http://www.myspace.com/goldie_art
http://www.eddielock.co.uk/

Goldie earned his name as a graffiti artist in the West Midlands in the early eighties. His artwork around Birmingham and Wolverhampton was featured heavily in Afrikaa Bambaataa’s feature film documentary Bombing (which was broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK).

He took part in the largest ever British graffiti art battle alongside Bristol artist 3D who later went on to form Massive Attack. He is also featured in the book Spraycan Art by Henry Chalfant & James Prigoff.

Further to being one of the UK’s earliest and most important Graffiti writers Goldie has had great success as a Drum and Bass DJ, producer and actor. 1994 saw him setting up his own record label, Metalheadz. The label was a huge success releasing some of the most important tunes of that era and remains hugely successful and respected to this day.

Goldie’s produced artistic works with 3D (Massive Attack) and Sarah Gregory. He has also commissioned and provided pieces to Neneh Cherry, Noel Gallagher, Bjork, James Lavelle, Nellee Hooper to name a few, depicting his prolific work.

http://www.crewest.com/

Nat King Cole Re:Generations
March 12th – March 29th
Located @ Crewest
110 Winston St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013

An art exhibition celebrating the new Capitol Records release of the “RE:GENERATIONS” album linking top Hip Hop, Pop, Latin, Reggae and Rock artists with the genius of Nat King Cole.

Opening reception:
March 12th, 6-9pm

Artists:
Sage Cole
Man One
Ritzy Periwinkle
Overton Loyd
Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca
Marka 27
Hilda Garcia
Leslie Caldera
William Sheffield
Jean-Michel Basquiat
and others….
Beats by Dj Phyz Ed
Live printing by TwoRabbits

Closing reception:
Auction and Closing Reception benefiting two L.A. after-school arts programs – The Heart Project and L.A.’s Best on Saturday, March 28th from 8pm to 10pm

Featuring live painting by Unification Theory and live improvisational funk fusion by Thrillharmonic Orchestra. The auctioneer for the live art auction is Richard Montoya of Culture Clash.

$10 donation at the door for closing party only

CREWEST WEBSITE
CAUSE of INSANITY! WEBSITE
ART LAB WEBSITE

Crewest is pleased to announce:

Cause of Insanity!
at the ArtLAB in Santa Monica
This will launch our curatorial debut on the Westside, with a new exhibit every two months.

Opening Reception
March 26th, 2009
7pm to 10pm

1410 Montana Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90403.

This exhibit showcases seven of the most active members of the internationally lauded Cause of Insanity (COI) graffiti crew:

Vyal, Marka27, Huit, Man One, Sherm, Sacred194 and WERC.

Exhibit runs thru May 26, 2009

For more info contact us at info@crewest.com or you may call ArtLAB directly at 310-255-9906.

www.andrewhem.com

Andrew Hem was born in Cambodia. At 4 months old, his parents fled Cambodia from the genocide and ended up in Los Angeles. By age 12, Andrew started getting into graffiti. He studied under writers like dzeas, rek2, lifer, and zoueh. He continued graffiti for about 9 years getting into nothing but trouble. He got introduce to figure drawing in his last semester at Santa Monica College and knew right away what he was meant to do. At that moment he changed his major and pursued the life of an illustrator.

Influenced by patterns and cultures from his native Cambodia to the diversity of LA, Andrew’s illustrations often show groups of uniquely rendered urban characters, entangled or entwined, fluidly moving through still spaces from city streets to decidedly rural settings. A quiet energy permeates his work casting the observer as the observed and then reversing it. Andrew’s graffiti years sneak to the surface in his hand lettering which often takes on physical dimensions. Multi-ethnically inspired, and sometimes nonsensical, his dimensional lettering can be seen held in the hands of figures or weaving its way through his illustrations’ plots and settings.

?An Art Center College of Design illustration graduate, Andrew balances illustration with gallery exhibits nationwide. Clients include Adidas, Microsoft’s Zune, Lucky Brand Jeans and The LA Times, and he has exhibited at Compound, Corey Helford, Receiver and Thinkspace galleries among others.

http://www.rampartjuice.com
http://www.myspace.com/rampartjuice

Justice by Uniting in Creative Energy (J.U.i.C.E.), a project of Community Partners, is a non-profit weekly hip hop arts program that seeks to develop youth leadership and technical skills, creative expression and self-confidence through the artistic elements of hip hop which include breakdancing, urban art, deejaying, emceeing/spoken word and music recording.

They teach visual arts workshops, paint large-scale and legal graffiti murals in the community, record and produce music, emcee, bboy/bgirl on a large hardwood floor to live DJs. They create unique opportunities for underserved young artists to showcase their work, network with peers and professionals and engage with their communities in a positive manner through the arts. The program is free for all age groups.

THE VISION
To sustain a safe and permanent home for youth where the elements of hip-hop are used as a tool for social change, youth empowerment and art education.

THE MISSION
To address the root causes of juvenile crime and of youths’ need for belonging by providing a safe center run by and for young people, focused on skill building in the arts of the hip-hop culture.

