In October 2008, Pose 2 and Chor Boogie painted a series of murals in Dubai. Despite the heat and humidity, they worked tirelessly and produced some of freshest walls the United Arab Emirates has seen. This particular mural was commissioned by MTV Arabia. Talk about art being used as a unifying tool!
Zero Film Festival’s 1st Annual West Coast Tour is coming to the Bay Area! The first film festival exclusive to self-financed filmmakers, ZFF set out to champion the under represented filmmaker and bring bold and original visions to audiences bored with mundane copy paste Hollywood films.
Therefore, on March 4th and 5th, 2009 ZFF will rock San Francisco with screenings in the Mission District at The Dark Room and ATA Screening Room, respectively. Both nights will include films from local filmmakers, as well as San Francisco feature film premieres from Los Angeles and NYC filmmakers.
The best part? There will be complimentary drinks and music to follow. We’ll see ya there.
More info available at www.zerofilmfest.com
Amandalynn is one of the most well rounded artists you will ever encounter.
Born to create, Amandalynn’s artistic career spans cities, interests, and genres, infusing raw talent and drive into every endeavor she takes on.
As the only female artist that can lay claim to The Seventh Letter (Juxtapoz #78), Amandalynn has engaged in her fair share of legal and illegal and street art, but her interests take her far beyond city walls and into everything from studio painting, stained glass, sculpture restoration, set composition, apparel design, and custom motorcycle and car artistry. See, we told you she’s well rounded.
Learn a bit more about this visionary artist and peep Amandalynn’s answers to our 20 Questions here…
TONIGHT IN BUSHWICK
The grand opening of a new gallery, Eastern District
And the don’t-miss-it new show at Ad Hoc
SATURDAY NIGHT- at Brooklynite Gallery – right around the corner from Biggie’s highschool
Brazilian street and fine artist Titi Freak is one of the nicest and most original artists emerging from his home country today.
Aside from being a major player in the creation of the Brazilian street art scene for the past decade, Titi Freak is also an excellent studio artist (he will be participating in tomorrow’s group show, SÃO PAULO, curated by Brazil’s Choque Cultural Gallery in association with Jonathan LeVine Gallery at Scion’s Installation L.A. Gallery) and is even a champion yo-yo player.
Think that’s interesting? Learn more about a creator who refuses to grow up by reading Titi Freaks’ answers to our 20 Questions here…
We apologize in advance if you’re sick of all the Shep talk, but Peter Schjeldahl of The New Yorker wrote a truly excellent piece in this weeks edition exploring Shepard Fairey’s (Juxtapoz cover #82) career and contributions o the Obama campaign that we just had to share.
In reference to Shepard’s HOPE poster, Schjeldahl writes, “It exploited a familiar graphic device—exalted and refined by Andy Warhol—of polarizing photographs into solid darks and blank lights, thus rendering volumetric subjects dead flat. […] The effect is that of epic poetry in an everyday tongue.”
Schjeldahl continues, “Fairey’s street work popularized a going fashion for academic deconstruction, with pretensions to exposing the malign operations of mass culture. Hip rather than populist, the Andre campaign projects an audience dumb enough to fall for media manipulation while smart enough to absorb a critique of it.”
If you’re craving a well articulated, in-depth look at Shepard Fairey’s contributions, read the entire New Yorker article now.
Francesco D’Isa aka Pornpope hit us up for a copy of the show catalogue for In the Land of Retinal Delights and wrote a thorough review on his blog.
“At a first peek into the volume, my impression was something like ‘How many great artworks!’; it was exactly what I was looking for, so I was already quite satisfied,” D’Isa writes.
“But the book is more than that: there are some interesting introductory texts by Robert Williams, Meg Linton and Bolton Colburn which give the reader a good insight about the subjects. The whole book is something like the definitive consecration of Lowbrow Art as an art movement,” he continues. “Because it is an art movement.”
Read the whole review here.
And then grab your own copy in our online shop!
Stephan Doitschinoff, aka Calma, may call São Paulo, Brazil home but his increasing popularity has him traveling all over the globe.
Thankfully, we were able to snag Stephan and get him to answer some questions for us, in anticipation of his upcoming participation in SÃO PAULO, curated by Brazil’s Choque Cultural Gallery in association with Jonathan LeVine Gallery, opening this Saturday, February 28th at Scion’s Installation L.A. Gallery.
Stephan has a mesmerizing and distinctive style, which simultaneously embraces and rebukes Brazilian cultural traditions. Fusing Brazilian folk art, religious and gothic imagery, and dash of Sao Paolo’s graffiti influence, Stephan’s artwork is as unique as it is beautiful.
Stephan isn’t all business, however. Learn more about this artist and how he got out of a $10,000 hospital bill (!) in his answers to our 20 Questions here…
“Every year, I try and see at least two Noise Pop Festival shows here in San Francisco,” writes Juxtapoz managing editor, Evan Pricco. “I have great memories of seeing Britt Daniel of Spoon performing solo with just guitar and a 1990s-looking boombox (you know, the ones that had the subwoofer speakers on the sides) that he used the same drum beat for about five songs, and it was brilliant.
“For 2009, Noise Pop opened the festivities with an ‘it’ band. It being Deerhunter. Deerhunter is popular with the same people who would have liked My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive in 1991. That is, people who like pop that is swallowed by ethereal and sometimes static noise. I’m one of them, and because I was 9 in 1991, my parents wouldn’t let me attend MBV shows, although, and somewhat alarmingly, I was allowed to listen to ‘Doggystyle.’ I digress.”
Read on here, because Evan has your entire weekend locked down…
TITLE: Tea Party, oil on canvas, 102 x 82 cm
ARTIST: Eleanor McCaughey
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