Artists

PMP’s Swollen Purple Headedness at “Street Crush”

February 11, 2009 , ,

Peripheral Media Projects, a screen print troupe of artists,

anchored in the ever-expanding artist empire of Bushwick, Brooklyn, favors the symbol and it’s implicative powers. With clip-art flat icons combined with photo realistic images and textbook illustration, the compositional elements continue to break apart and regroup with each new piece.

For the “Street Crush” show, PMP is raining bunnies like a spring shower over nascent Brooklyn flower beds, drenching the toxic soil with fresh acid rain. Holy Cannoli!, don’t those bunnies multiply? We don’t pretend to know what the rest is all about, why don’t you have a look. Look straight and steadily into my eyes…….

Peripheral

You Are Feeling Very Sleepy. "Purple Head" by Peripheral Media Projects for the "Street Crush" show

Peripheral Media Projects

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EKUNDAYO & JOSHUA CLAY at Ad Hoc

February 10, 2009

EKUNDAYO & JOSHUA CLAY

“Duality”

April 3rd through May 3rd 2009

Opening Reception: Friday, April 3rd, 7pm-10pm

EKUNDAYO

Ekundayo was born in Honolulu, HI, but spent most of his childhood moving from place to place with his father, living a life on the run. At the age of 13 Ekundayo discovered one of his uncle’s black books, which completely changed his life. Ekundayo became obsessed with drawing and copied every single page of that little book.

Ekundayo combines both subversive graffiti aesthetics in combination with art-historical erudition using acrylic, gouache, watercolor, ink and various carving techniques. Ekundayo’s work expresses the struggle of life and how those struggles and burdens can either inspire us to change in a constructive way or weigh us down by our own inability to change.

JOSHUA CLAY

Joshua Clay was always destined to become an artist, choosing pencil and paper over toys and technology. Throughout his high school years Clay found himself consumed by the act of painting creating over fifty original works and several large scale murals. Following college Joshua relocated to Los Angeles where he apprenticed under artist Blaine Fontana. In under 2 years of living and working as a fulltime fine artist Clay found himself immersed in the emerging Los Angeles new contemporary art movement.

With four successful solo exhibits and dozens of group exhibits under his belt, Clay has been busy making quite a name for himself. In addition to having his work featured in several books and magazines in recent years, Clay has also caught the attention of the music industry creating artwork for bands including Nine Inch Nails, Linkin Park, Gym Class Heroes and Fall Out Boy. Joshua Clay is sure to be a name you’ll be seeing again.

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Posterboy at Eastern District

February 10, 2009 , ,

PosterBoy “AdBooster” presented by PublicAdCampaign

April 3rd – April 26th
Opening Reception 7-10pm Friday April 3rd 2009
43 Bogart Street, Brooklyn, NY
PosterBoy
www.publicadcampaign.com Street Art and and vandalism have never been paired so eloquently as they are when PosterBoy gets out his razor. Through a simple act of civil disobedience, this work challenges our intense relationship with outdoor advertising in the city. It proposes new ways of interacting with your public environment and challenges notions of public and private space. Out of the work comes a dialogue which is sometimes political, sometimes humorous, and always a perspective shifting moment of communication.

By bringing outdoor advertising into the gallery, this installation will attempt to discuss the appropriation of public space by outdoor advertising from within the gallery walls. The artist, having more time to construct the imagery will engage a more intense dialogue with both the advertisement and the viewer. By physically altering the medium of outdoor media, the PosterBoy movement critiques both the content and the dissemination methods currently overwhelimg our collective consciousness. Ultimately what starts as an act of social unrest becomes a reimagination of the spaces we all occupy and a vision of a different shared public environment.

Over the past year PosterBoy has brought his critique of advertising and public space use to the streets of New York City with prolific force. Eastern-District is proud to bring you his first solo exhibition, including a large scale installation by the artist as well as prints of his now famous subway installations.

Posterboy and Aakash Nihalani

Posterboy and Aakash Nihalani (photo Steven P. Harrington)

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Matt Siren and Lee Holin at “Street Crush”

February 10, 2009

Ghost Girl is a perfect amalgam of the perfect girl for Matt Siren.

