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The Raw Power of Glen E. Friedman - LA Weekly
"Search and Destroy" funnels out onto the 10:30 p.m. Saturday Sunset Blvd. sidewalk, violently greeting late-arrivals to Glen E. Friedman's Idealist Propaganda exhibit. Iggy's cocaine cacophony carves up Tymphanic cavities. Like a pistol gripped power drill, James Williamson's guitar rattles the window panes of the poor saps staying at the Echo Park Super 8, adjacent to Shepard Fairey's Subliminal Projects gallery. Good luck trying to turn in early when confronted with the one-two assault of The Stooges, plus the 100+ Dewars-drunk art geeks serried into the small space-among the thousand-plus bold-faced names and miscellaneous, vivid characters that poured in during the three hour opening.
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'Idealist Propaganda' by Glen E. Friedman - Los Angeles Times
Master of the fish-eye lens, Glen E. Friedman has killer instincts that put him at the ascendancy of the burgeoning punk, hip-hop and skate scenes in New York, Washington, and Los Angeles in the late 1970s and early '80s, later branching out to include political subjects matter and photography with a distinctly fine art bent.
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Glen E. Friedman Retrospective
Legendary photographer Glen E. Friedman comes to Los Angeles' Subliminal Projects gallery for a major retrospective of his works in a show titled Idealist Propaganda opening December 13th, 2008.
Idealist Propaganda will feature a rare selection of Friedman's oeuvre, including twenty-five never-before exhibited photographs of 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.
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Idealist Propaganda - Flavorpill
One of the best-known names in street photography, Glen Friedman produces jaunty, richly printed black-and-white portraits of skate, punk, and indie hip-hop scenes. His iconic photos have defined a generation of alternative, progressive artists and struck at the heart of any number of music-friendly subcultures.
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Glen E. Friedman's Photo Show - BoingBoing
Photographer Glen E. Friedman is best known for iconic images that captured the roots of three indigenous American pop cultures: skateboarding, American hardcore, and hip hop. Starting tonight, you can see all three represented at Shepard Fairey's (relatively new) gallery, Subliminal Projects, over in the Silverlake/Echo Park area of Los Angeles.
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BOINGBOING 4-PART VIDEO MINISERIES
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House Industries Hits Subliminal Projects - Creativity Magazine
Since 1993, House Industries has made art out of the letters we see everyday. Often using cultural references to create lettering and type that no only communicate a message, but create a distinct mood and feel. But while we're used to seeing everyone from H&M to Lucky Charms to NYC's beloved Shake Shack use their fonts, this Saturday the Wilmington, Delaware-based wizards take their artful approach to communication and hang it on the gallery wall. Letters and Ligatures opens at Shepard Fairey's Subliminal Projects gallery and promises to feature a new collection of prints, sculpture, and installations that reflect the shop's unique design sensibility.
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"Letters and Ligatures" From House Industries - Juxtapoz
Delaware based typography foundry House Industries (Rich Roat, Andy Cruz, and Adam Cruz) has an obsession with letters and corresponding ligatures. Good thing they are able to show off their sexy lettering in a new show, appropriately titled Letters and Ligatures, at Los Angeles' Subliminal Projects Gallery. The work of creating letters may seem like an oxymoron (haven't 26 letters already been created?) but that would do a massive injustice to this creative trio, as well as the alphabet (and way would you want to do that when its done so much for you?)
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Openings: House Industries - Arrested Motion
This past Saturday night, Subliminal Projects was decked out in the typographical patterns of House Industries. The Delaware based group showcased a new collection of prints and patterns and transformed the gallery into a graphical delight that showcased just was what some simple fonts can do. AM was invited to the opening night rock out with the beats of DJ Diabetic, who kept the night bumping way past closing time.
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Typographically Speaking - GenArt pulse
Helvetica may be the subliminal face of the corporate world, but this colloquial type was founded in 1957 and is in its prime mid-life crisis years. There are a few Gen Y-ers quietly reforming and refining the art of the letter, and the majority of them are tucked away in Yorklyn, Delaware at font foundry House Industries.
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Life Of The Park - Juxtapoz
If you like immersing yourself into an atmosphere akin to packed sardines - Subliminal Projects Gallery in Echo Park definitely has to be on your radar. The gallery, which Shepard and Amanda Fairey recently opened in this new space, only does six shows a year, and if any of the others were like their first annual Park Life exhibit on Saturday - meaning crammed wall-to-wall with arties sousing themselves on a wild concoction of scotch mixed with ginger beer - better grease up your hips.
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Park Life - Flavorpill
Subliminal Projects uses its recent move from Koreatown to the more pastoral environs of Echo Park as the curatorial focus for its latest exhibition, Park Life. Studio Number One, the art/design-oriented arm of the Shepard Fairey-run Subliminal family, focuses on the idea of community during an ongoing project, the first leg of which includes this show featuring artists close to the curators. Expect an eclectic but consistently invigorating array of outsider styles with urban accents and strongly held political views, plus some cheeky celebrations of togetherness by the usual Eastside suspects.
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Swell City Guide - Park Life Exhibit
On Saturday October 4th 2008 Subliminal Projects presented the first installment of their new Studio Number One curatorial program, Park Life. The series of exhibitions focuses on the creative crossroads of art, design, pop culture, and technology. With works from an expansive network of artists, Park Life attempts to showcase the sense of community that art has the power to create.
