From the 5th June to the 15th, the Brick Lane gallery will be showing off their new exhibition, Six degrees of separation. All the work in it will bbe offered for sale by private collectors.
It’s got quite a good lineup of artists. Some of the ones I got listed in my email are:

Banksy
Faile
Jamie Hewlett
Gee Vaucher
Paul Insect
Mode 2
B-Toy
RUN
Antonio Cabrera
There’s some more as well.

Info and sales: info@thebricklanegallery.com

The Brick Lane Gallery

Hi guys, I’d just like to remind you all about upfest, in Bristol. It should be good, although unfortunately I can’t go! Saturday 6th June, here’s the flyer:

Cheers to Pleaseflush for reminding me!

While I know the majority of the users of Concrete canvas are English, we do have some American readers. For this reason, I think I should give them a little recognition with the announcement of this exhibition in NY.

The theme of the exhibition is 2012, which as some of you may know, is signified as the end of the world by the Mayan calendar, which is what the show is based around. It attempts to centre the user around this changing world.

THe artists that are involved think that as the world is nearing this year, people are changing the ways they view street art. It features Avoid, Bloke, and Farrow, all in one exhibition. It opens during Bushwick open studio weekend, and is done by Factory Fresh and Mighty Tanaka.

It lasts until the 21st of June.

Hi guys, I really apologise for my absence! Personal things, and all that shizzle. I’d like to really thank human, for continuing to post in my absence,  and to all the loyal members who still visited regularly, despite the lack of blog posts. I have however, been proactive with searching for some additional writers, so at least this should hopefully make sure the site is constantly updated, as I know I’m not the best with that! ;p Anyway, down to the main point of the article!

Brighton street blitz is an event running from the 1st to the 31st of May. The motivation behind this is that Brighton has become filled with art becoming overly commercialised, and how the colour and character is being sucked out of Brighton. They propose that Brighton be turned into an open air art gallery. For four weeks, all people living in or near Brighton, are invited to, in the words of the creators:

“Whether you make murals, stencils, stickers, posters, sculptures, street projections, sign modification/removal/additions, billboard subverting/defacing/destruction etc; Whether creative or destructive; whether to convey a message, brighten up a dull spot, rewire some corporate brainwashing  tactics; whether to leave your mark, remove a stain, express yourself or simply to show your disgust – it’s all valid and all adds to The Blitz!”

I know it’s a tiny bit late, but I still think it’s early enough to be posted.

I can’t wait to see the work produced by this, it should hopefully be good!

General street blitz website: http://www.streetblitz.org/

Brighton street blitz website: http://www.streetblitz.org/brighton/

~Joe

Hi guys, after some consideration, we’ve decided to start a new feature!

At least once a month, we’ll accept a copy of a zine to review. It’s first come first served, so get in there using the contact form! If no one requests their zine to be reviewed that month, the writer doing the feature will decide on the zine themselves and purchase the zine. Our inspiration for this feature came from George, over at verynearlyalmost, who asked us to review his zine, which we’ve been obliged to!

Anyway, enough of that introduction, let’s get down to the actual review!

Verynearlyalmost ~ Issue 8

To start off this review, I have to compliment George on the quality of the printing. I think it’s printed really nicely, and has come out well I had a quick glance through this the moment it landed on my doorstep, and it looked really nice inside, just on first glance. I started properly reading it last night and finished it this morning. What stuck out was a really good mix of both art and interviews, and I think George balanced the two out really well. You open the zine, and one of the first things that strikes you is a gigantic face staring out at you, painted on the side of a building. While I’ve seen this picture before, I think it’s been really well placed.

It’s not only the quality of the painting which stands out here, although that definitely does stand out. It’s also the quality and quantity of the interviews. It’s not overly stuffed with them, but it’s hardly lacking in them either! I’d heard of I think all the artists that were interviewed, and it includes the likes of Kid Acne, Nylon, Herakut, and Adam Neate. I thought it was really interesting to read them, and to asee their views on both the general street art scene, and how they paint.

There was some really inspiring street art and graffiti there, which gives a lot of inspiration. It was refreshing to see quite a lot of stuff that I hadn’t seen before.

I can’t really think of a lot to say against it, although perhaps it could do with some other stuff, such as possibly articles on aspects of the street art/graffiti scene? Also, while I like most of it, I don’t particularly enjoy the tags, and it feels as if they’ve been put in to fill out the page-count and increase the list of things inside. However, there’s only 2 or 3 pages of these, so they’re easy to skip out if you don’t want to look at them, and I’m sure there’s some of you out there who really enjoy seeing them.

The overall product though, is great, going 100 pages strong, with minimal advertising, you couldn’t avoid buying this! Great work guys, and I can’t wait for the next issue!

~Joe

http://www.verynearlyalmost.com

VNA 8

(more pics coming soon when I get my digital camera working and the pics uploaded )