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Street Artist Tristan Eaton Goes Biblical

March 24, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, NYC, On the Street

Inspired by the Book Of Revelation’s story of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Brooklyn based Street Artist Tristan Eaton has been laboring with bloody hatchet in one hand and eye-smiting aerosol can in the other for the past three weeks to complete his latest street mural, a heroic tribute to the end of the world. Biblically based work doesn’t hit Brooklyn too much but Tristans’ trysted twist on fantastical End Times titillation might make you think of the interior of a cathedral or of flying buttresses and pointed arches in a revelatory way.

Tristan Eaton (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Comic books and science fiction, particularly the work of Brooklyn native artist and master fantasy creator, Frank Frazetta, are heavy influences on Eaton, who has spent hours pouring over Fazetta’s copious and heroically buffed warrior–goddesses and Keltic conquerors embattled with monsters and space aliens on album covers, book covers, movie posters, and in graphic novels.

Tristan Eaton (photo © Jaime Rojo)

By delving into the mythical worlds of Mr. Frazetta, Tristan found that the already fantastic centerpiece story from the last book in the Bible need not be literally interpreted in his mural. Using the palette established by his neighbors How & Nosm, Eaton uses red, white, black and pale horses to symbolize Conquest, War, Famine and Death, giving the main roles of ushering apocalypse to the ladies instead of the typical males. While there is still work to be done in this grand undertaking, it is evident from Eaton that hot women on horseback will be the harbingers of the Last Judgment. Repent while there still is time.

Mural updates and much gnashing of teeth to follow.

Tristan Eaton (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tristan Eaton (photo © Jaime Rojo) Tristan’s piece is next to How and Nosm’s piece created for Contra Projects during Armory Week.

Tristan Eaton. Sketch for the mural (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tristan Eaton (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Stolen Space Gallery Presents: Kid Acne “Rhythm Is A Dancer” (London, UK)

March 23, 2011 Artists, Events, Gallery, London, Opening, U.K.

Kid Acne

‘Rhythm Is A Dancer’
By Kid Acne
1st – 24th April 2011
Private View Thursday 31st March, 6 – 9pm

StolenSpace Gallery
Old Truman Brewery
London
E1 6QL
Nearest Tube: Aldgate East
tel: 02072472684
email: info@stolenspace.com
http://www.stolenspace.com
Opening times: Tuesday – Sunday, 11am – 7pm
Admission: FREE

StolenSpace is proud to present a new body of work from renowned UK
street artist Kid Acne. Featuring paintings on board and canvas,
installation work and also the release of a limited edition fanzine
and print.

This exhibition explores the relationship between graffiti and smoking
by way of introducing us to a new set of characters known as ‘Art
Fags’ – a play on words neatly personifying packs of cigarettes. Both
pastimes are seen as rebellious and
cool, which makes them particularly appealing to teenagers. Though
through repetition they become a compulsion, cause serious problems in
our adult life and are “filthy habits” hard to quit.

We can all see the similarities between graffiti and advertising – the
notion of occupying space to promote an idea, brand or individual.
Nowadays however, cigarette advertising is just as outlawed as
graffiti, though at their height of fashion
both were simply seen as the thing to do. Since the smoking ban,
smokers, like graffiti writers have been forced into the streets,
whereas Street Artists are embraced by the galleries and auction houses.

Scion Installation 7: Video Art Tour 2011 At Eastern District (Brooklyn, NY)

March 23, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, Events, Fundraising, Gallery, NYC, Opening

Art Tour
SCION INSTALLATION 7 – VIDEO ART TOUR – BROOKLYN
Opening Reception: Saturday March 26th, 7pm – 10pm
@ Eastern District
43 Bogart St, Brooklyn, NY 11206

Free with RSVP: http://www.scionav.com/installation

Featuring original work from: Franki Chan, David Choe, Cheryl Dunn, Gluekit, Matt Goldman, Cody Hudson & Jared Eberhardt, The London Police, Mackie Osborne, Souther Salazar and SSUR.

Now in its 7th installment, this revolutionary art tour kicks off 2011 in Los Angeles. Since its inception in 2003, Scion Installation has raised over $250,000 for art charities and non-profits. Building on the success of last year’s tour, Installation 7 again focuses on the video medium, which emerged in the 1960s and has since expanded galleries into more experimental, kinetic and interactive spaces. Installation 7: Video challenged 10 artists to create non-narrative video installations that will eventually transform five unique exhibitions in Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Wichita, Minneapolis and Austin.

