Street Art: Our Weekly Interview With the Street
“The Date Farmers continue to develop what has become their signature aesthetic, incorporating found objects into their assemblage works which include aspects of collage, hand-painted typography, and cross-hatch drawing techniques.
The work contains elements influenced by graffiti, Mexican street murals, traditional revolutionary posters, prison art, tattoos, and sign painting, while often combining familiar pop iconography and corporate logos with figures from comics, folklore and Catholicism.”
"Descent into Heaven", Date Farmers (courtesy Jonathan Levine Gallery)
St Luis MO, Date Farmers (courtesy Jonathan Levine Gallery)
JMR
Of Clouds and Something Else exemplifies the deconstruction of JMR’s approach to his process, as he releases the tension of his lines and allows his work greater movement and flow. Balancing his line work and color palate, all parts of his artwork shares distinct and equal importance.
JMR’s steadfast pursuit of a modern styles and organic movements marks a new identity in his lifelong artistic development.
About the Artist
JM Rizzi, or better known as JMR, has adapted a unique mixture of Neo-Abstract Expressionism with hints of Contemporary Pop to create a style all is own. With experience in both the street art as well as the gallery world, JMR’s imagery is has become an icon in both his native New York City and his new home in Dallas, Texas. He looks to demonstrate the scale and motion set forth by early abstract expressionists while reinterpreting it within his own introspective adaptation. Through his hybrid street style, JMR has dedicated himself to expanding his art further into the public arena. Having completed a building sized mural in Manhattan at the Pod Hotel, as well as numerous commissioned projects around Brooklyn, JMR looks to take his art to the next level.
OPENING RECEPTION:
Friday, April 16, 2010 – 6:00PM-9:00PM, and closing May 14, 2010
Mighty Tanaka
68 Jay St., Suite 416 (F Train to York St.)
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Hours: M-F 12PM to 7PM, weekends by appointment only
Office: 718.596.8781
As usual, you’ll see that Hush has again produced “a sensory assault of shape, color, and character.” I copied that off his blog.
Hush’s has been combining the aerosol/lettering of graff writing with fine art and Asian comic book aesthetics for a few years now. Seeing this, you know how he has really matured. This image is arresting.
From our interview with Hush last year before his show at Carmichael;
Hush at Shooting Gallery – San Francisco, 1st May 2010
Contact: leigh@shootinggallerysf.com about the limited edition print of 50
These are some of the pieces that street artist ROA showed this evening at his opening at the Pure Evil Gallery in London. Look forward to more ROA greatness at our auction April 24th and at his solo show at Factory Fresh in May.
Hey kids! You know that “artiste” at school that always complains that he couldn’t make his “vision” happen because he didn’t have the right equipment? “I could take really good pictures if I had the right camera” “I could be further ahead in my career if I had the right computer and software”. “I would be in galleries now if I could afford to hire a good website designer” That could be totally true.
Here is a video not seen by many people, but a helpful insight – especially in view of the “Exit Through the Giftshop” movie release in the U.S. on 4/16.
She’s a big’un and she got a purty red ribbon in her hair.
STEN AND LEX
This exhibition marks a step toward the affirmation of their career, with a new concept : the «Stencil Poster». They are now completely challenging the repeatable nature of stencil art ; each stencil is unique. Each stencil is used only once, the stencil itself is destroyed and is incorporated into the artwork itself. The ephemeral of the street reflects the continuity of the work in the gallery.
Galerie Itinerrance 7bis, rue René Goscinny - 75013 Paris M° Bibliothèque F.Mitterrand du mercredi au samedi de 14h à 19h http://itinerrance.fr Samantha Longhi Directrice artistique 00 33 6 58 05 56 01 samantha@itinerrance.fr
GREG HABERNY
Image courtesy of the gallery
Marisa Sage
Owner/Director
Like the Spice Gallery
224 Roebling Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
718.388.5388
www.likethespice.com
Sometimes you see a ROA piece and it looks like a real animal that might peel off the wall and come over and stomp on your head. Or chomp off an ear. Chomp chomp chomp.
Kriebel! That’s his name; Our fearless videographer on the scene – Video shot like a wild animal itself has a camera strapped on it’s head, hurriedly and harriedly running through the jungle with un-glued urgency, freezing in place to stare at the giant-ish pig and huge pecking bird and many other creatures in the berserk brush-filled back lots of abandonment.
It is a bit long for my short attention span, and eventually the scariness of the bouncing video becomes more comic than creepy. It’s wayyyyyyy beautiful.
Thanks to the fine and furry Charley Uzzell Edwards, accidental gallerist of PURE EVIL, who have somehow managed to coax ROA in for a show that starts Thursday.
Did I mention ROA’s coming to BROOKLYN NEXT MONTH?
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The cities were once our pastures, fish once jumped from the rivers, storks once combed these streets. And that’s easy to forget — which is why the work of Graffiti artist ROA can be so powerful, existing in ruined, deserted industrial spaces of the city.
R O A
Solo Exhibition at Pure Evil Gallery 8th APRIL – 2nd MAY 2010
ROA’s eagerly anticipated UK solo debut opens in London this spring to exhibit his unique portrayal of large scale urban wildlife, disquietly cohabiting city streets, hand painted in his distinctive black and white style.
ROA started painting abandoned buildings and warehouses in the isolated industrial outskirts of his hometown – Ghent, Belgium. Fixating on the animals he found there; the wildlife became the central subject matter of his work, inspired by their clever ability to adapt into scavengers in order to survive. He used the dilapidated, coarse interiors and exteriors of the unyielding landscape as a canvas to portray his large-scale creatures.
Roa filled a vast abandoned warehouse complex of different chambers and exteriors with a menagerie of large-scale animals, creating an impressive spray painted zoo of city scavengers.
His obsession went global when he took to the streets of New York, London, Berlin, Warsaw and Paris, prolifically painting his trademark cross sectioned animals wherever he went, locating them where they naturally invade the main city streets with their quiet yet powerful presence.
Pure Evil Gallery is proud and extremely excited to present a new body of original artwork by ROA this spring, complete with street works in the local area. Look out for a new ROA city fox appearing on a street near you.
MIMI THE CLOWN
Bonjour les amis !
Ce mail pour vous informer d’une exposition qui se profile à l’horizon !
“REGARDS URBAINS”, du 23 avril au 29 mai (vernissage le 22 à 18h30)
4 parvis st Maurice à LILLE (à 100m de la gare Lille Flandres / à 1h de Paris)
MIMI the Clown, Janusz STEGA, Benoit PIRET et Freddy PANNECOCKE livrent ici leurs interprétations respectives de la Ville dans leurs actes de création dans une exposition unique qui trouve son site sur plus de 1000m2 en coeur de ville.
+ d’infos sur http://www.vertikall.com/
A très bientôt !!
BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY