Signal Gallery Presents: RAE “Nocturnal Trips” Solo Exhibition. (London, UK)

January 7, 2013

Introducing the up and coming street artist RAE, born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. This will be his first show in London. The artists says:
‘Nocturnal Trips’ means everything and nothing about how art relates to my existence. In a literal sense, it deals with the the “trips” I take to install the work I put up on the streets at night and how the city seems a lot different when your scheming as opposed to getting a latte.

http://www.signalgallery.com/events

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Shooting Gallery Presents: Winter Group Show. (San Francisco, CA)

January 7, 2013

Shooting Gallery is pleased to present the last Winter Group Show to be held in the current gallery at 839 Larkin, before our big move to a newly renovated building. Helping us go out with a bang will be a great lineup of many of our beloved artists, including Ferris Plock, Casey Gray, APEX, Michael Page, Aaron Nagel, John Felix Arnold, Hugh Leeman, Jet Martinez, C215, Ernesto Yerena, Morgan Slade, Spencer Keeton Cunningham, Lauren Napolitano, Adam Rozan and Bryan Schnelle.

https://www.facebook.com/events/402304229850922/

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White Walls Gallery Presents: D Young V “The New Race” A solo Exhibition. (San Francisco, CA)

January 7, 2013
White Walls is pleased to present “The New Race,” new works by D Young V. The show will be a culmination of the themes Young has been working on for several years, portions of which were shown at Gallery 3 in late 2010 and at White Walls in the summer of 2011. The opening reception will be Saturday, January 12th, from 7-11 pm, and the exhibition:
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Faile Going to the NYC Ballet (VIDEO)

January 7, 2013

Screenshot of Faile video below (© New York City Ballet and Faile)

Tickets go on sale Tuesday to see Faile at the New York City Ballet – a perfectly unconventional pairing for the pair of Patricks and a hugely inspirational way to start the year by marrying the arts. The Faile tower will be unveiled at Lincoln Center in a week, and each performance of the ballet will leave you with an original piece of Faile in your hands.

Screenshot of Faile video below (© New York City Ballet and Faile)

The best part from our perspective is the very reasonable ticket price that will allow Street Art fans who have followed Faile for the last decade to have a great time at the ballet and see the art show together.

Tickets go on sale on Tuesday, January 8 at 12pm noon. For more information on New York City Ballet’s Art Series click here.

FAILE’s site is here.  Also L Magazine has an opportunity for you to win free tickets here.

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Entes Y Pesimo On The Hills of Lima

January 7, 2013

Peruvian Street Artists Entes y Pesimo collaborated with the Alegrarte Festival in Lima, Peru recently to bring color and art to an otherwise barren landscape on the hills of Lima. So much of the current building that spread across the sides of hills in the last two decades has been characterized as a veritable architectural chaos, especially in zones where poorer people live.

Entes y Pesimo really enlivened some of this neighborhood with their recent murals. The bright and cheerful colors of the one-story houses may make these mountains look attractive from a distance, but the daily life is very difficult.

Entes y Pesimo. Lima, Peru outskirts. (photo courtesy © Alegrarte)

“The festival takes place in very economically devastated and crowded areas where many are eager to leave,” says Entes, “For us, it’s purely a way to give a social support; to give color to a very grey area outside of town.”

Entes y Pesimo. Lima, Peru outskirts. (photo courtesy © Alegrarte)

Pesimo talks about the people who live here and why they participated, “These people represent the engine of our capital – that’s why we fully engaged ourselves in the project.  We were only interested in giving color and joy to the families who traverse these hills every day.”

While the colors are bright, thematically the images depict a people who are submerged in water that comes up to their necks. It doesn’t take a master analyst to infer that Entes y Pesimo are painting their countrymen and women as people awash in a struggle with the perils of very hard economic and social challenges.

Entes y Pesimo. Lima, Peru outskirts. (photo courtesy © Alegrarte)

Entes y Pesimo. Lima, Peru outskirts. (photo courtesy © Entes y Pesimo)

Entes y Pesimo. Lima, Peru outskirts. (photo courtesy © Entes y Pesimo)

Entes y Pesimo. Lima, Peru outskirts. (photo courtesy © Entes y Pesimo)

Entes in Miami 2012. (photo courtesy © Entes y Pesimo)

 

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Images of the Week 01.06.13

January 6, 2013

Here’s our first collection for 2013 from BSA’s ongoing interview with the street, this week featuring 907, Smells, Bast, Bunny M, Captain Baby, Droid, Enzo & Nio, Jilly Ballistic, Mr. Toll, Paolo Pivi, Shin Shin, and The Migra.

Top image from the current installation by Paola Pivi at the High Line Park in NYC. Untitled (zebras) 2003. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Shin Shin (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mr. Toll double billing. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Droid 907, Smells (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Hey Charlie, need a light? Enzo & Nio (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Migra (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Migra. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jilly Ballistic (Iphone photo © Jaime Rojo)

Captain Baby (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Whoops, got a little on my bike. Dang. Bast (photo © Jaime Rojo)

bunny M (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. 6th Avenue subway tunnel L train. Manhattan, January 04-13 (Iphone photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Blanco Freezes Street Art to Wall in Mongolia at -25 Degrees

Blanco Freezes Street Art to Wall in Mongolia at -25 Degrees

January 5, 2013

New Yorkers are now complaining bitterly about the cold January weather because, well, it’s our job. In a city where opinions collide into each other daily about all topics like bumper cars at Coney Island, you can always get someone to complain about the weather, no matter the season.

