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Jose Parla – Marked By Inkstains
March 12, 2009
Sotheby’s – Contemporary Art – March 10th, 2009
Jose Parla
‘Marked By Inkstains’
48″ x 86″
SOLD: $51,250
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Banksy – Anarchy Rat
February 26, 2009
BANKSY
‘Anarchy Rat’ 2006
signed and dated with drawn heart, stencil spraypaint and acrylic on canvas 75 x 59cm (29 1/2 x 23 1/4in)
SOLD: 36,000 GBP
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Jose Parla – Layered Days @ Cristina Grajales
February 13, 2009
Sorry it took so long for us to upload these photos from Jose Parla’s – Layered Days exhibition @ Cristina Grajales. Ummm… we were returning some videotapes.
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Adam Neate – The London Show
November 13, 2008
‘It is nothing to do with the state of the market – it is about putting back in what I got out at the beginning of my career.’ – Adam Neate
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Kehinde Wiley – Down @ Deitch Projects
November 10, 2008
Deitch Projects
November 01 – December 20, 2008
18 Wooster Street, New York
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Photo That Says It All
November 10, 2008
FYC was in NYC for the past week and had an absolute blast.
Visited the Kehinde Wiley – Down show at Deitch Projects and Jose Parla – Layered Days show at Cristina Grajales.
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Banksy – The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill
October 9, 2008
From Banksy:
New Yorkers dont care about art, they care about pets. So Im exhibiting them instead. I wanted to make art that questioned our relationship with animals and the ethics and sustainability of factory farming, but it ended up as chicken nuggets singing. I took all the money I made exploiting an animal in my last show and used it to fund a new show about the exploitation of animals. If its art and you can see it from the street, I guess it could still be considered street art.
The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill
89 7th Avenue (between West 4th and Bleeker Street)
Until October 31st
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James Marshall (Dalek) – Temporal Encroachment @ Phaiz
October 6, 2008
Phaiz
673 N. Milwaukee St.
Chicago, IL 60622
Jose Parla – Adaptation/Translation
October 2, 2008
Brooklyn based artist Jose Parla will be showing in a spectacular and much anticipated first solo show in London at the Elms Lesters Painting Rooms.
Born in Miami in 1973, Parla then moved to Puerto Rico. After being raised in the Caribbean island by his Cuban parents, Parla returned to Miami at the age of nine where he began painting and remained there until being awarded,a scholarship to Savannah College of Art & Design in Georgia.
In Adaptation / Translation, Parla further explores the wanderings of urban populations to translate these personal experiences and make visible manifestations of what lies beneath our surfaces. By drawing inspiration from the urban landscape, the energy and memory which feeds him, Jose Parla creates a visual narrative of his experiences in different cities. Through the multilayered, psycho-geographical, calligraphic nature of his work he embeds these stories in his paintings and invites the viewer to discover his vision of the environment.
Parla is therefore not just a painter, but a new kind of novelist; a modern storyteller who uses wall gestures, the writing on the wall, and found advertisings to reconstruct complex stories and anatomies.
Jose Parla began painting under the name Ease in 1983 on city walls, and while painting in the tradition of New York subway art, he also was experimenting on canvas with the desire to translate the decaying environment of derelict places which later inspired his cityscapes aesthetic and continues to inform his work today.
Parla’s paintings reveal a silent message of time and history spoken through the walls of the worlds cities; a landscape which speaks of deterioration, neglect, and abandonment. The results, whilst beautiful, with their multicolours and hidden memories, are significant in that they reflect some of the darker aspects of our civilization.
Elms Lesters Painting Rooms
1-3-5 Filthcroft Street
London WC2H 8DH
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