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We will be releasing the Leap of Faith collaboration print by Martha Cooper and Shepard Fairey this Saturday 1/31, inside Subliminal Projects Gallery. The print is 18"x24" and an edition of 450. It will be $50 +tax and can be purchased by CREDIT CARD only. Prints will be sold in person only, one per person, and no phone orders or reservations. We will be open from 12pm - 5pm on Saturday. This is your chance to check out all of Martha's beautiful photographs and have a great print to remember it by. Beware Ebayers! We have policies regarding the prints so anyone who intends on ebaying their print, thanks but no thanks, you are not welcome!
We now have all 6 of Glen's books available for purchase in our online store. Each one is signed by Glen and we have a limited amount so order yours TODAY!
PS - If you live outside of the US, don't forget to pay for international shipping!
John Van Hamersveld, who will be showing at Subliminal Projects in March, was recently featured in a two-day article in the OC Register. The first article talks about how the beach bum surf kid turned into one of the most iconic artists in his time and the second tells the story of his reinvention as a relevant and influential artist today. The article will only make you more excited for his show in March. Check it out.
DAY 1: OC REGISTER
DAY 2: OC REGISTER
BY MARTHA COOPER
OPENING RECEPTION:
JANUARY 16TH / 8-11PM
Martha Cooper has been photographing creative kids in action on city streets since the mid-1970s. In Street Shots, opening January 16th at Subliminal Projects, her photos reveal the imaginative children of pre-renewal New York City as they mined the abandoned lots of the city to create toys from trash. Cooper, renowned for her graffiti and hip-hop pictures, brings those classic images together with ones depicting inner-city kids building forts from scrap, catching flies in cola bottles, and racing homemade go-karts - all without adult supervision.
The opening of Street Shots also marks several debuts: Coopers's new book, Going Postal, a collection of photos of postal labels bearing street art; her image collaboration with Shepard Fairey, available as a screen-print poster; and her own Obey line, with photos printed on clothing, bags, and skateboards. All will be available for purchase at Subliminal Projects, along with Cooper's other books, including Subway Art, Hip Hop Files, Street Play, We B*Girlz, and Tag Town.
Bummed you missed the opening of Idealist Propaganda and a chance to have Glen sign your copy of his book? We're giving you another chance since Glen will be in the gallery Saturday, January 10th signing copies of his amazing books from 2-5pm. We will have all five books here including Recognize, which is only available at Subliminal Projects. Keep the P.M.A!
We will be closed for the holidays starting Monday, December 22nd and will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, January 30th. We will also be closed on January 1st to enjoy the first day of 2009!!
Also, We will not be shipping any online orders until after the holidays so if you are planning on ordering from our online store, it will not be shipped out until we return on Monday, December 29th.
Happy Holidays and thanks for a great year!!!
LA Weekly wrote a very colorful review of our fantastic new show by Glen E. Friedman, Idealist Propaganda. You can read it HERE along with a few others in case you still aren't convinced that this is a must see show. Also check out photos from the opening and installation shots of the gallery for a tasty preview.
By Glen E. Friedman
SUBLIMINAL PROJECTS is pleased to announce its inaugural exhibition with legendary photographer Glen E. Friedman. The most highly anticipated event of Subliminal Projects' season, Friedman's Idealist Propaganda encompasses the artist's first major retrospective to date, featuring a rare selection of Friedman's oeuvre, including twenty-five never before exhibited photographs from his celebrated iconic photos of the pioneering skate, punk and hip-hop subcultures to his equally political and polarized subject matter of the natural world. Idealist Propaganda is a transcendent exhibition and ultimately Friedman's most definitive creative and philosophical statement. It is Subliminal Projects' first solo exhibition of photography by a represented artist.
For Idealist Propaganda, Friedman exhibits his prolific collection in salon style, sampling seminal, never before seen photos from his Fuck You All collection, in addition to previously shown works in his The Idealist solo exhibition of 2004 and Fuck You All international touring exhibition, which include his Fuck You Heroes and Fuck You Too series. On display for the first time ever are images from his Recognizemonograph, a dramatic and overt manifesto of aesthetic idealism, compressed and recontextualized through the singular, yet challenging and amorphous nature of clouds. Through these uninhibited photographs, brilliantly captured mostly from within the clouds themselves, Friedman seeks to reintroduce a raw, beautiful, and vital way of seeing the world.
Stemming from his The Idealist fine art series, Friedman's show is a cornucopia of measured decisions, "every piece is purely there for aesthetic, and to excite." Radical, charismatic, and unapologetic, Friedman's photographs are an extension of his beliefs, social and political; "The work speaks for itself for those tuned in or not." Through his own personal propaganda, Friedman's goal has always been to inspire people. "I feel a personal responsibility to inspire rebellion - to be inspired," he says. As a 13 year old just beginning to explore the world through his simple Pentax camera lens, he believed being a participant was "really important and wanted to change what people did and thought." Drawing inspiration from the Renaissance artists he admired, Friedman challenged himself to become a master craftsman in his own right. His radicalized photography is saturated with deep color, rich texture, and intricate composition, producing a pulsing political energy that is undeniable, "Like a punch in the face!" Whether its from the skateboards of Dogtown, Run DMC, and Public Enemy, or Minor Threat and Black Flag, Glen E. Friedman's work captures his subjects as the recognized and respected artistic zeitgeists inherent to their being.
On display and never before exhibited will also be a selection of some of the twenty-five images added to the second, updated edition of The Idealist book, ten photographic images of Friedman's Recognize cloud series in traditional frames, and two oversized images from the same collection mounted on aluminum. On loan from Shepard Fairey's personal collection will be one of the original window display signs and photograph from the "Liberty Street Protest," a large-scale provocative anti-war installation created by Friedman in 2004, with the assistance of artists' Chris Habib and Shepard Fairey. On the property of Friedman's long-time friend Russell Simmons, located across the street from 9-11 Ground Zero in New York City at the World Trade Center before the Republican National Convention, the site-specific public art project ignited international awareness which continues to resonate.
Glen E. Friedman will be attending the opening reception and signing edition copies of his books: Fuck You Heroes, Fuck You Too, The Idealist, Dogtown - The Legend of the Z-Boys, Recognize, and Keep Your Eyes Open. Signed copies of Recognize, unavailable in stores and only available from the artists' publishing company Burning Flags Press, will be available through Subliminal Projects as part of the exhibition.
We will be closed for Thanksgiving weekend starting Thursday Nov. 27th and will resume normal business hours on Tuesday Dec. 2nd. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Now that things are all gravy in the white house we will be releasing a limited amount of the signed Obama Hope print this Saturday 11/15, at Subliminal Projects. Prints are going to be $50 + tax and can be purchased by CREDIT CARD only. Prints will be sold in person only, one per person, no phone orders or reservations. We will be open from 12pm to 5pm. If you already bought the print through obeygiant.com you will not be permitted to buy another. NO EBAYERS!
ALL SALES ARE FINAL. NO REFUNDS. NO EXCHANGES.
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