March 2014

Stunt Loving Supine Slithers Up Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge

Stunt Loving Supine Slithers Up Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge

Look who’s rolling up the East River; it’s Judith Supine completing yet another night time feat of foolhardy urban exploration with a bridge-based installation for one of the green skinned ladies s/he is known for on Brooklyn streets.

Probably seeking one of the last places in New York where you can still smoke a cigarette, we see one of Supine’s new ladies puffing away and staring blankly while nursing a cocktail above the traffic streaming across the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge into Manhattan.

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Judith Supine on the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge (photo © Steve Duncan/Undercity.org)

Already known for hanging a piece off the Manhattan Bridge in ’07 and on top of The Williamsburg Bridge in ’09, at this rate if he keeps heading in a northward direction we estimate the Street Artist should be on the new Tappan Zee when it opens in 2018.

Photographer Steve Duncan took these pics which appear to show the perch from Judith’s perspective, and we just saw a video of it on the website Arrested Motion that was posted Saturday, so there you go, the artist loves the river view.

We shouldn’t be surprised by his aquatic attraction since one of his child-women was previously seen wading below the pedestrian bridge in Central Park and he once styled his dear old dad in a ladies swimsuit and floated him off Grand Street Park in Williamsburg (see video below).

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Judith Supine on the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge (photo © Steve Duncan/Undercity.org)

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Judith Supine on the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge (photo © Steve Duncan/Undercity.org)

 

Judith Supine Goes Bathing in the East River

 

 

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Images Of The Week: 03.30.14

Images Of The Week: 03.30.14

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Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Adam Dare, Bunny M, COL Wallnuts, Don’t Fret, Icy & Sot, JMR, John Ahearn, Judith Supine, Michael McKeawn, Miss Me, Mr. Toll, Paper Skaters, Pyramid Oracle, and What is Adam.

Top Image >> Icy & Sot (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Judith Supine (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Col Wallnuts (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Adam Dare (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Jim McKenzie (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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What Is Adam (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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What Is Adam (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Paper Skaters (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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JMR for The Bushwick Collective (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Pyramid Oracle (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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John Ahearn. Florant 2013. Plaster portrait of Florant Morellet, the colorful restaurant owner and business pioneer in the Meat Packing District of Manhattan installed at the High Line Park for the BUSTED Series. The portrait was inspired by the 16th century painting of Bacchus by Caravaggio. John Ahearn of course is a crucial link between public art and street art in New York and has been for thirty years or so, aligning his work and practice with actual people who live in our neighborhoods – especially in the Bronx. Mr. Florant, a longtime fixture and heart of the Meat Packing District, abandoned Manhattan for Bushwick, Brooklyn last year.  (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Michael McKeawn “Winter Laundry”. Look closely and you’ll see that this is an installation of rather large clothing. photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Miss Me produces a rather elaborate tribute to you know who. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Miss Me (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Dont Fret (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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bunny M (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Catch the Love (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Mr. Toll (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Untitled. East River, NYC. January 2014. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

 

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Judith Supine Lights Up at Mecka for “Golden Child”

Judith Supine Lights Up at Mecka for “Golden Child”

Cigarettes for all! That includes you kids! Come on, smoking is cool!

You can just imagine a critique by helicopter moms of this new work for Judith Supine’s “Golden Child” show somehow morphing into an anti-smoking crusade. The fascination s/he has with those slender white smokable sleeves is unabated – if anything cigs are proliferating throughout Judith’s fun house.

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Judith Supine “Golden Child” Detail. Mecka Gallery, NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Truth is, you never know quite what to expect from the Street Artist who waves in and out of our consciousness, punctuating our pedestrian plod by popping up in doorways, hanging off bridges, and lurking in sewers with these blossom gilded child-model-smoking-sex-toy-puritan-slut-monsters who cavort and collide, limbs akimbo and entangled in acid greenwash.

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Judith Supine “Golden Child” Detail. Mecka Gallery, NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Same goes for a Judith Supine gallery show for that matter; There are no pieces on sale tonight at Mecka, and the centerpiece installation is a suspended couple of double-sided hermaphroditic twins who ooze personality and whose luscious lips are smokin’.

While there are no artworks to buy, there will be a strange lottery-type print sale presented grab-bag style. According to the folks at Mecka, what is inside the long thin tube will be at least what is advertised, and in some cases, more than you bargained for. Need a light?

