WHAMMY the art show with David Kinsey, Anthony Lister, Tiffany Bozic, Jeff Soto, John Dwyer, Robert Hardgrave, Mel Kadel, Hay Howell and Kelsey Brookes.
Thursday July 9th @ 5PM - 9PM.
VASF
1485 Haight Street
San Francisco, CA
Curated by Gabe Scott
Get Over It is a message for the skeptical. The aim of this exhibition is to continue to validate the importance of ”outsider” art in the gallery aesthetic. As in every genre of contemporary art, it is equally as important to understand the context of how each artist has matured, as it is the understanding of the actual artworks themselves. Steve Powers, Greg Gossel and Greg Lamarche each offer a unique variety of imagery exploring the concepts of typography and iconography.
While the work is indicative of its roots in graffiti and graphic design, these artists continue to break the mold. As always, the goal is to intrigue and hopefully make new fans of these three unique artists while presenting seasoned collectors with a taste of something new.
Opening reception on Friday July 10th between 7pm and 11pm.
Show & Tell Gallery is located at 1161 Dundas St. West in Toronto.
"Get Over It" will be on display from July 10th - August 9th 2009.
Mid-City Arts continues to bring the best of street art to Los Angeles with its latest show honoring the Miami graffiti scene. “Miami Graffiti” opens July 11, 7pm – 9pm and will be on view through July 26th.
Miami Graffiti by photographers Jim and Karla Murray is the first book to capture Miami’s graffiti scene. Documenting 20+ years of graffiti art and history along with Miami's most notorious crews and writers, Miami Graffiti is a detailed presentation of South Florida's past, present, and future of graffiti.
Mid City Arts’ "Miami Graffiti” show is a celebration of the release of Jim and Karla Murray's book – they will be on hand to sign books - and a showcase of some of Florida’s finest street artists from the MSG, TCP, SH and THC crews. Artists from these crews are coming out to Los Angeles and will be displaying their work in the gallery as well as customizing the gallery’s back yard space. Featured artists include Crome, Typoe, Acme, Enve, Murder, Afex, Kemo, Cynic, Gere, Flojoe and others. The show is curated by “Slow”.
Lichen
Straight from São Paulo
Factory Fresh presents
LORO VERZ, APOLO TORRES & MUNDANO
Friday, July 10th 7-10pm
Show runs till July 26th, 2009
On July 10th, São Paulo will invade Factory Fresh, as LORO VERZ, MUNDANO and APOLO TORRES arrive with a varied collection of their freshest individual and collective works. During their setup for the gallery they will paint the walls of the Factory Fresh courtyard with their large scale mural work.
The three artists come from different backgrounds and aspects of the life however all located in São Paulo, Brazil, conveying their interpretations to a strong organism of many environments, the Lichen. The Lichen is the result of the symbiotic association of fungus with a photosynthetic partner, such as algae or cyanobacterium, and they live as a single culture. Although it’s severely affected by pollution, it’s very resistant to the absence of water and nutrients, being able to survive even in deserts and places taken by a huge cemented, grey area, like São Paulo and other conurbations around the globe. 
APOLO TORRES, LORO.VERZ and MUNDANO have been highlighted together in the recent years, and their individual work is well known in São Paulo and was exhibited at cities like London, Milan, Paris and Tel-Aviv. This is their first time in New York, this show promises to be unique and focused on their hometown roots.
July 7 › Nov. 29, 2009
Born in the Streets
GRAFFITI
From July 7 to November 29, 2009, the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain will present Born in the Streets-Graffiti, an exhibition devoted to graffiti and street art. The exhibition will bring to light the extraordinary expansion of an artistic movement that developed in the streets of New York in the early 1970s to rapidly become a worldwide phenomenon.
Today, graffiti has entered the cultural mainstream, crossing over to the realms of studio art, design and advertising. Yet, despite its immense popularity, this essentially illegal activity continues to evolve at the periphery of the contemporary art world, its origins and history little-known to the general public. This exhibition attempts to sketch the general contours of a subject that is vast and complex, a form of expression that has come to embrace many different techniques, ideas and movements.
