Another year of Art Basel, Miami down. This is just a small spec of what was down there as I was focused on painting and spending time with friends I don't see often enough like Jim and Tina Darling here.

First stop was Primary Flight's "Blueprint for Space" show where I found Jim hiding Tina under his beard. They built this massive new wood, macramé and boar's head sculpture which apparently has a pigskin (football) sealed inside along with stickers from friends like me. Glad to be a part of it's guts!

Jim eating a pulled pork sandwich in front of the boar. Blasphemy.



BLACKBOOKS

Retna


Max Kauffman from Denver

Ron English


C215
Kenton Parker

Augor detail

Meggs
Jim, Tina, Penny, Katie and friends


The gallery had large-scale pieces lining the exterior windows as well. Here's Logan Hicks' piece. Digging the new selected finishing and detailing approach.

The after party down the way had Shepard Fairy, Peanut Butter Wolf and Dr Dre all spinning records, although I don't think Dre showed up. Who knows, I was hanging out with the free drinks in the back all night getting caught up with some fine folks like Adam 5100 here.


Next day we went to the Wynwood district to look for a spot to paint. Here's the patriotic Adam 5100 wrapping up his mural.

Cabin detail of 16 stencil layers.



One of Adam's pieces in Gallery I.D.

Adam & Brett Amory

Thundercut at AdHoc and Eastern District's BKMIA show.


Kalene controlling UFO's robotic sculpture

Lance Armstrong and Nike's "Stages" exhibit. Too amazing of a space to remember to take photos. After, legendary NYC bar Max Fish set up a Miami location for Basel. Good tunes, bad fire hazard.

Next day we found chickens running around in Primary Flight's storage area. Probably hiding from one of the packs of feral dogs we saw running around.

After sharing some beers and stories with Chaz of The London Police and Galo, Jim and I hopped on their massive wall instead of our own.

Martha Cooper also came by this day and made us jump all over the place. Hope to see those sometime soon.


Shots from Fountain Art Fair which features primarily Brooklyn and NYC artists.





Kristen

The first of many nights we'd spend at The Deuce bar. I guess it was originally decorated to be a hang out spot for the Miami Vice show. I'll believe that.

Tara McPherson, Chaz, Sneagle, Galo

Galo & Sasha

We got to chill with Keith Richards for a bit

Just kidding. Made us look cool though eh?

Guess which guy tried to sell us on being Evil Knievel's son? Supposedly he had to jump 47 tractors the next day to beat his brother's record. Unlikely since this was taken around 5:30 am and he was about a 12 pack deep. What's with these fake celebrity folk?


The next morning we had a manatee outside our hotel room. Oh the huge manatee!

Yobama

The unproductive day



The evening started off at Wooster Collective's Meet-Up at Churchill's for food and suds, then on to the American Legion for the "Multiversal" show.

There was belly dancing


My favorite part of the show wasn't part of the exhibit. There was this beautiful wall of old-timey photographs of A.L. members.

Julianne (middle) and friends at Essex. Julianne just opened up a new gallery in SF called Heist. Check out their opening show which will remain up through the end of 2009.

Pete & Gaetane


Wrapping up in and out of more rains


Surge and Jeremiah

Done.



Barry McGee

Surge

Detail of Logan Hicks' P.F. piece of his son Sailor

Gaia

I pretty much had to run through Aqua, Scope and other fairs attempting to see as much as I could in a few hours before it all came down. Here's a nice Fosik piece.

Jeff Soto

Mark Jenkins

Kris Kuksi detail

Detail claws from Dave Kinsey's piece at Joshua Liner Gallery

Matt Ice Cream Man, Dabs & Myla, Logan & Kristen





Gregory Euclid at David B. Smith Gallery


Doze Green

Ekundayo at Thinkspace Gallery

Damon Soule

Allison Sommers

Dabs + Myla + Greg "Craola" Simkins

Joe "Heaps" Nelson and Dave Tree who I showed earlier this year with in Beacon, NY.

