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Fresh DRAN and BRUSK Mural in London

June 14, 2010 butterfly 1 Comment

Following their live performance at the second Lawnfest Charity event hosted by Camilla Al Fayed and sponsored by Gallery Nosco, French artists Dran and Brusk from the DMV crew left their mark in East London.

Dran and Brusk actively painted a fresh mural day and night over the week end in Great Eastern Street.

The collaboration depicts a dragon monster representing a CEO (still wearing his tie on) eating an employee, while Dran’s signature children characters are happily riding and laughing on his back.

More photos from the mural HERE

For more info visit Gallery Nosco
Dran at Pictures on Walls
Brusk at www.lightgraff.org

London, Shows

High Roller Society – Press and Release

June 12, 2010 butterfly 1 Comment

High Roller Society, an artist-led gallery launched in January 2010 in East London, presented this Friday “Press and Release”, a Group Printmaking Exhibition featuring over 50 street and contemporary artists from the UK, US and Europe.

The show, running until 24 July 2010, will also feature a screen printing workshop and a linocutting demonstration.

Participating Artists are:
2 SICK BASTARDS, AIDA, ANN-CAROLINE BREIG, AVOID, AXEL VOID, BUSK, CEPT, CYCLOPS, DAVE THE CHIMP, DAVID O’SHAUGHNESSY, DINT WOOER, DORA, DSCREET, ECHO, FARO, FEFE TALAVERA, GOLD PEG, HAZE BURKE, HEADHOODS, HUGH MENDES, JAMES JESSOP, JAMES UNSWORTH, KID ACNE, LINOCUT BOY, LUDO, LUDVIG, MARCIN DUDEK, MARTIN LEA BROWN, MARTIN MCGINN, MARTYN PAYNE, MAT ECO, METRIK, MONKEY, MOTORBOY, MUDWIG, NYLON, PANIK, PARIS, PAUL GREEN, PAUL INSECT, PINKY, RICH T, ROWDY, RUN, RUSSELL MAURICE, RUTH CALLAND, SCOTT MINZY, SEMOR & CO, SHE ONE, SICKBOY, SNOE, STICKEE, SWEET TOOF, SYLVIA UGGA, TEK 33, TIKICHRIS, TOM ASHTON-BOOTH, WHOM, ZOOT

More info on
www.highrollersociety.co.uk

FEFE TALAVERA (Brazil)

SWEET TOOF (UK)

PAUL INSECT (UK)

HEADHOODS (US)

More photos from the opening HERE

Shows

Beyond the Street NY Book Launch and Video

June 8, 2010 butterfly 3 Comments

The last ever show at Deitch celebrated the book launch of “Beyond The Street”, featuring the 100 leading figures of Urban Art.

An impressive list of contributors flew from all over the world to attend in person.
A fantastic atmosphere where everyone was happily signing each other’s book.

Henry Chalfant and Editor Patrick Nguyen

Patti Astor and Martha Cooper

Sara Rosen, Patti Astor

Ron English
Jonathan LeVine and Joe Russo

Beyond the Street Book Launch

WK Interact

Ali Schmitz, Patrick Nguyen and Becki Fuller

Dzine , Jose Parla and Saber

Mike Snelle (Black Rat Press), Logan Hicks and Elbow Toe
Pedro Alonzo is not bemused by Mr Brainwash and Sweet Toof

Details about the book here

http://www.gestalten.com/__motion/player.swf?clip=129&autoStart=true

Gestalten did a great interview of Patrick Nguyen.

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Sweet Toof in New York

June 4, 2010 butterfly 24 Comments

UK artist Sweet Toof, featured in Banksy’ film Exit Through the Gift Shop, has been hitting the streets of New York and also some roof tops and water tank in Greenpoint.

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Swoon on the East River State Park

June 3, 2010 butterfly Leave a comment

For its inaugural Williamsburg Waterfront Sculpture Exhibition, the Urban Art Projects invited Brooklyn artists and writers to select eight local sculptors (Ursula Clarke, Rob De Oude, Sarah Fonzi, Yasmin Gur, Nathan Slate Joseph, Howard Kalish and Wu Ming Littlefish Farms) for a temporary installation on the East River State Park.

The jury for the remaining sculptors was comprised of Phong Bui, artist and publisher of the Brooklyn Rail, Boaz Vaadia, internationally known sculptor, and Debora Gilbert, writer curator and artist.

In addition to the selected sculptors, Swoon created a domed sculpture to raise awareness for her upcoming building project in Haiti.

Together with her partners at Konbit Houses Project, Swoon has been working on a development that will provide dwellings for inhabitants of disaster stricken areas like Haiti. While the artwork proposed for the East River State Park employs the same super adobe building material to be used in Haiti, the dome structure in Brooklyn is more an art installation rather than a dwelling in its own right.

The installation is on public display until June 6, 2010.

www.uaprojects.org