Long hours playing Pacman as a kid seered her ghostly shape into his retina. Long hours sitting in the pew at Catholic church in Queens staring at the rosary produced the stylized Keltic Cross barrette in her perfectly combed hair. Her prim reserve and Japanime styling probably folds into that Catholic upbringing too, but let’s not all be armchair psychoanalysts! Or am I projecting?

You’ll find Ghost Girl nested into pieces by Matt, even when the topic is something else, or when he is collaborating.  He likes collaborating with artist to see what is produced by the collision of styles, and usually is really stoked by the results.  His show at Woodward Gallery with Dark Clouds last year featured multiple collaborations with a number of street artists (see a nice post on C-Monster from that show).  A designer at heart, Matt has produced clean boyant posters for bands and burlesque shows.

For the “Street Crush” show at Alphabeta this Friday, Matt is collaborating with artist Lee Holin, who favors portraits of friends in his work – first photographing their image and then painting it.  “Skinny Drip”, their piece together, features one of these black and white images with silver screen print of Matt’s newest character (the Skull Mistress) masking out part of Holin’s model.  And of course, nestled into the text at the bottom you see 4 little red “Ghost Girls”. Perfect!

"Skinny Drip" by Matt Siren and Lee Holin (for "Street Crush" show)

"Skinny Drip" by Matt Siren and Lee Holin (for "Street Crush" show)

STREET CRUSH is a BEST BET in New York Magazine this week.

Matt Siren’s Site

Woodward Gallery

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I Heart You! Chris Uphues at “Street Crush”

February 8, 2009 , ,

Who doesn’t know this happy heart guy?  Raise your hand!

That is because you are bitter.  That’s what it is.  And probably your mom was mean to you and your father was a big green sewer frog.  You know these hearts, with their various personalities and dispositions, but you just don’t want to admit it because you think that will make you soooooo un-tough.

When you round a corner and hit a sudden patch of hearts smacked up – with their different personalities and dispositions, they made you a little bit happier.  It’s okay.  No one will tell.

U Makin Me Salivate! (Chris Uphues for "Street Crush" Show)

U Makin Me Salivate! (Chris Uphues for "Street Crush" show)

I got a love hangover (Chris Uphues for "Street Crush" show)

I got a love hangover (Chris Uphues for "Street Crush" show)

Tough Love (Chris Uphues for "Street Crush"

Tough Love (Chris Uphues for "Street Crush" show)

Check out this fun animation of Chris’s art made by Jason Robert Bell.

Love from Jason Robert Bell on Vimeo.

Chris Uphues

Street Crush Show

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“Work to Do” show at 112 Greene Street

February 8, 2009 , , ,

Royce Bannon and a diverse team of talented street artist/graff writers are taking the challenge seriously: Revive the artists’ space in Soho that boasts a proud history and restore it to the constructive, collaborative, democratic roots of a real artists’ community; one that will have a mission of giving back, as well as re-establishing a laboratory for discovery.

These are times for bold actions of hope, and all hands are on deck for a show opening this month called “Work to Do” at 112 Greene Street in Soho, a place that first flourished in the years before the Reagan Revolution.

Read the Brooklyn Street Art Post for this event here

A Monstrous Welcome to a New Era for 112 Greene Street (Royce Bannon)

A Monstrous Welcome to a New Era for 112 Greene Street (Royce Bannon)

Endless Love Crew

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FOUR ROOMS AND A WALL at Carlton Arms Hotel

February 7, 2009 ,

ARTBREAK GALLERY IN CAHOOTS WITH
THE CARLTON ARMS ART PROJECT PRESENTS:

FOUR ROOMS AND A WALL

5 NEW AND WONDEROUS ADDITIONS TO THE WALLS OF THE CARLTON ARMS HOTEL
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: ANDRE VAN DER KERKHOFF, JAMES AND KARLA MURRAY, DIZA HOPE, OTTJORG A.C., DAREK SOLARSKI, DAVID COOPER AND VENG.
Yes, I'd like a room with a vibrating bed please.

Yes, I'd like a room with a vibrating bed please

LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCES BY MICHAEL POWERS AND BAND (FEATURING GABRIEL ALDORT) WITH SPECIAL GUESTS MARK BIRNBAUM, MICHAEL FISHER AND MERYL LEPPARD.

