Nicholas Serota’s recent comments that the government’s funding cuts will cause an ‘arts blitzkrieg’ have inspired Transition Gallery to stage ART BLITZ, a fundraising event which references and updates the confrontational politics and unique style of the 1980s.
The call to arms for ART BLITZ has been phenomenal with artists including Yinka Shonibare, Clunie Reid, David Blandy, Stella Vine, Phillip Allen, Sigrid Holmwood, Continue reading Art Blitz: live event and auction
Location: Moda Hotel in Vancouver
Artist: collaboration between Scott Sueme, Joker, Remi/Rough and Augustine Kofie Context: For the Unintended Calculation show coming up
No words needed, just pictures. I snapped these on my way to blackall street art and all his creativity.
The 500 Festival, a new art and music festival is coming to Shoreditch this October and promised to entertain you all day and night and showcase of some of the most talked about DJ talent on the festival scene and an array of artistic gems.
Originally from Devon and normally happening outdoors, the festival invites itself in the heart of London and will take over Village Underground from midday till late on the 06th October 2012.
The art line up will include Mikel Kruminswill, the up and coming Scottish designer who had worked for the last 5 years or so as a designer in the creative industry and who will be exhibiting a project specifically for The 500.
Another artist that will probably worth seeing is Raoul Simpson, a self taught lighting / video artist who is as passionate about art as he is technology. Raoul’s works includes lighting designs within the entertainment industry as well as interactive public art installations
Holly Foskett-Barneswill on the other hand will certainly impress us with her rice sculptures made of 500 grains of rice while Nicholas Harvey installation and three dimensional sculptural work and especially his glass sculptures should wake our senses.
On the music level, Grammy nominated (The Garden) Zero 7will be headlining The 500 with a DJset. The Zero 7 gents are well known for their work with artists such as Sia, José González, Mozez and Sophie Barker.
The Festival is an all day midday-02.00am event promoting artists, new music and some famous names.
WHEN – October 6th 2012 | 2pm – 2am
WHERE – Village Underground | 54 Holywell Lane Shoreditch, London EC2A 3PQ
Get your discounted tickets now from this link – http://bit.ly/QtnlUn
Cybersecurity brand Kaspersky Lab announces a significant new creative collaboration with London-based Street Art luminary Ben Eine
‘Back to Work’, an artist film exploring Ben Eine’s art practice commissioned by Kaspersky Lab.
Specially commissioned artwork by Ben Eine will feature on the 20th Anniversary edition of Kaspersky Lab’s market-leading Kaspersky Total Security v.2018 internet security product
Celebrating the 4th year of Kaspersky Lab’s support for the Moniker International Art Fair, the world’s largest Urban Art event, Ben Eine’s creative partnership with Kaspersky Lab was showcased through a large scale installation at the Moniker Press Preview on Thursday 5th October
Eine’s specially commissioned artwork includes a new typographic ‘K’ produced exclusively for Kaspersky Lab.
Shoreditch as always will be hotting up at the week end with street art, dance and good music. Zack and his team at eeeefun throwing a party this Saturday 16th April 2011. Best of all, mention ART-PIE and get your names on the guestlist by emailing eeeefunparty@gmail.com!
From Zack
We’re hosting a party on Saturday 16th April at Shoreditch Studios in London where we’ll be recording the international brand film for a cutting-edge new electric scooter. As well as appearing in the commercial, everyone who attends will also get the chance to show off their artistic talents and submit their creative design for an eeeeFUN scooter.
The best one designed on the day will go into commercial production, with the winner getting their very own e45 scooter with their design on. We’re looking for street artists and designers, plus musicians, actors, DJs and dancers (as well as people who just want to enjoy a free party).
More info here – www.facebook.com/eeeefun
After the Olympic project and solo show 20:12 two years ago, #CODEFC returns with another solo show and book launch celebrating his 25th anniversary in the graffiti/ street art world.
The book is a collection of photos from as early as 1990 including lettering, free hand painting, sketches, stencils and stickers.
What you need to do is either subscribe to the Art-Pie newsletter, share this article on Twitter and/or on Facebook using the hashtag #ArtPieCodefcBook.
Easy uh? Hurry up though, the competition ends on Sunday 2nd November midnight
The show will display a series of paintings made in his studios in London from 1997, from older canvases to more recent ones belonging to different collections and projects and also includes paintings started in previous years and then modified for the show.
It will surely give an insight into his studio practice and his graffiti background as not many people has seen before.
I went down to Dray Walk gallery this week end to check out the NEW ERA XC show – a creative project solely dedicated to the baseball cap.
This show is to celebrate NEW ERA 90th birthday and on this occasion 90 NEW ERA XC commemorative boxes have been produced, each of them containing a blank New Era 59FIFTY hat (see picture). Continue reading New Era XC show: art on your head
If there is one art fair I have been and do not want to miss from now on, is the London Art Fair (LAF). Why is that? Just simply because it presents over 100 galleries featuring the great names of 20th century British art and exceptional contemporary work from leading figures and emerging talent.
Added to that, there are always a bunch of solo shows and curated group displays in the Art Projects section and even a showcase for contemporary photography. You’ll have understood by now, the LAF is my Thorpe park as a kid; always eager to go and never willing to go home once in it.
Here below is our artist pick (part 1) | Read part 2 | Read part 3
Sarah Hardcare via Paul Stolper
Habd pulled, four colour photo silk screen print on 300 gsm Caneletto paper
Thomas Allen via Foley gallery (left) | Shaun Doyle and Mally Mallinson via Paul Stolper
Chromogenic print (left) | Cast bronze (right)
Tom Ormond via Charlie Smith
Oil on linen
Rob and Nick Carter via Fine Art Society
Paint pigment photographs
Matthew Redford via Agnew’s gallery (left) | Paul Wright via Thompson’s gallery (right)
Oil on canvas (left) | Oil on canvas (right)
Carla Melegari via Thompson’s gallery
Oil on canvas
Cameron Gray via Sims Reed gallery
Photocollage
Tristan Eaton is an American artist from Los Angeles. He is a graffiti artist, illustrator, toy designer and also a street art muralist.
Eaton was born in 1978, in Los Angeles, California.
When he was 8 years old, his family moved to London, England. At age 16, they moved back to the United States but this time to Detroit, Michigan. While Eaton loved the city of Detroit, he always wanted to live in a big city and thus, moved to New York when he was 20 years old.
During his teenage years, Eaton painted everything, from dumpsters to billboards, wherever he lived. He had a troubled childhood and was arrested many times for shoplifting and making graffiti.
He used art as an escape from reality and also to escape from legal authorities by providing artistic evidence to judges, principles and police officers.
Eaton became interested in graffiti when he was in London and upon moving to Detroit he started doing a lot of graffiti, mainly due to lack of police regulation. He doesn’t consider himself a graffiti artist but more of a muralist.
His graffiti work does not consist of letters but mostly characters. For his graffiti work, he never focused on using just spray paint but painted with whatever he could get his hands on. According to him, good graffiti is painting something big and beautiful but illegally. Everything else is mural work for him.
His interest in comic books also peaked during his time in London. He was inspired by the 2000AD Magazine by British illustrators. He would draw characters from comic books, such as Jack Kirby, early X-Men, Silver Surfer and even the anime film, Akira. At 18, he made his first toy for Fisher Price, which was the beginning of many to come. His creativity led him to becoming a leader in advertising.
He was a regular consultant for many clients, such as Hasbro, Pepsi and Nike.
Eaton was approached by Kidrobot designer, Paul Budnitz, who offered him to work as an art director on an animated film called Kidrobot. Kidrobot became so popular they stopped working on it and started producing designer toys, mainly action figures.
The action figures were made on a limited edition basis and were inspired by the work of famous graffiti artists and hip-hop culture. Eaton believed these toys allowed people to purchase something which tied fine art with consumerism, because fine art is extremely expensive while consumerism is affordable and available to the masses.
This idea gave birth to these limited edition designer toys that led Eaton to become internationally famous with a huge fan base.
Eaton wanted to showcase his art to the lower-class of the urban cities he visited. He believed everybody had the right to have access to fine art and they did not just had to see gray buildings and big billboards. With this intention, he created remarkable murals all over the country.
Eaton claims his artwork is inspired from Os Gemeos, Mode 2, Takishi Murikami and many others. His creations can be viewed at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum and some of his collection at the Museum of Modern Art is permanent. On his website, Eaton states “outdoor, public art is the most important to me. Public art has the ability to inspire and transform our communities.” It is obvious how important it is for Eaton to share his art with the rest of the world.
Currently, Eaton is the President and Creative Director at Thunderdog Studios Inc. Thunderdog is a prominent brand for designer toys and a creative agency based in New York. Thunderdog is the backbone of all of Eaton’s work. His team at Thunderdog helps him put together big projects, such as toys and video collaborations. Tristan Eaton happily resides in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
More on Tristan Eaton’s website