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Judith Supine “Golden Child” Detail. Mecka Gallery, NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Judith Supine “Golden Child” Detail. Mecka Gallery, NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Judith Supine “Golden Child” Detail. Mecka Gallery, NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Judith Supine “Golden Child” Mecka Gallery, NYC.  This is the print that will be available for sale and we are told that what’s is in the tube will vary. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Judith Supine “Golden Child” Detail. Mecka Gallery, NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)

 

Judith Supine “Golden Child” opens today at Mecka Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Click HERE for more details.

 

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BSA Film Friday 03.28.14

BSA Film Friday 03.28.14

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

Now screening :

1. RONE. MADSTEEZ . MEGGS From Tost Films
2. Faith 47 “You Hold no Blame for my Proud Heart”.
3. Borondo “Looking For”
4. Papelero Lamolisha
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BSA Special Feature: RONE . MADSTEEZ . MEGGS

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Faith 47 “You Hold no Blame for my Proud Heart”.

Cape Town, South Africa. 2014

 

Borondo “Looking For”

Megasingi in Luxembourg

 

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Inviting Neighbors to Paint Your Walls, Paweł Althamer at New Museum

Inviting Neighbors to Paint Your Walls, Paweł Althamer at New Museum

One of the electrifying aspects of Street Art for many people is the prospect that public space can actually be a place to create within. There is something about the hand-rendered painting or tag that stops people, fascinates them; these neighbors who otherwise are inured to the commercial images and messages that have all but taken over public space.

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Paweł Althamer. “The Neighbors” The New Museum, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

While the Bowery and Lower East Side neighborhoods were once a playground for experimental art and culture in general and they were once a test lab for graffiti, Street Art, and conceptual public art in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, one gets the feeling that hyper-gentrification has begun its final march toward complete eradication. Soon the visual signs of the counter culture that thrived here will exist only in coffee table books and on t-shirts.

Ah New York, ever rich with irony. The New Museum, an institution with roots in the downtown scene of those earlier days and which gives opportunity to under-recognized artists in their seven year old modern flagship, is now offering you a chance to deface their walls. Well, specific walls anyway, and there is an admission fee.

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Paweł Althamer. “The Neighbors” The New Museum, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Part of a multi-floor exhibition of work by Polish sculptor Paweł Althamer entitled “The Neighbors” the  space takes nearly the entire floor and is created specifically for you to paint, draw, scribble, scribe. At any given moment you may find a gangley group of students, grey haired hippies, chino clad money managers, or stilletto-stepping society mavens all planted on the floor or perched upon ladders pushing paint brushes glommed with brightly hued goo across a heavily layered mass of collective creativity.

Given permission to create, even the most reserved visitors are likely to furtively glance around for an instrument, and many do, gamely painting alongside their neighbors, or smacking up a fresh wheatpaste. We looked around for some recognizable graffiti or street art tags, but didn’t see one pop out – maybe indoor walls under bright fluorescent light like this aren’t the right unbridled environment they’re looking for. Maybe it was the ever-present seemingly serious guard at the door way.

The Bowery still has soup kitchens and homeless folks and stubborn remnants of a vibrant free-wheeling street art scene are still on display on certain blocks. And here in their midst, one of their newest neighbors has a new show called “The Neighbors”, and the free-wheeling spirit of creativity and discovery is alive inside it too. As ever, New York will decide which neighbors stay, and which ones go. Care to wager?

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Paweł Althamer. “The Neighbors” The New Museum, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Paweł Althamer. “The Neighbors” The New Museum, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Paweł Althamer. “The Neighbors” The New Museum, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Paweł Althamer. “The Neighbors” The New Museum, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Paweł Althamer. “The Neighbors” The New Museum, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Paweł Althamer. “The Neighbors” The New Museum, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Paweł Althamer. “The Neighbors” The New Museum, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Paweł Althamer. “The Neighbors” The New Museum, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Paweł Althamer. “The Neighbors” The New Museum, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

 

Paweł Althamer. “The Neighbors” at The New Museum in NYC is currently on view. Click HERE for details.

 

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Shok-1 Street Art X-Rays Reveal a Unique Hand at the Can

Shok-1 Street Art X-Rays Reveal a Unique Hand at the Can

Three decades since starting as an aerosol writer, Shok-1 may be more commonly referred to as a Street Artist today, even though graffiti is still in his bones.