Born in the Streets-Graffiti pays tribute to the early days in New York with pioneers such as P.H.A.S.E. 2, Part 1 and SEEN, who, along with many others, ushered the movement into the halls of contemporary art as its influence spread across the globe. It also pays tribute to Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring who were both, in their own way, born in the streets, but whose careers would ultimately take a different path. Finally, the exhibition will present some of the most brilliant figures on the contemporary scene, including Vitché, Nug, Evan Roth, and Barry McGee, reflecting the diversity and complexity of a movement that, somewhere between writing and painting, continues to reinvent itself.
ALIFE PRESENTS is proud to host the West Coast Premiere of CAPTURED, A film by Ben solomon, Dan Levin, Jenner Furst and Executive Producer Marc Levin; depicting New York’s Lower East Side recent history and Clayton Patterson own journey as its devoted record-keeper.
Since 1979 Clayton Patterson has dedicated his life to documenting the final era of raw creativity and lawlessness in New York City’s Lower East Side, a neighborhood famed for art, music and revolutionary minds. Born in 1948, Patterson and his companion, Elsa Rensaa, moved from Calgary Canada to New York City in 1979. Since 1983 they have lived in the building they purchased on Essex Street. An ardent community advocate, Patterson also co-founded the New York Tattoo Society and helped win the fight to legalize tattooing in the City.
The New York Times describes Patterson’s endeavor: “He has amassed a huge day-by-day visual history of the area, told mainly through unpretentious portraits of its myriad and diverse faces: tenement kids and homeless people, poets and politicians, drug dealers and drag queens, rabbis and santeros, beat cops, graffiti taggers, hookers, junkies, punks, anarchists, mystics and crackpots.”
ALIFE will host the outdoors screening in SPACE 15 Twenty’s courtyard, adjacent to it’s Hollywood flagship. The screening will be accompanied by an in-store installation of Patterson’s photographs and memorabilia as well as a commemorative packaged set that will include the CAPTURED DVD and a Patterson signed photographic print.
Also for sale are Patterson’s two books, “Front door”, published by OHWOW and “Wildstyle”, published by Unique Publishing.
*** CAPTURED
A FILM BY BEN SOLOMON, DAN LEVIN, AND JENNER FURST
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, MARC LEVIN
Clayton Patterson & 30 years of NYC’S Lower East Side
July 9, 2009 West Coast Premiere / 8 p.m. Screening, artist installations
SPACE 15 TWENTY 1520 N. Cahuenga Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028
CAPTURED
www.capturedmovie.com
http://capturedles.com
XOOOOX - OPENING SOON
OPENING RECEPTION 10 JULY 2009, 7 PM AT CIRCLECULTURE GALLERY
The mystery surrounding the Berlin street art phenomenon XOOOOX continues to provoke questions. The seductive, introverted-looking women stenciled on building facades and construction fences have fascinated passers-by from Milan to New York City, but what exactly do they mean? And who is hiding behind the name – a man, a woman or a group of young street artists? Since being arrested for graffiti vandalism in the late 1990s, XOOOOX has refused to reveal an identity to avoid trouble with the law. This gallery show will introduce you to the deeper artistic worlds of XOOOOX. ...read more below.
CIRCLECULTURE GALLERY
GIPSSTRASSE 11 / 10119 BERLIN / GERMANY
OPEN 11 JULY TO 4 SEPTEMBER 2009
TUESDAYS TO SATURDAYS, 2 TO 6 PM
If somebody walks into one of my installations and the first thing they do is laugh,
then I know I’ve done the right thing.
-Kottie Paloma
Kottie Paloma’s work addresses the humor in everyday interactions and events. Inspired by contemporary urban life, his pieces approach “social and personal politics” with biting wit. He’s able to transform seemingly mundane experiences into entertaining and absurd occurrences. Kottie Paloma’s work has been displayed in exhibitions throughout the United States, South Korea, and Europe. Watch the interview below…
Kottie Paloma, American, B. 1974, was born in L.A., Ca. and was raised in Huntington Beach, Ca. In 1996 he moved to San Francisco. In addition to his books, Kottie also makes drawings, paintings, photography, soft sculpture and on some occasions will out source video projects to his friends. From 2003-2005, Kottie was creator and director of a live performance based talk show called "Fun Time"!
