Had my mom in town, so I decided to take her down to Venice for the first time. After a dip in the ocean I decided to drop a freestyle for Sace. Painting this reminded me of doing Nace pieces. Not just for the similar letter combinations.

-JerseyJoe

Thank you Nekst...
Downtown Chicago, Massive in person.
Rest In Paradise

With the recent passing of downtown street heart Dash Snow there has been a major outpouring of support for the infamous graffiti artist and well known photographer. He was an artist that pushed the boundaries and confronted society by pursuing a life of a downtown street kid. Friends and family have come together to create an open memorial exhibition for the fans of Dash Snow. The show included never before seen Polaroids from Dash’s studio and other work Dash has compiled over his life time. The show was put together by Jade Berreau, Dan Colen, Jeffrey Deitch, Christophe de Menil, Kathy Grayson, Hanna Liden and Agathe Snow. The show will be running from July 23rd-August 15th. For images of the show check out the rest of the post.

Deitch Projects
76 Grand St.
New York, Ny 10013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These photos make me very proud to say the least! Check out more photos from REVOK's recent trip to Lugo, Spain HERE.

Bloodwars Volume 2 / Issue Two is now out and ready to view! Featuring an interview with Bonus VTS / BKF, this issue is dedicated to all those who have passed recently. Download it and take a look.

Bloodwars is released quarterly. The next issue will be due out in about three months- November. Submissions are welcomed.

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A open memorial exhibition for Dash Snow will be held in his community in New York City.  It could open as early as July 21 at Deitch Projects.  Dash’s community of friends are invited to “participate in an exhibition that would include photographs or video of Dash, works of art made for Dash or in memory of him, and a small group of works by Dash in various media.”

More information from Peres Projects after the jump.

According to Peres Projects:

We thought it would be important and helpful to have an open memorial exhibition for Dash’s community in New York City. We are asking Dash’s community of friends to participate in an exhibition that would include photographs or video of Dash; works of art made for Dash or in memory of him; a small group of works by Dash in various media (just for exhibition); and an open wall where friends or admirers from the general public could write, paint, or paste something up on the wall. The outside of the gallery will feature a large recreation by his friends of his tag.

We anticipate opening to the public as early as Tuesday, July 21 at the 76 Grand Street gallery of Deitch Projects. The show would remain on view through mid-August. If you would like to participate in this exhibition by lending or creating artworks, please contact Kathy Grayson at Deitch Projects: 212 343 7300, kathy@deitch.com. We ask artists/friends who want to participate to bring artworks by the gallery beginning this Saturday, July 18th through Monday July 20th to begin installation that Tuesday. Artists are welcome to bring additional works anytime, however, that can be installed during the run of the show as well. All are welcome. Please pass this on to people you think would like to know about it

Check out the pics from REVOK's trip to Lugo, Spain HERE.

DASH SNOW

ALIFE PRESENTS
THE WEST COAST PREMIERE OF
CAPTURED
CLAYTON PATTERSON & 30 YEARS OF NYC’S LOWER EAST SIDE

A FILM BY BEN SOLOMON, DAN LEVIN, AND JENNER FURST
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, MARC LEVIN

JULY 9, 2009 - 8PM

SPACE15 TWENTY
1520 N. CAHUENGA BLVD SUITE 2
LOS ANGELES, CA 90028

“Little Brother is watching Big Brother” -Clayton Patterson.

ALIFE PRESENTS is proud to host the West Coast Premiere of CAPTURED, A film by Ben solomon, Dan Levin, Jenner Furst and Executive Producer Marc Levin; depicting New York’s Lower East Side recent history and Clayton Patterson own journey as its devoted record-keeper.

Since 1979 Clayton Patterson has dedicated his life to documenting the final era of raw creativity and lawlessness in New York City’s Lower
East Side, a neighborhood famed for art, music and revolutionary minds. Traversing the outside edge he’s recorded a dark and colorful
society, from drag, hardcore, heroin, homelessness, political chaos and ultimately gentrification. His odyssey from voyeur to provocateur
reveals that it can take losing everything you love to find your own significance.

Born in 1948, Patterson and his companion, Elsa Rensaa, moved from Calgary Canada to New York City in 1979. Since 1983 they have lived
in the building they purchased on Essex Street. An ardent community advocate, Patterson also co-founded the New York Tattoo Society and
helped win the fight to legalize tattooing in the City. Patterson and Rensaa are also known for their custom embroidered baseball caps.

The New York Times describes Patterson’s endeavor:
“He has amassed a huge day-by-day visual history of the area, told mainly through unpretentious portraits of its myriad and diverse faces:
tenement kids and homeless people, poets and politicians, drug dealers and drag queens, rabbis and santeros, beat cops, graffiti taggers, hookers, junkies, punks, anarchists, mystics and crackpots.”

CAPTURED was produced and directed by New York City born and raised Ben Solomon and Dan Levin. Solomon, an Eighties’s child with
a poet father and photographer mother, grew up surrounded and inspired by the arts and the streets of New York City. Levin comes from
a family tradition of filmmakers, he is a 3rd generation director on his father’s side. In 2001, while still seniors in high school Solomon and
Levin collaborated on their first film LA CIUDAD DEL HIP HOP. After graduating from Emerson College in 2005 with BA’s in film, they formed
BENvsDAN Productions and immediately began working on CAPTURED.

ALIFE will host the outdoors screening in SPACE 15 Twenty’s courtyard, adjacent to it’s Hollywood flagship. The screening will be
accompanied by an in-store installation of Patterson’s photographs and memorabilia as well as a commemorative packaged set that will
include the CAPTURED DVD and a Patterson signed photographic print. Also for sale are Patterson’s two books, “Front door”, published by OHWOW and “Wildstyle”, published by Unique Publishing.

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CAPTURED
capturedmovie.com
capturedles.com

CLAYTON PATTERSON
patterson.no-art.info

ALIFE PRESENTS
alifepresents.com

OHWOW
oh-wow.com

SPACE 15 TWENTY
space15twenty.com