New York Shitty an off-off Armory Show

March 2 -12  2016 at the Con Artist Gallery, 119 Ludlow Street, NYC                       gallery hours mo – sat 11am – 7pm                                                                                    March 2   Opening reception   7-11pm

Street Art has made conversation on the street, in the public space, for decades.

Non commissioned, uncensored, unwanted, resented and prosecuted: the many forms of street art have demanded dialog, have created a visual conversation between artists and the public.

It remains an ongoing visual response and expression to social issues.

At this point also invited and commissioned, street art keeps changing forms and mediums reflecting current art practice and technology.

With this exhibit we find  works from nitty gritty urban raw energy to conceptual design with positive messages.  Paper graffiti, Lock on sculptures, stencil work, murals, sculptural street installations, live art, street performance, graffiti.

Artists:  G Piedmonte, Emil Tibell (Sweden), T.mas (Italy), MotherpigeonBrooklyn, Dave Tree, Wizard Skull , Brandon Sines aka Frank Ape, Lenore Cohen, Omer Gal, Uta Brauser aka Fishwithbraids, James McGann , Smitty aka Subtexture, G-spot collective, Josef Pinlac, Ty Douglas, Julz Roth, Jenny Heissenhuber, Sarah Wang, Soledad, Roland, Lucky Rabbit.

contact: Uta 646-573-7164,  join the email list : fishwithbraids@gmail.com, IG@fishwithbraids  tw@fishwithbraids,                        curated by Uta Brauser and Josef Pinlac                            

G Piedmonte, Lura Stone

G Piedmonte, woman veiled

G Piedmonte, Sasha

G Piedmonte, vultures

Dave Tree, Donald Dickface Trump

Dave Tree, Donald McDonald Trump

Dave Tree, White lies matter

Dave Tree, Statue of Liberty

Emil Tibell

Emil Tibell

Emil Tibell

Emil Tibell

Brandon Sines aka Frank Ape, dog walker

Brandon Sines aka Frank Ape, Superman writing graf

Brandon Sines aka Frank Ape, Frank Ape NYC

James McGann, Hermes Birkin

James McGann, Alexander McQueen Knuckle Clutch

James McGann, Hermes birkin bag

James McGann, Celine Luggage Tote

James McGann, Hermes Collier De Chien CDC Braclet

Lenore Cohen, my heart’s in the east and i’m at the end of the west

Lenore Cohen, my heart’s in the east and i’m at the end of the west

Lenore Cohen, my heart’s in the east and i’m at the end of the west

Lenore Cohen, my heart’s in the east and i’m at the end of the west

MotherPigeonBrooklyn, flashflock

T.mas

T.mas, sitting man

T.mas, man arms crossed

T.mas

Sarah Wang, Welcome to New York

Fishwithbraids, art on trucks, Frida Queen of Selfies

Fishwithbraids, Urban visual dialog, Morganwalls

Fishwithbraids, Urban visual dialog, Morganwalls

Phetus88 faces

Phetus88 corner

Phetus88 faces faces

Julz Roth, nymph

Soledad, Urban surrealism forward

Karl Kotas, bondage fish

Karl Kotas, godstar

Karl Kotas, green velvet

Karl Kotas, octopussy

subtexture, lost g love

subtexture, lost g love

subtexture, lost g love

Subtexture, lost g love

Omer Gal, cat

Omer Gal, hand maracas

Omer Gal, shitheads jars

Omer Gal, shithead costume

Omer Gal, poster

Soledad, Urban surrealism forward

Roland, Roland 1, Queens boy

G PIEDMONTE, a New York City  Brooklyn based street artist  works mainly with wheat paste and ink. She is a photographer, printer and studies philosophy at Pratt.

TOMASO ALBERTINI aka T.MAS is from Milan Italy, now in New York: deconstructing shape, color and perception.  He loves rebuilding from pieces, found objects, salvaged items to rediscover the human figure.                            He leaves sculpts in the Urban space up for grabs, or mounts sculpts, adds layers and shapes onto walls.

JAMES MCGANN:  LUX by James McGann is a cruelty free paper mache  luxury line featuring the hottest items on the market today.

“McGanns reinvention of the Birkin bag is absolutley stunning, a must have for anyone who matters.” -Bergdorf Goodman

“James is Warhol, the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation.” -Kanye West

“Honestly, I’m not sure how many Birkins I have, I’ve kinda lost count. The entry-level Birkin is probably around $10,000 and the crocodile or alligator is $60,000.” -Dorothy Wang

 

LENORE COHEN works and lives in Brooklyn. She draws visual connections between seemingly unrelated objects in nature or iconic cultural symbols and elements to contemplate the meaning of our collective human experience.

