Wednesday, November 30, 2011
The Underbelly Project
After a full year underground, The Underbelly Project is coming to Miami during Art Basel. A pop up gallery, the show will feature original artwork from many of the 103 international artists who participated in the hidden subway project in New York. The exhibition will feature a video piece of multiple installations happening simultaneously, as well as new pieces by many of the artists.
Included in the show are street, graffiti and fine artists alike. The full line-up includes: Faile, Dabs & Myla, TrustoCorp, Aiko, Rone, Revok, Ron English, Jeff Soto, Mark Jenkins, Anthony Lister, Logan Hicks, Lucy McLauchlan, M-City, Kid Zoom, Eric Haze, Saber, Meggs, Jim & Tina Darling, The London Police, Sheone, Skewville, Jeff Stark, Jordan Seiler, Jason Eppink and I AM, Dan Witz, Specter, Ripo, MoMo, Remi/Rough, Stormie Mills, Swoon, Know Hope, Skullphone, L’Atlas, Roa, Surge, Gaia, Michael De Feo, Joe Iurato, Love Me, Adam 5100, and Chris Stain.
Its too bad the exhibits in Miami, even though the art was done in New York. I wish I could check it out..but i guess i'll just have to get my hands on the book about it, "We Own the Night: The Art of the Underbelly Project."
Included in the show are street, graffiti and fine artists alike. The full line-up includes: Faile, Dabs & Myla, TrustoCorp, Aiko, Rone, Revok, Ron English, Jeff Soto, Mark Jenkins, Anthony Lister, Logan Hicks, Lucy McLauchlan, M-City, Kid Zoom, Eric Haze, Saber, Meggs, Jim & Tina Darling, The London Police, Sheone, Skewville, Jeff Stark, Jordan Seiler, Jason Eppink and I AM, Dan Witz, Specter, Ripo, MoMo, Remi/Rough, Stormie Mills, Swoon, Know Hope, Skullphone, L’Atlas, Roa, Surge, Gaia, Michael De Feo, Joe Iurato, Love Me, Adam 5100, and Chris Stain.
Its too bad the exhibits in Miami, even though the art was done in New York. I wish I could check it out..but i guess i'll just have to get my hands on the book about it, "We Own the Night: The Art of the Underbelly Project."
2012 Street Art Calendar
Some of the artists included in the calendars are: Roadsworth, JR, Dan Witz, Laura Keeble, Faile, Alexandre Orion, Paolo Buggiani, Nele Azevedo, Slinkachu, //kneeon, Jorge Rodriquez-Gerada, Skewville, Mark Jenkins, Swoon, Vhils, Sr.X, Hyuro, Kenny Random, The London Police, Escif, Roa, Thundercut, Phlegm, XOOOOX, Faith47, K-Guy Gabriel Specter, Michael Aaron Williams, JJ Veronis, Slow, Edina Tokodi, Buff Diss, Paul Notzold, Gaia, Invader, Other, James Kalinda, TrustoCorp, Elbow-Toe, Masquerade, Mentelgasse, Ji Lee, Dan Bergeron, C215, Chor Boogie, and more.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
AXIS
London-born artist AXIS is a contemparary illustrator and working class fine artist who emerged fro Los Angeles seminal graffiti scene in the 1980's. He is most noted for his convoluted and hyper-stylized freehand characters. As a child, Axis moved from London to Los Angeles with his family and developed a number of musical and artistic influences. An early convert to skateboarding and punk rock, Axis began experimenting with graffiti in 1985, and joined LA's legendary CBS crew in 1988. By the mid-90s he had cemented his reputation as one of the most prolific street artists working in LA. Though his career has largely unfolded outside of the graffiti landscape, his skate-punk origins continue to shape his aesthetic and politicized black humor.
Retna
Retna a.k.a Marquis Lewis is an African-American, El Salvadorian and Cherokee street artist that grew up in Los Angeles, California. Growing up he was mesmerized by the gang graffiti that surrounded him. In the mid-nineties he began making murals on walls, trains and freeway overpasses throughout the city. Most of his work features his own created alphabet, a series of hypnotic symbols. It fuses together influences from ancient Incan and Egyptian hieroglyphics, Arabic, Hebrew, Asian calligraphy and graffiti. Each piece he creates carries meaning, converting an event or dialogue that the artist has experienced.
Retna recently finished a new mural in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.
Also check out his awesome slide show on this link below.
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