Word Power! Text on the Street

March 23, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, Manhattan, NYC, On the Street

Today we bring you some text-based greetings from the street.

This billboard for the downtown newspaper Village Voice comments on the homogeneity of Manhattan culture on the corner of Bowery and Delancy. (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Could be a way to sign a letter (Warmest wishes,Yours truly,Your friend, See you in Rio, Best Regards, Congrats) or maybe it’s a command. Love Me. (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

“Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.”* (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Are you reading this Charles Saatchi? (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Photo © Jaime Rojo

Me 2! Photo © Jaime Rojo

Oh, aren’t we all. Photo © Jaime Rojo

“you’re makin’ out with school kids, winos and heads of state.
you even made it with the lady,
who puts the little plastic bobins on the christmas cakes.
butchers’ assistants and bellhops, you’ve had them all here and there.
children of god and their joy-strings, international women with no body hair.” – Buzzcocks

“Hey Buddy, you know what time it is?” No, I ain’t got a watch. Photo © Jaime Rojo

Photo © Jaime Rojo

Sorry, times up. Next! (photo © Jaime Rojo)

* Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver

John Doe is a young Street Artist and commentator of the streets in Washington, DC (photo © John Doe)

Avant Gallery Presents: Alec Monopoly “Can’t Get Out of Jail Free!” (Miami, FL)

March 22, 2011 Artists, Events, Florida, Gallery, Miami, Opening

Alec Monopoly

Alec (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Avant Gallery presents Alec Monopoly: Can’t Get Out of Jail Free!

Miami, FL, March 21 2011

Avant Gallery proudly presents the work of ‘Alec Monopoly’, a young street artist based in Los Angeles, known throughout major city centers such as New York, London and Los Angeles for his placement of the beloved protagonist of the synonymous board game over lampposts, billboards, walls and telephone posts.

In an excerpt from ‘Alec Monopoly’: Ammunition for the Guerilla Artist’, Miami-based consultant and critic Shana Beth Mason writes, ‘‘Alec’s’ artistic motive appears to be twofold: a direct, pointedly negative commentary on the structures he paints, and the marketing of that politic utilizing a cultural icon associated with a treasured family activity, specifically within the American collective consciousness. In a more controlled, commercial gallery setup, ‘Alec’s’ work translates from an expletive gesture towards the invisible bureaucratic juggernaut into a multi-faceted array of Pop culture icons interspersed with financially-apocalyptic newspaper clippings. What separates his efforts from other high-profile graffiti artists who have effectively transitioned into the commercial art sphere (a.k.a. Banksy and Mr. Brainwash) is his tireless emphasis on the emotional experience of the American financial crisis, alongside a deeper attraction to the ‘anti-hero’ personas of Jack Nicholson and Robert De Niro.’

‘Alec Monopoly’ is the alias of an unidentified graffiti artist, originally from New York City. The artist primarily works in the urban environments of New York and Los Angeles, using varied materials (including stencils, spray paint, epoxies, varnishes and newspapers) to subversively depict the protagonist of the internationally-beloved board game, Monopoly. ‘Alec’ cites his artistic origins as learning from his mother, an artist, eventually abandoning traditional academically-driven art classes to pursue an individual methodology. ‘Alec’ and his work have been covered by Brooklyn Street Art, The Huffington Post, The Wooster Collective (New York), Juxtapoz Magazine, and The Dirt Floor.com. Recently, Paramount Pictures commissioned Alec to design the logo for their new production company, Insurge. The artist lives and works in Los Angeles.

Avant Gallery is located at 3850 N. Miami Avenue in the internationally-renowned Miami Design District. Avant Gallery offers unique, contemporary ‘objects d’art’ with a distinctive Pop sensibility coupled with Modern utility. Furniture accents, lighting concepts, applied fine art and design works and collectibles are available to a vast range of clients from interior designers and contemporary art collectors to homeowners and businesses.

Maxwell Colette Gallery and Pawn Works Present Gaia “Resplendent Semblance” (Chicago, IL)

March 22, 2011 Artists, Chicago, Events, Gallery, Opening

Gaia

Maxwell Colette Gallery and Pawn Works have joined forces to bring internationally lauded contemporary artists to Chicago, who are known for their involvement in the Street Art movement. The first of these joint ventures, GAIA: Resplendent Semblance, launches this month with a series of projects showcasing the artist Gaia. The events will include a show of new, large scale paintings and decollage on wood art works at Maxwell Colette Gallery, a site specific installation and show featuring additional pieces at the Pawn Works space and a massive window installation at State Street and Adams presented in conjunction with The Chicago Loop Alliance’s Pop Up Art Loop initiative.

