Photographer Urban Outlaw gives us an in-depth tour of Sheffield’s best street art featuring the work of street artist Phlegm. Take a sip of this tea, and travel overseas with us to a place where the motto should be, “go big, or go to Paris.”
“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I’ve ever known.”
– Chuck Palahniuk from “Invisible Monsters”
We kissed Elizabeth Winnel and we liked it. The Toronto, based painter received a BFA from in illustration from Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia. Her current work begins each painting with a layer of drips, splashes and bleeding, the ‘associative layer’ binding form and color for emotive effect. The second layer depicts herself in vulnerable and often erotic poses. The aim is not self-objectification, but reflection and analysis. In her paintings she endeavors to make apparent the dichotomy of interior and exterior in relation to her self-image. Take a closer look at some of her work below.
When the video for Lana Del Rey’s “Video Games” spread like a wildfire across the Internuts earlier this year I was initially skeptical. As a rule of thumb anything that Pitchfork heralds that early on I side-eye out of respect for the way things should be. Fast forward to a top 25 pre-ordered album on Amazon, a cover on Billboard, Complex and Interview Magazine and an abysmal SNL performance that would make Ashlee Simpson do the ho-down back to Hollywood–and Lana is looking more like Mitt Romney, than Ron Paul. Gone was our indie darling image, in it’s place was some kind of abominable indie-pop conspiracy, a lip injected, spoiled, manufactured, super-rich airhead being sold to a gullible world as indie-pop royalty when in reality she’s more like the Kim Kardashian of Pop Music, a musical example of the things that money can buy.
Olek‘s first solo exhibition in the UK, opens this Thursday, January 26 at Tony’s Gallery in London. Entitled I do not expect to be a mother, but I do expect to die alone, the show runs through March 23, and features a bevy of her signature crocheted mixed media sculptural environments which according to the artist, “tell a story that’s a reflection of life, love trust and lust in our trying modern times.”
It’s 2012. This December, the world is ending depending on who you believe and with only minutes to the top, Atlanta based band Arrow in the Air is reaching for the sky despite the Mayan’s prediction. If you’ve frequented Art Nouveau Magazine, you may recognize the lead singer Sye Spence, former solo artist who’s worked extensively with us on numerous projects. With her new band, a new sound, attitude and direction, Arrow in the Air is ready to touch the sky.
By the age of 18, Niels Shoe Meulman was a rising graffiti legend, known by his street moniker of “Shoe.” Niels was influential in creating an innovative style of European graffiti alongside his crew Crime Time Kings, which he formed with Bando from Paris and Mode2 from London. This March, 941 Geary will show new works by the Amsterdam-based artist in a solo exhibition entitled Justified Scriptures.
Bruno Dias lives in a tropical country, a fact that inspires and drives his work to explore themes of regional Brazilian culture in a free, personal and playful manner. His street art expresses the relationship between physical space and the people of the country. Graffiti is an important reference for his work but it’s the feelings from the nature and the chaos around us which ensure the various painting techniques of manual, digital, spray paint and found art show through. Forever young and spontaneous, Bruno Dias’ latest works take an international dimensional as he showcases not only his unique style, but the unique style of Brazil’s regional culture to the world.
Hot chicks and video games are from two different worlds. But if you’re Almost Always, those worlds collide daily like a one two kick in Street Fighter. A collaboration between Curbside Jones (the words) and Corey Arnell (the beats), Almost Always’ first single “Hot Chicks x Arcade Sticks” is an ode to the 80′s, 8-bits and video games. Listen and download “Hot Chicks x Arcade Sticks” below.
Victoria Viray aka Prettymonkey26 likes to draw/paint things–very sexy things. Using a wide variety of mediums, from vectors to digital painting, traditional charcoals to acrylics, her style can be summed up in several words; punk, rock, sexy, sensual, fluid, angst, beauty, woman, feminine, orgasmic.
Angelos Frentzos’ menswear line is based on his expansive taste for contemporary art, music and new age attitude. The Athens, Greece born designer started working in the industry after graduating Athens’ School of Fine Arts and Printing Design in 1992.
Extreme contrast is one of the quickest ways to get a viewer to notice what sets something apart from something else. This distinction is important because, it’s the way we as humans identify each other. We know ourselves, by looking at what others aren’t. This stark contrast is heavy at play in the work of Toyin Odutola.
