New York City based street artist MOMO made his way down to New Orleans, covering walls with his graphic artwork. A new film, 22222, captures his work as well as city sounds to the beat of drums for a fantastic visual and auditory experience.
Video: MOMO in New Orleans to the Beat of Drums
May 22nd, 2010Tags: fantastic-visual, juxtapoz magazine, momo, new-film, News, orleans, the-beat, way-down, work, work-as-well
Video: Steven Powers Press Conference
May 21st, 2010
Steven ESPO Powers (Juxtapoz cover #83 ) gets a chance to break down his work for a PSFK 2010 conference. It’s typical Powers humor and offers some great insight into his history and most recent Love Letters project in Philly.
Tags: break-down, espo, Graffiti, great-insight, his-work, history, juxtapoz magazine, letters, most-recent, offers-some, powers, psfk, street art, work
May 20th, 2010
me and my new fiance!!
Peace(aka any homeless guy) Big Tig
Krafty,Tig,Smoker,Jase
Went to Reno to see my girls Cuzin he works at Aces Tattoo they kill it out there
got me a little blood in the water TigerShark
Nicky Cadillac keeping his eye on the Prize!
designed a piece for my girl, with chinese lanterns and cherry blossoms Kev did an amazing job! it was an honor for me to get my work on her arm and blessed with Kevs ink skills. came out amazing
Year of the smoke! soo serious!
Weeknow Skeeeno
TigerBaby
United colors of Reno
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Thanks agan Cuzo!!
Tags: 12 grain, cherry-blossoms, girl, homeless-guy, kill-it-out, little-blood, nicky-cadillac, SMOKE, soo-serious, water, weeknow-skeeeno, work, works-at-aces
Dane Johnson
May 19th, 2010
“Dane Johnson” posted from: The Citrus Report | Art, Culture, News, Graffiti, Music, Street Art, Clothing, Politics, Reviews
The Appropriation of Bad Luck
By j.frede
Los Angeles based artist Dane Johnson is preparing to present a new body of work that takes a close look at people’s bad luck. Paper features photo real-ish paintings of discarded lottery tickets found and collected from around the Los Angeles area since 2008. When I asked him about his motivation for the series Dane explained that it began when he moved to Los Angeles and noticed millions of discarded scratch off lottery tickets all over his Hollywood neighborhood “So I just started collecting them because they looked so great. Aesthetically they are really interesting. They go from being a slick hardedge painting when they are purchased to a messy abstract one when the ticket is played. Everyone scratches off their tickets differently so you are left with unique fingerprint of a moment in time when someone was taking the leap and playing this game of chance.”
The largest of the Lotto Series paintings are 4’ by 6’ acrylic on canvas and the smaller works are gouache on 11” by 16” paper and are painted slightly larger than the actual tickets themselves “ There isn’t any masking involved so it definitely has a hand made look to it. I try my best to make them perfect but it never works out that way. Some people thought they were actually tickets just glued to a piece of paper. Which would be a much easier option but a big part of my work is spending time with these images.” The exhibition will consist of more than a dozen works from the series.
Dane Johnson’s work has long been influenced by chance especially the visual world around us. “We have so many pictures all around us and I have always tried my best to be engaged with my surroundings but there are things that get missed. Things like garbage on the ground, forgettable ad campaigns, magazines, newspapers etc. Those images can have just as much meaning as a slick Nike ad or a show at MOCA…They just need to be considered differently, or just considered period. I try to reframe the way some of these things are looked at.” Johnson continues, “There is so much that you can possibly see, everything there is to see, so it becomes about curating your surroundings. Seeking things out. Putting yourself into positions where you are making connections to what you are looking at. Sometimes it is successful and sometimes it fails but it is the engagement in the surroundings that is interesting to me.”
Tags: biography, Clothing, engagement, exhibition, feature, Graffiti, hollywood, johnson, los angeles gallery, music, paper, politics, series, surroundings, work
Blood Is the New Black Artist: Sophie Stephens
May 19th, 2010
Sophie Stephens is a London-based illustrator and apparently, her work is “full of dry humor and ample filth” though she describes it as being about herself, her friends, nonsense and nudity.
Tags: dry-humor, friends, her-friends, her-work, juxtapoz magazine, london-based, sophie-stephens, stephens, work
KC ORTIZ / FORCED REBELLION / KNOWNGALLERY
May 17th, 2010
-Opening the same night as POSE`s show my friend KC ORTIZ is showing a collection of his photos from his recent experience with the Hmong rebels in Laos and Vietnam. He literally risked his life to document these people whom were abandoned by the US military and left to continue the fight alone in hostile territory… The Hmong peoples continue to live life on the run and continue fighting the war to this day…
Rebels, Communists, CIA agents, and the legacy of a never ending “Secret War” all played their part in KC Ortiz’s photo reportage on the remaining Hmong in the jungles of Laos, which opens at Known Gallery on May 22nd.
For three weeks in December 2009 and January 2010, Ortiz lived with the jungle Hmong in order to document their plight and living conditions. Over a year of planning, secret meetings, and a clandestine entry into Laos brought him to the Hmong rebels and a world unseen by outsiders.
