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Graffiti Exhibition: Chaka, long-lost L.A. tagger-artist, to have first legit art show
Chaka, long-lost L.A. tagger-artist, to have first legit art show on April 25th
Tag! After more than a decade out of the limelight he enjoyed as L.A.’s most prolific and most wanted (by the police) graffiti artist, Daniel Ramos, better known by his nom de can, Chaka, will have a chance to be “it” again.
Now in his mid-30s and living in Bakersfield, Ramos (left, in a 1994 photo) is scheduled to reemerge April 25 — not to re-spray his block-lettered signature on such past targets as the Golden Gate Bridge, the walls of Disneyland and untold L.A. freeway signs and overpasses, but to mount his first solo art show. Dubbed “Resurrection,” it will be on view at Mid-City Arts, a new gallery that’s an adjunct to 33third, an art supplies shop catering to practitioners of graffiti and other forms of street art.
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BOMB IT KENT STATE SCREENING!
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Graffiti and Street Art – Vandalism or Marketing?
From the Cool Insights blog:
Being an avid runner, I often jog around the Parkville and Carlton areas near my university campus and chance upon street art along various walls, pavements and fences. Some of the air-brushed displays are aesthetically beautifully and probably the result of considerable and painstaking effort to create enduring works of art. Surprisingly, I don’t see that many acts of graffiti which are overtly anti-establishment or vandalistic in nature (or perhaps I haven’t been to those neighbourhoods yet).
While musing on this phenomenon, I chanced upon this interesting article by Mark Holsworth who reported on how several merchants in the Brunswick suburb of Melbourne (just a stone’s throw away from where I am putting up at Carlton) have engaged street artists to decorate their shopfronts. Holsworth highlighted two examples of this could be done tastefully.
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NEW YORK TIMES GRAFFITI: Chronicler of the Furtive Arts
Click here for a nice graffiti retrospective from the NY Times (by photographer Martha Cooper AKA Kodakgirl).
Kodakgirl, as Martha Cooper is known to the city’s B-boys and B-girls, has left her own indelible mark on New York as an obsessive observer of vernacular art and public spaces. Ms. Cooper’s work was informed by her years in the Peace Corps and curating anthropology at the Yale Peabody Museum. She is currently director of photography at City Lore, a center for urban culture.
