Dave Kinsey 'Radio In A Box'

BLK/MRKT Editions recently released another off the chain screenprint from Dave Kinsey, titled Radio In A Box.
4-color screenprint on 100% cotton rag.
Edition of 150
24"x18"

MR. BRAINWASH 'GENERATIONS' POSTER RELEASE

On Tuesday, April 13th, Mr Brainwash is releasing his latest print "Generations".

• 7-color screen print on archival art paper
• Print includes gold and silver metallic inks
• Signed & numbered by MBW, with his thumb print on the back
• Price: $300
• Size: 22x30in
• Edition Size: 75
  

MY NEWEST SCREENPRINT

I just completed a new 4-color 26"x22" screen print this morning.

MR. BRAINWASH: NEW PRINT. NEW SHOW

Stencil/ wheatpaste madman, Mr. Brainwash is crazy-busy these days...he's building up for his huge NYC gig 'ICONS' this February. How big is big, you say? I'm told that he's high-jacked a 15,000 square foot space in NYCs Meat Packet District AND he's donating a portion of his sales to the American Red Cross for Aid to Haiti.

Each of his Mondrian inspired, 8-color screen prints are on archival paper and hand finished, splashed with spraypaint, signed & numbered by MBW. He's even included his thumb print on the flipside...for that added bit of authenticity. The 36"x36" print drops January 20th.

BILLY CRAVEN X JFK SCREENPRINT

Dig the 3-color screen print I recently completed of my man, JFK.
Measures approx 24x36
Interested in getting your very own JFK print? Hit me up at billycraven@gmail.com

GARY TAXALI X CHICAGO READER COVER

Gary Taxali featured artist on the cover of the December 24th issue of Chicago Reader.
*holler at me if you want me to mail you a copy.

MF DOOM X BURLESQUE DESIGNS PRINTS

Minneapolis' Burlesque Design do some serious print work...and you know I love me some MF Doom!
Dig the 3-color, 2004 tour poster on French paper (30"x23").

Burlesque of North America and First Amendment Arts:

1101 Stinson Blvd #12
Minneapolis, MN 55413
612.379.4151

BROOKLYNs - THE PENCIL FACTORY: POSTER 'ZINES

Promotional newsprint poster zine by the illustrators and designers in The Pencil Factory, Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Includes Kim Bost, Josh Cochran, Jennifer Daniel, Gilbert Ford, Jessica Hische, Grady McFerrin, Ted McGrath, Alex Eben Meyer, Chris Silas Neal, Zacharia O'Hora, Leif Parsons, Rachel Salomon, Joel Speasmaker, Jillian Tamaki, and Sam Weber.

*Ted McGrath

WAYNE PATE: BROOKLYN ARTIST & ILLUSTRATOR

Brooklyn-based artist and illustrator Wayne Pate does some really great lo-fi drawings and screen prints.

DANCE RIGHT X MFG 'SUICIDE KING' PRINT

Dance Right drops an other dope print!

'suicide king'
hand-pulled on bright white archival paper
black, metallic gold and fluorescent orange ink
edition of 100
signed and numbered by MFG
10" x 10"
30-clams

JIM HOUSER X POSTER CHILD PRINT RELEASE

Poster Child and Philly artist Jim Houser just dropped his new print titled 'stormfront'. Edition of 100 prints. 18" x 24". 5-Color Hand Pulled Screen Print on Rives BFK-100% Cotton Paper. Get yours for 75-clams.

ABOVE: SHAPE SHIFTING ARROWS

ABOVE drops his newest print release 'Shape Shifting Arrows'.
4-different prints. Limited to 100-pieces of each. 15"x11". (38 cm x 28 cm). Lennox 100 Archival White 250 GSM.

http://goabove.com

WK INTERACT: Q&A

Here is video footage shot by George Koroneos of an exclusive speaking engagement with WK during his book signing event on 07.01.09. In this rare Q&A session, WK Interact answers questions from guests in attendance about his current solo exhibition Motion Portrait at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery, as well as his experience as a street artist living in New York for the past 16 years.
WKs iconic wheatpaste graffiti can be seen covering virtually every surface in New York City, not to mention every known country worldwide.

WK Interact Q&A from George Koroneos on Vimeo.

Jonathan LeVine Gallery
529 West 20th Street, 9th floor
New York, NY 10011
212-243-3822

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

I AM DAIN: THE VIDEO

A behind the scenes look at DAIN. Thanks goes to the Brooklynite Gallery for putting this video together.

THE GREAT DAIN: ABOUT AS OLD SCHOOL GRAFFITI AS YOU CAN GET

Dain, mad props to the OG Brooklyn Graffiti artist.

