Isaiah Seret + Neckface "Born Under A Bad Sign" Trailer

See the trailer for the Neckface super-villain movie - Born Under a Bad Sign.
An action horror film from Isaiah Seret + Neckface.

Filmed at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) in conjunction with the exhibition Art in the Streets - moca.org

Neckface-BadSign.com

Scion Installation 7 Interview: Cody Hudson & Jared Eberhardt

Artists, Cody Hudson and Jared Eberhardt discuss their video art piece from the Scion Installation 7 Video Art Tour.

Jeremy Geddes "A Perfect Vacuum" New Print

Jeremy Geddes
A Perfect Vacuum

Signed limited edition giclee print

“A Perfect Vacuum” will be available on our website on Monday 30th May at approximately 7am Melbourne time. Please check your time zones. As a guide, this is Sunday 29th May at 2pm in San Francisco, Sunday 5pm in New York, and Sunday 10pm in London.

Edition: 250
Image Size: W88 X H50cm (paper W97cm X H60cm)
Price: $235AU

The painting will be on show at Jonathan Levine Gallery next year.

Here is the link to the print

OUTSIDE IN: The Story of Art in the Streets movie trailer by Levi's Film Workshop

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OUTSIDE IN: The Story of Art in the Streets

A Film by Alex Stapleton
Trailer by Trailer Park

OUTSIDE IN: The Story of Art in the Streets is the first and only film to document the behind-the-scenes, comprehensive story of MOCA's groundbreaking Art in the Streets exhibition. The film features exclusive interviews with show artists including Lee Quinones, Futura, Mister Cartoon, Revok, Martha Cooper and Invader, sharing their artistic process, their pitfalls with the law and the poetic impermanence of their craft. In addition to the premiere of OUTSIDE IN, the evening featured a screening of the Workshop’s Meet the Artists series (featuring film shorts by Swoon x Cat Solen, Kenny Scharf x Nathan Meier + Malia Scharf, and Neckface x Isaiah Seret), a Q&A with director Alex Stapleton and various Art in the Streets contributors, and an after-party in the courtyard with a DJ set by artist Shepard Fairey.

Featured in OUTSIDE IN: Martha Cooper, Lee Quiñones, Fab 5 Freddy, Shepard Fairey, Mode2, EINE, Risk, Revok, Mr. Cartoon, ESPO, Henry Chalfant, Gusmano Cesaretti, Chaz Bojorquez, C.R. Stecyk III, Futura, Retna, Ed Templeton, Swoon, Neckface, Geoff McFetridge, Aaron Rose, Jeffrey Deitch.

Filmed at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) in conjunction with the exhibition Art in the Streets - moca.org

KIDULT "Illegalize Graffiti" Video Interview

infamous graffiti from ny itw
ilLegalize graffiti
filmed in paris by steve project
2011 GTNY

Faile Puzzle Boxes

FAILE

Puzzle Boxes

Brooklyn-based multimedia artists FAILE present the Puzzle Box series, a new body of work that is the culmination of three years of experimentation, and a pioneering mobile app. The modular wooden cubes and boxes reveal a new process of deconstructing and reconfiguring imagery and narratives. And taken together these projects explore new forms of abstraction and connections between artist and audience through digital media.

“The idea to build modularity into our practice was inspired by kids wooden block puzzle games from the turn of the last century. They were so full of potential, and a natural continuation of work we were already doing with our ‘apple boxes’ — FAILE


Each functional puzzle box features 88 six-sided hand-painted cubes and comes in a custom case. Each and every piece is unique, and the works can be configured in almost limitless scenarios.

This aspect of interactivity and play is synonymous with FAILE, stemming from their enduring commitment to create work that can be enjoyed by everyone. Always encouraging the viewer to experience and understand their creative process, the Puzzle Box series, with its physical interactivity, challenges the line between artist and the viewer, and suggests new avenues of artistic expression through mobile technology.


The “Puzzle Box” story continues digitally at www.failepuzzleboxes.com or grab the App at the iTunes Store, where viewers can interact with the concept, giving further life to the public aspect of their work.

App at iTunes Store

Incase Introduces Rostarr for Curated by Arkitip

For the ninth installment of Curated by Arkitip, artist Romon Kimin Yang, aka Rostarr, explores human nature via a series of geometric paintings applied to Incase’s signature protective cases. Available today, the Rostarr capsule collection for Curated by Arkitip treats Incase products as a vessel for delivering original Rostarr artwork with a range that includes a 15” Protective Sleeve, Book Jacket for iPad 2 and Snap Case for iPhone 4.




