Sweet Toof Unleashes ‘Dark Horse’ On Brooklyn

Why the teeth? After Sweet Toof lost 10 friends “in a series of freak accidents,” death’s been a theme. The artist’s swollen gum motif carried over from his graffiti to his oil paintings of anachronistic, paint-wielding gents. See them take Brooklyn on horseback tonight at Sweet Toof’s solo show opening at Factory Fresh. “Dark Horse,” Sweet Toof, Apr 29 (Opening tonight, 7-10pm) – May 22, Factory Fresh, NYC

Despite the hellish NYC heat, the opening of Factory Fresh’s “Among Darkened Woods” drew a large crowd to the Dante’s Inferno-inspired group show. These two works by Amanda Nedham were thwarted by airport customs, but should arrive and be on display by next week. Read more »

Isn’t Skewville’s Shift Work Disorder the hip lovechild of Guernica and Man as Industrial Palace? Oh yes. (Or no.) The street art brother duo exhibit at Factory Fresh this month, funneling the mechanics of systematized everyday existence, economic pressure and consumerist chaos into bright cubist canvases, with some “beef and hype” on the side. Take a peak at the exhibit below. Read more »

Belgium-born street artist ROA has spread his gigantic black and white vermin, bunnies and storks from Warsaw to Paris. Usually seen lazing around deteriorated industrial hubs, the fury/feathered fauna comes to NYC care of Factory Fresh. Featured in the solo exhibit, this bunny can be dissected by opening the locker doors. See some feral anatomy starting this Friday. ROA, May 14 – May 30th, Factory Fresh, NYC

 

Opening tonight, Factory Fresh gallery’s newest with Boris Hoppek and Alex Diamond – DAMAGE:CONTROL, in merry partnership with heliumcowboy artspace. German graffiti big shot turned European contemporary art star Boris Hoppek has promised an up the skirt installation. With a clean style spinning off sex, violence and racism, the artist who turned SCOPE Basel 2008′s water taxis into floating works of art is joined by the transient Alex Diamond. A visual trickster and masquerader, Diamond’s self-interspective drawings will fight it out for “possession, superiority, survival and love,” nonchalantly. Check it.

“DAMAGE:CONTROL,” Boris Hoppek and Alex Diamond, Mar 5 – Apr 11, Reception Mar 5 8-11pm, Factory Fresh, Brooklyn

Factory Fresh reopens on February 12th with two exhibits. Hit the back room for Josh McCutchen’s “Polymetrochromanticism.” The former MTVU “Does This Look Infected” host and current Renaissance-man of the Josh McCutchen show (peep him making out with an eldery hetero who hobbled into the Gay Pride Parade… and more) will have his debut show at Factory Fresh. Paintings feature “polymorphic shapes and urban landscapes” via gentle mindfuck by colorful humanoid-blobs. Concurrently, the front-side will host Pufferella‘s “i know u are but what am i,” promising a “magical” “circus,” all new fabric creations on “sexual relations and the afterthoughts”  and whatever “Rides and Amusement provided by her friends Skewville and Plaztik mag” entails (sounds hot). Opening night show is 7-10pm.

“Polymetrochromanticism” and “i know u are but what am i,” Feb 12 – Feb 21, Factory Fresh, 1053 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn

The London Police and Galo Bring ‘Fresh Geezers’ to Brooklyn

Although we may have led you to believe otherwise, tonight’s BNE exhibit isn’t the only opening in town. Over in Bushwick, Factory Fresh is hosting street artists Galo and The London Police as they return to New York with their iconic characters. At “Fresh Geezers,” The London Police are celebrating ten years of work with a series of new Gotham scenes while Italian artist Galo unveils some of his latest expressive face paintings.

“Fresh Geezers,” December 10 – January 10, 2010, Factory Fresh, 1053 Flushing Avenue

Celebrating their one-year anniversary this weekend, Factory Fresh in Bushwick opens “2012,” a group exhibition by artists AVOID, BLOKE, and FARO. Known for their imaginative letter styles, iconic characters, as well as giant spraypaint and fire extinguisher tag on the street, the trio moves indoors to build on apocalyptic visions for the end of the Mayan calendar. While it remains to be seen how these artists render these prophesies, their collective work is billed as a transition in the art world: a “changing of the guard” bringing the disciplines of graffiti and street art into greater alignment, though some would prefer they didn’t.
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