DAIN 'Lipstick Heidi' Snub-Nosed Print

Brooklynite Gallery released 500 of DAINs newest 'snub-nose' print at midnight, last night. Each of these hand-pulled, mixed media darlings are screen printed on archival paper...no two are alike. All are hand cut & signed by DAIN.

DAIN "LIPSTICK HEIDI"
Snub-Nose prints
5"x7"

DAINs Flickr HERE
Brooklynite Gallery Flicker HERE
Brooklynite Gallery website HERE

DAIN 'COPASETIC' AT BROOKLYNITE GALLERY

I've just received my invite in the mail for DAIN's solo-show at Brooklynite Gallery. These babies are dope! Each invite is on a unique vintage photograph that has been individually graffiti'd by DAIN and arrives in an antiqued or tea-stained envelope...pretty f'in cool!

Brooklyn born artist DAIN uses the platform for his first solo show to take us back to a time when life was simpler---the 1940’s. The good ol’ days as some might call them--- New York City Style. A time when words like cosmopolitan, elegant and modest, were a lot more relevant. A time when families spent the day on amusement rides at Coney Island and in the evening common folk mixed with celebrities in nightclubs like the Copacabana. The term “copasetic” meant that everything was fine and dandy. Even as war news dominated the headlines, a craving for fun and refuge abounded . . . a diversion. Much like today when the economy looms large and America’s still at war, we too need a diversion. DAIN’s work and installations for “COPASETIC” will create just that. Infusing the glamour and glitz of the 1940’s together with a Brooklyn working class edge, he seeks to turn back the hands of time— Even if we were never there before.

"Copasetic" Sept 12-Oct 10
Brooklynite Gallery
334 Malcolm X Blvd
Brooklyn, NY 11233
347.405.5976

Check out DAIN's Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=dain+street+art&s=rec

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

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

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.