Street Art Saved My Life @ C.A.V.E. (8/12/11)

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'Street Art Saved My Life: 39 New York Stories' - coming this August!!!

Brooklyn Street Art Presents Street Art Saved My Life : 39 New York Stories
In collaboration with Thinkspace, an art show to exhibit at C.A.V.E. Gallery in Venice (LA), CA
on Friday, August 12, 2011 (mark your calendars now)

Street Art Saved My Life : 39 New York Stories heralds the new highly individual character of stories being told on the streets of New York by brand new and established Street Artists from all over the world. Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo, founders of BrooklynStreetArt.com focus on this flashpoint in modern Street Art evolution by curating a strongly eclectic story-driven gallery show with 39 of the best storytellers hitting the streets of New York.

Street Art Saved My Life : 39 New York Stories, the gallery show, accompanied by an LA street wall series by selected artists and a public panel lecture and discussion, intends to stake out the New Guard in street art while recognizing some powerful near-legendary forerunners.

The mainly New York lineup exhibits talent from other parts of the US and internationally (Australia, France, UK, Canada, Israel, Germany) and it is as steel, idiosyncratic and storied as the New York scene itself, including Anthony Lister, Adam Void, Broken Crow, C215, Cake, Chris Stain, Clown Soldier, Creepy, Dan Witz, El Sol 25, Ema, Faile, Futura, Gaia, Gilf!, Hargo, Hellbent, How & Nosm, Imminent Disaster, Indigo, Judith Supine, Kid Acne, Know Hope, Ludo, Mark Carvalho, Miss Bugs, Nick Walker, NohJColey, Over Under, Radical!, Rene Gagnon, Skewville, Specter, Sweet Toof, Swoon, Tip Toe, Troy Lovegates AKA Other, Various & Gould, and White Cocoa.

The staunch individualists in Street Art Saved My Life : 39 New York Stories give voice to the evolution of the Graffiti, Mash-Up, and D.I.Y. movements that birthed them; creating an eccentric, highly individual, and raucous visual experience on the street. With widely varied backgrounds, techniques, and materials at play, “The Story” is the story. With truths as diverse and difficult as the city itself, each one of these artists is a part of a fierce, raw, new storytelling tradition that is evolving daily before our eyes.

Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo are founders of BrooklynStreetArt.com and co-authors of Brooklyn Street Art and Street Art New York, both by Prestel Publishing (Random House). Harrington and Rojo are also contributing writers on street art for The Huffington Post.

Street Art Saved My Life : 39 New York Stories
Presented by Brooklyn Street Art in collaboration with Thinkspace

Opening Reception: Friday, August 12th, 2011 @ C.A.V.E. Gallery
1108 Abbot Kinney Blvd. in Venice, California 90291
On view: August 12th – September 4th, 2011
www.cavegallery.net
www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/
www.thinkspacegallery.com
www.sourharvest.com

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After rocking the 'From The Streets Of Brooklyn' show back in Jan. of 2009 (www.thinkspacegallery.com/2009/01/index.php), we toyed around with the notion of revisiting that show in some capacity... enter Steven and Jaime from BSA.com and talks took off from there. They have taken things to an entirely new level with the direction of this show. VERY honored and excited to be working with them on this show and to be partnering with our friends at C.A.V.E. Gallery in Venice, CA who will be giving a home to the show as well as providing walls around Venice for visiting artists. Much more to be revealed in the months ahead...

PLUS on Sat, Aug. 13th we will be opening the kick-ass new solo show from DABS MYLA at Thinkspace in Culver City. A nice lil' one, two punch I must say. More soon...

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This special show is really coming together! We'll post some sneak peeks here in a week or so and are excited to announce that the Brooklyn Street Art guys will also be hosting a special panel on the afternoon of Sat, August 13th at MOCA (more details to follow soon!!!) and looks like a few featured artists will also be visiting LA and adding some goodness to the streets of Venice surrounding the C.A.V.E. Gallery (directly across the street from the new Post No Bills space where the Faile show was just held).

More details soon...

