Hush at Shooting Gallery
Passing Through is a darker body of work visiting the concept of life and death.
This progression on the part of Hush reveals deeper, more mature paintings. Following
in suit with themes of the ephemeral, these works are inspired by Hushʼs frequent
travels and the graffiti he documents along the way. Each transient mark is evidence of
one action and one creative expression, despite its gradual degradation over time.
Hush has developed a process of layering and defacing his canvases to mimic years of
tags and wheat paste on a city wall. To begin, Hush covers the canvas with paint, graffiti
tags, and collaged photocopies from graphic novels and old comics. He then uses
blown up hand drawings of manga girls and screen prints them onto the canvas,
embracing the mediumʼs imperfections by masking off specific parts to be hand painted
in later. Hush paints and tags between screens to achieve a complex multilayered
texture, defacing the work to reference the weathered, transient quality of street art.
Passing Through
New works by Hush
Opening Reception: May 1st, 2010, from 7-11 pm.
‘Looking West’ Show Print
Shooting Gallery – San Francisco, 1st May 2010
Looking West’
Edition 50
5aps, 2 pps
Size: 600mm x 600mm
Details:
on textured 300gsm paper with hand torn edges
Giclee print with 4 colour screen print & spot varnish
Signed and numbered by the artist
Price: $400
ROA Soloshow at Pureevil Gallery
ROA’s eagerly anticipated UK solo debut opens in London this spring to exhibit his unique portrayal of large scale urban wildlife, disquietly cohabiting city streets, hand painted in his distinctive black and white style.
ROA started painting abandoned buildings and warehouses in the isolated industrial outskirts of his hometown – Ghent, Belgium. Fixating on the animals he found there; the wildlife became the central subject matter of his work, inspired by their clever ability to adapt into scavengers in order to survive. He used the dilapidated, coarse interiors and exteriors of the unyielding landscape as a canvas to portray his large-scale creatures.
Roa filled a vast abandoned warehouse complex of different chambers and exteriors with a menagerie of large-scale animals, creating an impressive spray painted zoo of city scavengers.
His obsession went global when he took to the streets of New York, London, Berlin, Warsaw and Paris, prolifically painting his trademark cross sectioned animals wherever he went, locating them where they naturally invade the main city streets with their quiet yet powerful presence.
Dolk and M-City in Brooklyn
“EUROTRASH”
DOLK • M-CITY
APRIL 30 – MAY 29
OPENING RECEPTION: APRIL 30 (FRIDAY)
www.BROOKLYNITEGALLERY.com
New Banksy in L.A.
HVW8 Interview
Montreal’s HVW8 Production House was established in 1998 by Tyler Gibney, Gene Pendon and Dan Buller. Often merging political themes and pop cultural images in massive compositions, their collaborative work integrates each member’s style seamlessly. HVW8 has produced album covers, exhibited in international galleries and museums, and performed live beside artists such as Roots Manuva and Herbalizer.
Kiss the Sky
Skalitzers presents the second show in the Fine Lines series, exploring the role of tagging within contemporary art.
The exhibition ‘Kiss the City’ features Parisian artists L’Atlas, Babou, Sun7 and Tanc.
With roots in tagging since the early 90s, it is the making of their mark that unites them. Working together since 2003,
their works individually interpret the emotion, ambience, gesture and search for the master-stroke.
“My heart rhythm moves my arm like a metronome. I must try not to control this flow but only understand the
composition it causes to appear.” (Tanc)
Opening: Friday April 30th, from 7pm.
Exhibition until May 28th.
skalitzers.com
Skalitzer Strasse 43
Berlin-Kreuzberg 10997
U-Bahn Gorlitzer Bahnhof
stroke02
This year the stroke art fair will be in munich/germany from may 27th to may 30th.
The event will give a place to the showcases of 55 galleries, presenting urban art.
ESCIF at Pictures on Walls
Pictures on Wall presents ‘Around The Wall’ a show by the very interesting graffiti artist – ESCIF
Opening evening: Friday 16th April 6 – 9pm
Exhibition dates: 17th April – 30th May
Mon – Fri 11am – 5pm Sun 11am – 4pm
POW
Ground Floor, 46/48 Commercial St, London E1 6LT.
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