Category: art

Street Wall Art in Brooklyn

Posted on by Hijiri

In between my home and my letterpress studio, I see lots of cool street art, there are a few more things that I always see from the bus and wish I could get off the bus and just take pictures of, but I don’t want to wait around for another bus so haven’t been able to….

Anyway. Here are some.

Love the building, stars are just so awesome, and looks like a collage of things…

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If you look closely, you see a rain drop pattern on the people’s body.

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Cool spray painting. Tells lots of stories.

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I like this one. I don’t know if it’s spray painting, it looks like it was a big sticker?!

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Happy May 1st Friday, everyone!

Ford + Forlano: Forth + Back

Posted on by Hijiri

Velvet da Vinci in San Francisco is having an exhibition of jewelry, prints and paintings called “Ford + Forlano: Forth + Back” starting May 1st (oh my god, it’s tomorrow! May already?!) to May 31st. When I saw one of the images from their prints, I was so amazed and wanted to look more. I thought it was sensational! Interesting thing I found out is that the artisits, Steven Ford and David Forlano live in coast to coast, collaborating by sending unfinished work forth and back between them. So these prints (and all the other work, too, of course) traveled between Philadelphia and Santa Fe. You can read more from their website, but their work is truly a collaboration, that is how it takes their pieces to a next level. I wish I could go see this exhibition… if you are in SF, check it out and let me know how it is! Velvet da Vinci is an awesome gallery space, I miss going in there.

Here are some of their print work:

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*images are from Velvet da Vinci website

MoMA | Martin Kippenberger

Posted on by Hijiri

One more post from my MoMA visit… Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective. Just to be in the entrance area of this exhibition made me so excited – walls of great posters he designed for his exhibitions! Each one is so different and unique, my eye was so busy just to take in. I couldn’t take any photos inside the exhibitions, but you will find so many of his works including paintings, sculptures, installations, drawings, prints… lots of stuff. Lots of energy. It was cool.

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I especially liked this hand-lettering poster for SF MoMA exhibition. Back in 1991.

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It is going on until May 11th, if you are around in NYC, you should go check it out!

MoMA | Tangled Alphabets

Posted on by Hijiri

I went to MoMA last week and saw a few exhibitions including this Tangled Alphabets by León Ferrari and Mira Schendel – the title itself was so intriguing to begin with and so I was really looking forward to this exhibition – it was really interesting and cool, it was an art created by letters and hand-writing alphabets! It wasn’t design exhibition, it was a true art.

The exhibition starting area. I like the different fonts and words all played around with each other.

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The wall explaining who they are:

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another shot of the title of the exhibition – it really shows how this exhibition is about.

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Some images from the exhibition that I liked:

*All the images from here down are from Tangled Alphabets website.

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If you are in NY area, I would recommend checking it out, it’s going on until June 15th this year!