Maxwell Colette Gallery and Pawn Works will co-host an opening reception for GAIA:Resplendent Semblance on Friday, March 25th from 6 – 9 pm in Maxwell Colette’s space at 833 W. Chicago Ave, suite 200.

OBEY Hits SXSW in Austin and Releases Print for Japan

March 22, 2011 Artists, Austin, On the Street, Texas

Shepard Fairey OBEY (photo © Geoff Hargadon)

SXSW, the annual music/culture/technology festival winds down the circus-like atmosphere of new bands and big-name performers and ideas cramming venues with one show and roundtable after another, sometimes resulting in chaos. A regular Street Art contributor to this scene, Shepard Fairey hit up some walls as part of the Local to Global Outdoor Gallery Project.

In response to the tragedies created by the tsunami in Japan Shepard Fairey is releasing a new variation on the Dark Wave print. Profits from Dark Wave/Rising Sun will go to relief efforts in Japan.

Release Date: 3/24/2011 at a random time at ObeyGiant.com

Thanks to photographer Geoff Hargadon, who took these Austin images of Obey’s brand new work using a monochromatic palette that looks pretty fresh!

Shepard Fairey OBEY (photo © Geoff Hargadon)

Exit Art Presents: Pop Art Explosion. A group show (Brooklyn, NY)

March 21, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, Events, Gallery, NYC, Opening

Pop Art

POP ART EXPLOSION

Exit Show

Join us in celebration as we close this month long exploration of POP ART.

An energized outpouring of in your face work by emerging talent from Brooklyn and Manhattan.

This high energy show features painting, photography, video, audio, and installation art .

Artists Include:

Pork

Mikal Hameed

Mar Granados

Brian Whiteley

Josh Mccutchen

Tip Toe

Michael Paniccia

Nemo Hoffman

Littlefield is a performance and art space in Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood nestled between Park Slope and Carroll Gardens.

Housed in an old, 6200-square foot warehouse dating from the 1920s,

littlefield merges the Gowanus’ industrial past with a sustainable future.

With a state-of-the-art sound system designed for live music, art installations, and film screenings.

“The most surprising thing about this show at Littlefield is that no one thought to combine the two genres before.” (Pop Art and Punk Rock)

622 Degraw Street. Brooklyn, New York

R train to Union St. N,Q,R,D,B,2,3,4,5 and LIRR to Atlantic Pacific

Street Artist Don John’s Experience in Tokyo

March 21, 2011 Artists, copenhagen, Denmark, Features, Japan, On the Street, Tokyo

As we listen to, watch, and read the cautiously optimistic developments at the nuclear power plant in Japan and consider the ever-growing estimates of the number of people lost during the last week and a half, we send our condolences and support and reflect on our fragility and survival. In ancient times populations fell victim to natural disasters as we do today. While we are better prepared in many ways, that preparation is tempered now as we watch our outstanding technological advances turn into our nightmare, compounding the severity of damage rendered by the natural world. As leaders in Japan talk about using this crisis to learn, we reflect on nuclear facilities, deep water oil rigs, and technologically lethal implications of our own creation.

(Please see 5 ways to help at the end of this posting)

Tokyo at Night (photo © Don John)

Street Artist Don John lives in Copenhagen but happened to be on vacation in Tokyo when the calamitous earthquake and ensuing tsunami struck the coast of Japan. Nearing the end of holiday there with his girlfriend, some of his recent wheat pasted portraits had just appeared on streets in the Shibuya area of Tokyo.

Don John (photo © Don John)

The imagery for these pieces, developed far before the earthquake, in some ways mirror the shocked and saddened visages of the citizenry. Nonetheless, Don John reports that most people in Tokyo took the unfolding events in stride and reached out to one another and strangers to assist in a time of uncertainty and need. See some of his observations further down the page.

