This article was posted by Chino 2 weeks, 6 days, 18 hours, 31 minutes ago.
Saturday, June 8th, 2013.
6:00pm - 11:00pm
X on Main
Contemporary Art Gallery
159 Main Street
Beacon, NY
112508
World renowned Pop Surrealist and Street Artist Ron English will exhibit his first new series of photographs in 25 years. With a master’s degree in fine art photography, Ron began his career in the early 1980s as part of the Fabricated to be Photographed movement that included Cindy Sherman, Sandy Skoglund and Nic Nicosia. Many of his most famous billboard takeovers, environmental interventions and trompe l’oeil art on the street, pieces that established him as a pioneer of the global street art phenomenon were actually byproducts of his staged photography in urban environments.
In 1986 Ron traded his camera for a canvas and became one of the founders of the pop surrealist movement and has been known ever since as an oil painter and street artist.
Although never exhibited publicly as standalone pieces, Ron’s photography has always remained an integral part of his artistic process. Ron creates elaborate sets that he photographs as the bases for his paintings, and for the first time he will exhibit these studies as limited edition photographs.
Show runs through July 28th, 2013.
This article was posted by Alan Ket 2 weeks, 6 days, 22 hours, 10 minutes ago.
Friends,
Your financial help is needed to fund this amazing project. Basma Hamdy & Don Karl are the curators of Walls of Freedom. For the past one and a half years they have been working on this project collaborating with 50 photographers, 30 artists and 20 authors. Since the beginning of the revolution, they have been involved in Egypt’s thriving urban art scene working closely with a network of its leading artists on mural projects, events and exhibitions. They started to work on this book in order to professionally document the Egyptian Street Art explosion. The amazing artworks of the two and a half years pieced together, tell the whole story of the Egyptian revolution.
This article was posted by Tuff City Styles 3 weeks, 1 day, 2 hours, 33 minutes ago.
WORLD FAMOUS “SKAMDUST” OF “DMS” CREW STOPS BY & GETS A TATTOO BY TUFFCITY’S NEWEST TATTOO ARTIST “INK KDM” ALL INKS USED ARE POWERED BY “INTENZE” INK BRAND.
This article was posted by Mare 139 3 weeks, 1 day, 13 hours, 4 minutes ago.
Id like to share the current exhibition of an artist whose work and process is mesmerizing. Naturally gifted and uniquely talented with style writing and arabic calligraphy Vincent Abadie Hafez is an artist to keep your eye on. In recent years there has been a recognition of contemporary artists from the Middle East and those of Islamic origin, by acknowledging them and their history as an integral part of our collective writing and artistic history we enrich and fortify ourselves.
VINCENT ABADIE HAFEZ at David Bloch Gallery Casablanca Morocco
Cosmopolitan, the work of Vincent Abadie Hafez is the result of crossbreeding of several cultures. By 1988 under the pseudonym Zepha that he invests in the graffiti movement. It is a suburb of Paris that he began to impose his name and his team,since he will not stop…
He take place of public space and hustles certain visual habits: Just like a word written on the sand, his art is ephemeral and accessible to all.
Vincent Abadie Hafez developed a visual language and a universe in which intersect the craftsmanship of ancient civilizations, the movement of free Figuration, Abstraction lyrical and street art.
Aesthetics at the intersection of two worlds, ancient and modern, revealing a balance of instinctive feature and reflected composition in which the cosmic space collide with the small infinitely.
The hybrid configurations reveal various aspects, mixing mediums and crossbreeding techniques ... Giving Anthropomorphic totems in two dimensions, worn by erosion on which appear traces, signs and symbols calligraphic.
A breath graphic composed of wild forms inhabited of a rebellious energy, which highlights an inherent order to balance the universe, and reflected even in a supposed chaos.
Contrasts, oppositions and complementarity enrich a production of works produced in multiple formats, worn by time, memory carriers, the result of a questioning of this world seem to forget the very principles of its existence ...
-Missed out on the Ghost exhibition in Copenhagen, while being out
in Morocco, But i just met Ghost yesterday in the Sydhavn Hall of fame.
Le Fix // Ghost http://www.le-fix.com http://www.facebook.com/LeFix
Music: Ukendt Kunstner - Søndag Morgen ukendtkunstner.dk
Director of Photography: Andreas Højberg Andersen
This article was posted by Bates 3 weeks, 2 days, 7 hours, 23 minutes ago.
New York graffiti, classic tags everywhere, kickin’ jazz soundtrack, history in the making ... awesome footage, here’s the Norwegian info (I sure can’t read it):
Det norske folks første møte med graffiti fikk man på NRK i 1975. Dokumentaren Kunst i ghettoen viser begynnelsen på graffitikulturen i New York. Programmet ble produsert av Karin Krog. Musikken er komponert og framført av Jon Christensen og Arild Andersen. Foto: Bob Daugherty.
