One of Supertouch’s favorite promising Brooklyn-based artists is DAN WITZ, a classical painter who straddles the very disparate worlds of “fine” and “Street Art” with incredibly unique and separate bodies of work.
Category: Art & Design
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SuperTouch – DAN WITZ’S “KILROY VARIATIONS”
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CATCHING UP WITH NASTY NECK FACE
This week we caught up with the underground art world’s resident gremlin, NECK FACE
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Subtopia: Scarecrow Hacking at the Border
Activists in Tucson, Arizona have been placing life-sized cutouts of Maricopa County’s insidiously regressive anti-immigrant law enforcement officials around town on street corners and at intersections
Check it out here. Via Wooster.
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GAMA-GO :: Limited Edition :: Big Vinyl Yeti
The Big Vinyl Yeti will be available for preorder on Thursday, October 30th at 11am PST. All orders placed during the following seven days will be guaranteed a Yeti figure and will receive a free black Yeti Ice Cave tee. Limit one shirt per customer.
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Streetsy: 40+ Streetartists You Should Know Besides Banksy
Everyone knows who Banksy is– but the international streetart community has hundreds of other great artists that deserve your attention. Here’s a selection of the very best.
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SuperTouch » MIKE GIANT’S “GREETINGS FROM SAN FRANCISCO” AT WHITE WALLS GALLERY
San Francisco loyalist and prodigious monochromatic illustrator/tattooer/graffiti artist MIKE GIANT has once again paid copious homage to his adopted hometown with the opening of his new solo show, “Greetings From San Francisco,” at the fog belt’s WHITE WALLS GALLERY
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Spelling Change
Click Note: The Click is politically neutral.Obama-inspired by alphabet created by dozens of the country’s top artists, designers, and photographers.
Contributors include Stefan Sagmeister, Karen Collins, R.O. Blechman, Larry Fink, Jake Chessum, MC Paul Barman, and a housewife in Texas who created an embroidered “S”. Each of the participants reinterpreted one letter of the alphabet in a way that represents what Obama’s candidacy means to them. In all, more than 100 letters were created.
To create banners to post online (using embed code), bumper stickers, posters, postcards, and t-shirts, simply type in a word and the site generates an original design using letters from the alphabet.
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The "Village Pet Store And Charcoal Grill" Opens in New York City
So who’s the “owner” of the Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill at 89 West 7th Avenue?
Banksy.
Once inside Banksy’s pet store, you discover such things as breaded fish that swim in a large round bowl while hot dogs are living the high life under heat lamps in cages near the cash register.
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SuperTouch – LONDON///D*FACE’S “APOPCALYPSE” NOW…
London street bomber and STOLEN SPACE gallery impresario D*FACE unveiled his grand homage to the unholy marriage of “Street” and Pop Art with his instant sellout “Apopcalypse” solo show at the upstart BLACK RAT PRESS GALLERY in London last Saturday.
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Toxel.com » Creative Urban Street Art by SpY
SpY is an artist from Madrid whose art consists in the playful reappropiation of urban elements, that he replicates or transforms and then installs in the street.
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The Street Artist Shepard Fairey Moves Closer to the Mainstream but Is Still Rebellious – NYTimes.com
The code word was “chill.” That’s what the crew with Shepard Fairey, the cult graphic artist known for his screen prints and stickers of the wrestler Andre the Giant, had been instructed to say if a police car rolled by as Mr. Fairey was wheat-pasting one recent night here, illegally tagging warehouse walls and empty billboards with his black-and-white images. Then Mr. Fairey and his helpers would know to make a run for it, to avoid yet another arrest.
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New Work Online from Bigfoot – Juxtapoz
Bigfoot just updated his store with new original artwork (to hopefully appease everyone that kept asking about original work available!) in addition to the skateboard decks, prints, shirts
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Damien Hirst at Sotheby’s – Thinking Outside the Dealer – NYTimes.com
Damien Hirst has a recurring nightmare. His big auction here is about to begin, and the Sotheby’s salesroom is overflowing with collectors and dealers. The auctioneer opens the bidding. Suddenly the place goes quiet. Not a paddle is raised.
“The galleries have convinced everyone not to bid,” Mr. Hirst said last month, recounting the dream while overseeing the installation of “Beautiful Inside My Head Forever” his one-artist, two-day auction at Sotheby’s. Beginning on Monday night it will include 223 works that he has produced over the last two years.
