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Ron English, a New York-based painter, billboard liberator, and toy designer, has exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide for over twenty years his unique sensibility, in which the familiar is reflected through funhouse mirrors into something startlingly new. Widely considered a catalytic figure in the advancement of street art, English has hijacked public space around the globe, creating illegal murals and billboards that blend stunning visuals with biting political, consumerist and surrealist statements. English was featured in the hit movie “Supersize Me,” and has made numerous television appearances worldwide. He is the subject of the 2006 award-winning documentary, “POPaganda, the Art and Crimes of Ron English” and the 2009 documentary “Abraham Obama.” He has produced five books, “Popaganda,” “Son of Pop,” “Abject Expressionism,” “Lazarus Rising,” and “Art Is a Horrible Waste of the Imagination,” and continues to create art that utilizes the American symbology of his boyhood to propel unstated cultural norms just beyond the bounds of comfort into a disconcerting realm simultaneously hilarious and terrifying.
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The Miami Wynwood district was swimming in murals created by some of the best artists alive today! Here's a few pictures...

Aiko...

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I just got back from Art Basel in Miami. NEVER have I seen such an array of incredible murals! I'll post a few of them here...

Harold Golen gave me the wall of his gallery. Thanks, Harold!

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I've always had a thing for luscious bovines... Last night, thanks to two wonderful ladies (luscious in their own right, but definitely not bovine) Molly Crabapple of Dr Sketchy's and Danielle Fonseca of Body of Art, my Dreamgirls came to life and crashed the opening at Opera Gallery! What follows is a backward chronology of transformation.... Enjoy!

I think of my cowgirls as a living embodiment of all forms of desire mashed into one: meat, mother's milk, lust, hunger and good-natured gunplay!

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I just got back from Rome, where Dr. Julie Kogler curated the wonderful show "Apocalypse Wow!" at MACRO. I took my daughter Zephyr, and we hung out with Ausgang, Aiko, Yasha, Matteo and lots of cool friends.

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I painted the wall at Checkpoint Charlie in 1989.  A few months later they tore it down!

The guards tried to reach out and catch me a couple of times, but some East German refugees who were camped out on the western side of Checkpoint Charlie kept watch for me. Painting right at the edge was a little nerve-wracking because if the guards had caught me, they would have hauled me back over to the eastern side for a an extended... vacation.  But I was pretty spry then...

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Art galleries, shops/galleries, and museums that we like, organized thus:

New York (Brooklyn, New York City, etc.)

Northern California (Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose, etc.)

Southern California (Los Angeles, etc.)

Elsewhere in the U.S. (Listed by state, alphabetically)

International (Listed by country, alphabetically)

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Gallery name, URL, street address including city, state, country, postal code, and phone number.