February 2013

Bodson-Emelinckx Gallery Presents: ROA “Stop Over” Solo Exhibition (Brussels, Belgium)

February 14, 2013 Afghanistan

ROA

BSA Loves You More Every Day: Happy Valentines Day

February 14, 2013 Artists

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis

The individual wheat-paster or tagger on the streets may not intend it, but they’re writing an open diary, an invitation to conversation, to tell a story. As we continue to record and examine the stories that are written on the street, we get some powerful insights regularly. How Street Artists express the topic of love is as individual as it is universal.

This is a love letter to the BSA readers who have shown real support to us along the way and with it comes our continued promise to love you more every day.

Love Me (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Chris Uphues (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Cake and The Dude Company (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dan Witz “Two Hoodies Kissing” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

L.E.T. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A street Jesus with arms wide open. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Blue Abstraction from Doug Fogelson in Chicago

February 13, 2013 Chicago

The new Street Art Abstraction we’ve been talking about continues apace in the public sphere, perhaps buffeted by current shows like MoMA’s Inventing Abstraction and the 100^th anniversary of the earth shaking Armory Show that turned modern art on its head.

Not quite as earth shaking, but still a marker on the path in the urban forest, fine artist Doug Fogelson wheat pasted this mural in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago over the weekend. Ecological and environmental intersects the geometry in the photographed patterning – the same sort of study that launched many a cubist and modernist, stripping the angles, lines, and forms to their fundamentals.

Doug Fogelson (photo © Doug Fogelson)

Sheryo and the Dubai Camel

February 12, 2013 Dubai

You’ve seen her work here for about a year and a half, since Singaporean Street Artist settled in Brooklyn and began painting New York walls in earnest with people like the Australian Yok, Brooklyn’s Bishop 203, and TopDos from Paris. In fact her New York campaign with Yok last year covered so many walls (especially in the summer) that we began to wonder if the twosome had inherited an aerosol factory.

Here we have some new images of the illustrator at work on a large mural with the humble camel as muse at an event sponsored by the cultural arts organization Tiger Translate. Also involved were Auckland street stencillist Enforce One, fine artists and performances.

Sheryo working on her installation. (photo for BSA courtesy © Shadow Professional Photography)

Sheryo working on her installation. (photo for BSA courtesy © Freeflow)

The Dubai Camel by Sheryo. (photo for BSA courtesy © Freeflow)

Sheryo (photo for BSA courtesy © Custard)

A collaborative wall in Brooklyn from 2012 by TopDos, Sheryo, Bishop 203, and The Yok. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

To learn more about Tiger Translate click here.

See Sheryo in a computer chip makers’ commercial aired in Asia here.

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Galerie F Presents: “Don’t Sweat It” A Group Exhibition. (Chicago, Il)

February 11, 2013 Afghanistan

Spring break, summer vaccation, paid vacation days (for the older crowd) and the ever elusive three day weekend are the few bits in the year when you have enough time to walk away from your day to day responsibilities and have an adventure!Travel around the world, try new things, explore your hobbies, or just get hammered on a resort in Mexico. “Don’t Sweat It!” celebrates, as well as critiques, these breaks away from the day to day.

A sticker pack, featuring 16 stickers designed by the artists, will be released at the show.

Featured Artists:
The Yok – Sheryo – Brad Rohloff – Nathan Friedman – Dillon Froelich – Michael C. Hsiung – Luke Pelletier – Ben Jensen – Miles Jackson – Jeffery Kubasak – Eric McHenry – Charlie Megna – Sean Morris – Bryan Peterson – Austin England

Opening Reception: Friday, March 8th [6-10p]

Galerie F
2381 N Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL 60647

Don’t Sweat It! A Group Art Exhibition

Jonathan LeVine Gallery Presents: OLEK “The End is Far” (Manhattan, NYC)

February 11, 2013 Afghanistan

Jonathan LeVine Gallery is pleased to present The End Is Far, a series of new works, a site-specific installation and live performance by Polish-born, New York-based artist Olek, in what will be her second solo exhibition at the gallery. Known for her bold work and vivacious persona, Olek’s ever-expanding interventions involve covering a multitude of people and objects in camouflage-patterned crochet including: bicycles, cars, shopping carts, construction vehicles and prominent public art sculptures such as Wall Street’s Charging Bull; Alamo (Astor Place cube) and Gato de Botero in Barcelona.

This exhibition follows what proved to be a very eventful year for Olek. In 2011, she was placed on house arrest after a dispute with an aggressive male patron escalated at a London bar. Subsequently, despite creatively and financially stifling circumstances, Olek found herself motivated by the experience, determined to cover legal expenses and fight for her freedom. Granted permission to leave the UK between court appearances, 2012 became the most prolific year of the artist’s career to date, as she took on numerous international projects, public installations and commissions. She was part of the 40 Under 40: Craft Futures exhibition at the Smithsonian, for which her entire crocheted studio apartment was exhibited. During the rest of her travels, Olek collaborated with women around the world, in Brazil, Hong Kong and Poland, learning new techniques and experimenting with different materials.

