Dabs Myla book launch tomorrow night!
Revolver Upstairs, Final Outline and Burn present…
Super Smooth
Celebrating the launch of their first book Super Smooth, featuring work from their first year in Los Angeles, plus some gems from the past, Dabs Myla are taking over Revolver Upstairs, transforming the backroom with art installations you won’t want to miss seeing.
The first edition of their book Super Smooth is limited to 100 copies worldwide, those purchased on the night will be signed and numbered by the artists and the first 50 sold come with a free limited edition Burn/Dabs Myla t-shirt!
Dabs Myla will also be there on the night customising books.
Tunes from Ms Butt, Dust and Danielsan.
Wednesday 7th April, 6pm — ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Revolver Upstairs
229 Chapel St
Prahran, VIC 3181
http://www.dabsmyla.com
http://finaloutline.com
http://www.burnclothing.com.au
http://revolverupstairs.com.au
http://www.coloneltans.com.au
More on Dabs Myla
Dabs is a prolific illustrator and graffiti artist who spent his teenage years growing up in Melbourne in the Early ‘90s. The graffiti scene influenced him greatly in his style and technique. These days Dabs’ characters come to life in more contextualized environments than ever before, whether they are painted on walls in the streets, or on canvases for a gallery setting.
Myla was also raised in Melbourne where she was obsessed with detailed painting and drawing from an early age. Throughout her life Myla has continued to develop her artistic ways, and now concentrates on detailed cities and landscapes. Three years ago, along with Dabs, they combined forces to solely collaborate on their works together.
For the past 12 months Dabs and Myla have been living and working in Hollywood. In a town where many of the world’s high-profile artist’s reside the two have made a name for themselves, working for established people such as Disney, Hummer and Green Day.
The media caught onto the buzz and their work featured in renowned publications Desktop Magazine, Sneaker Freaker and Juxtapoz.
WONABC Show
WON ABC BAVARIAN PANDEMONIUM OF ANIMALS AND ZOMBIES
paintings / graphics / sculptures / moving pictures
wonabc exhibition 2009
galery richter masset / wuermtalstr.20 / munich / germany
opening 24th july 2009 / 8pm
exhibition runs 25th july- 29th august 2009
open wed-sat 14-19h
C-90 by Mark Drew @ Don’t Come
C-90 is an exhibition by Australian artist and curator Mark Drew, of cassette tape imagery via canvas, sculpture and illustrative print media. The first part of C-90 took place in Sydney late in 2008, with the June 2009 Melbourne show being all new artwork. The works in this show have been developed from a large scale mural painted at Oxford Art Factory, of his teenage collection of cassette tape spines.
“In a time of MP3 data, the imagery C-90 deals with is quite emotive, recalling the graphic side of personal music collections”. Drew has been behind the scenes of many local art shows, as the co-owner of China Heights gallery.
KINGS WAY – The beginnings of Australian graffiti
Kings Way is, without a doubt, the most significant piece of literature on the beginnings of Australian and in particular Melbourne’s graffiti culture that has ever been produced. It acts as a bible, chronicle and visual encyclopaedia of the evolution and rise of this influential subculture through 80s and early 90s and pays tribute to Melbourne’s early writers and crews that helped build their city’s international reputation as a graffiti style capital.
Mapping the progression of styles, influences and key players in the graf scene the attention to detail is unmatched. Over the last two years co-authors and Australian graffiti veterans Duro Cubrilo, Martin Harvey and Karl Stamer have painstakingly crafted Kings Way into a 384 page book featuring over 12 hundred full-colour images with contributions by over 60 people including the likes of Bathy, Chose, Duel, Duet, Krisy, Merda, New2, Paris, Peril, Puzle, Ransom and Ron the Train Driver. A serious task.
As well as the regular edition of the book which will be available from July 1st, 2009 for AUD$64.99, the guys will also be releasing 200 hand-numbered limited edition versions of the book which feature a protective slipcase box, foil detail, unique end paper design and images and are each individually signed by the authors.
Don’t sleep on this one.
more book pics here.
words from lifelounge
Kings Way blog.
New K-71 colors
Coming soon to a store near you…
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Limited Edition PM2 Bodé Locker
1 of 1, Dvate, Sear, Dabs & Myla collab. With a few guest spots of course.
ECB at Pretty Portal Gallery
“einen sommer”
a show by ecb Hendrik Beikirch
May 08 to June 05Graffiti as aesthetics between art and act of willful damage, sign language for the speed and mobility of modern urban Indians - these characterisations of wall art from the spray can are widely known. With his work on canvas, Hendrik “ecb“ Beikirch now shows that rather than following the pathway from the underground into the respectability of art galleries, graffiti is an art of space and its representation.
