Monday, March 15th, 2010
D*Face-ing the Oscar statue on Runyon Canyon
London-based street artist D*Face dropped into Hollywood, Los Angeles to pay his regards: “face lifts, fools gold and plastic surgery arghhhh thats [his] sort of city.” The 6 feet or so tall statue sits proud atop one of Runyon’s highest peaks, watching over the land as a lone protector of the things mentioned above. If you’re in need of a jog or a hike, go check it out. Not sure if it’s still there though but it’s worth a try!
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Taras Hrabowsky
ThingPit from taras hrabowsky on Vimeo.
Close your eyes. Imagine a Drive-In movie theater, huge projections covering a massive wall. Now imagine that the projectionist is sitting in a van and has no permission. Instead of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”, the projection is of some face melting graphics, like the above video. That’s what you get with the work of Taras Hrabowsky. After the jump, you can see some documentation of these guerilla projections. Keep your eyes peeled, as Taras may be coming to a city near you with this cross country tour.
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Daniel K Sparkes
Daniel K Sparkes started his career in the British street art scene since the 2000s. His work is a juxtaposition of photographs, paintings and drawings that combined depict burlesque portraiture, illustrations and landscape. As if eaten alive, the portraits remain anonymous and faceless, yet there is plenty detail where the face or limbs should have been. These faceless and limbless portraitures are playful, disturbing and interesting, especially when done in large scale, as example of some of his murals.
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Robin Rhode
Calling Robin Rhode a ’street artist’ is a bit misleading. It just so happens that most of his art is made in the street, but this multidisciplinary artist makes his mark in a variety of ways. Much of his work is performance based, not in the traditional sense, but rather through a process in which he acts in a 3D space and at the same time utilizes the illusion of a drawn object… and then the entire process is photographed, leaving the viewer with a consolidated mixture of mediums, spaces, forms and ideas.
Monday, January 18th, 2010
Jesse Hazelip
Awesome show from California artist Jesse Hazelip, ‘Sentimental Journey’ at White Walls in SF. Keep your eyes peeled if you’re in the bay area because Hazelip’s work is up all over the streets, so it’s no surprise the show is chock full of large wheat-pastes and images on found materials. Much of the work comments on failures of our past seemingly ignored by the actions of the present, and attempts to open a dialogue about the repeating mistakes of American history. The show is up until January 30th, so go before it’s too late!
Sunday, January 17th, 2010
Conor Harrington
Fresh amalgamation of styles from UK artist Conor Harrington. A little bit of renaissance influence mixed up with some graff inspired strokes, all executed with a masters touch… what’s not to like? Find more of Conor’s work at Kinsey/Desforges in LA.
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Guitar Gremlin Shred Specters Riff Wraifs
Epic hesher Skinner will be exhibiting all new works at Grass Hut this Jan 8, 6-9pm. For the show “My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama,” he’s designed a legion of spectral-axe-ular demons straight from the Necronomicon of Rock! And don’t think this is damp in the annals of a strictly-dude dungeon, there are babin’ guitar-esse heroes like Lita Ford of the Runaways and Anne Wilson of Heart. May the most righteouss riff win!
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