August 7, 2008
Fresh Stuff From BTOY in Barcelona
You can see more of BTOY's work here.
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| August 1, 2008
Our Latest Obsession: The Art of Wim Delvoye
More work here.
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July 1, 2008
Elfo's Rainbow
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June 9, 2008
Dan Witz' "Ugly New Buildings"
Dan Witz has been busy of late, hitting the streets of New York with his latest "Ugly New Buildings" He explains:
"This year's series, "Ugly New Buildings", addresses how in the past few years much of my neighborhood in Brooklyn has been torn down to make way for luxury housing. Personally, I can't say I like the new modern architecture very much. For the most part it's sterile and alienating and so arrogantly disconnected with its surroundings sometimes it seems like giant alien space ships have landed in the night. But resenting gentrification in New York City is futile, like complaining about the weather or other forces of (urban) nature. For this year's project I decided to work with it.
These are photo-based, heavily re-painted stickers, mounted on plastic and glued to the walls of the Ugly New Buildings. In May I put up around 30 and about half are still there."
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June 4, 2008
Shit We're Diggin: The ContainerArt Project in Italy
You can learn more about the container art project by clicking here.
Artist: Nicola Villa
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April 19, 2008
Shit We're Diggin: Zak's Smith's Sketchbook
Each day Zak Smith (of of our favorite artists) uloads a new image from his sketchbook to his website. You can follow it here.
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April 10, 2008
Seen On The Streets of Amsterdam
(Thanks, Lauren!)
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March 20, 2008
Shit We're Diggin: The Artwork Of Paul Alexander Thornton
You can see more of Paul's work here.
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March 19, 2008
Anatomically Themed Street Art
Photo above by CRS8
If you haven't yet seem it, Street Anatomy, a blog on medicine, art, and design has put together a terrific gallery of anatomically themed street art. You can check it out here.
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March 18, 2008
Fresh Stuff From Anthony Lister
The work above will be included in Anthony's upcoming 'Super Villains' show at NEW IMAGE opening April 26th
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March 14, 2008
Shit We're Diggin': The Art of Bruno9li
You can see more of Bruno9li's work here.
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February 25, 2008
Sneak Peak: David Choe at Lazarides Gallery
David Choe returns to London this week with a blockbuster show opening this coming Friday night at the Lazarides Galleries in London and Newcastle.
Here's a sneak peak of some of the new work:
LOOSE LIPS, 2007
Spray paint, oil paint, house paint, pen, ink, colour pencil, acrylic, crayon
4 feet by 4 feet
Courtesy the artist and Lazarides Gallery
Copyright: David Choe, 2008
FUPA, 2007
Spray paint, oil paint, house paint, pen, ink, colour pencil, acrylic, crayon
4 feet by 2 feet
Courtesy the artist and Lazarides Gallery
Copyright: David Choe, 2008
SALAMANDER, 2007
Spray paint, oil paint, house paint, pen, ink, colour pencil, acrylic, crayon
4 feet by 2 feet
Courtesy the artist and Lazarides Gallery
Copyright: David Choe, 2008
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Shit We're Diggin: The Art Of Desiree Palmen
From The Daily Mail:
"Desiree Palmen, a 44-year-old Dutch artist, uses a method that requires a huge amount of effort and attention to detail.
She makes cotton suits and paints the camouflage on by hand, painstakingly matching it to the chosen background. Either she or a model then poses in the suit in the chosen place.
The scenes are photographed and filmed and then put on display."
Read more here.
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February 22, 2008
Fresh Stuff From Dixon in Barcelona
You can see more of Dixon's work here.
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February 12, 2008
Shit We're Diggin: New Work From Matthew Rodriguez
"SCRUFFY KITTY", a new show of Matthew Rodriguez's work is currently on view at the Rare Gallery in New York until March 8th.
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Shit We're Diggin: On The Road Of Knives, A Collaboration Between Zak Smith, Shawn Cheng, and Nicholas Di Genova
Zac Smith
Nicholas Di Genova
Shawn Cheng
From the website:
"Zak Smith, Shawn Cheng, and Nicholas Di Genova take turns drawing monsters fighting each other... So this is how it works: Zak draws something. Shawn draws something that will fight it. Zak draws his thing fighting back. Shawn draws his thing fighting back and maybe tripping over a statue. Then maybe Zak's thing kills Shawn's with the statue's head. Then Shawn draws a new thing. Zak's surviving thing attacks it. And so on. Zak and Shawn got things started, and now Nick has joined the fray. Though not exactly an exquisite corpse, it will be exquisite, and there will be many corpses. "
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January 24, 2008
Shit We're Diggin: Jennifer Maestre's Pencil Sculptures
You can see more of Jennifer's work here.
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January 23, 2008
Shit We're Diggin: The Bic Pen Drawings of Juan Francisco Casas
You can see more of Juan Francisco Casas' work here.
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Shit We're Diggin: The Papercuts of Peter Callesen
Nicked from Peter's website:
"My paper works have lately been based around an exploration of the relationship between two and three dimensionality. I find this materialization of a flat piece of paper into a 3D form almost as a magic process - or maybe one could call it obvious magic, because the process is obvious and the figures still stick to their origin, without the possibility of escaping. In that sense there is also an aspect of something tragic in most of the cuts. Some of the small paper cuts relate to a universe of fairy tales and romanticism, as for instance "Impenetrable Castle" inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", in which a tin soldier falls in love with a paper ballerina, living in a paper castle. Other paper cuts are small dramas in which small figures are lost within and threatened by the huge powerful nature. Others again are turning the inside out, or letting the front and the back of the paper meet - dealing with impossibility, illusions, and reflections. I find the A4 sheet of paper interesting to work with, because it probably still is the most common and consumed media and format for carrying information today, and in that sense it is something very loaded. This means that we rarely notice the actual materiality of the A4 paper. By removing all the information and starting from scratch using the blank white 80gsm A4 paper as a base for my creations, I feel that I have found a material which, on one hand, we all are able to relate to, and which on the other hand is non-loaded and neutral and therefore easier to fill with different meanings. The thin white paper also gives the paper sculptures a fragility which underlines the tragic and romantic theme of the works."
(Thanks, Nick!)
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January 22, 2008
A Short Video Of Anthony Lister's Painting Process
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January 21, 2008
Shit We're Diggin': Mark Khaisman's Packing Tape Art
You can see more of Mark's work here. If you are in Philidelphia, you can check out his solo show at the Woodmere Art Museum from January 27th to March 8th.
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December 17, 2007
Fresh Stuff From Armsrock
You can follow Armsrock's work and travels on his new blog.
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December 6, 2007
Shit We're Diggin': Patrick Winfield's Polaroid Composites
You can see more of Patrick's work here.
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December 5, 2007
Shit We're Diggin': Zevs' Liqidated Logos
Not sure how we missed this show at the Lazarides gallery before it closed a few days ago, but Zevs' new work is absolutely stunning.
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December 3, 2007
Fresh Stuff From Blu
New work from Blu's sketchbook can be seen in 'The Streets of Europe" group show now at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York.
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Fresh Stuff From Blek Le Rat
(The piece above is currently showing on view in "The Streets of Europe", a terrific group show that opened this weekend at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York)
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November 28, 2007
Shit We're Diggin': Michal Tatarkiewicz's Subway Drawings
You can see more of Michal's work here.
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November 22, 2007
Shit We're Diggin': New Work By Jon Burgerman in Barcelona
You can see more work from Jon's current show in the ROJO space here.
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Shepard Fairey and "Rise Above"
Shepard Fairey Interview - "Rise Above" Exhibition @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery from By Osmosis TV on Vimeo.
Shepard discusses his work as he prepares for "Rise Above", a solo exhibition opening December 1st at the Merry Karnowsky Gallery in Los Angeles.
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November 12, 2007
THE MORNING AFTER PART 4 from Nick Walker
Nick's Morning After series will be on view in Los Angeles at the Carmichael gallery starting on the 2nd of February.
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October 14, 2007
Brad Downey Goes Big in Aberdeen
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October 11, 2007
Shit We're Diggin': The Laundry Detergent Paintings of Craig Paul Nowak
Craig Paul Nowak's artwork uses everyday laundry detergent.
Under white light Craig's work is invisible; under blacklight you can see it.
The work will stay on the wall until it's painted over or washed off, but most of the time, nobody knows it's even there.
The top image, "Apt. 20", was done in Detroit. It's the first of several paintings Craig did using Tide laundry detergent on apartment walls of events that occurred during his stay at those apartments. It's meant to imply that what happens in a place stays in that place and becomes a part of its history forever.
The piece below, "Influence", was also done in Detroit. It was painted in a school classroom and later exposed to the faculty whose faces were what was portrayed in the paintings on the walls. To explain, the second image is NOT a before and after photo; the paintings ARE on the wall in the white light image.
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September 11, 2007
Every Image Has A Story - "Andrea Acosta's B-Side"
Title: B-SIDE (see reverse for more information)*
Location: Worpswede, Germany (Bergstraße)
Materials: Backside of street signs, vynil cuts, ink, found dirt and moos
Artist: Andrea Acosta
"One leaves with a path in mind but journeys are always full of unforeseeable events...
It would be hard to get to a place you don’t know without wandering a little, sometimes that wandering becomes the important thing, sometimes you get lost and make a completely unexpected discovery, sometimes nothing happens and sometimes that’s
ok too.
But getting lost is not always an easy task, if you consider the increasing forest of signs in the streets telling you where and how to look and move through space. On one of those attempts at getting lost I found myself looking at the signs themselves, at the amount, at the shapes, at the information they carry and then, in that common place, in an unexpected turn, at the grey space hidden in their backside, at the grey surfaces that are everywhere but somehow invisible, camouflaged within the constructed landscape we are so used to.
In a delicate but subversive way I use this forgotten space to question and subvert the functionality and language of signs in public space; through small subtle interventions I try to silently make visible this spaces, delicately inhabiting them and thus lead