PinXit has been commissioned by Melbourne City Council to manage the repainting of Union Lane in Melbourne's CBD. The lane, a 75 metre-long central thoroughfare between Bourke St mall and Little Collins St had been painted by street artists as part of the City’s Graffiti Mentoring Project over several weeks in late 2007 and early 2008. Over 50 artists, both professional artists/mentors and young volunteer mentorees produced an exciting range of different productions including elaborate NY-style, character and stencil art based works.
Over the past three months new street art works have been produced. Among the participating artists were Adi, Adnate, Baile, Beastman, Darren Henderson, Deam, Deb, Drew, Duke, FindJosephine, Itch, French duo KA'a, Ikonik, Isis, Jak Rapmund, Joske, Austrian artist Limit, Makatron, Marine, Mishap, Nate Gamble, Peach, Petite Mort, Puto, Reko Rennie, Silk Roy, Simz, Siper, Slayer, Slicer, Snuf, Sparcs, Stormie, Tango, Twoone, Tuvs, Toronto artist TZCH, Vents and Wonders.
If you interested in producing a a work in Melbourne's CBD or want to commission an artist to produce a work for you please send an expression of interest to
NEWS UP-DATE
FAMOUS WHEN DEAD GALLERY CLOSED ITS DOORS
January 2010
After two years and over 40 exhibitions I have decided to close FamousWhenDead Gallery. It was an exciting and exhilarating time and I would like to thank all those who have supported me during that period. I has been my pleasure to be able to present the works of so many artists and I hope that I have been able to help developing artist careers along the way.
I have been frequently asked whether I will stay in the business of promoting and selling street and stencil art. As this is an exciting art form with many talented artists I surely will keep my finger on the pulse, with some future projects already in the planning. A catalogue of selected pieces of stencil art will be available. If you have any queries please email me.
PinXit Arts & Events Management will also continue to provide consultations, workshops and project management for street art events. I am looking forward to hearing from you about your projects and ideas.
JD Mittmann, director
PAST EVENT: Skin Deep
exhibition by Peter Forward
PAST EVENT: Urban Art Agenda #3
Inspired by New York graffiti of the 1970s, stencil art is a form of street art, or urban art as it is often called, which has sprung up all over the globe in the last two decades. Now a respected art movement and refined art-form, it has long moved off the streets and into galleries and art spaces.
Urban Art Agenda brougt together some of the most prolific stencil artists from around the world in an unique showcase, presented by PinXit Arts & Events Management and curated by JD Mittmann, director of FamousWhenDead Gallery.
The exhibition features works by A1one (Tehran), David Soukup (Chicago), ELK (Canberra), El Moocho (Melbourne), HaHa (Melbourne), Izolag (Salvador), Jana and JS (Salzburg), Jef Aerosol (Lille), Kenji Nakayama (Boston), Mandarina Brausewetter (Vienna), Orticanoodles (Milan), Ozi (São Paulo), Penny (London), XOOOOX (Berlin).
The first two instalments of UrbanArtAgenda were presented in 2007 in Shed 4 at the Melbourne Docklands as part of International Design Festival and in Perth as part of the Alphabet City Festival at the ArtRage Complex.
UrbanArtAgenda#3 was launched at the Art Gallery of Ballarat in July and was shown in Melbourne as part of the Fringe Festival before touring to Sydney for the Art&About Festival and the Brisbane Powerhouse.
www.urbanartagenda.com.au and www.flickr.com/photos/pinxit/sets/72157622819798334/
PAST EVENT: Boggsville Creepers
Shayna Shenanigans (aka Shayna Yasuhara) is an American-based artist originally from sunny California but now lives in New England. She is not a classically trained artist; instead she has seemingly trained herself in the art of “hallucination”; the ability to see images and scenes in shapes, lines and blotches of paint. The thick-lined fuzzy animals, dead trees and busy detailing that often appear in her work are meant to be playful yet purposely confusing. The messages and storylines in her paintings are also intentionally scrambled and vague, leaving the viewer to "Choose Their Own Adventure".
Her current exhibit, titled “Boggsville Creepers”, is a collection of high-glossed wood panels with characters and imagery from the surreal and fictional town of Boggsville. After using the name for quite some time Yasuhara discovered that Boggsville is also the name of an actual ghost town founded in 1862, located in Colorado (USA) on the Purgatoire River. This discovery was an added example of the bridged relationship between imaginary and realty, an idea which is a large inspiration to the work and life of Shayna Shenanigans.
