Videobomb @ Alaksa * 35 Ingraham St, Brooklyn NY * January 16th … 10pm
If you're in Brooklyn, come out to the Second Screening of
V I D E O B O M B
PRESENTED BY
ALASKA
35 Ingraham St
(between Bogart St & Morgan Ave)
Brooklyn, NY 11206
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 10:00pm
V I D E O B O M B will feature new projected video works from
V I D E O
C O N T R I B U T E R S
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ADAM VOID, ALEXANDRA VELASCO, AMANDA WONG, CELESTE MARIE WELCH, CHOKRA, COLIN GILBERT SANDERSON, DYLAN THADINI, GENEVIEVE BELLEVEAU, GREEM JELLYFISH, GUILLERMO RIVEROS, JAMES MOORE, JEN SHEAR, KORAKRIT ARUNANONDCHAI, LEIGHA MASON, MICHELLE HERNANDEZ, KAT SCHNEIDER, WILLIAM RAHILLY, VELVETEEN.
Iron To Gold / Ashes To Hope * January 4th * Chandran Gallery, San Francisco CA
Bid on all works at auction here: Paddle 8
Monica Canilao & Harrison Bartlett's Detroit Project, the Treasure Nest, is having a fundraiser art show Friday, January 4th. The show will be in the 459 Geary St. Space in the Union Square area of San Francisco. Its going to be a one-night art spasm featuring new installations from Monica & Harrison as well as work from their many friends and co-conspirators, including Runaway from Adam Void. Funds will be used to support both the physical Treasure Nest complex and to continue the residency offered out of that space.
If you're in or around the Bay Area, come into SF to support some amazing artists.
Featuring work from Tony Bones, Swoon, David Ellis, Shepard Fairey, Gaia, Maya Hayuk, Heart, Chris Johanson, Dennis McNett, Pez, Todd Seelie, Swampy, Kevin Earl Taylor, Heidi Tullmann, and many more.
Treasure Nest Benefit January 4th 2013 Chandran Gallery459 Geary St. San Francisco, CA
Iron 2 Gold / Ashes 2 Hope from Colin M Day on Vimeo.
Mighty Tanaka Gallery * Holiday Inventory Show * December 2012
If you are in Brooklyn, come down to DUMBO and check out Mighty Tanaka Gallery's Holiday Inventory Show. The show features a sampling of works from a majority of Mighty Tanaka's artists. The gallery's curatorial direction can be described as "where the raw meets the refined." The show contains recent work from Adam Void.
Mighty Tanaka
111 Front Street
Suite 224
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Train: F Train to York St
(1st stop in Brooklyn)
Hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 12pm - 6:30pm
Phone: (718) 596 8781
Email: contact@mightytanaka.com
The Superior Bugout presents > See You Tomorrow * December 20th @ The Paper Box, Brooklyn NY
Leave it up to The Superior Bugout and curator, Andrew H. Shirley to make the best Apocalypse Party you'll ever see.
THE SUPERIOR BUGOUT PRESENTS...
"SEE YOU TOMORROW"
(a celebration of the last night on earth)
THURSDAY DECEMBER 20, 2012
doors open at 9:07 pm
THE PAPER BOX
17 Meadow st (btwn Waterbury / Bogart) across from Shea
BUSHWICK BROOKLYN
https://www.paperboxnyc.com
$5
music performances by: GUARDIAN ALIEN, UNSTOPPABLE DEATH MACHINES (featuring BEN ROBEY of Ninjasonik), JAPANTHER, FILTHY SAVAGE, LIONHEART, GOLD TOOTH, ROLE MODEL, and ZZZ.
video artists: ADAM VOID, AMANDA WONG, ANDREW H. SHIRLEY, CASSIUS FOULER, CHELSEA RAGAN, DENNIS FRANKLIN, DYLAN THADANI, GREEM JELLYFISH, IAN HELWIG, JAMES MOORE, JENNIFER SHEAR, KAT SCHNEIDER, LEIGHA MASON, NICHOLAS CHATFIELD-TAYLOR, PETER SUTHERLAND, VELVETEEN, VINCENT SKELTIS, and ZACHARY SALVATORE WARMANN.
RELIEF: Sandy Art Benefit * Friday November 9th * Trumbull Studio, Williamsburg Brooklyn
If you are around the NYC / Brooklyn area, you know what an impact Tropical Storm Sandy had on the life and property in New York City.
