Brooklyn Yes Indeed UFA® Recap

The show was truly amazing. The Graffiti history books came alive on Friday night. The group that assembled was a great testament to the fact that Graffiti will never die. Urban Folk Art® Studios would like to thank guest curators David Chino VIllorente, and Lee Greenfeld, as well as the legendary RIBS, TRIKE, MR.KAVES, KEO, JOUST, and Jamel Shabazz. 

Check out some pics below. Some more pics can be seen at the UFA®Studios Facebook page HERE. And another set by Jay Lajoie can be seen HERE.

                                          Here's a cool preview from Mass Appeal 

                     A recap from Whatyouwrite.com

we'll post more recap's as they come in. Check out some highlights below, and the show is up through the end of August, come check it out

Gallery hours, tues-sat  12pm-9, sun 1-8

Big crowd inside and out

 Nice Ride.

 Gallery score of the night.

This thing got bombed!

TRIKE

RIBS

HAZE and CHINO

Jamel Shabazz

MR.KAVES

KEO 

KEO

DR.  REVOLT

CEY, QUIK, TRIKE

 HAZE

DR.REVOLT and Adam Suerte 

Guest curators, Chino and Lee

 KEO

CHINO

SP ONE

TRIKE (photo by Jay Lajoie)

 RIBS ( photo by Jay Lajoie)

QUIK (photo by Jay Lajoie)

Here is what is likely a partial list of who showed up last Friday.

Chino BYI, Keo X-Men, Mr. Kaves LOB, Ribs, Trike GND, Scar-1, EMone, Quik RTW, Dr. Revolt, Haze, Tatu X-Men, Jon One (156), Cey City, Dash FC, Zame FC, Poke IBM, Epic IBM, Rebel NSA, KC-Oner TBC, KR-1 MAFIA, MR. R MOD, Teo MDC, Sast FSU, ZA-One TNS, Python BAD, Dance TM5, Basic TM5, Sp-One, Rip 7DS, KP-1 WR, Smash TFV, Sin BYI, Sere Uno, Sev TDT, Shizel, Venom, DS STV, Paid STV, Risk 9, Panic TDP, Ream AOW, Sor TBK, Rac TBK, Snatch, Quest KDS, Heart KDS, Criz 156, Yes 1 BT, Logek, Vers, AX, CE IF, Set 156, Pabs 156, Sloan TPA, Kano TVS, Cram DTA, Sec FTR, Sen Two, Fargo, Flite, Snatch, Whoosh, Jez KD, Jick IMOK, Sare TMK, Dover, Rine NCB, Poet TFV, Pugh 135... Plus Jarobi (A Tribe Called Quest) and Steve Mona (ex-NYPD Vandal Squad).

Our next show "Brooklyn Yes Indeed" July 27th.

Here's the press release for the next show coming up. Its got 2 great guest curators, and the show will be awesome. Here's the link to the facebook event page . Please spread the word.

David “CHINO BYI” Villorente, Dead Flowers Productions,
and the Urban Folk Art® Studios proudly present

BROOKLYN YES INDEED!
Opening Reception & Party

Featuring artwork from legendary Brooklyn artists
JOUST • Mr. KAVES • KEO • RIBS • Jamel Shabazz • TRIKE

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“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.”

Brooklynites have a pride that is unmatched, and while the borough has gone through many changes as of late, one thing holds true, Brooklynites from the ’70s and ’80s have style, and we know it. This style was exhibited in many ways, from the way we dressed, walked (with a knowing swagger), talked (despite mythology, there’s more than just one Brooklyn accent), made a stoop our own, or how we wrote on subway trains, walls, and later, canvasses.

While street-art is often referred to as a worldwide movement — and it truly has has become one, co-opted by small commercial interests and big business alike — the art-form got its humble, ink-stained start in the five boroughs of New York City, kicked-off by city-kids for city-kids. The County Of Kings can lay claim to breeding and nurturing many a talented and acclaimed urban artist, hailing from places as diverse as Red Hook, Coney Island, Park Slope, and Bedford Stuyvesant.

The BROOKLYN YES INDEED show intends to highlight an art movement and subculture that has grown leaps and bounds from its insular D.I.Y. origins, by showcasing artwork that shows the trajectory of a clutch of legendary Brooklyn artists who have taken their work from the trains and walls of our great city onto the next level. In addition to canvas and sculpture work, the exhibit includes photography in an effort to give a context as to where the art was birthed, and by whom.