Rostarr for Curated by Arkitip features original artistry inspired by the 2009 Tour de France through which the artist explores the nature of competition between individuals, the energy and emotion of the race as it happens and, ultimately, the reward. The series of polymorphic paintings combines hard architectural lines with a soft palette of grey and a pop of orange, exemplifying a visual language Rostarr calls “Graphysics,” which characterizes the geometric dynamism found in his work.

Romon Kimin Yang, aka Rostarr, is a multi-disciplinary artist, painter and filmmaker living and working in Brooklyn. For the past 15 years, he’s blurred the lines between graphic design and art and is best known for his colourful abstract polymorphic paintings, totemic iconographic characters and black and white calligraphic drawings. He continually strives to find freedom within style, medium and form and build upon the iconographic visual language he terms “Graphysics”, a word that exemplifies the geometric dynamism characteristic in his work. Rostarr is also a founding member of the group Barnstormers, a collective of approximately 40 artists established in 1999.

The Rostarr series for Curated by Arkitip is available now at www.goincase.com
Rostarr Wallpaper

Montana Cans Across America #1

Montana Cans Across America #1
by Wane COD

Since this year we proudly support a team of great american artists, which are RISK, WANE, SEVER, CES & REVOK. The first project, MONTANA CANS ACROSS AMERICA #1, started, which is a 8-day roadtrip with SEVER, WANE, SMASH137 and Ruediger Glatz, the founder of the company, through the south of the USA. Here you can see some impressions shot by Wane himself...

Reyes & Watchavato "Mi Casa Su Casa" exhibition at No Vacancy Gallery

Mi Casa Su Casa
One country, two very different worlds

Official launch party: Friday 27 May 6PM
Exhibition will run from Friday 27 until June 5

Melbourne based partners The Guanabi Group and No Vacancy Gallery are pleased to present the work of Óscar Reyes and Watchavato.

The exhibition ‘Mi Casa Su Casa’ will showcase contemporary Mexican culture like it’s never been seen before in Australia, and what better place to do it than right here in Melbourne, the culture, design and street art capital of OZ.

On this occasion, two of the most important aspects of Mexican culture will be on show and you’ll see how these two aspects have an undeniable influence on the work of the two artists: Óscar Reyes and Watchavato –The Central and the Northern regions of Mexico respectively–. Both were born, raised and became completely immersed in the world around them which is now embedded in every single aspect of their work. It is through this interesting duality by means of photography, personal objects, music, street art, experimental design and of course their original artwork, the visitor will be able to grasp the very essence of these two completely different, yet fascinating worlds that have emerged from within a single country.


The artists regularly do DJ sets together in bars and parties in Mexico City. The opening party will feature the two playing an eclectic mix of popular Mexican music from the regions represented by their artwork — Northern Corridos will clash with slow Barrio Cumbias mixed with modern beats.

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No Vacancy Gallery
34-40 Jane Bell Lane (enter from Russell St)
Melbourne, Victoria 3000
Australia

VNA Magazine issue 15 launch party!

Black Rat Projects would like to invite you to VNA Launch, Thursday 26th May 2011.

Street art magazine VNA are pleased to announce the launch of the long awaited issue 15. With 32 more pages and none other than Shepard Fairey on the cover, this is surely the best VNA yet.



A special edition pack will be available on the evening to purchase, including a screenprinted cover by Shepard Fairey and a very limited edition VNA x OBEY t-shirt. Get there early to avoid disappointment.

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Black Rat Projects
thru cargo garden
arch 461
83 rivington street
London
EC2A 3AY

Happily Ever After at Together Gallery

Happily Ever After

May 26th - June 26th 2011
Opening Reception, Thursday May 26th, 6pm - Late

APAK
Mel Kadel & Travis Millard
Mildred & Pacolli
Ashley G & Drew
Brendan Monroe & Evah Fan
Kelly Tunstall & Ferris Plock
Jeremy Taylor & Allyson Melberg

Showing in our main gallery an all husband and wife art makers showcase. This could be the most all star lineup the gallery has seen thus far. This ones not to be missed, work available online the day of the show.

Opening night music by a very special secret guest!

