The Creation Bubble Letters YZ

Talking about a letter we will find a lot of art in it, of course, art is not separated from the creation of such letters from both the letter and form bubbles, the example above is an artistic bubble letters are made from only two letters are the Y and Z with looks very simple, because without giving color in the letter, this is art with a simple concept with a beauty that is so profound.

BARRY MCGEE LONDON OPENING

Barry Mcgee's first London show in 6 years opened this evening at Stuart Shave/Modern Art. Looks pretty special and think we'll try and make the trip before the close date which is Aug 13th. Highly recommended !

Photo's via here

NEW FROM CONOR HARRINGTON

FROM CONOR HARRINGTON

I’m home in Ireland for 10 days painting a few walls and making another short film with Monsieur Andy Telling. Its a lil different this time, no soldiers or colonial garb. I decided to do a project a little more relevant to what’s going on in Ireland at the moment. For those that aren’t aware, Ireland is balls deep in a recession thanks to the Holy Trinity of Irish corruption – the politicians, bankers and developers.


I’ve always thought that we have a certain cowboy mentality in Ireland, maybe because we’re on the wild west of Europe or maybe because of our strong links to America over the centuries and I think its that cavalier bandit attitude that got us in so much trouble.


So I decided to paint cowboys. It ties in with my usual blurb about masculinity (blah blah blah) but I particularly like this image of the rodeo rider being thrown off his bull. In his 1936 poem ‘The Lost Heifer’, Austin Clarke refers to the Irish struggle for Independence as being like a cow wandering in the rain. So for this set of pieces I like the idea of the bull in all its wild and beastly glory representing the new Ireland while the cowboy represents the politicians who lost control of the country.

MARTHA COOPER SHOOTS JR

Worth the headline alone, shame it wasn't in Dallas.

From Martha Cooper
JR pulled an all nighter working from midnight until 8:00am installing another of his humongous photo murals. Like the Houston Street wall, the image is from his Native American Standing Rock Nation project in North and South Dakota. The location shares a wall with my Shepard Fairey Defiant Youth colab. It also faces the parking lot on Grand directly opposite Henry Chalfant’s fabled studio where writers used to hang out for hours checking out Henry’s latest subway graffiti photos. Another JR installation is around the corner on Wooster.

Check out more images on Martha's blog

MORE FROM SAN & ESCIF

San and Escif stepping up the street work in SF before the show at Fifty24 Gallery opening on Thursday.

From Upperplayground.

BANKSY AT GLASTONBURY

Phote Jason Bryant

A couple of new additions to Banksy's Glasto portfolio.

Check out previous years here

NEW FROM M-CITY

Fresh in from M-City, Huuuge new wall in Brussels that this image doesn't nearly do justice to. "The power of fantasy".

CONOR HARRINGTON IN DUBLIN

Fresh new piece in Dublin from Conor Harrington courtesy of anewspace gallery. Looks huge.

Twitter Bubble Letters

This time http://printletters.blogspot.com featuring the famous logo with the concept of Twitter bubble letters with blue writing accompanied by a little bird that always accompany him, quite simple but has a high artistic level. If we look carefully at the letters it is very obvious characters bubble letter, but for a layman then it seems somewhat vague.

3TTMAN IN MADRID FEAT SANER AND MORE

Great batch of photo's in from Street Art Shooter.

3TTMAN in Madrid feat. Saner + Eltono + Nano4814 + Remed + Mart1
including the brand new mural with Saner from Mexico

Thanks Miss Kaliansky for the photos

THE SAN & ESCIF SHOW

One we'd love to see.

We are proud to invite you to our upcoming solo show, next 30th June, at Fifty24SF.

“See you in Croatan” is an experimental research project which will cross the lives and experiences of two friends in a random road trip across the west coast of the United States. As far away as possible from doctrines, imperialisms and linear reasoning. Searching for beauty in errors and fortuitous tools. Working with intuition and hazard; trying to light relations, transitions and processes; working with research as the way itself; understanding chaos as an ideal space for creation.

San and Escif

JR'S INSIDE OUT

New York. photo by Raffi

North Dakota

Buenos Aires Argentina

Jr's Inside Out project continues to traverse the globe. The top photo is a particular favourite here at Nuart Towers.

ED TEMPLETON

Half Gallery IN NYC have a new show opening tomorrow night with one of my favourite artists, Ed Templeton. Try and check it out if you're in the area. Hope to have some shots of the show to post soon.

ED TEMPLETON
Teenage Kissers

Co-Curated by Arty Nelson

June 23—July 25, 2011
Reception: Thursday, June 23, 6-8 p.m.

208 FORSYTH STREET, NEW YORK

NEW FROM BANKSY

Fresh new piece from Banksy, not sure where, but I'm sure the footsoldiers will report back soon.

For those of you who don't know tox, the article below from right wing rag the Daily Mail explains.

Tox Arrest

OUTSIDE IN CATALOGUE

Open publication - Free publishing - More art

Nothing if not ambitious, Outside In features over 120 works from the worlds leading street and urban artists. The show will run at Skur 2 in Stavanger Norway July 01 to Aug 07.
It's our own little museum collection with gift shop attached. Thought we'd try and outdo some of the countries regional museums by throwing together a show with international relevance. The framing bill alone ensures that we won't be attempting anything like this anytime soon. Respect to any gallery that attempts to show more than the usual 10-20 works. If you're in town or passing through in the coming month, drop us a line and we'll show you around.

ANTHONY LISTER

Anthony Lister in Berlin from rodgezooi on Vimeo.

"doing your best is not always fun.." We hear you brother !

