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Show & Tell Gallery
1161 Dundas St. West in Toronto, Canada

Opening reception on Friday July 10th between 7pm and 11pm.
"Get Over It" will be on display from July 10th - August 9th 2009.

Get Over It is a message for the skeptical. The aim of this exhibition is to continue to validate the importance of ”outsider” art in the gallery aesthetic. As in every genre of contemporary art, it is equally as important to understand the context of how each artist has matured, as it is the understanding of the actual artworks themselves. Steve Powers, Greg Gossel and Greg Lamarche each offer a unique variety of imagery exploring the concepts of typography and iconography. While the work is indicative of its roots in graffiti and graphic design, these artists continue to break the mold. As always, the goal is to intrigue and hopefully make new fans of these three unique artists while presenting seasoned collectors with a taste of something new.

Steve Powers was born and raised in Philadelphia where he graduated from University of the Arts before relocated to New York City in 1995. Powers’ alias ESPO (Exterior Surface Painting Outreach) won him notoriety not only in the graffiti world and would eventually help him establish himself in the contemporary art world. After some legal complications in 1999, Powers took a different approach to his practice. Having already assumed many roles such as publisher for On the Go Magazine, and author of several books (The Art of Getting Over, First and Fifteenth, and Studio Gangster), Powers began showing work at notable galleries such as New York City’s Deitch Projects. In 2005, he organized the “Dreamland Artist’s Club” a project which allowed professional artists to help Coney Island vendors by repainting their signs. Soon after, Powers was the recipient
of the Fulbright Prize in 2007 and spent six months working in Ireland. The idea was to create public artwork with the help of local teenagers from troubled areas in Dublin and Belfast. His most recent conceptual piece took Powers back to Coney Island where he installed the “Coney Island Waterboarding Thrill Ride”. Responses to Powers artwork have been featured numerous times by the media in such publications as Juxtapoz, Artforum, and The NY Times. He continues to exhibit internationally in such countries as Italy, Paris, England and Canada as well as multiple locations across the United States. Powers currently lives and works in Manhattan.

Steve Powers - "I Tender My Resignation" - Enamel on Aluminum - 24" x 24"

Greg Lamarche was born and raised in Queens and still resides in New York City. Taking inspiration from the streets and using the same fundamentals he developed during his 25 plus years as a graffiti writer, he creates unique collages that blur the line between fine art and graphic design. Each of his pieces take a painstakingly amount of time to make as Greg strictly uses text from found objects and flat leaflet paper that he collects for sometimes years at a time before the final work is created. Greg's work incorporates an array of typography and word fragments as well as elements of graffiti such as motion, repetition, multiple perspectives, bold color, and wit. During the 1990's Greg published Skills Magazine, a cut and paste style collection of graffiti from the world over. Skills Magazine grew in popularity during the early 90's and became an early reflection of hiphop culture at the time, featuring interviews with pioneers of the movement, including Mobb Deep, Black Moon and Masta Ace. These days Greg focuses his skills towards installation graffiti projects, fine art, and commercial work. His work has been featured in numerous gallery showings across North America and in publications such as Juxtapoz, Arkitip, Swindle, Mass Appeal, Vapors, as well as a slew of others.

Greg Lamarche - "The Long Haul" - Paper Collage - 8" x 10"

Greg Gossel was born in Baldwin, Wisconsin in 1982. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in graphic design from University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. In December 2005, Greg moved to Minneapolis where he currently lives and works as a graphic designer. In addition to design, Greg is also dedicated to his personal work, and has been exhibiting in galleries and art fairs internationally for the last several years. Greg views his work as a visual interpretation about life, the struggle, and the beauty. He accomplishes this through the interplay of diverse words, gestures, and images. The process behind each piece is integral, building up a surface, layering it with a variety of mediums, spray paint, paper-collage, serigraph, ink, acrylics and oils. His work is loose and spontaneous; when a piece is finished Greg’s goal is to illustrate a visual history of change, process, and expression.

Greg Gossel - "The Best Of" - Mixed Media On Canvas - 32" x 32"

 

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104 pages of original artworks, walls, trains and history plus a complete catalogue of the Lost colours and Alibis works from Remi/Rough's most recent exhibition.

This book has been twenty five years in the making... Remi/Rough has travelled the world with his art and has compiled an extremely personal collection of images for this book - all in a very cool 21cm x 21cm square format, soft bound and full colour throughout.

With a foreword by New York legend Mare 139, this book is an absolute must have.

Price £30 + £6 UK + £10 international postage and packing (Pre order). Delivery end of July

I got the call on Saturday afternoon to re-design the Michael Jackson myspace for Sony Music. It was a rush job due to the tragic events but I was honored to have been chosen for the job. I think it came out pretty good considering I was limited with what little assets I was given but I was a big MJ fan in my childhood days so when I got the call I didnt hesitate to knock it out. Now that it is complete I can get back to focusing on the Known Gallery myspace design and keep putting it down online while the rest of the crew leaves they're mark mainly outside of 'cyber space'.

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B.Y.I Entertainment is proud to bring to you the debut album from Recording Artist ROME titled “My Demo”.
Since BYI’s announcement of its newest artist back in December, the buzz has grown exponentially.
The Album is available here for free [Download Now], and stay posted for the video coming soon.

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Although we dont have any in hand just yet, heres a sneak peak at Pose's brand new limeted edition can of Ironlak (Pose Sushi).  If you are writer (like us) who spent most of their life  and career racking and using what was available, scouring the burbs for obscure discontinued colors, using oven cleaner caps, mixing paint, ect., then you understand how monumental and what an honor this is.

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In the 1970s and ’80s, chances were good that anyone traveling the New York subways rode at least once in a car emblazoned with “Iz the Wiz.” Cryptic but euphonious, often abbreviated to the ultraminimal Iz, the signature could be seen all over the subway system: fat capital letters spray-painted on a door, below a window, across an entire car or even along the full length of a train. 

_{Mr. Martin in 1982. His signature was inspired by a poster for the musical “The Wiz.”}

Iz the Wiz was a legend among graffiti artists, by almost all accounts “the longest-reigning all-city king in N.Y.C. history,” as the graffiti Web site at149st.com puts it. In other words, Iz put his name, or tag, on subway cars running on every line in the system more times than any other artist.

Michael Martin — Iz the Wiz — died on June 17 in Spring Hill, Fla., where he had moved a few years ago. He was 50. The cause was a heart attack, said Ed Walker, who is working on a biography and documentary of Iz the Wiz.

“Look at any movie shot on location in New York from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, and you will very likely see an Iz tag,” Mr. Walker said. “He told me once that in 1982 he went out every night and did at least a hundred throw-ups” — letters filled in quickly with a thin layer of color. “People can’t fathom it.”

Not everyone was appreciative. His career put him on the wrong side of the law — he was issued summonses on several occasions — and of New Yorkers who regarded graffiti as vandalism, not art. But he was a hero to generations of taggers. Mr. Martin started out spraying graffiti on walls and buildings when he was 14, using the tags Scat or FCN, for French Canadian National, although he was not Canadian. He soon graduated to subway cars, specializing in the A line, the longest in the New York subway system. He painted his first cars with the tag Ike — his nickname, Mike, minus the first letter.

In 1975, in the 68th Street Station of the Lexington Avenue line, he saw a poster for the Broadway play “The Wiz” with the slogan, “The Wiz Is a Wow.” It had a certain ring. “He said, ‘If the Wiz is a Wow, why can’t Iz be the Wiz?’ ” his friend and fellow graffiti artist SAR (real name, Charles Sar) recalled in a telephone interview last week.

With the graffiti artist Vinny, Mr. Martin mounted an intensive throw-up campaign on the A line. In the late 1970s he branched out to other lines, spray-painting top-to-bottoms (graffiti displays extending from the top of a train to the bottom), burners (complicated works intended to dazzle the competition) and fully realized scenes, like his homage to John Lennon, painted after Lennon was shot to death in 1980. It was a two-car scene with a portrait of Lennon and a graveyard filled with tombstones.

