Fresthetic
Death Warmed Over
Opening Friday, June 25th
Fresthetic
560 Grand Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Pure Evil Gallery,
108 Leonard st,
London EC2A 4XS
www.pureevil.eu
Gallery Hours:
10am – 6pm daily
or by appointment.
photo credit: Brocco Lee
Jon Burgerman and Jim Avignon
Jim Avignon and Jon Burgerman
The Salads and Ballads of Anxieteam.
wed june 2 / 11 PM
Petes Candy store – 709 Lorimer street
The dynamic and delightful duo reunite and return for a very special performance at Brooklyn’s much loved live music haunt Pete’s Candy Store.
Adorned by their revered hand painted stage dressing, Anxieteam (Jim Avignon and Jon Burgerman) will whisk you away to a land of doe-eyed maidens of tea and carnivorous video game characters. Swooning strums of the ukulele, lacquered in lament and wistfulness, will be charged with the electronic prong of sounds from the dawn of the digital age.
The intimate set will touch upon the key universal themes of the Anxieteam oeuvre; buffets and best-friends, relationships and spaceships, cakes and cats, and of course, salads and ballads.
Guests are encouraged to bring their own salad items to the event to contribute to a communal salad to made by the band during the event.
SEE THIS DUO PERFORM AT FACTORY FRESH GALLERY ON SATURDAY JUNE 5th at 6:00 PM
Check out the newly updated mySpace page!
http://www.myspace.com/anxieteam
Carmichael Gallery
Nick Walker Photo Courtesy Carmichael Gallery
For Immediate Release-
Carmichael Gallery is proud to present “Booked”, a group exhibition featuring over 35 of the leading figures in contemporary art.
The gallery’s rooms will showcase a wide selection of original works from artists including:
Aiko, Banksy, Beejoir, Blek le Rat, Boxi, Bumblebee, 215, Henry Chalfant, Martha Cooper
C, D*Face, Brad Downey, Eine, Ericailcane, Escif, Faile, Shepard Fairey, Stelios Faitakis, Gaia, Hush, Mark Jenkins, Dave Kinsey, Know Hope, Labrona,
Anthony Lister, Lucy McLauchlan, Aakash Nihalani, Walter Nomura (a.k.a. Tinho), Other
Steve Powers (a.k.a. ESPO), Lucas Price (a.k.a. Cyclops), Retna, Saber,
Sam3, Sixeart, Slinkachu, SpY, Judith Supine, Titi Freak, Nick Walker,
Dan Witz, and WK Interact.
Books and magazines will be available from a range of publishers,
including Drago, Gestalten,
Gingko Press, Murphy Design, Prestel, Rojo, SCB Distributors,
Studiocromie, Very Nearly Almost,
Zupi and more.
There will be an opening reception for the exhibition on Saturday,
June 5th from 6 to 8pm. The
gallery will be open for viewing from 12pm that day to coincide with
Culver City Art Walk. The
exhibition will run through July 3rd.
Carmichael Gallery
5795 Washington Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232
June 5 – July 3, 2010
Additional and/or high resolution preview images available, please do
not hesitate to contact me!
Best,
Lauren Licata
PR Associate
Carmichael Gallery
www.carmichaelgallery.com
Armsrock
Armsrock Signal Gallery
“Drawn Towards the Present”
The exhibition consists of an installation made out of monumental charcoal drawings on rice paper. The imagery represented in the drawings is based on a collection of press-clippings, which have been reworked and juxtaposed to create a labyrinth of fragments from contemporary history, standing as a tragic prologue to our future hopes and fears.
For additional information please see attached flyer or go to:
“Drawn Towards the Present”
3rd -19th of June. 2010.
Opening on the 3rd of June, 6-9 pm.
Signal Gallery
96a Curtain Road
London EC2A 3AA
UK
Factory Fresh
weekend.
