Special Edition: ArtSlant STREET #1

Make Art Now Ask Questions Later By Natalie Hegert Art in the street is unapologetically decorative, consumed with style, fiercely DIY, ideologically messy, and very difficult to define. Jeffrey Deitch’s bold claim, that graffiti is “arguably the most influential art movement since Pop,” was meant to rile people up... ...For all its faults (and it had many), MoCA's Art in the Streets was a positive step for graffiti and street art in that it opened up a much-needed room for critical discourse and inquiry. All of its shortcomings and omissions are simply opportunities for further discussion. With this inaugural edition of ArtSlant Street, we propose to continue this conversation... Read more...
ARTSLANT STREET SPONSOR Wunderkammern exhibits a genre of work influenced by 'relational art' and 'public art,' including street art. On 29th September 2012, Wunderkammern will present Suspension Of Disbelief a group show with Monica Canilao, Escif, Peter Fend and Emiliano Ponzi.
New Interview: Pablo Delgado By Charlotte Jansen London: Pablo Delgado is a relative newcome whose work has been quietly emerging on London's streets, if you can spot it. His scattered miniature people paste-ups depicting all kinds of scenes from the everyday to the surreal, have become well-documented on the web. Reconfiguring images taken from the net, Delgado's figures, only a few inches high, are something like Alice in Wonderland interloping with the Borrowers, living in a parallel world existing alongside our own. Not meant to shock or offend, Delgado's creations work instead on the experience of childlike surprise.  Though he might not have grown up with street art, coming out of a more traditional artistic background in Mexico, Delgado’s style is nonetheless...Read more...	In the Archive: Shepard Fairey By Abraham Ritchie Chicago: "Some people in graffiti and street art say, 'That’s not cool because graffiti is all about rebellion; we don’t want to be co-opted.'  That’s fine for them.  But a lot of people just want to get their work out there in a way that is immediate and they’ve been building towards opportunities that they’ve been creating for themselves. "Of course [an art exhibition of graffiti] is a polarizing thing in the graffiti community.  But I don’t think it’s particularly healthy for the loudmouths in graffiti or street art to try to shut conversation down, or for the loudmouths in public policy to say that all street art is vandalism or gang-related.  They’re both very narrow-minded mentalities"...Read more...
Mural Painting Project of the New Countryside Laboratory By Edward Sanderson The unannounced appearance one day of a sign painter covering a Chinese villager’s wall with an advert for the state telco, China Mobile, inspired Lijiang Studio, an arts organisation located in a small farming community in the South West of China, to think about how public space was used in the village and led to the development of their Mural Painting Project as part of their “New Countryside Laboratory"... Read more...
Editor's Picks Los Angeles - Merry Karnowski  PRINTWORKS PAST AND PRESENT Group show... til July 28th.	San Francisco - White Walls  TRUTH IN MYTH MEGGS solo show... til August 4th.
New York - Weldon Arts FOUR BOROUGH Cassius Fouler solo show... til August 11th.	Boston - ICA OS GEMEOS Opens August 1st, til November 25th. ...More Editor's Picks
ARTSLANT STREET SPONSORS With a keen eye focused on "street art" and the New York emerging art scene the Dorian Grey Gallerycontinues to be the premier exhibition space and “voice” for numerous local undiscovered and rising artistic talents. Dorian Grey Gallery's current exhibit, XCIA Street Artists Unite, ends Aug. 5th, and Free Art, with Ted Mikulski opens Aug 11th- Sept 2nd.
Based in Redhill in Surrey, EPOCH Art Gallery is ideally situated between London and Brighton. We specialise in signed limited edition urban and street art prints and originals. We offer a complete bespoke picture framing service with all work undertaken on-site. All of our signed limited edition prints have been sourced either direct with the artist or through their publishers and all artwork comes with an individual certificate of authentication, guaranteeing its provenance.
THE DECONSUMPTIONISTS, Art As Archive, (2006-present); Photo credit: ©2012 Paul Lamarre. EIDIA House’s newest project, THE DECONSUMPTIONISTS—situated in a truck yard in Bushwick, Brooklyn—is a performative in situ art installation, addressing a reevaluation of capitalism and consumption. Plans for the project are to involve other artists with similar practices to exhibit within the trailer (and for a traveling exhibition.) By appointment into 2013, contact Paul Lamarre to visit or to present a proposal.
Billi Kid, Beware of Players Bearing Gifts, acrylic, aerosol spray stencil painted on a slice of the 2011 NBA All-Star Court, 48 x 48 in. The “notoriously harmonious” Billi Kid is a street artist determined to refine his voice while leaving an indelible mark on the over saturated urban and cyber landscapes. A life-long doodler, art enthusiast and design junkie, his work blurs the lines between graffiti, pop culture, iconography and art.
Elinore Bucholtz, White Shadows, 2012, acrylic on canvas, 22 x 36 in. After an education at UCLA, Adelphi University, and the Art Students League, Elinore Bucholtz's art career has gathered momentum with numerous shows through various arts organizations. Her abstract art is loose and free flowing and has been described as "intuitive," "spontaneous," and “creating a sense of 'limitless space.'" Her work is now in numerous collections both on the east and the west coast as well as in England.
Melissa Laskin, Squares, 2011, acrylic, 24 x 35.5 in. Melissa Laskin is a fashion designer and abstract painter. After a career as a celebrity stylist, doing major ad campaigns, commercials, music videos, and magazine covers, Laskin returned to painting, developing her own unique style of expression.