They’re calling it “2 Many Artists”, as if there were such a thing.
While the Queen is back home poking tentatively at her new iPod wheelie, Miss Bugs and Joe Black crossed the ocean to come here and mash up the cultural icons and clip art and whatever else is handy on the Kings Highway.ssbugs
And to round out the Royal Family references, it’s Prince Paul on the wheels of deal.
That will be all.
April 18 – May 16, 2009
Love Monster by Aiko (courtesy Joshua Liner Gallery)
Born in Tokyo and living in NYC since 1996, well known as founding member of art collective FAILE. In 2006 she started her solo career and has been exhibiting her stencil/silk screen paintings in major cities such as NY, LA, London, Berlin, Tokyo and Barcelona.
Artist Statement
Aiko finds her inspiration in the streets, Kawaii culture, and the energy and sexuality of women everywhere. Brought stateside to study film, she found she could hide in plain-sight by plastering her images anonymously throughout the city. Street-steam accompanies the exploration of the female form and character. Playing between childhood flashbacks and future visions, snapshots of memories peer from the gentle decay of their surroundings, and read like an autobiography. Her now iconic visions of fairy tale nightmare’s and pulp-fiction seduction are free to explore the themes of romance, morality, and religion that were only glimmers within her earlier work. Combing her stenciling, with brushwork and spray paint to recreate the urban decay of her work on the city streets, vixens and virgins with pop-culture sensibilities embody all the sexuality that fuels its spirit.
ONE DAY EVENT! COME MEET CLAW MONEY AND VIEW AN EXCITING EXHIBITION OF HER NEW ART. (But the show is four days)
FRIDAY MAY 8TH, 7 – 10PM. SPONSORED BY BELVEDERE VODKA!! THE EXHIBITION WILL BE ON VIEW TILL MAY 12TH 2009
EASTERN DISTRICT. 43 BOGART STREET – L TRAIN TO MORGAN AVENUE.
Veng (photo Jaime Rojo)
Sol 25 (photo Jaime Rojo)
Is this about a cat? (Rod Stuart) (photo Jaime Rojo)
Nice earcuff, are those coming back? (Ethos) (photo Jaime Rojo)
AIG is just a Scapegoat (photo Jaime Rojo)
Sol 25 (photo Jaime Rojo)
Rod Stuart Loves the Hamptons (photo Jaime Rojo)
A book launch and solo show of works by Nick Walker. Drago publishing invited Nick to work with them on a book to be published as part of their 36 Chambers Series. The 36 Chambers is an ongoing Drago project where artists are invited to produce a book with 96 pages in black, white and a colour of their choice – beyond this broad guideline artists have total freedom over the content of the book. For Nicks’ book ‘A Sequence of Events’ he produced a series of works on paper and we are delighted to celebrate the launch of the book by holding a exhibition of these works.
A Sequence of Events opens on Thursday May 28th and invites to the preview and further information about the show will be sent out closer to the time.
As part of the fundraising efforts for her Swimming Cities project Swoon has made a number of small unique works available through Black Rat Press. Anyone interested in viewing these works should contact info@blackratpress.com
Old Skool, Art Skool, Graff Crews, Street Art, Hipsters, Hip-Hop, Electro, Blue-haired, Blue themes, Critics, Kids, Collabo’s, Lolitas, Lotharios, Murals, Markers, Canvasses, Cans, Wheatpaste, Stickers, Sculpture, and Script. This might just be what community looks like. Every where you turned, the senses were flooded, and cellphones and electronic gadgetry were revealed for what they lack in the competition for connectedness and D.I.Y. inspiration.
Surpassing many of the street art group shows of the past few years, this one was obviously very organic and full of love, rather than hype.
When Afrika Bambaataa and Soul Sonic Force finally picked up their mikes and Martha Cooper broke off from signing books with Henry Chalfant to expertly weave with her camera, the crowds’ momentum was already in full swing. No one can doubt that this scene, whatever label you care to give it, is on fire right now and the creative spirit is at work in the belly of the people.
