"Street Crush" Street Art Show FEB 13 at AlphaBeta
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FROM BROOKLYN STREET ART
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STREET CRUSH:
Sexy New Work from the Street Artists You Have a Crush On. A Show for the Fans.
"Street Crush"
a Brooklyn Street Art show and party, featuring brand new work by 42
street artists, 4 dazzling Street-Tart burlesque performers, and a
Kissing Booth benefit will be thrown at AlphaBeta in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on
Friday, February 13th, 2009.
BROOKLYN, NY-BrooklynStreetArt.com and AlphaBeta
are thrilled to be hosting a timely and sexy show of brand new art by
veteran and rookie street artists who are redefining
our ideas of street art. Working around themes of "Love, Sex, and the Street", well-known street artists like Aiko and Jef Aerosol dig deep for fresh takes on gritty street ardor alongside relative whipper-snappers like Cake and NohJ Coley.
In addition to a salon-style show, the opening party will feature live art collaborations and installation.
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THE STREET ARTISTS You Have a Crush On
An unprecedented killer lineup of many of 2009's best in one Brooklyn location, "Street Crush" will run from February 13 until February 28 and will feature work from an artist list that includes:
Aakash
Nihalani, Abe Lincoln Jr., Aiko, Anera, Bortusk Leer, Broken Crow, C.
Damage, Cake, Celso, Charm, Chris Uphues, Creepy, DirQuo, Ellis
Gallagher A.K.A. (C)ELLIS G., Eternal Love, FauxReel, FKDL, General
Howe, GoreB, Imminent Disaster, Hellbent, Infinity, Nobody, Jef
Aerosol, Jon Burgerman, Matt Siren, Mimi the Clown, NohJColey, Pagan,
PMP, Poster Boy, Pufferella, Pushkin, Chris from Robots Will Kill, Col
from Robots Will Kill, Veng from Robots Will Kill, Royce Bannon,
Skewville, Stikman, The Dude Company, Titi from Paris, and U.L.M.
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STREET CRUSH SHOW OPENING INFORMATION
Friday, February 13, 2009, 7-12 pm Press Preview by appointment
Location: Alphabeta, 70 Greenpoint Avenue Greenpoint Brooklyn, New York 11222
Suggested Donation: $8
For more information on Brooklyn Street Art and to see images of the "Street Crush" artworks in the days before the show please visit http://www.BrooklynStreetArt.com
CONTACT:
Crush@BrooklynStreetArt.com
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THE PERFORMERS
 To entertain the Opening Party street art fans, exotic passions will be alerted with Street-Tart Burlesque
performances by 4 of today's award-winning NYC burlesque artists -
thrilling, titillating, and Twitterpating the audience in the back-room
gallery at AlphaBeta. The rollicking rollcall includes Nasty Canasta, Clams Casino, Harvest Moon, and your MC, Tigger!
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THE KISSING BOOTH
 A funky loveshack built by artist and set-designer J. Mikal Davis and lorded over by Madame Voulez-Vous, will awaken furtive crushes in the crowd AND raise funds for Art Ready, a mentoring program created by SmackMellon Gallery to serve NYC High School students who are interested in the arts.
For more Information about the Art Ready program for New York City high school students, please visit: http://www.smackmellon.org/education.html
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MUSIC
Live DJ sets by DailySession.com will be pumping and streaming live from the "Street Crush" event over the internet all night.
The featured Street Crush DJ will be Jesse Mann, a Williamsburg hottie and self-professed music nerd who plays weekly at Bembe and has mooved booties all over the whirl.
Look out for a special performance by electronic drummer Kamoni, who
flagellates the street-sin out of you with a solo live audio collateral
collage of beats, sounds, and samples on stage. yeow!
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AFTER PARTY AT COCO66 NEXT DOOR
Immediately following the "Street Crush" show opening, guests are invited next door to continue celebrating their new found love at Coco66 and the 68 bar/restaurant, where the booty-shaking music continues and site-specific installations by 2 Brooklyn projection artists, SeeJ and SuperDraw, will blow minds with their original forays into the next horizon on street art.
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BIOS OF THE PERFORMERS
 DJ Jesse Mann
Jesse's musical style encompasses
all that is soulful and funky, incorporating familiar sounds with
obscure forgotten classics and upfront remixes. In a single DJ set he
can travel effortlessly between vintage funk and disco to Afro-Latin
grooves, house, techno, hip-hop, and everything in between.
