New York Kings was a group show, held at the Pure Evil Gallery. This exhibition contained many famous graffiti writers from NY. "A unique exhibition of the godfathers of graffiti art using New York subway maps as their canvas to tell their 30 year story while remaining true to their roots. This is a rare opportunity to see examples of a genre that is often temporary by its very nature."
Pure Evil gallery is a very small and hidden space, but it suited this particular exhibition perfectly, as the public doesn't get much insight in to the world of graffiti writers anyway.
I really enjoyed this exhibition, there were many outstanding works, some of my favourite techniques were collaging and preparing backgrounds for the final piece.
Sound and Vision exhibition was a single artist show by Shepard Fairey, held at the Stolen Space Gallery. I thought this show was one of the most interesting ones I have seen so far in terms of layout and curating. There was a small exhibition in the main gallery, few steps outside on the corner there was a store selling Obey merchandise, even the shop had some lovely touches to it in the theme of this show. In another, much bigger space was where the main exhibition took place. And he pasted his works around Shoreditch in order to promote the exhibition. You could really make an evening out of this whole event. As a viewer I was intrigued and couldn't get enough of the art work. Shepard Fairey uses such a big variety of materials and techniques to produce his work, sometimes big masses of work can be unpleasantly overwhelming like when you go to a museum for example, but this was different because each piece had so much character and vibrancy to it there was no way of getting sick of seeing everything.
I cant put my finger on a favourite piece of his, but I do like a couple of techniques he used. Collage is one of them, he pastes on layers up on layers of various aged advertisement and newspaper sheets to create a background and then screen prints designs on to it. Second technique is screen printing on to metal and wood, its something I always wanted to try.
Overall the show was great, he really made an event out of an exhibition, we don't get too see many other artists doing so very often.
