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Great interview with Alex from Die Constant (creator of the custom wallfarmers tee) over on themodline.com, 'an online lifestyle magazine that promotes local talent and businesses, helping cultivate the underground in Vancouver'

I've been trying to master the craft of procrastination but it seems I am merely an apprentice.

Good pal and driving force behind Harpoon Market apparel, Zach Pelliccio  had a visit to NYC for the opening of 'From Kojiki to Mordern Herosim' at the Joshua Liner Gallery. The write up was a little delayed but the show is up till this weekend (March 13).

While we are on the topic of awesome, I think you should check out the sultry characters of Julian Kimmings.

His works are perfectly balanced with graffiti, a subtle elusive darkness and comical characters. If I were ever to get my portrait painted, I would be by Julian.

The image on the left will be is available as limited edition prints some time next week NOW! Keep up with Julian on his blog or abuse him through Twitter.

oh yeah, remember this guy, Toby Reid.. I covered a show he did at Antisocial in '09, well, dude has a little blog now..check it out.

Also, I'll be interviewing this character in a day or so, feel free to email  your queries to tarah(at)wallfarmers(dot)ca

If any of you fantastic people are in the great city of SF this weekend, I'd like you to do me and yourself a favor and get down to the inaugural group show of the Guerrero Gallery on Saturday night. Owner, Andres Guerrero (formerly at White Walls), will be hosting the first ever show at his new gallery with 21 artists, DJs spinning and complimentary bevies.  http://fortyeighthoursinaday.com/ 

The artist run gallery down in Austin Texas has been rad for a long time but I recently discovered that they were awarded the Choice award for a commissioned piece for Arthouse at PULSE Miami 2009. The entire collective of OKMT created a corner store setting were everything in the store was either hand made or altered by the artists. My favorite store item, Hot Dog Water from the fountain machine. Okay Mt. Gallery is also the first stop on the art tour of SF artists, Jeremy Fish.

I've been wrapped up in another project outside the site and I'll share that soon but first, and my hugest apologies for the delay.. but please enjoy this amazing show that was at Antisocial last month. 'Things We Learned When We Where Young' was created and curated by Merida Anderson and Lindsey Hampton and it was so damn fantastic, I wanted to move in and invite all my imaginary friends to frolic in its blissed out imagery.

Fantastic dude and artist, Darren Camplin is stretching his legs and started a blog. He just finished a very cool painting session with Lulu Lemon in Whistler, BC and chats about his good times.. go check it out!

Coming up this Saturday Feb 20th at El Kartel in Vancouver, El lente loco x Oakley. A group show with 40 El Kartel artists for a one night show of custom, artist designed Oakley sunglasses. I've been honored to be a part of such a talented group of artists and am really looking forward to see the wild designs these crazy cats come up with. Here's a peek at my shades...I'd love your feedback so please feel free to comment.

It's a big weekend in Vancouver city with the opening ceremonies of the Olympics and Artwalk Vancouver 2010. If this was a sport site, I'd bring you information about the Olympics and all their madness, but it isn't so here's more info on the Artwalk. Also, don't forget to hit up the Ayden Gallery for their epic superstar show with Camilla, Ben, Peter, Dark and Mike..don't know who I'm talking about? Then go to the show!

February's issue of The Art Street Journal is up and ready for shipping, for FREE as always...but please take a moment to show your support by signing up at refresheverything.com and help TASJ increase circulation and expand production value with full colour and more pages. 

When you're done with that, make sure you are signed up for their mailing list to get your free copy. 

If you're in Courtenay, you can find The Art Street Journal at The Freakin Coffeeshop.

http://twitpic.com/1187m0 - Just got this rad package from my pal Taka Sudo. Check his site http://tifdyl.com

Hey friends and supporters who also love to skate Vancity, the public is invited to an open house to view preliminary design ideas and to make comments for a new skate facility similar to the ones at  Strathcona and Quilchena Parks. The new one is slated for Kensington Park and some ideas have been cropped up by NEW LINE...go get a word in and bring some ideas!

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

5:30pm to 7:30pm
Seniors’ Lounge
Kensington Community Centre,
5175 Dumfries Street

Jeff Hamada over at http://www.booooooom.com/2010/01/31/help-haiti-art-fundraiser/ has put together a very cool art fundraiser to help the survivors in Haiti. 100% of each sale goes to the artists choice of recognized organization. 

I am making a purchase and hope to hear that you are too.

Very cool promotional video from the New Zealand Book Council.