Together Gallery
2916 NE Alberta St Suite A
Portland, Or, United States 97211

Misha Hollenbach "Holey Hole!" at Utopian Slumps

HOLEY HOLE!
MISHA HOLLENBACH

FRI 27 MAY UNTIL SAT 18 JUNE 2011

OPENING 26TH MAY, 6 - 8PM

Holey Hole! is an extension of the ideas and forms related to Hollenbach’s most recent solo at Family Gallery in Los Angeles, Do/No/Go Nuts!.

‘Misha Hollenbach has also dug himself into a hole full of mirrors. He reflects the world he sees around him. And for this task he ask you to peer through the ‘holy hole’.

The holy hole is an opening that literally leads nowhere at Winchester Cathedral in Hampshire, England. Found behind the main altar, the hole measures approximately 100 x 30 cm, so to enter, one must get down on their hands and knees. Legend has it that St Swithun was buried above the opening; thus, pilgrims would crawl through the glorious hole to be under the presence of his bones despite the fact that they saw nothing. And maybe there was nothing there since St Swithun’s head went to Canterbury Cathedral and his arm went to Peterborough Abbey. And the shrine had been rebuilt twice already.

…Look into the hole instead. There’s nothing not there, ya dig?’*

* Timothy Moore, ‘Oops’, HOLEY HOLE! exhibition catalogue, 2011

Misha Hollenbach’s practice merges contemporary culture with visionary primitivism. Working across the mediums of installation, sculpture and collage, his work is driven by the notions of carnal desire and primal need: a return to the basics and (un)basis of human existence. Gesturing toward the legacy of Dadaism, Hollenbach reconfigures found objects and images to create new meaning through their surreal and often confronting associations. While continuing an exploration of the material processes instigated in Forewards (2010), the collages, prints and automatic ceramics comprising Holy Hole! represent a shift in Hollenbach’s imagery — from a subversive iconography of pop culture to a fascination with both epic and humble architectural monuments, on and in the ground.

As one half of the internationally acclaimed P.A.M. (Perks and Mini) design duo, Hollenbach has exhibited nationally and internationally since 2008 through his art/music supergroup THE CHANGES, with exhibitions in Mu Gallery, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2008; Milan Design Week, Milan, 2007; and Zamiang Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2007. In 2009 he commenced exhibiting singularly, presenting his first commercial solo in 2010. For Holey Hole! Hollenbach will exhibit a new body of work forming explorations of the past, holes, donuts, archaeological ruins and found objects, as well as ceramic sculptures constructed through a process of automation.

Utopian Slumps
Ground floor, 33 Guildford Lane
Melbourne, Victoria 3000

Benjamin Edmiston, Edward Max Fendley, Steven Riddle "Radiant Fields" at Nudashank

Radiant Fields

May 28th - June 25th
Opening Reception: Saturday May 28th, 7 - 10pm

Benjamin Edmiston - Edward Max Fendley - Steven Riddle

Radiant Fields is a vibrating, neon collision of compressed and infinite space. Theatrical vingettes sit in the midground between cosmic collages, and flattened geometric structures. Extending beyond the frame and into site-specifice installation, Edmiston, Fendley and Riddle mix folk art, psychedelia and abstraction in the full depth of field.


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Nudashank
H&H Bldg 3rd Floor
405 W. Franklin Street
Baltimore, MD

Mario Martinez (Mars-1) "Afterglow" Solo Exhibition at Jonathan LeVine Gallery

Mario Martinez (Mars-1)
Afterglow

Gallery I
Solo Exhibition

May 26—June 25, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 26, 6—8pm

Jonathan LeVine Gallery is pleased to present Afterglow, new works by San Francisco-based artist Mario Martinez (Mars-1), in what will be his third solo exhibition at the gallery. Afterglow features a new bronze sculpture and several large-scale, acrylic works on linen—painted in Martinez’s distinctly individual and signature mind-expanding style of vast, abstracted, quasi-extraterrestrial landscapes.




In contrast with Martinez’s last exhibition, this new series of atmospheric paintings are much grander in scale and presence, with dark rather than light background colors. Through broader brushstrokes and kinetic energy, there is more chance and less control to the execution, creating a sense of conflict and struggle within the work. To experience the imagery as a viewer is like ocular meditation, releasing the mind from cognitive thought and allowing oneself to be visually drawn deep into a cosmic vortex and mentally explore the unknown.

Painting from a perspective of penetrating depth, Martinez’s process is subconscious-driven and constantly evolving. His compositions are densely layered in vibrant geometric and organic shapes, forming a unique matrix of patterns and textures. Skillfully combining optical color blending techniques with perspective line work, his dimensional imagery echoes the anatomy of architecture and microcosmic structures of biology.

