This Friday by Fenway (Brookline Ave), join Evoker, Josh Falk, Kngee, Stephen Holding and a handful of other talents for their new gallery opening “Devastate Your Real Estate”.
132 Brookline Ave, Boston MA (FOURTH WALL PROJECT)
Opening Reception is from 7pm-9pm;
the gallery will be up for a month from September 18th-October 18th!
After party will be held at ZuZu’s at 10pm with DJ Gucci Vuitton on the decks
Unfortunately, I was gone this weekend and didn’t get a chance to go to the Momentum Art Opening but I did just get some pictures of the show sent to me. First, OPEN just launched the Momentum micro-site click here to view. The site highlights select images of the project and gallery show. The Momentum project consists of a series of 5 frames, cycling cap, t-shirt and vectorfunk prints - all on the site and available for purchase.
They’re also presenting the entire Momentum gallery show and MWM Mural on the Chorus site click here to check it out.
click here for more pictures of the gallery
After seeing Mike Giant’s blog post about his new Rat Bones Tattoo, our friend Evoker decided it would be a nice juster to ship Mike out one of his Evoker x Rat Bones Logo tee & stickers. Today, Evoker got the picture below sent back to him! Now, we just need to get Mike to Boston for a show!!!
Its been a long, long wait but the 3rd and FINAL round of the Puma MP3 battle is TONIGHT!
If you’ve been to the first and second rounds of this battle, you’ll know that this gets packed pretty quick- so make sure you get out to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) early tonight for this event. Come support LAB to avenge their loss on the 2nd round and claim the title of the Champions!!!
*The full line-up is as follows:
LAB
Bladerunners
CVS Pharmacy from Route 2 in Saugus
Gstar
The Weekly Dig
The Phoenix
Night Society
+ 1 other team TBA
PUMA presents: MP3 Beatdown Championships ICA -100 Northern Avenue on the waterfront, Boston MA
July 29th 8pm-12am this final battle is an 18+ event
Our good friend Josh Falk with the help of Nick Z got an amazing opportunity to paint ramps and staging for the Dew Tour this weekend in Boston. If you dont know about the “Dew Tour” its the world’s premier season-long action sports tour, and will feature the world’s best athletes in skate vert and park. The tour and his work will be seen LIVE globally to over 150 million households in 11 languages across 48 countries and four continents. You can also check out our friend Evoker painting live at the TD Garden today & tomorrow.
click here for more pictures….
If your in Boston this Sunday evening stop by Middlesex Lounge for Openly Biking Dirty 2009! The event is in support of The Jimmy Fund and the Pan Mass Challenge, our friend Chandler, is riding the PMC for the third year in a row. Over the past few years, Chandler and his team are excellent folks, friends of ours and definitely need our support to make this years ride better than last!
Sunday night will consist of socializing, dancing and roller-racing – a little bit of something for everyone, bike or no bike! If you are not familiar with roller-racing, its pretty simple: head-to-head stationary bike races, 300m in distance, the speed and time are projected for the crowd to see – a great spectator sport and a good way to settle disputes with friends. The 300m seems to be the right distance for everyone, whether you race weekly or have ridden to work once in the past few years. Our good friends over at OPEN Bicycle will be providing bicycles to race with so just bring your game face and checkbook!
If you didnt know already, we love gnomes! Here are some cute ones drawn by our friend chris!
For the past week I have gotten the pleasure of having James aka “Gunsho” paint 25 ft of windows at my shop. The piece that most artists spend 6 to 10 hours painting, took him right around 22 hours. Not only did he spend five days painting, he also had a 2 hour commute every day he came here. I can honestly say James is a part of the LAB family now. The time and devotion he put into painting the front of our shop is just incredible. The black outline alone was 3 days of painting and another 2 days for color. I’m so grateful for all of his hard work and effort, and hope everyone can check it out before it comes down. Click here for more pictures of the piece. Oh… and one last thing- this was the biggest piece he had ever done- his forty is 18×24″ drawings- no paint!
-kim
LAB Boston is proud to present “Bare Knuckle Brawlers”, the poster show for “Died Young, Stayed Pretty”. The opening of the show will be Friday, June 26th from 7-10pm and will feature the following artists: James Quigley, Jesse Ledoux, Jeff Kleinsmith, theMiracle5, Dan McCarthy, Nate Duval, Darren Pasemko and other local artists. LAB has worked closely with Eileen Yaghoobian, Producer/Director and Kristin Groener to showcase artwork in connection with the documentary. (www.diedyoungstayedpretty.com)
Died Young, Stayed Pretty is a documentary about the underground poster culture in North America, from the ’60s psychedelic masters, like Victor Moscoso, to the gig poster crew today. The artists represented in the film “push further into the pulp to grab the attention of passersby, plastering art that?s both vulgar and intensely visceral onto the gnarled surfaces of the urban landscape,” says director Eileen Yaghoobian.
Outside of their own subculture these posterists are virtually unknown. “But within their ranks they make up an army of bare-knuckle brawlers, publicly arguing the aesthetic merits of octopus imagery and hairy ’70s porn stars.” They?ve created their own visual language and have created posters that are “strikingly obscene, unflinchingly blasphemous and often quite beautiful.” Yaghoobian’s film is the first (and maybe the last) of its kind.
The movie will be shown at the MFA, in Boston July 30 – August 7th, 2009- click here for more information and times. Also… click here to see the Facebook Event Page
This past Tuesday, Proletariat and PBR hosted round 3 of PBaRt; the three hour wall battle included our friends Evoker and Fish McGill. Check out the video below of the boys painting and the final piece. Oh… and there’s only two more PBaRts left on July 7th and August 4th, so make sure you check them out!
(picture courtesy of Evoker)
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