LONDON: NEW YORK KINGS AT PURE EVIL

LONDON: DALE GRIMSHAW. MOREISH

This Thursday is turning out to be a busy night, Dale Grimshaw has the opening of his new body of stunning/challenging/disturbing (delete where appropriate) work at Signal Gallery in the east end.

This will wake you up after a boring day at the office.

 

LONDON: RYCA. HIGHS AND LOWS

This Thursday sees the opening reception of RYCA's Highs and Lows solo show at the London Westbank Gallery.
The show is open to the public November 1st and runs until November 15th.
Expect some of RYCS's Si-Fi influenced art and sculptures and some of Ryan Callanan's pop art styled work. If you are going to the opening on Thursday then expect a free print if you are amongst the first 150 through the door and maybe a few beers. 

  

LONDON: LAZARIDES PRESENTS...

I Thought I would take my camera along to The Laz group show on my way home from the daily toil, I hope they have put a little more effort into the show than the flyer.

Some Photos from the show.

ZHAO: JOKE PRINT RELEASE

The Latest print from Zhao to be released by Highly Framable is a diptych titled Joke.
The Ai Weiwei bank notes represent the amount the Chinese government say Ai owes in back tax
These will be dropping at 4pm UK time

Joke

Varied edition of 66 

260 x 160mm each 

3 colour hand-pulled screen on 

300gsm watercolor paper, signed, numbered, stamped + COA 

price of set: £29 + £10 packing & shipping.

ANDREW McATTEE: OHHHHMY!

Andrew McAttee has a pop up exhibition on Thursday and Friday at Something in the Attic, Notting Hill.
Thursday sees a print release and a chance to cast your eyes over Andrew's visually stimulating art, there will be a collection of further prints available which really need to be seen in the flesh, if you can't get down, and if you haven't rsvp'd already chances are that you won't be getting in. Then you can download the show pdf from the Something in the Attic website HERE 

   

Friday night is party night with DJ's Nicholas Feel, Red Greg and Deux Spin.
There is a Charity that's going to benefit from this event.

All proceeds go to Kith & Kids a London based charity that provides activities, opportunities, information and support for people with a learning disability or autism, their parents and siblings

STATIC SCREEN PRINT : THE COLLECTOR

SOLD OUT

The boys from Static have just dropped the 2nd of 4 new prints that they will be releasing over the next few weeks. These were originally designed for their recent solo shows in Japan and kept some back for us Western folk.

You can find them HERE

THE COLLECTOR

7 colour screen print on 300 gsm Fabriano paper

52 x 52 cm

Signed, numbered and embossed

Edition: 50
£90

SHEPARD FAIREY: SOUND AND VISION

The opening night of Shepard Fairey's Sound and Vision was one of the most shambolic, badly organised, badly run, sweaty, wet, crowded, loud art shows I think I have ever attended. It was Fantastic.
The art was much more than expected, affordable, desirable and pure Shep.
There were of course the ugly famous icon images but these were overshadowed by the beautiful pattern HPM's
The Stolen Space gallery was great with the smaller prints and HPM's but it's really just a taster of things to come. The loading bay venue on two floors was large enough to allow double the amount of people in, I guess it was the fire regulations that were to blame for keeping the doorman busy. 

Z-Trip's set with Shepard lurking in the back of the booth was worth the time spent in the rainy queue,
A show well worth another visit.
There is a pop up shop a couple of doors down, great if you are one of those shoppers that likes to be followed around by the shop staff to the point where you feel uncomfortable. Nice hats though.

There are a handful of photos from the evening on the artbleat Facebook page

     

BRISTOL: UPFEST BOOK LAUNCH

The flyer says it all, should be a great night.
If you can't get down then you can order your book HERE
£14.99 or £45 for the ltd edition in hand painted box (if you are very lucky)

"To celebrate 5 years (to the day) of Upfest, photographer Paul Green and Kineta Hill, teamed up with street artist Jody Thomas to create this fantastic visual history of Upfest from 2008-2012. The large format book (260mm x 260mm) contains 144 pages packed with images from all the festivals. "

LONDON: SHEPARD FAIREY

I have not covered Shepard Fairy / Obey on here for a while, mainly because I have not warmed to the last few years of print releases.
However Shepard is now in London, a few legal street pieces went up last week around the Old street and Brick lane areas near to Stolen Space where he opens his 2nd UK solo show Sound and Vision. The show opens tonight, if you are on the first tier of the private view list. Tomorrow (Friday 19th) opens up for the rest of us in both the Stolen Space gallery and The Loading Bay on Dray Walk. There will be music from Z-Trip and from the images on the Obey website HERE it looks a bit more like the kind of work I would expect from Shep.
All will be revealed tomorrow then.