He does not transfer the sign language itself from walls onto canvas, but rather captures the topographical scenarios in which this language takes place. Stairways, bridges and arcades are the topics of his canvasses, with a wide sky spanning above as a symbol of anarchy and the open space for which the art of graffiti was originally designed. In these imaginary visions, anonymity and secrecy metamorphose to near photographic perfection. A deliberately minimised colour palette and a blending and running of colours evoke the melancholy of a bygone era, reminiscent of images from the early age of photography. Here, graffiti has been transformed into an art of ephemeral beauty.
pretty portal
gallery for streetart and urban art
Brunnenstrasse 12
40223 Düsseldorf
www.prettyportal.de
Michael Porter at Until Never Gallery
Michael Porter is perhaps the best recognised, though most elusive and enigmatic artist to emerge from the Melbourne street art scene over the last 5 years. His obsessive, emotionally charged heads and figures can be seen all over Melbourne on walls, train lines and subterranean tunnels. Highly original and idiosyncratic, Michael’s street paintings distinguish themselves from popular styles both in subject and technique, deriving neither from graffiti writing nor the graphic-driven stencil movement. Michael has pioneered the use of paint rollers and extension poles to create highly detailed public works that are both deeply personal and universal.
Reductivistic in his approach, Michael has said that he looks for the image of the face in the chaos rather than making it. Lusty, anguished, grimacing, laughing, critical, malevolent, impish – Michael Porter’s heads and figures often feature both male and female characteristics, expressing ambiguous states of human nature and frailty that defy simplistic reading but are instinctively understood. Morality is not straight-forward, carnality is easily descended into. We are vulnerable to dark tendencies.
Alongside his prolific legacy of street painting, for the last three years Michael has worked with increasingly ambitious bronze alongside his passion for found materials. Michael has previously shown at Until Never as part of the Trouble With Boys exhibition in 2007, and his first solo show brings together paintings, bronze, ceramics, wood, and paper works.
Gallery hours : Wednesday to Saturday 12-6pm
2nd Floor 3-5 Hosier Lane (Enter from Rutledge Lane) Melbourne AUSTRALIA
Kid-Zoom at Boutwell Draper Gallery
Boutwell Draper Gallery presents a new gallery installation by acclaimed Australian Graffiti / Street Artist ‘Kid Zoom’.
Originally from Perth Australia , KID ZOOM has definitely become the one to watch in the Australian street-art scene. Combining precise technical ability with tongue in cheek subversions of pop iconography, his work is not only attention grabbing, but innovative in it’s use of medium.
In his first Sydney Solo Exhibition, Kid Zoom will create a unique site specific mural installation directly onto the walls of Boutwell Draper.
Come climb inside Kid Zoom’s mind for a night…
Boutwell Draper Gallery
82-84 George Street, Redfern
SYDNEY
Showing until 23 May 2009
Faces & Laces interactive streetwear exhibition & music show
Check it out if you’re in Moscow, 18th-19th April. Featuring Krink and Superblast (Neo Utopia).
More details at www.faceslaces.com & www.myspace.com/facesandlaces
MTN x Bode
“Vaughn Bode’s art was made popular by writers like Dondi, Seen, Tracy and Mare 139.
Graffiti artists love Bode. That’s the simple truth. For three decades the graff culture has had an on-going love affair with Cheech Wizard, the lizards, the infamous Bode broads and all the other inhabitants of the fantastic cartoon world created by Vaughn Bode.
The work of Vaughn Bode, who passed away in 1975 at age 33, is as much a fixture in the graffiti community as fat caps and black books. Though he’s gone, never to be forgotten, he is survived by a son.. Through Mark Bode’s own powerful artwork and an equally powerful sense of commitment, the wonderful world his father set forth continues to thrive.
Montana Colors is really proud to present two new Limited Editions designed by Vaughn and Mark Bode. For the first time their art will dress up a spray can, thanks to Bode family to give us this honor!
as usual, just 500 cans will be available, don’t miss these historical pieces!!’
-From Montana Spain
Mistery is on tour
These are from his time in the US, now he’s somewhere in Europe, keep watching for more updates…
Darco Show
Darco has a show in France 7th March - 3rd April:
Hôtel de Ville de Garches (92) - France
2, rue Claude Liard
F - 92 380 Garches
Krink
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Krink was originally designed due to dissatisfaction with existing products in the art supply market. Searching for solutions, Krink was developed by graffiti writer and artist, Craig “KR” Costello. Carefully seeking out ingredients that were not readily available, “KR” created a variety of homemade inks and markers fit for use in both street and studio environments.
Overtime, KR’s products gained notoriety by their association with his work in the street, the studio, and by his dripping ink aesthetics. Stories about his homemade products grew, and the ink achieved a certain cult status. The name, Krink, originated from combining KR and ink.
Now Krink products are available to the public worldwide. Krink studios have carefully developed a wide range of colors and markers, bringing high quality performance to the consumer. These are not your grandpa’s markers! Krink uses 21st century innovation and technology to ensure products of the highest quality.
Dabs & Myla show
Here’s a couple of shots from the guys last show before they make the move to the US