Starting in March, our new location will be @
CARECEN
2845 West 7th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90005
just West of Hoover

See you on Thursdays from 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm.
Still FREE and ALL-AGES.

http://www.crooksncastles.com
http://www.myspace.com/crooksncastles

FOR SALES & ACCOUNT INQUIRIES CONTACT:
SALES@CROOKSNCASTLES.COM

FOR SHOP UPDATES:
http://www.crooksncastles8021.wordpress.com

8021 Melrose Ave
Los Angeles CA 90046
323-944-0576
Mon-Sat 11-7 / Sun 12-6

The Planning Department believes murals have actually been outlawed since the year 2002. If this proposal passes as presented, it will severely limit any type of mural work on private property for many years to come.
ICU Art and Crewest Gallery are hosting an informal Artist Discussion to talk about the revised proposal shortly after it comes out, but before the next public hearing.

Artists and concerned community members are invited to come to this discussion and contribute ideas and to help formulate a plan for the muralist community.

When: Wednesday, February 11, 7-9pm
Where: Crewest Gallery [110 Winston Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013]
Hosts: Stash Maleski (ICU Art), Alex Poli (Crewest)
Phone: (213) 627-8272
Email: info@crewest.com
To RSVP for the meeting or to send letters of support, please contact Stash Maleski of ICU Art – In Creative Unity at phone (310) 309-7756, fax (310) 414-9932 icuart@aol.com. RSVP not required.

The last time the fashion industry experienced a female liberation movement was during the “bra burning 60’s.” Bras, high heels, make-up and other items supporting the unattainable, standard of beauty, were lit aflame in a “freedom trash can” to symbolize opposition to sexual oppression.

Traditionally, the women’s wear industry has been flooded with hyper-feminine pieces with low necklines and bias cuts leaving females choice less. With little to no options, females were only recently given quality alternatives.

Since 2005, Hellz Bellz has provided fashion alternatives for the bold fashionista with edgy, tops, jackets, denim and accessories, influenced by all things subversive; from the gritty streets of New York to sexploitation flicks of the 1960’s and 1970’s. Founder Lanie Alabanza, continue to defy all the rules of conformity and any fashion entity that claims a woman’s style cannot breach strength, individuality and feminine flair simultaneously.

www.hellz-bellz.com
www.myspace.com/rockthehellz

http://www.lacma.org/art/ExhibColdWar.aspx

For East and West Germany during the Cold War, the creation of art and its reception and theorization were closely linked to their respective political systems: the Western liberal democracy of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the Eastern communist dictatorship of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Reacting against the legacy of Nazism, both Germanys revived pre-World War II national artistic traditions. Yet they developed distinctive versions of modern and postmodern art—at times in accord with their political cultures, at other times in opposition to them. By tracing the political, cultural, and theoretical discourses during the Cold War in the East and West German art worlds, Art of Two Germanys reveals the complex and richly varied roles that conventional art, new media, new art forms, popular culture, and contemporary art exhibitions played in the establishment of their art in the postwar era.

Art of Two Germanys is the first special exhibition to go on view in LACMA’s new Renzo Piano designed-building, the Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM). Divided into four chronological sections, the exhibition includes approximately 300 paintings, sculptures, photographs, multiples, videos, installations, and books, by 120 artists. The show features large-scale installations and recreations of major works by Hans Haacke, Heinz Mack, Sigmar Polke, Raffael Rheinsberg, Gerhard Richter, and Dieter Roth, as well as a number of videos and performance-based works. After LACMA, the exhibition will travel to Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg (May 23–September 6, 2009), and Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin (October 3, 2009–January 10, 2010).

(Referenced from LACMA website)

Claus Winkler, *1974 Cologne, his Pseudonym „SEAK“ appears along Artist Colleagues like Banksy, and Osgemeos to be one of the most influential Artist in the contemporary Graffiti and Street Art Movement.

He utilize the Letters of his Tag Name „SEAK“ as a Projection Medium for the Comunication in between the Meta-Communication, Popcultural Trends, aswell as Social Interactions.

With his Antenna Logotype Satellites based on former Letters he represents the Missinglink between modern Graffiti and the recent Neo Streetart Movement.

www.myspace.com/seakthing
www.seakone.com
www.cnskillz.com

Ingolstadt Jam Session

Leinwand/Wand Installation

Size Matters

Size Matters (closeup)

http://www.comic-con.org

Comic-Con International is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to creating awareness of, and appreciation for, comics and related popular art forms, primarily through the presentation of conventions and events that celebrate the historic and ongoing contribution of comics to art and culture.

San Diego Convention Center
111 W. Harbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92101

4-DAY MEMBERSHIPS
EFFECTIVE NOW UNTIL SOLD OUT
ONLINE PURCHASE ONLY
Adults: $75*
JR/SR: $35*

ONE DAY MEMBERSHIPS
ON SALE NOW
ONLINE PURCHASE ONLY

THU, JULY 23
Adults: $25*
Jr/Sr: $12*

FRI, JULY 24
Adults: $30*
Jr/Sr: $15*

SAT, JULY 25
Adults: $35*
Jr/Sr: $15*

SUN, JULY 26
Adults: $20*
Jr/Sr: $10*

* Children under 12 free with PAID adult membership. Juniors are 12-17 years old and Seniors are 60 or more years old. Active military will pay the Junior/Senior price. This offer does not extend to dependents.

REGISTER ONLINE NOW!
http://www.comic-con.org

No onsite membership badges will be sold!

www.jr-art.net

As an undercover photographer, JR transforms his pictures into posters and makes open space photo galleries out of our streets. An acute observer of our time, as comfortable in cozy neighborhoods as in urban ghettos, he questions pedestrians with the exhibitions he mounts on their everyday commutes.

Using a camera he found once in the subway, JR finds inspiration in informal encounters he makes following his travels and his intuitions.

From 2001, he has been pointing his camera to a number of communities (writers, breakdancer, fresstylers, …), and worked with popular actors and musicians such as Vincent Cassel, IAM or the Gotan Project.

From 2004, he has been working on the 28 millimeters project, which first part – Portrait of a generation – led him up to the New York Times front page. The large size pictures of the Montfermeil and Clichy-sous-Bois youth have been notably displayed on the walls of the European Center for Photography and the square of the Hotel de Ville, in Paris.

His pictures beginning to sell at Hotel Drouot of Paris, he keeps on planning unauthorized exhibitions of large size pictures such as in Rome or in Wuppertal (Germany). He is currently working on the second and third parts of the 28 millimeters project in Middle East and Brazil.

The 3rd stage of the 28 millimeters project – Women Are Heroes – has already led him to Africa in post-conflicting zones to shoot the women with who he wishes to share painful stories and to testify of their desire to live. Their portraits were already pasted in Sierra-leone and in Liberia. In 2008-2009, JR will develop this project in India and in Asia

International art- as well as lecturing work soon led him amongst the midst of trans-national artist groups such as GBF, SUK, FBI and FX. Within those brood cells of new styles and techniques. DAIM developed a diversity of skills which enabled him to go beyond his roots. Concrete walls were more and more replaced by canvases while spray cans from a hip hop shop were now often amended by mouse clicks in Photoshop. Firstly, two dimensional pictures evolved into bafflingly three dimensional graphics with seemingly unlimited depths and perspective only to finally become sculptures leaving the confinement of flat surfaces entirely.

www.myspace.com/daim_art
www.DAIM.org
www.DAIMshop.com

Buenos Aires / Argentina

Hamburg / Germany

Tijuana / Mexico

“All Directions”
-at the exhibition Still On and Non The Wiser

“Die Mauersprengung”-Sculpture

Founded by Scion in 2007 to support young, emerging filmmakers, Scion Easy 10 gives up-and-coming visual artists a chance to shoot a short film on a topic of their choice. This year, Scion will be switching up the format by selecting ten media outlets to express their creativity through film. Scion allotted each filmmaker three months and a modest budget to transform their idea into a cinematic reality.

Thanks to Scion’s ongoing artistic endeavors, Easy 10 filmmakers have an opportunity to express themselves through a medium many do not normally work in. Their films will be a testament to their hard work and creativity, and pieces of art to be enjoyed by all.

This year’s Easy Ten conjures the clout of ten of your favorite media outlets. Directors from Giant Robot, XLR8R, Vice Magazine and more produce a festival’s worth of short films. Come watch it all hang out at one of our screenings.

Check out website for more trailer, guestlist and more details.
SCION presents EASY 10

LOS ANGELES EVENT
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
8:30pm – Midnight

LANDMARK THEATRE
10850 W. Pico Blvd, LA, CA
Theatres 3 & 4

21+
Must RSVP to gain entry
Early arrival is suggested as space is limited
Entry is NOT guaranteed.
Lineup subject to change
This RSVP closes:
02/03/2009 12:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time

http://www.dezeinswell.com/
http://www.doodlebarn.com/
http://www.dezeinhaus.com/

BLOC28 is an art-based program with traditional works on canvas and board as the inspiration, and to see how contemporary artists work together with an art company like Disney.

To see their interpretations of the most iconic cartoon character of all time mixing with the standard interpretations of Mickey over the years may have more impact on the overall contemporary arts culture than we can foresee at this time. That unknown quality with these collaborations makes the program more exciting than what has become the norm.

The first series of artists included Steven J. Daily, David P. Flores, Mear One, Greg “Craola” Simkins, and Slick.

October ’08, The second series of artists included Aroe, Chaz Bojorquez, Ewok, Rime, Tenga, and Suiko.

http://bloc28.com/home.html

SAMPLES OF SERIES ONE

My Split Decision, 1956
David P. Flores

Mickey da Vinci
Mear One

Visitation
Greg “Craola” Simkins

Tres Mickeys
Slick

SAMPLE OF SECOND SERIES

Aroe
Chaz Bojorquez
Ewok
Jersey Joe (Rime)
Suiko One
Tenga One

He currently resides in Toronto, Canada, with his wife, children, and imaginary friend, Andrew.

www.scarygirl.com
www.nathanj.com.au
www.outregallery.com/browse.aspx?Category=2

www.blackdynamite.com