Arrived in Sweden for the Art in the Streets event where I met Pose2 MSK, Bates and others to kick off the festival. http://movement.riksteatern.se/nyheter-2

Come out and support the efforts of Our homies Bobbito and Kevin for their new film. Guaranteed to move your mind body and sole.

Trailer (100,000+ views strong and counting! http://www.vimeo.com/doinitinthepark/trailer01

August 12

NYC SUMMERSTAGE/10TH ANNUAL IMAGENATION OUTDOORS FESTIVAL
w/opening musical performances by DJ Bobbito Garcia
and Tato Torres y YERBABUENA

Marcus Garvey/Mt. Morris Park Bandshell, Harlem
122nd St./Mt. Morris Park West

7pm
Seating first come first served
FREE
Rain Site: ImageNation RAW SPACE, 2031 Adam Clayton Powell (121st/122nd St.)

http://www.facebook.com/events/382446865141761/

Just released for the iPad Henry Chalfant presents the Big Subway Archive a serial collection of some the greatest trains painted during the 1970s and 1980s. The whole collection is 800 photos deep and features never before drawings, interviews and whole cars. Released in parts over time over the next year the archive is more than collectors item its an art lesson and historical trove.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/henry-chalfants-big-subway/id531594319?mt=11&ls=1

Thank you HC

A fantastic and historical archive on the prodigious and prolific subway graffiti art movement which evolved into a full blown modern art collective around the world. Herein is a collection a huge sampling of its DNA of some of its most influential Style Masters who learned the dark arts from generations past. Henry Chalfant has had the privilege to witness and document the movement through photography and personal relationships with the writers themselves affording us a window not just into the art but to the thoughts about the creative process, the obstacles and dangers.

-Carlos Mare

“Every form is a base for colour, every colour is the attribute of a form.” - Victor Vasarely

LX ONE is not interested in formally offensive linguistic experiments, he does not want to emphasize what is already done , he does not turn his visions in poems like concrete poets do.

LX ONE explores the pixel, the smallest , he researchs the base of the form , the skeletons of colors. He disserts around the chant of geometrie: the noise of shapes , a system of tensions in the free space , a response to our architecture ,urbanism and design. By bringing a breeze from Piet Mondrian and Vasarelly to our walls, LX ONE decided once to follow the only absolutes in life: vertical and horizontal lines .
In 1910 the Neoplasticians believe that art should be conceptualize in his fullest , using planar elements and color blocks, where lyricism, dramatic, symbolism, and simple narration were turned off . the image should have none other meaning than itself.

In the late 90´s LX ONE is modulating his graphic talents into the science-fiction world of grids, checkerboard grids, isometric, hexagon grids; decomposing the letter form in its purest version . He is travelling between plain and empty space using the colors as a bridge.

Following the graffiti tradition he gives us a three dimensional plastic illusion which confuse and attack the vision, cellular structures , axonometric cubes , unassignable volumes and the ambiguity of the form itself. His successfull evocation of movement , light and shadows , through colors changes and his illusionary, unreal spaces are created through this alternate mode of seeing . In his theater of reality the world had no limitations.

LXone is a geometrical alpinist, riding infinity on the bridge of shapes, over the cascade of unknown universes ,following his violent desire to explode in parallele universe and navigating a wild solitude into a new martial art : the LX-Ism.

Jaybo Monk.2012

LX.ONE from lxone on Vimeo.

Just saw this online, my first spray can with Montana Colors will be dropping soon. I chose Silver of course for metal but for the heavy hitters out there who go blockbuster.

Just saw this online, my first spray can with Montana Colors will be dropping soon. I chose Silver of course for metal but for the heavy hitters out there who go blockbuster.

“Every form is a base for colour, every colour is the attribute of a form.” - Victor Vasarely

Fresh from his residency at A World of Art in Cape Town South Africa,   shared some images of his new works which included Installations, paintings and sculpture.

From his site-

LX ONE explores the pixel, the smallest , he researchs the base of the form , the skeletons of colors. He disserts around the chant of geometrie:  the noise of shapes , a system of tensions in the free space , a response to our architecture ,urbanism and design. By bringing a breeze from Piet Mondrian and Vasarelly to our walls, LX ONE decided once to follow the only absolutes in life: vertical and horizontal lines .
-Jaybo Monk

This is a good note about his mercurial attention to detail and ability to step by step animate his paintings into space. Having constructed the UNION sculpture which builds and interlocks itself as a puzzle one can see the profession from the various paintings that explore geometric illusions thru color and form.

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Has it been 12 years already! Seriously I take it for granted that when I designed the Annual BET Award that it would become an enduring icon for the African American community of artists and athletes. Its amazing to think about how many millions see my work every year in the hands of many accomplished individuals. This year I was happy to learn that Kevin Durant was awarded one, he missed the ‘BIG’ one but its nice to see him get props by BET. He deserves it! As always when Beyonce, JayZ and Kanye hold up my work its an honor, artists like them embody the words I used to describe the design, Aspire, Ascend, Achieve- Black Star Power.

Jaybo Monk has put together an impressive body of work for his latest exhibition at Circle Culture Gallery in Berlin. Running with the Hunted as titled is a strong metaphor for life in what ever form it takes, in this case Jaybo presents new paintings, poems, and sculpture installations that tie it back to the title.

seems doomed to an inevitable fate

If in Berlin go see this incredible exhibition, Jaybo Monk Running with the Hunted at Circle Gallery.