Factory Fresh
Sat. June 19th 7-11pm
featuring works by:
Thomas Buildmore
Morgan Thomas
Kenji Nakayama
Enamel Kingdom
Shock therapy is an attempt to regain control. while everything may seem to be spiraling towards disaster, there are methods to shock it all back in place. Over the years the term has been used to describe methods of medical, financial, and economic rebound, as well as psychological molding. As we see it, Shock Therapy through art is a way to Instill upon others an instant sense of our passion and our desire to create. But also a way to overcome any subconscious hang-ups, to let go and be released from mental confines. A way to control the chaos, while still pushing the envelope. Shocking ourselves and the viewers straight and askew in tandem with a visual onslaught, so that they may see as we do the perplex, all encompassing world we live in.
Now Ryan lives in Boston, paying the bills with design and painting on the side. His works consist of various enamels applied to found objects such as: wood, metal, fiberglass… and any surface with normally underestimated aesthetic potential. Mainly influenced by urban settings, wild life and hip-hop culture, Ryan continues to draw from any other elements exposed from day to day life for inspiration.
Documenting the environment that surrounds him, he spends weeks to hand craft his hand-cut multi-layer stencil work. Kenji flawlessly captures significant moments in his daily life. Serving as a diary from start to finish, his work is deeply personal.
DONALD O’FINN
“I appropriate samples from disparate TV media sources. I re-purpose, re-contextualize, effect, alter,
and weave these constructions into the dreams a television may have”
www.donaldofinn.com
gallery hours:
mon. – fri. 11-6
sat. – sun. 10-7
andemic Gallery
“Shock Therapy!”
Sat. June 19th 7-11pm
featuring works by:
Thomas Buildmore
Morgan Thomas
Kenji Nakayama
Enamel Kingdom
37 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY 11211
In this new video shot and directed by Stephanie Johnes, Logan gives a good idea about his current state as an astutely mighty stencil artist and his status as a citizen of Brooklyn, NYC. In a new show opening Wednesday at Opera Gallery with his fellow street artist Anthony Lister, he will be showing a new collection that reveals an ever more focused attention to clean lines that results from a new technique he’s using.
In his ongoing fixation with “vanishing perspectives”, daddy Hicks has been researching historical photography of New York and it’s architectural wonders of the early 1900’s: Beaux Arts to Banal Tenements to Industrial Soullessness. Hicks channels the empty solitude of the single figure (apparent or implied) amidst the hard angles and stream lines of his city with a new set of crisp and reflective stencils.
Says Logan, “(It’s) either serenity or depression, depending on your mindset”. Looks like serenity from here.
Logan's show flyer from Opera Gallery
The prolific finger-on-the-street-pulse Ms. Cooper, ever humble, passed this along to us saying, “I have a little Name Tagging book launch on Orchard Street.” Okay, we’ll def be there.
And you’ve probably read all this from the other “copy-n-paste” blogs, but here we go:
Date: Saturday, May 15, 2010
Time: 5:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: Obey Pop Up Store NYC
Street: 151 Orchard Street
City/Town: New York, NY
Join Mark Batty Publisher, Martha Cooper and OBEY for a legendary party celebrating a legend herself – and her new book: NAME TAGGING (http://bit.ly/aD0cUH).
There will be books to buy and be signed, lots of free Stella Artois BEER, MUSIC from DB of Breakbeat Science and some well-known faces in the world of URBAN ART.
This is a PREVIEW PARTY of the book even before it’s launched or in stores – so make sure you grab yourself one of the limited copies at the event and get it signed by Martha. We’ll also have copies of her other MBP book, “Going Postal” on-hand.
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ABOUT THE BOOK:
In NAME TAGGING (http://bit.ly/aD0cUH), graffiti photography legend Martha Cooper (http://bit.ly/JF2V8) presents a dizzying array of “Hello My Name Is” stickers adorned with tags, the origin of graffiti and today’s street art cultures.