The End is Far features new multi-layered crocheted sculptures and panels inspired by the events that transpired last year. With the addition of finely crocheted lace doilies, metallic gold ribbon and a new approach to typography, themes of freedom, justice, feminine power and strength are conveyed through subject matter such as boxing gloves, skulls, skeletons, sickles and horseshoes. An installation room containing a dining table set with china, overflowing fruit bowls, wine bottles and goblets will serve as an isolated environment for Olek’s crochet-covered female performers during the opening reception.

Olek – opening reception

Liberamente Art Space Gallery Presents: “Happy Birthday South Italy Street Art” (Taranto, Italy)

February 11, 2013 Afghanistan

South Italy Street Art is a artistic movement born out of the ideas of Cheko’s Art, StencilNoire and Mr.P in 2009, with the intent of creating a working group of artistes from Italy and Europe, that would stage some Street Art events in the south of Italy.
The main aim is to creating a continuity of new events, completely open to all artistes and the different styles they can bring to the project.
For this reason that such events are always unique and it is easy to include something new.
And is with this spirit and the different styles of the artistes that our group is in continued evolutions, learning from each other and sharing ideas, with completely freedom of espression.
For the first time, South Italy Street Art, will celebrated their Birthday in Taranto Old Town.

>Happy Birthday South Italy Street Art<

iam Gallery Presents: REMED y Okuda “Just Mad” An Art Exhibition. (Madrid, Spain)

February 11, 2013 Afghanistan

JustMad celebra este año 2013 su cuarta edición, habiendo logrado en pocos años consolidarse como una de las más importantes del circuito de Febrero en Madrid.

Ubicada por segundo año consecutivo en el Hotel Silken Puerta de América, se celebrará entre el 14 y el 17 de Febrero.

iam Gallery Madrid tiene el placer de participar con un stand propio en su primera incursión en las Ferias de Arte, en este nuestro recién cumplido primer año de vida en la galería de la Calle San Blas.

Por ello, quisimos contar con dos artistas que desarrollan sus fructíferas carreras de forma individual, pero que dada su profunda amistad y sintonía vital, decidieron un día unir su creatividad frente a una hoja en blanco: Remed y Okuda.

iam Gallery Madrid en JustMad con Remed y Okuda

Mighty Tanaka Gallery Presents: Nathan Vincent “DON’T MAKE ME count to three!” (Brooklyn, NYC)

February 11, 2013 Afghanistan

Opening on Friday, February 15th is a show that will blow you away! Crochet artist Nathan Vincent is wiring the gallery with fiber “explosives”, transforming Mighty Tanaka into a virtual tinder box. DON’T MAKE ME count to three! explores the roles that we play in society and our necessity to break through the barriers placed in front of us. You won’t want to miss this immersive experience into the mind of Nathan Vincent!

Mighty Tanaka presents: DON’T MAKE ME count to three!

Street Artist RUBBISH for Le M.U.R. in Paris

February 11, 2013 France, Paris

Rubbish, the French Street Artist who can work for endless hours to finely cut paper as intricately as lace, is taking his turn at the Le M.U.R wall in Paris right now. Still pretty new to the scene, the Besançon based artist has a meticulous cutting method influenced by painting, mythology, even Art Nouveau. Recent portraiture subjects have been poets from the Beat Generation like Burroughs, Kerouac, Ginsberg, but he is more of an emotional romantic than they were.

Rubbish (photo © Laurence Pierrain-Mateudi)

With his first solo show in November at Le Cabinet d’Amateur, this guys’ work may remind you of Swoon’s paper cutting in the late 2000s and his portraits have a forlorn quality found in the subjects of French stencilist C215. Whatever his influences, he is clearly still exploring and he happily covered selected regions of this 8 meter x 3 meter wall with with a certain organic symmetry in placing these large works of cut paper on a cold late January day. According to Jean Emmanuel Voltz, who curated this choice, this kind of Rubbish is a “Good discovery”.

To learn more about RUBBISH’s work click here.

To learn more about Le M.U.R. click here.

Images of the Week: 02.10.13

February 10, 2013 Artists

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Allen Ruppersberg, CB23, CYFI, Danielle Mastrion, Elle, False, KO, Left Handed Wave, Matt Siren, Spud, Stikman, and Tomek.

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Specter in Puerto Escondido, Mexico

February 9, 2013 Artists

Today New York and most of the northeast US is completely clobbered and somewhat paralyzed with snow from a giant blizzard so we thought we’d show you photos from a surf town of 26,000 residents in Mexico called Puerto Escondido where their annual Carnaval started yesterday . Brooklyn based Street Artist Specter is working in the 85 degree temperature in blasting sun to put up the occasional piece and here he is stencilling on a rectangular outcropping on the side of modernist building.

Says photographer Lauren Besser, Specter is not far from the surf in these shots from the west coast Oaxacan town. “He installed a painting on the home of local artists in La Punta where the best waves come in. The piece is a nod at traditional cultures that are often forgotten by beach-side tourists,” she says. This new one looks similar to one he did recently in Mexico City featured in a recent “Images of the Week”.

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