Lenore’s approach is abstract, using drawings, paintings, collage on buildings, gates, wood, canvas or paper. Her work has been featured in solo and group shows throughout NYC as they are on walls in Brooklyn.

 

BRANDON SINES aka FRANK APE, Los Angeles born, is a young painter and street artist. Raised in Toronto, Canada, in NYC since 2010, he created his iconic character, Frank Ape.  Frank Ape can be found painted, wheat pasted, stickered, worn and tattooed in NYC and beyond. In 2014, Frank Ape appeared on Project Runway as the “psychedelic Yeti”.

 

SARAH WANG, born in Harbin, China,  grew up in the Bay Area from the age of six. She earned a BA in Art Education ages K -12  San Francisco State University. Now New York City based as an artist and teacher, Sarah hopes to use education as a platform for  art in communities. She celebrates individuality, cultural and personal identity and the beauty of small things.

TY DOUGLAS is an integrated media artist dealing with the queer form through performance and visual works. His work ranges from the explicit faces of sex and sexuality to the frivolity and joy of glitter and unicorns. He’s like a little gay Lisa Frank with more interesting things to say.

UTA BRAUSER aka FISHWITHBRAIDS is a multidisciplinary neo pop surrealist and activist, making the streets into her show spaces, and with mural programs curating the documents of urban dialog, claim wars of public space and street rule.  Fish with Braids Gallery had opened between a fish store and a hair braiding salon, a location specific name.

PHETUS88:  since 1988 the infamous “PHAT FACE” icon has been a distinctive mark and signature that represents the artist known as PHETUS88 

Over a span of the past  25 years, this iconic image has transcended from the subculture of the graffiti / street art movement, into the realms  of main stream popular culture within art, fashion and digital technology.  Phetus88 is an internationally known graffiti and street artist, he fills spaces with bright fun colors and moods: his usual expressive faces.

ALLISON RUIZ aka SOLEDAD hails from Queens, NY, with a few formative years living in Tustin, CA. Her work has been published in various life style and fashion  magazines.

Classically trained with an interest in experimenting and collage, Soledad “attacks” her pieces with a chaotic but controlled style. Her subject matter varies from portraiture to typography. Her approach ultimately adds grace to grit, and grit to grace

KARL KOTAS   G-spot crew    Mash-up digital artist and painter. Renegade. Fountain Art Fair veteran.  Based in Chelsea

SUBTEXTURE  aka SMITTY  G-spot crew.   LOST_g_LOVE

Though it may seem that a lot of lost gloves are worker’s gloves or that gloves are only lost in the winter, the time has come for us to recognize that lost gloves come in all shapes, sizes and colors and that they are lost throughout the year, no matter the weather.         Whenever you see a lost glove, we urge you to take a picture and post it with the hashtag #LOST_g_LOVE, and show the world that we care about the lost ones, the forgotten ones, the discarded ones.

We will never save all the lost gloves. But hopefully, together, we can build some awareness and bring some closure to those who have lost gloves. And remember those that have been lost.

OMER GAL‘s audacious embrace of the weird starts from archaic-looking doodles, to bizarre performance art, to animations, to noise-emanating sculptures, to live music performances, to painted-on t-shirts of characters called “shitheads”, Omer Gal does just about anything and everything within his creative capabilities to continue to produce his unique art. He sees art as an opportunity for the mind to grow and expand in the face of open-endedness.

JOSEF PINLAC is a multi-disciplinary artist and active member of the Con Artist Collective. His work often has a sense of humor and mischief that address the current world we live in.

WIZARD SKULL    is an artist working in NYC.

Evolve wear fashion film

human matter, an exploration about matter and matters, Uta Brauser

“My line drawings delve into the nature of our matter, following the traces of cell life.

I enjoy revealing our relationship to minerals and water,  my lines form freely expressing

a sense of my understanding.”

Opening reception: January 16, Brouwerij Lane,  78 Greenpoint Ave  Brooklyn

7 – 10 pm,  DJ Pastiche playing Minimal

G Train to Greenpoint Ave,  walk towards East River, x Franklin

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Uta Brauser

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my pieces with the Con Artist Collective:

The Collective had 42 artists crammed into a room with paintings, drawings, photography, sculptures, video work and textile pieces.

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