Friday, May 17, 2013

Brooklyn Bridge 130th Anniversary Group Art Show



Urban Folk Art® Gallery will be honoring the 130th anniversary of the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge with a group show of over 30 local artists of varying mediums. In their fourth show of this type, artists will be showing their homages to the bridge with one common element. In February 2013, curator and contributing artist Adam Suerte acquired five 5 gallon buckets of surplus paint from the NY Department of Transit that was used to do touch ups on the Brooklyn Bridge (http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/surplus-paint-from-the-brooklyn-bridge-now-could-be-yours/). Each artist in the group show will be using the
“Chocolate Brown Enamel” in some way within their piece. Painters, comic artists, graphic designers, photographers, screen printers, tattooers, graffiti artists, toy designers and artists of other mediums will be contributing. Suerte, as one of his pieces has repackaged some of this paint in a limited edition quart size cans that will be for sale at the show. If you ever wanted to own a piece of the bridge, this could be considered pretty close.


The show opens May 24th from 7-10 and will remain up until the end of June.paintcansmockup
Adam Suerte's repackaged surplus paint cans signed and numbered will be for sale at the show

                                                                


Paul St. Savage aka Angry Eel's work






Brooklyn Tattoo will also be doing the Brooklyn Bridge Tattoo special on Thursday May 23rd (the actual anniversary). Come to the shop between 12-7 , Coose from our flash and get a $30 Brooklyn Bridge Tattoo. First come first served.

More info on everything at 
info@urbanfolkart.com
718 643 1610

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

PEOPs #8 FANZINE RELEASE PARTY THIS THURSDAY

UFA® Old friend Fly is having a release party for her 8th issue of he PEOPs zine. 
Its a great project where she interviews a subject while drawing them, then combines the 2 into a great piece of art. The zine's are compilations of the countless interesting people she comes across. 


PEOPs #8 features Portraits & Stories of Such Illuminaries as
PEOPs #8 features Portraits & Stories of Such Illuminaries as
Kembra Pfahler • Winston Smith • Eileen Myles • Peter Missing • Chino Garcia • Mikel & Elu Monkeymeat • Elliott Sharp • Dawn Crandell • Stanley Cohen • Katrina Del Mar • Noah Landis • Trina Robbins • Pookie Rodriguez • Jsn Mit • Puma Perl • Sascha Scatter • Dumpy • Mr Pants • Duv • & Many More !!
Thursday May 9th from 7-9 at the gallery
The work will be up til the 19th
come check out the originals and grab a copy!

for more on the project check out 
and Fly's work




Fly putting up her work
UFA® Founder Jason S#!+#3@D checking out a copy while standing in front of his portrait