Peat Wollaeger

Dab's & Myla


Tatiana Suarez



Back with Tina Kalene and friend to the pig.

And of course on to The Deuce.

Jim and Elisa Carmichael

Sara, Lori, green shirt, upside down coat hanger, and Tara

Some of these photos (the good ones), like this amazing one of Jim Darling, were taken by Jeremiah Garcia. He has much more in-depth coverage of all things Basel posted to his Flickr account here.

Labels: Adam 5100, Art Basel, Barry McGee, Blackbooks, C215, Darling, Daryll Peirce, gaia, Galo, Jim, Logan Hicks, London Police, Martha Cooper, MEGGS, Primary Flight, Shepard Fairy, Tara McPherson, Tina

Primary Flight 2009 Teaser from Primary Flight on Vimeo.

ART BASEL MIAMI SHOW
"IMAGINARY FRIENDS"
OPENS THURSDAY NIGHT - 6pm - midnight
December 3rd through to January 15th.
Located in the Design District
137 NE 40th St, Miami Mia, Fla 33127

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The following artists will be featured in the Miami installment of IMAGINARY FRIENDS.

ALEX YANES | HELENA GARCIA | JEFF DEKAL | DANIEL FILA | MIKE RIVAMONTE | GERRY STECCA | JEREMY NICHOLS | DUBELYOO | PEAT WOLLEAGER | DRES13 | SCOTT DONALD | MAT CURRAN | ADRIAAN MOL | GREGORY MICHAEL CARTER

Expect to see heavily influenced graffiti style paintings and sculptures, alongside technically proficient stenciled art installations as well as various works of art made from clothespins, decade specific found objects, and holograms!

The opening is FREE and Music, Wine & Beer will be provided.

Plus DJ sets by DJ KEEN-ONE

For more information contact the gallery at : 407-601-5518

I'll be heading down to LA this Friday the 13th in support of friends Dabs and Myla for their ambitious 1st ever American exhibition and corresponding exhibit.

Labels: Buff Monster, Cosio, Dabs, Daryll, Golden Age, Greg Simkins, Ice Cream Man, Logan Hicks, Los Angeles, Luke Cheuh, Myla, New Puppy Gallery, Paul Chatem, Peirce, Persue, surge

Since 4 months ago i was doing a daily cutting project to finish 4 huge layers of 130X210cms complexe Stencil devided to 4 complete layers and 1 smaller parts layer.The Original photo was also by myself .
I do not know how others will feel about this but i am really excited myself with the new work.

Labels: art

See full Photo on Flickr

Labels: Dallas, Jim Darling

Please excuse this shameless example of self-promotion, but I am really happy...
After what feels like forever I've managed to take some decent photos of the artwork in my current solo show at Wilde Gallery in Berlin.

Let me say this: these pieces are a *major* pain in the ass to photograph, thanks to the combination of pitch blackness and low contrast. Everyone who is interested in these is strongly encouraged to have a look at the real thing. If I may quote freely from what I have heard at the opening: it's one of the rare occasions when the pieces look better in nature than in the photos.

The photos at the top are: IMG_5430 - John Wright, IMG_3997

So here's the first batch of new works:



IMG_3761, IMG_3888
IMG_1298 - Kreator 1, IMG_4517 - Irvine Alley
IMG_5118, detail of the cop's face in IMG_3888:

I've posted the APs of these before, this is the new set of the Boxhagener Platz series.

left to right:
IMG_5173, IMG_5076, IMG_5105 and IMG_4963

a detail of IMG_4963:


and finally a few impressions from the interior of the gallery:


"Grains of Wrath"
Sept. 11th - Oct. 10th, 2009
Wilde Gallery, Chausseestr. 7, 10115 Berlin - www.wilde-gallery.com
Opening hours: Wed. - Sat., 12 - 6 p.m.
An online version of the catalog is here.

