Jon Burgerman and Jim Avignon Back Together: On June 2 at Pete’s Candy Store and On June 5th at Factory Fresh

June 1, 2010 , , ,

Jon Burgerman and Jim Avignon

Jim Avignon and Jon Burgerman

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

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99% Gallery and Art Center : Debut and Fundraiser

June 1, 2010

OPENING RECEPTION: JUNE 11TH, 7-11PM

FUNDRAISER PRINT GROUP SHOW SILENT AUCTION for the new…

99%
Gallery and Art Center

99 North 10th (between Berry and Wythe)
Brooklyn, NY  11211

$5 COVER

The first opening will be a print group show fundraiser, to benefit the new space.  All prints will be available for purchase via a silent auction.  First bid MUST be half of the retail price of the print.  Each bid thereafter must increase my increments of $20.  Cover: $5

If you are unable to physically be at the gallery, but would like to bid on prints from the show, e-mail: info@ninetyninegallery.com

Participating artists for the print show so far include:
Chris Mendoza
Cycle
Doze Green
Ellis G
Eric White
Esao Andrews
Gaia
Ian Kuali’i
Jose Parla
Kenji Hirata
Martha Cooper
Mel Kadel
Morning Breath
Nathan Lee Pickett
Orlando Reyes
Rage Johnson
Rostarr
Ryan Humprey
Skewville
Swoon
Tara McPherson
Tono Radvany
Voodo Fe
Xiaoqing Ding
Yuri Shimojo

ABOUT 99%

99% perspiration, 1% inspiration.  This old adage still makes sense in 2010.  We at 99% Art Space produce the 99% perspiration, allowing the artists we work with to focus on the final 1% inspiration.  We want to do the work to create a space which will be conducive to not only art exhibiting, but also to art appreciating, art learning and in the end art creating.  We believe in the artist and the artwork they produce.  This is the reason we, or any other art space for that matter, even exists.  It’s about the artist and the inspiration and enlightenment their final art embodies.

99% is dedicated to doing everything in our power to support the artist and the work they create.  We are also dedicated to art learning, through our upcoming series of lectures, classes, workshops and so much more.  Of course we also are dedicated to working with the artists we want believe in to produce a regular schedule of exhibitions throughout the year.

Lastly, 99% is dedicated to underdogs.  We will exhibit artists who been inspired by the worlds of comic books, animation, new media, graffiti, tattoos, illustration, folk art and many other forms of pop, subversive and outsider imagery.

99% perspiration, 1% inspiration.  We like the way that sounds.  We like the idea of working hard to create an environment for our artists to engage with comfortably, as they change the world one idea at a time!

P.S. Oh, and it doesn’t hurt that the number on our building is 99!  😉

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Electric Windows (Beacon, NY)

June 1, 2010

Participating artists include: Avic Tchernichovski, Big Foot, Buxtonia, Cern, Chris Stain, Chris Yormick, Depoe, Elbow Toe, Elia Gurna, Ellis G, Erik Otto, Eugene Good, Faust, Gaia, Joe Iurato, Mr Kiji, Logan Hicks, Michael De Feo, PaperMonster, Peat Wollaeger, Rick Price, Riiisa Boogie, Ron English, Ryan Bubnis, Ryan Williams, Skewville, and TC.

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BSA GIVEAWAY: “FOR YOUR EYES ONLY”

June 1, 2010

Name Every Piece and You Win an Original Artwork from Chris (RWK) and BSA !

Okay BSA Readers: Now’s your chance to show you know your street art!

This is what the winner gets by Chris from RWK acrylic on wood 8 x 8 signed
YOUR PRIZE: This cool piece by Chris from Robots Will Kill!  8″ x 8″, acrylic on wood, signed by the artist.

Since the devil is on the details, here is a set of images that focus on the EYES of the artists’ subjects. The first reader that correctly identifies all the artists will receive this original painting on wood by street artist Chris from Robots Will Kill.

The Winner will be announced on Fun Friday, along with the answers.

Please email your answers to info @ brooklynstreetart.com with BSA GIVEAWAY in the subject.

Good Luck! Ready, GO!

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(all photos © Jaime Rojo)

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Arts in Bushwick Presents: Bushwick Open Studios (BOS) June 4-6 2010

May 30, 2010 , ,

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About BOS

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Our Mission

Arts in Bushwick is an all volunteer organization that serves and engages artists and other neighborhood residents through creative accessibility and community organizing. It is our goal to create an integrated and sustainable neighborhood, and to bring together all Bushwick residents and stakeholders to counter development-driven displacement.

To keep reading about Arts in Bushwick go here:

http://bos2010.artsinbushwick.org/about/

To see the map and participating artists for this year’s BOS go here:

http://bos2010.artsinbushwick.org/directory/

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Images Of The Week 05.30.10 on BSA

Images Of The Week 05.30.10 on BSA

May 30, 2010 , , , , , ,

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Our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Sweet Toof, Robots Will Kill, Ludo, Clown Soldier, Swoon, NanooK, Gaia,  Faile, ROA, Shepard Fairey, Sting, Aakash Nihalani

Sweet Toof and Veng
Sweet Toof moves in next to Robots Will Kill (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ludo
Don’t pull that thing! (Ludo) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Clown Soldier's many talents
Clown Soldier’s many talents (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Swoon
Swoon (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NanooK
NanooK (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Swoon
Over the shoulder Swoon (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gaia
Gaia (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Roa, Celso

Roa, Celso ( Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Faile
Amidst all these troubles and anxieties that befell Trixie, she still remembered to wear her pumps.  (Faile) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Roa
ROA (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Don't Stop Aakash Nihalani! (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Don't Stop Aakash Nihalani! (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Look Ma, Sting is coming out of Shepard Fairey's riffles!
Shepard Fairey and Sting (a street art collabo) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

And Now This Briefs Message:

NanooK
NanooK (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sweet Toof, Clint

Sweet Toof, Clint (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Carmichael Gallery Presents: “Booked” ( Culver City L.A.)

