I DON’T GIVE A FUCK

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I Don’t Give a Fuck by Andre Saraiva

City Glyphs - Robert Janz at Work

This article was posted by Martha Cooper 2 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, 13 hours, 43 minutes ago.

“Variations on ancestral glyphic art, echoes of our origins : active meditations on transience, exercises on emptiness” - Robert Janz

At 80, Robert Janz has been around longer than most of us but I only recently became aware of his work. I was able to meet him with a little help from Stikman who happened to bump into him a couple of months ago as they were both out and about doing their thing.

Janz has traveled and exhibited widely in both Europe and the US. He counts painting illegally on the Berlin Wall before it came down as an important highlight in his long career. His work is ephemeral. One series was created with just water on rocks, meant to be erased by evaporation. He maintains a collection of blogs at Janzwork explaining each project. On one he describes his painting as ” Variations on ancestral glyphic art, echoes of our origins: active meditations on transience, exercises on emptiness”

I’d been particularly struck by Robert’s “Glyffiti”, a series of bold, simply drawn animals around Soho. Painted over existing graffiti or torn posters in black and white the fierce little figures demanded attention even as they blended into their backgrounds. I’m always interested in process and materials so it was a special treat to have an opportunity to meet the artist and watch him in action.

Robert’s materials are basic: a couple of jars of paint, a few brushes, and rags carried in a shopping bag. He’s cautious about cops but paints in broad daylight. Once, when confronted by no less than three officers, he diffused the situation by simply wetting a rag and wiping off his freshly applied water-based paint. Robert is not an active participant in either graffiti culture or the streetart movement. He’s a completely original artist taking risks to share his work and enliven the city. Big up to Robert Janz!!

Mountains, glyffiti and howl heal in Soho.

"HOWLINGS and HEALINGS: RAGE over inflicted injustice and abuse in the world."

"Glyffiti: echoes of the earliest human glyphic drawings surface briefly into the hysteric urban graffiti landscape."

Blue moon signifies "HOPE for respect and responsibility, for universal generosity of spirit at least once in a blue moon."

Mountain + glyffiti

Graffiti 'W' transformed into glyffiti horns.

Political paste-ups.

How Heal

Serpent Bank

Aiko and Janz--fab colab!

Me n' Robert with my wonderful glyffiti present straight fro the street.

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WE ALIENS WE ONE

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FLOATING IN SPACE. FOR REAL.

iona ROZEAL brown Exhibitions

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February 28 - March 29, Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art, 37 West 57th Street

March 5 - April 27, Salon 94 Freemans, One Freeman Alley

Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art and Salon 94 Freemans are pleased to collaborate on exhibitions featuring artist iona ROZEAL brown, in her first solo shows with each. The galleries coincided their shows to highlight brown’s multiple mediums and expansive imagination. Both bodies of work represent chapters in the artist’s ongoing myth “on spirit children and the like,” an ever-expanding pantheon of other-worldly, gender-unspecific, cross-cultural spirits.

introducing…THE HOUSE OF BANDO, at Salon 94 Freemans is comprised of a series of painted portraits of Benny and Javier Ninja, of the Legendary House of Ninja, along with Monstah Black. The performers were all featured in “the battle of yestermore,” the artist’s critically lauded commission at the 2011 Performa festival. The three formed the House of Bando with brown as homage to Bando Tamasaboro, the famed female impersonator or onnagata of the Kabuki stage. The exhibited paintings are derived from photos taken for an upcoming collaboration with photographer Joshua Cogan and, as installed, reflect the artist’s own take on Byzantine iconography.

Six new paintings, including a diptych measuring five by eight feet, will be featured at Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art. The new works reflect brown’s continued fascination with the ukiyo-e woodblock prints of late-Edo period Japan, in particular the works of 19th century printmaker Kitagawa Utamaro, who was widely considered as the greatest exponent of this style of woodblock prints. Brown referenced the artist and his work in her earlier a3 blackface series. The Japanese tradition of erotic art, Shunga, continues to play a strong role in brown’s work with intimacy emphasized over ostentation in the imagery. Titles of the works are loosely based on verses of the Song of Solomon as well as hip-hop rhymes. Additionally, the artist incorporates a haiku poem on the back of each.

Brown also mines the rich cross-cultural territory of the ganguro, a subculture of Japanese adolescents that sports tanned skin, bright makeup, blonde wigs, and gold chains, in order to model themselves after the stereotypical African- American hip-hop look—the word ganguro translates literally to “blackface.” Luxury accessories like strands of pearls and oversized gold jewelry are featured throughout brown’s compositions, on display with overlaid irregular patterns and painterly drips on raw woodgrain in brown’s signature approach to figuration.

iona ROZEAL brown is a native of Washington, DC and a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute and Yale University. In addition to her Performa commission, the artist has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC; MoCA Detroit, MoCA Cleveland; and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn. Brown’s work is in the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY; The Studio Museum, NY; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford; and Yale University, New Haven, among others.

NEW BOOK BY RAQUEL CEPEDA

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On Tuesday, March 5, my homegirl, writer and filmmaker Raquel Cepeda is releasing her book Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina. I saw her film Bling: A Planet Rock so I had a feeling that shit was going to be mad deep. We got an advance copy fresh off of the press and can’t put it down. The book is part memoir about coming of age in New York City and Santo Domingo, and part chronicle about the year she spent exploring her ancestral roots via the popular tool of ancestral DNA testing. And for those interested, there’s a discount coupon in the book for any ancestral DNA test of their choosing from the company she rocked with for her own tests. Trust me, if you want to know what it was like coming of age in 80’s New York City, if you like memoirs, if you love hip-hop culture and getting knowledge about some deep shit and who living la vida Latino & American, pre-order Raquel’s book now. You will thank me later. Follow Raquel on Facebook and Twitter.

INSTAGRAM CONTEST

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Win a signed copy of the book. Post your own FLIP THE SCRIPT to INSTAGRAM with the #handselectacontest1 the most likes will win a book. Only submissions dated Feb 28 or later will be eligible. You are all sure to put my sloppy-sleepyeyed note here to shame. Show us what you got!!!!!!

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HARDCORE 2 ‘RELOADED’

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HARDCORE 2 RELOADED’ from Montana Colors on Vimeo.

The new V·Touch system has been designed to increase the performances of the Hardcore2, eliminating the loss of paint around the bottom of caps of faster and thicker nature.

The new valve provides an increased velocity and better cleanup due to its high pressure, providing the Hardcore2 with a smoother touch and more precise control over the pulverizing paint while making lines. Painting fast and painting in more extreme climate will no longer be a problem.

The most popular Montana Colors cap of all times is up for retirement. The classic ‘Banana cap’ leaves us just to be replaced by a new cap specially designed for the V·Touch valve. The new ‘Hardcore Cap’, maintains the basics and the essential characters of the skinny cap, but with the capacity to make cleaner and more precise lines. And also we might add that the new cap is compatible with all other MTN products.

Last but not least, HC2 has been updated with 17 new colors (13 new and 4 classic ones), offering the MTN quality in terms of covering, drying and most importantly, human and environment best care. We also improved some of our POP colors by reaching an excellent level in covering and shine.

A LOOK BEHIND THE SCENES OF ARTILLERY MAGAZINE

This article was posted by Bates 2 months, 3 weeks, 1 day, 3 hours, 53 minutes ago.

A look behind the scenes of Artillery Chapter Six.
Cut: Selina Miles.
Footage courtesy of: Chico at Don’t Sleep Magazine,
Kool Graff Boogie, Caib, Clams, Selina Miles and Luke Shirlaw.

Link:
http://www.artillerymagazine.com.au

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