Felix and Dexter, a duo of artists and brothers from the Bronx, are exhibiting their latest works at the Angel Orensanz Foundation in the Lower East Side tonight. With previous features in the NY Times and New York Magazine, the due intends on utilizing mixed media to once again garner recognition of their craft.

Felix & Dexter Present: FELIX & DEXTER
Opening Novermber 21st | 7:00pm
On view November 21-30 | M-F, 11 am-5pm
Angel Orensanz Foundation
www.orensanz.org
172 Norfolk Street
New York, NY 10011

Music brought to you by Mike Swoop & Jo Q
refreshments will be served
on view through Nov. 30th

From Futura’s Nosferatu to Kaws Companion pieces, vinyl toys have become a staple in any art enthusiast’s collection. Artist and designer Lucky Bunny shows the world his take on vinyl art with a second rendition of the Grenade Bunny. Oxidized paints coupled with a safety pin create a hybrid bunny rabbit grenade. Limited to 20 pieces, the Grenade Bunny is currently available at Hold Up Art for $200 retail.

Tired of dull dinners? Need creative conversation during your meals? Want to delve into the details of your next marketing campaign with fellow, like-minded, individuals? Well fret not all of you Don Draper’s of the world. Sam Kim of Skimkim Foods and Kat Popiel of On Plate, Still Hungry have come together to generate an event series that incorporates food and art, with a dash of networking, entitled: Something I Ate. See below for more details:

SOMETHING I ATE is collaborative food + art event series created by Sam Kim of Skimkim Foods and Kat Popiel of On Plate, Still Hungry. Aimed to create a platform for creatives to converge using food and drink as a vehicle for connectivity; invited artists are asked to document 7 days of their personal eating experience from zero to x ‘meals’ a day, then to produce an exclusive artwork using whichever media they prefer (photo, paint, jewelry, fashion, film, music, etc). Following this Sam Kim designs a specialty dish inspired by the art piece paired with cocktails.

With Something I Ate, we intend to share various perceptions of food in everyday life and give creatives a dynamic atmosphere in which to potentially collaborate with other creatives on their own future work. The idea is from food, we derive pleasure, satisfaction, energy and inspiration and these elements, whether cognizant of them or not, ignite our creative fires. We hope that by engaging in a ‘breaking bread’ environment creatives will become more at home to explore working with other creatives in the room.

Participating artists include: Shantell Martin, Kinfolk Bicycles, Brian Hubble, Valissa Yoe, Duffy Higgins, Charles Shedden, SlantShack Jerky, Sam Kim, James McDuffee and Mark Byron.

Food & Drink Contributors include: Q Tonic, Asahi, Smart Water, SlantShack Jerky, Landhaus, Roaming Acres, Solerno and La Newyorkina.

Music will be provided by DJ Lloydski. Event photos by Ultra Clay.

Please join us by purchasing tickets for $30 at http://somethingiateny.eventbrite.com.

Event Details:
Thursday, July 28^th (7-10pm)
Kinfolk Studios
90 Wythe Avenue (between N11th & N12th)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Contact: somethingiateny@gmail.com

Social Media:
http://twitter.com/somethingiateny

https://www.facebook.com/somethingiateny

Legendary artist, and our good friend, ERIC HAZE just hooked up a 40′ mural outside the Standard LA downtown. “With all the painting and installations going on around downtown LA last month, I was psyched to have a mural project of my own lined up in the neighborhood too,” gleams Eric.

Finished mural and pics of HAZE and his partner in crime CR creating the piece. You can check out his post on 12oz prophet for more pics and info.

Finished:

Goodnight Goodbye: A Beautiful Evening In A Closed Mind from UnkleLuc on Vimeo.

“Through the lights, cameras, and action, glamor glitters and gold” - Nas

Over the past few years the Miami music and arts scenes have truly flourished. The Wynwood Art District area is flush with art galleries that are bustling during the monthly “Art Walk” festivities. It also helps to have a resurgence in creativity every Spring and Winter with Art Basel and the Winter Music Conference. While Miami is known for their established art and music staples such as  Romero Britto, the MSG Cartel, Rick Ross, and DJ Craze, a ‘New Miami’ is surfacing with fresh talent and perspective. We’ve discussed some of the members previously in our “New Found Hype” article.

I want to shift your focus to a duo of directors,Luc “UnkleLuc” Alexandre and Andres “Personal” Antonio, whose moving portrait entitled “Goodnight Goodbye: A Beautiful Evening In A Closed Mind” takes you on “a journey through a dreamers mind.” This abstract video, left open to your imaginative interpretation, has a haunting narrative voice that guides you through the various stages of the subject’s world, accompanied by an apt soundtrack keeps your mind on edge. Watch this video twice. Not for the sake of views, but to attain a clear cognizance and understanding of what you just processed. It is definitely not what you initially thought it to be. Have fun with this rabbit hole, Alice.

