Like “hypothetical pedestrians who interact with marred city walls,” artist José Parlá makes acrylic/ink/gesso/oil/plaster “psychogeographical” collages. The work mimics the marks that graffiti, cracking paint-jobs and peeling paper remnants leave on urban architecture — decade after decade, layer upon layer. Only his are deliberately dream-like. Read more »
Brooklyn-based artist Jose Parla is releasing a series of new prints with an exhibition this weekend. Opening on Saturday, London’s Elms Lester Gallery will show off the giclee prints, all of them manually layered with Parla’s calligraphic-styled screenprints. “St. Giles,” “The World Touring Letter,” and “One Eighty Fourth Street” will be released in editions of 100, priced between $1200 and $1400 a piece. |Hypebeast|
Combining two of life’s greatest joys, bicycling and art, Lance Armstrong’s Stages exhibition opened at the Emmanuel Perrotin gallery in Paris last week. On view through August 8th, the benefit show for the Lance Armstrong Foundation features commissioned work from the “world’s most accomplished and promising international artists.” The selection of 16 artists, all but two of them male, was tasked with creating new work with some type of cancerous connection. Read more »
Like the MTA and its line of artist designed t-shirts, Standard hotel honcho Andre Balaz is also exploring alternate streams of revenue, releasing his own series of graphic tees—for $55 a pop! He tapped the likes of Jose Parla, Eric Haze and Natas Kaupas to create designs “that represent their personal street style and handwriting in each of the cities reflected on the front, which include Miami, New York, and L.A. respectively.” Former public property destroyer HAZE, was responsible for this NYC version. |Cool Hunting|
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