THURSDAY MARCH 12TH 6 – 10 PM

THE CARLTON ARMS HOTEL
160 EAST 25TH ST. (AT 3RD AVE.) NY, NY 10010
212 679 0680

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Imminent Disaster On Target for Street Crush

February 7, 2009 , ,

Coming off a big Brooklyn show at ThinkSpace in December,

Imminent Disaster scales down the size, and scales up the the symbolic power in this hand inked collage of found wood and debris on the street. It’s character is lyrical and brutal, refined and rugged.

Imminent Disaster comes on strong with a message to the Haterz, and you can decide what it is.

"Haterz" by Imminent Disaster (for the "Street Crush" Show)

“Haterz” by Imminent Disaster for the “Street Crush” show

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First Street Crush – Sneak Peak – Jef Aerosol

February 6, 2009 , ,

Deep in the frozen tundra of Greenpoint Brooklyn….. this group of artists have focused their gaze on one theme,

and each one comes at it from a different angle. They are each going up with a variety of ways to see love, sex, sensuality, and the streets.  The show is rockin’ it sexaaaay!

Starting us off is one example from stencil pioneer Jef Aerosol.

It seems appropriate to pay tribute to Bettie Page (Jef Aerosol for Street Crush Show)

It seems appropriate to begin with a tribute to Bettie Page: "Fishnets" (Jef Aerosol for Street Crush Show)

Jef Aerosol Myspace

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Fountain Art Fair All Weekend

February 5, 2009

  • Fountain, the independent art fair pioneered by cutting-edge galleries, celebrates its 3rd year in New York.

  • Location

    Pier 66 26th St Hudson River Park

  • Schedule

    March 5-8, 2009 11am–7pm
    VIP/Press: Thurs March 5th
    Reception for the Artists: Fri. March 6, 7pm–midnight

Fountain New York 2009 participating galleries include:

Ad Hoc Art – Brooklyn
Front Room – Brooklyn
Definition Gallery – Baltimore
Glowlab – New York
Leo Kesting – New York
McCaig-Welles – Brooklyn
Stuart Shepherd Gallery – New Zealand
Vagabond-Schmarotzer Gallery – New York

Fountain was launched in March 2006 in New York in an effort to leverage support for independent galleries overlooked by the larger, corporate-sponsored art fairs. The name “Fountain” is a nod to Marcel Duchamp’s controversial sculpture which shook up the art world when it was rejected by the Society of Artists’ exhibition in 1917. Similarly, in defiant contrast with The Armory Show, Art Basel Miami Beach, Pulse, Scope and the numerous other international art fairs, Fountain has received wide public support and critical acclaim for its experimental slant. In form and spirit, the artwork exhibited at Fountain reflects the avant-garde attitude of the Dada art movement, while attracting the attention of the international clientele and top collectors who attend the more traditional fairs.

Ad Hoc Gallery will be showing work by:

Armsrock, C215, Dain, Camilla d’Errico, Leslie Ditto, Eine, Ewelina Ferruso, Gaia, Imminent Disaster, Sarah Joncas, Dan-ah Kim, Hiro Kurata, Tommii Lim, Anthony Lister, LogikOne, Mijn Schatje

Imminent Disaster at the Ad Hoc Booth

Imminent Disaster at the Ad Hoc Booth at Fountain

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Rise Up! To the Roof tonight!

February 5, 2009 ,

Chris Stain is ready to show the peeps on the left coast just what it looks like up on the roof here in the BK. Of course, right now if you went up on my roof you better take a flask of Makers Mark, cuz it it is cold as Lou Dobb’s heart up there this time of year.

If you are going to the opening tonight, plan to get there early because Chris has made a limited edition print especially for the show as a gift to the first fans through the door tonight.  That is so like him.

Anyway, if you can’t make it to the opening, here’s an hors d’oeuvre tray of images to sate your appetite. Try the pigeon pâté!

A formidable team! (Chris Stain courtesy Carmichael)

A formidable team! (Chris Stain courtesy Carmichael)

Here Comes the Sun! I'm Free. (Chris Stain courtesy Carmichael Gallery)

Here Comes the Sun! I'm Free! (Chris Stain courtesy Carmichael Gallery)

Homeward

" Homeward Bound" (Chris Stain courtesy Carmichael Gallery)

In the rear gallery “LIFELINE” a group exhibition featuring Alex Hornest, Jim Darling, Ilia of Btoy and Sesper with Andreas Ragnar Kasapsis in the Showcase Space.

Carmichael Gallery

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