After experimenting with a number of styles that lean more toward illustration and caricature, the England born fine artist has primarily focused on one unique style that sets him apart from others, which is harder to do in the ever-more-dense Street Art genre.

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Shok-1 (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Clavicles, metacarpals, femurs, tibiae, fibulae, patellae, mandible, scapulae, sternum, vertebrae, and coccyx; all of these and many fictional hybrids of them comprise the glowing X-ray compositions that distinguish Shok-1s work on walls around the world. The translucent quality is due to his meticulous technique with cans and caps, and a closely held method at that. The fluorescence and rainbow effects that transform his  earlier eerie monochrome paintings are probably due to his imagination, and his desire to experiment further.

Not often painting in New York, Shok-1 is shown here in Brooklyn last week as he demonstrated his new color technique on a large scale piece he calls “X-Rainbow (God was Nature)”.  He also experimented in black with a couple subjects of a more insectual nature. Without giving away any of his secrets, here you can see some of the technique that goes into his now signature style.

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Shok-1 (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Shok-1 (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Shok-1 (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Shok-1 (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Shok-1 (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Shok-1 completed these walls in coordination with and at the invitation of The Bushwick Collective.

 

 

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New Video for Project M/3 at UN Site in Berlin

New Video for Project M/3 at UN Site in Berlin

Here’s a fresh video (below) completed yesterday that shows a little of the excitement and machinations behind the scenes of the Project M/3 in Berlin, as well as dramatic foreshadowing of the UN. Director Yasha Young lays some of the groundwork philosophy and Martha Cooper alludes cheerfully to the scope of things to come.  BSA-Brooklyn-Street-Art-M3-James-Bullough---JBAK-at-UN-March-2014-4

JBAK does an abstracted photorealistic piece for Project M/3 at UN, Berlin (screenshot © UN)

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Rone on the upper facade of the soon to be renovated future UN, Berlin (screenshot © UN)

An Urban Nation Growing in Berlin

For more on Urban Nation and ProjectM/3 click HERE and read BSA coverage with exclusive photos from Luna Park and an interview with Martyn Reed, curator of Project M/3.

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Skount and Pau Quintana Jornet Make a “Spring Offering”

Skount and Pau Quintana Jornet Make a “Spring Offering”

In Amsterdam the temperature is above freezing and the trees are beginning to show little buds on the branches. With any luck this new “spring offering” by Skount and Pau Quintana Jornet will usher in the end of winter faster.

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Pau Quintana Jornet and Skount collaboration in Amsterdam. “Spring Offering” (photo © Skount)

Inspired by Norse mythology, their mural is a modern interpretation of the goddess named Freya, who, not surprisingly, rules over matters regarding fertility and love, and also provides for those killed in war. With a nod to Norse sorcery, war, and death, there also represented is a holy tree named Yggdrasil that reaches far into the soil and far into the heavens.

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Pau Quintana Jornet and Skount collaboration in Amsterdam. “Spring Offering”. Detail. (photo © Skount)

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Pau Quintana Jornet and Skount collaboration in Amsterdam. “Spring Offering”. Detail. (photo © Skount)

 

Pau Quintana Jornet’s long term initiative called Project Wallflowers HERE.

 

 

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Images Of The Week: 03.23.14

Images Of The Week: 03.23.14

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Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Aine, APC, Bast, Billi Kid, Dain, David Shillinglaw, Dee Dee, Dennis McNett, Droid, Enzo & Nio, Kaws, Li-Hill, Seazk, Stikman, and Wing.

Top Image >> Dain is back with some new objects of his affection (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Dain (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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The city is full of them, but you usually don’t catch one like this. Li-Hill (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Wing (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Droid (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Enzo & Nio (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Gurl, oh no you didn’t! Bast (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Kaws in collaboration with the Brooklyn Academy of Music (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Dennis McNett in collaboration with Show Paper (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Aine. Often when we talk about art in the streets we refer to it as the gallery on the street, and in this case it literally is one. This artist contributed this collection of his own works and studies of a couple of others, installed on the street.  The collection has changed over time and most people just appreciate it and move on. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Aine. Next to his own character illustration, a study of the Mary Cassatt’s 1893 oil painting The Childs Bath is in the collection.(photo © Jaime Rojo)

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APC (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Dee Dee (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Seazk (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Billi Kid (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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David Shillinglaw (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Stikman (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Untitled. Shadow of a man checking his mobile phone. Brooklyn. March 2014 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

 

 

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Spaik and Libre Collabo Mural in Mexico City

Spaik and Libre Collabo Mural in Mexico City

A collaboration between two Gen Y Mexican muralists went up this month for college age festival goers at an electronic dance event in Mexico City that features multiple DJs, carnival rides, laser light shows, and neon accessories. Here are some shots of the massive wall by Spaik and Libre and you can see the video at the end for more information.

