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Damon Ginandes: Mixed Media

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Brooklyn, New York based street and mixed media artist Damon Ginandes’ interest in graffiti first began in the early/mid 90’s but he eventually found it to be too repetitive and stagnant.  In 2007, however, he was commissioned to paint a 60 foot long mural on Degraw Street in Brooklyn and his interest in large scale street art was rekindled.

“Damon’s work blends the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional using a variety of materials. Seemingly flat lines and forms protrude into space, suggesting that they are caught between dimensions. The ageless, anonymous and solitary characters appear aware of this peculiar predicament. They are distorted and otherworldly, yet with detached stares they are distinctly human.” (from Prescription Art)

Ginandes influences include Alberto Giacometti and Egon Schiele.  “I am attracted to the distorted human figure – faces and bodies elongated and interwoven with abstraction.  Lately, my style has become a bit more angular, almost ‘cubist’.”

To see more of Ginandes work, visit DamonGinandes.com.

Sources: Illicit Exhibitions

HOW AND NOSM: Street Art

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The twin brothers HOW and NOSM (aka Raoul and Davide Perre) are graffiti artists and professional muralists residing in New York. Born in the Basque country of San Sebastian, Spain, the Perre brothers grew up in Düsseldorf, Germany practicing the Bronx-born art form of graffiti. Their late teenage years were spent spray painting the world, visiting many of the more than 50 countries in which they both left their remarkable artwork on any kind of surface including subway trains. During a visit to New York in ’97 HOW and NOSM were asked to become members of the legendary TATS CRU, and permanently relocated to New York shortly thereafter in ’99 – a move that marked their transition from painting on trains, and even the Berlin Wall – to creating elaborate murals for a number of known commercial clients such as SONY.

As members of TATS CRU, the Perre twins have lectured at universities including M.I.T. and their work has appeared in numerous films, music videos, documentaries, and most recently, the windows of the historic department store, Lord and Taylor.

HOW and NOSM have been featured within the pages of numerous publications, including the New York Times and the New Yorker, and even stirred the likes of the Rev. Al Sharpton with the controversial undertones of subjects manifested within their art. As adept with a spray can as only few artists could ever hope to be with a brush, and best known for their medium, Perre’s body of work includes everything from skateboards and collectible toys to large scale multimedia sculpture – and for that matter, anything they can get their hands on. (bio from artist’s website)

To learn more about HOW and NOSM, visit HowNosm.org or check out their photostream on Flickr.

Naoto Hattori: Super-Bionics

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Japanese born painter Naoto Hattori has a new solo exhibition at Copro Gallery in California. For this exhibition called “Super -Bionics”, “Naoto has painted deities, creatures of his thoughts and theories, alter egos and spiritual beings. Naoto says “Those creatures have never lived in my imagination before but since I have painted them, they have come alive and I feel like I have created a new world in my mind. That’s what motivated me to paint Super Bionics.”” (from Juxtapoz).

Super-Bionics runs August 7 – August 28, 2010.  To see more from this exhibition, visit the Copro Gallery website. For more information about Naoto Hattori, check out WWWcomcom.com.