July 2013

ROA Fox and Friends in Vienna

July 13, 2013

Here are a handful of new shots of Street Artist ROA as he prepares his new urban wildlife wall in Vienna – featuring a fox, rabbit, beaver, and a doe on the wall of a local school in the Austrian capital. You can see how his work is beginning to take more dimension and mass as he continues to fully develop the form and musculature under the furry exterior of his friends in repose.

ROA at work on his new wall last week in Vienna (photo © Julian Mullan)

The irony of the animals’ unwinding and relaxed configuration is that the artist tends to work tirelessly; this wall was only begun once he had completed the work and installation for his new show at Inoperable Galley where he created entirely new pieces with found materials from Vienna including bullets, skulls, street signs, and wooden boxes.

Finished portions and part of the developing hair for the new ROA wall in Vienna (photo © Julian Mullan)

ROA in Vienna (photo © Julian Mullan)

The newly completed ROA wall done in one day last week in Vienna (photo © Julian Mullan)

Pan-Roa’s Box will be running all summer at Inoperable. For more information click here.

 

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BSA Film Friday: 07.12.13

July 12, 2013

 

Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.

Now screening: Neighborhood Love in Brooklyn by Serringe, Isaac Cordal: The Family, and The Lurkers go to Bulgaria for Summer Fun.

BSA Special Feature:
Neighborhood Love in Brooklyn

A new film by Serringe that celebrates the magical mix of sun and aerosol and a group of artists/writers/graff dudes all getting up in the neighborhood. The flows are nice, the movements a little hypnotic, the soundtrack allows you to travel, the love is there. Fall in.

Featuring HOACS, SEGE, ELSE, ZIMER, SEN TWO, OWNS, OKUDA, 4SAKN and SEBS.

Isaac Cordal: The Family

Street Artist Issac Cordal has been installing his small cement sculptures in staged scenes ever since Spain began suffering the brunt of the global financial crisis and he saw his country as having been dragged into an an economic, environmental and socialized purgatory. This new gallery show installation caught on video imprisons the organizational man and the entrepreneurial exec alike in much the same way as animals in our factory farms, with similar lighting but more room.  A conceptualist by nature, his message is heavier than cinder blocks some times, yet you won’t deny the devastating effect that his installations can have on your psyche as the camera pans and you see the effects of socialization on a mass level, evocative of cubicled offices and prisons, and may even cause a viewer to question things. Till the next video.

 

The Lurkers go to Bulgaria for Summer Fun

A self-described “movement” that makes urban exploration a spectator tagging sport, Lurkers may be a small club of skinny London boys in their 20s who like to spraycation through tunnels and abandoned monuments with their model girlfriends, discovering the hidden pockets that time forgot. Or Lurkers may be a well-positioned semi-chaotic lifestyle brand that is accumulating original content to help move product once you are hooked. One can envision the anonymity that these hilarious cartoon heads allow also being a way to extend a franchise once these rascals get old or get bored and need to be replaced. Either way, some of the sequences in their newly begun video series are alternately mundane, raw, soaring, or smartly sly.

It’s so difficult these days when true counterculture is swallowed whole by lifestyle brands and you can’t tell the real thing from the Coca-cola intervention but this is sort of Vice meets Monty Python meets reality show meets Polo with aerosol cans. The touchstones of rebelliousness and tomfoolery appear in a cheerfully non-political context but just as we we start to think that, we learn about world history on this trip, don’t we kids?  What really is lurking beneath the surface? Stop worrying and start adventuring.

 

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Hitnes at Boombarstick: Street Art in Croatia

July 11, 2013

50 points awarded for the name: Boombarstick !

Also, baby goats in your promo video melts even the meanest graff writers heart, so another 25 points for that. (see adorable video below)

In fact, if you look through all the walls and materials and listen to the voices of the organizers, you find a serious consideration of humor as a force for creativity, so we’re pretty close to a perfect score of 100 with this original and inviting concept for a city Street Art festival.

