Eyes on the Prize

Mr. Brainwash

I can def. back Mr. Brainwash after seeing this ...

FLYING IN THE WIND from ABOVE on Vimeo.

Exit through the Gift Shop

screenings and showtimes

banksy has always been an ill artist but is truly the man in my eyes after seeing this film. solid dude for sure.

much respect..

p.s. brainwash = wack

JRM time lapse mural

and how can you not love the music...

JMR Mural Time Lapse from CaNo Rojas on Vimeo.

kind of love this photo...

Beauty ...

Subway Art: 25th Anniversary Edition

823 Key Project

WHAT IS 823KEYPROJECT?
21,398 keys, 26 artist grants, one vision: 823KEYPROJECT. It’s about uniting 823 people—and the work of one enterprising artist—through a common pulse, a thread that links the contribution and purchases of many to the creation of one vision. Through a series of one-of-a-kind, vintage, handmade, skeleton-key necklaces, 823KEYPROJECT will grant musicians and writers, painters and photographers, travelers and revelers the proverbial key to showcase their unique interpretation of the world with an emphasis on authentic and community-minded work.

HOW DOES 823KEYPROJECT WORK?
The money from your purchase of one of the 823KEY neckpieces will be placed into a fund. Once the 823rd key is sold, that money becomes available to artists in the form of a grant. The grant will be awarded to an artist or artists whose vision of a more beautiful world frames a broader perspective of life while redefining art (SEE GRANTS SECTION TO APPLY FOR A GRANT). The 823 keyholders will forever be tied to the project—and one another—not only through monetary contributions and a neckpiece, but also through artist updates, show openings, and project developments.


PURCHASE A KEY
Each 823 key purchased is one of a kind found objects ranging in date from 1830 to 1940. They are all unique and range from 3” to 4.5” in length. They are hung from a brass chain with a strongly unique brass twist clasp. Each key comes with a signature “823a” pewter tag that officially threads the keyholder (you) through the community of reverie, supporting the creation of the art, artist or artists once the last key is sold.


APPLY FOR A GRANT

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I heart works by Sas Christian

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Art of Shwe Thiri Khit

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Works of Tim Cantor

I discovered the works of Tim Cantor during ASR in San Diego this past year. While bar hopping through the downtown streets I glanced at a gallery open late night from across the street. I somehow managed to sway my boyfriend and his crew to take a moment and walk through. Honestly one of the best gallery exhibits I'd seen in some time. Tim's use of vibrant color, writings, and video are mesmerizing and fairy tale like. Hopefully you adore them just as much as I do!


Here's a glimpse into the world of Tim Cantor...

















If your ever in San Diego. Stop by the gallery and view more of his work.

E.S./ADRIAN BLANCA COLLABORATION

LA: Small Bills Opening

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PUBLIC VIEWING



with

Anthony Lister

Bigfoot

Chris Pastras

Harif Guzman

Killpixie

Rick Rodney

Shepard Fairey

and

Skullphone




Small Bills Gallery

82001/2 W. 3rd St.

Los Angeles

LA - Art Exhibit "Cannibal Carnival" Opening Reception

NECKFACE
"CANNIBAL CARNIVAL"
NEW IMAGE ART GALLERY
7908 Santa Monica Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90046
www.newimageartgallery.com

Opening Reception Aug.16th, 7-10pm
Show runs Aug. 16th – Sept. 20, 2008

Neckface is back in L.A. to stir up some trouble. This time, his third
solo show at New Image Art, "Cannibal Carnival," is all
about taking things out of context to create some chaos. The
watercolors featured in the show explore good things gone bad,
subjects that become frightening when taken away from familiar
settings. "When you see a clown at a circus its funny," says the
artist, "but if you saw the same clown from the circus in an alleyway
at midnight it wouldn't be funny at all." The original integrity of
the medium is also twisted; a method which the artist normally
associates with wholesome and effeminate images, Neckface uses
watercolors and gouache to depict morbid and jarring scenes.

Also featured in the show is a set-up familiar to Neckface but
certainly not for an intimate gallery space. At the opening, friends
of the artist and professional skaters Sammy Baca and Lizard King will
be skating in a caged off mini-ramp filled with objects they encounter
every day: knives, spray paint, and booze of course. "They are both
satanic," Neckface says. "Sammy once carved Satan into Lizard King's
chest with a knife.

With "Cannibal Carnival,"Neckface offers the public a rare glimpse of
his curious existence--parts of his life and mind that cannot be
merely spray painted on the streets of New York. "I'm more of a
trouble maker skateboarder who makes stuff."

Anthem Magazine Presents Whistling Past the Graveyard Hosted By Jason Lee

Join Anthem Magazine and WESC as we present Whistling Past the Graveyard featuring new works by Mercedes Helnwein and hosted by Jason Lee at the Merry Karnowski Gallery.
Helnwein's drawings have been described as "photo-realistic," "lucid fairy-tales," "strikingly bizarre," "haunting," "southern Gothic," "evocative" and "unexpected." Her self-portraits have been compared to Cindy Sherman and her sense of quiet drama to Alfred Hitchcock and Edgar Allen Poe.
Also included in the exhibition is a video projection, in which the formerly frozen characters jerk to life for the first time in thick saturated colors.

www.mercedeshelnwein.com
www.mkgallery.com
If you miss the opening with us, make sure to still catch the show. It will run from August 30 - September 20

When:
Saturday, August 30
8 - 11 PM

Where:
Merry Karnowski Gallery
170 S. La Brea Ave.
Los Angeles, CA
90036
323.933.4408

NY Armory Show 08

Was without a doubt art week in the city! Countless shows hit NY including the NY Armory Show, Bridge Art Fair, and Pulse. Even more parties, foreign accents, and traffic flooded the city while most nyc kids escaped to the WMC madness.

