“Black Hills” is a 24 x 36 inch Offset Paster (on thin cream paper).  Signed by Shepard Fairey, but not numbered.  Only 100 will be available.  Proceeds help fund the Pine Ridge Awareness campaign.  These will be available on September 4th at a random time during the day (PST) at Obey Giant.

A little more from Shepard Fairey:

“I have been documenting the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for the past six years. Recently I have realized how inappropriate it is for this project to end with another book or a gallery show.

More than any project I have done in my career, the ever-evolving Pine Ridge project gives voice to social injustice and a forgotten history. I want my work to empower the Lakota and other tribes who fight for recognition of the past in order to help give them a chance to move forward.

Your involvement will help raise the visibility of these images by taking them straight to the public to the sides of busses, subway tunnels, and billboards. I want people to think about prisoner of war camps in America on their commute to work. I want the message to be so loud that it cannot be ignored.” ~Aaron Huey

Please do not let the name Saatchi throw you. Ahmet Karayilan is A turkish master  who’s surreal paintings and mixed media creations harken back to a time when the Surrealists called the ball and every gilded cage across the globe from Baden Baden to Bel Air was not complete until one was captured.  Ahmet’s work is timeless and should belong to the people and not a Swiss Bank vault and I go to see that they have it.

“In my paintings, the figures being alone represent the human being’s ‘situation of being on someone’s own’ is the obligatory requirement to comprehend the ‘time’ as pure. To sense the continuousness at any moment, the watch rotor is in the paintings as a symbol of this continuousness. Moreover, I sometimes emphasize on the space and time constant differentness that is drived from this continuousness by the magazine pages on the background. There is/are only right or left eye(s) on the faces but in one side; the (eye) retina is enough for identification after all. Each figure of mine is ‘Dasein’. As Heidegger’s use; it is aware of existing in the time temporarily and feeling its existence. Constantly. While ‘Dasein’ as a reference to the figure’s self awareness, in the paintings awareness leads being realized.”
karayilan72@hotmail.com

Is there a cerebral connection somewhere between art and skateboarding? For some people skating is an art, for others art has nothing to do with skating. Then there are those who combine these two things to form a lifestyle.

Lindsey Kuhn has found a way to turn his passions into career, and has been both skating and creating art for over three decades. He was born in Evanston, IL, but grew up on the coast of Mississippi where the now infamous Swamp ramp(s) stood for over ten years. In 1983 he began screen-printing t-shirts primarily to pay for maintenance of the massive ramp. Those simple t-shirts have ballooned into an internationally known company called SWAMP. Today Lindsey is best known for his silk-screened rock posters for hundreds of bands like The Melvins, Tool, Atmosphere, AC/DC and more. Swamp also does custom printing and publishes work for other artists.

Lindsey moved to Austin, TX in 1990 and within a year started printing posters for Southern California’s L’imagerie Gallery. L’imagerie set up a small flat press shop in Austin produce rock posters for Frank Kozik, as well as, Serigraphs for other artists they represented. Such as Robert Crumb, Ed Roth, Robert Williams, Joe Colman, and others. While printing all this great art, Lindsey realized there was a demand for what he had been doing for years and seized the opportunity to learn from these lowbrow masters helping to revive the lost art of the Rock Poster. He has continued to create posters for over 20 years, keeping his D.I.Y. ethic alive by printing his own work as well as other artists from around the world through his print company called SWAMP, which is now located in Denver, CO.

In 1994, Lindsey started making Conspiracy Skateboards because of the lack of big skateboards in the industry at that time. Today, Conspiracy has grown into one of the few truly “independent” skate companies working with artists like Pushead, Stainboy & Angry Blue as well as having some of the best underground riders in the country. In the same year he started, with the help of longtime friend Tim Kerr, Nolie Records which released 19, 7”records & cd’s most of which were local Austin bands including Jack o’ Fire, Jesus Christ Superfly, Lord High Fixers, Fuckemos and Live at Emo’s, volume 2. In 2010 his first book, “Lure of the SWAMP”, was released. It compiled many of his Rock Posters that he made over the years. This year the second edition is out with bonus pages featuring more work up to his 20th Anniversary of making posters.

Lindsey has also done commercial work for X-box, Camel, Oakley, toured with the “Southern Comfort Music Experience”, as well as having art shows in Japan, Europe and all over America.

Lindsey has brought art, music and skateboarding together throughout his life paving the way for others to enjoy and hopefully make connection.

Back for his 4th RUN, we are excited to bring back Michigan artist Matt Gordon with his detail laden Wodka Macheck. Alongside of his latest limited edition, we are excited to offer 4 Original Paintings from Matt Gordon. Each comes with a custom frame and is a ready to hang, original, one of a kind piece of artwork. Check out all 4 along with the Limited Edition Prints for Wodka Macheck below.

This RUN contains a Set of 6 Various Sized Mini-Prints from the upcoming George Hearts Maria Exhibition featuring work fromAllison Sommers, Beau Stanton, Jean Labourdette/Turf One, Jon Burgerman, Molly Crabapple and Shark Toof

Curated by Art Nerd Invasion and Lori Zimmer, “George Hearts Maria” asks contemporary artists to pay tribute to the star crossed lovers, and reinterpret the lost art historical tradition of eye miniatures, adding a modernist skew to the once romantic art movement.

