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Stolen Space Gallery Presents: Mysterious Al “The Doomsday Papers” (London, UK)

February 9, 2011 Artists, Events, Gallery, London, Opening, U.K.

Mysterious Al

‘The Doomsday Papers’
By Mysterious Al
04.03.11 – 27.03.11
A study of the Gods, monsters and legends of the past and present.

“According to Mayan prophecy and the Doomsday calendar, the world will end in 2012. Geomagnetic reversal, asteroid strike or supernova; at least we’ll miss the bloody Olympics”

One of the first generation of Street-artists; Mysterious Al gained international notoriety alongside D*face for his part in the infamous ‘Finders Keepers’ illegal art events.
In a career spanning almost a decade, Mysterious Al has shown in group exhibitions globally, as well as working with leading brands such as Adidas, Eastpak, Volvo, Orange and Yahoo.

Stolenspace is thrilled to present ‘The Doomsday Papers’; a selection of works in mixed media including wood, paint, newspaper, magazines, torn Bible pages and installation.

“As we prepare to enter what is being described as a new cycle of civilisation, I’ve become increasingly interested in different cultures and their beliefs, as well as my own thoughts and fears on mortality and fate. History is constantly being written… From the wonderfully elaborate depictions of Mayan Gods to mass-market celebrities, cult fiction and present-day witchcraft. What happens if all these humanities mix together? If these worlds collide?”

‘The Doomsday papers’ is Mysterious Al’s eagerly-awaited debut solo show. A brand new body of work loosely surrounding Mesoamerican Gods, the doomsday calendar, Drum & Bass, demonic intervention, Graffiti culture, Wicca and the Occult.

STOLENSPACE GALLERY
Dray Walk, The Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane
London E1 6QL
United Kingdom

P: +44 (0) 207 247 2684
info@stolenspace.com

OPENING TIMES
Tuesday – Sunday
11:00am – 7:00pm

Pure Evil Gallery Presents: Sesper “Who Am I?” First UK Solo Show (London, UK)

February 9, 2011 Artists, Events, Gallery, London, Opening, U.K.

Sesper

Sesper
Presents his first UK solo show ‘WHO AM I?’ at the Pure Evil Gallery on the 17th of February..The show runs until March 6th, at which point another 02Famiglia Baglione¦Ð member FLIP begins his first UK solo exhibition at the gallery.
Brazilian artist Alexandre ¡ÝSesper¡Ü Cruz spent his adolescence absorbed in music and skateboarding – building ramps, making fanzines that documented the Sao Paulo art scene, and recording k-7 compilations. These interests influenced the sticker and paste up poster campaigns he launched around the city in 1999.
Sesper is best known for his unique mixed media artwork. He uses recycled material such as paper, cardboard and wood as his surface and paints over these with oil pastel and latex, incorporating layer upon layer of texture and color. A member of the renowned Brazilian art collective, the Famiglia Baglione, Sesper has participated in and filmed many of their live painting and gallery installations around Brazil.
He produces music and is a full time vocalist for Garage Fuzz band since 1991, as well having sung and recorded in the following bands: OVEC, PSYCHIC POSSESSOR, SAFARI HAMBURGUERS, PAURA, and the projects: NOTWORK, INTROSPECTIVE, LOFI EXPERIMENTS, VALLEJO X SUNSET, 5 GAS QUESTION, FLIPTOP, and others.

Pure Evil Gallery,
108 Leonard st,
London EC2A 4XS

Gallery Hours:
10am – 6pm daily
or by appointment.

http://www.pureevil.eu

MAP : http://maps.google.co.uk/places/gb/hackney/leonard-st/108/-pure-evil-gallery?hl=en

Black Rat “Print Making Today”, New Swoon Print and ROA Installation

February 9, 2011 Artists, Events, Gallery, London, Opening, U.K.

” ‘Sambhavna’ has been our most technically complex printmaking project with Swoon to date” – Mike Snelle

Swoon at work on a edition of “Sambhavna” at Black Rat. (Photo courtesy of and © Jay Goldmark)

Black Rat Projects, the London based publisher and art gallery, under the dynamic direction of Mike Snelle has been at work on a new print show highlighting a disciplined and revered practice to art making with works by a number of Street Artists including Swoon, Matt Small, Roa, Know Hope, Nick Walker, Pure Evil, Shepard Fairey and Banksy.An annual tradition for Black Rat is to mount a show whose primary focus is the edition, and this year brand new prints are being released by Matt Small, Candice Tripp and Swoon.