*** Curated by David Villorente and Lee Greenfeld ***

Brooklyn Bridge show/tattoo day were awesome

We had a great time at the Brooklyn Bridge 129th anniversary group art show opening, and then had a blast the sunday after where a good 30-40 people came out to get their $29 Brooklyn Bridge Tattoos.
The work in the art show was an amazing mixture of backgrounds and mediums. For a full rundown of the work, prices for whats still available, and more shots of the opening, check here. The show will be up until the last week of June, so come down and check it out!

Limited edition event poster by Adam Suerte

 Jen Fergusun

Myke Maldonado

 Edgartista

 Michael Dulle

 Woodz

 Jason Mitchell

Sara Antoinette Martin

 Jonathan Blum

 John Bartolo

 Rachel Gibbs

Adam Suerte

Sunday, Brooklyn Bridge $29 tattoo day

3rd annual Brooklyn Bridge Birthday celebration

Brooklyn Tattoo® and Urban Folk Art® Gallery present a 2 event celebration commemorating the Bridg'es 129th birthday (which is actually on May 24th). 

Fri May 25th, 7pm-11pm- Urban Folk Art© Gallery will host an group art show opening of over 30 local artists honoring the Brooklyn Bridge. Painters, comic makers, illustrators, graffiti artists, animators, printmakers, tattooers, photographers, and more will coverge in creativity with the bridge as their muse.

Sponsored by the good friends at Bar Great Harry

Sunday May 27th, 1pm-7pm- Brooklyn Tattoo® will host their annual Brooklyn Bridge tattoo special. For $29, you can choose from over 20 predesigned Brooklyn Bridge images.

A few of the designs that will be offered.

More will be posted the week of the event

Call the shop/gallery for more information!

718 643 1610

UFA© Gallery Hosts P.S.8 1st Grader art show!

Urban Folk Art© is proud to present a show made up artwork from the first grade at P.S.8 in Brooklyn Heights in conjunction with an awesome organization Studio In a School. The work goes up this Friday the 5th and will be up through the 19th. 

HERE'S A GREAT ARTICLE ABOUT THE SHOW  FROM THE BROOKLYN BUGLE

The work looks awesome!

From the press release:

"1st Grade classes from P.S. 8 in Brooklyn Heights in collaboration with a not for profit teaching arts organization, Studio in a School, present landscape paintings and drawings called "How's the Weather?".  First grade teachers, Carolyn Saffady, Sjene Kendrick, Mackenzie Field, Sandy Long and Matthew Levy and teaching artist, Belinda Blum, collaborated during this fourteen week residency,

 to connect students' science (weather and cloud study) and literacy (vocabulary and writing) curriculum to their art making experience.  Through exploration students engaged in the creative process while having a professional visual arts experience.  

Students spent weeks exploring various types of mark making using drawing pencils and paint brushes to advance their visual vocabulary.  They expressed different types of emotions such as funny, scary or calm by using various marks and lines.  They learned how to make brush strokes that described different types of weather such as rain, snow or lightning as well as something that could only be felt or heard like the wind, midst or thunder.  Prior to painting their landscapes students spent time learning how to mix primary colors into secondary colors and how to make gray and other pastel colors mixed with white.  For most of the children, it was their first time painting a landscape with a horizon line.

Urban Folk Art© Curator Adam Suerte and the teachers think it’s an exciting idea to have the students see their work in a real gallery setting. There will be a signing book placed in the gallery so at the end of the shows run, the children can see the positive feedback from people who have come into the gallery to see their work."

"How's the Weather?" will be up from May 4^th  through the 19^th.

 "It is raining.  I used white and dark blue because it just stopped snowing and now it is raining.  The top of the sky is very cloudy."

Emma 

1-208

 "My weather is stormy.  I made the grays with black and white.  I used more white on the bottom than the top so the bottom is lighter."

Maddox 

1-208

" It is rainy and drizzly but also a little sunny.  There is a mist coming down.  I took white and yellow and put on thin strokes."

Sonia 

1-210

 Belinda Blum reviewing the project with the students

 Students and parents checking out their work