Mars-1 was recently down in Mexico City at the same time we happened to be working in the mega-city, so we decided to hang out with him while the San Francisco artist painted this mural. The fun part is that if you ever wanted to Google Mars-1 Mexico City, you get Jared Leto's band 30 Seconds to Mars. We digress.

Opening tonight, November 11, 2011 (the one 11.11.11 reference we will make today) at Fecal Face Dot Gallery is Mars-1's first solo exhibition in San Francisco since 2005. Everything Under the Sun will feature a series of new paintings from the SF-based artist (and former cover artist), and Colin M Day shot a preview video of Mars' in his studio.

Former Juxtapoz cover artist, Mario Martinez (Mars-1) will open a new solo show at Fecal Face Dot Gallery in San Francisco on November 11, 2011. If you haven't had a chance to see some of Mars' work in person, especially his new bodies of work, you are going to be taken to another world. . . .

NYC correspondent Brock Fetch headed out to a heavyweight opening a former Juxtapoz cover artists, Miss Van and Mars-1, and an up-and-coming artist in Gaia, at Jonathan LeVine Gallery this past Thursday night in Manhattan. A bunch of pictures following the jump . . .

French-born street and fine artist, Miss Van, whose work we recently saw at MOCA's "Art In the Streets," will be opening a new solo show, Bailarinas, at NYC's Jonathan LeVine Gallery. The show opens this Thursday, May 26, at the same time of Mars-1's and Gaia's shows at the gallery.

Now nothing says a little early 1970's Haight like a black light poster. Our February 2009 Juxtapoz cover artist, Mars-1, just released a black light print through San Francisco's Electric Works. The Blacklight Flocked Poster is hand-silkscreened with fluorescent UV inks and black velvet flocking. More information after the jump . . .

Jeremy Fish has just put the finishing touches on his property in the midst of the new Lower Haight mural in San Francisco. His master finish incorporates a Silly Pink Bunny statue as the "Hello" moment upon entry into one of the last locals neighborhood in the City. More after the jump . . .