Arrested Motion

Yearly Archives: 2011

Overtime: Feb. 14 – Feb. 20

Posted by Khoi, February 20, 2011

Faith47 interviewed on video by the Ginkgo Agency. Romance ain’t dead – check out video of this street art tour filled with symbolic imagery of a couple’s relationship, culminating in the ultimate question. Grown men fighting over a Banksy billboard. New work from Escif, Paul Insect, and Office Supplies Incorporated. Google street art view. Crash x TUMI luggage. Jef Aerosol showing at Musée des Avelines. LUSH brashly answers an interview with art. Curtis Kulig x Love Me x The Standard, Downtown LA video by Skullphone. […]

Streets: ROA (Mexico)

Posted by sleepboy, February 19, 2011

One of the hardest working street artists in the game, ROA recently made a special trip to Mexico where he took time to throw up a bunch of murals (you can see more on Unurth). Not only did he reprise his signature “stacked pile” of animals, but he also chose creatures we have never seen him use before. Also, for those lucky enough to be in the UK, he has already gotten up in East London as well as created a monster installation at Black […]

Teaser: Jacub Gagnon – “Elements and Oddities” @ Thinkspace

Posted by sleepboy, February 19, 2011

Coming up at the end of April, Jacub Gagnon will be bringing a whole new body of work to the Thinkspace Gallery in Culver City. The Toronto-based artist paints in stunning detail the interplay between animals and various chosen objects often with clever juxtapositions. Also showing jointly at the same time is Yosuke Ueno (teaser pic after the jump…)

Showing: Michael Page – “Into Passing” @ Shooting Gallery SF

Posted by sleepboy, February 19, 2011

Michael Page (interviewed) continued to take his work in the direction we last saw at his show in March of last year (covered) with the inclusion of more abstract and loose elements as well as bold palette choices. The new body of work showing at the Shooting Gallery in SF explores the “immediacy of the human experience through the examination of macabre themes such as death and the eternal passage of time.” More pics after the jump via the gallery…

Openings: ‘Mixed Doubles’ @ Signal Gallery

Posted by sven, February 18, 2011

AM attended our first opening at Signal Gallery’s new and much larger space for their Mixed Doubles group exhibition last week. John Squire was probably the first artist we ever collected from ‘art prints’ from back in the late 80’s when he produced Pollack-esque cover art for his band The Stone Roses. We collected the band’s limited 12 inch records (and still have them) with the limited art prints included in the package. Fast forward to 2011 and Squire is still working within the realm […]

Teaser: Clare Rojas – “Inside Bleak” @ PRISM Gallery

Posted by sleepboy, February 18, 2011

It was during the opening of the wonderfully curated Come As You Are group show (covered) at the PRISM Gallery that we first saw these abstract works from Clare Rojas. There’s no telling if she will continue to explore this new direction, but she will be returning to the three story architectural space on the western end of the Sunset Strip this Saturday night, February 26th with a new body of work entitled Inside Bleak as well as a performance under her stage name Peggy […]

Openings: “Art Machine” @ The Hole Gallery & ALIFE

Posted by juggernut3, February 18, 2011

AM got a chance to attend the opening of Art Machine at The Hole recently. The collaboration between the gallery and NY fashion collective ALIFE featured a special vending machine where artwork could be purchased and dispensed. We got there before the public was allowed in and watched the final “stocking” of the goods. With artwork and goodies from artists such as Matt Leines, Ricky Powell & Kenny Scharf, it was sort of a rush to get in front of the crowd to get a […]

Setup / Preview – POW WOW ’11

Posted by juggernut3, February 18, 2011

It’s been a crazy few days since we landed in sunny Hawaii where the crew has been in the thick of getting ready for the big POW WOW ’11. We worked alongside our friends at Hypebeast, Booooooom and the rest of the sponsors to stretch canvases and build modular installation platforms in anticipation for Saturday night’s opening. Artists such as Will Barras, Meggs, Ekundayo, Prime, Jeff Hamada, 123Klan, Kamea Hadar and Jasper Wong have begun working on their various murals. It’s looking to be a tremendous event come […]

Streets: JR (Venice, CA)

Posted by sleepboy, February 17, 2011

It looks like street photographer JR is back in Southern California after Eurotrash took over the Lazarides pop-up gallery last July. If you remember, as an adjunct for that show, he worked on a sweet collaboration with Vhils in downtown LA. This time, the French street activist will be bringing his “The Wrinkles of the City” project over to the States after it’s original start in Shanghai. Here is a piece he put up in Venice, the first in a series of twenty large-scale photos […]

Recommended openings for this weekend (Feb. 18th/19th)

Posted by Andrew Hosner, February 17, 2011

Following a very robust early February due in part to some very high profile shows opening, things slow a lil’ bit the world over this weekend. Leading the charge will be the big POW WOW event over in Hawaii and DABS MYLA’s debut out in the desert at M Modern in Palm Springs alongside a small showing of new works on paper from the legendary SHAG. Looking ahead to March, we’ll have major solo shows to look forward to from the likes of Jose Parla, […]