Mercifully, the art is also good.

Hitnes. Boombarstick. Vodnjan, Croatia. (photo © Swen Serbic)

All things considered, this ZERO edition (not 1st) of the Croatian festival that features a solid selection of international (mostly European) Street Artists along with local and regional musicians was very successful. The city is called Vodnjan/Dignano situated in the peninsula and county of Istria. It prides itself on its multicultural patrimony and the festival was meant to convey the artistic and cultural point of view that it has. Says Marco Contardi, one of the volunteer organizers, “The festival stands as a link between Istria and Europe, encouraging a reciprocal fruitful connection.”

Hitnes. Detail. Boombarstick. Vodnjan, Croatia. (photo © Swen Serbic)

So we’ll be bringing you some exclusive images of the pieces that Street Artists completed during Boombarstick. The first here is by Rome’s Hitnes, who completed this flight of imagination among the strong and well worn roots of the old city. He uses aerosol, brush, pencils, and whatever else brings out the detail in his alternate reality, which often meditates on the animal kingdom and a sense of magic.

Look forward in coming days to new exclusive photos of the completed pieces on BSA from some of the participants in this unique festival who include Franco Manzin, Phlegm, OKO, Sam3, Giorgio Bartocci, Hitnes, Eme, Ufocinque, Interesni Kazki, NeSpoon, Miron Milic, and Liqen.

Hitnes. Boombarstick. Vodnjan, Croatia. (photo © Swen Serbic)

 

Click HERE for more information about Boombarstick.

 

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The Synthesis Collaborative Presents: Wall/Therapy 2013 -Kickoff at 1975 Gallery. (Rochester, NY)

July 10, 2013

Wall Therapy
The city known as “The World’s Image Center” will once again be living up to its title as it welcomes nearly 30 world renown street artists for the third installment of WALL\THERAPY. They will be transforming walls both large and small throughout Rochester into works of art, serving our collective need for inspiration.

Expanding upon the success of its previous years, WALL\THERAPY will be hosting a week long event starting on July 19th, showcasing the extraordinary talent of artists from across the globe and from our own back yard. Faith47 and Chinese artist DALeast, both hailing from Cape Town, South Africa are returning to Rochester for the third consecutive year. New additions to the artist lineup include Gaia from Baltimore, Binho from Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wise Two from Nairobi, Kenya and London-based Irish artist Conor Harrington. Rochester-based artists Mr. Prvrt, Range, St. Monci and Sarah C. Rutherford will join other local artists and our visiting “wall therapists” to create 30 original pieces of art throughout the city.
To kick off this week long mural festival, there will be block parties in each neighborhood where the murals are being painted featuring local musicians and performers, adding to the experience as crowds watch the “wall therapists” at work. An open community dialogue with the artists will take place mid-week.
WALL\THERAPY is brought to you by The Synthesis Collaborative, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving health in the developing world using the tools of teleradiology and cloud computing. The common thread is “Imagery,” which has the potential to preserve and enhance life by addressing the needs of both the body and spirit. Its co-founder Dr. Ian Wilson envisions this event and the art it will create to be a lasting influence on the heart of the Rochester community. WALL\THERAPY brings these talented individuals together as a community-level intervention to use mural art as a vehicle to address our collective need for inspiration.
The 2013 WALL\THERAPY has also been made possible by the generous individuals who donated through our indiegogo campaign this past Spring. With their help and donations from local artists, our campaign was able to reach its goal of over $30,000.
Members of the press and public are invited to visit and engage the “wall therapists” as they paint their murals on the various walls generously donated by individuals and businesses in the South Wedge and El Camino Trail area.
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Bazel Gallery Presents: Alice Mizrachi “Windows of Love” (Tel Aviv, Israel)

July 10, 2013

BAZEL GALLERY presents ALICE MIZRACHI
in her solo exhibition,
“WINDOWS OF LOVE”
“Windows of Love,” presented by Bazel Gallery, features select works by artist Alice Mizrachi that explore and celebrate the many facets of love.

