DALeast and Faith47 painted together at a spot in Denmark last week. Here are the results.
Photos courtesy of Faith47
Weekend link-o-rama
Well, the internet went a bit crazy this week, but it looks like we’re winning. Thank you to anyone who noticed that Vandalog was offline on Wednesday in protest of SOPA and PIPA and took the time to contact their representatives to voice objections to the bills. But enough about politics. This is an art blog.
- This Mark Jenkins exhibition in Berlin looks awesome. The show has new sculptures, but it is also the launch of his monograph with Gestalten.
- In a subway station a bit like the site of The Underbelly Project, a number of Russian street artists painted this installation.
- Here’s a beautiful new piece from Phlegm.
- Above has a bunch of new photos on his website.
- The Toasters’ film launches in London on Tuesday.
- Barry McGee will have a show this year at UC Berkeley’s art museum. The show is made possible by a $100,000 grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation.
- Leon Reid IV‘s latest project is pretty different from what we’ve come to expect from Reid. It’s a series of posters depicting recent world events. Hrag Vartanian spoke with Reid about the series.
- Looking for something great to do on Saturday night in LA? Try this – New Image Art and The Hole have teamed up for a party with some DJs and musicians plus installations by Retna, Anthony Lister and Drugs Crew.
Photo by Dal
Dal in the streets of Chelsea & at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery
We first noticed Dal’s distinct — almost-spiritual — aesthetic a number of months back when we came upon a stunning mural that he had done in collaboration with Faith47 in Chelsea. We were thrilled to discover that he is one of the artists participating in Hybrid Thinking curated by Wooster Collective at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery. Here’s a glimpse of his amazing work fashioned from his intricate play with lines that we captured on the street and on canvas at Jonathan LeVine.
If you are anywhere in the NYC vicinity, Hybrid Thinking is certainly worth checking out, as it also presents work by several other first-rate emerging street artists from around the globe including: Herakut, Roa, Sit, Vinz and Hyuro. The exhibit continues through February 11th at 529 W. 20th Street.
Wooster Collective curates at Jonathan LeVine Gallery
For (I think) the first time, Marc and Sara Schiller of The Wooster Collective have curated a show at a commercial gallery. For about a decade, the Schillers have been behind the most popular and well-respected street art blog on the web, they’ve been behind such events as 11 Spring Street and they are reputed to have one of the best collections of art by street artists in America, so I’m excited to see what they’ve put together for this show. Hybrid Thinking includes some Wooster Collective regulars and some surprises: Dal, Herakut, Hyuro, Roa, SIT, Vinz.
Hybrid Theory opens this Saturday (7-9pm) at Jonathan LeVine Gallery and runs through February 11th.
Photo courtesy of Jonathan LeVine Gallery
Weekend link-o-rama
This week just keeps getting better. Looks like we’ve got a bit of NYC coming to Philadelphia with a show curated by Matt Siren. Here’s what I meant to blog about this week:
- Faith47 and DAL collaborated on this wall.
- If you’re a big fan of ABOVE, you need to see the special edition of his new book.
- Here’s a number of photos from Os Gêmeos’ latest museum show.
- Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel’s billboard takeovers from the 1970’s and 1980’s are great.
- Boe is doing something a bit different with his graffiti.
- Barry McGee has found new gallery representation in NYC.
- Blek le Rat, Aiko, Sickboy, Faile and Swoon give props to their favorite living street artists.
- Graffuturism are curating some walls in Miami next month and the line up is solid as can be.
Photo by Jaz
Weekend link-o-rama
Usually I have something to say here about my week, but it’s all kind of a blur and I’ve been struggling to find any words to describe what’s been going on or excuses for not blogging about everything interesting I’ve seen this week. So let’s skip the pointless pleasantries and here’s the stuff I missed:
- Some thoughts from Alone One on graffiti and street art coexisting (and the inherent superiority of graffiti, according to the author). While I agree with the author that, in the case pictured, Aakash Nihilani and Posterboy did the smart and respectful thing by utilizing a piece of graffiti in their street art rather than covering it unnecessarily, the all-to-common argument that graffiti is always always always superior to street art really upsets me. Is there something beautiful/powerful about a tag that street art cannot capture? Sure. Are there street artists (and young graffiti writers) who stupidly go over important graffiti? Definitely, all the time. But warning that street artists can never go over graffiti under any circumstances is narrow-minded and naive, especially today when so much work blurs the line between street art and graffiti. It’s too bad when such a talented writer has such a narrow view of things.
