Renowned stencil artist Logan Hicks will be teaming up with the two-man painting team known as Broken Crow for the Broken Horse exhibit running May 1 – 3 at the former Hamilton Savings and Loan Bank in Brooklyn, NY (498 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231).
‘THE BROKEN HORSE’
The Artwork of Broken Crow and Logan Hicks
BROKEN HORSE will run May 1st to May 3rd
Opening: Friday, May 1st 7-11pm
Hours: May 2-3 12pm to 6pm
Broken Crow, the two-man painting team, and Logan Hicks (Workhorse) are proud to announce the ‘The Broken Horse’ show. This 3-day event will mark the first offcial show in New York for all three of the internationally acclaimed artists. Taking the current economic state head on, the show will be hosted at the former Hamilton Savings and Loan Bank at 498 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY, in Carroll Gardens.
Although it appears to be simply a mix of the artists’ monikers (Broken Crow and Workhorse), the show’s title ‘The Broken Horse’ rejects the dualism of each artist’s work. Using this platform, the artists tackle the subject of living beings in their environment. Perhaps the Broken Horse is one whose spirit has been ‘broken’ – reared for servitude; maybe it refers to a busted horse, one that is damaged and no longer of use. This dualism leaves the title, and each artist’s respective work, open to interpretation: productive versus ruined, urban landscape or wildlife, ominous against auspicious.
Logan Hicks’ work often showcases the sprawling inhabitants of the city juxtapozed against the stark, grey environment in which they live. In many of his pieces, people wind through the streets, walk between cars, and pour out of buildings. It is as though the flow of people within the street mirrors the movement of water in a stream snaking around rocks, trees, and obstacles. The focal point of Logan’s work rests within the rhythmical pattern of crowds in the metropolitan environment.
By contrast, the central theme of Broken Crow’s artwork is the solo animal in nature. The work elevates the status of nature and showcases the importance of life outside the city. Often, the subject matter of Broken Crow’s pieces are animals menacingly staring down on the viewer. With murals larger in size than real life, these animals hover over the viewer in wait, observing and plotting.
BROKEN CROW
John Grider
John Grider is a stencil artist and muralist from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
In 2008, he painted walls in Paris, London, Duluth, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Brooklyn, took part in exhibitions across Europe, was published in books from France and Greece, painted inside of a sky scraper, retired all of his stencils, and got deported from England.
As part of the two-man team known as Broken Crow, they have sought out to quadruple-handedly paint the largest stencils known to man- and womankind. They are rumored to hold the unoffcial record for cutting the world’s largest stencil.
Mike Fitzsimmons
Mike Fitzsimmons is a muralist/painter, and the platonic other half of the world-renowned duo known as Broken Crow.
He was classically trained in sculpture and painting at Illinois State University and has been cutting his own hair for a whopping fourteen years.
He cites his influences as everything from mid-nineties West Coast gangster rap, home remodeling and repair, music, cooking dinner with his wife, and long road trips.
He currently resides in St. Paul, Minnesota.
WORKHORSE
Logan Hicks
Logan Hicks is a stencil artist who has been stenciling his way around the world for the past 10 years. Known for his meticulious multi-layered stencils, his work captures the sensory overload with which a city can inundate a person.
With shows in nearly 30 countries and showing no signs of slowing down, Logan has brought his artwork to cities as far away as Cape Town, South Africa and Shanghai, China.
Logan is from Baltimore, Maryland, but currently lives in New York City. Citing New York as the ‘city of all cities’, Logan can often be found wandering the subway system at 4 in the morning taking pictures for his artwork or simply observing the army of people coursing through the tunnels like blood through a body’s veins and arteries.
Our interview last summer with Broken Crow can be seen here:
Friday the 13th they will be reprising the fun-times of the opening with their “closing party”, even though the show will remain for a couple more days. Jim is planning to play some songs and Jon is planning to draw on your sweater if you don’t keep your eye on him.
Mighty Tanaka is proud to present As Is, the artwork of JMR and In the Raw, a group show featuring Alexandra Pacula, Will Anderson and David Cook. This combined event seeks to bring communities together through a pop-up gallery located in the popular upcoming Clinton Hill area of Brooklyn. Through the usage of this alternative space to display fine art, these two art shows look to expand the interpretation of art in Brooklyn, mirroring the beauty of fine art with the seemingly raw environment of Brooklyn life.
As Is: The Artwork of JMR— JM Rizzi, or better known as JMR, has adapted a unique mixture of neo-abstract expressionism w hints of contemporary pop to create a style all is own. Having worked in both the street art world as well as the gallery world, JMR brings his iconic imagery to Clinton Hill . As he looks to demonstrate the scale and motion set forth by early abstract expressionists, he reinterprets the ideas within his own personal adaptation. Originally hailing from Brooklyn, New York, JMR has grown up with the influences of street art and the established art world constantly around him. Through his own individual, hybrid street style, he has dedicated himself to helping art fit into the public arena. Having participated in the highly successful 11 Spring St show in 2006, he has gone on to produce art for hotels and restaurants, as well as completing building sized murals in Manhattan. Having just completed the design for a line of clothes, which were featured at a recent fashion show during NYC’s fashion week, JMR looks to expand the idea and integrity of his art to the next level.