If you have the means, please take a moment to support the victims of Sandy by bringing clothes, food and funds to RELIEF Art Auction, organized by Making Deals.
100% of funds raised through sales will go directly to supporting organizations New York Cares and Rockaway Relief.
Small-sized works will be available during a silent auction from 6:00pm to 9:30pm.
- RELIEF: Benefit Art Auction and Raffle
- Friday, November 9 6:00 - 9:30pm
- Trumbull Studio
- 3rd Floor, 143 Roebling St. @ Metropolitan Ave.
- Brooklyn NY, 11211
- Organized by: Making Deals
Featuring art from: Adam Void, Cody Hudson, James Ivan Bailey, Mr. Kiji, Adam Lawrence, Aimee Lusty, Scott Meyers, Jon Bocksel, Alexander Richter, Dominic Corry, Julian Gilbert, Brandon Haynes, Lily Staley, Sean Gallagher, Ashton Bheir , Rosemary Gonzalez, Mike Ion , Klughaus , Death Traitors , 22KIDS , The Old New York, Fresh Paint NYC, Subway Art Blog, Carnage, Pawn Works, DB for Stuck-Up, Tone Tank , HERM, Cern, Rae BK , BORF, ZATO , BEATER , TUSE, Wisher914, Crasty, FARO, SNOEMAN, RUSK, Daniel Feral, AloneOne, SKI UR , Vickipages, NoseGo, Abe Lincoln Jr. , Royce, This Is Awkward , RussellKing, DickMama, Krsna, Goons & Kosbe.
“ROAD” photography exhibition * Asheville NC * featuring new travel photography from Adam Void
Castell Photography Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of their annual international juried exhibition, Conceived by W.M. Hunt. Castell Photography is thrilled and honored to involve and bring to Asheville a juror of such caliber and relevance to contemporary photography as W.M. (Bill) Hunt. This weekend of photographic festivities is not only a triumph for them gallery and the chosen artists, but also for the artistic community of Asheville and Western North Carolina. Road: Curated &. The opening reception for Road will be a very special event held on Friday, October 19th, from 6-8.
“The road can be personal: a psychological or spiritual passage.Or it can be literal. The range is from transcendence to travel. It can take place in your head or in your backyard or in your car.” states Hunt. A Juror’s Choice Award will be given as well as a Gallery Choice Award, and work from all chosen entries will be exhibited at Castell Photography for 6 weeks and on the Castell Photography web site for one year. Hunt will walk patrons through the exhibition at 7p.m.
The juror for Road, W.M. Hunt, is a prominent collector, curator and consultant based in New York City. He is the author of “The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious” published last fall by Aperture, Thames & Hudson in the UK, and as “L’Oeil Invisible” by Actes Sud in France. The monumental book is based on his forty years as a collector, and 500 images from Hunt’s personal collection were also exhibited at the George Eastman House, one of the largest in their history. He is a longtime adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts, and he has been on the boards of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund, AIPAD, Photographers + Friends United Against AIDS and the Center for Photography at Woodstock. He has been profiled in The New York Times, PDN, The Art Newspaper and many blogs. As a dealer, he founded the prominent gallery Hasted Hunt after many years as director of photography at Ricco/Maresca gallery.
Maximum Rocknroll’s October isssue features two reviews of work from Adam Void.
Legendary (and still tapped into the punk underground) magazine, Maximum Rocknroll, featured two reviews of work from Adam Void in their October 2012 issue.
Sam Lefebvre reviewed the zine, Live the Dream Learn to Die #2, from Droid 907 and Avoid pi.
"This zine chronicles the tale of two travelers' train hopping, ridesharing, and walking up and down the West Coast. Each page contains Xeroxed and distorted pictures of graffiti and other sights along their path while gritty typewritten strips of words are sparsely strewn about the pages. The authors seem like experienced travelers. They explain illicit camping etiquette and the unusual dangers of their endeavors. The tone of the writing makes this zine most interesting. It's not elitist, glorifying nor stupid. Its matter of fact and terse which lends it a sense of grimy realism. Visually, the off-white pages, colored card stock cover and stapled inserts make it appealing as well."
Robert Collins reviewed the cassette tape, 131 Fires, from Adam Void aka Past Present Future Now.
"Childish, keyboard-driven elementary school art/punk/noise creations. Twenty minutes of madness that are a trying listen, even for those well versed in the world of schizophrenic sound. Lurches devoid of anything remotely resembling a steady tempo are punctuated with electronic blips and whirrs and general digital mindfukkery. I am presuming that these sounds are presented under the guise of "art" instead of music since they were created by street artist AVOID, but regardless of intent, the sounds are compelling."
