Fish and Keyes
Jeremy Fish and Josh Keyes at the Joshua Liner Gallery
58 W. 28th Street
New York, NY
Add comment June 18th, 2008
Posts filed under 'Art'
Your Mom’s In My Business
You have little time left, but if you get a chance, please check this out. It ends June 15th. See? We’ve got love for the west coast!
One of our favorites, Kevin Lyons, put together an interesting and dope show at the HVW8 Art+Design Gallery. The best way to explain it comes from Kevin himself who wrote a little letter explaining his sort of new creative process. It’s an interesting read. Why this cat doesn’t get the attention he deserves is beyond us. Check out some images from the show here.
Kevin’s Letter:
please post this open letter as much as you can. new marketing approach from a new marketer.
I want to extend an invitation to you all to attend my opening at the HVW8 gallery on Spaulding in West hollywood here in LA on friday, May 9th. I also want to forewarn that in and of itself this is no literal art show. It is riddled with sketches, visual rants and pointless, aggressive dribble. it is unframed, unedited and purely self- indulgent. I am in all truth as you all know an Art Director/Creative Director, not an artist by any stretch, and I have never pretended to be as such and this show will fully reenforce this very reality. All of that having been said, even with lack of focus and in all seriousness a lack of actual work, it winds up ironically being the first show which i actually show any raw emotion. It is work that wound up personal and silly and not over thought. Recently I worked for a retail machine that kept me very busy methodically and very intentionally calculating exactly what “kids” want to see and purchase. I went through a fairly emotional roller coaster there which made me realize that I wanted to go in a very different direction. Along side this work, I was also experiencing total freedom in my personal freelance work and getting paid to simply be me. The less I thought and obsessed over the work the more people responded to it backwards George day. Now I am experiencing a very different ride in working for a pseudo ad agency trying to break out of the ad agency model. I commute for nearly 4 hours a day and in that time while riding bumpy trains, I find myself drawing for drawing’s sake. I put my laptop away and abandon fonts and grids and simply draw monsters, and ice creams and Stars of David riding skateboards. They are goofy, angry, and emotional. These are some of the treats that you will see at my show. Nothing fancy. Tape and tacks. wrinkled, non-archival, and devoid of color. Just sharing, warning, but not apologizing. I will carry all the art in a carry on bag on the plane and put it up in less than 24 hours. Please come out. One of my favorite dj’s will be there, Sureshot, an old reggae head who shares my love of early reggae soul seven inches.
nuff’said. sho’nuff. by any means necessary.
Kevin.
Add comment June 12th, 2008
Check the Evidence
It seems the LA Times didn’t bother to check things out a little further. Turns out, after prolific LA graffiti writer Buket was arrested recently, the Times assumed that the person in the opening to his YouTube videos (hitting the 101 in broad daylight) was, in fact, the broad daylight bus-tagger. Instead, the pictures they ran were that of Evidence, one MC in the hip-hop group Dilated Peoples. Evidence merely provided the intro to the video, and somehow the Times ran with it as the mug of the alleged tagger. The online version of the article features a retraction, but I still want to see the original (someone in LA hook it up. Kove, we’re looking in your direction). How this mistake can be made is completely beyond me. What kind of idiot would feature his face in his face in graf videos, unless they’re a well known king like COPE2? And to defame the character of someone by assuming and running the wrong picture smacks of not so much lackadaisical reporting, but flat out failure to get it fucking right.
Source: Hiphopsite
Add comment June 12th, 2008
Piecebook: The Secret Drawings of Graffiti Writers
This one kind of slipped under a lot radars. Piecebook: The Secret Drawings of Graffiti Writers compiled by Sacha Jenkins and David Villorente features the work or artists such as Donid, T Kid, Iz the Wiz, Daze, Skeme and others and is laid out like a mass produced black book (which it basically is). The printed transfers the art incredible well to the point where it actually looks like it was drawn in by famous graffiti writers and not just purchased through Amazon. Also, 10.Deep will be having a gallery reception for the release of the book on June 12th (Thursday) which will feature prints from some of the artists in the book and a special package will be for sale that includes a copy of the book, a tee, and a sharpie.
Add comment June 10th, 2008
Drinks Splashin’ and Cameras Flashin’
So, the other night, I had the privilege to have some fine ladies take me to the Milk Gallery for Ricky Powell’s Illy Funksters. If you don’t know who he is, he’s one of the pioneering photographers who was lucky enough to catch hip-hop in its rawest period ever, not to mention being part of the movement to the present day.
More than a few people came to show love for this mans work. A good mix of people and cocktails were there leaving drinks splashing and cameras flashing. The meds I’m on kept me off the booze, but with some nice beats and some fine females, I was able to maintain. My govt. stimulus check didn’t stretch far enough to make a purchase, but maybe in the near future. The one piece I really wanted to cop was the Beasties/Run DMC tour van; shit was ill. I could just imagine the stories behind all the photos. The Jam Maser Jay ones had heads catching chills. The party ended with a dance party and an empty bar.
We tip our hats to you, Ricky Powell! Thanks for brining us the images through the years.
-Smoov
Add comment June 5th, 2008
David Ellis at Roebling Hall Art Gallery
While up in NYC yesterday for secret business, we stopped by the Roebling Hall Art Gallery to check out the highly recommended David Ellis “Dozens” show. In awe by the latest an largest piece of his trash talk installation series, we just had to grab a video. If you’re not familiar with this part of his work, he basically makes trash talk by placing player piano actuators in various debris. Either click the picture or click here to watch the video.
Add comment June 5th, 2008
Ron English Print for Upper Playground
Upper Playground and FIFTY24SF present the Ron English Barrack Obama Poster.
Add comment June 5th, 2008
illside ink
Whilst perusing the world wide web today, I stumbled upon Illside Ink, a multimedia design studio. I’ve been working on a telephone pole stencil for a while now and, as I struggle to figure out how I’m going to spray paint this stencil onto plexiglass, I’ve found hope in the above artists. Just some cool shit I thought I’d share. Check em out here
Add comment May 28th, 2008
The Hu$tle
Juxtapoz and Powerhouse Arena present: The Hustle Exhibition.
Runs May 22nd to July 13th 2008
Gallery Hours:
Weekday: 10am-7pm
Weekends: 11am-7pm
Add comment May 27th, 2008