Alice paints the simple exchanges of love she glimpses while people-watching and depicts them in her paintings as snapshots, to share that fleeting moment of connection we feel when we are witnesses to love. Whether it’s the love of a father and child, friends, lovers, love for animals, nature, home or the love of self, Alice encourages us to notice that love, in all its multidimensional facets, is often felt as recognition.
“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open hearted vision of people who embrace life.” – John Lennon

Opening Reception: Thursday, July 11, 2013 from 20:00-22:00
Closing Date: Sunday, August 4, 2013
Bazel Gallery
1 Hashlah Street, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

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Specter Brings the Beauty of Decay to a Pristine Brooklyn Pool

July 10, 2013

Specter’s Inversion of the “Broken Window” Theory Makes a Splash

The news that the average apartment price is over $3,000 dollars a month in New York was blasted across many channels yesterday and we told you two weeks ago that our own informal survey of 1-bedrooms in Williamsburg showed the median price is now $3,150. That’s about twice the price from around 2000. Is it any wonder why artists and workers who have contributed for years to the lifeblood of the city are saying they feel like they are literally being chased from it?

Specter (photo © Jaime Rojo)

In that context it’s one of those rich ironies that can be hard to verbalize yet increasingly cannot be overlooked; Street Artists who once were chased from a neighborhood by high rents sometimes are being invited back to create commissioned work to make it feel “real”. You could say the neighborhood is experiencing a Re-Billyburg-ification at the moment even as new construction and zoning rules continue to demolish all signs of the old quirky artist bohemia. Drawn by an “edgy” creative culture, promises of lower rents, and maybe the fun sport of some derisive “hipster” bashing while chugging a brew with yer buds and watching your team on the big screen, it appears that pockets of BK may be now re-skinning with the arty types to prolong the myth.

Specter (photo © Jaime Rojo)

And so it’s a semi-sweet experience to see many of these same Street Artists who were hitting these same streets and looking over their shoulder while doing it are now invited to do it and are getting paid for their effort. This week for example Cern just finished his Bruce Lee piece for a martial arts studio on North 8th, LNY is finishing his mural on North 6th Street for a new movie release, Ron English is reported to be working on a similar arrangement, and Icy and Sot just finished the facade of a new nightclub on the southside. Further down the street on North 6th where Faile used to be able to afford a studio space, an alcohol brand has sponsored a block-long installation that includes an amazing crochet installation by OLEK, an incendiary fire extinguisher piece by KATSU, and a large monochromatic painting by RoStaar, among other artists. For the big promotion, each artist spent much of the day doing installations while invited visitors on the street snapped photos and posed with the work. Of the brand sponsored event, a local TV station reporter says, “The goal is to promote art in the community while giving emerging artists exposure.”

We’ve been shooting and publishing and interviewing and getting walls for and telling the stories of many Street Artist here for years and now we receive press releases in the old email box from PR agencies who tell us that they are offering us to “receive a VIP tour” “in Brooklyn where artists’ visions explode onto streets in the heart of Williamsburg.” We are now invited to come and see “artists working street side to complete their pieces, while visitors can experience the creative process in motion.”

Gulp.

It sort of goes without saying, but in case you missed this – most artists cannot afford to live here anymore and they are only visiting the area to participate in the days’ events.

Specter (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Which brings us to the posting of today – the opening of Street Artist Specter’s new installation that is literally inspired by the street, now on display poolside alongside a 4,800 square foot deck at a new Williamsburg hotel. Known for his painstakingly hand-painted recreations of street facades and street people, this quiet wall is so realistic that most observers wouldn’t guess it was painted over the course of a number of weeks this spring in Specter’s studio.

