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teenage caligula
April 6th 09, 13:43
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Phil Frost @ Jonathan Levine gallery
April 6th 09, 11:44
on the weekend in new york was the opening of Phil Frost’s solo works on paper show, good turn out and amazing work as always, show is on for a month
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American Reality
March 27th 09, 16:03
AMERICAN REALITIES
Clare Rojas, Andrew Jeffrey Wright, and Lydia FongOpening reception Saturday, March 28,
7 to 10pm
Musical performance by Peggy Honeywell and comedic act by Andrew Jeffrey WrightClare Rojas, Barn with ghost
Clare Rojas:
San Francisco painter, singer, and filmmaker Clare E.Rojas is not a folk artist. In Clare Rojas’ works, women, men, nature and animals are strong and weak caring and connected to one another in their struggle to find harmony and balance. She celebrates women for their traditional and most basic differences and strengths. While the characters are often imbued with feelings of loss and nostalgia, one gets the sense that they will not back down. They will ultimately beat their predators at their own game.Rojas’s appropriation of folk imagery addresses contemporary female social concerns “The feeling of loss in my work, is my feeling of loss of hope. The struggle to find the good and the beautiful and represent it is my challenge. Understanding the ugliness that finds its way into our culture is crucial.” Rojas’s beautiful uses of allegory and of an imagined cultural landscape in her paintings act to subvert our current accepted perceptions of women. It allows the spectator an engagement with an alternate evocative world that is both funny and sad and that points to the complexities of being a resilient female in the twenty-first century. Rojas often depicts women alone, standing amid a flattened forest landscape, but this is not to suggest that they are lonely. No, Rojas’s women exist in their own reality, feeling peaceful, protected, and quiet.
Selected exhibitions include a group exhibition with the Luggage Store, San Francisco in 2003 for which she won a Louis Comfort Tiffany award. In 2004 Rojas had a solo show at the San Francisco Art Institute and at the Belkin Satellite Gallery in Vancouver. Her work was included in the travelling exhibition, Beautiful Losers. She has exhibited at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, and was most recently a featured artist at the Prospect.1 New Orleans Biennial.
*Partial Text Credit to : Dietch Projects, and Katie Geha Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.
AJW, triangles
Andrew Jeffrey Wright:
Andrew Jeffrey Wright is a current and founding member of Philadelphia’s Space 1026 art commune. He has a BFA in Animation. The collaborative animation “the manipulators”, which he made with Clare E. Rojas, has won the top prize for animation at the New York Underground Film Festival and the New York Comedy Film Festival. Wright’s highly limited edition handmade books have gained an international following. His works include painting, animation, drawing, collage, photography, sculpture, video, installation, screen printing and performance. He has shown at Lizabeth Oliveria(LA), New Image Art(LA), Spector(Philadelphia), The Luggage Store(San Francisco), Lump(Raliegh), The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts(Philadelphia), ICA(Philadelphia), Giant Robot NY(NYC) The Corcoran(DC) and Foundation Cartier(Paris). He has shown with Barry McGee, Paper Rad, Leif Goldberg, Clare E. Rojas, Marcel Dzama and Michael Dumontier.Lydia Fong
Lydia Fong is a multi-disciplinary artist
from Shanghai.New Image Art
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Watts Towers
March 23rd 09, 14:46
this weekend we went out to Watts to check out the famous Watts towers, it was built by Simon Rodin without funding or permission from approximatley 1925 to 1955, the towers were built from found materials, bits of glass steel and trash, the city was trying to tear it down in the early 60’s but an opposing community fought to preserve the monument to nothing and won, so on the site now stands a community arts centre and the towers, which are in the process of being restored, well worth the trip
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Some old gems
March 19th 09, 11:13
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dmote and ming d circa 87′
definatly influenced by my man Tame DMA at this point, 89′ -
Theodore Allen
March 10th 09, 9:06
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The Elements NYC: Five Pillars of Hip-Hop (Tats Cru)
March 2nd 09, 10:34
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How Nosm Blog
February 26th 09, 15:10
http://hownosm.wordpress.com
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My new favourite grafftti writer is…
February 25th 09, 16:46
SOLVIEG… a 10 year old girl from london
I wanted to do a picture of two skeletons that have a hair salon called ’scare cuts’ the skeleton on the left is not very good and is always messing up the hair cuts. the one on the right is the boss and drops the cups of tea when he sees what the other one has done. The dude with the glasses is cross because he is late for work as he only wanted a trim. The girl has accidently been turned into a blond amy winehouse. The black man likes his haircut though.
first tattoo…
Grafotism double page spread
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Deus Swap meet
February 23rd 09, 17:51
here is a graphic i did for deus ex machina
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ganeshy dude
February 16th 09, 15:20
just finished for rvca
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new paintings by rhys lee
February 16th 09, 15:15
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finally finished this one
February 16th 09, 15:12
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Tanner
February 3rd 09, 15:43
Heres a picture of a painting ive been working on of my little buddy Tanner who got beat up by three gay dudes in LA one time…
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Old news
February 3rd 09, 15:37
heres some pieces i did a while back, the dent piece is from two years back and the other is from mid last year, thats the last one i did, i never finished the trims and bit and pieces but for the most part i like it, we painted the wall at rvca three times and never finished it once…fucking lazy ass
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