Thursday, August 26th, 2010 | Author:
Jowy
Join Poster Boy and his collective for book release parties in New York, Miami, Los Angeles and London. Proceeds from the events will be donated to K.A.R.A.T.E. or Kids Are Rallying Against the Empire, a group that supports street artists and graffiti artists who are in trouble with the law.
Here are all the essentials for each event:
AE District Gallery
3852 N. Miami Ave.
Miami, FL 33137
8-9:30pm
Carmichael Gallery
5795 Washington Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232
6-8pm
17 Frost Gallery
17 Frost St
Brooklyn, NY 11211
6-9pm
Pure Evil Gallery
108 Leonard St
London EC2A 4XS
4-late pm
Friday, May 07th, 2010 | Author:
Jowy
Jason Bereswill, "Snorkler"
It all started with the self portraits above by art student Imogen Slater. Slater’s instructor, Jean-Pierre Roy was inspired by her idea of using MetroCards as her canvas to create an exhibition of MetroCard art by hundreds of other artists. Roy made an open call for submissions that lasted till Thursday and promised to display at least one by every artist that submitted.
The show will be up from May 8th through May 12th at a studio located at 224 Grand Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The reception is Saturday the 8th at 6pm.
Between Single Fare and the other two subway related art openings I reported on, it is turning out to be unofficial subway art week in New York.
Tuesday, May 04th, 2010 | Author:
Jowy
Let’s get this out of the way now — you may have noticed that the artist I am speaking about in this post has the same last name as myself. This is because we are womb-mates.
My brother, Phillip Romano, is a young photographer finishing up an art degree at Harlem’s City College of New York. He is exhibiting work this week, called Tile Series, which I would be interested in talking about on Subway Art Blog even if we didn’t share genes.
In this work, subway tiles are the canvases and commuters are the artists. The drips, spills, scuffs and scrapes people make on the floors of subway stations become unintentional art. The photos seem to evoke Jackson Pollock’s action paintings, not only by appearance, but also their interest in the subconscious.
The way in which the images are displayed is worth noting as well. Phillip explains:
The tile series pieces each document single markings found on subway platforms. Each tile is photographed, printed, and mounted separately and then arranged in their original order on the wall.
You can find three pieces from this project at CCNY’s annual photography exhibition, open from May 3rd – May 14th, with an opening reception May 6th, 5-8pm. Details can be found on the event’s Facebook page. More of the tile series and other work by Phillip can be found on his portfolio site: Phillip Romano Photography.
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 | Author:
Jowy
Photographer Richard Sandler will be exhibiting work at the Millennium Film Workshop later this month. The show, called “The Former New York,” focuses on the New York City of the seedy `80s. Many of the images depict the subway in a when graffiti was rampant and before cell phones, iPods and other devices occupied our attention.
The gallery’s website indicates that these photos were chosen to “depict a time that lives in limbo: they are too young to be the historical records of the fuzzy past, and way too old to resemble contemporary culture, now moving at warp speed.”
Sandler’s photos show a different side of the graffiti filled trains than those taken by Cooper, Chalfant and Naar. Rather than focusing on the graffiti itself, work is more about the environment it created and how people interacted within it.
The show will be open from April 30th through June 19th, with an opening reception and film screening on May 6th 6-8pm. All the details can be found here.
Tuesday, March 09th, 2010 | Author:
Jowy
Cassandra Giacci is an emerging Brooklyn artist, originally from Long Island. She is showing her work at Verlaine, a bar at 110 Rivington Street for the next few weeks, with an opening from 6-10pm tonight, March 9th. Cassy says she will actually be giving away some of her works at the opening, so you better stop on by after work!
Monday, March 01st, 2010 | Author:
Jowy
The Netherlands Board of Tourism has temporarily transformed the Grand Central – Times Square shuttle into the moving advertisement you see above. The cars were made over as part of the “Just be. In Holland” ad campaign by the Netherlands Board of Tourism and Conventions.
PointClickHome described the makeover in detail:
One car is dressed to evoke the interior of a grand salon. The seats are wrapped to resemble tufted red benches, the ceiling sports faux plaster medallions, and there’s mahogany wainscot, a rich damask wall covering, and a selection of iconic Dutch masterpieces, including Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring.
The ad campaign ends March 4th, so time is running out if you want to check these out.
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 | Author:
Jowy
Nikki Yeager, Ratty McRat Face, Mixed Media on Canvas
Nikki Yaeger is a young local artist originally from Wickliffe, Ohio. She works primarily in mixed media with a focus on the New York scene. The piece above, Ratty McRat Face is a perfect example of the energy and lightheartedness that defines her art. Nikki is showing three of her other works from February 25th – March 11th at the Gallery 2/20 located at 220 West 16th Street in Manhattan, with an opening reception 6pm on February 27th.
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 | Author:
Jowy
Lily Furedi, "Subway", 1934. Oil on canvas. Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Before the economic stimulus package passed the House and Senate, some legislators balked at the bill because it included $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts. A timely new show at The Frick Art & Historical Center in Pittsburg exhibits work from the first time the government allocated money for the arts. 1934: A New Deal for Artists includes 54 of the over 15,000 works created as a result of Roosevelt’s Public Works of Art Project.
The painting above is shown in the exhibition. From the Smithsonian website:
As always, New Yorkers of every class except the destitute and the very wealthy sat side by side in the subway, the subject of a painting by Lily Furedi; the tuxedoed man dozing in his seat turns out, on closer inspection, to be a musician on his way to or from a job, while a young white woman across the aisle sneaks a glance at the newspaper held by the black man sitting next to her. None of this would seem unfamiliar today, except for the complete absence of litter or graffiti in the subway car, but one wonders how legislators from below the Mason-Dixon line might have felt about supporting a racially progressive artwork with taxpayers’ money.
“Subway” and the rest of the works included in the exhibition will be on display from January 30th – April 25th, 2010 with an opening celebration the evening of January 29th.
