April 2013

Saber and Rostarr Compare and Contrast at Opera

April 30, 2013

Now through May 11 graffiti/fine artists Saber and Rostarr are on view at Opera Gallery in Soho in lower Manhattan in a dual show that contrasts the styles of both while revealing similarities.

Saber (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The west coast graffiti celebrity Saber continues to build heavy layers upon his work, carved and chipped away to reveal what is underneath, a personal archive partially on display. It is a fitting metaphor for the residual buildup of a life and the identities that one assumes, curiously all amalgamated into one slightly grizzled presentation. Here the bombastic history of his throw-ups, burners, and tags are transformed into calligraphic letterforms and entwined with the symbolic patterning of a national flag. The muted industrial palette and battered and worn textures and finishes indicate that this has been a hard journey, but not without flourishes of beauty and flashes of style.

Rostarr’s less showy graphic symbolism may be due to a more conservative formative youth and plays more clearly with the letterform as pattern and rhythm.  The New York artist shows passion in the repetition, restricting the palette to two hues and laying in a calligraphic line and a visual beat that feels solid and confident but still human. Like Saber’s work, it feels very personal, studied, and purposefully imperfect. Without the multiple layers, it is more a contemporary diary, cleanly raw and open for you to read.

 

Saber. Detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Saber (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Saber (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Saber (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Saber. Detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Saber. Detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Saber (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Saber (photo © courtesy of the gallery)

Rostarr (photo © courtesy of the gallery)

Rostarr (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Rostarr (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Rostarr (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Rostarr (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Rostarr (photo © Jaime Rojo)

 

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BOB Bar Presents: “Girls on Top” A Group Exhibition. (Manhattan, NYC)

April 29, 2013 ,

bOb Bar presents the Girls On Top (GOT)–UK’s first all-female graffiti crew formed in 2000 by Chock and Ned to unite female graffiti artists. Introducing NYC to 5 members (Chock, Luna, Lyns, Pixie, and Syrup), the show represents each individual’s style. Exploring the limits of graffiti aesthetics through mediums including embroidery, collage, and customized novelty items, they illustrate their experiences within a male-dominated graffiti culture.

 

Girls On Top (GOT) Group Show
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Art-El Gallery Presents: EKO “Brother Dolomite” (Bristol, UK)

April 29, 2013 ,

Art-el Gallery are proud to present revered artist Eko, and to unveil his latest retrospective work, the eagerly anticipated ‘Brother Dolomite’ collection.

Eko’s newest and original range of mixed media artwork features canvas boards and papers as well as a fanzine and exclusive exhibition screen print.

‘The ‘Brother Dolomite’ collection affords viewers an almost long-lost insight into yesteryear’s pastoral psychedelia movement. Whilst reanimating this civil yet corroded and largely undiscovered artistic spate, Eko’s renderings create a micro cosmos of imagery that’s brilliantly bound by the ethereality of a seemingly prodigal yet precious past.

Brother Dolomite
Artel Gallery @ Co-LAB
2-4 Fairfax Street
Bristol
BS1 3DB
Opening Reception Friday 17th May
6-9pm

Brother Dolomite. An Exhibition of New Work by Artist Eko

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Open Space Presents: Thomas Canto “Dedicace” (Paris, France)

April 29, 2013 ,

Dans le cadre de l’exposition collective Graffuturism-Paris, la Galerie Openspace accueille l’artiste Thomas Canto pour une dédicace exclusive de son livre “Gravité B”. L’occasion de découvrir l’exposition lors d’un nouvel accrochage et les œuvres graffuturistes de Thomas Canto, inspirées de l’installation spectaculaire qu’il a réalisée aux anciens Bains Douches à Paris début 2013.

Rendez-vous à 16h
Galerie Openspace
56, rue Alexandre Dumas, Paris 11e
contact@openspace-paris.fr
09 80 66 63 94

Le livre “Gravité B” publié chez LVE Editions est disponible au prix de 36 euros.

https://www.facebook.com/events/545077302202085/

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Fun Factory Presents: “Take To The Street” A Group Exhibition of Street Art & Graffiti Photogtaphy. (London, UK)

April 29, 2013 ,
Fun Factory art project space is proud to present Take To The Street, a group show of Street Art & Graffiti Photography. Focusing on the eye of the photographer, it pays special attention to the individual styles of these artists and what makes their photos unique and personal.Featuring the photography of: Unusualimage, Nolionsinengland, Mark Rigney (Hookedblog), Joeppo, Delete, Howaboutno, Myriam JC Preston, Alex Ellison, Doug Sherman, Cheffo31 and Ian Cox.

Take To The Street — Street Art & Graffiti Photography

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Ils reviennent… – ANIS, SNEZ (LF Crew) (Paris, France)

April 29, 2013 ,

Nous ne savons toujours pas d’où viennent les hommes, qui furent les constructeurs des pyramides, des lignes de Nazca, des dolmens Stonedge ou des monuments antiques sud américains. Aujourd’hui et depuis 100 ans, notre ciel est parcouru par des ovnis…
Et ils reviennent… À La Friche, les anciens astronautes sont de retours !”
Du 2 au 16 mai 2013
jeu. & ven. 17h-19h / week end 14-19h

Ils reviennent… – ANIS, SNEZ (LF Crew)

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L Espace Seven – Galerie Jaques De Vos Present: DTONE “Street Machine” (Paris, France)

April 29, 2013 ,
L Espace Seven – Galerie Jaques De Vos, est heureuse de vous convier à l’exposition de Dtone.”Street Machine”

Du 2 Mai au 29 Juin 2013

Vernissage le Jeudi 2 Mai à partir de 18h30 jusqu’ à 21h30

La thématique de cette série, nous plonge dans l’univers du vélo en ville.
C’est une balade urbaine à travers le temps, les nuances et les couleurs.
Une galerie de portraits et de panoramas, qui défilent sous nos yeux.

DTONE Vernissage, EXPOSITION. STREET MACHINE

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The SX Lab and TAG Present: TAG’s 21st Century Grafstract Expressionists. (Manhattan, NYC)

April 29, 2013

On May 1st, 2013, TAG’s 21st Century Grafstract Expressionists, SinXero, Army of One/JC2, FUMERO, ADAM DARE, Will Power & Kool Kito will be exhibiting their Fine Grafstract Art at 2’12” Art Space @ White Rabbit

DJ Sal P from Liquid Liquid & DJ Small Change will be killin’ the 1 & 2s LIVE.

Street Stylz is brought to you by “The SX Lab,” Fine Grafstract Productions in collaboration with TAG. Endorsed by 5Ptz. Sponsored by ALL CITY Paint.

Street Stylz @ 2’12” Art Space/White Rabbit

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Pride@Yale 2013 Presents: “History of Queer Street Art” (New Heaven, CT)

April 29, 2013 ,

Jeremy Novy first got into street art in high school as a way to spend more time with the cute break dancers and graffiti boys; today he is one of San Francisco’s eminent queer street artists, using his creations to pay homage to the city’s gay history. Novy’s art also serves to combat the homophobia and misogyny too often present in street art culture. With his exhibit, “History of Queer Street Art”, Jeremy Novy showcases beautiful and subversive examples of queer street art from around the world. Join him for an opening lecture in the Trumbull gallery on Thursday April 25th at 3pm. Prints and stickers will be available for purchase (cash-only)!

History of Queer Street Art (presented by Pride@Yale 2013!)

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Breeze Block Gallery Presents: olive47 “Bonita Bonita” (Portland, Oregon)

April 29, 2013 ,

“bonita bonita”

A solo exhibition curated by Sven Davis

2 May – 1 June 2013

“Bonita bonita” is taken from the catcall olive47 would hear from the local men and the also the compliments heard from the local ladies about her work when painting a series of murals in Mexico earlier this year. bonita bonita is a visual Garden of Eden, a place of beauty within a world of turmoil. Drawing on the power of myth for a significant element of its subject matter, bonita bonita applies symbolism and a visual discourse of spirituality in its presentation of a collective narrative of nature and morality in an environment where temptation is ever present. olive47’s bold use of color operates at a visceral level and activates an emotional response to the saturation throughout the body of work as a cerebral communication device. bonita bonita will contain paintings on wood panels presented individually, as assemblages and also combined within mixed media installations.

The exhibition opens Thursday 2nd May 2013 6pm, with a preview evening on Wednesday 1st May 2013 6pm alongside the group exhibition Wider than a postcard. The artist will be in attendance.

http://breezeblockgallery.com/2012/10/09/may-g2-olive47/

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Elle “Take Your Skin Off” at The City Don’t Sleep. (Brooklyn, NYC)

April 29, 2013 ,

Elle’s show on the 4th of May, Take Your Skin Off, is set to release the “ELLE Tattoo Girl” series, featuring hand painted photographs paired with reproductions. The show will explore transformation and the assumption of new identity. Graffiti is all about hiding one’s identity, using an alter ego, a shroud of mystery. On the same token, there is widely spread commodification of the graffiti artist in the public eye. This juxtaposition plays off of contemporary culture’s obsession with advertisement, fame, and the proliferation of image and icon. ELLE is exploiting the idea of notoriety and the visual competition with and collaboration of marketing space. Can someone be notorious just because their icon is everywhere? Because people can identify and have seen it? Is this fame?  


ELLE is graffiti obsessed. In Take Your Skin Off, the artist exposes herself by unveiling the masked persona and identifying herself with her larger-than- life pseudonym. ELLE= ALL WOMEN. ELLE, SHE is represented throughout the city and standing fiercely. SHE is protecting all of the walls and is the equal counterpart of the male ego. Is the work about the female skin and how we choose to represent ourselves? Are we comfortable in “the skins that we are wearing?” Then again, maybe ELLE is just objectifying the woman… is ELLE a woman? Is ELLE a man? What is it with graffiti and the addiction of writing ones name over and over again everywhere? What happens when the lines are crossed and the graffiti writer starts pasting these images everywhere and suddenly it becomes like media/propaganda and advertising combined with street art? Why is this image everywhere?!


ELLE’s show, Take Your Skin Off, will be opening May 4th, from 7-10pm, at The City Don’t Sleep. (410 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11211). DJ Cat King will be spinning and Brooklyn SixPoints Brewery will be sponsoring the show. Come parteeee!
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