Good luck tracking it’s trajectories.
Thanks to the Combine and the talented Jazz Beaulieu for the images below:
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Other shots from the show……
“Work To Do” is at 112 Greene Street in Soho, NYC, and runs through April 16.
More info – Endless Love Crew
“Work to Do” opened last night at The Combine for the inauguration of the arts space at 112 Greene Street, courtesy of big-hearted visionaries Steve Loeb and John Robie, and curators Royce Bannon and the Endless Love Crew.
More details later, but here are a few pics from the opening that shows off the skillz of street and graff artists from North Brooklyn and beyond. The show is up until April 16, maybe longer judging from the incredibly high interest we’re seeing.
Barricades, Bouncers, Guest Lists? Welcome to Soho Peepul! (photo Steven P. Harrington)
Ponytail, Plaid, Colt (photo Steven P. Harrington)
Royce Monsters on the Column (photo Steven P. Harrington)
Props to Royce (Royce Bannon at "Work to Do") (photo Steven P. Harrington)
Pufferella answers the question about who's gonna do all this work. (Pufferella and Matt Siren) (photo Steven P. Harrington)
"Are you sure it isn't time for a 'colourful metaphor'?", asked Spock Monroe (MBW) (photo Jaime Rojo)
Foreshadowing of soup lines (Exyzt)(photo Jaime Rojo)
You fly the dirigible, I'll keep an eye out for the authorities (Venado, Nick Walker) (photo Jaime Rojo)
NohJ works in Color at "Work to Do" (NohJ Coley) (photo Jaime Rojo)
Time's Up! - from "Work to Do" (Chris from Robots Will Kill) (photo Jaime Rojo)
C.Damage gets Up at "Work to Do" (C.Damage) (photo Jaime Rojo)
Deeks and Celso and Infinity from "Work to Do" (photo Jaime Rojo)
Picasso What? installation from "Work to Do" (photo Jaime Rojo)
Royce Seems to be handling it well, don't you agree? From "Work to Do" (Royce Bannon) (photo Jaime Rojo)
Wait, I'm still thinking. From "Work to Do" (Veng from Robots Will Kill) (photo Jaime Rojo)
Stikman at "Work to Do" (photo Jaime Rojo)
I know what YOU are thinking. You men are all the same.(Za) (photo Jaime Rojo)
May 5, 5-9
310 Bowery at 1st Street
The Magda Danysz gallery is pleased to welcome two major artists from the street art culture who have developed a style of their own : Dalek and Mike Giant. Though they have very different styles they talk about the same culture, the same influences, the same world.Dalek is one of the artists who as Shepard Fairey, Dave Kinsey, and Twist (aka Barry McGee) is taking the old school styles of graffiti and while exposing the work towhole new audiences at the same time.
Mike Giant has added the whole tattoo culture to his graffiti background. He started writing in 1989. Early on, he was influenced by his graffiti partners a lot, as well as by writers like Twist, Rem, and KR. A habit he has kept from his graffiti years asnow, Mike Giant uses words as the building blocks of language.
converged on Secret Project Robot in Williamsburg on Saturday night to witness and bid on a silent auction of artwork to raise funds for SWIMMING CITIES OF SERENISSIMA.
The planned voyage/community event/art installation will sail from Slovenia to Italy this spring, and a multitude of artists donated work to the show. Many more are hoping to be part of the trip itself.
The well organized event was quickly crowded with people signing up to receive their bidding code name and place their bids on forms next to the art. A smartly dressed dj spun vinyl 45’s of 70’s soul classics while volunteers at tables offered screen-printed t-shirts and posters in the back rooom and projections washed over the walls.
The collaborative community spirit was palpable, and good humored fun-seekers romped about the space kissing cheeks (and pinching some too).
A final farewell fundraiser is this Saturday March the 21st.
Click this to support the ambitious trip.
BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY