Moody
I stopped by Brooklyn’s Pandemic Gallery yesterday for a sneak peak at Moody’s American Runs on Graff show, which opens tomorrow. Fans of his incredibly clean design and signature characters are in for a real treat, as he’s pulled out all the stops and run with the Dunkin Donuts theme.
Grumpy Guidos
America Runs on Graff
Show Details
Worth reading: earlier this week, the artist spoke at length about his background in both graffiti and street art with Hyperallergic’s Emily Colucci.
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Tagged aa, america runs on graff, grumpy guidos, moody, mutz, pandemic gallery
Klub7 at Pandemic Gallery (photo by Luna Park)
KLUB7 – a 10 year old, Berlin-based, art collective focused on collaborative mural and illustration making – has been in New York for less than two weeks, but already their marks can be found in a number of Brooklyn neighborhoods. The group (represented by four of the collective’s six members on this outing) regularly creates intricate chalk installations on sidewalks in public spaces, drawing on their common vocabulary of hand-painted symbols, characters, and lettering. The pier at Coney Island and the Williamsburg Bridge bike path are but two of the locations the collective has hit. You can follow their New York adventures in real time here.
Klub7 at Coney Island (photo by Luna Park)
Of course, their aesthetic is also readily applied to walls, as is the case with this mural, painted on the side of a Williamsburg bakery.
Klub7 in Williamsburg (photo by Luna Park)
Klub7 in Williamsburg (photo by Luna Park)
Klub7 in Williamsburg (photo by Luna Park)
Come see what else KLUB7 have been up to at Pandemic Gallery this Saturday from 7-11pm. The show will feature a signature mural on one of the gallery walls as well as a selection of screen prints and other small works.
Klub7 @ Pandemic Gallery
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Tagged art collective, Berlin, chalk, fine art, germany, installations, klub7, murals, opening, pandemic gallery, street art
Stikman at Pandemic Gallery (photo by Luna Park)
I couldn’t be happier that Stikman, one of my favorite street artists, will be opening a show of all-new work at Brooklyn’s Pandemic Gallery tomorrow night. Titled “20″, the show marks an astonishing twenty year career of installing his now iconic stikmen characters on the streets. His ability to reinvent the stikman figure in new mediums and willingness to experiment with different configurations is seemingly boundless. Because the pieces are never the same, they are a challenge to find – but fans of his work no doubt agree there is a special thrill to recognizing one of his pieces.
Of the show, Stikman writes, “To celebrate twenty years of playing in the street with sticks I have created a special battalion of twenty figures to send out into the world with the hope that the friends of stikman will take him along on new journeys to places he has not yet been. I have also created twenty works on paper to commemorate the paper element associated with stikman. Ten of these are PAINTBLAST, which is a form of automatic painting that occurs when I paint the wood figures.”
Stikman at Pandemic Gallery (photo by Luna Park)
Stikman at Pandemic Gallery (photo by Luna Park)
Stikman at Pandemic Gallery (photo by Luna Park)
Stikman at Pandemic Gallery (photo by Luna Park)
Stikman at Pandemic Gallery (photo by Luna Park)
Stikman “20″
March 16-April 6, 2012
Opening: Friday, March 16, 7-11pm
Pandemic Gallery
37 Broadway btwn Kent and Wythe
Brooklyn, NY 11211
L train to Bedford ave, J train to Marcy ave, or Q59 bus to Broadway/Wythe
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Tagged 20, brooklyn, exhibition, installation, opening, pandemic gallery, sculpture, stencil, stick figures, stikman
Gabriel Specter (all photos by Luna Park)
I promise it’s not just all talk, but the evening of Friday the 17th is shaping up to be very busy with no less than 3 quality shows set to open. After hitting Snowblind at Klughaus in Chinatown and Inside Out featuring Cake and Don Pablo Pedro at Mighty Tanaka in Dumbo, I’ll end the night with “All Talk” at Pandemic. I don’t want to spoil any surprises, so I leave you with just a taste of what’s in store at Pandemic. Listen up: it’s going to be a good night for graffiti culture, so don’t miss out.
Jenna Hicock
Jesse Edwards x Jesus Saves
Noh J Coley
Merk
"All Talk"
"Paperboys" opens at Pandemic Gallery on Saturday 11/19 (photo by Becki Fuller)
This Saturday, November 19th, join Pandemic Gallery in welcoming some of my favorite artists for the opening of “Paperboys” featuring Labrona (Montreal), OverUnder (Reno), and ND’A (Brooklyn). Based on my preview of their work last night, this show is shaping up in a way that will please their current fans as well as winning them over some new ones.
