KILL PIXIE (Mark Whalen) I'LL HIT YOU UP TOMORROW Solo Exhibition at Merry Karnowsky Gallery

KILL PIXIE (MARK WHALEN) I'LL HIT YOU UP TOMORROW
Project Room: The Future Spa – collaborative Installation with Autolux

MAY 30 – JUNE 27. 2009
OPENING RECEPTION:
SATURDAY, MAY 30, 8-11PM
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170 S. LA BREA AVENUE LOS ANGELES, CA
90036 323.933.4408 MKGALLERY (AT) MINDSPRING.COM (MAP)
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Thinkspace is proud to present "Culver City INVASION"

Thinkspace is proud to present: 'Culver City INVASION' May 30th 12 Noon - 8PM
During the 4th Annual Culver City Art Walk.

Show Pieces:
http://www.thinkspacegallery.com/2009/05/project4/works.php

The Conestruction Inc. & Extrabold presents Under Conestruction

Extrabold proudly presents Cone, a bavarian illustrator with a 16 year graffiti background, also known as the Conestruction inc. Game addicts might already know his work from the latest XBOX artist series. 'In Conestruction' will be showcasing predominantly black and white works from past and present. More information about Cone can be found on www.thecone.net

Joshua Liner Gallery presents Mike Davis & Heidi Taillefer

Joshua Liner Gallery presents Mike Davis 'Stories From the Other Side of the Bridge' and Heidi Taillefer 'An Uncanny Lineup of Serendipitous Connections'

Reception Saturday May 30, 6-9pm
May 30 to June 27, 2009

Leo Fitzpatrick "THAT JOKE ISN’T FUNNY ANYMORE (America at the Turn of the Century)" at Fuse Gallery

Leo Fitzpatrick
"THAT JOKE ISN’T FUNNY ANYMORE (America at the Turn of the Century)"
Exhibition: May 30 through July 4, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 30th, 7 to 10 pm

click here to view the work

Photographing the deterioration of America at the turn of the century, Leo Fitzpatrick says “fuck you to digital nightlife photography.” In reaction to the accessibility and degradation of photography, he seeks out complex yet simple images of landscapes, street corners and aging architecture. His observations come from having traveled cross-country by train and car eight times.

Leo Fitzpatrick’s artwork has been exhibited worldwide. His photographs have been featured in several publications including Journal, Joulouse and Mass Appeal.

“THAT JOKE ISN’T FUNNY ANYMORE (America at the Turn of the Century),” photographs
by Leo Fitzpatrick runs May 30 through July 4, 2009, at Fuse Gallery, 93 2nd Ave (between 5th & 6th Sts, 2nd Ave stop on the F), NYC, NY. The opening reception, on Saturday, May 30th, from 7 to 10 pm, is free and open to the public.

Book Expo America 2009 Live Performances by KRS-One and DJ Disco Wiz

powerHouse Books invites you to celebrate: Book Expo America 2009
Live Performances by KRS-One and DJ Disco Wiz

Friday, May 29, 2009, 7–10PM
The powerHouse Arena
37 Main Street, Brooklyn
For more information: (718) 666-3049

RSVP: rsvp@powerHouseArena.com

Arnaud Loumeau at Galerie Regala

Arnaud Loumeau
Exposition du 28 mai au 26 juin
Galerie REGALA

CHAZ BOJORQUEZ and RETNA "Follow the Line" at The DON Gallery

Retna and Chaz Bojorquez "Follow the Line"
Opening Thursday, May 28th at 6pm.
The show will stay up through June 28th.
The Don Gallery
Via Cola Montano 15. Milan

Lady Pink & Cycle new works at Dirty Pilot

Dirtypilot.com welcomes Graffiti Artists Lady Pink & Cycle. This new body of work includes fantastic Black Book style works on paper as well as trade mark canvases and mixed media works on wood. To commemorate this opening we have published a 36 page perfect bound full color zine. Limited to an edition of only 100 pcs. The zine will be hand signed by both artists. This publication is reversible as Pink & Cycle each have 18 pages dedicated to their work.

Billy Mode In The Pilots Lounge - Dirty Pilot

Dirtypilot.com welcomes Baltimore Artist Billy Mode. Check out over 25 Fantastic works with Billy's signature mixed media style. For many years Billy has frequently given thought to the subject of “Science and Humanism” His interest began while working on a series titled “Psychological Profiles”.

Michael Sieben "All The Time" Giclée Print Now Available

Signed and numbered edition of 100.
http://msieben.com/

"Gaijin no bijinga" An exhibition of new paintings by SYSTEM at Galería Nuble in Santander

SYSTEM aka Jason McFee opens his first major solo exhibition at Galería Nuble in Santander, Spain this Thursday. The exhibition, entitled; 'Gaijin no bijinga' is a collection of graffiti infused Geishas, beautifully painted by a true graffiti master. System has also been commissioned, along with Remi/Rough to paint a large scale mural inside the Museum of Fine Art in Santander.

Galería Nuble
C/ Daoiz y Velarde, 26 39003 Santander - Spain.