Don John (photo © Don John)

“We were amazed about how friendly and helpful Japanese people are, even in a situation like this. All trains stopped in Tokyo after the earthquake and we had 5 kilometers to walk back to our hotel. This super friendly guy offered to walk with us all the way to make sure that we found it. Having been around the people that are affected by this disaster makes it even more terrible to follow the developments in the news.” ~ Don John

Don John (photo © Don John)

From Sarah Milner Barry at New York University News, here are 5 ways you can help our brothers and sisters in Japan:

Text REDCROSS to 90999 or JAPAN to 80888

Each text to REDCROSS will provide $10 for the Red Cross, and each JAPAN text will send $10 to the Salvation Army. If texting JAPAN, make sure you respond YES when you receive a “thank you” message. It doesn’t get much simpler than that.

Visit the Google crisis response site

The site provides an aggregate of different websites accepting online donations, including the International Medical Corps, UNICEF and the Japanese Red Cross Society. The website is also continuously updated to provide the latest information about the crisis.

Donate via iTunes

Apple has created a simple donation page on the iTunes homepage where you can send money to the Red Cross in just a few clicks.

Spread awareness on Twitter

Here are some key hashtags to remember:
#Jishin: focuses on general earthquake information
#Anpi: confirms the safety of individuals or places
#Hinan: lists evacuation information
#311care: provides medical information for the victims
#PrayforJapan: shows general support and best wishes for victims of the crisis

Attend NYU’s vigil for Japan on Tuesday, March 22 at 7 p.m. at Gould Plaza, on 4th Street between Greene Street and Washington Square East.

Images of the Week 03.20.11

March 20, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, BSA Images Of The Week, Fundraising, Gallery, Manhattan, NYC, On the Street, Week in Images

As winter loosens it’s grip, the first signs of spring are popping up all over New York, with new buds of passion from tender branches, construction walls, softened soil and industrial doorways. What this season will bring to the streets is anyone’s guess, but there are shoots and seedlings that we haven’t seen before, and a new crop is obviously taking shape. Here is our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Adam Krueger, Andrew Poneros, Betten, Cash-Money, El Sol 25, Enzo, Kinog, Kriest, Mint & Serf, Pork, Shark Toof, and Wheat.

Betten “New Young City” could easily characterize the new fresh faced minions pushing further into off the path neighborhoods around the city. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

El Sol 25 has quickly established his voice and vocabulary on the street, and here is a new example. We’ve been happy to chart the progress since the start of this new talent’s first appearance. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

I’m sorry, the number you have reached was given to you when I was drunk last night. Kriest “Wrong Number” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

People will try anything to prevent bike theft. Chains also have been known to be a deterrent. Jesus “Bike” Christ (photo © Jaime Rojo)

This wall in Chelsea is in constant change, a barnstorm of ideas, influences, techniques that morphs weekly. This new torso may be a Magritte homage. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kinog’s small paper collages appeared in Williamsburg last week on the walls of a construction site gallery style. This one equates one of last falls’ gubernatorial candidates in New York with an unspeakable. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Wheat’s new mural refers to an American history of conquest and war and the original citizens in North America (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mint&Serf curated the show “Well Hung” The Chelsea Chapter at +aRT gallery located at 540 West 28 Street in NYC. Well Hung runs until Sunday April 3rd. A fundraiser to benefit the programs of Free Arts NYC . Below a few images of the art on the show:

Robyn Hasty On The Road Exploring the “Homeland”

March 19, 2011 Artists

Robyn Hasty (AKA street artist Imminent Disaster) has hit the road in pursuit of her Homeland project, a photographic journey through the margins of the Great Recession United States.

In these images from Austin, Texas and New Orleans, she begins her portraiture series with what we hope will be many dispatches from the road between now and June, when she expects to complete this exploration of places and people. When looking at these images, it is helpful to recognize that they are not from an app on an Iphone – the wet-plate process was invented around 1850 and begins with bromide, iodide or chloride salts dissolved in collodian – and gets more complicated from there. The laborious process requires a thoughtful approach to the subject, and the results can be stunning, mythic, or even heroic in character and atmosphere in Hasty’s hands.

This cross country “Homeland” trip is financed by donations to her Kickstarter project. While she has reached an initial goal in the first phase, the needs will most likely be double what was originally estimated. Please continue to donate to Robyn’s kick-starter campaign at this link – she still has about 12 days to go before it expires.

Please click on the link below to donate:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1222154967/homeland-a-wet-plate-collodion-photo-essay/posts/61807?ref=email&show_token=003d03d23ab5e949

Birdsong Invites You To Their Anniversary Party (Brooklyn, NY)

March 18, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, Events, Fundraising, Gallery, NYC

Birdsong

What: birdsong zine birthday party and benefit — celebrating 3 years of birdsong with a print show and sweet live music.

