Brooklynite Gallery, 334 Malcolm X Blvd, Brooklyn, NY, 11233, 347.405.5976
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Showing posts with label Brooklynite. Show all posts
19 July 2009
OLDEST (or at least one of) GRAFFITI ARTIST: DAIN AT BROOKLYNITE GALLERY
Hey, New York! Dain aka 'I AM DAIN' is back with a show at Brooklynite Gallery this September 2009. If you know DAIN's work, then you know this geeezer is the Original OG Graffiti artist. When I say OG, I mean OG. DAINs been graffiti-ing since the 1950s. No joke!
Brooklynite Gallery, 334 Malcolm X Blvd, Brooklyn, NY, 11233, 347.405.5976
Brooklynite Gallery, 334 Malcolm X Blvd, Brooklyn, NY, 11233, 347.405.5976
WORLDS YOUNGEST GRAFFITI ARTIST: BROOKLYN
Dig the video that Brooklynite Gallery posted. Lil' Ruby shows y'all how graf artists roll in Brooklyn!
Brooklynite Gallery, 334 Malcolm X Blvd, Brooklyn, NY 11233, 347.405.5976
Brooklynite Gallery, 334 Malcolm X Blvd, Brooklyn, NY 11233, 347.405.5976
15 July 2009
DASH SNOW: NYC ARISTIST, 27 AND DEAD
Dash Snow, NYC rock-star photographer & artist, dead of a heroine overdose at 27. He was also a graffiti writer (aka SACER) who ran with the infamous NYC IRAK CREW.
"His death has shocked anyone who had any contact with him or knew his work. The drugs were all there in the artwork (and the rumours), but so was a sense of real beauty and honesty. It wasn't necessarily the aesthetic of his work, but its independence that made it so influential. He simply didn't give a shit." * guardian.co.uk
"His death has shocked anyone who had any contact with him or knew his work. The drugs were all there in the artwork (and the rumours), but so was a sense of real beauty and honesty. It wasn't necessarily the aesthetic of his work, but its independence that made it so influential. He simply didn't give a shit." * guardian.co.uk
06 July 2009
I AM DAIN: THE VIDEO
A behind the scenes look at DAIN. Thanks goes to the Brooklynite Gallery for putting this video together.
DAIN: OLD SCHOOL GRAFFITI
A few images from NYCs OG graffiti artist DAIN. Brooklyn's DAIN has been doing graffiti since the 50's and has recently shown at the Brooklynite Gallery.
01 June 2009
THE GREAT DAIN: ABOUT AS OLD SCHOOL GRAFFITI AS YOU CAN GET
Dain, mad props to the OG Brooklyn Graffiti artist.
22 April 2009
AIKO: JAPANESE BORN-BROOKLYN GRAFFITI ARTIST
As a founding member of the artist collective FAILE, formed in 1999, AIKO helped fuel the current wave of global contemporary street art with spontaneous wheatpastings and stenciling in numerous world capitals. The artist launched a solo career in 2006 with works on canvas that incorporate collage, stenciling, brushwork, spray paint, and serigraphy. This bricolage technique perfectly suits AIKO’s eclectic practice—a voracious mash-up of Japanese and American pop culture, including comics, children’s book illustrations, advertising, classic movie posters, and soft-core pornography.
AIKO draws inspiration from the urban street, Kawaii culture (“cute” in Japanese), and globalized depictions of female sexuality. While a Media Studies student at New School University in New York, she hid her art in plain sight by wheatpasting images throughout the city. It was then that she developed a signature synthesis of commercial graphics, sexual imagery, and the vocabularies of seduction and fantasy found in print, film, and electronic media. The implied decay of the graffiti-style works reads not only as autobiography but also as a subtle breakdown of surrounding structures. 'Welcome to the Planet of Lady A', for example, features a provocative soft-porn image silkscreened onto a window, all elements reclaimed from cultural and literal junk heaps.
Like Warhol in the ’70s, AIKO embraces silkscreen techniques as the ultimate (and seemingly timeless) signifier of the contemporary. 'Madam Butterfly' elegantly combines a reproduced newspaper image with collaged decorative motifs, masking and transforming the identity of the painting’s female subject. In the show’s title work, 'Love Monster', the artist layers nude nymphets holding spray paint with the recurring tags “King” and “Knights” to capture not only the relational aesthetics of the day but also contemporary culture’s relative ethics. Here and elsewhere, her visual language borrows from fairytales and pulp fiction—virgins and vixens—exploring themes of romance, morality, and religion. Yet AIKO’s energetic works eschew judgment in favor of something more generative, a pop-culture phoenix rising from the real and virtual ashes of the urban street.
AIKO (Nakagawa)’s debut solo exhibition, 'Shut Up & Look', took place at Brooklynite Gallery in 2008. Selected group exhibitions include: in 2008, 'Heart & Soul', Alphabeta, Queens, NY; 'Time Changes', Calm & Punk Gallery, Tokyo; 'PINK AIKO: Brick Ladies of NYC', Ad Hoc Art, Brooklyn; and in 2007, 'Heart Throb', Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles; 'Bestial', Iguapop Gallery, Barcelona, and 'Eleven', Leonard Street Gallery, London.
She's showing from April 18-May 16.
Joshua Liner Gallery
548 West 28th Street
3rd Floor
New York, NY 10001
212.244.7415
http://joshualinergallery.com
AIKO draws inspiration from the urban street, Kawaii culture (“cute” in Japanese), and globalized depictions of female sexuality. While a Media Studies student at New School University in New York, she hid her art in plain sight by wheatpasting images throughout the city. It was then that she developed a signature synthesis of commercial graphics, sexual imagery, and the vocabularies of seduction and fantasy found in print, film, and electronic media. The implied decay of the graffiti-style works reads not only as autobiography but also as a subtle breakdown of surrounding structures. 'Welcome to the Planet of Lady A', for example, features a provocative soft-porn image silkscreened onto a window, all elements reclaimed from cultural and literal junk heaps.
Like Warhol in the ’70s, AIKO embraces silkscreen techniques as the ultimate (and seemingly timeless) signifier of the contemporary. 'Madam Butterfly' elegantly combines a reproduced newspaper image with collaged decorative motifs, masking and transforming the identity of the painting’s female subject. In the show’s title work, 'Love Monster', the artist layers nude nymphets holding spray paint with the recurring tags “King” and “Knights” to capture not only the relational aesthetics of the day but also contemporary culture’s relative ethics. Here and elsewhere, her visual language borrows from fairytales and pulp fiction—virgins and vixens—exploring themes of romance, morality, and religion. Yet AIKO’s energetic works eschew judgment in favor of something more generative, a pop-culture phoenix rising from the real and virtual ashes of the urban street.
AIKO (Nakagawa)’s debut solo exhibition, 'Shut Up & Look', took place at Brooklynite Gallery in 2008. Selected group exhibitions include: in 2008, 'Heart & Soul', Alphabeta, Queens, NY; 'Time Changes', Calm & Punk Gallery, Tokyo; 'PINK AIKO: Brick Ladies of NYC', Ad Hoc Art, Brooklyn; and in 2007, 'Heart Throb', Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles; 'Bestial', Iguapop Gallery, Barcelona, and 'Eleven', Leonard Street Gallery, London.
She's showing from April 18-May 16.
Joshua Liner Gallery
548 West 28th Street
3rd Floor
New York, NY 10001
212.244.7415
http://joshualinergallery.com
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