The rusted panes, the overgrown ivy, the pockmarked wall, the mismatched mottled patterns of a now silent industrial sector; Specters’ new glorious façade could possibly appear so genuine that some chic hotel guests reclining by the rippling three-season saltwater pool and sipping a cocktail may peer over their sunglasses and wonder when the hotel is going to get around to finishing the renovation of the backyard.

Specter (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Here it is, the broken windows theory thoroughly and pleasingly inverted by the brain of the artist, complete with a couple of quick graffiti tags, in this neighborhood where most of the actual graffiti and Street Art has been “cleaned up”.  Who knew that decay would be such a sight for sore eyes.

You’re invited to check out the new wall tonight from 7-10 at King and Grove. Bring your swimsuit and cocktails will be served.

Specter (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Specter (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Specter (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Specter (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Specter (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Specter (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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A Dying Breed Presents: “Detention” Pop-Up Art Show (Manhattan, NYC)

July 9, 2013

Detention

A Dying Breed art collective Presents: Detention.

Featuring:
Sen 2
Zimer
See One
Rimx
Chris RWK
Veng RWK
Bishop 203
ND’A
Icy an Sot
Cern
Dice the God
Pun 18
Fibs

Schools out but we didnt pay attention to the teacher and drew pictures in class… and on the walls too. Now we’re all in detention. Lucky for us we have some friends joining us for this pop-up graffiti/ street art show!

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LNY, Gaia, Nanook and RAE in Cleveland for Zoetic Walls

July 9, 2013

New stuff from Cleveland today gives us a look at a project in the Waterloo District called Zoetic Walls that includes Street Artists LNY, Nanook, RAE and Gaia.

RAE. Detail. Zoetic Walls. Cleveland, Ohio. June 2013. (photo © Pawn Works Gallery)

“You are doing awesome stuff for our neighborhood – keep it up!” says Cleveland resident, Linda Zolten Wood on the Zoetic Walls Facebook page.

Nanook. Zoetic Walls. Cleveland, Ohio. June 2013. (photo © Pawn Works Gallery)

Organizer Nick Marzullo explains the new piece by Nanook that is firmly rooted in local history and politics.

“Nanook worked closely with the neighborhood on the development of his piece depicting a portrait of Carl Stokes, the former Cleveland Mayor and first Black mayor of any major city in US,” says Nick. Other symbols include the hand of city planning practitioner Norman Krumholz as he guides a car along a modernized highway system, something Krumholz is credited with bringing through the City of Cleveland.

LNY. Zoetic Walls. Cleveland, Ohio. June 2013. (photo © Pawn Works Gallery)

LNY used a local hero of sorts ‘Doug’ as his model for this Atlas inspired piece. LNY. Zoetic Walls. Cleveland, Ohio. June 2013. (photo © Pawn Works Gallery)

GAIA. Zoetic Walls. Cleveland, Ohio. June 2013. (photo © Pawn Works Gallery)

GAIA. Zoetic Walls. Cleveland, Ohio. June 2013. (photo © Pawn Works Gallery)

Gaia’s barbershop pieces came out great and Mike from the barbershop is pretty psyched for the facelift in an old-skool airbrush style. Now if they can just fix that canopy, the 10th anniversary of Mike n Syd’s will be officially slammin’!

GAIA. Zoetic Walls. Cleveland, Ohio. June 2013. (photo © Pawn Works Gallery)

GAIA. Zoetic Walls. Cleveland, Ohio. June 2013. (photo © Pawn Works Gallery)

Special thanks to Pawn Works for sharing these images with BSA readers.

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UNO: “Don’t Care, Obscure This”

July 8, 2013

“When I received the invitation to take part in a street art festival in Athens I thought I would try to paint a wall speaking about the problems of Greece and in particular to speak about the consequences of the crisis they are experiencing,” says UNO of his invitation to participate in the first Athens Street Art Festival. Ironically, he says, the piece he had in mind never made it onto the actual street, but we’re bringing it to you here since he made the effort.

