Limited Edition Art Prints, Posters, Giclee Prints & Screen Print Releases
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Check out this AWESOME print called 'I Will Always Be Lost' by artist Dr Mikey. This is a 24 x 18 inch giclee print with an edition size of 100, comes signed and numbered by the artist for only $20 each. Below are all the awesome portraits of the cast of characters from the show.
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Sunday, September 5, 2010
Here is a great original drawing called 'Black Metal Care Bear' by artist Tara McPherson. This is a 10 x 10 inch graphite drawing in a 23 x 23 inch black frame, comes signed by the artist for only $800.
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Admin | Post a Comment | tagged Tara McPherson, black metal, care bear, drawing, www.taramcpherson.com in Originals Share Article Sunday, September 5, 2010 "But the question was always really, why would you not do it?"
These are the words of one of the world's most famous artists, and most elusive characters.
Bristol-born Banksy is hugely popular worldwide, his guerilla-style graffiti his calling card.
Yet for 18 years he has succeeded where The Stig failed - and kept his identity totally secret.
Who is he? That's the question on the lips of everyone from trendy youngsters to the snobbish art world elite.
For the first time ever, the street artist has spoken at length about his amazing rise from a spray-can-toting youth, to someone whose work sells for £1million a time to Hollywood's A-listers.
And The Sun is the first to bring you the interview.
His openness coincides with the DVD release of his film Exit Through The Gift Shop on Monday.
Explaining where it all began, Banksy says: "You're 14, 15. It's a big world out there, you wanna make your mark, and no one listens to a word you say. Whereas, yer know, one night, one spray can, all of a sudden people notice you."
Banksy was plugged into the trendy street scene, and gives a nod to fellow Bristolian, 3D from dance music outfit Massive Attack.
"There was always a lot of graffiti in my home town growing up, urmm, I think 3D from Massive Attack had brought it back with him off tour in America and he'd been painting all over the city.
"I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it. I always used to get things too close together or too far apart and it used to take me ages.
"So I had to come up with a way of making it quicker, otherwise I was gonna get nicked."
The works that catapulted Banksy into the spotlight almost all involved black and white stencil drawings, such as the iconic image of two policemen snogging.
"I mean they're very efficient, stencils. You get to put something up in very little time and it's hard to mess it up.
"When I moved to London I just carried on painting. I never saw that there was anything bad in it.
"You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.
"And I always felt that it was all right to answer back a little bit, I suppose. That the city shouldn't just be a one-way conversation "I didn't see why you'd settle for just walls. So I started vandalising statues and that led to vandalising parks. It just kept going really.
"So I'd come up with this idea of painting graffiti over oil paintings instead of on walls. And I was completely convinced it was a genius idea nobody had had before."
Banksy began producing his own versions of classic paintings, his most famous being Monet's Water Lily Pond with discarded shopping trolleys under the bridge. In 2003 he snuck into London's Tate Britain gallery and added one of his creations.
He explained: "I thought, 'How do I stop people from stealing this idea?' And I reckoned the best thing to do was to get it hanging up in the Tate with my name next to it.
"But obviously if you were waiting for them to come to you, you'd be waiting quite a long time. So I thought I'd just go in the Tate and stick it up.It was funny. I was going to all these galleries and I wasn't looking at the art, I was looking at the blank spaces between the art.
"So I thought it was probably about time to have a gallery show. But I don't really like galleries, so I, er, ended up renting this warehouse instead."
One of the most memorable moments in Banksy's career was when he sabotaged the launch of Paris Hilton's music album.
He managed to replace 500 copies with his own CD in September 2006. On the cover he superimposed a picture of a dog's head over Paris's and added a sticker that said it included tracks Why Am I Famous?, What Have I Done? and What Am I For?
For the first time he explains how he pulled it off. "I'd been talking to the DJ Danger Mouse about trying to vandalise some pop act or hijack somebody who was in the charts.
"And then suddenly we found out that Paris Hilton was going to make a record. And we had like three weeks to turn it around before the CD was in the shops.