Friday Jan 8 was the first show of 2010 for Ayden gallery and I was there to dork out and celebrate Matt Andre's first showing in Vancouver at Merge. 

Other than Matt's great work, there were lots of new talents and faces in the crowd.

Check out these calls for submissions from two Comox Valley organizations.

One is for the Trash Art Challenge Mask Show which will be featured on Feb 5th at the Muir Gallery. The second is for the Keep It Living Auction (which I am helping judge) put on by The Estuary Working Group.

Check this sick time lapse video of some of the best names in graffiti. Apex, King157, Jase, Neon, Revok, Rime, Saber, Sever and the legendary Vulcan rocking the infamous backyard at 33third Shop LA.

HAPPY 2010 EVERYONE!

As today is a Friday and the first day of the new year, I felt the need to create an epic #followfriday list for all my friends/followers on the Twitter machine.

New issue of The Art Street Journal is ready for your viewing pleasure. Peep the preview.

Meant to post this when I saw it earlier in Dec. Interesting how they state that it's not the 'context' that is the issue but the fact that it's graffiti, however, it's the first time in 10 years that the Downtown Eastside gallery has EVER been asked to remove any other work regardless of the context.

Thinkspace Gallery has sent over a press release announcing a new amazing show coming up in January 2010. This show, 'A Cry For Help', exhibits 100 artists that cover the entire contemporary spectrum and will be sending 20% of the proceeds to the endangered species of the world presented by Born Free USA & the Animal Protection Institute. 

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the 2nd annual 10x10 show at Gallery Atsui in Vancouver. 10 very talented local artists, 100 panels and a short lesson in timely buying.

Can't wait to see more of this guys work around!

Here are some shots from Toby Reid's show at the Antisocial Mini Gallery.

Back tracking a bit with some shots from Tim Barnard's show, Fever Ocean, on still at El Kartel.

Doing some catch up from some recent shows and write ups...more still.

Really looking forward to this most excellent toy show tonight at The Fall Tattooing. 

Over 30 artists will be contributing to this epic evil and naughty toy show. Just in time for Christmas!

Opening night Saturday December 5th.
Dorrs@8pm
The FALL Tattooing 644 Seymour
No cover

From time to time I get CDs sent my way or emails from talented musicians and while I haven't had the time to do proper reviews of bands, I wanted to mention Young Sin, a Vancouver musician who kills west coast flow with raw style rhymes backed by thick baselines and sick beats produced by a variety of talents including; QB8 and LokeyNote, Brass Tackz, QB8, Nato, Aries and Spitshine.

I find it increasingly more difficult to get new underground hip hop that is as solid as Young Sin. Definitely looking forward to seeing a live show. Check iTunes and Camobear for his new album!

Tonight (Thursday Dec 3rd), Fabric8 in SF is rocking a stoked show with Leon Loucheur, Martin Hsu, Micah Lebrun, Skriblz and Telopa. If you're in the area, definitely check this out.

Another great show tonight at Ayden Gallery in Vancouver. Infinite Maybe with Peter Taylor, Lani Imre, Milan Basic , Melk and Indigo. 

I can't make it to this one so anyone who wants to take some photos and do a write up, that would be kind! hit me up if you're interested.. tarah(at)wallfarmers(dot)ca.

Art Basel Miami Beach is coming up next week, Dec 3-6, and Denver based wallfarmer, Max Kauffman is going to be there. Max will be showing his art talents, showing some leg (ahem..because it's warm there) and doing some reporting for the wallfarmers team. Make sure to hunt him down and hit him up for some stickers.

Over the weekend in Vancouver, I had the pleasure of running into Nym Nums creator, Kristian Adam, doing some live painting in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery on Robson. Keep an eye on this dude, he has some cool projects coming up in 2010, including the second run of the popular book Nym Nums Ten Stories.

wallfarmers has just made a small donation to Vancouver Is Awesome and you should too! Also, I, along with some 98 others will be in their 'flickn awesome' photo show at Fortune Sound on Wednesday Dec. 2nd.

Check out their facebook event page for more info

Randy Laybourne of Vancouver Is Awesome.com put on a great show at Walrus Shop in Vancouver on Thursday Nov 19. 

Peek some shots from the show Drawing On Vancouver.

Master of Mermen, Michael Hsiung, will be rollin' deep at the fifth annual 'Skip the Mall' show at Black Maria Gallery in LA this weekend. 

As always, the exhibition will carry a bazaar theme, complete with some of the accoutrements of the shopping experience: paintings suspended on clothing hangers, displayed in shoe boxes and on display stands holding
a variety of artworks.