Follow the gentlemen behind the art:

twitter.com/​Sydneyisnow
twitter.com/​Unkleluc
twitter.com/​Melveezy

Calligraphy: “artistic, stylized, or elegant handwriting or lettering” (Merriam-Webster).

Letters of Love: an expression that calligraphy should be more universal with Love being the catalyst of that message.

Wissam Shawkat is an Iraqi Calligrapher who chose his love for creativity over his civil engineering practice.  His work with calligraphy meshes a perfect blend between historical approaches and his own unique contemporary style.  Wissam has literally engineered his own style of calligraphy, an ode to truly expressing oneself.  Wissam and Jeff Staple have teamed up to bring the Letters of Love exhibit to Reed Space, which happens to be Wissam’s first visit and gallery within the United States.  Check out the video below for a recap of the opening reception and an interview with Wissam Shawkat himself.

Fernando Ruíz Lorenzo isn’t just an artist. He is “Style Wars” meets master calligrapher. This Puerto Rican artist, born in Washington Heights and raised in The Bronx, brings you his latest exhibition entitled ESCRITURA, which is curated by Tom Wolf, a professor of Art History at Bard College. Fernando’s work has been exhibited at the International Center of Photography (New York), The California Museum of Photography (Riverside), Photographic Resource Center (Boston), and the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art (Ohio). The world can make an attempt to transcribe 56 new paintings at the exhibit’s opening on March 1st, 2011.

MARCH 1 - 31, 2011

OPENING RECEPTION: WEDENSDAY, MARCH 9, 2011 6 - 9 PM

OPEN DAILY: 10:00AM-7:00PM

REEM KAYDEN GALLERY
, BARD COLLEGE

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK  12504

Vans has begun the second year of its “Custom Culture Program” initiative where high school students across the United States highlight their creativity by customizing sneakers. This year’s top prize is $50,000 and the top five teams will be flown to New York to display their sneakers within a yet to be named museum.

The Vans Custom Culture contest begins registration on Friday, February 11, 2011, and will accept entries from up to 20 schools per state. High school students from art programs in five regions, including Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, Southwest and California, will have a chance to collectively tap into their creativity to craft designs for four pairs of Vans shoes, to be submitted for judgment.  All registration and submissions will take place via the Vans Custom Culture Web site atvans.com/customculture. An online gallery will exhibit the complete collection of submissions for the world to see.

After the initial judging panel selects the top 50 submissions, Vans will open the voting to consumers through an online platform, thereby narrowing down the competition to the top school in each region.

Winning schools from each region will receive a trip to New York City in June, and will participate in the final event gala held at a world-famous art museum. A Vans panel of industry experts will deliberate to select the winner of the 2011 Vans Custom Culture program and the winning school will be announced at the gala.

For official rules, program information, registration and submissions, visit the Vans Custom Culture Web site at www.vans.com/customculture. To view past and present Custom Culture designs, interact with other Custom Culture fans, and ask questions about the Vans Custom Culture program, visitwww.facebook.com/vanscustomculture.

JOSÉ PARLÁ
WALLS, DIARIES, AND PAINTINGS
MARCH 3 - APRIL 16, 2011
OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 6 - 9 PM

BRYCE WOLKOWITZ GALLERY
505 WEST 24TH STREET
NEW YORK, NY 10011

Walls, Diaries, and Paintings features fifteen new paintings, that chronicle Parlá’s exploration of the diverse places and cultures he has traversed. From Istanbul to Havana, from Tokyo to New York, the colors and textures of the neighborhoods and alleyways have found a forceful and moving resolution in Parlá’s works that are both inspirational and revealing.

Parlá’s work shows that words, signs, and marks come to mean more, over time, in this symphony of diversity, both incongruous and in harmony, that surrounds our contemporary life. His practice originated in graffiti’s experimental and collaborative approaches during the eighties. Although he has come to identify with and reflect on the compositions of Abstract Expressionism, particularly Jackson Pollock and the later incarnations of Cy Twombly, as well as the German New Symbolist works of Anselm Kiefer, he transcends these antecedents by making altogether singular expressions that are part theater, part language, and part archaeology.

It is however, Parlá’s early inspirations and influence that have had the deepest and most important impact on his current work. In that, beyond painting, whether academic or street, are his Latin origins, particularly Miami, where he grew up listening to Hip-Hop music and seeing the colors and sights that are specific to the architecture of that place.

A new monograph of José Parlá’s work, Walls, Diaries, and Paintings, will be available upon the exhibition’s opening. Published by Hatje Cantz, it includes essays by Isolde Brielmaier, Greg Tate, & Michael Betancourt. Click here to purchase.

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ALIFE AT THE HOLE

FEBRUARY 10 – 22nd, 2011
Opening: FEBRUARY 10, 6-9PM
104 Green st. New York, NY, 10012
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