Throughout the artist’s body of work, themes range from scientific to esoteric phenomena, including theoretical physics, metamorphoses, collective consciousness, ufology, possibilities of otherworldly principles and the relative link between physical and life sciences. Transitional energies, natural multiplicity, helixes and spontaneous biological occurrences all converge, forming imagery with hypotheses beyond the scope of modern technology.

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Jonathan LeVine Gallery
529 West 20th Street, 9th floor
New York, NY 10011

Miss Van "Bailarinas" Solo Exhibition at Jonathan LeVine Gallery

Miss Van
Bailarinas

Gallery II
Solo Exhibition

May 26—June 25, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 26, 6—8pm

Jonathan LeVine Gallery is pleased to announce Bailarinas, new works by French-born, Barcelona-based artist Miss Van, in what will be her second solo exhibition at the gallery and first solo show in New York in six years.


Miss Van’s signature aesthetic revolves around sultry female subjects, which she refers to as poupées (or dolls, in French), alluding to elements of fantasy and narrative in her work. Their direct gaze, pouty lips, voluptuous curves and erotic gestures have a provocative appeal — some playful, others dark — emotionally charged and empowered by uninhibited sexuality. 
Miss Van began painting these alluring figures in the streets of Toulouse, France, as a teenager nearly twenty years ago. The characters have since matured along with the artist who now works mainly in the studio, allowing time to refine her imagery through delicate pencil renderings on paper and loose brush strokes on canvas and wood. Recently, Miss Van was invited to participate in Art in the Streets, a major group exhibition currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, California. 


Along with her ultra-feminine figures, Miss Van has been known to incorporate animal familiars such as deer, rabbits and foxes. These creatures have a pet-like relationship with the mysterious temptresses who wear doll-like princess dresses or ballerina-tulle skirts with hints of lingerie textures such as corsets, ruffles, lace and fishnet. The women frequently appear topless and often wear masquerade-style masks, as well. Recently, the masks have become less decorative and increasingly more animal-like, adding significance to the dialogue created by the character’s human-animal relationships by amplifying themes of identity, role-play, fetish, and freedom to express the wild (animalistic) side of natural human instinct.

The joie de vivre pleasure principle, innate in French culture, informs much of Miss Van’s body of work. In Bailarinas, a series of pastel works on paper portray isolated figures in nostalgic poses inspired by vintage erotic portraiture. Additional acrylic and mixed media works on canvas and wood panel feature subjects inspired by dancers, driven by the sensually liberating experience of self-expression through physical control and movement of the body. The performance aspect of dance and the act of putting on a seductive show for a viewer or audience reinforces themes of fantasy and desire while also offering an interesting parallel to the artist’s craft, as both are forms of visual storytelling.

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Jonathan LeVine Gallery
529 West 20th Street, 9th floor
New York, NY 10011

Gaia "Succession" Solo Exhibition at Jonathan LeVine Gallery

Gaia
Succession

Solo Exhibition
Project Room

May 26—June 25, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 26, 6—8pm

Jonathan LeVine Gallery is pleased to present Succession, new works by Gaia, in what will be the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Works in Succession — comprised of drawing, painting and various relief-cut printmaking techniques — will be incorporated into a site-specific installation in the gallery’s project room. Re-creating street scenes as a background setting for his work, Gaia will transform the space, bringing the texture and energy of his urban interventions into the white box environment.


The artist’s chosen pseudonym, Gaia, is a name taken from the primordial Greek goddess personifying the Earth, more universally referred to as Mother Earth or Mother Nature. While he has been known to create portraits of human faces, Gaia’s ambiguous imagery most often depicts totemic creatures with animal heads and human bodies as well as expressive hand gestures. He occasionally fuses the features of different animals together, forming imagined, amalgamated hybrids. These chimeric subjects are filled with Art History references, inspired by various sources including biblical figures, ancient mythology and mystical folklore.


Additional layers of symbolism and interpretation emerge as Gaia’s works are encountered within the context of the urban landscape. Like apparitions, they confront the viewer as oracles with a powerful capacity to address contemporary social and environmental issues concerning consumer culture, consumption and sustainability. The juxtaposition of wild animal imagery pasted onto man-made architecture was a significant choice for the artist because, in his own words: “Having lived most of my life in New York City, I personally felt like I never had a connection to nature; it was so distant and idealistic.”

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Jonathan LeVine Gallery
529 West 20th Street, 9th floor
New York, NY 10011