Both the zine and the cassette tape are available online from Underground Editions.
Pick up a copy of the new issue at your local punk record shop or independent bookstore. If you can't find it near where you are, go online and they will send you a copy for less than five dollars.
Three new posts by Rhiannon Platt on Vandalog * Illegal Baltimore Graffiti & Street Art
Over the last few weeks, Rhiannon Platt and Vandalog have posted a three-part feature on Illegal Graffiti and Street Art in the City of Baltimore. The posts covered the topics of Streets, Rollers, Pieces & Freights. Click on the links to check out the full stories and pictures.
Here's a quick preview of the series.
Stab HODA few months ago, I was lucky enough to be able to visit Baltimore during their Open Walls Baltimore mural program. In addition to being fortunate enough to meet some of the most amazing artists from around the world, I was also able to explore the many hidden graffiti spots that the area had to offer. With a local writer as my guide, I was able to document over two dozen spots and see a wide range of work. Due to the prolific nature of Baltimore’s graffiti scene, the posts have been divided into three parts: pieces and freights, rollers, and street pieces.
Osker
Avoid
Flyos
Overunder, Avoid, Gaia, and TencePart one of the Illegal Baltimore series can be found here.
Due to the layout of Baltimore, the city makes the perfect playground for rollers. Built of bridges and tunnels, most of the graffiti spots contain elaborate pieces at eye level with equally as astounding rollers above them. The combination of these tunnels and the large amount of abandoned factories in the area makes for perfect spot to do elaborate, typographical rollers.
Nugz, Nanook, and OverunderEven more astounding to me than the work itself was the number of familiar names I came across in, essentially, middle-of-nowhere Baltimore. People like Reverend, Nugz, Overunder, and Cash4, who had become my household names in New York had found themselves equally as prolific in this city. Through partnering up with local artists such as MTN NGC and Avoid, these New York artists seamlessly blended into the Baltimore scene, creating some interesting visual combinations in these spaces.
Avoid and Fisho
Reverend, Nugz, and Tence
DoodlesPart one of the Illegal Baltimore series can be found here, and part two can be found here.
Walking around in the abandoned areas of Baltimore gave me a peace of mind that the NYPD would never allow in New York. However, engaging life-long citizens of Baltimore about the graffiti surrounding them in the streets came with its own merits. The blending of New York and Baltimore-based artists that I saw in the the city’s innards was mirrored in its streets. With the, then recent, invasion of international artists for Open Walls Baltimore, the city had become a hub for any east coast street artist to visit. As long as you had friends in the area or on the roster, chances are you ended up there.
- O.V.N.I.
Overunder
GaiaNew York Art Book Fair 2012 * featuring Avoid pi / Droid 907 * Learn To Die / Live the Dream 2 * Reviews from Vandalog and Brooklyn Street Art
Printed Matter's New York Art Book Fair 2012 @ MOMA PS1 will feature the finest in graffiti zines, including LTD2 from Droid 907 & Avoid pi. Brooklyn Street Art and Vandalog both did amazing reviews. Click on their names for the links to the full articles.
Here are some clips from both.
Preview: Graff Zines Hit the NY Art Book Fair
September 27th, 2012 | By Rhiannon Platt
Opening to the public this weekend, the New York Art Book Fair brings together the academic art history books with the grittiness of zines. This year, several graffiti zines have teamed up to display their wares at the Pantheon Books table. With zines from Baltimore’s NGC crew, 907, and Subway Art Blog, this weekend will be one that you need to fit into your tightly wound schedules (don’t forget it’s also Dumbo Arts Festival). Vandalog was lucky enough to be able to preview these zines before the public and the results were astounding. In the week since I have received these zines I have found myself flipping through them over and over, rereading passages and revisiting my favorite layouts.
The sick rollers and pieces seen in my recent Vandalog posts are echoed within the pages of NGC’s zine. A few of the spots I was lucky enough to see are document within their zine as well as several that remain unseen. An excellent pairing of inside jokes and montaged pages of tags and personal photographs, NGC gives you a taste of what it is like to be writers in Baltimore. Like Natty Bo, it’s cheap, awesome, and sure to show you a good time.
