Dabs & Myla / Dmote / New2
Ben Frost / Meggs / Ha-Ha
Reka / Rone / Sofles / Vexta
10 September - 22 October
941 Geary
San Francisco
Sofles
[nggallery id=10] Sofles has been both reviled and embraced by the media over his ten-year career that began as a graffiti artist in Brisbane. Following of years of perfecting his craft, he burst onto the scene in the late 2000s with various sold-out exhibitions, collaborations with artists such as Anthony Lister, Ben Frost and Revok, and contracts with the likes of Red Bull and Adidas. With many a finger in many a pie, his work spreads across illustration, tattoo, canvas and any markable surface. Sofles’ imagery is wide and varied, with collages of mind-bending abstraction melting into intricate form, perfect snapshots ...
Dabs & Myla
[nggallery id=3] Melbourne natives Dabs and Myla are a dynamic duo who relocated to Los Angeles in 2009 .They are both members of the infamous SDM CREW from Melbourne Australia, and recently joined the World Famous SEVENTH LETTER collective. Dabs started painting graffiti in 1995, and began teaching Myla the ropes of graffiti writing about ten years later after meeting in art school where they became friends and eventually fell in love. Soon afterward, they decided they liked their collaborative pieces better than their individual work, and from that point on, they worked together exclusively, as Dabs Myla. Inspired by graffiti, travel ...
Meggs
[nggallery id=6] Growing up in Melbourne, from an impressionable age, Meggs immersed himself in the worlds of drawing, cartoons, sci-fi films and skateboarding. In the early 2000s he began being recognised around the city for his stencils and poster art which progressed into freehand aerosol art and large-scale mural works, showcasing his extensive painting skills. Meggs is one of the founding members of Everfresh Studios, Australia’s most renowned and respected street art collectives. His painting style has graduated from more simplistic street-based work to technical, layered and expressive mixed media artworks, exploring a unique balance between graphic form and painterly abstraction. ...
Ben Frost
[nggallery id=5] Ben Frost is known for his kaleidoscopic Pop Art: mash-up paintings that take inspiration from areas as diverse as graffiti, collage, photorealism and sign writing. Over the last ten years he has been exhibiting throughout Australia and internationally, including solo shows in London, New York and San Francisco, as well as group shows in Beijing, Mongolia, Amsterdam, Berlin and Singapore. By subverting mainstream iconography from the worlds of advertising, entertainment and politics, he creates a visual framework that is bold, confronting and often controversial. In print, his work has appeared in countless magazines and newspapers including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Oyster, WeAr, Monster Children, Ok!, HQ, Eyeline, Australian ...
Reka
[nggallery id=8] James Reka is a contemporary artist based in Melbourne. With influences in pop culture, cartoons and illustration, Reka creates his own world of mysterious creatures and characters that communicate though colour, movement and texture. Since 2002 (and as a founding member of the renowned Everfresh Studios), Reka has established himself as a pioneer in Melbourne’s burgeoning street art scene, painting in an abstracted surrealist style that has influenced the work of artists both nationally and internationally. Reka’s paintings are populated by bold colours and strong lines with a meticulous attention to detail and technical proficiency: it is sleek design ...
New2
[nggallery id=4] New2 began painting in Australia in the early ‘80s. A few years later, he became a member of the Da Mad Artists (DMA) crew who were prominent figures in the early Australian writing movement. He was part of the first generation of street artists to get art world recognition, which is ironic taking into consideration that art class was “squandered” - as he was repeatedly told - by preparing sketches for the coming nights' trains and walls. New2 is still writing and also investigating other areas of his creative field, exploring with ceramic versions of his lettering, wooden sculptures, drawings, works ...
Vexta
[nggallery id=11] Sydney-born, Melbourne-residing artist Vexta is well known for her stencils, paste-ups and large-scale street murals across the country. A self-taught artist, her visions started appearing in the mid 2000s and can now be seen across Australia and in Paris, Berlin, London and Bogota. Vexta’s psychedelic, neon drenched images are influenced by a personal symbolism and a greater urban mythology which connect the dots between the personal and the universal. She is also a seasoned curator, leading the art direction for a range of shows seen not only in commercial galleries but also held in derelict buildings. Vexta’s creativity has ...
Kid Zoom
[nggallery id=2] Kid Zoom has been anointed with the title, ‘Rembrandt with a spray can’ by none other than the master painter, Ron English. Kid Zoom’s incredible talent, and his paramount technical proficiency in using solely free-hand aerosol to create his work is changing the brash connotations of the medium. Last year saw him go from relative obscurity to being one of the most exciting new talents in the street art movement, exhibiting alongside Shepard Fairey, Banksy, Jean Michael Basquait and Keith Haring. Starting his career in Perth, he now resides in New York where in December 2010, he had his ...
Rone
[nggallery id=9] Rone’s posters are some of the most iconic in Australia, hiding under overpasses throughout Melbourne. He is renowned for the stylised images of girls’ faces - it wouldn’t be a stretch to say that he has had more posters in Melbourne’s streets than any other artist in the city’s history. Rone is one of the original members of Everfresh Studios where he still works daily. His ‘girls’ come with him as he travels and now appear on the streets of Los Angeles, New York, London, Toyko, Barcelona and Hong Kong. Of all the stencil artists from the initial Melbourne ...
Dmote
[nggallery id=12] Sydney born Shannon Peel is not only known as legendary Australian graffiti writer Dmote but also as an internationally acclaimed designer, illustrator and painter. In 1985, at the age of 15, he started painting the Sydney streets and he has played a substantial role in the underground Australian graffiti scene. His talent has taken him to subways, streets and galleries the world over, including the United States, Japan, Italy, Spain, Canada, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, Croatia and Bosnia. He currently lives and works in New York. He has curated exhibitions and festivals around the world as well as being published ...
Anthony Lister
[nggallery id=1] A trendsetter with an international following and a general disregard for borders, prolific street artist and painter Anthony Lister has managed to marry the empathy and abjection of 20th Century figuration with the irreverence of the street. His work shows a genuine affection for the human body, and also a tender understanding of the ways in which the demented, destructive, playful and powerful collide and coalesce. From Brisbane, Lister moved to New York in 2003 and it was there that he found a visual language of his own. He shifted his focus to painting superheroes and this shift gave ...
Ha-Ha
[nggallery id=7] HA-HA is a master stencil technician graduating from the streets of Melbourne. Without the aid of Photoshop, his cutting technique produces almost lifelike imagery easily recognisable as his signature work. His choice of figures and characters reflects his opinions on society and culture – bushrangers, the effects of consumerism, signs of our obsession with the media and the portrayal of society, all lightly dusted in an air of sarcasm. He has been exhibiting for over nine years he has held sixteen solo shows in Melbourne, Brisbane, Hobart and Sydney, and is represented by galleries across Australia. His work can ...
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