Limited Edition Art Prints, Posters, Giclee Prints & Screen Print Releases
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 
Here is a SNEAK PEAK at Bast's upcoming release called 'Pork Pie', this is going to be released through PaperMonster in NYC. I have no specific details yet, but it looks about 18 x 24 inches and seems to have some hand finished elements. These will be available some time on Thursday October 29th.
Check it out HERE
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 
Shepard Fairey's True Colors L.A. Times By Charlotte Allen October 25, 2009
The Echo Park artist has built his career on a combination of vandalism and expropriation of other people's images.
The jig is finally up. Shepard Fairey, graphic designer and longtime street artist, admitted earlier this month that he submitted false evidence and lied in a copyright lawsuit involving his most famous creation: the "Hope" poster featuring a stark red-white-and-blue image of Barack Obama. The Associated Press had always maintained that Fairey created the image by essentially tracing over a close-up photograph of Obama taken by an AP contract photographer, Mannie Garcia, in 2006. Fairey insisted that he had used a smaller, cropped portion of another Garcia photo and that he was entitled to do so under the principle of "fair use." On Feb. 9, Fairey filed a lawsuit seeking a declaration from the court that he hadn't violated any copyright in the creation of his work. The suit was an effort to forestall a copyright-infringement lawsuit by the AP. But on the very day the lawsuit was filed, Daryl Lang, an editor at Photo District News, posted a Photoshop overlay of the image of Obama captured on Fairey's "Hope" poster and the close-up that the AP maintained he used. The two images matched point for point. Lang's overlay put the lie to Fairey's claim, but it took the artist months to concede that he had used, as the AP had maintained from the beginning, the close-up. Even now, he insists that expropriating the image was "fair use." So why wasn't the jig up as soon as Lang posted his evidence? Because Fairey was "one of us" in the eyes of the fiercely liberal cultural and intellectual elite. Fairey, by his own description, is a man of the left. His work, as his gallery put it in a 2007 news release, critiques the "underpinnings of the capitalist machine." Fairey first became the darling of political liberals with a poster in which he depicted then-President George W. Bush as a vampire, complete with fangs and blood dripping down his chin. After the Obama campaign officially incorporated Fairey's "Hope" poster series into its electoral efforts, Obama sent the artist a letter, included in an exhibit of his work at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, saying, "I am privileged to be a part of your art work and proud to have your support." Privileged? Proud? Fairey has built his artistic career on a combination of vandalism, via graffiti-like hit-and-run art, and an expropriation of other people's images. While he insists he uses the art of others only as "reference points," his critics have termed his work outright plagiarism. Since the mid-1980s, he has stenciled on big-city buildings and small-town sidewalks his trademark anti-capitalist image "Obey Giant" (lifted from an image of a well-known wrestler whose trademark-holders threatened Fairey with a lawsuit in 1993). The New Yorker's art critic, Peter Schjeldahl, wrote reverently of the works, calling them "epic poetry in an everyday tongue" in an article in February. Fairey boasts of having been arrested 15 times on graffiti charges in various cities. He pleaded guilty in Boston earlier this year to three counts of vandalism, including affixing a sticker to a traffic sign and putting a poster on a condominium building of his wife holding a gun. At 39, Fairey may seem a bit old for such merry pranks, but you have to remember that armchair Marxist intellectuals and others of Fairey's ilk still look back with longing to the grimy 1970s and 1980s in New York, when graffiti blanketed every car in the subway system. They were appalled by the successful efforts of mayors Ed Koch and Rudolph Giuliani to crack down on the taggers in order to make the city livable for the philistines who had to take the trains to work. Even some of Fairey's fellow leftists in the arts community have objected to his free-handed lifting -- without attribution -- of images created by others, even though many of those images are likely in the public domain. In a 2007 Web post, Los Angeles artist Mark Vallen displayed 15 images drawn from such disparate artistic sources as Soviet socialist realism to Black Panther agitprop that Fairey seemed to have expropriated lock, stock and barrel for his work. The most intriguing was an anti-Iraq war poster Fairey created in 2005, apparently by copying a 1930s WPA advert for Yellowstone National Park. He added camels and oil derricks for local color, but he seemed to be counting on the fact that most arty types, never having been near a battlefield, wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a bomb cloud and a geyser. But if Fairey has always felt other people's work was fair game, he himself has been quite, um, capitalist when it comes to protecting his own property rights. He threatened graphic artist Baxter Orr of Austin, Texas, with a lawsuit for spoofing his "Obey Giant" signature stencil. In August, the Eastsider neighborhood blog mocked Fairey the street artist for slapping a layer of anti-graffiti coating onto his Sunset Boulevard studio. Fairey fired back with a four-letter-word-adorned e-mail blasting the Eastsider as "irresponsible," "obnoxious" and a purveyor of the "cheap shot." Analogizing Fairey to Roman Polanski is probably unfair. Defacing buildings and defrauding a court by manufacturing and destroying evidence pale in comparison to fleeing the country in order to avoid a sentence for unlawful sex with a 13-year-old who told a grand jury she was drugged, raped and sodomized. Yet Polanski and Fairey have something in common: thumbing their noses at the law because they're artists. And they both have support from fellow artists and intellectuals, who seem to agree that there should be one moral standard for artists and another for everyone else. In the case of Polanski, it's Whoopi Goldberg and Martin Scorsese. In the case of Fairey, it's the critics and intellectuals who have given him a free pass over the years. It's not surprising, then, that Fairey thought he could get away with what he almost did.
