Street artist and superhero collager Miss Bugs will soon be releasing a print version of “Carry Your Sins” featuring Marvel patriot and enemy of teabaggers, Captain America, who appears to be summoning his inner Jesus. The details about the 2-color silkscreen with “hand gold leaf on Japanese paper,” are sparse so stay tuned.
Superhero manipulator and multi-layered collage artist Miss Bugs recently installed some site specific “Ladys” around London and as you can see, they meticulously blend into the surroundings, which might be the only thing that prolongs their shelf life on the streets.
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Inspired by the challenge of earning cash in this economic crisis, Brooklynite Gallery is opening an exhibition inspired by “the world’s simplest way to make a living,” shining shoes. “Go Get Your Shinebox” brings together more than a hundred artists, including Skewville, Ben Frost, Miss Bugs, Aiko and Broken Crow, showcasing their cubic works, a “survival box” for getting by. The show opens November 21st and is on view through December 19th at 334 Malcolm X Boulevard. Read more »
Keith Haring, Faile, D*Face, and Shepard Fairey are among the artists collaged into these new works by Miss Bugs. The 42 piece series features the image-makers signature combination of collaged and layered stencils and silk screens, all on a background of aluminum panels painted with Fairey’s presidential Hope portrait. Each piece in the work titled “Dirty Art Holding Hands with Politics” can be had for $575. Check out how the pieces fit together after the jump. Read more »
In Brooklyn they start ‘em young. Check out KID WHEAT-PASTE as she slaps up her work on the street for this video promoting an upcoming show at Brooklynite Gallery featuring collaborations between children and a band of contemporary artists such as: Sickboy, Pure Evil, Miss Bugs, Dain, Joe Black, K-Guy, and Ludo. “By Any Means Necessary” opens on May 16th and they even got the kids to do the invites although the gallery notes, that because their only between the ages of 2 1/2 and 5, “child labor laws only allowed us to make 110 pieces.”
This past weekend, Brooklynite Gallery opened “2 Many Artists” featuring the work of Joe Black and Miss Bugs, who also dropped a new superhero collage last week. The show pays homage to the many artists and icons that influence and shape their works: Miss Bugs’ collaged and layered silk screens and Joe Black’s assemblages of buttons and legos. The show is on view through May 2 at 334 Malcolm X Boulevard in Bed Stuy. Click the images above for our favorite cut from the pop-culture-drenched display.
Captain America, Superman, and Wonder Woman get the Miss Bugs treatment in this triptych print to be released on Thursday the 26th from the image making collager. It drops a few days ahead of her exhibit with found object assembler Joe Black at the Brooklynite Gallery. “2 Many Artists” opens on April 4th and is described as a “public Summit on the infallibility of comic books, fairy tales, and emerging artists – a cut to the core of blue chip art and born-into pop culture.”
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