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Spaik and Libre collaboration in Mexico City (photo © Jose Hernandez)

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Spaik and Libre collaboration in Mexico City. Detail. (photo © Jose Hernandez)

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Spaik and Libre collaboration in Mexico City. Detail. (photo © Jose Hernandez)

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Spaik and Libre collaboration in Mexico City. Detail. (photo © Jose Hernandez)

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Spaik and Libre collaboration in Mexico City. Detail. (photo © Jose Hernandez)

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Spaik and Libre collaboration in Mexico City. Detail. (photo © Jose Hernandez)

 

 

 

 

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BSA Film Friday: 03.21.14

BSA Film Friday: 03.21.14

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

Now screening :

1. Miss Van in Wynwood, Miami
2. Cane Morto + Ema Jons
3. Virtuous Reality * Adam Void and Ryan Seslow
4. In Memory of Shawn Whisenant by Spencer Keeton Cunningham

BSA Special Feature: Miss Van in Wynwood, Miami

In this gentle meditation by Edition Slurp we find Miss Van painting and langorously stroking the canvas with brush while she was at Wynwood Walls in December. Read more about the event Women Rock Wynwood Walls at Miami Art Basel 2013

 

Cane Morto + Ema Jons

A night time escape captured by El Pacino and Tanguy Bombonera appears to accompany Italian bruta expressionistas Cane Morta in a large scale night time collabo with Ema Jons while traffic whizzes by obliviously.

 

Virtuous Reality * Adam Void and Ryan Seslow

To file under experimental: a collaboration by practitioners of art in the street that merges the styles of both Adam VOID and Ryan Seslow. Sound and vision chops together a pastiche of images to lull you to sleep and to jolt you awake you from your hypnotic solid state dream life.

 

In Memory of Shawn Whisenant by Spencer Keeton Cunningham

“You can grab your skateboard and your camera and go outside, and the world is yours,” says Whisenant to the camera as he describes one of the perfect days in the street.

A fine and poignant tribute to artist, skater, photographer and friend to many on San Francisco’s streets, Shawn passed away earlier this month.  The stills, music clips, interviews and commentary give a sense of the open approach he had to creativity, to art making, to others – and here these reminders of him are pulled together in an endearing and regardful way. Our thoughts go out to Shawn’s family and friends during this time.

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Project M/3 Opens for UN in Berlin and Martyn Reed on Table Etiquette

Project M/3 Opens for UN in Berlin and Martyn Reed on Table Etiquette

 “good table manners, social awareness, whether or not they are house trained…”

Project M sounds like a James Bond plot feature, and if you’ve seen the smartly swarthy man of mystery at the helm of this installation you may expect him to scale the facade of the Urban Nation, instead of simply curate it.

But that is what Nuart’s founder Martyn Reed is doing in Berlin right now – cultivating a diverse program of urban artists on the ground level of a promising new project now under construction. Last week Martyn met with a number of the participants who flew, drove, walked to this neighborhood in transition to install their works for M/3 – including New York’s Martha Cooper, Melbourne’s Buff Diss, and Berlin’s Various & Gould, among others.

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Martha Cooper. Shot from inside the window. (photo © Luna Park)

Project M, now in it’s 3rd edition, is a rotating street level exhibition to draw attention to the birth of an auspicious new cultural and art project that will anchor Berlin even further in the minds of fans and academics alike who follow the scene that continues to evolve around art in the streets.

An international presence in an internationally revered street art/ graffiti/ urban art/ mural city, so far Project M has featured artists such as Faile, Ron English, Know Hope, Sandra Chevrier and Strøk, and by the end of this series will have featured many more who are lending shape and form to this global scene with many names.