May 29, 2010 , , , , , ,

Carmichael Gallery

Nick Walker Photo Courtesy 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

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The Dude Company Special: New Pieces: Big Ups To BKLN

May 28, 2010 , , ,

Dude’s Got Skillz

Damn, Son, some street arts artists in BK are seriously bringing it this spring, and the results are there for anybody to see in this gallery of the street.

Here are very recent stencils and wheat-pastes by one of the more enterprising new talents on the scene, The Dude Co. 
In this new series The Dude continues to pay homage to BROOKLYN, some of its distinctive landmarks, skater kids, and hip-hop musicians from all over.
Despite the subjects, none of it is POP, rather it can be startlingly sincere. In color, composition, and context you’ll have to admit he’s killing it.
It’s evident that The Dude Co. is a fan of New York, and with this new collection, some New Yorkers will undoubtedly be a fan of The Dude.

The Dude Company celebrates Brooklyn
The Dude Company celebrates Brooklyn (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Cake and The Dude Company Collaboration
Street Art Mashup: “Ballade De Cake Nelson” He even did a duet with Cake – like Serge Gainsbourg mashed with Katy Perry Cake and The Dude Company Collaboration (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Dude Company
The Dude Company (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Dude Company (Version 2)

The Dude Company with a skater boy out front (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Dude Company
The Dude Company (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Dude Company
Ahmir Khalib Thompson known professionally as ?uestlove (The Dude Company) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Dude Company
The Dude Company in Black and White (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Dude Company Ode to Brooklyn in yet another version
The Dude Company in an Ode to Brooklyn (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Signal Gallery Presents: Armsrock Solo Show “Drawn Towards The Present” (London)

May 28, 2010 , , ,

Armsrock

Armsrock Signal Gallery

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:

www.armsrock.blogspot.com

“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


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BSA EXPANDS Inexplicably – Like those moving platforms at the14th St. Subway Station

May 28, 2010

I’m expanding, and not always in a good way, truth be told.

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Too much time spent slaving over a hot keyboard and mindlessly eating is part of it.  Besides that, BSA has been really inundated with fun and your new ideas and we’ve decided we are going to make a ‘lil more room for everybody over the next few months. We need more room!  There’s more stuff to see and do!
Already you can see that the space for pictures is bigger, right? GIGANTO!  And as we move forward, we’ll be a little lighter on on our paws, with more options for you to participate with us and each other and with the biggest growing street art scene this side of the oil spill.
And in the interest of transparency (and because we’re clueless about how to do it behind the scenes), we’ll be making the improvements to the site right in front of you, like open heart surgery on your coffee table.  NICE.  So sometimes it may get a little messy, there will be blood spattering about.

It may look like HOLY HELL once in a while, but stick with us, kid, and you’ll have potatoes as big as diamonds.

Did I say that right?

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Stuck in Love With New York’s Stickers

May 27, 2010 , , , , ,

One of New York’s Visiting Photographers Shows His Collection of Sticker Pics

New York is blessed with thousands, maybe millions of visitors every year.  Some come for Broadway, The Naked Cowboy and Nathan’s hotdogs. Others come for the street art.  Richard Skinner from Ireland shows us the cool stickers he shot while here.

~with images and text by Richard Skinner

When I arrived in New York, although I already knew how big street art was, it still amazed me and made me happy to see it in person.

Richard Skinner

(Image © Richard Skinner)

As I looked at all the art I noticed the mass amount of stickers covering the posts and traffic lights all over the city, and I had not really seen it documented properly before, so I started.  Walking the city for hours capturing the stickers that a lot of people in one of America’s biggest city’s fail to notice.

Richard Skinner

(Image © Richard Skinner)

A lot of these stickers are very well designed graphically, and I try to capture them in a way that the background compliments this. Some are just plain funny.  Sometimes they can be in awkward places so to document them I took a close up. I find it interesting to spot these stickers all over the city and see the length some artists go to have themselves recognized.

Richard Skinner

(Image © Richard Skinner)

I have much respect for all the artists involved and it’s a pleasure to document it.  I hope my photographs can make these pieces of art last longer than they might normally.

Richard Skinner

(Image © Richard Skinner)

Richard Skinner

(Image © Richard Skinner)

Richard Skinner

(Image © Richard Skinner)

Richard Skinner

(Image © Richard Skinner)

Richard Skinner

(Image © Richard Skinner)

To see more of Richard’s work go HERE

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Factory Fresh Presents: Skewville “Shift Work Disorder”

May 27, 2010 , , ,

Factory Fresh
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SHIFT WORK DISORDER
Skewville’s Illist Art
Opening June 5th & 6th, 1-7pm during weekend.
Beverages & Snacks will be served.
The brothers of Skewville change their work habits frequently, having worked long days on
unregulated shifts to maintain their status. As a result, in the last decade, the twin brothers
have created many projects on the streets and in galleries. Their aesthetic has been deemed
“Next levelism” in both arenas. Skewville’s newest body of artwork disrupts our visual
perception of maintaining a routine and average lifestyle. Such a recurrent interruption
of regular life patterns may result in stimulus overflow and excessive awareness.
Further Studies Will Be Done at Factory Fresh, till June 20th.
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This is the final week to view ROA.
We are open this week  Wednesday Thru Saturday 1-7pm.
For more info on Factory Fresh and it’s upcoming shows go to www.factoryfresh.net or email info@factoryfresh.net
Factory Fresh is located at 1053 Flushing Avenue between Morgan and Knickerbocker, off the L train Morgan Stop

Factory Fresh

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