Elbow-Toe, Mr. Brainwash, Clown Soldier & Gaia Street Art

West 13th Street, NYC

by navema
www.navemastudios.com

Street Artists include: Elbow-Toe, Mr. Brainwash (MBW), Clown Solider, & Gaia
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Photo taken in March 2010 (original taken in December 2009): www.flickr.com/photos/28488028@N06/4268622356/in/set-7215...
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"There is a crack in the bubble that is so damn large, that I could swim forever in the open space" ~ Elbow-Toe

ELBOW-TOE is a Brooklyn, NY based artist that has been creating introspective urban art for several years. His artwork for the streets is grounded in myth, symbolism and poetry and is primarily executed in woodcut, stencil or large-scale charcoal drawings. His oeuvre is a study of human gesture as communication and he utilizes public spaces
as stages for private moments. He is particularly interested in the ability of environmental forces outside his control to create a timeless quality to the work thereby allowing it to feel as if it has been memory and is part of the collective unconscious.

ELBOW-TOE’s gallery work focuses on portraiture and abstract narrative and is primarily executed in collage. These intricate collages at first glance might be mistaken for paintings given that they have a fluidity rarely seen in collages. Whilst his work has a very unique style it draws on a rich history of figurative painting and has qualities reminiscent of Freud, Bacon and Soutine.

For more information about the artist, visit: www.elbow-toe.com
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"All You Need is Love" (John Lennon & Panda) Wheatpaste

MR BRAINWASH (aka Thierry Guetta) is a Los Angeles based French street artist, Mr. Brainwash, the alter-ego of French immigrant Thierry Guetta, who now lives in Los Angeles. His preoccupation with street art and graffiti led him to years filming the people behind the work, and eventually he became an artist too.

This body of work being presented in the exhibition ICONS is the result of traveling throughout Europe and the United States as the subject of Banksy's new documentary, Exit Through the Gift Shop. This documentary about the process secretly premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January of 2010. It wasn’t listed in the program, but quickly became the hottest ticket at the festival. Featuring famed street artists like Banksy, Ron English, Borf and Shepard Fairey, the viewer is able to watch the famous fiends at work. One of the most memorable scenes is of Banksy installing an inflatable replica of a Guantanamo torture victim right next to a roller coaster in The Happiest Place On Earth — Disneyland.

Being a trusted accomplice of Banksy is no small feat — and accomplice is perhaps a better word than friend, given that Banksy described Guetta as “maybe just someone with mental problems who happened to have a camera.”

Since his entrance onto the contemporary art scene in 2008 with his Los Angles show “Life is Beautiful”, Mr. Brainwash (Guetta) has raised a lot of questions, namely ‘is he for real?’ Guetta began to follow the exploits street artists’ Shepard Fairey and Banksy with a digital video camera, but soon Banksy turned the camera on Guetta, encouraging him to create his own persona, which is the end product of Exit Through the Gift Shop, the documentary being billed as ‘the world’s first street art disaster movie’. Critics and gallerists alike have written him off as a hack, or simply a regurgitation of Banksy and Shepard Fairey’s existing work.

For more about the artist, visit: www.mrbrainwash.com
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Clown Wheatpaste

CLOWN SOLDIER

For more info, visit: www.clownsoldier.com
To view the artist's photostream, visit: www.flickr.com/photos/46091260@N04/
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Bird Wheatpaste

GAIA is a Brooklyn and Baltimore based street artist with a background in Printmaking and Sculpture. Marrying the animal and the human form, Gaia conjures mysterious figures that carry a heavy sense of mythology and recall a past when man and nature were once united. These romantic creatures stand in relief to the urban environment as they lurk and beckon in the city’s forgotten and neglected spaces. The conveyance of their story relies on the chance coincidence with a passerby, and even in that intimate moment, their narrative is precarious and delicate.

For more info, visit: gaiastreetart.com/
To view the artist's photostream, visit: www.flickr.com/photos/gaiastreetart/

Taken in: United States / New York / New York / Meat Packing District (show map)

Taken on: March 11, 2010

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