"Black Market" is quintessential Black Maria, showing the work of emerging artists and established artists side by side. It is a great opportunity to see work by artists with international collectors as well as by artists who will be showing their work outside of an academic environment for the first time.

wow! Thanks so much to everyone that came out to The [Harrington] Project and the After Arty! Big crazy thank you to Maya and Sperlin at the Freakin Coffeeshop, Scott, Jer, Peter & Robbie of the HUMANS, Gordon and every one of the artists who worked so hard to be a part of this show.

Thursday Nov 19th at Walrus, Drawing on Vancouver opens with Ben Tour, Peter Taylor, Porous  Walker + a flock of other crazy good artists. Check upcoming shows

Good friend and amazing artist, Tim Barnard, will be ditching Montreal to hang with us cool kids on the coast while doing a proper instillation at Aldo on Granville St. AS WELL AS an amazing solo show with a shit ton of new work at EL Kartel.

The show is Friday Nov 20th. Doors open at 9.

Vancouver artist gone international, Indigo (Indgo), along with FarkFK, Finbarr and Nine-O rocked this gorgeous mural for the first exhibit of Crack For Your Eyes.

Good buddy, Daniel Gonzalez of Damaged & El Kartel, threw down some words about

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Tonight at the Thinkspace Gallery in LA, CA.::

Stella Im Hultberg,

Catherine Brooks

Hannah Stouffer

Opening Reception: Fri, July 10th, 7-11PM

* All the artists will be in attendance at the opening reception


Coming up at The Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary art,

Eine - The A – Z of Change

Opening Reception: Thursday July 9 2009 / 7.00pm – 10.00pm

Bay area photographer/skater/daddy-O, Isaac McKay-Randozzi, has a board release party this Saturday (June 27th), presented by Stereo, DLXSF and Adidas.

Well done, Isaac!

Check out more of his work here...

Right on... check out CA BOOMINVASION ...brought to you by the good folks at Thingkspace!

"...combines the best of modern design, furnishings, artwork, design panel discussions and architecture tours into three action-packed days." 

This sounds so awesome!  I would be happy to have a guest post if anyone wants to cover this! (info(at)wallfarmers.ca)
Lots of shows coming up this weekend all over the place.. Seattle (Max Kauffman and a team of artists at the Halogen Gallery), Victoria (Gillian Brooks hanging at the Whitebird Lounge) and Vancouver (Peter Taylor at El Kartel and Jeff Denomme at Wallflowers).


The nice folks at Nahcotta are setting up for The Enormous Tiny Art show over at the Living Room, this Friday.

Check their site or the Upcoming Shows section for more details.
Next show up at the Ayden Gallery in Vancouver,
The Nym Nums.

Friday May 22nd. Check upcoming shows for more details.


Great things are happening on East Hastings in Vancouver, BC. It's not too often that I get to say that so it is with massive excitement that I get to display this poster for the Hastings Community Garden Rejuvenation Mural.

Massive murals by local and international artists...you may recognize a few names.

Sunday May 17th..noon to 6pm... more info

Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art

hosts another fine evening of hot diverse art. On the same night as 'Get Rich Quick', enjoy a solo exhibition by Thais Beltrame.

 "When All The Stars Are Gone"

Coming up this weekend on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery, It's Yours, Take It!

A collection of local and international artists donate their work for a civilized one-free-for-all.

Stop complaining about not having any art and get down to the VAG this Saturday at 1pm!

Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
compiles a show with some of the most influential voices of the contemporary art world.

An opportunity to view the collections of the collectors will be on Thursday May 7th at 7pm (through to May 28th).


Seriously, if you go to this show, take photos (if allowed) and don't drink too much because you are going to want to remember this one!

::Thinkspace Gallery Presents::

…Away From The Things Of Man

Featuring new works and an installation from Kathleen Lolley.

Project Room and Fresh Faces Wall info in the Thinkspace bank.

Coming up this weekend in Victoria, BC at the Deluge Contemporary Art Gallery...

Those fantastic cats at El Kartel have another show this weekend and guess who's in it? Yep..yours truly. ... me and 99 other artists are in a show called 100 Amigos.

100 Amigos opens April 4th at 9pm Tonight is shaping up to be pretty stellar as things start off with another brilliant exhibit at the Ayden Gallery.
Artists LANI MAEGLIN IMRE, LAUREN JAVOR, JORDAN QUINN and SAMANTHA DICKIE, live performances, music and free admission. 

Open tonight from 7 to 11.

