Legendary writer Mode2 recently opened an exhibition at Le-Fix Gallery. He made all the art for the show on site. The pieces range from sketches to paintings. He gets down on his usual study of the black female anatomy. Other pieces reflect his days of writing as a graf head. Back in the day the chatter around the way was that he was a militant black man, famous for his scenes of black characters, but called racist when he refused …
Author: Tracy Jones
The dance music brothers of Disclosure are putting out a remix album of their highly acclaimed debut Settle (2013). DJ Premier reworked the song “Latch” and the result is nothing less than what you’d expect from Premo. …
Jeffrey Bruton, an active participant in the San Francisco art community, known for his high quality screen prints and owner of the t-shirt and art storefront, The Loin, is giving up space for pop-ups. Located in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, his spot is perfect for not only seeing and buying all kinds of art, but for meeting artists from all over. You never know who’ll walk in. Details are up at Storefront. …
Street artist Peter Drew just made this short documentary film about tagging. The city council dug his portraits of past time outlaws and allowed his work to stay on public walls. Drew started to wonder why his work was ok, but other forms of street art, like tagging, were not? The film explores the idea of street artists jamming the system while it embraces their work. Some people in the film see tagging as a road to nowhere. It lacks …
Nekst was a prolific writer out of Houston, Texas. According to Houston Culture Map, he got hooked on tagging in the early 90’s and never stopped. He even did a bid in Dallas for “art crimes.” I get the impression that he went in as Next and came out as Nekst. He eventually made it to New York where he ran with the Mad City Kings crew. Nekst died last year. Information surrounding his life and death remain a mystery, at least …