Images of the Week 11.18.12
Here’s our weekly interview with the street, featuring Avoid, Bast, Cekis, Enzo & Nio, JM, Ludo, Numb Nuts, Paul Insect, Rone, Spanky, and Swampy.
Spanky The Goblin King still mad about the election. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
BAST (photo © Jaime Rojo)
BAST (photo © Jaime Rojo)
LUDO is just over the hill in the French Countryside (photo © LUDO)
Parisian Street and Fine Artist LUDO shared these exclusive images of his new installations outside Paris. Says the artist, he decided to see how his stuff would look outside the typical urban settings. Also, he just wanted to get out of the city, “just the need for fresh air,” he says.
LUDO in the French Countryside (photo © LUDO)
LUDO in the French Countryside (photo © LUDO)
LUDO in the French Countryside (photo © LUDO)
Paul Insect (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Numb Nuts (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Enzo & Nio (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Enzo & Nio (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Enzo & Nio. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Enzo & Nio (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Swampy & Avoid (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Cekis (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Rone (photo © Jaime Rojo)
JM (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Greenpoint, Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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Carlo McCormick at Nuart 2012
One of the best parts about a celebration of Street Art culture like Nuart in Norway is that there sometimes is an opportunity to speak with and listen to people who make it their mission to put it into context. New York art critic, curator, editor, and writer Carlo McCormick has an exhaustive knowledge and enthusiasm for the scene that evolved on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in the 1970s and 80s concurrently with the evolution of graffiti into a celebrated art form. As Street Art continues apace, having perspective on some of its precursors is imperative and McCormick knows how to bring it alive.
An moment of elation with Carlo McCormick while he addresses the Nuart audience in his keynote presentation Re:mark. (image still © Nuart 2012)
To hang out with Carlo on the street is a joy because he can ground your current observations with his knowledge of their antecedents and yet become as equally appreciative of the new artists on todays’ scene whom he hasn’t heard of. During this talk he gave this year at Nuart in a very conversational somewhat meandering unscripted way, Carlo reveals the mindset that is necessary to keep your eyes open and appreciative of the new stuff without feeling territorial or enslaved to the past. We appreciate him because he recognizes that the march of graffiti, street art, public art, and it’s ever splintering subsets is part of a greater evolutionary tale that began before us and will continue after us.
Carlo speaks about New York artist Haze and the distinct parallels between corporate branding with the practice of developing and distilling one’s tag for repetition on the street. (image still © Nuart 2012)
Carlo at ease, conversing with you. (image still © Nuart 2012)
During his presentation McCormick dedicates a significant portion of his remarks to the historical practice of subverting advertising and official forms of messaging – referring to the Situationists, “détournement” and similar methods of playing with perception and turning it on it’s head. Here is an uncredited image from his presentation of a Times Square scene where artist Yoko Ono’s billboard toyed with the perceptions that the Vietnam war was inevitably unending while also alerting a compliant citizenry to it’s role in the matter. (image still © Nuart 2012)
“As I do my best as a really bad scholar to investigate this history of graffiti and mark-making – kind of prior to the official history – the greatest evidence that I find of stuff is in the real canon of fine art photography. Just about every famous photographer turned – I mean it’s not incidental – turned their attention to this illicit anonymous practice., ” Carlo McCormick at Nuart.
Fun Friday 11.16.12
Here’s our greatest hits list for Fun Friday!
1. Lister “Unsung Heroes” (LNDN/New Castle)
2. Abe Lincoln Jr., Robbie Busch “Split Seven” (BK)
3. Portraiture Group Show in Bushwick tonight (BK)
4. Silent Soho Auction For Boardwalks in Coney and Rockaways Saturday
5 Miss Van Going Wild in Rome
6. Cash4 in”Ca$h For” at Tender Trap in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
7. Mexican Collective Sublevarte Colectivo “The Persistence of Dreams” in Gowanus BK
8. L3SUP3RD3MON and ZLY (VIDEO)
9. MadC and The Jurassic Park Wall (VIDEO)
10. OLEK: “Nobody Can Hurt Me Without My Permission” (VIDEO)
Lister “Unsung Heroes” (LNDN/New Castle)
Anthony Lister’s two shows at The Outsiders Gallery titled “Unslung Heroes” are taking place simultaneously at The Outsiders London and New Castle outlets at the same time. “I try to combine the highbrow and lowbrow,” says Lister, “creating analogies which allow the viewer to feel comfortable with subjects that maybe they’ve made snap judgements on before.”
Both shows are now open.
Anthony Lister in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
For further information regarding these shows click here.
Abe Lincoln Jr., Robbie Busch “Split Seven” (BK)
Split Seven is a fictitious rock n’ roll experience with both artists producing fabricated albums from invented Punk Rock and Heavy Metal bands. Abe Lincoln Jr. and Robbie Busch show “Split Seven” opens tonight at Mighty Tanaka Gallery in Brooklyn.
