Skewville's 'Park Plan' is part of Brave Brooklyn

Brave Brooklyn is an art exhibit and auction to benefit the Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn (OSA) and Trust Art projects supported by OSA. Brave Brooklyn will be open to the public December 4-11.

Along with various other works, including that of pre-eminent sculptor Richard Serra and mixed-media artist Fred Tomaselli, this exhibition features the artwork of Trust Art artists proposing new public art projects in collaboration with OSA.

To help fundraise for Skewville's upcoming public artwork, Art Park, Trust Art and OSA are auctioning this piece by Skewville:

Park Plan, 2009, 48" x 36"
In this piece, Skewville presents an off-the-cuff blueprint of Art Park. Blending their street style with a social initiative, the artists hope to bring fresh style to the community by getting street artists out of the shadows. The piece's humorous, 'sales pitch-like' tone alludes to the sometimes strange working relationship between artists and political structures attempting to create momentum for public projects like Art Park. 

Go to eBay to bid on this piece.  The starting bid is $500 and the auction closes on December 11 at 9pm (EST).

The work is on view until December 11 at 30 Dobbins Street in Williamsburg.  There is a closing reception open to the public on December 11, 6-9pm.  Join us if you are in Brooklyn!

Other artists in this exhibit include: Bradley Brown, James Case, Ryan Goolsby, Weston Woolly, Emily Goode, Suzanne Zwicky, Gidalya Tashman, Karl Metz, Adam Taye, Chris Burnside, James Woodward, Robbert Jan de Oude, Sam Martineau, Lizzy Wezler, Matt Jones, Kristin Deirup, Jesse Witkin, Kris Graves, Nathan Koch, and Molly Surno.

More info at bravebrooklyn.com



You're not in Kansas Anymore

Funny 'cause while i was putting this up a hipster kid said" hey, isn't this east williamsburg industrial park".. I said "Either way, your not in Kansas. anymore."

The Proposed "Welcome to Bushwick" Mural

Click to see the presentation

Skewville has been sketching a mural in Bushwick that will mark the beginning of their campaign to create a new park in the neighborhood.  That is now the focus of their Street Art Revitaliztion Program for Bushwick.  

The sketch for the mural has been created and discussions with Boar's Head, the owner of the fence, are going along well.  Check out the presentation we are using. 

If you are interested in helping, we'd love to invite you to participate.   We're looking for donated paint and materials so drop us a line if you'd like to get involved.
 

Skewville at NuArt

This September, Skewville will be part of NuArt, an annual international street art festival based in Stravanger, Norway. All month long an international team of street artists will leave their mark on the city’s walls and contribute to a NuArt static show. Check back in September for updates on Skewville and their NuArt street art.

Until then, check out some photos from Skewville’s latest contribution to culture, the Skewville Golf Classic Putting Championship. Every hole is a clever commentary in the classic Skewville style.

Welcome to Greenpoint II

          This previously dilapidated wall has now become the canvas for six different groups of artists, united in India Street, past the West Street intersection in Brooklyn, with the goal to revitalize the community through their street art. The second art piece, created by Skewville, reads, “Welcome to… Greenpoint”, under which the two enlarged letters BK contain depictions of an areas history. The “B” shows a pirate smiling warmly to its viewers, with illustrations of Greenpoint’s past waterborne commerce through a sailing ship, seagulls, and further aspects of marine life. Eleven men and boys crowd the first half of the letter “K”, and one boy stands amidst emptiness in the other half. Together, they reconstitute Greenpoint’s historical immigrant based community. The piece is visually stimulating, integrates and improves its environment and reminisces about New York’s history.

         Five other oeuvres stand tall. The one closest to the East River takes place on water, as three struggling humans arch over on a boat to each support three other people also on a boat. The embedded meaning is their work, picked up generation after generation to remove the oil spill from the 1950’s, present in the creation as black drops. Next, an abstract black and white Indian boombox brings some silent music to the area. A brick wall contrasts the original grey wall, and certain observers take a minute to realize it is one of the featured pieces and that it is a replication of the opposite wall. A further piece contains an antiquated turtle, representative of the Brooklyn fires that removed some of its landmarks. These five pieces are completed by the last, a rocket ship taking off into the unknown, paralleling our present journey to the future.

         Skewville says that street art’s association with illegality can be modified and used in affiliation with government organizations to change a place for the better. Focus once set on barbed wires above the wall, and accumulated trash by the water is now funneled towards art, attempts to decipher its meaning, and hope that the promised projects for the Bushwick neighborhood will be as successful. The difficult times remembered in today’s economic crisis have borrowed the utilization of hardships as a source of inspiration to renovate today and promise tomorrow. Thanks to Chris Soria and Marc Evan- artist of antiquated turtle piece- for taking the time to discuss their project.

Welcome to Greenpoint

Skewville was recently announced as one of the six artists chosen by the North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition to take over a huge wall donated to the cause of art in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.  Their goal there, as it is in Bushwick, is to unite local artists to create art for the community.

You can read more here

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