中村 晃大 - Codai Nakamura Solo Show at West Berlin Gallery

中村 晃大 - Codai Nakamura Solo Show

Codai Nakamura grew up, studied and leaves in Japan.
West Berlin Gallery presents his first solo show in Europe from June 3rd to July 3rd.

Codai Nakamura's first key inspiration comes from Taro Okamoto. The Japanese mentor, noted for his abstract and avant-garde paintings and sculpture, changed is vision for Art. Okamato's vision being very different from the approach of the traditional Japanese Fine Art Schools. Okamato showed him that Art doesn't necessarily needs to be beautiful in the conventional way, opening new doors to his creativity. Codai Nakamura's paintings & illustration are very iconic, with central characters who represents Japanese people in their daily life. His work draws heavily from a pessimistic view of the urban experience which he describes in his work as tired characters and sad persons. Later on he was also influenced by Barry McGee and got to paint a lot of street characters.


Nakamura, despite his young age, has already had numerous shows in galleries in Japan such as galerie 6C or the Sunsui Museum. West Berlin Gallery will present a collection of his latest works, exhibited for the very first time in Europe. During the vernissage on Thursday June 3rd he will do live paintings for the pleasure on the audience.

The Opening Ceremony will be held on Thursday the 3rd of June at 19:00 in West Berlin Gallery, Brunnenstr. 56 Berlin. The evening will be completed with a live painting session by the artist, music by Massimiliano Pagliara (Balihu / Rushhour / Robert Jonhson) and nice drinks to make it a date!

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Vladimir Kato "Wilderness" at Show & Tell Gallery

Vladimir Kato
Wilderness

June 4th - June 27th 2010

Show & Tell Gallery is proud to welcome Vladimir Kato to his second solo show with the gallery in as many years.

This exhibition is Vlad's take on the exploitations of wildlife. By using a range of unnatural and over exaggerated colors, Vlad aims to capture the chaotic personalities in the subjects he paints. Wilderness is a truly unique and amplified look at the idea of zoology.


Vladimir Kato is a graduate of the Interpretive Illustration and Classical Animation Programs at the Sheridan College of Art and Design. Since graduating he has done illustration for several recognized magazines and clothing companies, worked with award winning animation studios, and exhibited his fine art across the world.

Vladimir currently lives and works in Toronto.

Show & Tell Gallery
1161 Dundas St. West
Toronto, ON
M6J 1X3
Canada

Alëna Skarina "Kind Red" at Show & Tell Gallery

Alëna Skarina
Kind Red

June 4th - June 27th 2010

Show & Tell Gallery is pleased to welcome Siberian born artist Alëna Skarina to her first solo exhibition with the gallery. Alëna's art reflects her deep affinity with animals and their poignant nature. Line refinement, organic hand done typography, and tasty (sometimes perverse) subject matter are some of Alëna's most common pursuits when it comes to illustration.


Alëna’s fine art illustrations have been recognized by American Illustration, 3X3 Magazine, Applied Arts, and Creative Quarterly. Her commercial clients include Milk, Nissan, and Chatelaine Magazine.

Kind Red is a body of work about kindred connections manifested by kindness. The animals and creatures in this body of work interact in symbiotic ways, denoting the beauty of reciprocation. The typographic elements that appear throughout the Kind Red series also reinforce Alëna's personal stance: that kindness is the most powerful taming agent, akin to the power of blood ties.

Show & Tell Gallery
1161 Dundas St. West
Toronto, ON
M6J 1X3
Canada

LTD Tee // Oliver Hibert Ouroboros Box Set

LTD Tee is proud to announce our Ouroboros box set collaboration with Oliver Hibert!

This box set will be available for one week only at www.ltdtee.net, from May 31st until June 6th. The Oliver Hibert Ouroboros box set includes: High quality, screen printed t-shirt, 8” x 10” art print, custom screen printed box, artist bio on both the box and neck label, sticker pack.


For a limited time only, LTD Tee is giving away free stickers featuring designs by JThree Concepts, MCA / Evil Design and Oliver Hibert to people who sign up for our online newsletter.

Get a free LTD Tee stickers and enter to win free t-shirts!