Onesto a.k.a. Alex Hornest solo show
opens in Sao Paulo on July 4th at Galeria Thomas Cohn
The routine seems trivial by the look stimulated for the speed of information and the facts that we are over-exposed from day to day. These appear as a burst of machine gun by the spectacle of the media, without giving us time to digest and not think about the beauty of the simplicity of other small events. Feel and think is an exercise that many have forgotten how to do. Feed from the saturation becomes synonymous of refinement and determination in the eyes of those who only see beauty in what is passed through a blender and offered in small pieces. Be a prisoner of chance becomes easy for those who have not mastered their own soul.
Opening Reception:
Sábado - 04 de Julho das 12 as 15hrs.
Galeria aberta até as 18hrs.
Galeria Thomas Cohn
Av. Europa, 641 | Jd. Europa | São Paulo - SP - Brasil
tel.: 55 11 3083-3355
terça a sexta-feira das 11h/19h
sábados das 11h/18h
Renowned DJ A-Trak and artist savant Dust La Rock present Grateful Bear, an ice-cold player notorious for trippy parties in his psychedelic igloo. Grateful Bear stands 8-inches tall and steps on the scene with tons of swag, including a gold-plated necklace, leather cuff, cotton sweatband, snow-capped igloo, fitted baseball hat, and wayfarers.
Only 500 made! Kidrobot
Cick here to download A-Trak's sonic masterpiece 'Mastered' featuring Lupe Fiasco!
Montana Shop & Gallery Barcelona te invita HOY jueves 2 de julio, a partir de las 19.30h a la inauguración de la exposición IAM ‘Ink And Movement’ de los artistas SAN, OKUDA y NANO4814. En la galería de Montana puedes ver sus lienzos y serigrafías hasta el próximo 31 de julio.
On July 2nd, Hamburger Eyes presents EXODUS at 111 Minna Gallery. This exhibition will showcase black and white photography from regular contributors of Hamburger Eyes Photo Magazine. Photographs will range in size from large murals of 8 feet x 10 feet, to the traditional standard of 8 inches by 10 inches.
The shows title, “EXODUS” evokes not only the feelings of mass migration, but of transmogrification. Hamburger Eyes Photo Magazine, subtitled “The continuing story of Life on Earth”, has dedicated their pages to the study of the human condition. And, in this exhibit they intend to display their visions of transcendence from past, present, and future-kind. It is a mission of containing time by setting it free, thus shall begin the EXODUS.
This event will also celebrate the release of Hamburger Eyes Issue 013. Hamburger Eyes Photo Magazine is based in San Francisco. It is off-set printed in black and white on glossy stock, perfect bound with a cardstock cover, holding 150 pages at a run of 3000 copies. Hamburger Eyes is carried in shops, stores, libraries, galleries, and museums across the entire planet.
July 2 to August 1, 2009
URBAN AFFAIRS extended
01. - 31. Juli 2009
Vernissage // Mittwoch 01. Juli 09 // 17 Uhr
opening times: Di - Sa // 14 - 20H
STATTBAD // Gerichtstr 65 // 13347 Berlin
(Nähe U+S - Bahnhof Wedding)
Vernissage – Freier Eintritt!
Eintritt Festival // Regulär 4€ // Ermäßigt (Schüler, Studenten, ...) 2€
After Party // Samstag 4. Juli 09 // 22 Uhr // @ STATTBAD
URBAN AFFAIRS extended präsentiert in seiner zweiten Auflage eine internationale Auswahl zeitgenössischer Urban Art und Streetart Positionen. Dem Motto der urbanen Affäre folgend, sind in diesem Jahr zahlreiche externe künstlerische Projekte und Institutionen eingeladen, sich auf gut 2.000 qm im neuen Berliner Kunstzentrum, dem STATTBAD in Wedding zu präsentieren.