- Here’s the latest work by Dal.
- Evol never fails to impress.
- MOMO is part of a show on at Space 1026 in Philadelphia and made this sculpture.
- Os Gêmeos have a show opening next week at the Museu Vale in Vila Velha, Brazil. Here’s a bit of a preview.
- Some stunning walls were painted at Meeting of Styles London this year, particularly by Shok1.
- S.Butterfly has a set of images from the Moniker fair. I’d like to hear in the comments what people who were there in the flesh thought, but it looks to me like a bit of brilliance (Dabs/Myla, Matt Small), a bit of goodness (Cash For Your Warhol, Aiko) and then a massive logo from D*Face and Scream Gallery’s booth which both just make me want to scream in a bad way (although I think D*Face’s piece actually looked a lot better once someone tried to mess it up and he had to change the piece to this). Update: It’s actually unclear if that simple D*face Ddog logo was intended to stay that simple or if the additions were part of the plan all along given this piece inside the fair.
Photo by Dimitris Taxis
Visual Intervention in Rochester
Over the summer, Rochester, NY was treated to a few new murals by street artists from South Africa. Ian Wilson, founder of The Synthesis Collaborative, brought those artists to Rochester and organized a series of walls with Dal, Faith47, Freddy Sam and Mak1One and as well as Rochester-based artists. The project, Visual Intervention, tried to bring the simple message of “believe” to Rochester in an effort to improve the community. This video tells that story:
Weekend link-o-rama
This week has been a lot of trying to get ahead on my work, because on Saturday evening I’m headed to New York City for the night. I’ll be checking out Flash at the Wooster Street Social Club. Here’s some stuff I missed covering over the last few days:
- Bast has a show opening this weekend at Lazarides’ Newcastle location. Most of the work is in a completely (almost unrecognizably) new style.
- Swoon’s installation at the ICA Boston is now on view.
- Some big walls are being painted at the CityLeaks festival in Germany.
- But none of those murals are quite as cool as Liqen’s latest.
- 555 Gallery in Detroit has finally settled their lawsuit and can display the Banksy that they stole off the streets, completely ruining the meaning of the piece.
- Escif was at Fame Festival.
- Kaws has a solo show open now in LA.
- Fab5Freddy, Lee and Futura are together in a show at Subliminal Projects this weekend.
- Ludo’s show in London is open now.
- Twist aka Barry McGee and his partner Amaze get up big in Sydney.
Photo by RJ Rushmore
Dal and Faith47 in Rochester, NY
Weekend link-o-rama
Last night might have been my busiest 1st Thursday ever, and I didn’t even stop off everywhere I wanted to. Either way, I’ll have to go back to a few galleries this week to actually look at the art properly. Even with a cursory glance though, the Charming Baker show was the highlight by a mile. I’m not sure how sustainable it is to sell paintings at the prices they sold for last night, but damn it looked good. Here’s a few things I could have posted about last night, had I not been out being a gallery-hopping scenester…
- Probably the coolest thing I’ve seen all week: Nug (this guy) visited FAME Festival.
- Everfresh have created the graffiti writer’s dream machine: The Graff Mobile.
- Conor Harrington has been painting some murals of bulls in Ireland. I like this one. This one, not so much. Unfortunately, I cannot figure out why that is about either of the walls.
- In addition to his LA show, Lush is doing a show in August at Fifty24SF.
- As usual, Dal does something visually stunning.
- Leon Reid IV is doing a Kickstarter campaign for his latest potential public sculpture in New York City.
- Meighan O’Toole at My Love for You has done a podcast where she interviewed up with Steve Powers, the first in what will hopefully be a series of podcasts from her.
- A new print from Shepard Fairey is being released, partially for charity, in New York this weekend.
- Showpaper has done round 2 of its Community Serviced project where they get artists to paint newspaper bin boxes for Showpaper. Check out all the photos from round 2 here.
Photo by Labrona