In case anyone wants to know, most of the original photos were taken at minor clashes between police and protesters in Berlin in 2007 and 2009, the photo of John Wright is from a Nomeansno concert in Berlin in 2007, Kreator played here in 2009 and finally the Irvine shot was taken in the alley behind Irvine Contemporary in Washington D.C. in 2009.

Labels: Berlin, pisa73

Streets 2k9 is the third annual jam on a mile-long wall at the Raritan River Art Walk and Deiner Park in New Brunswick NJ on Saturday, September 19th, 2k9 (rain date: September 20th) from 10am to 7pm.

See photos from the previous years.

SKETCH COMPETITION:
Juried Call for Art!

Five selected designs will receive art supplies and paint. And there is a big chance that the artists will be invited to the future projects by Albus Cavus. Show us what you've got! In order to qualify for the prizes which will consist of Sabotaz Spray Paint, Liquitex Acrylic Paint and Winsor & Newton Canvases and Brushes (retail value of each prize is over $150) please fill out the registration form and attach a sketch of proposed artwork for the event. The jury will select five artists to receive these free art supplies. The deadline is September 16, 2k9.

Everyone will paint... Bring your own paint!

Last month, we've opened a sister project in Washington DC. Over 65 artists painted at the first event there in August.

Our friend Peap has been working on this one for a while. It’s a exhibition in support of the upcoming release of King Kapisi’s new album “Hip Hop Lives Here”. We’ve had a wee listen to some of the album and it comes HARD!

L.A. Cholo style graffiti O.G. Chaz Bojorquez (below circa 1975) has come out specially for the show and will be in and around town for a while. Catch him and many other artists at the opening of the show.

Recently the wife and I went to Milwaukee to stay with our friends Eugene, Mandy and their son Pollux. Eugene and I went looking for a painting spot and ran across a fenced off and abandoned coal refinery. The area has more than one building, all of which look like great spots to make something. We weren't the first people in the area... There are some nice pieces on a few of the outside walls, but the inside of the buildings are relatively clean from paint. The room we decided on working in contained around fifteen barrels of toxic waste, a two seated cock pit, and loads of other junk. With a few days of collecting, moving and painting, we created a huge robot who had a few to many "Glug" beers before crashing along with the rest of the industrial era... The robot is big enough to have the two of us sit inside of its head at the same time.

On the first day we were startled by a guy named Peter, who made his entrance known by kicking a door open. We ended up talking with him for a while and learned that he is a photographer who explores buildings in and around the city. Peter usually goes into them at night to light and shoot them. Feeling that we must have met him for a reason, Eugene contacted him about photographing the room once the robot was complete. It was exciting to link up with someone so knowledgeable about the area. We met up with Peter and his friend Chris before heading inside the last day. In addition to being informed that the place is covered in asbestos, we were told that a group of squatters who were in the process of being evicted from another building got angry and set their building on fire. The large amount of Fire & Policemen caused us to find an alternate route into the building to finish up. The end result... new friends and big summer fun.

Darling
Good









Peter (Night Photographer)

Watch a Real Horse stencil a self portrait on a wall on the streets!

For the 6th edition of the widely renowned yearly "Art Trek" expo, 14 young international artists present their illustrative works in an exciting collective exhibition.

Gentrification in progress at the corner of 14th and P streets in DC, new tenants expected to move in soon.



Construction:

Labels: evol, Washington

So here are a few photos from the alley behind Irvine Contemporary in Washington DC. The murals were painted for the opening on June 20th. The exhibition will be open until August 1st.

PISA73
EVOL
Oliver Vernon
Gaia

Last October Shepard Fairey did those two murals:


Links:
Irvine Contemporary
Evol
Gaia
Oliver Vernon
Pisa73

Labels: DC, evol, gaia, irvine contemporary, oliver vernon, pisa73, Washington