Artists

C215 Donates a Smoking Piece to the Auction Benefit

April 19, 2010 , ,

It isn’t unusual to look at the heavily lined faces of this artist and find that you drift away for a moment, lost in a thought. This particular portrait by French street artist C215 of Jon Cartwright has appeared on the streets of New York, London, Paris, and Sao Paulo.* C215, well known for his intricate stencils and portraits of people that somehow allow their inner glow to come out, generously donated this piece for the Street Art New York Silent Auction Benefit this Saturday.

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Using the bottom side of what was once a letterpress sorting drawer of heavy wood, C215 chooses a subject that looks off into a haze of smoke, reflecting for a minute on the issue of the moment, or remembering someone, a conversation, or a phrase.

* source Metro.co.uk

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Images of The Week 04.18.10

April 18, 2010 ,

Our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Aakash Nihalani, Jaime Rojo, REVS, Banksy, Celso, Woodward Gallery, El Sol 25, Veng (RWK), QRST, Emma, Lattice Crow,

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A geometric box flower blooms for 70’s power rock. (Aakash Nihalani) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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REVS is in the soup. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Could this be Bansky checking out the poster for his "documentary"
Could this be Bansky checking out the poster for his “documentary”? YOU decide what the truth is. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

See the BSA review of “Exit Through the Gift Shop”

Celso pays homage to a Modern Master
Celso pays homage to a Modern Master at Woodward Gallery’s outside installation (photo © Jaime Rojo)

"I give up. How many time do I have to tell you to not leave your shoes outside!"e
“I give up. How many times do I have to tell you:  Don’t leave your shoes outside!” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

El Sol 25
Edwin Von Hopper strains to remember the rules about mixing stripes with plaid. (El Sol 25) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Veng RWK
Veng RWK (photo © Jaime Rojo)

QRST
QRST (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Emma has beef on her face
Emma has beef on her face (Emma, Buildmore (?)) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lattice Crow with Sword
Lattice Crow with Sword (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Fallin' in Love
Fool in Love, yeah (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Fun Friday 04.16.10 : “Glamorous” Pandemic Takes Street Art to the Mall for a “Photo Shoot”

April 16, 2010 , ,

Scenes of Glamorous Pandemonium in Brooklyn

It seemed innocent enough, the invitation said it was a “Closing Party” for the very successful “Stokenphobia” show with GoreB and a cast of thousands at Pandemic Gallery last Saturday night. To our shock and utter glee, it was rock-out with your wig-out, replete with cameras, costumes, props and backgrounds to boot.  Before it all devolved into a silly soup of smeared lipstick on collars and assorted body parts, an assemblage of posing and preening was captured in the moment.

Hold on a sheckunt honey, Momma jus gonna have a little of thish cake.
Hold on a sheckund honey, Momma jus gonna have a little of thish cake.

"You, the bow-legged one, yeah, wass your name? Damn, that sounds sexy!"
“You, the bow-legged one, yeah, wass your name? Damn, that sounds sexy.”

Identities have been hidden to protect the guilty.
Identities have been hidden to protect the guilty.

And this season's ingenue....
And this season’s ingenue….

“AND IIIIIII-EEE-IIIIIIIIII WILL ALWAYS LUV UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU !”

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You want fries with that?
"You better be good to me!"

"You better be good to me!"

See more of the stunning array of glamouuuur at their Flickr page

All images courtesy of Pandemic Gallery and © Derrick Y. Noh.

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JMR Solo Show Tonight, and His Donation to the Silent Auction

April 16, 2010 , , ,

JMR has arrived back in New York from Dallas, where he’s living these days, for the occasion of his solo show at Mighty Tenaka this Friday and to deliver his contribution to the Street Art New York Silent Auction Benefit.

JMR takes his usual pristine ne0-abstract lines and let’s them run in a new direction here – downward. An experienced muralist who can knock out 40 foot long walls in a couple of days, you can see his work on a building sized mural at the Pod Hotel in Manhattan, as well as a number of commissioned projects in Brooklyn.

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Stikman Never Gets BOARD; New Piece for Silent Auction

April 14, 2010 ,

The Ever Clever Stikman does a little robotic dance to spring!

There is no end to the permutations that street art icon Stikman takes; a 3-D sculpture of sticks, screen printed on vinyl, doing a wiggly move on a page of notated music, and of course, smashed into the pavement for you to gaze upon while waiting for the “WALK” sign.

For the Street Art New York Silent Auction Benefit, Stikman has mutated and mounted a weathered piece of lumber, looking in context!