Canvas Lounge, Burberry and Inside E! Magazine present an evening of music, art and the launch of Burberry's newest fragrance, THE BEAT.

Music by REDEYE EMPIRE.
Doors open at 10:30

Vancouver artists Phresha and EAR ONE are among a group of artists doing a show with FRESH COAST Entertainment and Steady Rockin' Productions. Can't Stop Won't Stop is being held on Monday, March 30th at The Modern (Vancouver, BC)
More info...

Max Kauffman is getting ready for his first solo show, 'Ghosts of Industry' over at the Push Gallery in Asheville, NC.

'The work flirts with chaos and the crumbling of civilization along the way…it just might get worse before it gets better.'

..check Media/Event section for more info.




New shows announced at Think Space Gallery in LA. Featuring Matthew Feyld and one of my favorites, David MacDowell.


San Francisco artist lost an eye in a 2005 car accident and wants to replace it with a webcam. sweet!






Heads up from Angelique at Charm School about delights & goings on.


Check out the nice little bio on Natalia and gallery write up that Angelique sent our way.

Andrew Hosner of Thinkspace Gallery sent over an amazing write-up on their upcoming show:

'FROM THE STREETS OF BROOKLYN'

Exhibition begins this Friday, January 9th at the Thinkspace Gallery in LA.

Check out UPCOMING SHOWS and
ANDREW'S WRITE-UP for more details....

IF YOU COULD DO ANYTHING TOMORROW-
WHAT WOULD IT BE?

There is currently an online, silent auction underway, for several really kind NO. 1 prints that is said to be the last time they will be available for purchase.

'If You Could' is the self initiated project of London design studio HudsonBec.

The Auction will end at 2pm GMT on Friday 19th December.
Go check out these graphically stunning works and get to bidding!        

(image courtesy of ifyoucould.co.uk::flickr image)

It's going to be another crazy weekend over here on the west coast.   

I know it's only Tuesday but if your week goes by as fast as mine does, then you'll need to plan ahead.

If you're as south as LA, CA, plan to stop by Thinkspace Gallery for Mostly Memory, featuring exhibits from ARMSROCK & ELBOW-TOE.
Also, in their Project Room: "Life Sentence" featuring Jon Todd.

 


Ayden Gallery in Vancouver is throwing down another rocker with the likes of
Jesse Reno, Peter Taylor, The Dark, VIRUS, Dan Ness, Ryan Bodiroga, Wendy Sexsmith, Taka Sudo and Edison Rojas.

Live music with DJ Vinny the Squid
Free admission : Artists in attendance
Exhibition closes on Monday, January 12th

Doors open at 7PM


If you're in Victoria, BC...get out of the rain and celebrate the bowels of the Christmas Spirit with

Concyse Skate Co/Incite Screenprinting at their show:
CHAMPIONS OF HELL X-MAS ART SHOW
Lots of live music and featuring origional art from:
The Cult of the Underground Comic Book.


Doors open at 7PM.
Bands at 8PM

The delights of Camilla d'Errico will be featured at El Kartel with new art prints, clothes and accessories.

A lot of the clothes made for this show are limited edition and made specifically for this event.

This is a one night only show so don't be late and don't not go!

Doors open at 9pm.

Have I missed anything? If you have any info on upcoming shows...let us know!
In April this year ballsy graffiti artist and social messenger, Banksy, hit a wall on Newman St. London, UK, directly under the CCTV security camera that he was mocking.  Noted to be his largest and most audacious piece of work yet. Recently Joshua March, Chairman of the Facebook Developer Garage in London, ruined my day by announcing that their council has decided to get rid of this piece. So if they have not painted over it yet, get over there to enjoy the irony while you can.
Hey...welcome to w a l l f a r m e r s ( d o t ) c a !!!! Here's the deal, wallfarmers(dot)ca is a new website launching off of Vancouver Island, BC, Canada, the World. We feature emerging, mid-career and established artists who kill it. And by 'kill it', we mean understand the meaning of urban/contemporary/real art in all aspects while maintaining their underground edge. On a daily basis, there are so many artists pushed forward through graffiti, skate art, comics and pop culture, we'd like to get them all in once place like some video / paint brush / camera/ spray can, wet dream.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS..... to any artists (it'd be great if you were Canadian) who would qualify their art as 'urban', 'street', 'graffiti', 'comic' or 'edgy' in nature. Please send some photos of your work, with a little intro about yourself and contact information to submissions@wallfamers.ca ..when sending photos, please check the file size and try to keep them small. You are also welcome to direct me to a website containing your work.