Momo‘s peice for Wywood Walls 2012 looks fantastic. Those curved lines look like they required the utmost precision.
Photos courtesy of Momo
Weekend link-o-rama
Spending a few days in NYC, so this is a bit late, but here it is…
- Sounds like Supreme will be doing a Basquiat line soon.
- There’s a Kickstarter project worth checking out with the goal of making a film about street art in Chile.
- Daryll Peirce has done his first print with 1xRun.
- MOMO has a book out with Studiocromie.
- I love this new wall from Jade.
- A great piece of (I think) contemporary train graffiti.
- Egyptian photographers and street artists have put together an expansive book of revolutionary graffiti and street art. Read about it here, and read it online here.
- Ron English, Bigfoot and others have work in this upcoming charity auction in New York for the St. Jude Children’s Hospital.
Photo by Labrona
Murals from FAME Festival 2012, part two
Here’s part two of our FAME Festival mural coverage, thanks to Henrik Haven and his photos. Part one can be found here. In a two-part series, we’ve selected some of our favorite pieces from FAME 2012. For part two, we’ve got walls by Conor Harrington, Lucy McLauchlan, Cyop & Kaf, MOMO, Boris Hoppek and Bastardilla.
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MOMO at Bushwick Five Points and in “Geometricks” @ Red Hook’s Gallery Brooklyn
It was quite a delight coming upon MOMO at work this past week, as the last time — and only time — I”d seen him paint was back in 2008. Here is the finished piece:
And the entire block as it is shaping out:
I also loved MOMO’s work in Geometricks, wonderfully curated by Hellbent with BSA, over at Gallery Brooklyn.
Photos by Lenny Collado, Dani Mozeson and Lois Stavsky
BSA and Hellbent Bring You “Geometricks”
In the first of hopefully a prolific series of exhibitions, Brooklyn Street Art presents Geometricks, curated by street artist and art historian Hellbent. Rather than simply pairing random street artists together, as many exhibitions do, Geometricks attempts to delineate a movement that is currently at play within the scene. Artists scattered around the world have started creating pieces whose focus is abstract geometry. Featuring the work of Augustine Kofie, Chor Boogie, Drew Tyndell, Feral Child, Hellbent, Jaye Moon, Maya Hayuk, MOMO, OLEK, OverUnder, and See One, the show reaches to several cities to gather artists from different ends of the geometric(k) spectrum.
The different ends of this spectrum include artists who both directly and indirectly create work from rigid forms. With the paintings of featured artists Maya Hayuk and Augustine Kofie, the thematic connection to their imagery is blatant, though stunning nonetheless. It was, however, the installation pieces of Olek and Jaye Moon that I found to be most engaging in the space. The dimensionality inherent in the way that they create their pieces added a layer to their importance in a show centered on shape.
It is important to note that in addition to the work seen above, Hellbent has featured a wall specifically for a student’s budget. Many artists, such as Jaye Moon (featured above), See One, and Feral Child, have created smaller interpretations of their larger gallery pieces and have been priced at under $200.
Geometricks will have a public opening tonight from 6pm to 8pm at Gallery Brooklyn and will run from September 22 to October 28. Free shuttle service will be provided from the Carroll Street F/G station to the gallery as well as from the after party back to the station.
All photos by Rhiannon Platt
Hellbent and BSA bring you GEOMETRICKS and inexpensive art for students
Brooklyn Street Art are going to be organizing a series of shows at Brooklyn’s new gallery, Gallery Brooklyn. Vandal or Visionary Series has kind of a cool concept, where BSA will pick a different artist to curate each show in the series. The first show in the series is GEOMETRICKS, curated by Hellbent. The artists in the show are Augustine Kofie, Chor Boogie, Drew Tyndell, Feral Child, Hellbent, Jaye Moon, Maya Hayuk, MOMO, OLEK, Overunder and See One, so between that line up and the name of the show, it’s probably pretty clear that GEOMETRICKS is about work by people in the street art community who are leaving lettering and pop art behind and including somewhat abstract shapes and patterns in their work, kind of like a street-art friendly version of graffuturism.
In addition to a great line up of artists, the thing I’m most excited about with this show is that their will be one wall of the show devoted to inexpensive and discounted works for students only. The Young Collectors Wall will only have work by the GEOMETRICKS artists priced under $200, and you’ll have to show a valid student ID to purchase any of the pieces. I have to applaud BSA for this idea. It’s rare that a gallery will have quality artwork or art products available at prices that are reasonable for students. So students, get to the show early, because I’m betting that these works will be gone quickly. You might get a real steal and suddenly have the best-decorated room in your dorm.
Here’s a little invite from BSA:
You are cordially invited to have a blast in Red Hook Brooklyn with BSA Saturday Sept 22nd, where we’ll present amazing new gallery works from 11 of the best Street Artists doing abstract GEOMETRICKS on the street right now, musical jams from John Breiner, and a special Young Collectors Wall where a limited number of works by the artists in the show will be on sale under $200 for students with a current valid school ID. After GEOMETRICKS walk a few blocks to party with us at Brooklyn Crab and take the free shuttle bus back to the subway when it’s all over. It’s a cool September night in Red Hook that you don’t want to miss!
The show opens September 22nd from 6-9pm and runs through October 28th at Gallery Brooklyn (351 Van Brunt St, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY).
Photos courtesy of Brooklyn Street Art
MOMO’s latest at Fame
Recently I’ve been seeing a lot of great work that loosely falls under a category of graffiti which is abstract but focused on geometry, and maybe a bit minimalist (Editor, Bino, Homer, ABCDEF). Well, it’s important to remember that of lot of these guys seem to be influenced by the great MOMO, who recently returned to Italy’s Fame Festival to paint there. Here are a few pieces from that visit.
Photos courtesy of MOMO
An insightful conversation with MOMO
Weekend link-o-rama
I’m off for a few days of traveling. Expect lots of pictures. Here’s what we missed on Vandalog this week:
- Endless Canvas has organized a show of murals in an old factory in the Bay Area. They are using Kickstarter to get the show off the ground, and could use some help.
- These abstract pieces by 1010 and Bemie are pretty great.
- And more abstract work by Cron.
- The zine and print from Lush’s London show are now available online.
- Saber and Revok have shows opening Saturday evening at Known Gallery.
- A stellar new print from WK Interact is available at Jonathan Levine Gallery.
- The ATG crew will be showing at Stolenspace Gallery in August.
- Arrested Motion has a preview of the upcoming Barry McGee retrospective.
- Keep an eye on 12ozProphet’s Instagram for behind-the-scenes photos of the upcoming Os Gemeos show at the ICA Boston, opening next week.
- Some beautiful new work from MOMO in Spain and Rome.
- Something a bit different from Pixelpancho in Russia.
Photo by Rub Kandy
Weekend link-o-rama
I think we actually did a pretty good job this week on Vandalog covering what needs to be covered, but here are the few things we missed:
- MOMO finished his mural for Open Walls Baltimore, shown above.
- DAL and Faith47 recently showed together in Australia, and here’s a video of the show.
- Gold Peg is one of the artists behind Release The Wolves, a project to build a go-kart track in South London. Pictures on Walls have released this awesome print by Gold Peg to help fundraise for the project.
- Herakut’s latest show is in London and it looks beautiful.
- Selim Varol, the mega-collector of urban art, has the gems of his collection on display in Berlin.
- Lush’s latest project is an appeal to help all those poor toys out there.
- Bushwick Open Studios is this weekend, and Robin Gearson has put together a really nice show of local street artists as part of the Open Studios events.
Photo by MOMO