David Choe underground in London

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David Choe painting a wall for Lazarides Galleries' 'Hell's Half Acre' show, in the underground tunnels under London's Waterloo Station. The show is open for viewing through the 17th of October, 2010, and is a reinterpretation of Dante's nine circle of hell by a roster of artists including Conor Harrington, Vhils, George Osodi, Antony Micallef,Doug Foster, Todd James, Paul Insect, Mark Jenkins, Boogie, Ian Francis, Polly Morgan,Jonathan Yeo, Zak Ové and an interview with David Choe.


Walrus TV Artist Feature: Team Interview from Dithers

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In this feature from Dithers, Ricky Powell interviews his longtime friend, 70's New York graffiti writer Team. Led on a tour through Team's NYC apartment, Walrus TV gets an inside look on works that were in progress, the development of Teams tagging and piecing styles, and his attraction to the practice of painting and installation art. Watch the interview from "Dithers," available for the first time to the public for free, on Walrus TV.

Stanley Donwood interviewed by Pitchfork for his FIFTY24SF Gallery show

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The good people of the highly-influential music website, Pitchfork, have interviewed our very own exhibiting artist, Stanley Donwood, about his new show at FIFTY24SF Gallery (that is up now, go see it, now) as well as doing artwork for a little band called Radiohead.

PEZ and Joshua Blank

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FIFTY24SF Gallery present’s “You Can’t Win” by PEZ and Joshua Blank, featuring collaborative works and zines by both artists. The title of the show, “You Can’t Win,” has roots in the year 2001 when PEZ and Joshua lived in San Francisco and collaborated on a zine by the same name. Both owned very little more than their bicycles and cameras and would set off on adventures with marginal characters in hopes of making and finding the inspiration for art; and the zine itself became a part of this adventure. Documenting tragic, erotic and peculiar situations, this culminated in the “You Can’t Win” zine. In 2004, Joshua moved to New York City to pursue fashion photography, and the zine lost momentum. After individually refining their talents and pursuing photography zines on their own, PEZ and Joshua’s reconvened in San Francisco last year, and this show marks the revival. Although the work that PEZ and Joshua were accomplishing during 2001 went largely un-noticed, in retrospect the immediacy and relevancy of what they were doing is easily evident.  Their work, unbeknownst to them, played an integral part in the larger graffiti movement of the past 25 years and has been recognized by the bigger players in the movement for its honesty and innovativeness; Shepard Fairey has even remarked that “Pez, a bike messenger, has crushed every city he’s live in…” Rediscovering these pioneering artists and bringing them to the public’s attention through these new works is what makes You Can’t Win one of the more exciting exhibitions at FIFTY24SF Gallery this year. The show runs from August 6th – August 25th with an opening reception occurring on Friday, August 6th at 7:30PM/

“We were and are both very depressed individuals and do not really view ourselves as really fitting into any group, but as persons who kind of sit on the cusp of several.  More as loners than anything else.” -PEZ and Joshua Blank


The Final 'You Can't Win' blog post from Josh and Pez

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Maria brought PEZ and I to a hidden fortress on top of a mountain. It was probably the best part of the trip.  We walked for like an hour in each direction in total darkness, through the woods the get to a stone house where we chilled and listened to sick Dub music and smoked cigarettes. I actually got like 20 minutes of sleep there, as well. Honestly, to go there at night like that was something out of a dream.

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THE OVER NORMAL NEWSPAPER, BY STANLEY DONWOOD

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If you are going to be headed to the Over Normal exhibit in San Francisco, starring Stanley Donwood and a sound installation by Donwood and John Matthias, then you are going to get the physical copy of the Over Normal Newspaper, a nice newsprint pamphlet made in conjunction with the FIFTY24SF show.

But if you happen to live in, let us say, Plymouth, England, then you need to go to SlowlyDownward.com and download the PDF so you can experience it like us who sit in the gallery.