Faile and Bast will be taking over London’s Lazarides Gallery on Greek Street from February 12. Faile and Bast fans can expect an experienced based on 1980s popular culture. Faile works will be on sale, starting from a measley £2!

Faile will also be mounting a retrospective exhibition at Lazarides Rathbone space.

We’ve got some tasty teaser images from none other than Wallkandy. As ever, thanks for the heads up on these!

[View with PicLens]

Photos courtesy of Wallkandy. You can peep a stunning set of photos from a studio visit aswell

Open 3rd July 2009 – 6th August 2009
Lazarides Gallery,
Rathbone Place,
London

www.lazinc.com

This is going up right now as I am typing this and we’ve got a whole host of shots of the amazing work that JR and his team are putting up. He opens his brand new solo shows on 3rd October at both Laz on Charing X Road and Laz on Greek St. More on these later…

Typical of the man, he’s working on a HUGE scale (as always) and is covering almost all of the side of Foyles bookshop on Manette St just off the Charing X Road. With pieces on the opposite building and the whole front of the other building and a stunning piece on the side, this is whetting the appetite for what could be amazing shows come the 3rd.

Full gallery after the jump..

[Read more]

Lazarides are currently dominating the UK street art gallery scene and they’ve decided it’s about time they head over the Atlantic and start owning stateside.

They’re going to be opening a pop-up show in New York’s Bowery and will be bringing together their artists in a unique show of some very lively work.

“The Outsiders” will open on the 26th September and run through till 12th October. The show will feature works from Faile, Paul Insect, JR, Antony Micallef, Jonathan Yeo, Miranda Donovan, Invader, David Choe, Mark Jenkins, Todd James, Vhils, Polly Morgan, Mode 2, BAST, Conor Harrington and Zevs.

“Lazarides promises to cut to the core of the Big Apple. Antony Micallef will show his huge Times Square piece (illustrated) and Faile, JR and Blu, whose huge graphic murals adorned Tate Modern will show alongside Jonathan Yeo’s porno portrait of the US President. Zevs will perform using his unique liquidated logo on a very different kind of naked canvas. Invader, famous for leaving cubic aliens around the planet, will be revealing his most ambitious psychogeography to date, and another secret work will provide a certain famous lady with some much needed funding for her forthcoming presidential campaign.”

As you can see from the Conor Harrington piece above, it’s going to be a stellar lineup and definitely a must see event if you’re in the area. Just a shame we can’t go!

Lazarides Gallery New York
282 Bowery at Houston
New York City
New York 10012
Hours: 11am-7pm
Admission: Free

We headed down to the opening of the new Paul Insect show tonight in Kings X. Tucked away at no. 9 Caledonian Road, the venue was once a Turkish baths, then a “Book” shop (sex shop) and then a photography studio, it was opened up to house some fantastic work from this sterling artist.

Once again, Laz, and Paul Insect have pulled out all the stops and put together an absolutely stunning show, which made excellent use of the space.

We’ve put together a gallery of some select images after the jump, but for those of you who can make it down we definitely recommend a visit.

Photography by Paul Jenkins

[Read more]

Lazarides Gallery are gearing up to present “Poison”, a major nine-day site-specific exhibition of new work by Paul Insect in an out of gallery location – a former bath house in King’s Cross.

At odds with the location and in contrast with the contrived health and voluptuousness of the classic Playboy bunny, twelve skeletal bunny girls are the stars of this show. Luridly coloured with a metallic paint (like Miss August above) the bronze sculptures, entitled ‘Playmates’, reveal Insect’s concern to pick over and appropriate the visual vocabulary of popular culture, and subvert it with a satirist’s eye. The ‘Playmates’ presented in this exhibition are hardly the fantasy calendar girls of our collective dreams but instead offer a savage and witty comment on sexuality in the consumer age. As our heroines sport kitsch memorabilia (including Heffner-esque bunny ears and a cast of the fangs worn by Udo Kier in Andy Warhol’s cult 1974 film Blood for Dracula), and adopt sometimes less-than-ladylike poses, they show how the margins of exploitation and erotica, sex and death, can become intriguingly blurred.

The exact location of the new exhibition will be revealed on 11th September on the Laz website.

We’ll also have a gallery and interview coming very soon, so watch this space

Todd James aka REAS will be presenting an exhibition of new work entitled “Blood & Treasure” at the Laz Gallery on Greek Street on the 29th August.

James is an internationally recognised artist who was a co-creator of the seminal Street Market exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York, which was selected for the Venice Biennale in 2001. James’ work has also been shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the Tate Museum in Liverpool, the Parco gallery in Tokyo, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco

Laz go onto explain that:

Protest images marked out in cartoon outrage, filled with recycled advertising cast-offs and corrupted child scrawls, these large-scale works of gouache and graphite smash the distance between death and jokes and between the viewer and what he or she probably goes around trying not to know about the present state of things.

Head down to the gallery on the 29th to get an insight into an artist who takes his work seriously but through cartoons!