-art: featuring limited edition $20 prints by a group of artists who have contributed to, or who have been interviewed by, birdsong over the past three years: Blanco, Cara Fulmor, Cat Glennon, Elizabeth Hirsch, J. Morrison, Julia Norton, Joey Parlett, Danielle Rosa, Will Varner, and Michelle Yu

-bands: Sweet Tooth Nelson + Jess Paps, Baby Alpaca, Hunter, Little Victory

When: Friday, April 1st. Doors at 8pm, bands start at 9pm

Where: Brooklyn Fire Proof,119 Ingraham St @ Porter Ave, Brooklyn (Morgan L)

Why: $$$ goes to offset some of the cost of producing birdsong #15, a Brooklyn-based full color bi-annual lit/art/interview zine.

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Tristan Eaton (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tristan Eaton (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tristan Eaton (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tristan Eaton (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tristan Eaton (photo © Jaime Rojo) Tristan’s piece is next to How and Nosm’s piece created for Contra Projects during Armory Week.

Tristan Eaton. Sketch for the mural (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tristan Eaton (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tristan Eaton (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tristan Eaton (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tristan Eaton (photo © Jaime Rojo)

This billboard for the downtown newspaper Village Voice comments on the homogeneity of Manhattan culture on the corner of Bowery and Delancy. (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Could be a way to sign a letter (Warmest wishes,Yours truly,Your friend, See you in Rio, Best Regards, Congrats) or maybe it’s a command. Love Me. (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

“Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.”* (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Are you reading this Charles Saatchi? (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Photo © Jaime Rojo

Me 2! Photo © Jaime Rojo

Oh, aren’t we all. Photo © Jaime Rojo

“Hey Buddy, you know what time it is?” No, I ain’t got a watch. Photo © Jaime Rojo

Photo © Jaime Rojo

Sorry, times up. Next! (photo © Jaime Rojo)

* Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver

John Doe is a young Street Artist and commentator of the streets in Washington, DC (photo © John Doe)

Alec (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Shepard Fairey OBEY (photo © Geoff Hargadon)

Shepard Fairey OBEY (photo © Geoff Hargadon)

Shepard Fairey OBEY (photo © Geoff Hargadon)

Shepard Fairey OBEY (photo © Geoff Hargadon)

Shepard Fairey OBEY (photo © Geoff Hargadon)

Tokyo at Night (photo © Don John)

Don John (photo © Don John)

Don John (photo © Don John)

Don John (photo © Don John)

Don John (photo © Don John)

Don John (photo © Don John)

Don John (photo © Don John)

Shark Toof finished this piece quickly during the Armory week (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Betten “New Young City” could easily characterize the new fresh faced minions pushing further into off the path neighborhoods around the city. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

New growth springs from the most unexpected places. Cooper (photo © Jaime Rojo)

True dat, cat. Enzo & Nio “You’re still gonna die” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

El Sol 25 has quickly established his voice and vocabulary on the street, and here is a new example. We’ve been happy to chart the progress since the start of this new talent’s first appearance. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Photo © Jaime Rojo

Photo © Jaime Rojo

I’m sorry, the number you have reached was given to you when I was drunk last night. Kriest “Wrong Number” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kriest “Under” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

People will try anything to prevent bike theft. Chains also have been known to be a deterrent. Jesus “Bike” Christ (photo © Jaime Rojo)

There’s Jesus again, this time styled as the king of kings in the hood. Jesus “Cash-Money” Christ (photo © Jaime Rojo)

This wall in Chelsea is in constant change, a barnstorm of ideas, influences, techniques that morphs weekly. This new torso may be a Magritte homage. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kinog’s small paper collages appeared in Williamsburg last week on the walls of a construction site gallery style. This one equates one of last falls’ gubernatorial candidates in New York with an unspeakable. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kinog invokes militarism, power, death, outrage, protest. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Wheat’s new mural refers to an American history of conquest and war and the original citizens in North America (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Prince Charles ponders an eternal question “Why Him”? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jaime Rojo. Untitled (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Adam Krueger “Small Wonder” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Andrew Poneros AKA Pork (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mint & Serf (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Austin, TX (photo © Robyn Hasty)

Austin, TX (photo © Robyn Hasty)

New Orleans (photo © Robyn Hasty)

Robyn Hasty. New Orleans (photo © Robyn Hasty)

“Rusty” (photo © Robyn Hasty)

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