Swoon. (Photo courtesy of and © Jay Goldmark)

Swoon’s print is called “Sambhavna” and is her portrait of three inquisitive and timid girls that has appeared on the streets of NYC and in parts of Europe.

The past week with Swoon in the Black Rat studio has been a great experience for Mike, who enthusiastically described her complex print, “The Sambhavna” print is pretty monumental. It’s1020 x 1445 mm (40.16″ x 56.89″) and in an edition of only 28. Each one is made up of 4 layers. The background is a huge sheet of white paper and the yellow is a collograph. The green/blue halos are laser cut and finally the girls themselves are screenprint (I think around 8 colors on each). Each one is incredibly time consuming but they have such a great depth because they have been built up.”

Swoon. (Photo courtesy of and © Jay Goldmark)

Swoon “Sambhavna” Finish print. Photo Courtesy of Black Rat Projects

A partial view of the installation in progress. Photo courtesy of Black Rat Projects

To mark the occasion with a celebratory event and to christen their new ‘artist in residency’ project, the Belgian artist ROA, fresh from his trip to Mexico, is in town at the moment to work on an indoors installation in the gallery. ROA is currently at work adding dimension to his work by constructing a new sculpture in the middle of the gallery using doors, windows and unexpected openings (images to come).

The complete list of artists for this show is Swoon, Matt Small, Roa, Know Hope, Gaston Francisco, Grayson Perry, Bridget Riley, Damien Hirst, Lucien Freud, Tracey Emin, Chris Ofili, Nick Walker, Pure Evil, Peter Doig, Shepard Fairey and Banksy.

In addition, the night of the preview Black Rat Projects will be presenting a performance of sorts by Stoke Newington’s local printmakers The Henningham Family Press. They have been invited to set up their “Chip Shop” to provide an “inclusive insight into the fundamentals of printmaking”.

Thursday 10th February – Friday 4th March 2011
at Black Rat Projects
Arch 461, 83 Rivington Street
London, EC2A 3AY

Ryan McGinness “Black Holes” Draw You Inside and Outside

February 8, 2011 Artists, Gallery, Manhattan, NYC

Since 2004 artist Ryan McGinness has been at work on a series of round paintings on canvasses and on wood panels he calls “Black Holes”. He completed the series in 2010 and, since December, twenty-four of these paintings have been running at the Phillips de Pury galleries in the Meat Packing District of Manhattan. Influenced by skateboard culture, poster design, and graffiti, the artist synthesizes the energy from the street in this entrancing collection.

Ryan Mc Ginness “Black Holes” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Black Holes paintings, blasting flourescent arabesque patterns too crisp for hippy psychedelic reveries, will instantly mesmerize you and draw you ever further into them. It’s a natural high, and suddenly it is apparent why they are called “Black Holes”.

Ryan Mc Ginness “Black Holes” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The labyrinthine floor plan of the galleries assists your light infused discovery of increasingly vivid contrasts and pattern and color until suddenly you find yourself lost in a dark universe of exploding stars. From the gallery’s press release we learn that the panels comprise layers of screen printed concentric symmetrical “event horizons” which McGinness defines as the “point in space-time before which everything disappears into the black hole”.

Ryan Mc Ginness “Black Holes” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Go Outside!

As the sun is setting on the public walkway called The High Line that rises above this part of Chelsea, you can enjoy the show from your vantage point in the public sphere as well. McGinness has created ten site-specific large-scale paintings positioned along the gallery windows facing the High Line and at night these paintings are illuminated from inside the gallery to give the public an experience of a black-lit extravaganza.

As the outside light fades the flowering glow of rich pungent color punctures the pale winter grays – rather, laser cuts it. The paintings escape from the confines of the canvas and run like newly freed ivy through the windows to meet you, a surreal garden of exotic flowers no longer behind glass.