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Martha Cooper poses in front of her window, 33 years after taking the original photo. (photo © Luna Park)

On hand for the installation action a few days ago was New York based photographer Luna Park, who shares with BSA readers some of the installation action, and we spoke with Mr. Reed about his curatorial vision for this iteration of Project M.

Brooklyn Street Art: Can you tell us about Project M and what you will be drawing attention to here?
Martyn Reed: It’s an interesting project and quite unusual in that it uses the inside of windows to house the work, and due to the nature of the project has quite a few restrictions that we’re not used to on the street or gallery. But like working on a canvas, these restrictions can often focus the mind.

For this iteration of Project M (the third), we set ourselves three tasks; to integrate Berlin artists into the group, to focus primarily on Stencil Art, and to mix well know names with emerging talent. We also asked a few of the artists, Martin Whatson and Ernest Zacharevic for example, to work site specifically.

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So much for the “Broken Window” theory. Martha Cooper (photo © Luna Park)

Brooklyn Street Art: When you were thinking about which artists to choose for this project that is still in its early days at UN, what qualities were you looking for?
Martyn Reed: As ever with Nuart, it’s not always just about the art. This was to be a pretty intense 12 hour working period in a relatively small space with a crew who hadn’t yet met the artists. In cases like this it is important, like at all great dinner parties, to get the mix of guests just right.

Failing that, it is important to ensure that there’s plenty of alcohol available. Other qualities we looked for were good table manners, social awareness, whether or not they are house trained, and whether they can they be trusted with sharp implements etcetera. – For the most, I think we got the balance just right.

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Levalet at work on his piece. (photo © Luna Park)

Brooklyn Street Art: Berlin obviously is a major city for street/urban/graffiti/mural art. How would you describe the influence of the local scene as factoring in to your curatorial vision on this project?
Martyn Reed: I think it’s important to get to know as much as possible about the artists and area you’re working in. Fortunately we have a lot of friends based in Berlin and a pretty intimate knowledge of the scene.

I knew which artists and style of work I wanted for this project and also those I thought who would be valuable allies for the UN project in the future. Berlin’s an interesting place to work with its heady mix of activism, anarchy and youthful abandon. I guess finding a way to harness and present this without becoming it, is key.

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Levalet (photo © Luna Park)

Brooklyn Street Art: You have had some view of this already during the installation – but which artist do you think will provoke the most response from passersby?
Martyn Reed: For me it is Martha Cooper’s “Cops” from 1981, a vintage photo install chosen specifically for this location that is overlooked by the U-Bahn, Berlin’s Subway. It’s 20% larger than life and is really imposing in situ and when viewed from the train. It has already garnered the most interest and I’m sure is on its way to being a “future classic”.

I’m really happy bringing this particular work to the street and presenting it as a work of art in its own right, and of course, it’s always a pleasure to honour such a legend as Martha.

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Various & Gould at work on their piece. (photo © Luna Park)

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Various & Gould (photo © Luna Park)

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Martin Whatson at work on his piece. (photo © Luna Park)

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Martin Whatson (photo © Luna Park)

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Buff Diss at work on his piece. (photo © Luna Park)

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Buff Diss (photo © Luna Park)

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Buff Diss (photo © Luna Park)

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Evol. Detail. (photo © Luna Park)

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Plot Bot at work. (photo © Luna Park)

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Ernest Zacharevic at work on his piece. (photo © Luna Park)

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Ernest Zacharevic stands aside his new installation for M/3 (photo © Luna Park)

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Poland’s M-City through the glass. Detail. (photo © Luna Park)

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M-City with David Hochbaum on the right. (photo © Luna Park)

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Rone on the facade, upper portion. Curated by Urban Nation. (photo © Luna Park)

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David Hochbaum on the lower facade. Curated by Urban Nation. (photo © Luna Park)

We wish to extend our heartfelt gratitude to Luna Park for sharing her photos with us. If you wish to see more of Luna’s work click HERE

PROJECT M/3, curated by Martyn Reed of Nuart features: MARTHA COOPER (US), DOTDOTDOT (NO), ERNEST ZACHAREVIC (LT), VARIOUS AND GOULD (DE), M-CITY (PL), LEVALET (FR), PLOTBOT (DE), MARTIN WHATSON (NO), EVOL (DE), BUFF DISS (AUS)

For more information on Urban Nation, click HERE.

 

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