One of my favorite UK artists, Sweet Toof, has a solo show opening at one of my favorite American galleries, Factory Fresh, this Friday. Dark Horse opens on Friday, but Sweet Toof is already in NYC working on murals on and around Factory Fresh. Check out more photos of those at The Street Spot. The opening is from 7-10pm, and the show will run through May 22nd.
Also, check out this new video of Sweet Toof and Paul Insect painting a London rooftop.
Photo by Becki Fuller
Good to see Paul Insect getting up in London on his recent trip to London in February. And with Sweet Toof, even better. Here’s a video of the work that RJ posted a link to a picture in February. If anyone knows where this is, let me know. I cannot figure it out, but that’s because I am still shit with figuring my way around London.
Video via Paul Insect
Attempting to walk that tightrope which keeps corporate sponsorship of art cool and not simply corny, Cirque de Soleil has recently gotten interested in street art. Their Safewalls project begins this week in London with a launch even at High Roller Society. At each stop on the Safewalls tour, artists from that city will be designing alternative posters for Cique de Soleil shows. In London, Jon Burgerman, Glenn Anderson and Sweet Toof (see above) have designed the posters for a show called Totem. I love what Sweet Toof has done for this project.
The posters and prints will be for sale online today and there will also be a launch even on the 17th at High Roller Society. The posters will be limited to 300 copies and screenprints of the same designs will be limited to an edition of 50. I’ve got to say that I love the idea of posters. As far as I can tell, posters are basically the same printing technique at giclée prints, but they are on a material that is better suited to the ink instead of some archival heavy paper that makes so many giclée prints look terrible. Plus, I’m guessing the posters will be more affordable that a similar giclée print would be.
A series of videos have been made interviewing the artists involved in the event. The first one is below, and here are links to the next two:
SAFEWALLS | LONDON 2011 (1/3) from SAFEWALLS on Vimeo.
Photo courtesy of Safewalls
Bomit is putting together a pop up shop in LA and it opens next week. The Street Art Pop Up Store sounds pretty cool. A lot of galleries like to say “Look. We’re not a ‘street art gallery.’ We just show lots of artists who happen to work outdoors. But really we show ‘contemporary art.'” Well this shop says “Screw that! We only show street artists.” Only artists who put hard work into getting up outdoors will be shown in the store. I think that’s fantastic.
Some of the artists in the shop will include Gaia, Dickchicken, Ludo, Love Me, Sweet Toof and Bigfoot.
The store organizers are looking for help putting the store together, so if you have any cool art trinkets that you’d like to donate to the store like stickers, shirts, toys or whatever else, they’ll take it.
The Street Art Pop Up Store will open on March 4th in LA. Keep an eye on their website for more info on the location.
Had a pretty interesting week. Last Friday was the opening of, Sex Drive, the latest show at The Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, where I work part time. It’s a pretty great show, so if you’re in the Philadelphia area, I’d say it’s worth stopping by. But if you’re not, there’s also a lot of online content. But here’s what’s going on the more Vandalog-relevant world this week:
Photo by nolionsinengland
Sweet Toof’s show at Arch 402 Gallery in London opened earlier this month. While not a 100% smash hit, there are also some of my favorite Sweet Toof works ever. Some of my favorites from this show are actually the ones that I posted in the preview. The show is open through February 3rd, so you still have a few days to check it out. Well worth a look.
Here are a few of the installation:
Photos by Nolionsinengland, Hookedblog and courtesy of Sweet Toof
Today is a good day to get on the Tube. Sweet Toof has customized a number of free Metro papers and will be redistributing throughout the underground. Sweet Toof has customized the front, back and centerfold pages of the paper. These papers will only be out today. Good luck finding yours!
Also today, from 6-9pm, is also the opening of Sweet Toof and Shan Hur’s show at Arch 402 in London.
Sweet Toof and Shan Hur have a show next week in London at Arch 402. The show opens on the 11th from 6-9pm, and runs through February 3rd. I’ll definitely be there. Sweet Toof will be showing some new oil paintings. Here’s some of what he’s been up to…
Photos courtesy of Sweet Toof
Just the other day, I was thinking about how, now that I don’t live in London, I’ll probably post less about artists like Roa and Sweet Toof, whose work I saw on such a regular basis. And then they go and paint this collaboration in London and I can’t not say something about it. Two of my favorite street artists working together. Good stuff.
Photo by Nolionsinengland
Manhattan’s Leo Kesting Gallery has a group show opening next week with some of my favorite emerging artists. Dead Letter Playground: A Collection of Contemporary Street Art opens June 24th (from 7pm-10pm) and has artwork from Carolyn A’Hearn, Chris Stain, Clown Soldier, Dain, DickChicken, Doze Green, Elbowtoe, Elle, Ellis G, Faro, Gaia, Head Hoods, Imminent Disaster, Jen.Lu, Jordan Seiler, Know Hope, Laura Meyers, Lee Trice, Love Me, Matt Siren, Mister Never, Nicola Verlato, Peru Ana Ana Peru, Phil Lumbang, Shark Toof, Anthony Michael Sneed and Sweet Toof. Of course, the show also includes one of my least favorite artists, DickChicken, but nobody’s perfect (ps, because I know that somebody is going to give me shit for that comment, I’d like to clarify: I actually don’t mind DickChicken’s tag or find it offensive or anything. I just don’t think he makes anything remotely interesting indoors). The show runs through July 18th.
Here’s some of the work that will be at Dead Letter Playground:
