josh lazcano – Vandalog – A Street Art Blog

September 16, 2011September 16, 2011

Weekend link-o-rama

6153621232_60cd092d78_z — A freight train in Atlanta

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

June 18, 2011

Weekend link-o-rama

If you’ll notice that there were a good number of posts on Vandalog this week, you’ll notice the opposite thing next week. With family in town visiting and moving in with some friends and starting the couch-hopping segment of my summer in just a few days, things are rather busy. And so is the art world. Here’s what I have been reading this week:

Romanywg has a new book out about art in abandoned places.
The indoor segment of Bristol’s Upfest looks really great.
Swampy’s show in San Fransisco looks like it would have been spectacular to see in person. I’m jealous.
Two fabulous new murals by Blu and Ericailcane.
Essu makes great stickers (if you’re okay with a strong McGee influence).
Someone seems to agree with me on the court case that Mr. Brainwash recently lost. Fair use applies even to bad art.
Skittles needs to find a new advertising company.
Faile have a prints show in Venice Beach.
San and Escif are collaborating.
Everyone’s talking about this Shepard Fairey thing, but frankly I don’t really care. Dude was being hassled and got a bit irritated and snapped. We all do it. Oh and didn’t everyone know that he has assistants to put up his street work?
This video features Marcelo, who is one of the 127 carts that carry the art of the graffiti artist Mundano, and just one of the 20.000 that have in São Paulo.
Some Banksy pieces are up for sale at Sotheby’s.
Performance artist is jailed for not harming anything at all.
Photos from the show that Barry McGee and Josh Lazcano curated at V1 Gallery.

Photo by Get.off.My.Spaceship!

June 4, 2011

Barry McGee and Josh Lazcano curate a show

3400357483_bbe91142ae_z — Lydia Fong aka Barry McGee at New Image Art Gallery in 2009

V1 Gallery in Copenhagen has a group show opening next Friday curated by Barry McGee and his long-time assistant/collaborator Josh Lazcano aka Amaze. Let’s Go Bombing Tonight will open on Friday June 10th and runs through July 9th. The show consists of artists who come from or who have worked in San Fransisco. Keep in mind when you read the line up that a number of these artists are known by pseudonyms or are using here. We’ll give you one: Lydia Fong is one of Barry McGee’s pseudonyms.

Here’s the flyer: