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Artistic JEANius

May 4, 2012 | art, gallery, graff, graffiti, jean jacket, paint, show

Artistic JEANius: Art Jacket collection for NYC Tour on:
Sunday May 6th 3pm-7pm, 4501 N. Clarendon, Chicago IL. 60640
BboyB will take painted Jean Jackets, pants, baseball caps, leathers, tshirts, sneakers, belts, etc… Anything wearable.
-BboyB

Flicks 2 Print

March 15, 2012

NYC Seen, Grafitti Godfather

February 15, 2012

NYC Seen, the godfather of grafitti on ipainteveryday on vimeo

painting with the the godfather of graffiti, mr.seen

Ottograph, a large-scale muralist, has been slinging paint since the age of ten. Starting out in Amsterdam, where he is from, and then moving on to become an internationally sought after artist, Ottograph has established himself squarely in the middle of the global street and graffiti art movement. Simultaneously though, Ottograph has bridged the fine art gap with his work, an advantage that comes with age and time dedicated to painting. The Modern Art Museum of Antwerpen (Belgium) is home to a giant Ottograph mural. Otto also painted murals in Moscow, Tokyo, Berlin and San Fancisco. Ottograph’s contribution to street art extends beyond his own work, as he is also a community leader, having organized several cooperative painting commissions and operating the website “I Paint Everyday” www.ipainteveryday.com to encourage the tedious, yet necessary practice of serious painting.

A cult figure amongst skaters and graffiti artists, Ottograph’s drawings, paintings, and mixed-media installations take their inspiration from contemporary urban culture, incorporating elements such as empty cardboard boxes, tagged signs, wrenches, and scrap wood or metal. Ottograph is also known as ‘the lean mean painting machine’.

Writer David Choe to make $200 Million

February 7, 2012 | Aerosol, David Choe, Facebook, graf, graffiti, Hip Hop, millionaire, Montana, paint, spray-paint, Writer

David Choe now the Facebook Graffiti Artist could be worth $500 Million

David Choe, a San Jose writer who took $60,000 in Facebook stock for painting the first company office in 2005 is set to make more than $500 million in Facebook IPO. “People don’t remember, Facebook was a joke.” David said during an interview with Howard Stern. He mentioned how much he likes Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s founder, no shit. David also said he painted the company’s new headquarters for free. Why not, most writers never get paid for their art.
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BY THE TIME I GET TO ARIZONA

December 20, 2011

BY THE TIME I GET TO ARIZONA mural project is a collaboration of several artists throughout the country. This mural, as executed by the Momentum Art Team over a period of two days, is located in a Chicago Westside neighborhood. Their goal was to recreate Chuck D’s venture into the fine art medium for everyone to see. Chuck D, working in conjunction with Scenefour Art Collective, used this project to focus on the problems associated with ill-conceived immigration policies in Arizona. Watch as Momentum Art completely translates this message on a large scale.

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Prolific Chicago graffiti artist ‘Zeb’ ordered to pay $7,000 in damages for tagging subway cars

August 4, 2011

The Chicago art student who spray-painted his signature “Zeb” on subway cars up and down the East Coast will have to fork over $7,000 for his tagging obsession.

Zebadiah Arrington, 19, was sentenced to a conditional discharge today in Queens Supreme Court and ordered to pay $6,910 in damages over the next three years.
If he doesn’t, he’ll get locked up.

The prolific Chicago Art Institute student has left his signature tag with arrows at the bottom of the Z and B on subway cars in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Boston, Philadelphia and New Jersey.
He’s expected to receive a similar sentence Wednesday for tagging subway cars in Manhattan. The other cases are pending.

BY THOMAS ZAMBITO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

“Stony Island Soul” by: Rome

April 30, 2011

This is one of Rome’s www.romewon.com newest works. This is part of a 15′x 125 ‘ wall in southside Chicago titled “Stony Island Soul ” by : RK Design Crew www.rk1811.com.

Polymetric

March 4, 2011

Words and Photos by: Lauren Pirritano
Despite the industrial sized space, there was no room for mediocrity at the opening of the Murphy Hill Gallery’s latest six week exhibit. On Feb. 18 and 19 the gallery, which has been an influential part of the Lawndale community, presented the new exhibit Polymetric.

Featuring the works of five local Chicago artists, all members of the R.K. Design crew, Polymetric displayed a unique fusion often overlooked in the art community. Artists Rahmaan Statik, Max Sansing, Terance “Dred At8” Byas, Angel “Rome” Pagan, and Jose L. “Maser” Ramos all produced works which were distinct stylistically yet commingled as a collective in a way which mimicked the intricacies of African music.

The cohesion of the show is a layered, hybrid of style that Sansing describes as art that “works together and has a rhythm to it.” The term Polymetric comes from the description of West African drum music. It pronounces the multiplicity of musical rhythms and for the Polymetric it emphasizes the “non linear dynamic” that is so crucial to the reception of the exhibit.

Statik describes this non-linear dynamic as multidimensional. “It isn’t a thing where we are that one dimensional graffiti crew, you know, put your stickers up, you know that graff happens but that isn’t the focus, our focus is expanding and dropping quality work to like um set a new precedent,” he says. The work “wasn’t premeditated in a sense that we have a theme for this show. Why not take the work everybody was already currently working on and throw all that together and see how it adds up?”

The works of the exhibit may resemble typical street art in just a glance, but once you’ve taken your first look you will come to notice that this isn’t just typical street art. In fact, Polymetric is the
exhibit where urban street art and fine art collide. From Statik’s strikingly real works rich with duplicity, to the work of Rome where clean lines fade into wisps of color occasionally focusing on concrete subjects. From Byas the multimedia guru to Sansing’s dramatic use of color and painted portraits, not to mention Maser’s exemplary use of classical graffiti styles.

Rogers Park resident Yvonne Taylor, 56, describes the transitions she sees among and within the art work as “dimensional, contemporary, accessory, and spiritual.” “I find these images calming, I don’t feel challenged by them, I can relate myself here,” says Taylor.

Since its opening in November of 2006 the owners and curators of the Murphy Hill Gallery, Ralph Murphy and Bill Hill have seen many exhibits pass through their doors but none as dynamic and multilayered, yet so cohesive as Polymetric. In the next six weeks the Murphy Hill Gallery will feature talks from the R.K. artists. For the dates check out the R.K. Design website at www.rk1811.com

Meeting of Styles

August 30, 2010

Group Is Seeking a Legitimate Tag for Graffiti Artists

EverFresh Blackbook

August 4, 2010 | art, artist, Blackbook, deface, Everfresh, graffiti, illegal, Makatron, Meggs, Phibs, Prizm, Reka, Rone, spray-paint, street, Sync, tags, The Tooth, trains, vandals, Wonderlust

EverFresh Blackbook – the studio & the streets: 2004-2010

A TAXPAYER-backed publishing house has produced an $80 glossy coffee-table book that glorifies graffiti vandals who have defaced Melbourne.

Melbourne University Press is releasing Everfresh: Blackbook The Studio and Streets; 2004-2010 next month through its Miegunyah Press division.

The book includes pictures of trains, walls and public spaces daubed with illegal graffiti.

One image shows a vandal spray-painting a section of Flinders St station.

The book focuses on the vandalism of nine so-called street artists who share a secret “studio” in Collingwood.

Its foreword describes the work of the vandals – known as Sync, Phibs, Reka, Rone, Wonderlust, Prizm, Meggs, Makatron and The Tooth – as “a fusion of explosive colour, intricate line work, iconic characters and visual stories that can be appreciated not only in the streets and laneways of their native Melbourne, but around the world”.

Metro trains spokesman Chris Whitefield condemned the book.

He said graffiti and vandalism cost the company about $11 million a year, adding: “It’s despicable behaviour. Graffiti contributes to the perception of safety.

“It’s illegal and can have serious consequences for offenders caught.

“Our staff work very hard to quickly remove graffiti from across the network.

“We work with Vicpol to catch people in the act and prosecute them.”

Melbourne University Press would not comment on the book.

From: Sunday Herald Sun August 04, 2010