Bristol’s notorious urban artist Inkie has curated a surprise show for Cerasoli Gallery, ‘Urban Myth’ a group exhibition that will bring a cross-section of the UK’s leading street artists to the Gallery in Culver City. Read more about the lineup here…
Urban artists Mateus Grimm, Diogenes DSM and Trampo are currently exhibiting in a group show, +Apto (meaning “more apt” in Portuguese) curated by Lucas Ribeiro. +Apto takes place at a temporary art gallery created inside a huge science and technologies museum, the PUCRS MCT, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The museum is simultaneously showing a full-year exhibition about Darwin in a well-executed mixture of art and science. Read on to view images and more info from the show here…
If you checked out Tinho’s (Juxtapoz # 102) feature in our July Brazil Issue and are dying to know more about this über-talented artist, we know how you feel. And we got you. Read on to discover more about one of the pillars of the graf scene in Brazil and when, exactly, he wishes two “nice and nude girls” are waiting for him in his bed here…
Artist REVOK recently posted these images from Holi, the Festival of Colors that takes places annually in India. This is taking ‘playing with color’ to the next level. Read on to view more images and text by REVOK here…
Who ever said that street art can’t last? Show & Tell Gallery has just released a series of unique one off prints by street artist Specter. Each of the pieces is a reproduction of projects that the artist has installed on the streets of New York. Read more about Specter and peep some images here…
New York based street artist WK Interact’s (Juxtapoz #96) work is inspired by the concepts of movement, gesture, and place. His site-specific pieces have garnered notoriety through the obvious concern for spatial context with which he approaches each location and through his fluid depictions of figures in motion. Blurring lines between street art, fine art, and design, WK Interact has exhibited in galleries internationally (and just opened his most recent solo show on Saturday at NYC’s Jonathan Levine Gallery) and collaborated with brands such as Nike, Adidas, and BMW. Watch the interview from “The Run Up,” available for the first time to the public for free, on Walrus TV here…
Opening this Friday, July 3rd is Scion’s ongoing Installation 5 Art Tour, benefitting Creative Capital. This next stop is slated for 7 – 11pm at T & P Fine Art in Philadelphia. Artists AJ Fosik, Asylm, Patrick Martinez, Something In The Universe will be in attendance along with Beautiful Decay’s Amir Fallah. DJ Apt One will be spinning. More info here…
Sarah Applebaum has sewn together a colorful, fanciful world that makes you want to reach out and touch it…then wrap it around you. Her large-scale installations are crafted out of felt or crocheted items and are eye-burningly bright, bordering on psychedelic. Oh, and there are also the Yeti costumes. We were lucky to have the chance to catch up with this tactile creator and pick her brain about her creations. Discover more about Sarah Applebaum here . . .
This Must Be The Place, a collection of art and oddities by eight American artists (Gluekit, Maxwell Loren Holyoke-Hirsch, Damien Correll, Joel Speasmaker, Matt Curry, Skull Phone, Dan Funderburgh and Jemma Hostetler) who explore the notion of ‘home’ with the loose limitation of a two-toned color palette, recently opened at LA’s Scion Installation Gallery. Contributing writer Trina Calderon was on the scene to bombard participating artists with questions. Read the feature on This Must Be The Place now here…
“I’m doing something a little different today,” writes N8 Van Dyke (Juxtapoz #90). “I’m auctioning off my latest drawing on eBay with all proceeds going to a chimpanzee… Bubbles. This was created after hearing of Michael Jackson’s passing. My love for chimpanzees made me sit down and draw this (while listening to Michael’s music, of course).” More here…