Droid and R2Being only familiar with the street work of 907, I didn’t know what to expect when opening the pages of their zine. The cover is decked with tags by some of the top writers on the East Coast, giving a hint that you are probably in for a read that is going to rock your brain. Droid and R2 have brought some of their favorite cudi spots together with some premium interviews. Between the eye catching pictures and a particularly moving narrative about loss, Droid and R2 have pieced the perfect pairing of opposites for this release.
Avoid and Droid
Avoid and DroidIn addition to his release with R2, Droid and Avoid will be showing their zine from last year, which features stories from their adventures riding freights across the country. In the urban jungle where pretty much everything gets you arrested, their tales of run-ins and writing trains is enough to make any New Yorker want to eject themselves from the city for a taste of the fun.
Last, but not least, Subway Art Blog has teamed up with the graffiti writer-based zines to prove to New York that, yes, there is in fact still art in the subways. Now in it’s second issue, Jowy Romano has focused this production on etches and scratchitti. By bringing together graffiti writers as well as enthusiasts, the New York zine table provides short reads for visitors of all tastes.
To pick up copies of these zines visit table A12 (Pantheon Projects). The New York Art Book Fair will be open to the public this weekend from:
Friday, September 28, 12–7 pm
Saturday, September 29, 11 am–9 pm
Sunday, September 30, 11 am–7 pm
All photos by Rhiannon Platt unless noted
NY ART BOOK FAIR at PS1 (LIC, Queens)
People who are designing and creating independent zines and books are a really important part of the Street Art and graffiti D.I.Y. culture and PS1 in Long Island City is a vast feast of cool printed matter this weekend. Starting today and running through Sunday, the Fair is presented by the esteemed establishment Printed Matter and if you don’t find stuff that engages you and blows your mind, it will be a surprise. One of the groups we highly recommend that you go and visit is the Pantheon Projects table (#12) where you’d find delicious hand crafted zines by Avoid, Droid, R2 and Carnage.
Illegal Trouble II by Droid and R2. B & W photos, poems, recipes and interviews with Fade AA and Skuzz. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
These little art books capture stuff on the street in a way that helps you organize and appreciate it – with wit and a street poet approach. They also can give advice occasionally, like the recipe we found for juicing cucumbers/pineapple and something else to produce “donut water”. Feast your eyes on the dope images and take in the authors’ notes and observations as they rack up serious road miles for the love of art and discovery. Here is a selection of images from spreads of these zines to give you an idea of what we’re talking about.
Illegal Trouble II by Droid and R2. B & W photos, poems, recipes and interviews with Fade AA and Skuzz. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Live The Dream Learn to Die II by Droid 907 and Avoid. A Road Trip with B & W photos, maps, inserts, guides and journals. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Live The Dream Learn to Die II by Droid 907 and Avoid. A Road Trip with B & W photos, maps, inserts, guides and journals. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Carnage. The stickers issue. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Carnage. The stickers issue. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Carnage. The doors issue. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Carnage. The stickers issue. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
For further information, schedules and transportation regarding this Art Fair click here.
The 22 Magazine * Volume 3 * featuring Adam Void
* Reposted from The 22 Magazine Blog *
We are so incredibly honored to present The 22 Magazine Volume 3/III/Three. The amount of talent that has accumulated over these past couple of years is beyond anything anticipated and we cannot thank enough all the contributors, volunteers, supporters, and fans who have made this magazine a reality and have chosen to support creative grit. This week we will be releasing the web version of The 22 Magazine and will shortly have the magazine available online to purchase in print. From the beast’s of Allison Sommers, the terrain of Nick Lamia, to the virtues and sins of Nicole Gordon, and Joseph Daley, the animals of Angeline Gragasin, the patterns of Bradley Ehrsam, the great paradox’s of Charlotte Greenwood, the artistic statements of Cless and Jeff Tigchelaar, the true words of Gerardo Mena, the steely sounds of Iron Dog, the evolutionary debates of Jason Stoneking, and Randy Mora, the stereovisions of Jim Ford, the outsider truths of JJ Cromer, the secular geometries of Megan Moncrief, the botanical commemoration of Penelope Gottlieb, the multi layered records of Sarah Boothroyd, the controversial assemblages of Adam Void, and the joyous apocalypse of Ricky Allman this volume is a cacophony of world ending beauty. This volume, this year, we ask, as you near the apex of 2012, to celebrate both the hard times and the good and to appreciate what is certain in this life, the notions of creativity in all their great, imagined forms.
Thank you again to all the contributors, volunteers, and supporters that make The 22 a reality. Without a doubt, we shall see you in the coming year.
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