On his vimeo account, street artist Spidertag, who has been doing graffiti for over 10 years, writes that, ” the new geometry is in the streets.” His work features geometric figures, which are created using yarn.
Spidertag
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Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video @ the Guggenheim Museum – On View Through May 14
Earlier this week, the Guggenheim Museum presented the exhibition, Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video. The exhibition is on view through May and it features written text, audio recording, video and photographs by Oregon-born photographer Carrie Mae Weems (Some of Weems’ most recent works will also be presented in an upcoming exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem on Jan.30).
She’s best known for her Kitchen Table Series (1990), which featured stunning vignettes of her around the kitchen table. In an interview with the New York Times’ Lens blog last year, Weems explained how the project challenged her to find beauty in the mundane mileu of everyday life: “…it doesn’t have to be the ‘real moment as seen spontaneously in life, but that it can be constructed in my living room, my dining room, in my kitchen, in my backyard, and it can be equally honorable, if not more so, than the actual ‘document’ of that reality,” she said.
According to the Guggenheim:
The exhibition traces the evolution of Weems’s career over the last 30 years, from her early documentary and autobiographical photographic series to the more conceptual and philosophically complex works that have placed her at the forefront of contemporary art. Although Weems employs a variety of means to address an array of issues, all of her work displays an overarching commitment to better understanding the present by closely examining history and identity. It also contains a desire for universality: while African Americans are typically her primary subjects, Weems wants “people of color to stand for the human multitudes” and for her art to resonate with all audiences.
Ino’s “Dream on Him”
Graffiti writer ino uses fat cap spray caps to paint his latest wall, “Dream On Him,”which features a pair of stunning yet ghostly portraits that seem as if they are floating above the ground.
Kudzanai Chiurai – Dying to Be Men
From Goodman Gallery:
Dying to be Men continues Chiurai’s interest in the aesthetics of propaganda, and interrogates the visual legacy of political representation. At the convergence of major political events – elections in South Africa, the USA and Zimbabwe – Chiurai hones in on aspects of the image of the black president and his cabinet in particular. As such, the works on show unpack notions of masculinity and power, as evocatively suggested by the title of the exhibition
Jean-Michel Basquiat @ Gagosian Gallery through April. 6
The Gagosian Gallery will be presenting the works of Jean-Michel Basquiat starting Feb.7.
Lucinda Luvaas @ Walter Wickiser Gallery through Feb. 27
Source: Walter Wickiser Gallery
Saber: “If you have a dream or a wish, you need to do it and you need to fight for it.”
Los Angeles Graffiti artist/painter Saber sits down with Thrash Lab for their “Profiles” series. Here’s an excerpt from the interview:
Art gets a bad rep because it’s considered something that’s elite and something that only an elite person can understand when that’s not true because every single kid in the world picked up a crayon once and had that little spark and to me that’s what’s the most important thing..that little spark. And I couldn’t have been part of that spark without the people before me and without some of the hard lessons that I learned along that road. So if you have a dream or a wish, you need to do it and you need to fight for it. And if you lose doing it, at least you tried.
Submergence
Can you imagine being lost in this lighting contraption? I’d bet you’d be too mesmerized to even mind.
Submergence is a Squidsoup project by Anthony Rowe, Gaz Bushell, Chris Bennewith, Liam Birtles and Ollie Bown that explores reality and the virtual world we probably thought we could only visualized on our computer screens. It was created through 8, 064 individual points of LED light that dangles in a walk-through space.
Submergence is on display at Galleri ROM in Oslo, Norway through Feb. 17.
One City – Eight Artists – Seven Days: Baltimore
Baltimore has a reputation for being a tough city, but a few local artists are transforming the city through murals and other vibrant street art. This video documents the works of eight Baltimore street artists over the span of a week.
Here’s some info on two of the artists featured in the video:
Michael Owen is using art to inspire communities Baltimore City. He is the creator and head artist of the Baltimore Love Project, which spreads messages of love through murals featuring hands that depict the spelling of the word “love.”
Broadway East, 2313 North Ave.
Michael Owen
From New York to Amsterdam, Gaia‘s works have been showcased on the streets and in galleries in the states and overseas. As a matter of fact, the Baltimore-based artist, who also splits his time in Brooklyn, New York, is taking part in an exhibition at Cape Town’s A Word Of Art.
Gaia
Lubomyr Melnyk – Corollaries [Album Trailer]
Ukrainian pianist/composer Lubomyr Melnyk is teaming up with the UK label Erased Tapes for his upcoming album, Corollaries. In this fascinating video, edited by SpringerParker, American contemporary artist Gregory Euclide finds inspiration in the early mixes of Melnyk’s recordings as he paints. The video features an excerpt from the solo piano track, “The Six Day Moment.”
Corollaries will be released on April 15, 2013.
The Beauty In The Dark 