Abe Lincoln Jr. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
For further information regarding this show click here.
Portraiture Group Show in Bushwick tonight (BK)
At the Low Brow Artique Gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn artists Rachel Hayes, Jilly Ballistic, Vahge, and Vexta explore the discipline of portraiture with their group exhibition “Rewriting Portraiture” opening today. “Typically the subject of paintings throughout art history, Rewriting Portraiture establishes how those who are the object of desire visually depict their realities.”
For further information regarding this show click here.
Silent Soho Auction For Boardwalks in Coney and Rockaways Saturday
“Bring Back The Boardwalks” is a silent auction with 100% of the proceeds going to the reconstruction of the severely damaged communities of Coney Island and The Rockaways. Several Fine and Street Artists have donated works for this benefit including: Curtis LOVE ME, David Ellis, Dennis McNett, Distort, FAILE, Futura, Jeremy Fish, Shie Moreno, Shepard Fairey and SWOON among others. This event takes place Saturday, Trais Gallery in Soho, located at 76 Wooster Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY.
Love Me (photo © Jaime Rojo)
For further information regarding this benefit click here.
Miss Van Going Wild in Rome
“Their faces concealed, these disturbing Venuses are both victims and predators, living their lives according to their instincts and feelings.” Miss Van’s new solo show “Wild at Heart” opens tomorrow at the Dorothy Circus Gallery in Rome, Italy.
Miss Van. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
For further information regarding this show click here.
Also happening this week:
Cash4 has a new show “Ca$h For” presented by The Superior Bugout at the Tender Trap in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Click here for more details.
The Interference Archive in The Gowanus, Brooklyn is hosting the Mexican Collective Sublevarte Colectivo with a show titled “The Persistence of Dreams”. This show opens today. Click here for more details.
L3SUP3RD3MON and ZLY (VIDEO)
The two artists paint a wall in the neighborhood of Coyoacán in Mexico City. From Alejandro Schlauer.
MadC and The Jurassic Park Wall (VIDEO)
OLEK: “Nobody Can Hurt Me Without My Permission” (VIDEO)
More Skewville Irony: “It’s What’s Outside That Counts”
When a museum is worried that it looks too much like a Home Depot from the outside, even though it has Jeff Koons inside, you could question how they decided on an architect. How they chose an artist to adorn the facade is another question. Street Artist’s Skewville know how to twist clichés and axioms to reveal their reverse, so it occurred to them when looking at the place in this town north of New York City that it was a problem of perception. And they know how to turn a phrase for effect. These are the guys who once fashioned a lawn clipper with foam rollers to print “Keep On Grass” with green paint across street walls, after all.
Skewville “It’s What’s Outside That Counts” Fall 2012 (photo © Skewville)
So when The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (HVCCA) got their new Skewville this summer it wasn’t a surprise that the witty sentiment expressed with the broadside signage caused some confusion – and consternation. Says the artist, local businesses thought it violated signage zoning laws. They could have been a bit miffed because, “people were slowing down in their cars in front of the museum and causing traffic,” surmises Ad Deville, one half of Skewville.
Not unlike many skewed sentiments the brothers have rolled with bucket paint across the top of an abandoned factory building, these blasting words are definitely visible from a distance – and they make you crack a smile. Skewville may have once again gotten somebody’s city officials twisted and hot under the collar, but this time it’s a twist of perception that ultimately allows this blocky text message to ride, says Ad, “The museum stated that this is not a sign – its art. And it’s going to run for a year”.
Skewville’s work is from their participation in Peekskill Project V.
From their web site: “Peekskill Project: A Citywide festival of Contemporary Art devoted to… bringing cutting edge contemporary art out of the museum and into the community. Using the city as a stage, Peekskill Project activates the urban environment and its inhabitants through site-specific art exhibitions, performances and screenings sited in multiple venues throughout Peekskill.
Peekskill Project V is a departure from previous installments of the project, which were limited to a single weekend of events and exhibitions. This year’s festival begins with an exciting opening weekend of free exhibitions and programming on September 29th & 30th, 2012, and continues in a series of monthly events through the end of July 2013. Peekskill Project V programming occurs on second & third Sundays, October 2012 – July 2013″
To learn more about Peekskill Project V and for full schedule of events click below:
The Superior Bugout Presents CASH4 “Ca$h For” (Brooklyn, NYC)
What: CASH FOR …
When: Thursday November 15, 2012 6 to 10pm
Where: TENDER TRAP (245 South 1st between Roebling and Havemeyer)
How much: FREE
On Thursday November 15, 2012 please join The Superior Bugout as it hosts the opening night of CASH4’s new body of artwork entitled “CASH FOR…”. Accompanying the artwork will be new sounds from the CASH4’s Brooklyn based hip-hop group THE RAP GANG.
