Vandal Squad Book List…
These are just some of the New York City graffiti writer’s being named in Joe Rivera’s “PigEnforcement” book:
This list is from a email fact checker list..
Fat Joe
SI
SCAE
PESOS
LES
PEN, SHINE, NOBS
NOVA, CANE, FRESH, SURS, CUBA, SEME
ABOT, MISTA, FEES, FACET, NETR, TECH
DECK
SCANT
CAP
SANE MPC
YKK: JA, FOE, KEZ 5, SPOT, SKUF, NAISHA
Us Crew: PUT, JAZE, NEO
MENOS, FREE5
SERG
“their fact checker trying to make sure that what he says about people is true”….a quote from the original email
Things I Picked up Along the Way (photo)
Whitewalls SF is currently showing Greg Larmache artworks..you can look at the pieces online at http://www.whitewallssf.com/gallery.php?artist_id=current
We Come at Night 2006
In August of 2006 I took part in a project which I feel is one of the more important Graffiti and Street Art related events in the last decade. The outsides project was completely illegal yet it was a corporate sponsored venture. It was impressive on so many levels, with a crew of artists arriving from all over the globe, we all set out to confront the current public and creative debate of what is legitimate art and at what point do you sell out or is it selling out or just ‘corporate bombing’ as I coined it years ago. We have evolved it into a culture that still relies on the public if not ourselves to critic and observe our work but what does it mean when you deliberately do it with big bucks behind you? Where do Brand ‘YOU and Brand ‘Them’ meet to get the exposure and execution desired? This project brought up a lot of heated debate and in the end was successful at provoking us and the Public to discuss the current strategies of contemporary Graffiti artists and street artists and Brand corporations, in this case Red Bull.
Book Release & Charity Auction
Ad Hoc Art is thrilled to be hosting and supporting a special silent auction benefit Free Arts NYC and to celebrate the launch of Brooklyn Street Art, a new book of photographs by Jaime Rojo, designed by Steven P. Harrington, and published by Prestel.
Ad Hoc Art is generously donating their gallery space for the celebration and silent auction of approximately 25 works by well-known, emerging, and yet to be discovered artists who know no boundaries and follow no rules–their artistic turf is the public gallery of the Brooklyn streets. The artists, whose work animates the pages of this new full-color book, are donating their original or editioned works to be bid up and auctioned off, with all proceeds from the winning sales going directly to benefit Free Arts NYC’s creative arts and mentoring programs for at-risk children and families in New York.
Some of the artists whose work will be available for sale include Armsrock, DAIN, Elbowtoe, Gaia, Judith Supine, MOMO, Skewville, Swoon, WK Interact, among MANY more amazing artists! Some of the artists have participated in Free Arts NYC’s programs previous to this event and are creating original work to donate to this benefit event to generate significant support for Free Arts NYC.
The auction will be the only silent portion of the celebratory evening. DJ Flub will be enthralling the crowd with his razor wit and rocking decks as the benefit guests enjoy both the Ad Hoc Art gallery and the Ad Hoc Art studio, opened to the general public for the first time to highlight the screen-printing facilities and educational programs that instructors from Peripheral Media Projects call home, as well as many local and international artists.
Brooklyn Street Art Silent Benefit Auction Friday, April 25th, 2008, 7-10 pm (last bids at 9:30 pm) Press preview from 6-7 pm
Ad Hoc Art, 49 Bogart St. Bushwick, Brooklyn
Immediately following the Free Arts NYC benefit auction guests are invited to continue celebrating three blocks from Ad Hoc Art with a booty-shaking Afterparty at Wreck Room. The afterparty will feature DJ Mojo, Stay High, live art performances by the collective ArtBattles, projections, sign spinning, and surprise guests.
For more information on Free Arts NYC please visit http://www.freeartsnyc.org
For more information on the book Brooklyn Street Art and to see images of the donated artworks in the days before the benefit auction please visit http://www.BrooklynStreetArt.com