In the Raw: Alexandra Pacula, Will Anderson & David Cook—A group show consisting of three talented artists demonstrates an array of different mediums and approaches. Highlighting the unique artistic interpretation of each artist, In the Raw looks to offer insight into some of the exciting art currently being produced in Brooklyn. Alexandra Pacula has been showing art both regionally and internationally for the past six years. With a healthy resume consisting of both museum and gallery shows, she most recently won the Saatchi Gallery Showdown Competition in 2008, having her art displayed in the esteemed institution. Originally from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, Will Anderson began his artistic venture as a graphic designer. After moving to New York in 1997, he began pursuing photography. Currently working for Nylon Magazine, his award winning work has been published and exhibited both nationally and internationally. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, David Cook moved to NYC after being featured in New American Paintings. Working primarily on t-shirt and record design, he most recently received attention for his work in the Young Widows album Old Wounds.
Opening Saturday March 7th, 6-8pm. 105 Lexington Ave, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.
Martha Cooper basking in the sticker glow (with family helping at the sticker table) (photo Steven P. Harrington)
The Crowd Stuck for Hours before Peeling Off to the Afterparty (photo Steven P. Harrington)
Retrieving the newly dry stickers from the clothesline (photo Steven P. Harrington)
Fans flipped through books to select their favorite (Kosbe) (photo Steven P. Harrington)
This troupe of art fans added a new energy to the night! (photo Steven P. Harrington)
Tazz Red Nose says he's been wreckin' stickers since way back in the day. This piece is a full size canvas tribute to two of his most popular characters. (photo Steven P. Harrington)
9 Panels like this with stickers dating back to 1990, were placed around the Ad Hoc gallery. Martha likes the way the two distinct disciplines of graff-styled lettering and street art have intersected on stickers. (photo Steven P. Harrington)
Looking hard while posing for a pic. (photo Steven P. Harrington)
Trading and giveaways between fans were happening all around (photo Steven P. Harrington)
A new bear by C.Damage (photo Steven P. Harrington)
Kosbe covers the options (photo Steven P. Harrington)
Blanco Explains Why BK is Down (photo Steven P. Harrington)
Dwell and One Unit win the award for most fanciful and otherworldly use of materials on stickers. A small collection of their work incorporated wood patterned shelf-lining vinyl collage on postal labels. (photo Steven P. Harrington)
Chris Stain pulls at your humanity with his depictions of our neighbors. (photo Steven P. Harrington)
Depoe had more colorful abstracts on canvas in the show. Here is one of his stickers. (photo Steven P. Harrington)
Aiko bunny with splashes of paint (photo Steven P. Harrington)
PC? - This may stand for Prince Charming (photo Steven P. Harrington)
Giving generously, Chris from Robots will kill prepared envelopes containing 3 stickers and a button for the show. (photo Steven P. Harrington)
Blanco opaqued a postal label completely (almost) to create this stencil tribute to Norman Rockwell. This girl walks the red line - the original "The Problem We All Live With" by Norman Rockwell appeared in Look magazine in 1964, ten years after the Brown Vs. Board of Education decision and during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. (photo Steven P. Harrington)
Hilarious tributes to the cassette tape, Blanco made multiple variations of this stencilled sticker and, with an actual typewriter, gave them labels, including MixTape groupings of old-skool jams, as well as iconic album titles like "in Utero" by Nirvana, and this one. (photo Steven P. Harrington)
Hrag Vartanian “Nothing like a blindfolded burlesque dancer twirling a hola-hoop in front of a wigless drag queen..
It’s kind of hard not to have fun when you are surrounded by art, artist, homies, kissers, and ladies with sequined tassles hanging from the ceiling.
Fun Valen-Times, a perfect street art/ graffitti marriage, and a mash-up of cultural influences swirling around that may not have happened since chocolate met peanut butter. No time to go into it all right now so here’s a few pics to sate your appetite.
But it is never too early to express a heartfelt Thank You to all the street artists, the burlesque performers, the djs, the projectionists, the electronic drummers, the kissing booth builder, the Kisser volunteers, and the family of Alphabeta.
"Girls Can Play" by Aiko (Detail)
Kissing Booth Happy; The show reflected in Jess's smile.
"The Girl with No Thumbs" (Detail) by Broken Crow
Nasty Canasta and Mimi the Clown (photo Steven P. Harrington)
"Wild in the Streets" (detail) by Jef Aerosol
Kissing Booth Fun
Tigger! and Madame Voulez-Vous debate the necessity of clothing.
"Sex Sells" (detail) by Royce Bannon
Harvest Moon flies above the crowd (photo by Kat)
"Mam'zlle de mon reve!!" (detail) by Titi from Paris
What did he just say? I can't look, but I can't stop staring.
Clams Casino Elegance
The gallery is open till the 28th!
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…….
You Are Feeling Very Sleepy. "Purple Head" by Peripheral Media Projects for the "Street Crush" show
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)
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.
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
This show is going to be off the hooker.
It’s for all the fans, that’s you. 42 artists, that’s all we gotta say, and lots of fun because it is all about community, and creativity, and love.
You’ll be hearing more about it as we get closer – in the meantime read all about it here in the calendar.
And for those of you who will want to be practicing up on yer def mooves for the Ladaays of the Eightaaays – here is an instructional video below. Stand up in front of your computer please and practice according to the directions.
I only needed like two minutes and I totally got it. Some other people (no names please, people) may want to view it in it’s entirety.
The “Streets of Brooklyn” opening at ThinkSpace knocked it out of the park in terms of volume, variety, and vitality.
Stephen sends us a great posting about the show with a lot of pictures AND A FREE STIKMAN CONTEST on ArrestedMotion.com
Jack at Daily DuJour has a great deal of insight and many photos of the show HERE.
Love you guys!
BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY