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Heres a preview of todays work. Im in Miami participating in a group show with fellow studio mates Ket, EZO, Klass, QA, Alice Mizrachi, Phetus @ Miami Light Project and the Free Agents
Present PREMIERE
Opening Reception: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 6:00pm
Closing Reception & Mural Unveiling: Saturday, December 8, 2012 8:00pm
featuring Mr. Pauer
The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse
404 NW 26 Street, Miami, FL 33127
This article was posted by Mare 139 6 months, 12 hours, 55 minutes ago.
I met up with my man Jay from capmatchescolor.com and I was blown away! A true enthusiast and Spray Paint Scholar. I will let the photos speak for them selves. Jay and his boy Jay S blessed me with a few gems and a vintage metal spray nozzle! Thanks for the inspired post Daze.
This article was posted by Mare 139 6 months, 3 weeks, 15 hours, 33 minutes ago.
With the passing of the late Rammellzee two years ago those of us who were friends and fans mourned the lost of a truly unique African American artist at the young age of 49. A few days ago I got wind that his wife, devoted long time companion and sole conservator of his entire art collection has passed in a freak accident. Details still pending, it is truly unfortunate and saddening.
Carmela Zagari supported her husband with unflinching commitment and with her passing the estate and the legacy of Rammellzee remains in the balance. She did manage to organize the exhibition at Suzane Geiss Gallery and the most recent at the New York Childrens Museum of the Arts- http://www.cmany.org/event/therammellzeegalaxseum/ (open now until February). It will likely be the last time we get to see a comprehensive exhibition of his works in this manor. Once the art world maggots, lawyers, and hedgers get done with the remains I suspect it will be spread out between NYC and Europe.
Rammellzees greatest fear was about the pariahs of the art industry and Carmela was his last hope to insure his legacy, I hope there were stipulations in place to preserve his work respectfully and with a worthy institution.
I am at a lost for words really, but this I can say on the heels of an important Archiving and Preservation conference I participated in last week, we as artists and a community must learn the ways of preserving our works and insuring its ongoing legacy either through our families or cultural institution for higher learning. We are losing many of the greatest artists of our time too soon and more importantly a direct link to our history.
This article was posted by Mare 139 7 months, 2 days, 9 hours, 12 minutes ago.
Causey Contemporary Gallery in Williamsburg presents “PURPLE”, Brooklyn on Friday, October 19th from 6pm-9pm. Easily accessible by the East River Ferry and the L & G trains.
Purple
October 19 – November 19, 2012
September 2012, Brooklyn, NY — This October, eleven female contemporary artists will explore Purple as a color, word and psychological context in a freestyle exhibition where medium, formal strategies and process intersect to create original content.
Purple will be on view at Causey Contemporary Gallery, 92 Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, from October 19 - November 18, 2012, with an opening reception from 6pm – 9pm on Friday, October 19th. This exhibition is produced by YOUNITY, an international collective of urban female visual artists, designers and craftswomen. The collective collaborates on creative projects, resource networks, mentoring of youth, community building, and the production of art exhibitions that promote women in the arts.
Curated by Diana McClure and YOUNITY co-founder Alice Mizrachi, this exhibition features a group of internationally recognizable street, mural, urban and contemporary artists from across the United States and abroad including: Alice Mizrachi, Diana McClure, Gilf!, Lady Pink, Lichiban, Miss Van, Olek, Priscila De Carvalho, Queen Andrea, Ritzy Periwinkle, and Sofia Maldonado.
From electric purple, Tyrian purple and Han purple, to purple prose, purple patches and human color psychology, the color purple has been tapped by the musician Prince, the author Alice Walker, the French art publication Purple Journal, and the ancient world, to convey a certain psychological vibration, spiritual energy or visual message. In this exhibition, each artists’ interpretation of purple aims to unlock new readings on the visceral, intellectual, conceptual, spiritual and pleasurable aspects of the color purple.
For further information about Purple or the artists involved, contact the Causey Contemporary, 718 218 8939 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) http://www.dianamcclure.com
This article was posted by Mare 139 7 months, 1 week, 1 Day, 22 hours, 47 minutes ago.
Still going strong! HHTF presents some amazing new works for 2012. If youve never experienced the HHTF plays grab your date and go. A wonderful and enlightening experience in the theatrical arts.
The New York City Festival shows us that the culture of Hip-Hop in theater is maturing, while in continues to expand and grow as cultures do. From Miami based artists mashing up Caribbean and South Asian culture to stories about being ill, the opening of its new space in East Harlem- HI-Arts: A center for Hip_Hop Theater, Dance, Music + Art.
Get ready for the next ten years!
The 12th Annual Hip-Hop Theater Festival begins this upcoming weekend Come experience “Fat Boy” at the HERE Arts Center on October 12th & 13th // Located on 145 6th Avenue, New York, NY.
This article was posted by Mare 139 7 months, 2 weeks, 8 hours, 38 minutes ago.
The RAMMELLZEE Galaxseum
October 4-February 3, 2013
The Children’s Museum of the Arts presents the most comprehensive collection of works to-date by visionary artist and MC, RAMMELLZEE. Entitled The RAMMELLZEE Galaxseum, the exhibition will reveal the inner workings of RAMMELLZEE’s artistic vision and trace his career trajectory which began in the 1970s as a pioneering “Wild Style” graffiti writer and hip hop MC and evolved in manifesto and medium to the far reaches of the imagination.
RAMMELLZEE’s legend grew in a Tribeca loft known as the “Battle Station,” where the artist conceived a new vision for the future – a self-made mythology, known as Gothic Futurism, with its own set of heroes and villains, which he called Recyclers and Trashers or more notably, Garbage Gods and Monster Models. For over 30 years, RAMMELLZEE inhabited the universe he created, building layer upon layer of legend and legacy.
The RAMMELLZEE Galaxseum showcases a visual encyclopedia of RAMMELLZEE’s artworks including full-body life-sized costumes, masks, character frescoes, figurines, large scale paintings and video and audio recordings from some of his performances. Suspended from the gallery’s ceiling are RAMMELLZEE’s legendary letter racers, or car-like vehicles representing letters of the alphabet seeking to “break free.”
In addition to his visual artwork, RAMMELLZEE is well-known for his contributions to hip-hop lyricism and vocalization, as illustrated in the documentaries Style Wars and Wild Style, as well as the hip-hop single Beat Bop, which was produced by Jean-Michael Basquiat and consists of a 10 minute narrative rap by RAMMELLZEE and K-Rob that is considered to be one of the most essential hip-hop recordings ever made.
This article was posted by Mare 139 7 months, 2 weeks, 2 days, 9 hours, 18 minutes ago.
Good friends and supporters, I want to ask for support for a very close and dear friend of mine and many of yours Marcus Suarez. Ive known ‘Ense’ since our High School days at Art and Design in NYC during its hey day. He like many at the time were the avant-garde of the day, a B-Boy and subway painter who wrote with the Newave Artists and the Rocstars. He developed into a formidable talent in the commercial arts and has had many accomplishments such as the Absolut campaign, Remy Martin and various collaborations with famed photographer David LaChapelle.
Marcus had suffered a stroke and is unable to receive the proper medical attention that he was and still is in need of. There is also the Diabetes that has complicated his health issues dramatically.
Marcus Current Status is that he is unable to paint and is in the care of family. He has been hospitalized several times since then and is deteriorating rapidly.
His need currently is to get more financial support for his physical therapy so he can return to painting in order to pay for his treatments, he cant do this alone so I ask you to join me in supporting him and his friends and family by contributing to his fund at https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/dMscb?srid=81a157325fa74f31adff105fb8b01b20
If you find that you can not give money please send him your well wished on his facebook page http://www.facebook.com/marcus.suarez.7 show him love and encouragement for he is not alone.
Repost if you can as well.
He still has so much to contribute and I would love to see him recover swiftly.
Marcus and Mare at MoCA- Henry Chalfant photo of HS Art and Design Crew
This article was posted by Mare 139 7 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, 11 hours, 50 minutes ago.
This weekend among the many exhibitions a small but potent showing of some of NYCs original subway artists exhibited along side one another at Gallery 69 in Tribeca. Curated by Joe Russo the show included Carlos Mare, Chris Daze Ellis, John Crash Matos, Cope 2, Lin Quik Felton, and the infamous Blade.
Gallery 69
69 Leonard st.
New York, NY 10013
212-343-2278 .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
This article was posted by Mare 139 8 months, 3 days, 1 hour, 21 minutes ago.
I will be taking part in an upcoming show in London featuring several of todays most avante guarde painters and sculptors. Many like me who have who have been at the forefront of this transition from trains and walls to more modernist works will propose a new paradigm for the genre. If you happen to be in London drop by- info below.
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“We stand on the last promontory of the centuries! Why should we look back, when what we want is to break down the mysterious doors of the Impossible? Time and Space died yesterday. We already live in the absolute, because we have created eternal, omnipresent speed.” – Marinetti, Futurist Manifesto, 1909.
SYMMETRY ACROSS CENTURIES
In 1912, just three years after the manifesto was published, the Futurists exhibited in London for the first time. A hundred years later on September 27th, 2012, just three years after the creation of Graffuturism.com, the Graffuturists will exhibit for the first time in London at Blackall Studios.
THE IDEALS OF DYNAMISM AND PROGRESSION
At the core of both movements are the parallel ideals of “dynamism” and “progression.” Both of these keywords conjure a sense of action, motion and movement, wavering disturbances of change pulsing forward, like an electrocardiogram, along a historical continuum into the future. Marinetti extolled the virtues of a dynamic art form that was alive and motivated; Poesia, the founder of Graffuturism.com, has stated that the word Graffuturism was inspired by the desire to articulate a progressive impetus for graffiti.
URBAN, ONLINE, GLOBAL
Uplifting arms together in spirit, both these movements revel in the urban environment as a petri dish for the advancements and inventions of their age. Just as Futurism embraced the Industrial Age and its recently mechanized urban centers, Graffuturism embraces the Digital Age and its recently wired urban-global community. For the Futurists, the ideals of dynamism were expressed in images of their century’s new inventions, such as the motor car, the steam engine, the airplane, the telephone; whereas for the Graffuturists, the technological icons that are mythologized in their art and culture are the tools of their trade: spray paint, subway car, markers, rollers, freight trains, fire extinguishers, and so on. A different set of symbols for this century, but still imbued with the same semiotic impetus.
GRAFFITI, PAINTING AND ABSTRACTION
Because of the global composition of the group, the loosely-associated members are from disparate backgrounds, professions, and locations. They create in different styles and mediums, but for the majority of the artists involved in the group so far, their unifying influence is graffiti, their medium is painting, and their theme is abstraction. These artists aspire to a master’s level at their craft, which includes not only technical proficiency, but also historical research, theoretical readings, and possibly educational pursuits pertaining to their discipline. This kind of in-depth, well-rounded, self-cultivation has produced a community of artist’s with styles that are a refined visual poetry comprised of depth and complexity in content as well as technique.
The Graffuturists could be classified as a High Style New Millennium movement, consisting of a dialogue and cross-pollination between advanced graffiti and fine art techniques, practices and theory. Wildstyle Graffiti is combined with Abstract Expressionism, Geometric Abstraction, or another high style historical form. Then it is transposed through the artist’s unique vision and medium into a personal vocabulary of hybrid techniques, an experimental mix of the high and low, intellectual and visceral, the visionary and the primitive. Whereas the Street Art movement of the mid-2000s tended to focus on figurative stencils and silkscreens used for wheat-pastes, this group of artists on the whole is more concerned with the act of painting and its history, whether academic or street, oil paint or spray, fat cap or sable brush.
Just as Be-bop developed from jazz, Raw Magazine from Superman comics, and Wildstyle from Original Writing, Graffuturism progresses from graffiti, and then takes up the oily-rag torch to ignite the future.
Daniel Feral (Pantheon Projects / 12oz Prophet)
Futurism 2.0 HQ
Gamma Proforma
27 Old Gloucester Street
London
WC1N 3AX
Tel. 0845 388 6763
Email. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Creative Director
Rob Swain - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Gallery
Blackall Studios
73a Leonard Street
Shoreditch, London EC2A 4QS
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Some of the latest from the past weeks in Europe-
Heres an interview with me on Kool London FM with Billy Bunter
In Sweden giving the Art for the Next Century lecture-
Team Rex – Origin of the Species
An art exhibition at Red Gallery, Shoreditch, London
31th August – 9th September 2012
Team Robbo represents a new order in the art world; a renowned graffiti crew was formed in 2010 by its founder and inspiration King Robbo – champion of the true Outsider art movement, antidote to the Banksy mythology and a rising star in the art market.
In the Summer of 2012, Team Robbo will take us on a visual journey, exploring how the creative ‘DNA’ of street/train graffiti, spawned in New York City – developed, spread and mutated around the world, creating a kaleidoscope of art and culture.
In what promises to be one of the most culturally significant events of recent years, Team Robbo’s new work will synchronize with the energy of an extraordinary collection of works by over a hundred invited graffiti writers and artists from around the globe.
International artists already confirmed, include the following:
There will be a press-only Private View on the evening of Thursday 30th August from 4.00pm – 6.00pm.
Invited guests will attend an additional Private View on Thursday 30th August from 6.00pm until 9pm.
If you would like to attend the exhibition PRIVATE VIEW on 30th August, commencing at the Red Gallery, London at 6pm, please let us know via the form on to our PRIVATE VIEW page. http://www.teamrex.org/privateview/
You will also be able to join the after party at East Village, nearby, which commences at 9pm on the 30th.
PUBLIC EXHIBITION OPEN EVERY DAY FROM 31ST AUGUST – 9TH SEPTEMBER 2012
