Richard Galloway

With so many folk making incredible work these days, I get a bit blind with all that gets printed and painted so I have to rely sometimes on friends to highlight particularly good artists. One in particular is Richard Galloway. His intricate wood cut prints make impressive images and on closer inspection make for a rich visual experience. To see more of his work and to learn more about the artist visit his website HERE.

Li Hongbo – Pure White Paper, Formable Sculptures

Taken from HERE.

Vinnie Nylon Poptimism Show

Good friend, Vinnie Nylon has been involved in the street art and graffiti movement for over 25 years, producing walls, prints, paintings, graphics and billboards for a variety of small and international companies and commissioners.

This all new body of work is born out of a lifelong collecting obsession, a visual playground in which all of the collected toys and mascots meet head on, a collision designed to level the fields of high and low art. Where old meets new and ultra cute takes on a slightly sinister undertone.

Since the mid 90s Vinnie Nylon has been placing an army of candy coloured characters and advertising mascots onto canvas and walls. A new spin on old favourites, a savage twist on others, all harking back to a simpler post war era when the distinction between childhood and adulthood was so much clearer.

Lost icons that are no longer employed to distract us from the austerity of mid century Britain and America take on their new guise to reclaim their rightful place in a new visual universe.
Television as smokescreen, popular as social acceptance, reality sugar coated with a big goofy smile slapped on it. Poptimism reintroduces, reevaluates and explores the themes of seduction by ad media, sentimental attachment and mass production.

The works on show include vintage petrol cans, sticker art, fanzine and screen print as well as a number of new paintings and mixed media pieces. Trademark bright colours and thick impasto sit beside the more demure offerings of hand finished print and collage pieces.

The frame is the door that leads into a world of visual pop delights and plastic fantastic high low art for all to enjoy, so step inside and keep it pop, never stop playing.

High Roller Society Gallery
8 September – 7 October 2012
 Private View 7 September
6:00 – 9:00 pm. All are welcome.


Vinnie Nylon - Poptimism from vinnienylon on Vimeo.

Barry McGee Show BAM/PFA

Arrested Motion have great coverage of Barry McGee's show at BAM/PFA that opened yesterday. Wish I could see all his retrospective work in one massive show...

"San Francisco-based Barry McGee returns for his first Bay Area solo museum exhibition in 18 years at BAM/PFA (UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive). This will mark his first midcareer survey, in which all of his previous major installations have been reinterpreted and put under one roof (from his van installation at REDCAT to his Street Market at Deitch to a 1999 stolen mural that was placed on Howard Street in San Francisco, just to name a few). This exhibition as been three years in the making, with the elaborate set-up first starting 2-1/2 months ago."

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Miss Van Virgen Print

Miss Van is of course the Toulouse native now resident in Barcelona who revolutionised what was possible in graffiti when she took to the streets in the early 90’s. Her 'poupee' characters painted with brush and acrylic instantly stood-out and she’s been copied and collected all over the world ever since.

The main point of interest from a printing perspective is the final layer has been rendered with a powdered graphite ink - which feels just like a pencil sketch and has all the lightness and subltly of the original artwork, plus the orange is day-glo.

‘Virgen’ - Edition 60 - 5 colour screenprint using fluorescent ink and graphite 50.5 x 33cm... Available from PicturesOnWalls

Creepy Pencil Art

Laurie Lipton was born in New York and began drawing at the age of four. She was the first person to graduate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennsylvania with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honours). She has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany and France and has made her home in London since 1986. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the USA.

Lipton was inspired by the religious paintings of the Flemish School. She tried to teach herself how to paint in the style of the 16th century Dutch Masters and failed. When traveling around Europe as a student, she began developing her very own peculiar drawing technique building up tone with thousands of fine cross-hatching lines like an egg tempera painting. “It’s an insane way to draw”, she says, “but the resulting detail and luminosity is worth the amount of effort.

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Lego Bridge

German graffiti artist, Martin Heuwold aka MEGX, has painted a bridge with an area of 250 square meters to look like it was made from LEGO bricks. This realistic 3-dimensional LEGO bridge took Heuwold four weeks to complete with the help of city officials.

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London Art Shows 5th July Onwards

Opening Reception:
"Ukiyo-e Pop - ukiyo-e & contemporary japonism"

5 July from 5-9pm

Private View from 5pm (RSVP essential)
Public opening party from 7pm-9pm

The second in the series of three Ukiyo-e exhibitions at ICN gallery is showing selected prints by the great masters of Edo, Hokusai and Hiroshige centring the theme of "Landscapes". Additional works from current J-pop artists exhibited in the basement gallery space illustrate how the trend of printing art continues to date.

Location: ICN gallery
Address: 96-98 Leonard Street, EC2A 4RH London
Contact: info@icn-global.com or call 020 7729 7977

THE END OF MY CIGAR Print by David Bray

THE END OF MY CIGAR Print by David Bray...

£30.00 Limited edition print from David Bray designed exclusively for Skull & Heart.

2 Colour black and blue ink, with a Varnish layer over the black, A2 in size (16.54" × 23.39"), limited edition of 50, Signed and Numbered.

All prints are shipped recorded delivery in a sturdy cardboard tube and wrapped in tissue paper.

Lorenzo Duran Leaf Art

Lorenzo Duran's intricate leaf art requires alot of precision and a very steady hand....

Illustrations By Marynn

Marynn, a 20 year old illustrator from France is my new favorite artist. Love her style.

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Buddy Nestor Dark Portraits

Buddy was born and raised in Collingswood, New Jersey. He was a Latch-Key Kid during the birth of cable TV. This led to endless hours in front of the television, watching movies and drawing. He gravitated toward strange cult and horror films. As a skateboarder in the late 80’s and early 90’s, he was exposed to Punk, Indie, and Heavy Metal music. In 1997, after the birth of his son, Buddy decided to teach himself to paint. In 1999, he traveled around the world on an aircraft carrier and painted every day....

Nic Joly's Small Creations

Nic Joly’s tiny figurative sculptures are proof that you don’t necessarily have to go big to grab viewers attention.

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