ND'A preparing for the opening of "Paperboys" (photo by Becki Fuller)
OverUnder for "Paperboys" (photo by Becki Fuller)
Labrona for "Paperboys" (photo by Becki Fuller)
Labrona puts the "paper" in "Paperboys" (photo by Becki Fuller)
OverUnder for "Paperboys" (photo by Becki Fuller)
ND'A installing his work for "Paperboys" (photo by Becki Fuller)
OverUnder for "Paperboys" at Pandemic Gallery (photo by Becki Fuller)
ND'A: the final stretch! (photo by Becki Fuller)
Each artist is known for their free and spontaneous styles when painting outdoors, where you may wander upon ND’A's large, cartoonish murals in Bushwick or catch one of Labrona’s Mona Lisa-esque portraits and OverUnder’s birds as they fly by you on the side of a Trans American freight. Yet it is when these friends put their paint to paper & canvas that they have the luxury of time to fully develop and explore the themes and influences that have launched their work to international notoriety. For Paperboys, Labrona experiments with new spray painting techniques and layering to achieve looks that transmute between impressionistic, almost abstract forms to his colorfully combined take on surreal realism. In OverUnder’s gouache on butcher paper paintings, he invites the viewer on a tour of his favorite painting spots as he re-visits & re-creates a year spent in almost perpetual motion. ND’A works with bold black lines and sloppy, joyful fills to playfully analyze and critique his transition from street artist into a gallery ready painter. Though their mediums, styles and influences may differ, this trio of artists is brought together by an enduring love for creating art for art’s sake that has propelled them into a shared lifestyle of artistic freedom, transcending the limitations of lives more ordinary.
Paperboys
featuring the artwork of:
OVERUNDER / LABRONA / ND’A
Opening Reception: Saturday, Nov. 19th 7-11pm
show runs through Sun. Dec. 11th
Pandemic Gallery
37 Broadway (between Wythe and Kent)
Brooklyn, NY 11211
(917) 727-3466
pandemicgallery@gmail.com
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Tagged labrona, n'da, OverUnder, pandemic gallery, Paperboys
Wrona (photo by Becki Fuller)
Pandemic Gallery is getting a head start on the Halloween festivities with the opening of Wrona’s “Pretty Horrible” tonight, from 7-11pm. The dead-eyed glare of Wrona’s zombie stickers have been haunting the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn for the last decade, terrorizing hoards of drunken hipsters as they stumble home after a long night of drinking. And as usual, his gallery work never fails to impress, with his combined use of old school comic book drawing techniques with his polished painting style. Here’s a sneak peak at some of the thrills and chills that will be on display for all to fear tonight:
Wrona at Pandemic Gallery (photo by Becki Fuller)
Wrona at Pandemic Gallery (photo by Becki Fuller)
Wrona at Pandemic Gallery (photo by Becki Fuller)
Wrona at Pandemic Gallery (photo by Becki Fuller)
Wrona at Pandemic Gallery (photo by Becki Fuller)
Wrona at Pandemic Gallery (photo by Becki Fuller)
Pandemic Gallery Presents:
Wrona
“Pretty Horrible”
A demonic solo exhibition
Opening Sat. Oct. 15th
Opening Reception 7 – 11pm
show runs through 11/6/11
Tonight there are a couple of shows happening in the New York area, which I’m happy to say are featuring some of the best established and up-and-coming female artists around. Check out the “Heat Beaten” show at Pandemic Gallery in Brooklyn for works by the versatile Abby Goodman and Sofia Madlonado, as they say ‘goodbye’ to the summer and ‘hello’ to fall.
And at the Yonkers Riverfront Public Library the all-female collective YOUNITY presents “GODDESShood: Our land is our jewel” an art exhibition featuring 10 artists in conversation with the themes mother earth, the hood and sustainable farming. All of the artists in the exhibition, Lichiban, Swoon, Sofia Maldonado (a double threat tonight!), Krista Franklin, Marthalicia, Diana McClure, Faith 47, lmnop, Lady Alezia, and Alice Mizrachi, were asked to utilize the idea of the hood as a metaphor for not only local neighborhoods and urban culture, but also land, nature and the natural environment at large.
