Our boy Risky is having a showing of new works at TRACK 16 called TWENTY SIX.

Opening reception is December 13th from 7-11pm

Track 16

2525 michigan Avenue

Santa Monica CA 90404

310.264.4678

CRIME IN THE CITY…

15/10/08     - 20/11/08
6:6 pm

Grenade Gallery
212 Kensington Park Road, London, W11 1NR

The infamous REVOK1 comes to London for his debut UK show.

‘CRIME IN THE CITY’ promises to be one of the most exciting, innovative and original contemporary street art shows of 2008.

The show will be open to the public between the 16.10.08 to 20.11.08

The launch night of the 15.10.08 is strictly by INVITATION ONLY.

revok1.com, www.grenade-art.com

Grenade Art is proud to present REVOK, one of the most prolific and important internationally renowned street artists of our time. His debut UK show, ‘Crime in the City’, will take place at the Grenade Gallery on Wednesday the 15th October 2008.

Widely viewed as the best Graffiti writer to have emerged from the United States in recent years, REVOK has enjoyed a very successful international career. From London to Tokyo, his work can be found in both the galleries and the streets of all the major cities of the world.

REVOK’s passion for Graffiti began back in the mid nineteen eighties, taking inspiration from the West Coast’s street art movement and the calligraphy and culture of the L.A gangs. He first became actively involved in the early nineties, painting the streets of his local neighborhood in South L.A. Over the years REVOK has experimented and progressed into many other areas of street art, most notably the painting and manipulation of the large freeway billboards of Southern California.
In December 2007, one of REVOK’s modified billboards advertising an exhibition of Takashi Murakami’s work at the L.A Museum of Contemporary Art was removed.

After his initial frustration at the piece being taken away so soon, REVOK discovered that Murakami himself had seen online photos of the billboard and had admired the new version so much that he ordered it to be taken down and shipped to his private collection in Tokyo. Such tales and exploits have reached folklore status within the street art community and in turn have ensured REVOK to be a major influence to countless artists throughout the world.

Describing his work as a culmination of many different influences, REVOK never limits himself to any one particular style, but seeks to constantly evolve and reinvent himself. He has reinvented the alphabet several times over, giving such life to his letters that they appear to jump off the wall.

REVOK is as real as street art gets. Always aspiring to execute the best possible piece of art, in the best possible location, he embodies the very essence of what real street art is and continues to remind us of where it all came from. Describing himself as competitive and egotistical - ‘all graffiti writers are social rejects and egotistical maniacs… I plan on doing graffiti for as long as I can physically get up and paint a piece or climb a rooftop. ‘

Ryman Arts

Futura 2000 is having is first solo show in Los Angeles. The show is called Strategic Synchronicity and will start on Thursday, September 18 for the VIP opening, public viewing will be September 19  and only continue until Sunday, September 21st.

September BOXeight Art Show, “Beyond the Unveiled Frontier”

I was driving down fairfax the other day and I looked back to check the billboard and to my amazement and great enthusiasm I saw my good freind Chaz’s lettering which read Los Angelenos across the billboard, Chaz has long been an artist in Los Angeles that I admire.  The advert is to promote Cheech Marins current show CHICANO VISIONS at the Los Angeles County Musuem of Art.

Chaz Bojorquez, Chicano Visions, LACMA

Los Angelenos

LOW AND SLOW

Featuring Mister Cartoon, Estevan Oriol, Sandow Birk,
MAC and more

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From the art of pin striping, muraling, and car customizing, this “street” culture has become an accepted artistic movement that is now embraced by art galleries and museums around the world.  The centerpiece of Low and Slow is Mister Cartoon’s fully customized 1979 Monte Carlo with a one-of-a-kind flake paint job and muraled frame and chassis.  Also on display are customized car part “canvases” by some of the leading lowrider artists including Mister Cartoon, Efrain “Bugs” Gonzales, O.G. Abel, Danny D and Mike Pickel, as well as contemporary artists Sandow Birk, Vincent Valdez, MAC, and Ben Beshaw.  Among the car part “canvases” are Estevan Oriol’s lowrider lifestyle photographs, which provide a provocative glimpse into this fascinating culture.

The artists’ car part “canvases” are for sale with a portion of the proceeds benefiting Free Arts of Arizona.

MCA Hours:

Monday: Closed

Tuesday – Wednesday: 10AM – 5PM

Thursday – Saturday: 10AM – 8PM

Sunday: 12 – 5PM

New Infections By Germs, Tropico De Nopal. Sept 13th

www.germs4u.com, www.tropicodenopal.com