British Invasion—British Grafitti Artist Nick Walker has a one person show at the Quin Hotel from 6—9 PM tonight. New artworks created for the show! Should be a good party. Check it out!
Invader Takes NYC
It’s been a great November spotting Invader graffiti all over NYC. Lots of pizza eating Invaders and food orientated posts. Looks like French invader gets the late night hungries while he’s thinking up his next tile-fitti.
Graffiti Night—COPE2 is showing at Azart Gallery on 27th street, across 11th, almost down to the water. A little bit cold tonight, but the art will warm you up and keep your graffiti juices flowing. Check it out.
Sweet Toof Show
Pandemic Gallery
22 Waverly Street, Brooklyn, NYC
Great show created from scratch only a couple months ago. A ton of work here that fills every bit of space in this unique, huge gallery space here in Brooklyn. A bit of a hike to get here, but well worth it. It’s a chanced to own some Sweet Toof at a very affordable price. Check it out!
Paul Insect Show
Paul Insect: 2033, Original Works Created in 2014
Great show by one of London’s most famous practioner of street art. Very Pop like paintings with his trademark style. We met him in person and he’s really an affable guy. Great to meet him and check out this show. It’s great!
Street Art—And lots of it! Happening Thursday night on the West and East sides. RaiseArt has a show with a prolific stable of street artists working their magic, including Adam Dare and one of my favorites, Whisbe. Lazarides has brought Conor Harrington to the LES for a one month show featuring films, walls (Rivington and Suffolk) and a new suite of realistic paintings. That show opens on Saturday September 27th.
Adam Dare, Whisbe, Kennedy Yanko & Steven Cogle
A curious Cast of Subjects Presents:
No Subject
RaiseART
516 West 25th Street
#15
6-9PM
Ezra Johnson
Itís Under the Thingy
Freight + Volume
530 West 24th Street
6-8PM
Stikki Peaches
Hot Mess
345 Broome Street
Station 16 Gallery from Montreal
Conor Harrington
Eat and Delete
Lazerides
Old Gym
268 Mulberry Street
Saturday 27th
gallerynine5
Group Ink
Bringing the street indoors, Gallerynine5 has turned the world of street art and graffiti inside out with their summer show Group Ink. Allowing street artists interior walls, they’ve thrown up some great ones! Artists include TATS CRU, Bisco Smith, KET, Shiro, Vor138 and Rubin415. The show runs until August 20th. Check it out
Hot and Humid, And that’s just the art—Insane baroque junk fest sculpture gang-up at Gagosian Gallery on 21st Street. Will be a fun night as long as the weather holds out. RaiseArt will be showcasing graffiti artist Paulie Nassarí work starting at 5pm. This will be LIVE and entertaining. Be there for the party! (1,2)
Crash
Broken English
Jonathan Levine Gallery
Pictured above is John “Crash” Matos and Monica Welsh at the gallery opening for Broken English. Amazing show with very tight canvasses cropped to contain the frenetic, yet very pop-y sensibilities of the canvases. Bright colors and a very cool 80’s vibe that feels timeless. These would be great pieces to own. Be sure to check out the Museum of New York City’s show entitled City as Canvas. It features Crash’s work as well as a huge trove of seminal early NYC graffiti from the collection of Martin Wong. Check it out.
City As Canvas
The Collection of Martin Wong
Museum of the City of New York
Early collection for graffiti in NYC that traces the origins of tags with the street numbers the tag writers were from all the way through to the 80’s with full subway car take-overs. Early artists including DAZE, Keith Haring, Lee Quinones, Lady Pink, Kenny Scharf, Futura 2000 and many more. This is an expansive collection of one possessed individual who saw the early value of this burgeoning art movement. He died of AIDs in 1999, but left his collection of graffiti and graffiti “Black Books” to the city of New York to share with everyone. This is a seminal show, Check it out!