"It was an idea that was just waiting for Paris Hilton to happen. I messed around with the visuals then Danger Mouse sort of turned the album into this one long track where she just repeats herself over and over again.
"We packaged it up, we put it in the cases and then me and two other guys split up and went across the country reverse shoplifting.
"We put out 500 of 'em, which I think probably turned out to be a fair percentage of what she actually sold. I mean, what can they do you for? Littering? Maybe? I guess?"
Just a short time later Banksy caused controversy by staging an exhibition in LA that included a live painted elephant.
He says: "I guess I fancied going somewhere a little bit warmer. So we ended up in Los Angeles and, yer know, it's this really glamorous town that also has this dirty side to it.
"But... above anything else it's the easiest place in the world to rent an elephant." Today Banksy's works can fetch £1million, with Brad Pitt famously picking up a piece at a London auction with a phone bid in 2007.
Small pieces regularly command six figures. But it wasn't always that way.
Banksy says: "When the paintings suddenly started going for, like, really big money it definitely weirded me out, and I kind of went away to the middle of nowhere and I stopped making any more paintings. But... er... the whole time the auction houses were just selling paintings that I'd done years before and sold for not much money. Or paintings that I traded for a haircut or, yer know, an ounce of weed and they were going for like 50 grand.
"It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
"But I can't help feeling it was a bit easier when all I had to compete against was a dustbin down an alley rather than, you know, a Gainsborough or something."
Despite success beyond his wildest dreams, Bansky remains endearingly modest about his work.
"Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off. I mean, most of it is just designed to look good from a moving vehicle. Not necessarily in the history books.
"But maybe all art is about just trying to live on for a bit.
"I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time."
If this is true it will be a very, very long time before Bansky finally gets to rest.
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From formaldehyde-immersed sharks to diamond-encrusted skulls, Damien Hirst has become used to taking flak from traditionalists. Less than welcome have been the accusations of plagiarism, the latest of which were detailed today with claims that no fewer than 15 works produced over the years by the self-styled enfant terrible have been allegedly "inspired" by others. While Hirst has previously faced accusations that works including his diamond skull came from the imagination of other artists, the new allegations include his "crucified sheep", medicine cabinets, spin paintings, spot paintings, installation of a ball on an air-jet, his anatomical figure and cancer cell images. Charles Thomson, the artist and co-founder of the Stuckists, a group campaigning for traditional artistry, collated the number of plagiarism claims relating to Hirst's work for the latest issue of the Jackdaw art magazine. He came up with 15 examples, with eight said to be new instances of plagiarism. The tally includes the medicine cabinets that Hirst first displayed in 1989, and its development in 1992 - a room-size installation called Pharmacy. "Joseph Cornell displayed a cabinet with bottles on shelves called Pharmacy in 1943," said Thomson. Nor were Hirst's spin paintings or his installation of a ball on a jet of air original, he said, noting that both were done in the 1960s. "Hirst puts himself forward as a great artist, but a lot of his work exists only because other artists have come up with original ideas which he has stolen," said Thomson. "Hirst is a plagiarist in a way that would be totally unacceptable in science or literature." Aggrieved artists include John LeKay, a Briton who says he first thought of nailing a lamb's carcass to wood like a cross in 1987, only to see it reproduced by Hirst. Lekay previously claimed in 2007 that he had been producing jewel-encrusted skulls since 1993, before Hirst did so. Lori Precious, an American, says she first arranged butterfly wings into patterns to suggest stained-glass windows in 1994, years before Hirst. Imitation may be flattery, but not when Hirst is taking both the financial and artistic credit for their ideas, say Lekay and Precious. LeKay has never sold anything above £3,500, while Hirst's set of three crucified sheep was a reported £5.7m. Precious's butterflies sold for £6,000 against Hirst's version for £4.7m. While Hirst is one of Britain's richest men, LeKay cannot live off his art. Accusing Hirst of being dishonest about where he gets his ideas, he said: "He should just tell the truth." Although LeKay recognises that artists have always found inspiration in each other, he says the great ones adapt ideas to create works with their own individual and original stamp. He said: "Damien sees an idea, tweaks it a little bit, tries to make it more commercial. He's not like an artist inspired by looking inwards. He looks for ideas from other people. It's superficial. Put both [crucified sheep] together and … it's the same thing." In the 1990s, they were friends and shared exhibitions, which is when Hirst may have seen his sheep. Since then, LeKay has become more interested in Buddhism than material wealth, so he does not plan to seek compensation. Precious recalled her pain at seeing Hirst's butterflies in a newspaper: "My artist friends and collectors called to tell me they couldn't believe the similarities between Hirst's work and mine, and … at first I too thought it was my work." Although the patterns are not identical, she said: "It's the same material (butterfly wings) and the same idea (recreations of stained-glass windows)." Without the funds to pursue legal action, she no longer produces butterfly works. It emerged in 2000 that Hirst agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to head off legal action for breach of copyright by the designer and makers of a £14.99 toy which bore a resemblance to his celebrated 20ft bronze sculpture, Hymn. David Lee, the editor of the Jackdaw, says Hirst's compensation was an admission of guilt. "The fact he was willing to fork out the money is an indication that he knew he was plagiarising the guy's work." Hirst declined to comment!
