Harrington is an authentic painter in the fine art sense, pushing the boundaries of the medium both in it’s technical execution and the also the way it looks. His technical ability is hugly impressive, a mixtue of traditional, portraiture painting and painterly technical innovation in the vibe of crack abstract painter and Hitchcock fan David Reed.
Echoing this reconciliation between the old and the new his work features imagery of colonialism and military Imperalism worked over with free flowing organic shapes that evoke graffiti. The result is something you’re not going to find anywhere else.
Dead Meat, 2 March – 2 April at Lazarides, 11 Rathbone Place, London.
After a year off we’re excited to find out that Print Club’s Blisters show is back. The galleries flagship hand-pulled, screenprinted poster bonanza brings together illustrators, designers and street artists – previous alumni include Ben Eine, Jamie Reid, Mr Bingo, Pure Evil, Cept, and Kate Moross. This year there is an open call for submissions with a cinematic flavour.
Blisters The Directors Cutis a chance for creatives to submit alternative movie posters inspired by a scene, image, dialogue or plot of your favourite film. The catch? Your image may capture the magic of the cinematic triumph of your choice but it’s not allowed to feature the film’s title. There will be 40 exhibiting artists, each with 40 signed and editioned screenprints selling for £40.
Poster size B2 (700x500mm) and to be screenprinted. Send your submission as a low-res jpg to postershow@printclublondon.com. The official deadline is 10 June. Direct any questions to louise@printclublondon.com
Kevin Munoz’s type-led Flying Lotus limited edition screenprint is a super nice piece of design. Printed using metalic ink on black paper, it is in the Cali native’s own words, “super nerdy and way blingy.” Coming in at a mere $20 it’s as kind on your wallet as it would be to your wall.
Munoz has worked for the likes of Paul Frank and Converse and counts joker Jack Black as a fan of his Juan t-shirt. Check his artwork which has that relaxed, idiosyncratic vibe that is peculiar to Californian visual culture. His blog and bio also raise a smile.
A quick round up of some of the great art stuff going on this month – which can also be used as a handy guide to tasteful last minute Christmas presents.
Last weekend saw the Christmas Bazaar featuring Pure Evil, Mr Jago and a whole host of others. The line-up and events sounded amazing and, judging by the above image, it looked the dogs bits as well. Also happening this December is Pictures On Walls annual art-ghet-t0-together headlined this year by Evol with a supporting cast full of familiar names (will Bansky appear, the catalogue says not but history suggests yes), whilst Print Club have their excellent 12 Prints show going on. Meanwhile up north, illustrator Matt Sewell has been working as fast as a Hummingbird’s wings producing some brilliant work around birds (the feathered not the female kind).
News has recently been broken of an EP-length collaboration between Madlib and Freddie Gibbs. Still untitled, it will consist of six tracks, Thuggin’ and Deep being two, and be released through Madlib’s Madlib Invazion label at the start of 2012. …Read More.
Love this new skit by the Modern Toss team for Channel 4′s Comedy Blaps series. A genetically enhanced, bastard child of Danger Mouse and Lord Alan Sugar that’s received a blood transfusion from Bob Hoskins (in The Long Good Friday mode) and Scarface, Business Mouse is not interested in type of cheese most mice get excited about and has business skills best described as lacking (m)nouse. “Show me the money!”
Ben Drury, legendary go-to man for anyone wanting street influenced graphic design that drips with innovation and freshness, has broken cover from his esoteric and sometime plain unfathomable The Silent Listener(or the Violent Whistler as it is now called) website and launched a more commercially minded space to showcase his far reaching and influential talents.
The new site show’s off everything from his record covers, promo direction and love of handcrafted typography. An inspiring insight into the work of a man best summed up as a ‘designers designer’.
What is it with rappers and acting? The tangible line of success between hip-hop and Hollywood has strengthened through the nineties and into the noughties, with countless examples of successful money-grabbing rappers trying to convert their lyrical talent into acting steel. What is it that prompts this change in field? The money? The ego? Probably both. The on stage persona that is seen as part and parcel in the hip hop industry appears to feed the musicians’ egos to the extent whereby they believe that they have the ability to cut the mustard in front of a camera.