RUN, BLAGO, RUN by CRO aka RAY NOLAND

OK, OK, so I lifted the attached story from the Chicago Tribune online. The original author writes like both he and his readers hail from Mars or some other planet or suburb, far, far away. He suggests that the Blago stencil-graffiti has gotten to an almost viral stage...just because it's up in at least 6 reported spots in Chicago...EWWWW, scarey! The image I've included is from the corner of Hubbard and May Streets, Chicago.
The 'alleged' artist that has sprayed and pasted the 'Run, Blago, Run' is Chicago's very own CRO aka Ray Noland. He currently has a group show that ends later this month titled Officially Unofficial at the Chicago Tourism Center on Randolph Street. This show is a collection of Obama related artworks and prints that supported Obama, pre-election. Works by The Date Farmers, Ron English, Obey, Bask, Cody Hudson and many, many more artists can be seen. I highly recommend checking this gig out, while it lasts.
You can source more info direct from Ray's sites: GoTellMama.org and CRO.BigCartel.com.

A mysterious mural has turned up on a half-dozen concrete walls around the city in recent weeks. The black graffiti stencil shows former Gov. Rod Blagojevich wearing his familiar tracksuit, running through the street and glancing over his shoulder, as if he is being pursued. The image leaves it to the viewer to speculate about who is trailing Blago -- U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald, perhaps?

Reminiscent of the work of Banksy, the London street artist, and Shepard Fairey aka Obey, the creator of the Barack Obama Hope poster, the Blago stencil began appearing in early April. It has been spotted in a downtown alley behind the Macy's on State Street and on a viaduct at the corner of West 16th Street and South Union Avenue.

Like most street art, the creator leaves no signature. (The practice is illegal, after all.) But Pilsen artist Ray Noland aka CRO, 36, is currently selling a first-edition poster of the image titled "Run, Blago, Run!" for $75 on his Web site, cro.bigcartel.com. Noland -- who ran an unofficial Obama street art campaign last year -- declined to comment on how his Blago design ended up on the street and suggested that anyone could have appropriated his image. "I just make the graphics," he said.

However, Noland did hint that urbanities should keep their eyes open for more images, which he predicted "will probably continue to pop up around the city."

*original story lifted off the internet written by: cmastony@tribune.com

CODY HUDSON aka STRUGGLE INC, CHICAGO

Cody Hudson better known to many as Struggle, Inc. has a new gig that opens on May 11th.

For Let’s Do Some Living After We Die, emergent artist Cody Hudson will create a new collage and sculpture installation. Hudson’s art work will explore feelings of euphoria and doom, community and solitude through the combination of found materials and media images, paintings, and drawing. The installation will change and grow in three intervals, May 11th, July 19th, and August 19th, during the six month exhibition period. Installed in the Foyer Project Space of the Art Center, this volatile mixture of optical information inspires visitors to consider the relationship between hopefulness and tragedy upon entering the building.

Hudson’s art work will explore feelings of euphoria and doom, community and solitude through the combination of found materials and media images, paintings, and drawing.

Cody Hudson is a Chicago-based artist and graphic designer who produces work under the name Struggle Inc. Known for the production of clean, multi-dimensional and geometric graphics, Hudson’s design aesthetic is part urban modernism, and part organic visual deconstruction. His drawings, installations, and paintings have been exhibited throughout the US, Europe and Japan including the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), New Image Art (LA), Rocket Gallery (Tokyo), The Lazy Dog (Paris), & Bucket Rider Gallery (Chicago). In 2006 he was commissioned by the City of Chicago Public Art Program to create a permanent installation at the Sox/35th CTA station as part of the Arts in Transit Program. Hudson’s work has been featured in numerous magazines and publications including idN, Arkitip, Anthem and Juxtapoz. He is currently represented by Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago.

This installation takes place in conjunction with the upcoming exhibition Signs of the Apocalypse/Rapture curated by Front Forty Press, offering a provocative look into the current trend of blurring the line between annihilation and bliss in contemporary art, thought, and sound, held in Galleries 1, 2, and 3 at the Art Center from July 19 until September 29, 2009.

SWOON, THE POLAROID KIDD & CHRIS STAIN

An exhibition at galerie lj beaubourg, Paris 2007.
Soundtrack provided by Fedayi Pacha.



Click Here to see The Polaroid Kidd at the Needles and Pens Gallery in 2007, San Francisco. http://www.needles-pens.com/polaroidkidd.html

Click Here for additional work by Swoon as featured in the NY Times.

If you're down with seeing more of Chris Stain's stencil graffiti, then Click Here.

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