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BARRY McGee Video – Setting up at SFMOMA

April 14, 2010 ,

One of the most influential artists to come out of the graffiti and street art scenes, Barry McGee, was recently asked to reinstall a work of his at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for their 75th Anniversary retrospective.
 Guess they really like this pimple-shaped protrusion of framed sketches, drawings, tags, photos, and geometric patterns

– it’s the 4th installation of the piece at SFMOMA since 1996.

In the video, McGee talks about his first creative impulses and practices, “I drew a lot as a kid, but I didn’t know I was going to be an artist.”

Thanks to G. Lewis Heslet, of The Creative Lives, for alerting us to this video.  For more about the project go to http://thecreativelives.com/

Barry McGee Feature from TheCreativeLives

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Chris Stain Skateboard Piece for Auction

April 13, 2010

Street Artist Chris Stain always complains that he doesn’t get to skateboard anymore because he has grown-up duties and there is just no time. Boo hoo.

Maybe that’s why he designed this custom one-of-a-kind deck for the Street Art New York Silent Auction Benefit.  – At least he can be close to this symbol of teenager-hood while he’s painting.

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Two things I really dig about this is it includes A.) the ironic and personal statement across the bottom, “To Hell With Kevin”, which cracks me up, and B.) one of the tags on the water tower is by another artist in the very same auction.  Can you guess which one?

AND IN OTHER EXCITING CHRIS STAIN NEWS:

Congratulations to Chris for being featured in the prestigious photography magazine WINK, produced by impresario editor Charlie Fish who did a whole 8 page spread on some of his recent work, including a big mural he did in their offices. See the full online version of the magazine HERE.

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Stencil Top Five 04.12.10 from BSA

April 12, 2010 , , , , ,

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The Stencil Top 5 as picked by Samantha Longhi of StencilHistoryX

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A love stencil, anonymous (courtesy Stencil History X)

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Funk25 from Hambourg (© Urbanartcore)

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Indigo (Canada) “In Flight” (courtesy Stencil History X)

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Bruno Leyval “Le Duel”

(courtesy Stencil History X)

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Nazza (Argentina) “Carnaval” (courtesy Stencil History X)

See more at StencilHistoryX.com

See more Nazza images here

See more Indigo images here

See more Funk25 images here

See more Bruno Leyval here

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Sign of the Times: TrustoCorp on National News

April 12, 2010 , ,

Signs Show Up in Other Cities

In perfect timing for the first gallery solo show of TrustoCorp this week, ABC News  just did a piece on their national show last night about these multi-messaged metal missives bolted to sign posts in multiple metropolises.

ABC reports that this sign will be seen soon - prophets!
ABC reports and prophesies that this new TrustoCorp sign will be seen soon on the street.

Says the ABC report by Joel Siegel, “In an e-mail responding to questions from ABC News, TrustoCorp said its guerilla street art is ‘dedicated to highlighting the hypocrisy and hilarity of human behavior through sarcasm and satire.’ ” Read the full article HERE

See other recent postings and pics about TrustoCorp on BSA:

TRUSTO Corp Culture Jamming and Political Critique Continues http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=9509

Trustocorp Sighting on Lower East Side in a Snowstorm http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=8611

Images of the Week 01.17.10 http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=7647

Trusto Corp, Kid Acne and EMA Trample Through Brooklyn http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=7333

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Images of the Week 04.11.10

Images of the Week 04.11.10

April 11, 2010 , , ,
Our Weekly Interview with the Street: This week featuring Constellation, QRST, She Wolf, Dan Witz,$howta, C215

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C215 "Sailor"
C215 “Sailor” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Show Me the Money!  ($howta) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

An old Dan Witz
A classic Dan Witz (photo © Jaime Rojo)

She Wolf (artist's name?)
She Wolf (artist’s name?) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Geometry
Sometimes the frame is even better than the picture. (artist ?) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

QRST
Ouch. (QRST) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Constellation
Constellation (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Date Farmers tonight at Jonathan Levine, “Smother Your Mother”

April 10, 2010

“The Date Farmers continue to develop what has become their signature aesthetic, incorporating found objects into their assemblage works which include aspects of collage, hand-painted typography, and cross-hatch drawing techniques.

The work contains elements influenced by graffiti, Mexican street murals, traditional revolutionary posters, prison art, tattoos, and sign painting, while often combining familiar pop iconography and corporate logos with figures from comics, folklore and Catholicism.”

courtesy Jonathan Levine Gallery

"Descent into Heaven", Date Farmers (courtesy Jonathan Levine Gallery)

St Luis MO, Date Farmers (courtesy Jonathan Levine Gallery)

St Luis MO, Date Farmers (courtesy Jonathan Levine Gallery)

Jonathan Levine Gallery

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