Time will tell Charlotte!!!
Monday, October 26, 2009 
Here are two great prints from artist Greg 'Craola' Simkins e-store. The print above is called 'Damsel', it is a 16 x 24 inch giclee print on Elegance velvet platinum edition fine art paper with an edition size of 100, comes signed and numbered by the artist for $125 each. The canvas below is called 'Season's Change', it is a 20 x 24 inch giclee print on Chromata white canvas with an edition size of 50, comes signed and numbered by the artist for $450 each.
Check it out HERE
Monday, October 26, 2009 
Here is the latest print from artist Lucy McLauchlan, it's called 'Grow Your Greens' and it is one of three limited edition screen prints from the Garden Organic collection. Garden Organic is the U.K's leading organic growing charity dedicated to researching and promoting organic gardening, farming and food. For more information on Garden Organic, please click the 'Garden Organic' collection link to the left of the screen. Lucy's contribution to the project is this beautiful hand screen printed 50 x 50 cm print on 250 GSM recycled paper stock with an edition size of 100, comes signed and numbered by the artist for $212 each. Her use of recycled stock clearly demonstrates her intuitive and organic approach to painting. This edition has been screen printed by hand on recycled paper using inks which are kinder to the environment. The collection of three prints was put together as a unique means of promoting Garden Organic's message of growing your own food organically and raising funds to help the charity continue with their fantastic work.
Check it out HERE
Monday, October 26, 2009 
Here are some really great prints from artist Marq Spusta. The above print is called 'Spring Swing' and damn! It's SOLD OUT, but what a BANGER!!! Sad to have missed that one! The print in the middle is called 'Bliss Bug' and it is a 12 x 12 inch screen print on sawgrass coloured paper with an edition size of 110, comes signed and numbered by the artist for $15 each. The print on the bottom is called 'Slow' and it is a 11 x 14 inch screen print on sawgrass coloured paper with an edition size of 110, comes signed and numbered by the artist it too $15 each.
Check it out HERE
Sunday, October 25, 2009 
Here is a cool NEW triptych by artist Steven Harrington, this is called 'Our Mountain'. These are each 4 colour 24 x 36 inch screen prints with an edition size of 100 for $300/set. These are available through Arkitip for $100 each or $300/set. Also check out the two wicked prints below, they are a little smaller and a little cheaper. Steven does some realy great design work!
Check it out HERE
Sunday, October 25, 2009 
Thanks for the heads up Robin, here are some new stickers from artist Dick Chicken what else needs to be said that the sticker has not already said!! I LOVE THIS SHIT!!! When are the Pussy Ham stickers coming?
Check it out HERE
Sunday, October 25, 2009 
Here is the first look I have for the AWESOME upcoming 'Crayon Rebel' print from artist L.E.T. (Les Enfants Terribles). This beauty is a 56 x 42 cm stencil, screenprint & hand painted mix on 300 GSM Hahnemühle paper with an edition size of only 22, comes signed and numbered by the artist for only €85 each. Email him HERE, shipping charges are €19 for Europe + England + €29 for the USA + Canada.
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Sunday, October 25, 2009 
Ryan Milner 'Tayst·bûd' Edition of 50 Size: 11 x 14 Inches "Ryan Milner 'Tayst·bûd' Edition of 50 Size: 11 x 14 Inches $30 Each"0 EachHere is an interesting + strange print from the good peeps at Phone Booth Gallery. This GITD print is by artist Ryan Milner, it is called 'Tayst·bûd' and it is a 4 colour including GITD inks on a 11 x 14 inch screen print on classic crest natural white cover with an edition size of 50, comes signed and numbered by the artist for $30 each. This print shows the anatomy of a taste bud, interior and exterior, because it glows in the dark! Check out Ryan's available artwork from his present show at Phone Booth Gallery HERE, I love 'Paradise', 'Suds' + 'Deputy', the rock!!!
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Friday, October 23, 2009 
[/caption]This beautiful screen print by artists Emek, Jermaine Rogers + Justin Hampton measures 25 x 25 inches with an edition size of 200, comes signed and numbered by the artists for $80 each. The artwork displays PNE's weird tribute to one of the greatest bands of modern times, The Beatles. Drawing a vibe from their combined childhood love of 1970's carnival art and pop exploitation, the artists of PNE have created the type of kitsch imagery that is a constant feature hiding in the underbelly of rock and roll culture. The regular edition of this print is signed by all 3 artists and is part of an edition of 200 copies: PNE debuted this piece recently at the TRPS Poster Show in San Francisco, California. As promised, a limited amount of these posters were held back and are now being made available to collectors worldwide via the PNE website this Friday. The print features brilliant psychedelic colors, including a seamless color fade. This variant brown edition below was printed with special metallic inks. With these color variations, the print takes on a totally different mood. Only 100 of these were produced and a very limited portion of them will be made available this Friday. The print come signed and numbered by all three artists for $120 each. These will be available today Friday October 23rd, at a random time between 3-4pm EST.
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