News — Urban Contemporary Art
EXHIBITION: "From Street to Art" in Paris
If you happen to be in Paris this week then make sure to check out "From Street to Art" a group show starting on the 6th featuring JonOne, Jef Aerosol, Lenz, STF Moscato, Pro 176, Cope 2, Tilt, Atlas, Tanc, Thomas Canto, and Wile. Each artist has a unique narrative regarding how they brought their art and voice from the streets into the white walled spaces of contemporary art galleries worldwide. Freeway Editions is always excited to see our artists in a collective context. For more information about the show see the gallery's website: Read the article
Outsider Art Fair
This past weekend not only was a busy art fair weekend in Los Angeles but also on the East Coast. In NYC the 23rd edition of the Outsider Art Fair was happening at Center 548 in Chelsea. The Outsider Art Fair is a yearly platform for hundreds of international artists and galleries to come together and celebrate the unorthodox of the art world. The Outsider Art Fair highlights marginalized, unique, artists who are unprecedented in the contemporary art realm. These artists are self taught or otherwise represent a minority of creatives that would rarely be seen at a conventional fair.
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RISK
Today we are promoting a new product of the week by the epochal Los Angeles based street artist RISK.
"In a career spanning 30 years, RISK has impacted the evolution of graffiti as an art form in Los Angeles and worldwide. RISK gained major notoriety for his unique style and pushed the limits of graffiti further than any writer in L.A. had before; he was one of the first writers in Southern California to paint freight trains, and he pioneered writing on “heavens,” or freeway overpasses."
Take a look at these two unique artworks by the artist. A handmade neon sculpture and a...
Zevs
It is Friday and that means Freeway Editions ends the week with our Artist of the Week! Today we are taking a look at more work by anonymous street artist Zevs.
From his bio:
Zevs (born 1977) is an anonymous French street artist, best known for his trademark "liquidation" technique. He is named after a regional train, Zeus, that almost ran him over one day he was down in the metro. He was an early and influential graffiti artist and active as a tagger in Paris in the 1990s. Working with other French artists in the second...
Printed Matter's LA
After surpassing last year's predicted attendance by more than 10,000 people, this year's Printed Matter's LA is going to be quite the event. Opening the same night as Art Los Angeles Contemporary, the Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair will bring together artists’ books, art catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and zines from all over the world presented by various publishers and booksellers. This event is truly a unique experience to be a part of the merging of literature, art, and publishing.
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"Printed Matter presents the third annual LA Art Book Fair, from January 30 through February 1, 2015, at...
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