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Tagged abby goodman, alice mizrachi, diana mcclure, faith 47, krista franklin, lady alezia, lichiban, lmnop, marthalicia, pandemic gallery, sofia maldonado, swoon, YOUNITY
It was back in early 2007 when I first laid eyes on Leon Reid IV (aka Darius Jones of Darius and Downey). He was giving a talk on on street art at The Pure Project and I was greatly impressed by the lengths that this unassuming guy wearing a cardigan and a bow tie was going to in order to bring his unique combination of humor, wit and artistic talent to the public. The idea that someone would have the audacity to dress up like a contractor and install his work in broad daylight was pretty crazy to me, but that was exactly what he was doing. Four years later, Reid is no longer busy outsmarting police but instead has a steady output of legal and commissioned public works as well as his first solo show “A Decade of Public Art” opening at Pandemic Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on Saturday night.
The show is a real insight into the artist’s process, exhibiting many of his sketches, models, and photographs dating back to his graffiti days as VERBS and of his installations from around the world. And be sure to look up before entering the gallery – otherwise you might miss his site specific installation for Pandemic Gallery!
Leon Reid “A Decade of Public Art” from Becki Fuller on Vimeo.
Leon Reid IV: A Decade Of Public Art
Photography, sculpture and drawings exhibiting the span of Leon Reid IV’s public artwork, 2000- present.
On Display:
Sat. April 16 – Sun. May 8, 2011
Opening Reception
Sat. April 16, 2011 7-11pm
Pandemic Gallery
37 Broadway b/w Kent and Wythe
Brooklyn, NY 11211
www.pandemicgallery.com
Gallery hours:
Tues.-Fri. 11-6pm
Sat. & Sun. 12-7pm
closed Monday
or by appointment
L train to Bedford ave, J train to Marcy ave, or Q59 bus to Broadway/Wythe
¡NO HABLA ESPAÑOL! is El Celso’s most personal show to date. This new series of works was inspired by a recent trip to Peru where the artist became obsessed with posters made in the “chicha” style. These hand-made posters line city streets all over Peru and generally feature an eye-popping neon color palette and commercial graphics-inspired lettering. They are generally used to advertise working class concerts and other events. During a recent trip around Peru, in 2010, Celso began collecting discarded and out-of-date fragments of these posters – known as afiches chicha in Spanish – from the streets of towns such as Chachapoyas, Chiclayo, Cajamarca and Lima (to name a few).
Further inspired by their look, he established contact with the esteemed Fortunato Urcuhuaranga at, the Publicidad Viusa print workshop that originated this iconic DayGlo look back in the 1980s. (Urcuhuaranga is a former radio DJ and he originally created these posters to advertise his station’s musical happenings.) Based on the outskirts of Lima, in the suburb of San Juan, Ate, this renowned family-run studio has produced posters for countless local Peruvian acts, as well as visual artists and arts organizations around the world.
In collaboration with the Urcuhuarangas, Celso created a series of posters inspired by the Peruvian chicha style. However Celso’s posters are a wry play on the idea of the advertisement: event posters created for non-events. Since last year, he has installed dozens of these on the streets of New York and Miami.
His exhibit and installation at the Pandemic Gallery will feature these colorful pieces, as well as fragments of the original Peruvian street posters that inspired them. Also on display will be a series of intricate collages on wood that recreate the feel of the way these posters inhabit the street. Most importantly, the show will feature a diminutive discotheque – a free-standing structure that will feature light, sound and wild graphics. All of it will serve as a tribute to contemporary Peruvian nightlife culture.
“Perros”
“Celura”
the poster that inspired it all, torn from the streets of Peru
building the discotheque – bring your dancing shoes!
¡NO HABLA ESPAÑOL!
New works and an installation featuring Peruvian vernacular posters – and a diminutive discotheque
On Display:
March 11 – April 2, 2011
Opening Reception
Friday, March 11, 2011, 7-11pm
Pandemic Gallery
37 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY 11211
(Between Kent & Wythe)
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Tagged chica, el celso, ELC, Fortunato Urcuhuaranga, NO HABLA ESPAÑOL, pandemic gallery, peru, poster, Publicidad Viusa
Please join the Street Spot for the closing of Veng’s Identifiable Reality show and a free screening of Florian Gaag’s excellent Wholetrain film at Pandemic Gallery this Friday at 7:00pm. Internationally renowned writers Neon, Won, Cemnoz, Pure TFP and Ciel produced artwork for the rolling stock in the film – the finished whole train gliding across the screen is something to be seen! Drippy marker tags, hot aerosol on steel action, writer beef, trainyard ninja stylings, police drama – this is hands down one of the best fictionalized portrayals of the graffiti lifestyle that I’ve seen to date. Come see the film and stay to celebrate Veng’s work – see you Friday.
Pandemic Gallery
37 Broadway (between Wythe and Kent)
Brooklyn, NY 11211