This RUN comes signed, numbered by each artist, along with a signed Certificate of Authenticity from 1xRUN

On September 1st, Art Nerd Invasion and Lori Zimmer present “George Hearts Maria,” a Victorian pop-up plucked out of history and taking root in Helium Cowboy’s summer group show. The parasitic gallery takes residence on the gallery floor, amidst the summer group show. Inside the appendage-gallery is a pristine Victorian sitting room, complete with a collection of eye miniatures.

Featuring artists Alex Diamond, Allison Sommers, Barnaby Whitfield, Beau Stanton, Billy, Eilzabeth Winnel, Fred Caron, Ian Kual’i, Ian Larsen, Jason Botkin, Jean Labourdette/Turf1, Jim Doran, Jon Burgerman, Jonathan Grassi, Jon Todd, Marne Lucas, Michael Mararian, Molly Crabapple, My Dog Sighs, Nyugen Smith, Ray Geary, Rebecca Reeve, Ricardo Cavolo, Rudy Fig, Ryan V. Brennan, Shark Toof, T.B. Lambergini, Travis Louie, Trong Nguyen and Zac Braun, the group show “George Hearts Maria” asks contemporary artists to pay tribute to the star crossed lovers, and reinterpret the lost art historical tradition of eye miniatures, adding a modernist skew to the once romantic art movement.

Find out more @ http://heliumcowboy.squarespace.com/george-hearts-maria/

Location: The Outsiders – London
Dates: Friday 7th of September 2012 to Saturday 6th of October 2012

The Outsiders is pleased to welcome Xenz to Greek Street for his first solo show at the London gallery. The Charm of Hummingbirds focuses on paintings of utopian landscapes and wildlife.

These new works are inspired by a trip to Jamaica’s Montego Bay Bird Sanctury, Xenz says “Feeding Hummingbirds by hand, I was mesmerised by their iridescent feathers and spectacular flying ability …” the works centre around the birds’ beautiful colours and passionate nature.

The Charm of Hummingbirds includes large watercolours on paper, three dimensional Perspex pieces, “geometric” tessellating hexagonal and triangular canvases, as well as a large three panel hand painted dressing screen. And if that isn’t enough, there will also be several prints created by Xenz at our Wapping print studio.

Rapidly evolving street artist Xenz brings his Utopian naturalist paintings to The Outsiders London this

August and September. The ‘Indian Summer’ months provide the ideal climate for his opulent wildlife

works.

With a refreshing lack of hype Xenz has nonetheless become one of the most sought-after artists on The

Outsiders’ roster. An accomplished painter with a background in textile design, his detailed and colourful

works drag decorative art into the 21st century.

As part of Bristol’s TCF graffiti crew, Xenz was one of the first street artists to contrast the natural world

with a post-industrial environment. He has since taken his dreamlike murals around the world creating

outdoor pieces in Ibiza and Gambia plus exhibiting in India and Australia to name but a few of his exotic

contexts.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Sam’s work or the beautiful poster synergy between The Historic Castro Theatre and Spoke Art Gallery, here are some tremendous examples which for some reason are still available for purchase.

Part of the Castro Theatre x Spoke Art series

Signed and numbered

Edition of 100

screen print

18″ x 24″

Purple Variant

Signed and numbered

Edition of 25

screen print

18″ x 24″

“The Royal Tenenbaums”

Part of the Castro Theatre x Spoke Art series

Signed and numbered

Edition of 100

screen print

18″ x 24″

Pink Variant

Signed and numbered

Edition of 25

screen print

18″ x 24″

Now available: New prints Chuck Sperry and Sam Smith

Spoke Art is proud to announce two new screen prints by artists Chuck Sperry and Sam Smith, commissioned by the historic Castro Theatre for this weekends screenings of the classic Alfred Hitchcock film, “Vertigo”.

Recently named the “greatest film of all time” by the British Film Institute, “Vertigo” holds a special place in the hearts of San Franciscans and we couldn’t be more honored to be working with the historic Castro Theatre on this screening and print release.

Please join us tonight, Friday August 31st for the 8pm screening, and tomorrow, Saturday September 1st for the 2pm, 5pm and 8pm screenings of the film, where we will have an allocation of these prints reserved for attendees. All screenings will be in glorious 70mm format.

All 6 of Joshua’s “Sistine Pop” prints are now available in his store. Less than 25 copies of each print are still available.  All of them are 18 x 18 inch, six color screenprints.  Signed & numbered in a limited edition of 75 prints each.  ”Tetsuo” and “Brody” have sold out over at the G1988, so pick ‘em up while you still can!  Some of these will go fast, so pick up the whole set.  Available now in Joshua’s store.

“These pieces were created during June and July 2012. Each bunny has about two hours worth of work in them, if not more. There are so many different stages of the process! Drawing, cutting, sanding, gesso, paint, finish, hardware, signing. My wife thinks I’m crazy for not charging more. Each bunny is unique and has it’s own personality. After having lived with some around the studio for a while, I can’t help but feel like they are almost pets. Because of the way that some of them can sit, rather than just hang on the wall, combined with the fact that each is a unique shape cut out of wood, there is a sculptural quality to them. They are more than mere paintings. They are objet d’art.” – Max Neutra

“I attempt to get ahead of myself and let the work be the result of a direct feed from my physiological being. Whether it’s a face depicting an emotion, or abstract shapes, I strive for each painting to be like a signature. Quick and messy. Brave and permanent. Unmistakably written by my hand. Produced by the machine that is my body. Instead of toiling over attempted perfection, I indulge in the imperfections of myself and the world around me, and marvel at the inherent factors of chance that the process provides. Through practicing this approach, a stream of surprises emerge and I am in a constant state of discovery.” – Max Neutra