The show will be on display at the TENDER TRAP through December 6, 2012 during hours of operation (4pm-4am).
CASH4 is a painter, illustrator, and architect based in New York City. CASH4’s fine art documents the American urban experience using simple iconography and colloquialisms (those often based on the New York Metropolitan area). CASH4 likes to see his work as bridging the gap between the naive disenfranchised hooligan street kid and the pretentious overzealous contemporary gallery artist.
The Superior Bugout (a Brooklyn based party aesthetic) has been curating art for TENDER TRAP since the Fall of 2012. The Superior Bugout seeks to bring a synergy of sight and sound, combining elements of the streets with contemporary sound visionaries.
Low Brow Artique Presents: “Rewriting Portraiture” A Group Exhibition (Brooklyn, NYC)
Low Brow Artique presents Rewriting Portraiture, featuring the work of Rachel Hayes, Jilly Ballistic, Vahge, and Vexta. This body of work will be on display to the public from November 16th – December 7th with an opening to the public November 16th from 7-10pm.
Working in diverse mediums, Rachel Hays, Jilly Ballistic, Vahge, and Vexta explore portraiture through their bodies of work. Typically the subject of paintings throughout art history, Rewriting Portraiture establishes how those who are the object of desire visually depict their realities. For Jilly Ballistic and Vahge, composites of photography and other mediums make up how they envision the human form. From the gas masked vintage photography and MTA posters of Jilly Ballistic to the paper dolls and Victorian inspired collages of Vahge, these artists choose to illustrate women in a way that is both bizarre and visually entrancing. While these artists use realistic imagery, Rachel Hays and Vexta pair humanity with animals to create intricate metaphors. For Vexta, the bird plays an integral role as a transformative element in her florescent prints. While this work is tied to symbolic metaphors, the juxtaposition of text and imagery in Rachel Hays’ gouache and embroidery is tied to physical relationships. In these pieces, her connections with close friends are rendered with a hand-made care that demonstrates her connectedness with these individuals. Through exploring both metaphor and medium, these artists chose to represent their surroundings in ways that are both deeply personal and diverse.
“The Last Picture”, Jaime Rojo Shoots the Street
New York streets never sleep, and they are just as raw, maddening, and wondrous as you’ve heard. Well known Street Art photographer Jaime Rojo cannot resist them.
He’s always been attracted to the street and the uglier the neighborhood, the better. Before Rojo began shooting Street Art in the early 2000s he was known as a photographer of street life and as an urban explorer. After publishing 10,000 of his images of art from the streets on the web over the last 5 years, most people know him strictly for his Street Art photography.
Lucky to have captured some of the most compelling images of pivotal players during the last decade’s Street Art explosion, Rojo’s images now appear in books, magazines, and on over 150 art, design, and culture websites that celebrate this people’s art movement around the world including Juxtapoz, 12 oz Prophet, Arrested Motion, Vandalog, Ecosystem, Wooster, and The Huffington Post.
But there is more on the street than street art.
Untitled. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. May 2011 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
To expand on the Street Art theme, Rojo has been tagging an unrelated image to the end of the parade of Street Art and graffiti images on BSA’s popular “Images of the Week”. It may feature a booming construction site, a pigeon-trainers’ flock swooping low, or two people stealing a kiss on the roof when no one was looking. He hopes these shots give more rich context to help a viewer understand what it’s like to live in this city; a finale that has become known as “The Last Picture”. Some weeks that image garners more inquisitive emails than the rest. “Where was that taken?” “Who are these people?” “How did you get so lucky to get that shot?”
Walk the streets or bike them, a few times a week, 50 weeks a year; That’s one passionate route to seeing the urban world. Climb some walls, get on some roofs, poke through some fences, walk a tunnel, ride a train, you’ll see another city. “The Last Picture” is Jaime’s way of saying, “There is more here to see, a lot more.” Part fine artist, documentarian, and journalist, when Jaime goes out on the streets his eyes are wide open to the abundant stories that develop before him, instantly.
Untitled. Bushwick, Brooklyn. October 2012 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
As Editor of Photography for BSA, Rojo tries to present new stuff with an eye that doesn’t just capture but also communicates. He pushes for a sense of what it’s like to be there at that moment. Many of his photos trigger his own stories about what was happening that day on that block, what the air smelled like, who talked to him and what they said. “The Last Picture” gives you more of the context about what happens a heartbeat and a shutter-click away from some of the most magnificent Street Art shots.
We feel lucky to be able to share some of them here with you.