Ortiz’s photos document the remaining Hmong in the mountainous jungles of Laos. The Hmong live a life constantly on the run from the Laos Peoples Army (LPA) and Vietnamese forces, systematically targeted for having served for the CIA during the Vietnam War. During that time they went where no American or ally could be, behind enemy lines in Laos, in what is referred to as the “Secret War”. Their missions varied from rescuing downed American pilots to fighting off the North Vietnamese soldiers. Recognized as some of the world’s greatest guerilla fighters, they served their American bosses, the CIA, with bravery and honor.
Unfortunately for the Hmong, changing political climates caused the US to pull out of the region, leaving them behind in an extremely hostile environment. Since that day, the Hmong have continued to fight for their survival against incredible odds. Thirty five years after the fall of Saigon, the Hmong still remain fighting the remnants of that long ago war, and live a life far forgotten by most in the world. Ortiz’s work also invariably explores American foreign policy and questions the role and potential outcome of current allies in America’s modern war fronts. Will history repeat itself? Will the United States abandon her current allies? Will others be left to the same doom the Hmong have faced?
The Hmong’s struggle, desperation, daily lives, and ongoing fight were captured by Ortiz and will be shown under the title “Forced Rebellion” at Known Gallery. Ortiz’s photos from his time in the jungle of Laos have been published in numerous international publications, including The Independent and A-Magasinet.
KC Ortiz is a photojournalist based out of his hometown, Chicago. His work focuses on under-reported issues and over looked people and has taken him to all corners of the globe in pursuit of his work.
Tags: america, foreign-policy, jungle, north, ortiz, remaining, Revok, time, united-states, vietnam, vietnamese, work, world
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.”
Arrested Motion Interview
April 27th, 2010
Known as one of the best graffiti writers of all-time, SABER can also be described as a pioneer, legend, hero, Guinness World Records holder, and activist. Most of all though, he is an artist. An artist in the true sense of the word. One with keen and insightful observations and expressions of the world he lives in, the beauty that surrounds him, and the injustices that affect him. He has dedicated his entire adult life to the work he believes in, often at great risk to himself and his body.
Underneath his prolific throw-ups, burners, and tags lies someone who is just as capable with the paint brush as he is the spray can. He has proven to be able to masterfully create on a wall, canvas, or with wood or metal. SABER has shown at renowned galleries and has traveled throughout the world, blessing walls from Los Angeles and San Francisco to New York to Korea. He is also extremely thoughtful and well-spoken and the following is an interview A.M. was lucky enough to conduct with the artist.
Tags: arrestedmotion.com, guinness-world, known-as-one, often-at-great, read-the-entire, Saber, urban art, wood-or-metal, work
TO DIE FOR
April 13th, 2010Yesterday I had the opportunity to catch up with my two great friends Jason and Josh (Deph) from “To Die For” as they worked the IMSCARD/To Die For booth at World of Dance convention in Pomona. These are two of the hardest working guys I know and I have been more than stoked to be working with them on my IMSCARED line and store. I have a lot of respect for their work ethic and just needed to give some credit where credit is due.
So we added a HUGE landmark to the “To Die For” Flagship store in Costa Mesa, Ca. a couple of weeks ago… Montana GOLD flowed us several boxes of paint to collaborate on a mural with artists Deph of To Die For, and Maxx242 of Famous Stars and Straps and The Wild Ones. Montana is one of today’s premier paint leaders that sets the standards for the art movement of graffiti. Click on the images below to view the mural. For directions to the TO DIE FOR Flagship Store CLICK HERE
Here are some of my favorite picks from the current “To Die For” line up as well:
To Die For Clothing Interview from Tommy Tadeo on Vimeo.
Tags: bashers, Craola, dance, deph, famous stars and straps, grafiti, tadeo, tommy-tadeo, work
lamborghini robes and painting half asleep
April 10th, 2010
green machine
hulk pants 
David Choe – Nothing to Declare
Lazarides Gallery is pleased to announce David Choe’s return to LA after a six-year hiatus from exhibiting in his old stomping ground. The extremely prolific Choe has been hard at work creating new paintings, drawings, and sculptures for the 8,000 sq ft space in Beverly Hills.
Driven by an unquenchable thirst for life, Choe saps every possible drop of experience – good or bad – out of his tremendous adventures. From incarceration in a Tokyo jail to hitchhiking down the Mississippi River via paddleboat, freight train hopping city to city and hunting for dinosaurs in the Congo jungle, David weaves these encounters into his work projecting a dramatic and fantastical, often sexually explicit, vision of the world.
As one of the most technically proficient artists around today, no media is left untouched. Utilizing a combination of spray paint, oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache and urine, Choe works his magic on wood, cardboard, polyurethane and canvas. From the artist who first exhibited in an ice-cream parlor, expect no less than a sensory melting pot of life seen through his eyes
Opening: Friday April 23, 2010
Exhibition Runs: April 23 – May 23, 2010
Location: 320 North Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills CA 90210
