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May 7, 2015
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Urban Nation’s Project M/7 Honors “Persons of Interest”

We stopped by Urban Nation in Berlin last week to check out their latest project, M/7, in collaboration with Brooklyn Street Art. It is the 7th in a series named after Berlin's UN haus building, which we've been following here over the past several months. A portraiture show in essence, curators Jamie Rojo and Steven P. Harrington invited 12 Brooklyn based street artists to create a portrait of his or her particular "Person of Interest": Dain, Gaia, Don Rimx, Swoon, Specter, Esteban Del Valle, Chris Stain, Nohcoley, Cake, El Sol 25, Icy & Sot, Onur Dinc, Kkade, Nevercrew, Dot Dot Dot, and Anreas Engludn. This makes the exhibition a sort of cultural exhange program that brings together the artists with local residents of Berlin, and encourages them to consider their surroundings.

We stopped by Urban Nation in Berlin last week to check out their latest project, M/7, in collaboration with Brooklyn Street Art. It is the 7th in a series named after Berlin’s UN haus building, which we’ve been following here over the past several months. A portraiture show in essence, curators Jamie Rojo and Steven P. Harrington invited 12 Brooklyn based street artists to create a portrait of his or her particular “Person of Interest”: Dain, Gaia, Don Rimx, Swoon, Specter, Esteban Del Valle, Chris Stain, Nohcoley, Cake, El Sol 25, Icy & Sot, Onur Dinc, Kkade, Nevercrew, Dot Dot Dot, and Anreas Engludn. This makes the exhibition a sort of cultural exhange program that brings together the artists with local residents of Berlin, and encourages them to consider their surroundings. Their chosen subjects are a range of idols that either offer them inspiration, or represent issues that are important to them. Some of them are active supportors of the project, such as Gaia’s subject, Fereshta Ludin, a central female figure of Berlin’s Dada movement. In another mural, Swoon pays tribute to Turkish immigrants in Berlin, the largest Turkish settlement outside of Turkey. Brooklyn Street Art shares, “Artists actually like to do research and create art that is meaningful and relevant to their personal stories… and many street passersby and art audiences are elated to find work that they can relate to – that reflects their lives, history, and culture.” Take a look at more “Persons of Interest” below, on view through June 22nd, 2015.

Dain (Portrait of Marlene Dietrich)

Specter (Portrait of Sally Montana)

Gaia (Portrait of Fereshta Ludin)

Swoon (Portrait of Turkish immigrants)

Esteban Del Valle (Portrait of George Grosz)

Chris Stain (Portrait of Charles Bukowski)

NohjColey (Portrait of Katharina Oguntoye)

El Sol 25 (Portrait of Hannah Höch)

Topics

Brooklyn Street Art, graffiti, urban art, Urban Nation

cyrcle, Glow in the dark, Solipsism, Station16 Gallery, urban art

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Faith, God, Science, Belief, Doubt... LA artist duo Cyrcle tests these every day philosophies in their glow-in-the-dark exhibition, "NOTHING EXISTS!". The title points to their theme, Solipsism, a theory that asserts that nothing exists but an individual’s consciousness. It's a grand concept tackled by concise forms, shapes and a largely monochromatic color palette. With hints of glowing green, their acrylic paintings on wood and relief sculptures feature deceivingly simplistic, spacey imagery. We recently got a behind the scenes look as they prepared for the exhibit, now on view at Station16 Gallery in Montreal.

New Mural by JAZ at Color Walk Festival in Mexico

graffiti, JAZ, Mexico, Social Politics, street art

November 28, 2014

Argentinian artist Franco Fasoli, aka JAZ (previously covered here), created this large-scale mural for Color Walk Festival, Mexico last week. The piece coincides with an ongoing national protest. Known as the 2014 Iguala Mass Kidnapping, on September 26th, 43 trainee teachers were abducted and apparently massacred by military forces.

On View: “SUPERFICIE” by Alexis Diaz at Product/81 Gallery

Alexis Diaz, Art Basel Miami, graffiti, street art, Wynwood

November 29, 2014

With Art Basel Miami around the corner, international artists are now trickling in to Miami's local gallery scene. Puerto Rican street artist Alexis Diaz has returned with his solo show "SUPERFICIE" ("SURFACE"), now on view at Product/81 gallery in Wynwood. His large scale murals (previously featured here and here) are instantly recognizable for their colorful, hybrid animals. In recent months, motfis of raven heads with human elements such as hands or skulls are especially prevalent. Diaz's exhibition showcases a series of new paintings that mirror this dreamlike, or perhaps nightmarish, subject matter.

Zio Ziegler Continues to Explore the Human Condition in His New Exhibit, “The Psyche’s Gestures”

Abstract Art, Cubism, graffiti, soze gallery, Zio Ziegler

July 2, 2015

San Francisco based artist Zio Ziegler (covered here) has an eclectic style; a few of his pieces portray Cubist figures, some more detailed than others, and then there are his more color-based paintings. His art is not cohesive, but rather reflects on his every day life's emotions and moods which flow between feelings of self awareness and bliss. He very much lives in the moment. Ziegler's current solo exhibition at Soze Gallery in Los Angeles, "The Psyche's Gestures," takes a look at these different sides of the psyche.

Urban Nation’s Project M/7 Honors “Persons of Interest”

Cyrcle Questions Reality in Glow-in-the-Dark Exhibit “NOTHING EXISTS!”

On View: “SUPERFICIE” by Alexis Diaz at Product/81 Gallery

Zio Ziegler Continues to Explore the Human Condition in His New Exhibit, “The Psyche’s Gestures”

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