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To help introduce art lovers to some of the Street Artists in the upcoming show “Street Art Saved My Life: 39 New York Stories”, Thinkspace arranged to have Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo of Brooklyn Street Art connect with a number of the artists in the exhibit so they could take part in the “Back Talk” interview series made popular by the good folks at Juxtapoz. We want to thank Juxtapoz for running this series of interviews as they will serve as a great precursor to this very exciting show.

The first few in the series were posted this week...

Check out the full ‘Back Talk’ interview with HOW & NOSM here:
www.juxtapoz.com/Features/back-talk-a-conversation-with-how-and-nosm

Check out the full ‘Back Talk’ interview with C215 here:
www.juxtapoz.com/Features/back-talk-a-conversation-with-c215

Check out the full ‘Back Talk’ interview with Anthony Lister here:
www.juxtapoz.com/Features/back-talk-a-conversation-with-anthony-lister

Check out the full 'Back Talk' interview with Cake here:
www.juxtapoz.com/Features/back-talk-a-conversation-with-cake

We'll be updating the Flickr sneak peek photo set next week with some examples of the works that are starting to come in for the show. I'll post a head's up here once we add those up.

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LUDO's new piece for 'Street Art Saved My Life: 39 New York Stories'

We've updated the Flickr sneak peek set here:
www.flickr.com/photos/thinkspace/sets/72157627092032178/

More to come in the weeks ahead as artists start to arrive into LA...


Dan Witz 'Two Hoodys Kissing' - mixed media on panel - early look at one of the finished gems from 'Street Art Saved My Life'

The Juxtapoz 'Back Talk' series of interviews has continued - here are a few examples:

Check out the full ‘Back Talk’ interview with Specter here:
www.juxtapoz.com/Current/back-talk-a-conversation-with-specter

Check out the full ‘Back Talk’ interview with Other (aka Troy Lovegates) here:
www.juxtapoz.com/Current/back-talk-a-conversation-with-other

Check out the full ‘Back Talk’ interview with Miss Buggs here:
www.juxtapoz.com/Current/back-talk-a-conversation-with-miss-buggs

Check out the full ‘Back Talk’ interview with Chris Stain here:
www.juxtapoz.com/Features/back-talk-a-conversation-with-chris-stain

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Early look at White Cocoa's beautiful piece for 'Street Art Saved My Life: 39 New York Stories'

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Indigo at work on her piece for 'Street Art Saved My Life'

The digital preview for this show will be ready middle of next week - please shoot me mail to [e-mail] if there's a particular artist you've particular interest in and I'll be sure to note prior to sending out the preview. All have really delivered powerful works.

I'll be posting a good bit more close ups and such tonight on the Flickr sneak peek set:
www.flickr.com/photos/thinkspace/sets/72157627092032178/


Hargo up in Venice - 'Street Art Saved My Life'

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Close up look at C215's piece for 'Street Art Saved My Life: 39 New York Stories' - opening April 12th at CAVE - curated by Brooklyn Street Art in collaboration with Thinkspace

'Street Art Saved My Life: 39 New York Stories'

Take a look at the digital preview for the show here:
www.thinkspacegallery.com/2011/08/project2/works-street.php

Please let us know if you have any questions, require additional images, or would like to purchase any of the works in this exhibition. Just shoot us an e-mail to [e-mail] and we will get right back to you with full details.

PLEASE NOTE: we will be running these sales through C.A.V.E. Gallery's credit card system to keep things as easy as possible on our backend for this show. So please note that your bill will reflect that and come end of the show, works will be shipping out from C.A.V.E. Gallery in Venice. They are close friends of ours and we're excited to be working with them on this special event. Please know all will flow as normal and we'll be there at the end of the show to help get all the works packed up and on the way to their new homes. Any questions at all, just ask when we connect.

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Ludo putting up a piece in Venice around "Street Art Saved My Life"


Creepy on the streets of Venice painting around "Street Art Saved My Life"


Artists at work on the patio area of C.A.V.E. Gallery in Venice - check out the finished murals as part of "Street Art Saved My Life"

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Some pics from the opening here.