There will also be a print release of the show poster on Saturday 20th at 12 midday at the Loading bay venue.
Sound and Vision is a 2 colour screen print limited to 450 prints of which 250 will be available. No doubt the remaining numbers will be available on line sometime in the future. There will also be a selection of previous editions available to purchase, but as mentioned earlier I won't be rushing up waving my hard earned in their direction.

  Sound and Vision

2 Colour Screen Print

61cm X 46cm

Signed and Numbered edition of 450

£45

KATRIN FRIDRIKS SCREENPRINT

POW dropped a print by Icelandic artist Katrin Fridriks earlier today, titled Golden Awareness this beauty has been slowly slipping on and off their site. If you like it you might get lucky by staying up into the early hours.

Sadly It's not for the (skint) artbleat office wall though at £550

Golden Awareness

Edition of 77

Measuring up at 96 cm X 66 cm

14 colour hand pulled screen print on somerset tub sized satin 410gsm

£550 plus postage (£770 framed)

Image nicked from POW
There was a blue version at £1900 but this has vanished from sale.
Katrin's site HERE does not seem to be very responsive at the moment, so you could have a look HERE at Future Tense. C'mon girl sort it out.

MONIKER ART FAIR: LAST DAY.

Now if you are reading this on Sunday morning, live in or around London and wondering what to do with yourself, you can do no worse than get yourself down to the last day of Moniker.

There will be a print release and book signing by Niels 'Shoe' Meulman, a print release by Amanda Marie and painting and chatting and stuff.

If you are reading this on Monday you have missed it again for another year. But you can console yourself by having a look at some photos from the opening day on the artbleat facebook page HERE

Remi/Rough 

Pam Glew

C215

Mark McClure

MONIKER ART FAIR

The 3rd Moniker art fair opens on Thursday 11th October. In a change from the normal format this year promises an installation based event to run alongside the usual gallery stands.

Jealous Gallery will be there performing some live screen printing for the duration, VNA will be launching issue 20 of their street art bible, and various artists will be present signing all kind of stuff. (can you tell I'm writing this in a hurry before I get kicked of the PC)

Have a look HERE for all the info and I'll write something a bit better tomorrow.

GRAFTER: WITH ONE PIECE MISSING....

Grafter has a new edition up on his site, the snappy title afforded to the piece is "With One Piece Missing, The Whole Thing's Broken"
Measuring up at 30" X 24" each of the editions are hand sprayed on somerset 300gsm watercolour paper with deckled edges.
The White and Mango are editions of 20 and the Grey 30.
Grey/Blue and Olive have already sold out.
£120 each

You can have a look HERE if these float your boat

GREENWICH: BEN OAKLEY SOLO SHOW

 After promoting a flock of successful shows of other artists work, including Jo peel, Ray Richardson, David Bray and Otto Shade, it's been long overdue that Ben Oakley puts aside a bit of time to show his own creations to the world.

Ben's solo show "I Could Have Been A Nobody" opens with a bang (as does all his opening nights) on Friday 5th in Greenwich, South East London.

Expect music, beer and a live screen printing event.

Hopefully there will be photos to follow.  

NEWCASTLE: TRUSTOCORP

21st century iconoclasts Trustocorp make their debut outside of the USA at The Outsiders Newcastle gallery with a PV on Thursday 4th Oct.
International Bank of Trustocorp is a landmark interactive show that will appeal to anyone interested in contemporary art and future politics.

LONDON: OPENING NIGHTS THURSDAY

There is a full house of opening night arty action in East London on Thursday 4th Oct. My Dog Sighs, M-One, Los Dave and Hayley Kendal at Cultivate Vyner Street, Pablo Delgado at Pure Evil and Guy Denning at Signal Gallery . Visit one and you should be able to get around to them all before the beer runs out, as they are all in walking distance.

 Dormice can be found over in West London at The Outsiders in Greek Street.