"The Godfather" Michael Lau x MINDstyle

Michael Lau x MINDstyle

BIMER & M:M "Frankenstein meets Mummy - Stencil meets Graff" ATM Gallery

As much as Frankenstein represents Horror within the world of film, Graffiti and Stencil Art are often regarded as fright ghosts within the urban cosmos.Too often this young art genre has been regarded as some sort of vandalism or scribbling. Therefore it is one of ATM gallery’s main aims to support the transparency and acceptance and show its’ artistic approach.

For the first time ATM gallery brings together two styles of urban art, which couldn’t be any more contrary. Bimer & M:M, both berlin based artists agreed to be part of an experiment that tries to create new ways of working together by bringing together two different urban art styles.

The Opening of Bimer's & M:M's Show "Frankenstein meets Mummy - Stencil meets Graff" takes place this friday, 29.th may from 7pm at ATM Gallery, Brunnenstr.24, Berlin-Mitte.

PARTOUZE /// YONE x REACH Exhibition

YONE x REACH / Exhibition Date / 2009.05.29 - 06.04

2009.05.29 Opening / 16:00 - 22:00 (RSVP) Cocktail Party / 19:00 - 22:00 - 2009.05.30 Body Painting & Live Shooting / 15:00

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2009.05.30 - 2009.06.04 Opening Hours / 11:00 - 20:00 Location / JOCKEY CLUB CREATIVE ARTS CENTRE Address / 30 PAK TIN STREET, SHEK KIP MEI, KOWLOON, HONG KONG. Tell / (852) 2353-1311 Website / www.jccac.org.hk

Nelly Duff presents A Toasters production "Tresspassers of the world Unite"

The Toaster "Tresspassers of the world Unite"
28th May 2009

On Thursday 28th May 2009, The Toasters and fifteen of their fellow trespassers, some of Europe’s most influential artists from the world of street art, will come together in East London for a collaborative exhibition. The Toasters, one of the original pioneers of street art in the UK and globally, have entertained the streets since 1999, appearing on posters, banners, stickers and murals all over the world in Berlin, Stockholm, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Sydney, New York, Paris, Peckham... everywhere!

Born on a cold New Years Eve in 1998, over a kitchen table in Wolverhampton, The Toaster project started life as an idea of how to make a mundane object famous, subverting the image by its placement and its graphic rendering! The Toaster project grew and has inevitably over the years created more questions than answers along the way.

Trespassers of the World Unite is a celebration of the last 10 years on the street for the infamous Toasters and a nod to those artists who they have respected over the years – hand picked through their long standing friendships, ripe talent and a maturity of work that has seen these artists at the forefront of the Graffiti movement since it's explosion in the mid 1980's.

A total of fifteen artists are involved in the collaborative exhibition with The Toasters; Will Barras, Bomb Kid, Butch, Crackrock, Dicy, Eco, Erosie, Influenza, Mr Jago, Late, Paris, Phet, Rabodiga, space3 and Zime.

Trespassers of the World Unite will take place on the evening of Thursday 28th May 2009 at as yet an undisclosed location in Hoxton… an area where all the artists exhibiting have in the last decade painted, pasted, trespassed and ran away from the police with The Toasters.

The 'Trespassers of the World Unite' show opens on Thursday 28th May between 6-9pm. The exhibition will run for 2 weeks.

www.nellyduff.com

DAVE DECAT at Vicious Gallery

DAVE DECAT
Solo Show 30.05.09-20.06.09 Vicious Gallery

Dave Decat from Brussels, Belgium in our eyes is one of the best illustrators of today. He has gained world- wide recognition through the two Carharrt- campaignes that he has done. His prolific style combined with the rough and dirty characters that remind us of the evilness of our race are one-of-a-kind. Showing original drawings and a series of 12 motives which are printed signed and framed and limited to three copies of each.

www.viciousgallery.com

COOP / A solo exhibition at Corey Helford Gallery

Opening Reception Friday, May 29, 2009 from 7 to 10pm
On View May 29 until June 20, 2009

Corey Helford Gallery is proud to present the highly-anticipated solo exhibition of new works by celebrated Pop-artist COOP. Since 2006, Los Angeles has been on the waiting list for COOP’s next explosion of larger-than-life pop iconography, and his upcoming solo show of irreverent and outrageous fine art is built for speed. Bold and brazen does not begin to describe the parade of leering devils, voluptuous vixens, and hell-bound hot rods that dominate his electric acrylic-on-canvas paintings. Considered one of the pioneers of the Contemporary New Fine Art movement, COOP steps out from his arsenal of sin to unveil the next phase in his evolving creations of neo-Pop imagery. An original music score written and recorded by Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO will be featured on opening night. The reception will take place on Friday, May 29 from 7 to 10pm and is open to the public. The show will be on view until June 20, 2009.

Born in Bixby, Oklahoma, Chris Cooper, AKA COOP, began his art career at the tender age of two, with crayons in hand. Shortly after the ink was dry on his high school diploma, he left his home state for Los Angeles where he landed his first solo exhibition in 1993 at La Luz de Jesus Gallery. Since then, COOP has been steadily taking over the art world, exhibition after exhibition, and his paintings have been showcased around the world from Merry Karnowsky in Los Angeles, Deitch Projects in New York and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston to galleries in Zurich and Milan.