Upcoming LTD Tee releases feature designs by David Flores, Camilla D’Errico, MCA / Evil Design, JThree Concepts and MWM...

www.ltdtee.net

Carhartt Brand Book Volume 3

The latest Carhartt Brand Book is here: the much-awaited volume 3! This issue presents our Spring / Summer 2010 collection in focus, updates on current projects and collaborations, reports on Carhartt’s rich history and the Heritage line. The Brand Book Volume 3 is completed with numerous interviews with artists from the Carhartt extended family. On display is our summer collection with a special fo- cus on the Heritage line. Highly anticipated collabora- tions such as the Charge x Carhartt bike and our latest venture with Vans are also proudly revealed.




In spirit of celebrating those who impress us with their work, personalities and passion, we invite some of our favourite heads to take their place in front of ‘The Black Curtain’. We swing by Honest Jon’s, the ultimate record collector’s paradise in London, for a chat with co-label and storeowner Mark Ainley. We ask multi-talented Juliet Elliott about her perfect day and take a closer look at the artistic approach of Alexander Basile, who shot the advertising campaign. We talk with poet and photo- grapher Scott Bourne about his deep love for poetry and introduce you Gemma Booth and her current ex- hibition of previously unreleased photographs taken of Detroit ten years ago that are now on display at the new Carhartt Store in Munich. Graphic designer and illust- rator Eric Elms speaks about his artistic development.




Enjoy the Carhartt Brand Book Volume 3, available now only at Carhartt stores and your favourite Carhartt dealer.

Dave Decat "Fritz Honka" at Vicious Gallery

DAVE DECAT

Fritz Honka

Vernissage Sat. May 29th 2010

8pm Till late.

Exhibition: May 29th until June 19th

Our man Dave has returned to Hamburg! Through his former visits to this beautiful city he had gained a feeling for the vibe that´s going on here. There are not only the fancy houses around the Alster or Elbe. There is also this magic place called St. Pauli. Right in the middle of St. Pauli, where our gallery is located, you just have to look out of the window to see all the similarities between Dave´s work and the looks and attitudes of the people living in St. Pauli. Thugs and pimps, hookers and drinkers, gamblers and thiefs. What else would have been more logical for him to return for his second solo- show, than bringing loads of portraits of those people representing our dirty and shady, but also lovely and beautiful St. Pauli!?!

The belgian artist Dave Decat was born and raised in brussels, where he attended the Royal Academy of Art to become an illustrator. From the mid 80´s until the 90´s he was very involved in the New York Hardcore Scene and did a couple of european tours as tour manager for the infamous parisian band Kickback.



He had also worked in a tattoo shop in Brussels where he replaced the boss when this one was sick, tattoed a 100's of people but stopped when he had the opportunity to draw two campains for Carhartt worlwide and has worked for Rugged Magazine, Sixpack shirts (9 shirts). He did record covers for Hi-Phen records, The Sedan Vault, Joe Coffee ... In the last years is career as an artist has realy increased in speed and he has exposed in Antwerp, Brussels, Hamburg, Rome, Koln .... Since his first show at Vicious Gallery in 2009 which was a huge success, the Vicious Gallery sees him as one as the most important artists for the gallery´s profile. His infamous characters represent the lifestyle of St. Pauli. He will proof this at his next solo- show.

Vicious Gallery
Kleine Freiheit 46
D-22767 Hamburg
Germany

"One Way or Another" a one night exhibtion at the HVW8 Art + Design Gallery

"One Way or Another"
Currated by Isaac McKay-Randozzi and Sandro Grison

There have been countless exhibitions of the art inspired by skateboard culture. Decks and shoes adorned with the paint splatter from our favorite skaters from yesteryear. Showing that not only does skateboarding breed creativity, but with it astounding prowess. In recent years professional skaters such as Ed Templeton, Jason Lee, Mark Gonzales, Chris Pastras and Jason Adams have carved their own ways into the world of art with favorable reviews. Now and for the first time ever Color Magazine brings together the artists who make up the skateboarding world today, as we see it. Representing the wide spectrum of the industry, these artists come together for the pure love of a skate-trip.



Greg PNut Galinsky (Vans), Andrew Pommier (Momentum Wheels, RVCA), Michael Leon (Commonwealth Stacks), Mark ‘Fos’ Foster (Herion Skateboards/Altamont Clothing), Todd Bratrud (High 5/Nike), Ben Horton (Slave Skateboards), Donny Miller (Vans/Skate Mental), Michael Sieben (Volcom/Roger) and Mat O'Brien(Krooked/SLAP) will be traveling from around the country and the U.K. tothree cities showing the wonderful and inspirational work they do. Others like Dennis McNett (Anti-Hero/Vans), Travis Millard (Fudge Factory Comics),Geoff McFetridge (Solitary Arts/Girl), Andy Jenkins (Girl), Matt Irving (adidas, Delphi), and Eric Anthony (4 Star Clothing/Girl) are contributing art for these one-night shows starting in Los Angeles at the HVW8 Art + Design Gallery, then Escapist in Kansas City, MO ending at the No Comply Skate Shop in Austin, TX.

SHOWS:

Saturday, May 29 (7 - 10 pm)
HVW8 Art + Design Gallery
661 N. Spaulding Ave.
L.A., Ca 90036
323 655 4898

Friday, June 4 (6-11pm)
Escapist
405 Southwest Blvd.
Kansas City, Mo 64153
816 842 2504

Monday, June 7 (6-11pm)
No Comply
812 W. 12th St.
Austin, TX 78701
512 804 0472


“One Way or Another will feature some of the most talented folks in the skateboarding industry. Each artist involved is donating their valuable time, skill and resources to inspire the next generation of creators.”
- co-curator Isaac McKay-Randozzi.

During the tour they will be camping out, skating local spots and cavorting with each community on the most grass roots level.

Eric Anthony, Todd Bratrud, Mark Fos Foster, Greg Pnut Galinsky, Ben Horton, Matt Irving, Andy Jenkins, Michael Leon, Geoff Mcfetridge, Travis Millard, Donny Miller, Mat O’Brien, Dennis McNett, Andrew Pommier, Michael Sieben


These are the artists behind the brands, making the graphics for companies that have inspired us for many years. The premise of this group show serves to reconnect these artists with what got them where they are at in the first place: their skateboards. With support from Vans shoes, on May 28th they trade in their comfortable studios and desks for a snug ride in a van (generously provided by Volcom clothing) with over 100 pieces of art, a dozen skateboards and camping gear to embark on a classic skate-trip across part of America. Bringing one-night-only art shows to L.A., Kansas City, and Austin.


“The unique thing about this group is that they are widely known for their art and work for skateboard companies and little known [due mostly to their own authority] for their action on their skateboards.”

Saturday, May 29th, "One Way or Another", a one night exhibtion at the HVW8 Art + Design Gallery. 661 N. Spaulding Ave., West Hollywood, Ca. 90036

BLADE at Montana Shop Madrid Opening Party

MONTANA COLORS MADRID ¡YA ES OFICIAL!

El próximo jueves 27 de mayo inauguramos oficialmente Montana Shop Madrid y, como no podía ser de otra forma, vamos a celebrarlo por todo lo alto. Montana Colors desembarcará en el centro de la capital con la presencia del popular escritor neoyorquino BLADE. El Rey del Graffiti visitará por primera vez España para compartir con todos nosotros esta gran efeméride y de paso firmar libros, hacerse fotos, charlar con los escritores locales y hacer inolvidable e irrepetible el evento.

Además también contaremos con una pequeña exposición lienzos y fotos de algunos de los más de 5000 vagones que pintó durante la época dorada del graffiti. ¡No te lo pierdas!

Montana Shop Madrid

Caballero de Gracia, 9

28013 Madrid, Spain.

JUST DO NUT Design by Short

JUST DO NUT Design by Short contribution to the “Color constest” on lafraise.com.

Upper Playground Presents: SuperFishal capsule collection

Upper Playground Presents:
SUPERFISHAL CAPSULE COLLECTION

Jeremy Fish is in Hamburg, Germany right now as part of his ‘The Road Less Traveled Tour’ and will be the inaugural artist in the ‘Helium Cowboy’ gallery space there. He’s also very cold. In Jeremy’s words, ‘they haven’t heard of summer here yet.’ So just to rub that he’s missing summer in his face a little more, Upper Playground is releasing a line of superFishal tee’s. The SF Swingers Tee features a chest pocket with his superFishal SF Swingers logo printed on it. All four tees are available at all of Upper Playground’s retail locations and online at the Upper Playground online store.


Jeremy Fish is a prolific artist based out of San Francico. He began his career as the art director for Think Skateboards. Fish’s book credits include I’m With Stupid, featuring some notable selections from the Big Stupid series that ran in SLAP magazine and The Next Best Thing, a collaboration with hip-hop artist Aesop Rock that featured a storybook accompanied by a 7” picture disk. Jeremy has also developed his own apparel line with Upper Playground called ‘superFishal.’ He continues to be a highly respected illustrator and designer, and has collaborated with a number of corporations including Nike, Microsoft, and Adidas.

EL TONO exhibition at the Sala de Arte Joven 2.0 Comunidad de Madrid

Opening on Wednesday 26th at 7 pm
Fiesta confeti y Pinches Montañeros!
more info here

SALA DE ARTE JOVEN 2.0
Avenida de América, 13
Madrid, Spain, 28002

Street Art Cookbook

Os Gemeos and Blu in Lisboa

via Os Gemeos

OUTSIDE THE BOX Exhibition at The Hammer Museum

Outside the Box: Edition Jacob Samuel, 1988-2010
Hammer Museum – Los Angeles, CA
5/23/10 to 8/29/10

This summer the Hammer Museum will host a major exhibition marking the joint acquisition of the complete archive of prints by Los Angeles publisher Edition Jacob Samuel by the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Since 1988 Jacob Samuel has published 43 portfolios of prints made by a diverse group of international artists, including Marina Abramovic, John Baldessari, Chris Burden, Mona Hatoum, Rebecca Horn, Anish Kapoor, Barry McGee, Ed Moses, Matthew Monahan, Wangechi Mutu, Gabriel Orozco, Nancy Rubins, Ed Ruscha, Robert Therrien, James Welling, Christopher Wool, and Andrea Zittel, among many others.

Working primarily in series in intaglio mediums such as etching, drypoint, and aquatint, Samuel has invited artists to create prints in his Santa Monica studio but has also traveled internationally to collaborate with artists in their own studios. The number of prints included in each portfolio range from 6 to 36, with more than 550 individual prints included in the 43 portfolios. The exhibition will be situated in the museum’s main temporary exhibition galleries and will include all the published portfolios, as well as related proofs and other preparatory works.

Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024

NAME TAGGING New MBP book by Martha Cooper

Graffiti Photography Legend Martha Cooper

presents NAME TAGGING

Mark Batty Publisher is proud to announce its second collaboration with famed graffiti photographer, Martha Cooper. In her first book with MBP, Going Postal, Cooper documented postal stickers adorned with some of the best-known street artists' work. With Name Tagging, she presents a dizzying array of "Hello My Name Is" stickers adorned with tags, the origin of graffiti and today's street art cultures.



Name Tagging recognizes the variety and innovation of tags, crediting the form's history while demonstrating how old-school methods breed some of today's most exciting graffiti. Cooper's introduction, artist interviews and colorful photographs make clear how artists famed and anonymous take advantage of the accessibility and practicality of name tag stickers. Name Tagging captures the artistry and audacity of these artists and their distinctive tags.


Interviews with ZEPHYR, COST, EDEC, CLAW, TWIST, SURE & FAUST, COSBE, ALONE, CAHBASM, OVERCONSUME and EARWORM reveal the history of this tradition as well as shed light on how some of today's most prolific writers get up.

“Finding an unusual sticker is definitely more challenging than photographing it, but photography is an excellent way of preserving this very ephemeral art form,” says Cooper. “Tags written with markers on name badges enable the intricacies and aesthetics of their styles to be studied and appreciated – that’s what this book is about.”




Martha Cooper is a New York-based photojournalist specializing in art and anthropology. She is among the handful of photographers who methodically documented subway graffiti during the 1970s and 1980s. Her body of work is the most extensive and significant of its kind.

She is also the author of MBP's Going Postal.

SEEN Solo Show at Galerie Magda Danysz in Paris

Seen Solo Show

Opening 29 May, 2010 from 6pm to 9pm
show on going from 29 May, 2010 to 26 June, 2010

As a pioneer of the "Street Art" movement, an emblematic figure of the graffiti movement, SEEN becomes famous in the 70s on the New York artistic scene ; he actively participates in the emergence of the movement. From a very young age, he is already seen as a prodigy. At the age of 11, he tags his first trains. Later, he decides to revisit letters and hit the "Hollywood" sign in Los Angeles. In 1981, he takes part in the exhibition "New York/New Wave" at PS1 with Keith Haring and Andy Warhol among others. Considered as an icon of the graffiti movement, SEEN marks a whole generation by the strength of his creations and what he brought to this scene in terms of style. Still today, SEEN surprises by the virtuosity of his style and his creativity.


His art is between the inheritance of the street which he claims in each of his works and a very graphic technical virtuosity. Apart from its works full of coloured lettering, in which he's become a real master, SEEN developed over the years a series of works on canvas, creative and personal. In this show, SEEN presents the three series of very meaningful works. For one, he inserts steel and theMetro Transit Authority logo as to remind us his golden relationship with the streets of NY as he puts it himself, "Graffiti is my life, always has been and will always be".

On another level of the show one can discover the influence of the tattoo culture in Seen's life. Eventually, on the third level of the gallery SEEN offers a research work where he investigates abstraction. Beyond graffiti, beyond this school which continues to feed his work, SEEN proses above all a complete artist. Today, he is considered as one of the most talented artists of his generation by numerous fans.

96 pages catalogue available at the gallery.

Galerie Magda Danysz
78, rue Amelot Paris - France

STROKE.02 The world’s first Urban Art and New Contemporary Art Expo

STROKE.02
The world’s first Urban Art and New Contemporary Art Expo

27 – 30 May 2010
Munich

STROKE.02 the art fair

The 7000 visitors that attended STROKE.01 in October 2009 transformed Munich into the capital city of „Urban“ or „Contemporary Art“. Inspired by this success the STROKE organizers have come up with a few things to make sure that STROKE.02 is even more creative and varied.


The top Urban Art galleries will have 10.000 m² within which to present their artists and to create a diverse and varied „Urban Art“ ensemble. Among the exhibitors are major galleries such as Intoxicated Demons from Berlin, New York’s Honeycumb, Laura McNamara from Birmingham, Milan’s United No Art Collection and xhoch4 from Munich.

Additionally, well-known artists like Claudio Ethos, the MA`Claim Crew, Pisa 73 and Box 23 will be painting live – bringing their work closer to the public and offering visitors an insight to the creative process, how they develop their pieces and how they interpret the term „Art“.




STROKE.02 is upping the ante even further, offering a special highlight: art developed using LEGO building blocks will be presented on a 300 m² area under the motto „LEGO goes Graffiti”. This exhibits the versatility of the children’s toy and further reflects the creativity of the scene. The LEGO Live Charity Battle will be running over the entire duration of the show, with up to four artists letting their imaginations run riot and building larger than life LEGO artworks. These will be auctioned during the show, with proceeds going to charity.

DJ Acts will round off this extensive programme each evening, offering visitors a complete programme with something for everyone.

Raiko Schwalbe is thrilled with the response and the build-up so far: „Our exhibition space is already booked out and we’ve had a lot of feedback from Stroke01 visitors telling us how much they’re looking forward to Stroke02“. He has lived in Munich for 10 years and together with his brother Marco runs the „Intoxicated Demons“ gallery in Berlin.

While his graphic designer brother is responsible for the creative department, as a former Key Account Manager Raiko Schwalbe mainly looks after the business side of things. Munich’s „Team From Hell“ also benefits from this symbiosis, with Florian Pop, Hubertus Becker and Quirin Schwanck having already worked together with the Schwalbe brothers, to stage the STROKE.01 Urban Art-Expo in a former BMW dealership.

More info:

www.stroke02.com