Ryan Mc Ginness “Black Holes” viewed at night from The High Line (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ryan Mc Ginness “Black Holes” viewed at dusk from The High Line (photo © Jaime Rojo)

If you do go to view this portion of the installation from the High Line, it’s good to know two things; the park closes at 8:00 pm and the last entrance to the park is 7:45. Also, to see the paintings from the High Line one must look up slightly as the pieces are not precisely at eye level and the bottom portion of the paintings is lost. If they were hung a little higher the windows could better frame them without cropping from this vantage point, but maybe that would have made the indoor show off-kilter. You could also wear platform boots.

“Black Holes” is up until March 8

Phillips de Pury Gallery
450 West 15th Street
New York, NY 10011-7097
(212) 940-1200

Hallelujah! Visions of Retna Appear in NYC!

February 7, 2011 Artists, Events, Features, Gallery, Manhattan, Miami, NYC, Opening, Primary Flight

Fresh from his sold out show with Primary Flight at this year’s Miami Art Basel, LA-based Street Artist Retna brings his fine art “Hallelujah Tour” to New York City for a solo show in SOHO this week.

Retna mural with El Mac (detail). Miami Primary Flight 2009 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Retna has built a strong reputation for being not only an exceedingly talented artist but well regarded personally. His uniquely invented style of calligraphic letters, often done on massive walls, tell stories about the people that he encounters. Each one has made an impression on him and his life experiences.

Retna’s letter style, created and refined over the years is the product of his life as a graffiti artist as well as his interest in English calligraphy and Egyptian hieroglyphics. Retna often collaborates with El Mac, who paints the portraits while Retna tells their stories. According to accounts from the street, certain friends can read the messages as easily as those on a milk carton.

Retna mural with El Mac (detail). Miami Primary Flight 2008 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Retna from his show “Silver Lining” at Miami Primary Flight 2010. Photo courtesy of Primary Flight. © Peter Vahan.

Check out more great pics of the show by RJ at Vandalog.

Retna “Hallelujah” Curated by PM Tenore (Manhattan, NY)

February 7, 2011 Artists, Events, Gallery, Manhattan, NYC, Opening

Retna

This is a short film from “Viejas del Mercado” for a new upcoming art opening in New York featuring new works from Retna. The show is titled “Hallelujah” and opens on February 10th, 2011 from 6pm to 10pm in Manhattan, NY.

560 Washington Street

New York, NY 10014

West Village

Images Of The Week 02.06.11

February 6, 2011 Artists, Australia, Brooklyn, BSA Images Of The Week, Manhattan, NYC, On the Street, Week in Images

Our weekly interview with the Street, this week featuring Alec, Kamineko, NohJColey, Oculo, Pawz, and Vie3

NohJColey’s second interactive sculpture in Brooklyn. The rod on the figures’ right hand side controls the movement of the figures head. It takes a couple of attempts, but the head will move revealing a hand and spoon. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NohJColey. Detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Frida Kahlo appears in New York, by VIE3 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

New York, monopoly, banker. Pretty much sums it up Alec. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ceci n’est pas une Banksy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Oculo (photo © Jaime Rojo)

This is exactly what I said to myself yesterday morning ouch! (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Hey there, dinosaur breath! (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Don’t overdose now. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

You get the thumbs up from Terry Richardson (photo © Jaime Rojo)

That’s right. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Julian Assange in West End, Queensland, Australia by Kamineko. (photo © Pawz) More here:

Fire and Ice (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ROA’s Magic Naturalism: Street Art’s Wild Kingdom in Mexico

February 5, 2011 Artists, On the Street

An ant eater inspects a new friend in a small town near San Miguel De Allende in Mexico. Piece by ROA (copyright Roa)

“It was magic, Mexico”

ROA continues at the pace of a hungry prairie dog running across landscapes dusty and rusted in search of a fitting tableau for his traveling animal reserve. Fans of the Belgian Street Artist are accustomed to his rats and birds and furry creatures climbing rugged weathered urban walls in Europe and the US. More recently ROA discovered the enchanted sunlight that warms the winter earthen hues of central Mexico at the invitation of Gonzalo Alvarez of Mamutt Arte.