UNO “Don’t Care, Obscure This”. Athens, Greece. July 2013 (photo © UNO)

“A few weeks before my departure I heard the news about the closing (obscuring) of Greek public TV, so I decided to paint a wall with the words ‘obscure this’ as a provocation,” says UNO of his original plan to paint a large scale wall addressing the sudden shutdown in June that many journalists in Europe have charged is a form of censorship. Unfortunately when he arrived he learned that the wall he had planned could not happen because of logistic problems, he says, so he did this version inside the School of Fine Arts before heading back to Italy.

UNO “Don’t Care, Obscure This”. Athens, Greece. July 2013 (photo © UNO)

UNO “Don’t Care, Obscure This”. Athens, Greece. July 2013 (photo © UNO)

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Images Of The Week: 07.07.13

July 7, 2013

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring A Dying Breed, B.D. White, Chris (RWK), Cost, El Niño de las Pinturas, Jilly Ballistic, Pose, Revok, Rime, Rimx, Robert Janz, Vers, and Zimer.

Top image RIME MSK (photo © Jaime Rojo)

RIME MSK. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

RIME MSK (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Don Rimx and Sex did this new impressive piece with the help of a certain niño. Maybe that is why it is entitled  “El Niño de las Pinturas”. The Bushwick Collective (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Don Rimx And Sex “El Niño de las Pinturas“. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

This dude has the keys to summertime fun. Chris RWK. Detail.(photo © Jaime Rojo)

The full four panel tribute to “Summer Daze” by Chris RWK at Woodward Project Space. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

But they are both the same party. B.D. White and Jilly Ballistic (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Robert Janz (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

REVOK . POSE . RIME . MSK (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Okay, I’m listening. Artist Unknown. COST (photo © Jaime Rojo)

VERS. The Bushwick Collective (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Zimer . A Dying Breed. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Zimer . A Dying Breed. The Bushwick Collective (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Zimer . A Dying Breed. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. New York City. June, 2013 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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GAIA In Cleveland, Landscapes and Coalmines

July 6, 2013

“Straight up, this is too thoughtful and too amazing, we are speechless,” says Nick Marzullo of Pawn Works as he looks at this newly aerosoled wall by Gaia in Cleveland.

The large hand holds a gilded framed painting as if it is a snapshot, superimposing his ode to Yosemite Valley, the 1866 painting by German/American landscape painter Albert Bierstadt, over a 1952 coal mining scene called The Early Shift by celebrated Cleveland native realist Carl Gaertner.  The New York Street Artist continues to explore and incorporate cultural touchstones as he is influenced by them, leaving large pages from his travelogue sketchbook on walls in cities he visits.

Gaia. Zoetic Walls. Cleveland, Ohio. ( photo © Pawn Works Gallery)

This new piece is a part of a larger curated show but even on his unpermissioned walls Gaia takes you on his trip, conveying the truths and history and meanings he is uncovering, then uniquely recombining their elements to contrast their relative meanings and test their strength perhaps.  This new wall may be interpreted as commentary on the 19th/20th century industrialization of the country that once boasted breathtaking natural beauty idealized by painters. Undoubtedly the Gen Y Gaia also may have in mind the fracking industry in this day that threatens to destroy even more of the beauty and natural resources for his generation and the next.

Gaia appears here at “Zoetic Walls” in conjunction with Arts Collingwood and curated by Pawn Works, who will be showing us more from their new Midwest project as it evolves in Cleveland, Chicago, and even parts of Wisconsin.

Gaia. Zoetic Walls. Cleveland, Ohio. ( photo © Pawn Works Gallery)

Gaia. Zoetic Walls. Cleveland, Ohio. ( photo © Pawn Works Gallery)

Pawn Works would like to thank Callaloo Café in Cleveland for their support (Kelvin, Nico), and Amy Callahan at Arts Collinwood.

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