Meet Alexa Meade. He creates amazing series of living graffiti art but the twist is that he masters the ability of using actual people made to look like they belong in their 2D graffiti background.
No need to say that the level of careful painting and attention to detail is huge here but it works pretty awesomely to turns three dimensional figures into two dimensional figures. All participants are painted in black and white and cleverly get tangled in the explosive and coloured backgrounds and the illusion of they are part of the static art is achieved.
Ben Eine has been back in London and we could not hope better than seeing a new piece enhancing some wall in London.
This time you can see his work on the wall of the London Graphic center on Mercer street, London.
It reads :
Oranges and Lemons say the Bells of St Clements
Pancakes and Fritters say the Bells of St peters
Two sticks and an Apple say the Bells of Whitechapel
When I grow rich say the Bells of Shoreditch
You may have heard about light painting, if not, here are a few words about it – Light painting is a photographic technique in which exposures are made by moving a hand-held light source while taking a long exposure photograph, either to illuminate a subject or to shine a point of light directly at the camera. Light painting can also describe works where the camera itself is moved during exposure.
Painting with a point of light on a long exposure dates back to 1889, and was used in Frank Gilbreth’s work with his wife Lillian Moller Gilbreth in 1914, when the pair used small lights and the open shutter of a camera to track the motion of manufacturing and clerical workers. Man Ray, in his 1935 series “Space Writing,” was the first known art photographer to use the technique. Photographer Barbara Morgan began making light paintings in 1940.
Loads of artists or people from the general public have since tried to master the technique, and keep innovating with genius ideas. People like Stephen Orlando and his projects Motion Exposure are one of these enthusiasts. The concept is to give the viewer a materialisation of human movements and gestures in sports, such as movements of tennis, kayaking or even karate.
The result is beautiful, gracious, and intoxicating. We included the 10 best light painting outputs we felt deserved sharing.
A few words from the artists –
I’m fascinated with capturing motion through time and space into a single photograph. Using LED lights with custom color patterns and long exposure photography, I’m able to tell the story of movement.
This technique reveals beautiful light trails created by paths of familiar objects. These light trails have not been artificially created with Photoshop, and they represent the actual paths of the objects.
My photos focus on motions in nature and in urban landscapes, as well as human movement. I am inspired by the works of Étienne-Jules Marey, Anton Giulio Bragaglia, Gjon Mili, and Frank Gilbreth and their pioneering techniques.
His name is Hal Lasko, his nickname Grandpa. What he did for living is something we will probably never see again – he was a graphic artist back when everything was done by hand. He then had to retired and his caring family had the genius idea to introduce him to the computer and especially to Microsoft Paint.
Since then Grandpa spends ten hours a day moving pixels around his computer paintings. Some would call his work pointillism, others 8-Bit art but it might be a bit of both.
Anyway, another inspiration that is Hal Lasko, The Pixel Painter. We have included below a video interview of the artist plus a few examples of his works.
Gabriel Dubois is back to Stolen Space gallery after having taking part earlier this year to a group show – read about it here and his new works for his debut solo show – Kykkeliky are bold, this is the least you can tell about them.
German-Canadian artist, Gabriel Dubois grew up in the streets of Vancouver and started to drop graffiti on urban spaces of the Chinatown area. However what I was seeing all around me were far away from it: large wooden panels with bright coloured lines that seem to run at each other or from each other while meeting a multitude of geometric shapes on the way. Such works can quickly turn into a big mess but Gabriel Dubois succeeds in keeping some harmony of this buzzing gathering of elements.
Gabriel Dubois’ visual language is rich like the colours palette used. His pieces are vibrant and complex it seems but looking at it a bit longer and you may see some logical juxtaposition of those lines next to that series of circles.
Gabriel Dubois is a big fan of turning discard objects of modern culture into art and here into something alive. This is why you will find stuck into one of his pieces a cut-out of an old magazine representing a car. His abstract approach inspired from his numerous travels to places like Sri Lanka, India or Japan is the expression of his keen interest of hand painted signs he picked up at a very early age.
You will also notice that wooden (his surface of choice) structure standing at the entrance of the gallery (see pic below) which is another angle to Gabriel Dubois’ art practices.
Related link
> Sculpture and paintings by Gabriel Dubois on Boom
With a string of sold out europe wide gigs this Summer – GHOSTPOET returns to London stage at the grandiose Hackney Empire on Thursday 24th October with special live guest ANDREW ASHONG and THOM ALT-J (DJ Set).
After selling the Village Underground well in advance Ghostpoet returns for a full live show at the suitably decadent Hackney Empire. Don’t sleep! Obaro Ejimiwe, aka Ghostpoet, laughs when he remembers how Gilles Peterson “took a risk on a random maverick” back in 2010 by signing him to the Radio 1 DJ’s Brownswood imprint.
What – GHOSTPOET – LIVE plus very special guest ANDREW ASHONG – LIVE THOM ALT-J – DJ SET When – Thursday 24 October 2013 | 7pm-11pm Where – Hackney Empire
Probably one of the most popular sport events in the UK, The Championships, Wimbledon 0f 2016 are happening right now and have been since 1877! It is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, and is widely considered the most prestigious.
It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the others being the Australian Open, the French Open and the US Open. Since the Australian Open shifted to hardcourt in 1988, Wimbledon is the only major still played on grass.
We included artists and pieces below which all have a ‘tennis’ element in it.
NB: the top image is a piece from the Pothole Gardener
Pavement art
We’ll kick off with “pavement art” and this extraordinary piece below showing, using 3D effect, a court of tennis where The Championships are normally play on.
The artists are Joe Hill and Max Lowry and you will have noticed that the chair one of the artists is sat on is an actual chair and belnds into the 3D piece.
Joshua Callaghan
By Joshua Callaghan. Click to enlarge
Joshua Callaghan, an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles has recently been using the urban furniture around him and expecially tennis one.
The artist disguises utility boxes by pasting pictures onto them of the scenery behind, thereby creating the illusion of an uninterrupted view.
We have included an example on the left (Click to enlarge).
Slinkachu
By Slinkachu. Click to enlarge
Here’s an amazing new artwork by Slinkachu. These are the first images from his forthcoming exhibition entitled “Concrete Ocean”.
This piece called “Last Resort” was created in Wandsworth, South London, by the British artist who has become famous for his installations all over the city using minature trainset figures and graffiti on snails.
We included below a detail and a zoomed out photo of the artwork. Click to enlarge.
Danielle Clough
The artist, Cape Town-based uses thick and often bright thread in her creations. Finished pieces include images of flowers or portraits of people.
We particularly wanted to draw your attention to the pieces depicitng flowers hung on the strings of vintage tennis rackets. We included more of it below. (click to enlarge)
Otto Schade
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Otto Schade also produced a “Street Art Olympics” themed series of work a couple of years ago which was on display at Frameless gallery and which includes a piece depicting a player tennis.
We went to the show and even wrote a review about it so we hope that you will have the time to read it.
Some of the works in the show were first visible around the streets of London (see left – click to enlarge)
We were very impressed about 2 years ago when we stumbled upon the stop motion video from Tobias Stretch called Lucia a mesmerizing work, creepy at times but beautifully crafted throughout. Have a look at the video.
Tobias has produced another wonderfully surreal in his latest video where we follow a girl and her encounters with all around strange big face character. Sit back and watch and let you immerse.
Meet Alexa Meade. He creates amazing series of living graffiti art but the twist is that he masters the ability of using actual people made to look like they belong in their 2D graffiti background.
With a string of sold out europe wide gigs this Summer – 