A buzzard adorns this abandoned construction in an agricultural area north of Mexico City. ROA (photo copyright Roa)

This “still life” by ROA is in collaboration with MUJAM (The Antique Toy Museum of Mexico City) (photo copyright Roa)

“I love to integrate the native animals of the country I visit,” he relates as he talks about the armadillo, buzzards, raccoon, anteater, and fighting cock he gave to his hosts in the metropolis Mexico City and a bit north in the tiny town of Jamaica in the State of Guanajuato. Part naturalist and part social activist, ROA gives center stage to the underdogs of the natural world as if to elevate their status among the lions and peacocks of the planet.

“This big armadillo was a new one for me, ” says the artist about his piece on the facade of The House of Cauce Ciudadano A.C., a non-profit youth services center that serves young people in Mexico City. ROA (photo copyright Roa)

Adhering to an austere monochrome palette, he swiftly renders his realist studies using cans and a variety of caps over a rollered silhouette of blanco, if necessary. With wiley coyote agility, a sharply assessing eye and an audacious appetite for painting as many walls as you can source for him, this quick-moving Street Artist continues to populate the wild ROA kingdom wherever he migrates.

A visit to a farm raising roosters in Jamaica, Guanajuato inspired ROA to create a fowl portrait on the side of a home (below) (photo copyright Roa)

ROA (photo copyright Roa)

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ROA would like to extend a big thanks for everything to the wonderful people who welcomed him in Mexico, particularly Gonzalo at Mamutt Arte and Roberto from MUJAM.

MUJAM (MUSEO DEL JUGUETE ANTIGUO MEXICO) http://toymuseummexico.com/

Click here to learn more about Cauce Ciudadado C.A.

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Flying High With ROA in Brooklyn, NYC

Photo copyright Jaime Rojo

“Cash For Your Warhol” is Now A Print

February 5, 2011 Artists

Plowing grandly through the intersection of Street Art and consumerism mockery, satirist Street Artist Hargo took his ongoing joke “Cash for your Warhol” to billboards of Miami during the art gleefest that is Art Basel in December. Usually relegated to plastic prefab signs artfully nailed to telephone poles of empty lots and main thoroughfares, Hargo took out giant Out Of Home billboards to “advertise” the services of a fictional art buyer who is happy to help you unload those onerous Warhols just laying around the house for cold hard cash munney, honey. To celebrate this installation in Miami’s un-toniest district, Wynwood, the BLDG is releasing this print of a billboard by the street’s most famous Warhol appraiser, Hargo. The new piece entitled “CFYW, 14th Street, Miami”, is based on one of several installations viewed by the art loving masses who engorged themselves with edgy street art culture during the visual feast that takes place every year in southern Florida. Hargo and The BLDG concur that the legacy of this epic install should live far beyond the reaches of Basel and, thusly, history has been made.

“In addition to putting up a bunch of street signs, Cash For Your Warhol took out billboards in Miami in December during the art fairs. The BLDG took one of my photographs of the one on 14th Street (shot before Poster Boy co-opted it – insert smiley face here) and turned it into an image suitable for framing. They have previously done a bunch of prints with Street Artists including The London Police and Cleon Peterson. It’s my second print with The BLDG, and I think this one definitely lives up to their high standards. BTW, the CFYW hotline has been flooded with calls since the Miami installation and the calls are still coming in. Apparently billboards work pretty well getting the message out” ~ Hargo

To see Poster Boy’s “collaboration” with Hargo click on the link below:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/posterboynyc/5281631792/

NOMINATED: Exit Through the Pet Shop, Starring Keyboard Cat!

February 4, 2011 Artists

Fun Friday 02.04.11

February 4, 2011 Artists, Events, Gallery, Israel, Manhattan, NYC, Opening, Philadelphia

All Eyes on the Streets of Egypt

How can you not be riveted to Al Jazeera online and Twitter and Facebook and Youtube right now as a purely people-powered movement in the streets of major cities all over Egypt is working to dislodge their president? Even after the government shut down the internet in the most comprehensive way in history, Egyptians have taken to the streets to reassert their right to self-determination.

Mint&Serf & BSA @ District 36 Tonight

Joe Iurato and Shai Dahan @ Vincent Michael Gallery in Philadelphia

Exhibition Details
What: Natural Selections & Salvation: Featuring New Works from Shai Dahan and Joe Iurato
Where: Vincent Michael Gallery
1050 N. Hancock St. Suite #63 Philadelphia, PA 19123
When: Exhibit runs February 4th thru February 25th
Opening Reception Friday, February 4th 7pm – 10pm

Conor Harrington in Tel Aviv (VIDEO)

Crossing Lines is a short film that documents Irish artist Conor Harrington’s trip to Tel Aviv, Israel and Bethleham, Palestine in May 2010.

