Streetvision is a three-day street art festival going down May 23rd thru the 25th in Breda, Netherlands, with a corresponding street art expo that will remain on view thru June 29th.
Featuring a wide range of over forty international urban artists, Streetvision will showcase work by l`atlas, Lastplak, Llub7, D-Struct, Bitches in Control, Super A, and Zonenkinder Collective (one of their awesome recent street installs shown.)
This event is sure to turn a lot of heads and attract a ton of folks to the Netherlands, so check out all the details at the extensive Streetvision website, www.noisivision.nl/streetvision.

Craig Wetherby has photographed just about every relevant hip-hop artist to date while also being highly respected and admired by the punk rock and rock n roll communities alike. A self-taught photographer, Wetherby has been taking pictures since 1992, and has had the opportunity to capture some of the world’s most famous athletes, entertainers and artists (like one of our favorites, Ricky Powell, shown.)
Wetherby recently collaborated with Manik Skateboards to produce limited edition skateboards, shirts and caps. The series will be released to select boutique shops worldwide in conjunction with a world gallery tour exhibiting Craig Wetherby’s photos and limited edition skate decks. The eight-showcased images throughout the collection include hip-hop artists such as Ghostface Killah, Slick Rick and Method Man, along with famous images of Gwar and Bad Brains at the world renowned CBGBs.
The traveling art exhibition will begin its tour in May 2008 starting in Seattle and will continue through December 2008 making stops in Tokyo, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. As a special treat, each stop on the tour will have unique limited edition color ways of the fitted hats available only for that particular city.
Check out the Wetherby collection and learn more about the upcoming Craig Wetherby exhibition at www.manikskateboards.com.

Marco Rached of SPRFKR uses porn, 80s cartoons like the good ol’ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and a variety of other racy influences, to create his provocative and beautiful women. Learn more on SPRFKR at www.myspace.com/suprfukr

Sam Flores recently held an art workshop in Mexico City for a crowd of local kids and teens eager to learn the tricks of the trade from a self-taught illustrator that’s made the leap from art school evacuee to world-renowned artist.
Flores spent the day chatting with the youth, sharing his trademark fine art and illustrative tips and skills, and uhh… demonstrating where to properly stash one’s markers.
Take a look at more photos of Sam Flores’ art workshop here…

Internationally renowned artist, toy designer, and illustrator Nathan Jurevicius returns to Magic Pony with Reformation, his first North American solo exhibition in four years.
Featuring a variety of media, this exhibition includes a series of vividly hued ink and watercolor drawings, animations, large-scale sculptural installations and a print edition. Nathan has also produced a limited edition bronze owl sculpture for this show.
While his career thus far has spanned both commercial design and fine art, Reformation reflects a deeper engagement with his artistic process and materials, while simultaneously demonstrating a highly imaginative, philosophical approach to storytelling. More info at magic-pony.com.

Thinkspace Gallery recently opened not one, or even two, but three exhibits the same night!
In their main gallery space, Uncommon Gardens features work from Caia Koopman, Kelly Vivanco, Lilly Piri, and Catherine Brooks. Kris Chau graced the project room with her Plaits and Fringes, while Thinkspace also debuted Ink Advance from Ghostpatrol, Miso, and Acorn, as well as a bunch of great new work from Leontine Greenberg!
Woah okay, got all that? Maybe some visual stimulation will help you put it all together. See more photos this way…

This Saturday, May 17th, 24 street artists will descend upon a 19th Century Beacon, NY factory building to install their artwork on its exterior. This project, called Electric Windows, draws its name from the former electric blanket factory at the foot of Mount Beacon that will act as the backdrop for the event.
Literally turning the idea of a gallery inside out, Electric Windows will house 24 pieces approximately 8’ x 12’, on the large industrial windows of the factory for 12 months!
Electric Windows will feature work from 24 different artists, including: Above, Cycle, Daryll Peirce, Lady Pink, Peat Wollaeger, Ripo, Ron English, The Love Movement, Tes One, Ultra, and UPSO, among others. See the full line-up and get more info at www.electricwindowsbeacon.com.

The graffiti artist from Barcelona known as Pez (“fish” in Spanish, which also helps to explain the prevalence of them in his work!) along with the Amsterdam-based street art collective, The London Police; funky German artist Flying Fortress; and Italian theatrical caricature creator, Galo have come from all reaches of the globe to create Here We Grow.
Debuting this Saturday, May 17th at Black Maria, Here We Grow will showcase new original works from all these artistic powerhouses, with The Flying Fortress prints also available at the opening. More info right here.  

Amor Muñoz, born and raised in Mexico City, is part of an exciting new generation artists currently causing a stir in the urban mega-wonder that is Mexico’s capital city. Through painting, embroidery, and video, Muñoz explores alternative representations of sexuality and gender roles, often challenging the entrenched machismo culture of her surroundings.
Muñoz's work has been exhibited throughout Mexico, Los Angeles, as well as in New York and she will be returning to Brooklyn soon with a solo show called Senti Mental Bestiary at Fingered Gallery opening June 7th.
Even if you don’t speak Spanish, make sure to head over to amormunoz.blogspot.com to check out more of her work. The universal language of her awesomely risqué artwork will speak volumes in any tongue!

ArtNowSF and artist Kris D present 365 on Thursday, June 5th at San Francisco’s ultra hip 111 Minna Gallery.
A group show featuring an impressive selection of 14 of the country's most visionary, contemporary, and abstract artists, 365 will highlight work by Kris D, known for live painting and inventive graphic landscapes; Damon Soule, a contemporary artist whose paintings have a galactic, future-forward sensibility; and Oliver Vernon's furiously creative studies in color and perspective (shown.)
365 also showcases the amazing talents of: David Choong Lee, Jason Alberto Garcia, Gregory Euclide, Ethen B Luce, Des10, Rob Pellicer, David Hale, XAVI, Third Peak, Adrien Robert (Sane), and Joshua Mays.
This is one event you’re not going to want to miss, so check out the 365 artwork here and we’ll see you by the bar at 111 Minna on June 5th!