This weekend I had the opportunity to work the booth for recently launched Art World Magazine based out of London (thanks Cat!) Hopefully you were able to pick up a copy if you came through the Armory show. Lines to get in Pier 94 stretched down the block as people anticipated viewing over 150 international galleries works by living artists. I was sprung you could actually walk through the show and snap pics of the works. Here's whats happening on the international art scene ...












































































































































By far my favorite. Pop up vintage theater ...



with peep holes for viewing ..



how could you not love it!

Former graffiti artist makes his mark

Source


LONDON - At a white-walled gallery in one of London's priciest quarters, a small army of stenciled rats and smiley faced storm troopers is awaiting an invasion.


The chic Andipa Gallery is expecting a stampede of art buyers to its latest exhibition of works by Banksy, the pseudonymous "guerrilla artist" whose satirical images have gone from street-corner graffiti to coveted artworks that sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Gallery owner Acoris Andipa says Banksy's rise from hip outsider to art-world star has been rapid, as he discovered when he held a preview in the exclusive Swiss resort of Gstaad.

"Last year, we were having to explain who Banksy was and why his canvases were 30,000 or 40,000 pounds ($60,000 to $80,000)," Andipa said. "This year, every single person - including clients who'd come in their Lear jets - walked in and said, 'Wow, Banksy - and it's only 150,000 pounds ($300,000).' "

Such prices are no longer exceptional. Last year, a Banksy went for almost $600,000 at a London auction. Earlier this month, "Keep It Spotless" - a Banksy stencil over a polka-dot painting by British artist Damien Hirst - sold for $1.8 million in New York.

The 60 works in the Andipa show range from $15,000 for limited-edition prints to $900,000 for a painting of sharks circling supermarket trolleys full of bright orange fish.

Banksy's opinion of all this can only be guessed. Andipa does not know or represent him. The works in the show - on wood, canvas, fragments of wall, and pieces of metal - were bought from collectors around the world.

Banksy's website says the artist does not endorse gallery shows of his work and disapproves of auction houses selling his street art because "it's undemocratic, it glorifies greed, and I never see any of the money."

His publicist, Jo Brooks, said the artist had no connection with the Andipa show.

"It's absolutely nothing to do with him, and there is no comment," she said.

It's a classic Banksy contradiction that he is famously publicity shy, but also employs a publicist. He's an expert at blending an outsider image with commercial savvy. He almost never gives interviews, avoids being photographed, and has not even confirmed his real name.

Most agree his name is Robert - or possibly Robin - Banks, he is in his early 30s, and he comes from Bristol in southwest England, where he began his graffiti career in the 1980s and 1990s.

Using spray paint and cardboard stencils to tag walls, bridges, and street signs, Banksy evolved a cheekily subversive style. His most famous images include two police officers kissing, armed riot police with yellow smiley faces, and a chimpanzee with a sign bearing the words, "Laugh now, but one day I'll be in charge."

In various corners of London, he stenciled rats holding placards saying, "You Lose" and "Get out while you can."

Several of the rats are in the new show, as are Vladimir Lenin on roller skates, a masked rioter preparing to hurl a bouquet of flowers, a military helicopter topped with a jaunty pink bow, and a group of well-heeled lawn bowlers tossing bombs.

Andipa said that Banksy has a knack for "boiling satirical points down to a simple, single image."

"Everybody gets it. It's so accessible," he said.

That accessibility does not impress everyone. Art critic Matthew Collings wrote recently in The Times newspaper that Banksy's ideas "only have the value of a joke."

Owning his work "would make you modern and clever - or stupid. It's a fine line."

Banksy's reputation has been boosted by a series of attention-grabbing art pranks.

In 2005, he hung an image of a spear-toting ancient human pushing a shopping cart in the British Museum. The next year he smuggled a life-size figure of a Guantanamo Bay detainee into Disneyland.

For a 2006 exhibition in Los Angeles, he spray painted an elephant red and gold and placed it in a living room with matching wallpaper. People lined up around the block outside the warehouse where the show was held. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were among those who bought work.

As his fame and reputation grow, it's becoming increasingly hard to see Banksy's work in its original setting - the streets. At first, the main threat was local authorities removing it. In recent years, building owners have sold entire walls, or covered up Banksy stencils to preserve them.

Lately someone has been painting over Banksy works in London, leaving the stenciled words "all the best" beside them. Some say the vandal is a rival street artist. Others say it is Banksy himself. We may never know.


More of this work ...





"A work by controversial British artist known as Banksy, entitled 'Di-faced Notes', which shows the face of Diana, Princess of Wales on what at first glance seems to be a conventional English bank note."