Just in time for World Cup hysteria, Nike Stadium releases the full-length version of Spike Lee’s new film, Everything is Practice. Poignant, fun, and personal, the short is worth a couple views.
Everything is Practice: New Short Film by Spike Lee for Nike Stadium
May 17th, 2010ZETS Creates Unity in Croatia
May 17th, 2010
Marko Prpic aka ZETS is a 30-year-old graphic designer, illustrator, and artist from Croatia. He jut finished this new wall titled Unity, which he completed in Branimirova Street, Zagreb, Croatia.
Tags: branimirova, Graffiti, graphic-designer, juxtapoz magazine, marko-prpic, News, wall-titled, zagreb
Back to School Design Contest with Vans Custom Culture
May 17th, 2010
Remember when we announced Vans’ Custom Culture shoe design contest for high schoolers? The challenge attracted entrants from all over the country and winners were rewarded with a large donation and a grand closing reception at the Orange County Museum of Art.
Tags: all-over, Graffiti, high-schoolers, museum, News, orange-county, shoe-design, the-country
Sleepwalking with Greg Gossel
May 17th, 2010
Sleepwalking: New Works by Greg Gossel comes to White Walls gallery June 12th. Sleepwalking critiques mass media’s exploitation of specific groups of people: a consumerist practice that projects biased perceptions of gender, race, and culture.
Tags: critiques-mass, gossel, Graffiti, juxtapoz magazine, projects-biased, street art, white, works
Conor Harrington x Know Hope Paint The Middle East
May 17th, 2010
We wanted to tell you directly after our studio visit with Conor Harrington the other week (but we’re good at keeping secrets, at the artist’s request) that Conor recently arrived in The Middle East, met up with Know Hope and Zero Cents, and already started to paint in both Israel and Palestine.
Tags: artist, cents, conor-harrington, Graffiti, Israel, keeping-secrets, middle, middle-east, recently-arrived, studio, the-artist
POSE / RUMBLE / KNOWNGALLERY
May 17th, 2010
-My main man POSE has been has been working his ass off preparing for his first solo show this month at KNOWN.
-THIS SHOW IS GOING TO BE FUCKING INCREDIBLE, DONT MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY.
Known Gallery presents RUMBLE by Pose 1
Born and raised in the Windy City, Pose came of age during Chicago’s hard knock golden years of graffiti—molding him into the person he is today. Having put in endless work in the streets, the lines, and the train yards, he solidly secured his name well before any outsider took notice to his unique style.
A Pose graffiti piece is like a branded stamp. In this exhibition Pose investigates a traditional style of comic book illustration and painting and infuses it with his own recognizable twist. Complexly layered, his work is bursting at the seams, often stunning and confusing onlookers with an intense amount of intricate detail. Each time Pose paints a new wall it walks a fine line between being an artfully-mastered collage of illustration—with images drawn from TV, literature, film, and fine art—and a graffiti piece. In this body of work, Pose has translated his trademarks in his signature graffiti style, (classic cartoon characters, sign painting fonts, a flat graphic style, and vivid color choices) from the street to the studio, creating elaborate large- and small-scale paintings. His work as an innovator in the graffiti world has led him to focus on what were previously only accents on his letters—exploring imagery and figuration in bold ways. Inside you will find numerous traces of his personality… the struggle, humor, sarcasm, love, hate, and always a feverish push towards the new.
The show title “RUMBLE” comes from the slang term meaning, a street fight between rival teenage gangs. When you look at one of Pose’s paintings you get the sense of a clash, but one which is noticeably classic, knowingly juvenile, polished, and American.
Pose currently lives and works in Chicago, Illinois; he is a member of the acclaimed West Coast artist collective The Seventh Letter, as well as being a founder of his own Chicago based design and art firm We Are Supervision. He has traveled internationally on his own and with The Seventh Letter specifically to showcase his skills as one of the best graffiti artists out there. This is Pose’s first solo exhibition at Known Gallery.
RUMBLE!! New works by POSE
Opening May 22nd, 2010
8-11pm
Show runs May 22nd to June 12th
info@knowngallery
Known Gallery
441 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
310-860-6263
Hours during shows:
Wednesday thru Saturday: 11am – 7pm
Sunday: noon – 6pm
Tags: Chicago, from-the-street, Graffiti, Known Gallery, north, person, personality, signature, slang, street, towards-the-new, train
Known Gallery presents RUMBLE by Pose 1
May 12th, 2010
“Born and raised in the Windy City, Pose came of age during Chicago’s hard knock golden years of graffiti—molding him into the person he is today. Having put in endless work in the streets, the lines, and the train yards, he solidly secured his name well before any outsider took notice to his unique style.
A Pose graffiti piece is like a branded stamp. In this exhibition Pose investigates a traditional style of comic book illustration and painting and infuses it with his own recognizable twist. Complexly layered, his work is bursting at the seams, often stunning and confusing onlookers with an intense amount of intricate detail. Each time Pose paints a new wall it walks a fine line between being an artfully-mastered collage of illustration—with images drawn from TV, literature, film, and fine art—and a graffiti piece. In this body of work, Pose has translated his trademarks in his signature graffiti style, (classic cartoon characters, sign painting fonts, a flat graphic style, and vivid color choices) from the street to the studio, creating elaborate large- and small-scale paintings. His work as an innovator in the graffiti world has led him to focus on what were previously only accents on his letters—exploring imagery and figuration in bold ways. Inside you will find numerous traces of his personality… the struggle, humor, sarcasm, love, hate, and always a feverish push towards the new.
The show title “RUMBLE” comes from the slang term meaning, a street fight between rival teenage gangs. When you look at one of Pose’s paintings you get the sense of a clash, but one which is noticeably classic, knowingly juvenile, polished, and American.
Pose currently lives and works in Chicago, Illinois; he is a member of the acclaimed West Coast artist collective The Seventh Letter, as well as being a founder of his own Chicago based design and art firm We Are Supervision. He has traveled internationally on his own and with The Seventh Letter specifically to showcase his skills as one of the best graffiti artists out there. This is Pose’s first solo exhibition at Known Gallery.”
LA Is On A Roll-Photographer Faces Criminal Charges For Photographing Graffiti
May 6th, 2010
More attacks on our civil liberties! Not only can’t you paint your business the way you choose, supporting public art in the process, but apparently you can’t take pictures of art either.
WTF!
Tags: art, business-the-way, city of los angeles, civil, Graffiti, process, public art, street art, supporting-public, the-process
Immigration Reform Protest In Los Angeles
May 2nd, 2010
Tags: alignnone-size-full, Graffiti, immigration reform, Los Angeles, may day protests, photography, protest, Saber
Update……..SABER: The Mad Society 2nd edition……
May 1st, 2010
UPDATE!!! The books on officially on the cargo ships and on their way here. We will keep everyone posted.