Savage Whiskers, the first of a two-part collaboration between San Francisco based artists Alexis Mackenzie and Jessica Cusik, opens this Saturday May 17th at Fecal Face Dot Gallery.
Savage Whiskers is based on individual interpretations of similarly sourced images. MacKenzie's collages (shown) feature intricately detailed juxtapositions of images from vintage printed media, while Cusik works in graphite and gouache, building layers of delicately hand-rendered elements anchored in classic technique.
Their work explores the mysterious ways in which seemingly disparate elements are related, eliciting fresh narratives from images rooted in the past. Details on Savage Whiskers can be found right here.

Yep, The 008 and Upper Playground have done it again! This time they’ve partnered with Alex Pardee to create a new limited edition screenprint in their ongoing support of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.
The Pardee designed, 18" x 24" limited screenprint will be signed and numbered by the artist, and is now available for purchase through www.upperplayground.com. The piece comes in two colors, with 100 prints available in each colorway. If you’re planning on snagging one of these sick prints, keep in mind that each poster is a pre-sale item and will not ship until June 2, 2008.
All proceeds from the sales of each design from the Alex Pardee Obama poster will go directly to creating more campaign t-shirts, posters, and stickers by other artists in support of Obama's bid for President. So get political, or simply add another awesome Pardee print to your collection, and cop yours soon because you can bet these will go fast.

David Ruhlman is a self-taught artist living and working in Salt Lake City. His detailed paintings, primarily done in gouache on wood panels, drip with religious imagery and symbolism.
A kind of intense and slightly melancholic mood surrounds his work, but the consistently allegorical and metaphorical meanings are so prevalent in his painting and drawing (like this piece, The Left Hand of Edvard Munch Is the Right Hand of God, part 3) that we keep coming back for more.
Get your second helping of David Ruhlman at www.davidruhlman.com

We’ve been BLU fans for some time now, but after watching this animated film, we think we may be in love.
One of the most talented artists around, BLU is an Italian with a passion for street art. BLU has hit up more spots across the globe than we can even count, but we’ve never seen an animated version of his street creatures come to life like this before!
Trust us, you won’t be able to take your eyes off the screen, so make sure you have a solid seven minutes to sit back and be amazed by this animated film from BLU.

Always on the move, Juxtapoz has been traveling the globe in an effort to keep you updated with the world’s best contemporary and urban art. Erin, one of our beloved Juxtapoz staff members, hit the streets of London this week and came across a posh new gallery called Artichokeltd. Originally, Artichokeltd began solely as an online art dealer/gallery, but recently upgraded to a real gallery space in London’s pop culture hotbed, Convent Garden.
The two-story space currently hosts limited edition works by up and coming street artist Prefab, while downstairs the basement gallery is showing art from the likes of Jef Aerosol (shown holding his Spare A Dime print,) Oliver Harud, Alex Hearn, Seamo, Remi/Rough, and Mateusz Odrobny. Take a glance at some of the art our British friends are currently diggin’ right this way…

Watch painter Joshua Petker as he prepares for his second solo show at the Shooting Gallery in this video from our friends at VIMBY. Petker creates bold and beautiful paintings of women that ooze confidence by layering paint in an almost graffiti-like fashion.
See more of Petker’s work at www.joshuapetker.com.

Fine artist, and up-and-coming star, Saelee Oh (Juxtapoz issue #82) has a fantastical new show coming up called Tangled Tales. Opening this Saturday, May 17th at Hollywood’s Tinlark Gallery, Oh will present a new collection of paintings and sculptural explorations of the sorrows and hopes brought on by love.
Oh invents rich imaginary worlds ruled by mythic creatures and flora, as experienced from the eyes of a female protagonist. Each piece is a whimsical vignette– the adventures of a magic ghost cat, a subterranean rendezvous, and a bundle of letters delivered via moth– fanciful, romantic, but also complex in emotion.
Inspired by folk arts, organic forms, and vintage children’s books, Saelee Oh creates multi-layered works by integrating traditional painting and drawing with three-dimensional paper cutouts.
Learn more on Tangled Tales at www.tinlark.com.

Caleb Neelon’s highly anticipated solo show, Caleb Neelon Is Working On It, opened this past Saturday at Los Angeles’ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art.
Full of brightly colored paintings and installations, Neelon’s exhibit attracted some fellow legends (yes, that’s the artist with Shepard Fairey and the Carmichael’s) that came out to show Neelon some well-deserved love. Take a look at more opening night pictures this way…

The talented Nathan Spoor has taken it upon himself to extend his abilities beyond creating artwork to that of curator, working on curating a new show in Rome titled The New Mythology.
The New Mythology is an exhibition of paintings representing a cross- section of a moving and powerful talent base of artists working individually toward a stronger sense of personal integrity in their works. Artists participating include: Lola, Travis Louie, Dan May, Michael Page, Naoto Hattori, Colin Johnson, Kevin Peterson, Chris Ryniak, Ken Keirns, Joe Vaux, and Nathan Spoor (Plume shown.)
Spoor is also currently finishing up an exhibit book, which will available for online purchase May 30th. Check out The New Mythology book preview right here.
The New Mythology show opens Friday, May 16th at Rome's Dorothy Circus Gallery, but if Italy is a bit out of the way for you this weekend, take a shorter trip to check out a preview of works in the show right over here…

TITLE: The Hunter
ARTIST: Double Parlour
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