Inspired by hot rodding, car culture, B-movie monsters, sexploitation flicks and the world of fetish, COOP parleyed his artistic talent into a merchandising empire, creating custom collections of fine art prints, rock and roll posters, artist-series apparel, lifestyle accessories, skateboards and toys. COOP released The Devil’s Advocate, a full-color coffee table book, which was an immediate sellout and is currently in its fourth printing. Following the success of his first release, COOP’s second book, The Big Fat One is a 1008-page sketchbook and was published in October, 2002.

The powerHouse Arena presents Busted! powerHouse Magazine Issue 5 / Exhibition

Remember when you got grounded in 10^th grade for coming home drunk and vomiting on the dog? Or the time you got caught selling fake ecstasy and were escorted out of that after-hours dive? Or how about the time your girlfriend got your password and broke into your Gmail account, only to discover you had an online honey? Man, if you had a dollar for every time you got busted, you'd be able to post bail right about now.

Held in conjunction with the publication of Busted (powerHouse Magazine Issue 5), The powerHouse Arena will host an exhibition of art that celebrates all that goes wrong when you're up to no good. Come join us to point and laugh at all the failures, fiascos, and hilariously embarrassing situations captured by these talented artists. Busted promises the most eclectic mix of nogoodniks, anarchists, and frisky kids ever caught between two covers.

BUSTED Exhibition May 26–June 21, 2009 - Curated by Viviana Morizet
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 28, 2009, 7PM-9PM / Music by ESTAW

The powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn. thepowerhousemagazine.com
RSVP: rsvp@powerHouseArena.com

Crash and Daze

La Nuit du Street Art

La nuit du Street Art
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ZBIOK x Croop by TOFU

ZBIOK from TOFU on Vimeo.

Advertising for the clothing company Cropp
Draws: Zbiok - Direction & Animation: Adam Chyliński/TOFU

STREET FEST 09

www.streetfest.net

Walrus TV Zephyr Interview From “Dithers”

This week, Walrus TV brings you an interview with art pioneer Andrew Witten, also-known-as graffiti legend, Zephyr. Pulled from the Dithers series, Zephyr talks about his early days as a train painter in New York, and his time spent with some of graff history's most-notable and influential artists.

During the early 80s, it was Zephyr who was part of the first wave of graffiti artists who made the transition into the galleries in the East Village. Alongside fellow artists Futura 2000 and Dondi White, Zephyr helped take graffiti to the next level; pulling it out of the streets and putting it into the galleries, their phenomenal work gained the praise and respect of graffiti heads, collectors, and art critics alike. Watch the interview on Walrus TV.

PAM x Ray Fong & Josh Lazcano 'Baller' Tee

Limited edition t-shirts from P.A.M. !

Produced in cooperation with PAMBOOK from contributer Ray Fong (Barry McGee).
http://www.perksandmini.com/
http://www.someday-store.com/shop/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=131

URBAN ART NIGHT The Bavarian Rockerz

FUCKUALL / FUA STORE Jahnstrasse 6, U-Bahn Fraunhoferstrasse 80469
Monaco di Bavaria / 23. Mai 2009 21:00 – 03:00 Uhr
Ausstellungsdauer 23.05 - 23.06.09

SEIZE aka Happywallmaker Interview by DonutChocula

Seize aka Happywallmaker

I was born in Paris in 1971. I started tagging at the beginning of the 80s. Building on my experience, I was influenced by the greatest painters of the 20th century and then developed my own style, between graffiti and contemporary painting. Some people call it street art.



That is for you Graffiti? Geometry?

It is painting above all. My technique comes from graffiti; my ideas from geometry – but for me, true graffiti is essentially a state of mind. It is an illegal act executed with style and not many can do that.


As has been influenced, to work for ten years in the metro to create your artwork?

In fact, I was a bus driver in Paris and I must admit that all those road networks on maps which I had to learn in connection with my job finally influenced me. It is mainly because of that crazy job that I decided to earn a living as a painter. I felt out of place behind a steering wheel, though that’s what built me, artistically speaking.



Street or Gallery...

Both. It is just the same work shown to different people in different places. I have images and ideas to share, whatever the location. But all in all, the street always has the last word.



To use tools to create?

My main tool is improvisation.



What is your favourite shape?

The triangle, because it symbolizes direction, determination and stability.

Mac or PC? I have discovered IT and the Internet three years ago on a PC.

Influences? Recommendations?

Keith Haring, Dubuffet, Paul Klee, Nikki de Saint-Phalle, Moebius, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, H.R. Giger, and many more…



One City / One Book / One Color...

San Fransisco / L’Incal (a comic book by Moebius) / Blue

What music are you listening while you work?

I listen to jazz. It is the music that fits better with creativity and improvisation. My painting is in line with this music, because it is free.


Upcoming projects...

The 25 may i am in the festival jam "La nuit du Sreet art" with all the french street art scene the jam is in the middlle of paris big show with artits, galleries...