His
DJing career has taken him far and wide in the last nine years; Paris, Berlin, Vienna and England, to San Francisco,
Miami, and Puerto Rico. He has played at many of NYC's biggest and most
revered clubs, its most chic and exclusive lounges, and its most
intense underground parties. Favorites include APT, Cielo, Limelight/Avalon, Love, Sullivan Room, Hotel QT, Socialista, Goldbar, Lunatarium, 3rd Ward, Cabaret Sauvage (Paris), Batofar (Paris), Watergate (Berlin), Roxy (Vienna). Currently Jesse is resident DJ at Bembe weekly with the BodyMusic party.
Download his mixes at: http://www.jesse-mann.com/mixes.html
Live Electronic Drumming
Kamoni
is a Brooklyn based sound designer, live performer and sonic
experimentalist. His work encompasses everything from live electronic
shows to commercial music production and sound library development.
Kamoni has acquired numerous credits on TV, film and animation
soundtracks while consulting with music software pioneers such as
Ableton and Native Instruments. He launched Puremagnetik in 2006 and
his work has been featured in Electronic Musician, Sound on Sound,
XLR8R, Remix, Computer Music, Knowledge, Keys and numerous other
publications.
See an example of Komoni's work here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBPSRJAaubg
Street-Tart Burlesque Performers
Tigger! (the
MC) is The Original Mr. Exotic World! - Best Boylesque 2006 at The
Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas. Winner of Four Golden Pastie
Awards including "Most Unpredictable Performer.", and "the King of Boylesque." The
New York Times called him a "hysterical and acrobatic man in drag,"
Next Magazine called him "the taboo-defying dynamo," and San Francisco
tried to ban his striptease.
Tigger! has a MySpace page here: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=16832866
Nasty Canasta
is the co-producer of Pinchbottom ("Best Burlesque in NYC" - NY
Magazine, "Most Innovative" - Miss Exotic World Pageant) and the
impresario behind Sweet & Nasty Burlesque. Her performances
combine classic burlesque, pop culture, and a theatrical sensibility to
create a dazzling mummery of perplexing proportions. The reigning
Cheese Queen of Coney Island, Nasty is, quite possibly, too damn clever
for her own good.
Nasty Canasta can be found here: http://www.nastycanasta.com/
Harvest Moon
otherwise known as the Sultry Siren of Burlesque has been sauntering on
burlesque stages since 1995. She has performed in Sydney, Paris and
many cities in the US. She is founder of award-winning troupe, The
Cantankerous Lollies. In the summer of 2008, Harvest toured the
Netherlands and Italy in a special showcase of American Burlesque
"Cabaret New Burlesque". From her homebase in New York City she
continues to push the frontiers of modern Burlesque with each new act.
Miss Harvest Moon's website is here: http://missharvestmoon.com/
Clams Casino
has been called a "Burlesque Queen" by the New York Times, and is the
proud winner of the awards for Most Comedic and Most Innovative at the
2008 Miss Exotic World Pageant in Las Vegas. Clams is the
co-producer of the Gameshow Speakeasy at the Slipper Room, AM Gold at
Coney Island, Killer Queen Burlesque and Borderline Burlesque:Midnight
Madonna Madness at the Zipper Factory, and many other pop-culture
obsessed burlesque shows around New York City and the Eastern Seaboard.
Miss Clams Casino can be found here: http://www.missclamscasino.com/home.html
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PREVIOUS EVENTS from BrooklynStreetArt.com
An on-going celebration of the creative spirit, BrooklynStreetArt.com presents "Street Crush" as the 4th street art event thrown in the last 10 months. Previous events include;
- April 2008:
a benefit street art auction of work by 27 street artists at Ad Hoc Art
in Bushwick that raised money for the youth and family creative arts
and mentoring programs of Free Arts NYC (www.freeartsnyc.org)
and launched the book "Brooklyn Street Art" published by Prestel
worldwide and authored by Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo.
See highlights on Youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP3by_SolwA
- May 2008: a street art showcase of 10 street artists at Fresh Kills in Williamsburg also benefiting Free Arts NYC,
- Sept 2008:
"Projekt Projektor", a first-ever curated show of projection artists as
street artists in a live show by 6 projection artists on the side of
the Manhattan Bridge and the Pearl Street Triangle during 2 nights of
the Dumbo Arts festival on September 26 and 27.
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