Australian artist Anthony Lister - listerart.com.au and his one week in Berlin for The Experiment - facebook.com/​event.php?eid=174672459256962

One show and one week to prepare it, what do you do? Go to an abandoned sanatorium and paint a pool off course! That and more of Lister's marathon in Berlin.

THIERRY FURGER "BUFFED PAINTINGS....FAME FOR A DAY"

Loving these works from Swiss Graffiti writer Thierry Furger, one of the few times I've seen a writer really successfully tackle the issues surrounding not only bringing graf into a gallery context, but maintaining content relevant to writers in general.

Thierry Furger "Buffed Paintings – Fame for a Day" Thierry Furger

Speerstra Gallery

19.06.2011 - 25.06.2011

"Buffed Paintings - Fame for a Day " this is the titel Thierry Furger choose for his fist solo show at the Speerstra Gallery. It is the perfect slogan to express what graffiti is all about when caught on a whole-car passing by.

This Show is about the ephemerality of graffiti and the technique of buffing*. By showing the raw and dirty side of graffiti once it's buffed, Thierry manages to transfer the graffiti from the streets onto the walls of a gallery without it loosing it's authenticity and its emotional power. Like this he further immortalises the usually very short lifespan of graffiti. The show will also include a new body of work called "Clouds", a reflection on buffed tag's on the inside of a train.

MARGARET KILGALLEN, RARE SHOWING

This is one show we'd love to see. A long time favourite whose loss and work touched many and shaped even more.

Margaret Kilgallen: Summer / Selections
June 23 – August 5, 2011
Ratio 3, 1447 Stevenson Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 USA
Opening reception: Thursday, June 23, 2011, 6–8pm.

Ratio 3 is pleased to present Margaret Kilgallen: Summer / Selections, on view from June 23 to August 5, 2011.

Margaret Kilgallen (1967–2001) is considered by many to be one of the most influential, yet under-recognized, Bay Area artist of her generation. Kilgallen, along with a handful of other artists such as Barry McGee, Chris Johanson, and Alicia McCarthy, came to emergence in the late 1990s, as part of an art movement that is now commonly referred to as the Mission School.

On view in the gallery will be a selection of works-on-paper and paintings on canvas, some never before seen. Many of the works are painted on discarded pages from books, emphasizing Kilgallen’s resourcefulness and economy of materials. This is also reflected in the canvas works, most of which were cut and sewn together by hand, giving the paintings a quilt-like quality. The imagery depicted includes her iconic motifs such as leaves, trees, topography, and female figures, all of which exemplify Kilgallen’s delicate and adept hand. Her humble, almost folkloric, style pushes some of the imagery into simple abstractions of color, lines, and repeating shapes. This exhibition offers an intimate look into Kilgallen’s very personal and singular vision.

The work of Margaret Kilgallen has been exhibited internationally at venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, REDCAT, Los Angeles, UCLA Hammer Museum, The Drawing Center, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and the DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece.

This is the first solo exhibition in San Francisco of Margaret’s work in 13 years.

EVOL & ARNE BECK

CIRCUIT SQUARE from Arne Beck on Vimeo.

Better known for his meticulous stencils of apartment blocks on urban electricity boxes, Evol recently teamed up Arne Beck for this new media piece.

An installation by EVOL and Arne Beck / INVISIBLECHAMBER

"Circuit Square" is an animated video sequence dealing with the decay and renewal, the usage of space, and the changing sociology of a fictional Berlin neighborhood. These processes -often subsumed as gentrification- are displayed in a non-linear time-lapse loop that's projected onto 4 wooden structures arranged to form a 7*7m square.

Originally produced by invitation of La Gaite Lyrique in Paris for the exhibition "Berlin Next!" in March 2011, "Circuit Square" has no definitive beginning nor end, illustrating that somehow all of its parts are dependent on each other.

SAN & ESCIF'S ROADSHOW

Intriguing !

Spanish street and fine artists, San and Escif, have been traveling with Upper Playground all around the West Coast, painting along the way, finding inspiration, and building a body of work that will be on display at FIFTY24SF, starting on June 30, 2011.

FIFTY24SF Gallery presents “See you in Croatan” a road show by San & Escif opening on June 30th, 2011.

“See you in Croatan” is an experimental research project which will cross the lives and experiences of two friends in a random road trip across the west coast of the United States. As far away as possible from doctrines, imperialisms and linear reasoning. Searching for beauty in errors and fortuitous tools. Working with intuition and hazard; trying to light relations, transitions and processes; working with research as the way itself; understanding chaos as an ideal space for creation.

From Escif:

I’ve spent a few days thinking about the project, and about the way we are approaching it. The idea of generating a third language seems like it’s not working very well, at least not in a practical way. Certainly it is a path that should become stronger during the journey, but so far it has seemed to be more of an impediment than the correct path. We already knew that teamwork is very complex, but I think it is a lot harder when the roles on the team are not well established. Because then the fight between the two egos grow to see who is the one directing the movie (I´m thinking out loud) and its something that gets more complex when the two directors (you and I) have such different ways of working.

From San:

I completely understand what you say. I think we have to be practical, although we both like to navigate riskier terrain than we normally would on our own. Team work is hard, and even more so when obsessive perfectionists like us work together, each with our own story, but it is what it is. When I made the two drawings that I sent you, I always thought that what I was doing was twisting my work a little bit to get closer to a new “skin”, not so much trying to invent a third language. I think that´s exactly where the focus of the expo should be, in making an effort to get out of our safe zone and dig into something a little less personal, but using our powers, of course…

SAN & ESCIF'S ROADSHOWBLOG