Chris from RWK has a brand New Website

Check it out! http://chrisrwk.com/

Henry Rollin is 50! Shepard Slips One In

Keep your eyes open today for a new print release celebrating American Hardcore superstar and punk poet laureate Henry Rollins. Dude is a far cry from the pretty candy coated mummification of punk that ensued as it became a commercialized lifestyle. This is the first of a two part release by Obey celebrating the quest for truth that fires inside Henry.

18 x 24 Screen Print, Signed and Numbered Edition of 700.

Release Date: 2/4/11

“Black/Light” A Group Show Featuring The Art Of Robots, Roa, Phlegm and Tali Clarke (London, UK)

February 3, 2011 Artists, Events, Gallery, London, Opening, U.K.

Black/Light

Please come along and be the first to see this exciting show , You will be in for a surprise .

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Swoon at work on a edition of “Sambhavna” at Black Rat. (Photo courtesy of and © Jay Goldmark)

Swoon. (Photo courtesy of and © Jay Goldmark)

Swoon. (Photo courtesy of and © Jay Goldmark)

Swoon “Sambhavna” Finish print. Photo Courtesy of Black Rat Projects

A partial view of the installation in progress. Photo courtesy of Black Rat Projects

Ryan Mc Ginness “Black Holes” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ryan Mc Ginness “Black Holes” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ryan Mc Ginness “Black Holes” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ryan Mc Ginness “Black Holes” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ryan Mc Ginness “Black Holes” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ryan Mc Ginness “Black Holes” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Go Outside!

Ryan Mc Ginness “Black Holes” viewed at night from The High Line (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ryan Mc Ginness “Black Holes” viewed at night from The High Line (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ryan Mc Ginness “Black Holes” viewed at dusk from The High Line (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Retna mural with El Mac (detail). Miami Primary Flight 2009 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Retna mural with El Mac (detail). Miami Primary Flight 2008 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Retna from his show “Silver Lining” at Miami Primary Flight 2010. Photo courtesy of Primary Flight. © Peter Vahan.

This is a short film from “Viejas del Mercado” for a new upcoming art opening in New York featuring new works from Retna. The show is titled “Hallelujah” and opens on February 10th, 2011 from 6pm to 10pm in Manhattan, NY.

Our weekly interview with the Street, this week featuring Alec, Kamineko, NohJColey, Oculo, Pawz, and Vie3

NohJColey’s second interactive sculpture in Brooklyn. The rod on the figures’ right hand side controls the movement of the figures head. It takes a couple of attempts, but the head will move revealing a hand and spoon. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NohJColey. Detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NohJColey. Detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NohJColey. Detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Frida Kahlo appears in New York, by VIE3 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

New York, monopoly, banker. Pretty much sums it up Alec. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ceci n’est pas une Banksy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Oculo (photo © Jaime Rojo)

This is exactly what I said to myself yesterday morning ouch! (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Hey there, dinosaur breath! (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Don’t overdose now. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

You get the thumbs up from Terry Richardson (photo © Jaime Rojo)

That’s right. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Julian Assange in West End, Queensland, Australia by Kamineko. (photo © Pawz) More here:

Fire and Ice (photo © Jaime Rojo)

An ant eater inspects a new friend in a small town near San Miguel De Allende in Mexico. Piece by ROA (copyright Roa)

“It was magic, Mexico”

A buzzard adorns this abandoned construction in an agricultural area north of Mexico City. ROA (photo copyright Roa)

This “still life” by ROA is in collaboration with MUJAM (The Antique Toy Museum of Mexico City) (photo copyright Roa)

“This big armadillo was a new one for me, ” says the artist about his piece on the facade of The House of Cauce Ciudadano A.C., a non-profit youth services center that serves young people in Mexico City. ROA (photo copyright Roa)

A visit to a farm raising roosters in Jamaica, Guanajuato inspired ROA to create a fowl portrait on the side of a home (below) (photo copyright Roa)

ROA (photo copyright Roa)

ROA (photo copyright Roa)

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