Der Fokus liegt auf der Präsentation von Urban Art und Streetart in einem zeitgenössischen Kunstkontext, unter Einbindung von interaktiven Performances, räumlichen Installationen und Kunstaktionen im öffentlichen Raum. Das Festival bringt eine junge Künstlergeneration zusammen, die seit vielen Jahren einen neuen künstlerischen Weg eingeschlagen hat.
www.urbanaffairs.de
Artists:
1010 / ALIAS /ANTON UNAI / DDG / EL BOCHO / EMESS / FUK LABORATORIES / JUST / MEAN MAREK / MYMONSTERS / NEON / NEROMONGA / NOEL / NOMAD / SAM CREW / SP38 / TIKA / VECTORIAN / VLEP VNET / WOW THE DEAD / ZONENKINDER
30WORKS (COLOGNE) presents:
D-FACE / BANKSY / NICK WALKER / ROURKE VAN DAL / PAUL INSECT
Projects:
URBAN LOVE TOUR / Nomad, Influenza, Abner Preiss
CIUC FESTIVAL / Graciasaella / Canary Islands
PAVILLION DOUBLE / Mode2, Delta, Sharp, Eron
WALLBREAKERS by Modart / Peter Fuss, Nils Müller, Roa
LE GRAND POÓLAIS by Fares Al-Hassan / Xoooox, Edouard Broner, Jakob Szymendera, Blek Le Rat
MURALISMO MORTE by Jens Besser
MASSMIX / VlepVnet
GRAFFITI WALL by tentable
FEUERWEAR Cologne
TAPE ART by Klebeland / El Bocho
Mike Perry, creator of the books "HAND JOB" and "OVER&OVER", has made a Giant Zine show for Grass Hut's July extravaganza!!! All the art hanging on the gallery walls was also printed and bound into Giant Zines measuring 19 X 25 inches big.
The Show Opens July 3rd, 6-10pm. Grass Hut 811 E Burnside. BE THERE!!!
http://grasshutcorp.com/blog/
If you want extra credit though, be sure to come to the Book Signing / Q&A session / Motivational Speech / Coloring Book Party Wed July 1st, 6-9pm.
The July Upper Playground New Era 59FIFTY hats
NATIONALE proudly presents Arnaud Loumeau's first solo exhibition in the Pacific Northwest. Influenced by Mexican and Native American cultures along with the fantasy lands of pixelation and video games, his work oscillates between art brut and psychedelic dreaming. The repetitive patterns of his simple geometric shapes will most likely take you on a journey through an organized and vibrantly colorful chaos.
Opening reception First Friday July 3rd 2009, 6 - 8pm.
Born in Poitiers, France 30 years ago, Loumeau currently lives in Toulouse. His work has been published in Dazed and Confused, PIG, Mollusk, Chi Chi Potter and exhibited in Paris, Bordeaux, Glasgow, Berlin, Helsinki, Milan, San Francisco, Baltimore, Las Vegas, and New York. He has also designed album covers for Le Jonathan Reilly, You Me The Switch, Crash Normal, and Kill For Total Peace. Sadly, Loumeau will not be present for the opening reception of his show at NATIONALE, but let's throw him a deserving party nonetheless.
LIVE PAINTING BY Revok, Kelsey Brookes
LIVE MUSIC & INSTALLATION BY Mark "THE COBRASNAKE"
July 01 - 03, 2009 - 8 PM
LODOWN Gallery “West Berlin” Brunnenstrasse 56, 13355 Berlin
www.lodownmagazine.com
Jeff Koons:
Popeye Series
2 July – 13 September 2009
The Serpentine Gallery presents the first survey of a key series of works by the celebrated American artist Jeff Koons. Working in thematic series since the early 1980s, Koons has explored notions of consumerism, taste, banality, childhood and sexuality. The Popeye Series incorporates ideas that are central to the artist’s work, including surreal combinations of everyday objects, art historical references and children’s toys. The paintings in the Popeye Series combine disparate found images with images of the inflatables and readymades used in the sculptures, while the sculptures themselves continue Koons’s interest in juxtaposing cast aluminium exact replicas of inflatable pool toys with other readymade objects.
Jeff Koons was born in York, Pennsylvania, in 1955. His work has been widely exhibited internationally and his most recent solo exhibitions include presentations at the Château de Versailles, France; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, all in 2008. Koons lives and works in New York.