Brooklyn native and Street Artist Blanco has you all beat with his first installation on a wall that uses only water – because that’s the only thing that works when the temperature is -25 degrees fahrenheit.

“Its currently -20F outside my ger,” he says as he refers to the house he is staying in as he talks to us from the the frigid lands he is visiting for a while. “The overnight low is expected to be -36F and this isn’t even bad yet.” Okay we get the point, sounds disgusting.

So what about that new wheat-paste he just made of his friend Nandia?

“Nandia”, Blanco in Mongolia (photo © Patrick Findler)

“Last week I did that experiment where you throw boiling water up in the air and it didn’t hit the ground because it froze into an icy mist in mid-air. It has not been above freezing here for about two months and it wont be above freezing again for a couple more,” he says.

“This makes it almost impossible to wheat-paste anything for about 4 months of the year. The paste will freeze to the surface of a wall before you can even get the paper on it. I have a couple pieces waiting for the spring. But I decided to try something new.”

“On New Years Day I froze a piece to a door using water instead of paste. It should stay there for a couple months until the thaw sets in. The climate will dictate the lifespan,” describes Blanco. Let us know when the crocuses are popping up and maybe we’ll come and take a look.

“Nandia”, Blanco in Mongolia (photo © Patrick Findler)

“Nandia”, Blanco in Mongolia (photo © Patrick Findler)

“Nandia”, Blanco in Mongolia (photo © Patrick Findler)

“Nandia”, Blanco in Mongolia (photo © Patrick Findler)

 

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BSA Film Friday 01.04.12

BSA Film Friday 01.04.12

January 4, 2013

Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.

Now screening: NYC in One Minute, Basquiat & Patti Astor At The Fun Gallery, and The Brooklyn Subway Circus.

NYC in One Minute

Basquiat & Patti Astor At The Fun Gallery – Classic Street Art

The Brooklyn Subway Circus

This cold January weather is so rough on the skin, yo! Gotta keep it moisturized and smooth.

Send us your submission and you might see it next week on BSA Film Friday!

FilmFriday at brooklynstreetart.com

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“All City – Street Art From Germany” Art Exhibition Featuring Luna Park and Lord Jim at The Goethe Institut – Chicago. (Chicago, IL)

January 3, 2013

All City – Street Art from Germany

With an introduction and Q+A by the photographer “Lord Jim”

Exhibition
Friday, January 11, 2013 at 6PM through Thursday, January 31, 2013
Goethe-Institut, 150 N. Michigan Ave. Suite 200, Chicago, IL
On the occasion of All City, a citywide Graffiti and Street Art initiative, launched by the National Museum of Mexican Art, the Goethe-Institut Chicago dedicates the month of January to Street Art in Germany. Stefan Kloo (* 1963) aka “Lord Jim” hails from Germany but has, together with his wife and two sons called Los Angeles his home for the past 25 years. As a collector and pop culture enthusiast he has been photographing the anomalies in the streets that would then be labeled Street Art in a concerted effort since 2005.
Luna Park is a Brooklyn-based street art and graffiti enthusiast, photographer and curator. She spends her free time exploring NYC’s decaying, post-industrial fringes in search of beauty in unexpected locations.
She is passionate about urban art and supportive of all creative endeavors to redefine public space.Her photographs have been exhibited in New York and Los Angeles and have appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Juxtapoz, TimeOutNewYork, Paper, as well as in leading street art books.
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The 2nd Annual Supersonic Electronic Invitational at Spoke Art Gallery. (San Francisco, CA)

January 3, 2013

The 2nd Annual Supersonic Electronic Invitational

January 3rd, 6pm-10pm

Spoke Art Gallery, San Francisco

Spoke Art is proud to present the 2nd Annual Supersonic Electronic Invitational art show at our San Francisco gallery location, debuting this Thursday evening, January 3rd.

Following last year’s wildly successful showing of contemporary art hand chosen by the influential art and Tumblr tastemaker Zach Tutor, the curator returns to Spoke Art for the second year in a row to present a survey of his favorite young contemporary artists.

“The 32 artists in this years Supersonic Electronic Invitational were chosen not only for their outstanding ability to create dynamic art but also for their position as innovators at the forefront of a generation of artists. Artists whose lives have been saturated with visual ephemera and who have had access to endless amounts of inspiration via the Internet.”

https://www.facebook.com/events/135867639904130/

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FAILE and New York City Ballet Art Series present Les BALLETS de FAILE (Manhattan, NYC)

January 3, 2013

New York City Ballet is launching the NYCB Art Series, which will commission contemporary artists to create original works of art inspired by our unique energy, spectacular dancers, and one-of-a-kind repertory of ballets. New York City Ballet has worked with leading and emerging artists throughout the Company’s history — luminaries like Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Julian Schnabel. We are proud to continue this tradition by partnering with Brooklyn-based artists FAILE for the inaugural year of Art Series.

http://www.nycballet.com/artseries

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