“He was an artist, but also a bomber, recognized as a person who made himself seen by everybody,” said the photographer Henry Chalfant, using the graffiti term for a prolific artist. “At the same time he appreciated the aesthetic side of it. He didn’t do wild style” — complex, interlocking letters — “he had a simple, readable style with great color and interesting forms within the lettering itself.”

With the photographer Martha Cooper, Mr. Chalfant published “Subway Art” (1984), recently reissued by Chronicle Books; with the director and producer Tony Silver, he produced the documentary film “Style Wars” (1983), which included Mr. Martin in its portraits of graffiti and hip-hop artists. He also appeared in the role of a transit police detective in the cult 1983 film "Wild Style”.

Mr. Martin was born in Manhattan and lived in a succession of foster homes after his mother was imprisoned for burglary. He did not know his father. He grew up in Ozone Park, Queens, and as a teenager lived in Covenant House on the Lower East Side.

Like many others, he found a community in the graffiti movement. Early on he worked with artists like Vinny, Epic 1&2, and Evil 13. Later he painted with many of the top crews, or graffiti collectives, in New York, including the Odd Partners, the Crew and the Three Yard Boys. At one point he was president of the Master Blasters and the Queens chapter of the Prisoners of Graffiti.

When the graffiti artist Spar One, interviewing Mr. Martin for at149st.com in 1995, asked how many complete cars he had decorated (“You mean like burner top-to-bottom jammies?” he asked), he said: “Oh, I don’t know, I never counted. But I know in the years ’81 to ’82 I did no less than 25.” Mr. Martin often added snippets from classic rock lyrics to his tags, like “whole lotta love” or “welcome to the machine,” which became the informal titles for his more famous works.

The displays enjoyed surprising longevity in the days before the Metropolitan Transportation Authority began cracking down on graffiti. Elaborately painted cars could run for months or even years. Artists would often gather at certain stations to watch their work and keep an eye on the competition, much like their counterparts did in 15th-century Florence.

Mr. Martin withdrew from the scene in the mid-1980s. He managed a grocery store briefly, then began using drugs heavily. A marriage in the late 1980s ended in divorce. He is survived by a brother, Peter Poston of Spring Hill, and a sister, Evelyn Poston of East Stroudsburg, Pa.

In the 1990s Mr. Martin jumped back into graffiti, painting cars, but also taking part in the legal graffiti movement, expressing himself on walls set aside for the purpose. He was one of the first artists to work on the Phun Phactory, a 200,000-square-foot industrial building in Long Island City, Queens, that artists began covering with graffiti in 1993. It is now known as the 5 Pointz Aerosol Art Center, or the Institute of Higher Burnin’.

Mr. Martin learned he had kidney failure in 1996, which he assumed was a result of working with aerosol paint, and for the rest of his life he was on dialysis. His financial situation was dire. “He never made the connections he needed to make to be appreciated in the art world,” Mr. Sar said.

Iz the Wiz sought fame, and found it, but not on gallery walls. His work appeared on the old dusty brown subway cars known as coal mines, and their replacements, called ding dongs for the bell tone that chimes when the doors close. Painting one of those, end to end, Mr. Martin once said, “was like sex in a can.”

This spot is located near the main train station over by the freeway exit. Mad traffic at all times. Bangkok, Thailand.

As you can see, the spot is close to the entrance of the MRT which is Bangkok's Metropolitan Rapid Transport. This station is over on the strip where there is mad massage parlour redlight district areas in which services provided by women in this hood is 100% LEGIT and it starts out at US-$37 to US-$200. Come see for yourself! MSKiSM boyeeeee!!!!!!!!!

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For the closing reception of the Belmont Tunnel show and Crewest Gallery, Steve Grody will be hosting a Slide show of images drawn from his archive as well as others of the first Belmont generation. The show starts at 7:30 so don’t miss it!

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This is a painting MAC and I just did for an upcoming show we have in LA in the fall. I shot the photo of model Marlena Posa and the rest is history.