Untitled. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. May 2011 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Chelsea, Manhattan. May 2011 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. October 2010 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Manhattan, February 2011 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. August 2011 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Brooklyn Navy Yard, January 2012 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. July 2012 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. DUMBO, Brooklyn. March 2012 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. C Train, Chelsea NYC. April 2012 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. June 2012 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. September 2011 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Williamsburg Bridge, Brooklyn. October 2010 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Union Square, Manhattan. August 2012 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. October 2012 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Manhattan. March 2011 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. October 2012 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. November 2012 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Soze Gallery Presents: Augustine Kofie and Jaybo Monk “Conversations” (Los Angeles, CA)
Opening tonight, Downtown Los Angeles
C o n v e r s a t i o n s
Recent individual and collaborative work by Augustine Kofie & Jaybo Monk of Agents of Change
+ the release of 2 zines in a limited edition of 30, ”When The Seas Catch Fire’ by JAYBO and ‘OBSERvations’ by KOFIE
Public opening:
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
7-11 pm
Soze Gallery DTLA [New Location]
2020 E 7th St Unit B
Los Angeles Calif. 90021
Mighty Tanaka Gallery Presents: Robbie Busch and Abe Lincoln JR “Split Seven” (Brooklyn, NYC)
Mighty Tanaka presents:
Split Seven
Abe Lincoln Jr. vs. Robbie Busch
After the music dies down and the lights come up, an energy and excitement lingers in the air. With a ringing in the ears and a vibration throughout the body, an awesome gig has come to an end. As the bouncers try to corral the audience from the venue floor and out into the night, it’s imperative to stop and check out all the treasures to be found at the band merchandise table. From the tour dates t-shirt to the rare vinyl pressings, the experience of seeing an extraordinary concert can be relived for years to come through the iconic wares. Mighty Tanaka is pleased to bring you our next show, Split Seven, featuring the artistic pile driving power chords of Abe Lincoln Jr. and the wall to wall, mosh pit madness of Robbie Busch. Together, these two artists have created a cacophony of faux musical mayhem through the unique recreation of a band merch table.
Split Seven is a fictitious rock n’ roll experience with both Abe Lincoln Jr. & Robbie Busch producing fabricated albums from invented Punk Rock and Heavy Metal bands. This dual creative interpretation brings together various artistic elements of two opposing types of iconoclast music while juxtaposing their individual styles and influences. Together, they build a virtual band experience, highlighting the various artistic qualities of both genres, without ever producing a single note of music.
Abe Lincoln Jr. & Robbie Busch explore a number of techniques in order to create an epic rendition of their chosen music style, which includes elements of stickers, stencils, paintings and laser cuts. Split Seven invites the viewer to engage in this mock battle of the bands while choosing once and for all: Punk Rock or Heavy Metal.
OPENING RECEPTION:
Friday, November 16th, 2012
6:00PM – 9:00PM
Interference Archive Presents: Sublevarte Colectivo “The Persistence of Dreams” (Brooklyn, NYC)
La Persistencia de los Sueños/
The Persistence of Dreams
Opening Reception:
Friday, November 16, 2012, 7-10 p.m.
1:AM Gallery Presents: MadC “Over The Edge” (San Francisco, CA)
OVER THE EDGE
OPENING RECEPTION: December 7th, 2012, 6:30 – 9:30pm
ON VIEW THROUGH: January 5th, 2012
1AM is pleased to present, “Over The Edge”, a solo exhibition featuring new works from German artist, MadC aka Claudia Walde. Arguably the top aerosol artist in the world, she is renowned for her talent, tenacity, and ambition. Opening December 7th, 6:30-9:30pm, “Over The Edge” will showcase a collection of mixed media paintings on canvas and paper that will highlight her 1AM gallery space inspired installation.
MadC’s work is inspired by graffiti and the perfect connection of letters, foreground, and background. With the constant evolution and argument of graffiti as an art form, the show aims to keep the energy of this art form alive on canvas without taking it directly from the street. While using spray paint, acrylic paint, watercolors and ink, she hopes to push the boundaries of what graffiti is conceived as and inspire future generations to take new approaches to the art form.
Claudia Walde aka ”MadC”, was born in 1980 in Germany and studied at the University of Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein in Halle, Germany, as well as the world-renowned Central Saint Martins College in London. In 1998, Claudia started spray-painting the walls of her hometown and in a few short years, her murals have spanned Lebanon, Mexico, Colombia, Russia, USA, Hawaii, South Africa and most of Europe. In 2007, Claudia Walde also authored a successful book, “Street Fonts – Graffiti Alphabets from Around the World“ which was published in 6 different languages.
FIRST AMENDMENT GALLERY
1000 HOWARD STREET
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103
415.861.5089
Join us December 7th, 6:30-9:30pm for the opening of MadC’s first solo show in the US!
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