FRESH GEEZERS: THE LONDON POLICE AND GALO @ FRESH FACTORY
What: Fresh Geezers
Where: Fresh Factory
1053 Flushing Avenue between Morgan and Knickerbocker, off the L train Morgan Stop
When: December 10, 2009 – January 10, 2010
7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Damage: Free
Just in time for the holidays, The London Police and Galo team up for some brotherly love and gifts for you at Brooklyn’s Factory Fresh. After more than a decade creating art, Galo, a graphic designer who creates colorful, line based art and The London Police, three lads, on a quest to make really rad street art and travel the globe, will will be showcasing new canvas, some featured films and installation works created site specifically for Factory Fresh.
ZIGGY GOES TO BROOKLYN
Bowie’s Aladdin Sane inspired street art on North 6th and Wythe in Brooklyn. Pretty freaky Bowie.
JUDITH SUPINE: ABOVE THE CITY IN A SUMMER NIGHT DREAM
Brooklyn Artist Judith Supine’s latest creation “Above the City in a Summer Night Dream” On Top Of The Williamsburg Bridge. Supine continues to impress us with his surreal combination of old engraving art mixed with hand-drawn and painted image wheat pastes in, around, and now on top of the city.
IS POSTER BOY BACK?
This looks like the work of NYC’s masked avenger Poster Boy.
About a year ago, we were seeing more of these crude cut and paste jobs, even a street art collaboration with NYC street artist Aakash Nihalani. On Jan, 30, Poster Boy was busted by undercover cops in a Soho gallery space and carted off to Rikers. The poster mash-ups came to a halt and Poster Boys identity was revealed as Henry Matvjewicz, a 27 year old art student originally from Connecticut…or was it? The New York Times published a piece on February 4, that Matvjewicz was just a stand-in…and the real poster boy was still at large looming in the shadows, dicing up posters. Matvejewicz story has holes, making the copy-cat artist story plausible, but for now, Matvejewicz has officially taken the heat and continues to stands up for his Poster Boy manifesto. So whats the conviction behind it all?
“Nobody wants to see those ads. Some ads are clever, you know. You watch the Superbowl and you see like a funny ad or a clever ad, and there is some art behind it. You know, composition and color, there’s some appreciation. But then when it’s that big and in-your-face and it’s so aggressive; you get kinda tired of it. You’re like, Damn, I wish that shit would just like disappear. And then someone like Poster Boy comes by and just says, “Fuck it.” I’m going to cut it down with same razor I use in the subway..there are things out there that are not right and probably always will be things that are not right, and you have to decide your level of involvement and how you have to change that. I’ve decided that as a human being, as Henry Matyjewicz, as an artist, as a citizen, as an American. I understand what I can do and what I want to do and my involvement; and I think people should do that too and not be afraid to get arrested because that fear is why were are in this predicament—this moral predicament— in the first place, you know. You need to stop being scared and being empowered and thinking you can make a difference.”- Poster Boy
Whether or not this newly diced up ad is the mark of the actual Poster Boy or not may remain a mystery…one thing for sure, the spirit of Poster Boy is still alive in NYC.
PARAPHRASE: GROUP EXHIBITION AT ARARIO
What: Paraphrase
Where: Arario New York
521 W. 25t St., 2nd FL
New York, New York 10001
When: Opening Reception Thursday, June 25 (6-8pm)
On view from June 26-July 24
Arario, an NYC gallery for Asian contemporary art is showcasing a new group exhibit called Paraphrase this month. “The title—meaning a restatement of a text or passage; to put something in your own words; or to give meaning in another form—suggests how these artists approach long-established written and visual languages.”
The exhibit will feature works by NYC street artist, Discosalt friend and favorite Aakash Nihalani. We began following the work of Aakash Nihalani just over a year ago and his signature open-air installations which use flourecent tape as his sole medium have become instantly recognizable in and around the city. Nihalani’s street art is one of the most relevant forms of art right now because it gives a fresh persepctive on public space that creates room for new words and ideas.
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS STREET ART SIGHTINGS
Two adjacent street art paste ups spotted on the Brooklyn Heights waterfront for ya. One, from what looks like Brooklyn street artist Judith Supine and another rasterbated wheat paste of punk icon Sid Vicious from what could be the work of Discosalt favorite Mr. Brainwash.
