Shai Dahan is known for his iconic realistic rendition of the Swedish Dala Horses. Shai uses them as a metaphor for urban art to create a dialogue between the conformity and foundation of Royal history and the scorned graffiti culture that authoritative leaders have tried to prevent from advancement. In his latest exhibition that opens next week at The Scarlett Gallery, VICE & VIRTUE is a symbolic alteration of Swedish Royal figures and sovereignty ripped apart by unbound graffiti impressions. In vivid forms of graffiti tags, Swedish Royal and monarch names dating back centuries, are placed in almost an architectural manner to decorate figures to poetically carry vandalism into art.
Have you ever felt a feeling so dark that all you could do was create something neon through the distortion? Def Sound knows the feeling all too well. The emcee’s latest experimental glitch visual for his track “†ruly . bright .” is a product of feeling a feeling so strong that it inspired him to pull over his car on Overhill & Slauson (ya know right by The Yee’s across the street from Simply Wholesome?) and record this song in his car to a musical masterpiece by producer Shlohmo’s called “Places.”
“A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.”
– James Joyce
Tyler Varsell is a young collage and mixed media artist from CT who focuses on themes of identity, separation, eros, and serendipitous discovery. After graduating from the University of Hartford in 2011 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Multimedia Web Design & Development (concentration in Media Arts). She was employed with the University of Hartford from 2008-2011 updating and maintaining Admissions websites, and currently work as the Web Presence Manager for a girls preparatory school.
Summer is my favorite season. My birthday, booty shorts, soothing swelter, beach side, pool side, any-side as long as it’s outside type of weather. NAIRA’s new single “Put Me On” is the perfect start to what looks like three months of epic behavior.
Self-described as both student and teacher, Atlanta based painter Matt Hughes is best known for giving rise to Gothic Art Nouveau.
Let’s BEY honest, Gay men invented #SWAG. We are deep in fashion, art, literature, publishing and every other industry, but mainstream Hip-Hop. The question is always asked, is the world ready for an openly gay rapper? I’d say yes. It doesn’t matter if they’re fighting gender roles by donning six inch stilettos or Jerseys and Timbaland boots, as long as the music is exceptional anything can happen. That’s where artists like AB Soto come into play.
Chris Riggs for Mayor, because killing them with color, always works more than kindness.
Give A Wall Street Banker Enough Rope And He Will Hang Himself…
The Fine Art of Tailoring is a New Fashion Art Label, a collaboration between Fashion Entrepreneur and Designer Camille Lorigo (of Che Camille), Abstract Graffiti Artist Mark Lyken and Tailor Jennie Dear. The label creates handmade, hand-painted and one of a kind wearable garments carefully balanced in both design and construction.