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Sunday, September 5, 2010
I hope everyone is enjoying their last summer weekend. Down here in North Carolina I don't think the heat is going anywhere, but sadly classes for us start on Monday. Just a little reminder... Screens 'N' Spokes 2010 Opens Next Saturday, Sept 11 at Mugshots CoffeeHouse! The show is being hung tomorrow evening, and if you'd like an in-person preview by all means check out Mugshots this week. The Opening will be next Saturday, starting at 6:30 PM. We'll have snacks and drinks, and yes lots of prints. If anyone has been to our openings before, you know this is the best time to purchase framed and unframed prints in person. We will primarily be selling 2010 prints, but will also have select prints from previous years with us as well. That said, you still haven't see all the great prints this year, so allow me to offer you preview #3 with 5 more for you, right now!
1. Last week I showed you one half of Cricket Press' contribution to Screens 'N' Spokes, and today you'll see the other half. Brian Turner has been a long-time contributor to S'N'S, designing prints in '07-'08 as well as designing our jerseys those two years as well. For those of us whose bikes are less transportation and more in-house (or apartment) statues, this one is for us.
2. A newcomer to Screens 'N' Spokes family, Justin Helton and his Status Serigraph studio has been pumping out fantastic posters for the past 5 years. Recently he's memorialized gigs for bands like Phish, Wilco and the Avett Brothers. In his S'N'S debut, Justin gives us a seriously sweet cruiser.
3. Columbia, South Carolina's The Half and Half have supported Screens 'N' Spokes from the beginning. Like Cricket Press, they are upping the ante this year with two excellent, and completely different prints. Today I'll preview one of them. Everyone knows riding in the rain is rarely fun, but sometimes you just have to break out your umbrella and keep on moving.
4. I've got two Collaborations to share today. The first comes from officemates Kevin Mercer of Largemammal and Dan Judge. This print feels like Mercer's style, but with Judge's flair for color, and as Dan told me: "Two bikes for two guys."
5. Our second collaboration comes from previous S'N'S contributor Mike Munter and his recent partner Jessi Preston. Mike always ties his Screens 'N' Spokes prints to the ride, and has done so again with Ed Roth style caricatures of Philadelphia forefather Ben Franklin and, well... the Devil.
We've got 5 more prints to go, including a fantastic collaboration from Jay Ryan and Dan McCarthy. That'll be coming at you right after you get back from your Holiday Weekend.
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You know me and my love for bicycle themed prints.. This one is from Brainstorm and it is called 'Go Ride A Bike' Teal. This is a 2 colour 18 x 24 inch screenprint for $25 each.
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010 
Here is the next KILLER print drop by artist Audrey Kawaski. This is for her NEW print called 'Migawari'. This beauty is a 16 x 20 inch giclee on 100% cotton rag paper with an edition size of 200, comes signed and numbered by the artist for $200 unframed or $450 framed. This will be available on Saturday September 4th at 4pm EST.
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