Showing posts with label billboards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label billboards. Show all posts

Sunday, December 9, 2012

New Book: Billboard Bandits




Billboard Bandits: Outlaw Artists in the Sky

A 208-page hardcover packed with photos and interviews, Billboard Bandits dives deep within graffiti and street art subcultures and their fascination with conquering the billboard.

The book's interviews include 18 top graffiti and street artists from the USA and UK, including Augor.MSK, the Billboard Liberation Front (BLF) and Ron English. They specialize in everything from integrating their pieces into the advertisement itself to adding their artwork to the blank billboard back. A few are "billboard liberators," manipulating the ads to convey their message (subvertising).  


www.billboardbandits.com
www.facebook.com/billboardbandits

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Friday, November 5, 2010

CA, Costa Mesa: Nov. 10 - Dec. 17, 2010: Ron English



Status Factory
The Art of Ron English

Opening Reception: Friday, November 12th  6:00pm -10:00pm

Orange Coast College - Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion
2701 Fairview Rd., Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Parking in Lot D9 (Off Merrimac Street)

The Orange Coast College Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion in collaboration with Opera Gallery and Hurley presents Status Factory, a surreal assemblage of over 100 artworks by Ron English. This highly interactive exhibition traces the arc of English's most ambitious themes across mediums.

One of the most prolific and recognizable artists alive today, Ron English has bombed the global landscape with unforgettable images, on the street, in museums, in movies, books, television, and album covers. English coined the term POPaganda to describe his signature mash-up of high and low cultural touchstones, from superhero mythology to totems of art history, populated with his vast and constantly growing arsenal of original characters. Ron English's art, whether in paintings, billboards, murals, or sculpture, blends stunning visuals with the bitingly humorous undertones of America's Premier Pop Iconoclast.

Born in Illinois, Chicago in 1959, Ron English paints, infiltrates, reinvents and satirizes modern culture and its mainstream visual iconography on canvas, in song, and directly onto hundreds of pirated billboards. English exists spiritually somewhere between a cartoon Abbie Hoffman and a grown-up, real-life Bart Simpson, delivering a steady stream of customized imagery laden with strong sociopolitical undertones, adolescent boy humor, subversive media savvy, and Dali-meets-Disney technique. Dedicated to finding the sublime in the everyday and breaking the momentum of the didactic approach to art and life, English offers up an alternative universe where nothing is sacred, everything is subverted, and there is always room for a little good-natured fun.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

NY, New York: Sept. 12, 2010: Ron English - Status Factory

More than 100 new works! 
Private view is the 11th 6pm. (may be invitation only)
Public opening is Sunday Sept 12, 3:00 pm. 
382 West Broadway

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Friday, June 11, 2010

Billboard art competition in Poland: Deadline August 10, 2010



We would like to invite you to take part in a billboard art competition. The invitation is addressed to all interested artists and students worldwide. There is no entry fee.

The best 10 artworks selected by an international jury panel will be printed and exhibited in the urban space of the city of Torun, Poland in September/October 2010. The author of the winning entry will receive the Main Award in the amount of PLN 7000 (approx. EURO 1750, $2200).

The competition accompanies the 3rd Festival of Art on Billboards, Art Moves.

The artwork is supposed to be a creative response to this year's competition theme:
"Together or apart?"

This slogan can serve as a kind of a metaphor of the processes taking place in the contemporary world. Both individuals and the whole societies are faced with such a choice. Do they want to live together, contribute, collaborate and, as a result create shared value, or do they want to lead a separate, individual life of their own? Is it better to be single or in a stable relationship? Is being a member of a larger organization, like the European Union better than staying apart? Is it better to feel a part of your nation or rather an individual citizen? The possible interpretations are multiple. So, together or apart?

The entries can be sent by email until 10 August, 2010 to the following address: artmoves@tlen.pl

Find more information about the Competition and Festival at: