Recent works on paper by Devin and Ian Flynn
Opening March 5 through April 5th 6pm to 9pm
The Arm Gallery 281N &th st Williamsburg

THE ARMORY SHOW 2010
March 4 - 7
Pier 94, Booth 1216

FEATURING
Michael Bevilacqua
Todd James
KAWS
John F. Simon, Jr.
Leo Villareal
José Mª Yturralde

Current Exhibition:
JOSÉ Mª YTURRALDE HORIZONS
February 26 - April 17, 2010

Gering & López Gallery
730 Fifth Avenue
New York NY 10019
Tel 646 336 7183
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Photo: TODD JAMES, Don’t Stop Get It Get It, (detail), 2009, Gouache & graphite on paper, 289 x 289 inches (variable) Courtesy of Gering & Lopez Gallery.

as soon as i heard this i thought “Lou Reed Waves of Fear”

More of this is what we need

Opening Reception: 4 March from 7-9pm

Daze, aka Chris Ellis, was born in New York in 1962.  He became one of the pivotal figures of New York’s Urban Art scene in the late 1970s.  Unlike the ‘taggers,’ who merely covered every accessible public surface with repetitive calligraphic writing, Daze had higher ambitions. 

In the 1970s, New York was dark, dirty, dangerous and broke.  Young artists, finding no outlet for their creative visions, lashed out by taking their work to the streets and subways.  The city would become their canvas.  Daze was one of the pioneer ‘train bombers’ - artists who would enter train yards at night and cover the outside of the subway carriages with elaborate paintings depicting the city as they saw it. 

Daze’s fellow graffiti ‘writers’ were Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.  Daze’s first ‘sale’ was a collaboration with Basquiat - a collaged and painted refrigerator which they sold for $200 in 1980 to the Mudd Club, the celebrated new music venue in lower Manhattan.  In the coming years these artists would leave the streets and enter the gallery and museum world.  In 1982 the venerable Sidney Janis Gallery on 57th Street in Manhattan was the first to showcase New York’s Urban Artists.

Over the years, Daze and his fellow writers have seen their work move from the inner-city to the mainstream.  Indeed, the urban ‘Wild Style’ of the late 70s and early 80s has now gone global, influencing not only other artists, but fashion, design and advertising around the world. 

Daze has been exhibited in museums and galleries all around the world, including the Grand Palais in Paris, the Brooklyn Museum, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Fondation Cartier in Paris and many others.  His work has been collected and show by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Ludwig Museum in Aachen and the Tate Gallery in London and by private collectors, including Eric Clapton and Madonna.

Singaporeans can witness Daze in action as he creates an iconic piece of artwork, specially commissioned for VivoCity, by its developer Mapletree. From 20 to 24 February 2010, Daze will be at the VivoCity’s Amphitheatre to create a mural that will be permanently installed at the Sentosa Ticket Concourse at Level 3 of VivoCity. This will be Daze’s first artwork on display in Singapore.

On March 5th, at 7 pm, he will be joining Milenko Prvacki, Tan Boon Hui and Zaki Razak for the panel discussion From the Streets to the Malls:  The Cultural Assimilation of Graffiti Art.

Fortune Cookie Projects has also invited five Singaporean graffiti writers to exhibit during the Daze project.  “Is This Home Truly?,” curated by Zaki Razak, features Antz, Scopeone, Slacsatu, The Killer Gerbil, TR853-1 and Zero.

The Organisers:

Fortune Cookie Projects, an international art advisory and curatorial firm with offices in Singapore and New York, has long been active in organising exhibitions of major artists throughout Asia. Mary Dinaburg and Howard Rutkowski, the principals of Fortune Cookie Projects, each have over thirty years experience in the international contemporary art market.

Projects featuring prominent artists such as Sigmar Polke, Georg Baselitz, Jorg Immendorff, A.R. Penck, Per Kirkeby Julian Schnabel and Markus Lupertz have been realized in Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hong Kong and Manila. Most recently Fortune Cookie Projects curated the first comprehensive exhibition of paintings, photographs and video by William Wegman for Singapore, Seoul and Beijing.

Fortune Cookie Projects has also been instrumental in curating exhibitions and securing platforms for Asian artists at institutional and commercial venues throughout the United States and Europe. 

Contact and RSVP:

Howard Rutkowski, +65 9382 1700, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Fortune Cookie Projects
Artspace @ Helutrans
39 Keppel Road #02-04
Tanjong Pagar Distripark
Singapore 089065

This is pretty funny. I designed the Rap Bandit a long time ago, the design ran with the column in the Source and then in Vibe. I’ve seen it in funny places, drawn on a wall all the way out in Liverpool, England and tattooed on people, even next to a Chain 3 piece (that was an honor) . Last night I get this image of the Rap Bandit on a t-shirt some kid’s selling, the irony is that Keo sent it to me, and the same kid who made this shirt also made a shirt with a photo of Keo, Pete Nice, and Myzer on it but didn’t really know any of them back in the day. I think if you’re going to steal other people’s work at least make it your own and by that I don’t mean slap your logo on it. He could have changed the pencil to a gun since it beneath the Bandit he wrote “stick up kids”. So I went to the site where the shirt gets sold, and how funny it was to find a bit of philosophy on creative theft from Jim Jarmusch ( Who I’m sure hadn’t intended to inspire this type of thing, but who knows?) “It’s not where you take things from it’s where you take things to.” Well in this case the work was taken through Illustrator and Auto Trace .

I got to meet David Choe a few years ago he is a super interesting person and I was happy to come across this I’m sure his show will be great. I’m hoping to see some of the insane watercolor paintings he does.

http://www.complex.com/blogs/2010/01/15/preview-todd-james-talks-nyc-show-make-my-burden-lighter/

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I first saw Eddies work a few years ago and have been a fan ever since here are some pics Erik Parker shot last night

go peep it here http://www.ziehersmith.com/a_martinez.html