Cooper’s introduction, artist interviews and photographs make clear how artists famed and anonymous take advantage of the accessibility and practicality of name tag stickers. From CLAW MONEY and NECK FACE to TWIST, SURE, FAUST, COSBE and many, many more, Cooper’s camera has captured the artistry and audacity of these artists and their distinctive tags.
NAME TAGGING recognizes the variety and innovation of tags, crediting the form’s history while demonstrating how old school methods breed some of today’s most exciting graffiti.
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ABOUT THE OBEY POP-UP SHOP: http://obeygiant.com/headlines/obey-pop-up-store-nyc
Big Ups to Billi Kid and Ms. Luna Park and the whole glittering menagerie of street artists who blew up this beautiful little window in Barneys!
Here’s a pic from last night on the street by Luna – see more on The Street Spot
Read More About the Project and See More Pics HERE.
Artists participating are: Aakash Nihalani, Billi Kid, Blanco, Cake, Celso, Cern, Damon Ginandes, Darkcloud, David Cooper, Elbow-Toe, James and Karla Murray, Joe Iurato, Matt Siren, NohJColey, Peru Ana Ana Peru, Skewville, Sofia Maldonado, Stikman, UR®New York and Veng.
His new multi-layer stencilled canvasses are a healthy 3 feet by 4 feet in size, and feature some of the cleanest lines he has created – sometimes giving them a liquid effect, like big reflecting pools in a monochromatic subterranean tableau.
In these two pieces from the show, Logan continues his romance with underground tunnels and structural symmetry – but this time with more gleam and finesse than ever.
Brooklyn Street Art asked him how the show is going:
Logan Hicks: I feel great about the show. This is the first large gallery show that I have done since 2008 and I feel like I have really evolved since then. I will have 12 new pieces for the show and it marks a new style for me. The pieces are a bit more refined, edges are cleaner – which I think works for ‘reading’ the piece.
They are larger pieces too, which really works for feeling like you can walk into the piece. My work has always had this contemplative, reflective kind of feel and the larger the work, the more that feeling comes through.
OPERA GALLERY NEW YORK
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It’s the month of May and this weekend you couldn’t bear to be on the streets of NYC –
Even though we managed to see new stuff INDOORS by Swoon, Matt Siren, Royce Bannon, Michael DeFeo, Stikman, Celso, DarkCloud, LAII, Deekers, M-City, and Dolk – The cold, high winds made street walking quite uninviting and threatened to blow the top off of Swoons’ Konbit shelter installation along the East River while she signed copies of her new book inside Urban Arts Projects.
Along Williamsburgs’ fabled Bedford Ave. yesterday you would have expected hipsters and the college kids who emulate them to be slavishly completing their brunches and slumpingly parading to a stylized dodgeball game at McCarren Park. There they would be chugging from giant styrofoam cups of beer purchased from The Turkey’s Nest and texting friends about their TOTES crazy life.
Instead all that could be found were hearty Polish ladies with corsages pinned on their heavy woolen coats from the Mother’s Day Services at church, a few of the regular lumpy neighborhood drunks slouched and drooping off the park benches, and some miserable young families forced out of their apartments by sheer child-driven insanity.
That’s why this newly discovered sign by TrustoCorp almost seemed like a cheery promise of warm weather, asymmetric haircuts, neckbeards, and hand-rolled cigarettes just around the corner.
Dark Clouds at Woodward (photo © Steven P. Harrington)
Matt Siren at Woodward (photo © Steven P. Harrington)
Stikman at Woodward (photo © Steven P. Harrington)
In BedStuy, Brooklynite the crowd was pumpin' to the sounds of DJ Evil EE in the backyard and looking at new work from M-City and Dolk,while this fellow and his boyz were banging out a street rhythm on the sidewalk in front of the gallery. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)
Dolk and M-City at Brooklynite (photo © Steven P. Harrington)
In the backyard gallery at Brooklynite this Dolk was lit from below quite effectively (photo © Steven P. Harrington)
M-City and Dolk at Brooklynite (photo © Steven P. Harrington)
BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY