Sure it looks like that naked guy is about to jump off the top of that building in Manhattan but no worries. He’s not some crazy New Yorker with tons of issues (shout out to DMX, nobody lights up TMZ like him). Instead, this guy is art.
Confusing and alarming I know, but (more…)
Photo Credit: “Cylone Nathan’s Wonder Wheel Astroland” by Josh Goldstein
Today is the birthday of artist and bodega enthusiast Josh Goldstein. Josh has been doing some big things lately including participating in a huge Times Square ad for Target, museum exhibitions with fellow artist Gigi Bio and some new online treats at etsy.com.bodegaNYC.
You can get you very own (more…)
There are so many layers to Gigi Bio. She’s a painter, illustrator, a real deal fashion designer by day and “Urban Reconstructionist” photographer by night.
Layers are also a major feature of Bio’s work. In this part of the interview Gigi Bio explains where some of those layers came from by explaining where she came from. In case you missed it here’s Part 1. (more…)
The first time Gigi Bio showed me her work she said, “See, this is what it looks like in my head”. So what’s in her head are photos from multiple views, images of New York City’s urban landscape, herself, and those she meets in her travels. Each image layered upon each other is unique like the snowflakes that come together to blanket her adopted city in the middle of winter.
The single image formed can show anything from hard angles in architecture softened in a layered, 
loose, curvilinear composition or a reflection of the ever shifting energy of urban life swirling around a singular figure simply waiting for a walk signal on a street corner.
I told her my first thoughts were of cubism, specifically Marcel Duchamp’s cubist inspired “Nude Descending A Staircase No. 2″ pictured left, which depicts a woman at multiple moments while in motion through still images, abstract lines and planes presented all as one image. Gigi shut down that label with the quickness!
I set out to find out what the stuff in Gigi’s head is, how it got there and what she intends to do with it next. Oh yeah, and why she doesn’t want to be called a cubist! (more…)
I watched Homeboy Sandman change a tire and I’ve never felt more alive.
Lefty loosey, righty tighty. Homeboy Sandman changes a tire is my moment of Zen for today. I love when rappers do ordinary things that other people do!
I like when he says he evaded the cops at the end.
I saw this pic and couldn’t resist. H1N1 swine flu Elmo. Other celebrities confirmed with the swine flu include Marilyn Manson and American neurosurgeon and media personality on health-related issues Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
Artist K74 has been putting up swine flu themed art in California lately. K74 is from Venice Beach, California where “Elmo” can be found. The see more of his work without walking around Venice Beach you can go to K74’s website kosher74.com (more…)
Photo Credit: bodeganyc.com. Who else but Josh Goldstein could bring bodegas to Times Square?
Target is currently featuring commissioned art in Times Square New York City from local artists Laurie Rosenwald, Michael Anderson, Charles Wilkin and sofreshandsogreen.com’s friend to the blog Josh Goldstein.
The four vinyl billboards are meant to celebrate upcoming Fashion and International Design Weeks as well as New York City iconography. Goldstein’s muse has been the New York City bodega, or corner store typically fond in urban neighborhoods, which he uses images of in sculptural reconstructions for his art. Who else but Josh Goldstein could bring bodegas to Times Square?
“Target’s new jumbo boards will buck the Times Square trend towards mind-numbing digitized signs that have infested the area of late, and in their old-school pop art vibe will depict such city favorites as the beloved potato pie, Empire State Building, coffee, the Statue of Liberty and proclamations of love for itself. ” ~nbcnewyork.com
The billboards debuted on Friday September 4 and will be on display until November 1. From there the billboards will be (more…)
Graffiti Taxonomy Print – ‘E’: Lower East Side, NYC by Evan Roth
Evan Roth (aka fi5e) is an artist who is obviously pretty brainy and likes graffiti…maybe that’s an understatement. At Parsons School The New School for Design Roth developed a project called Graffiti Taxonomy and thesis project called Graffiti Analysis. In Roth’s Graffiti Taxonomy project he “presents isolated letters from various graffiti tags, reproduced in similar scales and at close proximity. The intent of these studies is to show the diversity of styles as expressed in a single character.”
Over 4 days in April Roth photographed 2,400 graffiti tags in Paris’s 20 districts. 18 tags were used to express the diversity in character of the letters A,E,I,K,N,O,R,S,T and U “ranging from upper case to lowercase, simple to complex and legible to cryptic”. ~woostercollective.com
Graffiti Taxonomy: Paris, 2009 from Evan Roth on Vimeo.
This summer Roth’s project will be on display at Fondation Cartier’s Born In The Streets – Graffiti exhibition in Paris which will be up until November 29, 2009.
Anything that shows the creativity and intelligence behind graffiti and anything related to Hip Hop is aces with me. A cosign from the Wooster Collective doesn’t hurt either.
Buy his prints at factory.ni9e.com
FUN FACT: “The main [Fondation Cartier] gallery space and garden have been filled with pieces and other graffiti-inspired works by artists including SEEN, JONONE, Barry McGee, Evan Roth, QUICK, and PHASE2.” ~animalnewyork.com
Related: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOSH GOLDSTEIN- ARTIST AND NYC BODEGA ENTHUSIAST PART 1 and 2
