Fest as I am. For the second year in a row, Angelo Milano from Studiocromie has pulled together a lineup of some of the best street artists from around the world.
So far Conor Harrington and Lucy McLauchlan have hit Grottaglie with their work. Conor’s piece can be seen here. Take a look below at what Lucy did to a neighboring tower.
Conor and Lucy also got busy with some pottery. I love this aspect of the festival; I think it’s great that Angelo is working so hard to promote the town’s historic ceramics district and merge this traditional urban art form with contemporary street art.
Two more fantastic artists are about to make their mark at FAME starting tomorrow – more details soon!
Conor Harrington recently painted this in Italy as part of September’s FAME Festival, and it is, as usual for Harrington, pretty awesome.
I’d love to hear more about how Harrington came about with his signature style and about his history, because as cool as his work looks, it could definitely be seen as a fine artist trying to co-opt tags and graffiti culture for something unrelated. Just saying. (And, if you know more about Harrington’s history than I do, please let me know by emailing me or commenting on this post)