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Grimy Goods - Subliminal Projects Presents
You can never go wrong in attending an art show presented by Subliminal Projects. Always astounding works, always good times. Check out the goods on Park Life below and see for yourself what it's all about.
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Living Proof Magazine - Park Life
This month, Subliminal Projects will host a fairly gigantic group show featuring works from their friends and family. The show, entitled Park Life has close to 50 artists, some with more than one piece, from various different mediums.
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We're All Connected - Nylon
If you think that the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a joke, you may want to stay away from Somehow, We All Seem Connected. The gallery show, which is at L.A.'s Subliminal Projects through September 19, uses works by Steven Harrington and Justin Krietemeyer to prove that human connectivity is a fact of life...
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A National Forest Takes Over Subliminal Projects - Metromix
The time is now for those who produce design-based work. With dollars to be earned in the easy transference of art to more mobile media like tennis shoes and snowboards, it makes sense that artists would take up a more financially productive line of work - as opposed to, say, frittering away at moldy canvases and eventually cutting of an ear...
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Somehow We All Seem Connected @ SP - NeuBlack
We got a drink last night with our friends Steve Harrington and Justin Krietemeyer as they celebrated being back in the USA after their new show "Somehow We All Seem Connected" traveled through Paris, Milan, Barcelona, and Berlin. The American debut of the show is this Saturday night at Shepard Fairey's Subliminal Projects and is not to be missed...
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NEUBLACK (great interview with the artists)
Steven Harrington Book Release Party - Josh Spear
It seems like Steven Harrington is always up to something. He's like our own personal Ryan Adams. The guy is always busy. After pulling off his traveling art show for his Our Mountain book and spending the summer traversing the European continent, the National Forest Design principle is back in the States...
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Big Kids/Little Kids - Flavorpill
Big Kids/Little Kids is the brainchild of curator John Freeborn, author of a book of the same name that chronicles the graffiti-inspired art movement that emerged in Philadelphia in the mid-'90s. Taken directly from the pages of...
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John Freeborn: "Big Kids Little Kids" at Subliminal Projects - Juxtapoz
The focus of the exhibition is "the artists from the book, and the intertwined connections that we all have," Freeborn explains. "The show itself is an evolving exhibition, changing from venue to venue. The work at each show is specific to the venue, and aims to exemplify the interconnected, cross-influences, and friendships across this dynamic group of people."
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Big Kids, Little Kids from Philly
There's nothing diminutive about the "Big Kids/Little Kids" traveling exhibition opening at LA's Subliminal Projects Gallery on Saturday, July 19, just off Sunset Boulevard. Featuring over 20 artists...
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Art Attack: Deedee Cheriel and Louise Bonnet - Metromix
While some people's notion of Saturday night girl-on-girl action involves miniskirts and tequila shots, we present a less regrettable evening: new work by two female artists... But don't let the lack of "Girls Gone Wild" film crews fool you into thinking it's not a party; at its opening receptions, this Eastside gallery usually draws a crowd down the block and offers a lively good time.
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Deedee Cheriel and Louise Bonnet - New Works
The newest exhibition to hit Shepard and Amanda Fairey's Subliminal Projects gallery features the work of LA-based artists Deedee Cheriel and Louise Bonnet. Cheriel's background in the Oregon punk-rock scene mingles with her love of folk art and nature; her images often feature saucy scenes of intertwining limbs engaging in...
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Deedee Cheriel and Louise Bonnet - Alarm
California-based artists Deedee Cheriel and Louise Bonnet unveiled their joint exhibit, New Works, May 17th at Subliminal Projects. The exhibition showcases both artists' work to encompass Cheriel's bold human/animal hybrids with Bonnet's whimsical deadpan characters. Though both artists retain their trademark inspirations, the exhibit represents a new direction for both artists...
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Bonnet & Cheriel - Josh Spear
Attention Los Angeles-based art-seeking missiles: Have you been scanning your radar looking to track down another enthralling exhibit? Well a new blip has popped up at the Subliminal Projects Gallery in Echo Park...
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Blek le Rat Scrawls his way into America - Los Angeles Times
HIS work has influenced Banksy, Shepard Fairey and countless street artists, but French graffiti legend Blek le Rat has remained an elusive presence in this country. To see his work, you had to either fly to Europe or catch an appearance in a handful of group shows. On Saturday, the notorious art-world pest emerges from the corners in a belated U.S. solo debut at Subliminal Projects Gallery...
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Blek le Rat's First US Solo Show at Subliminal Projects Gallery - Juxtapoz
A Pioneer of graffiti writers in Europe, Blek le Rat was one of the first people to use stencils to make public art on the street using icons instead of writing his name. He was first exposed to graffiti in...
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Blek le Rat Opens Shepard Fairey's New Subliminal Projects Gallery... - Supertouch
French street art provocateur Blek le Rat inaugurated modern street art messiah Shepard Fairey's newly relocated (and visually stunning) Subliminal Projects gallery in Echo Park this weekend with his first American solo show, "Art in not Peace but War." A groundbreaking graffiti writer in the 1980s & 90s, Blek is best known as one of the earliest pioneers of stencil art and his simple monochromatic iconography heavily influenced the street artists from the Bristol scene, most notable of which is the current art star du jour and cash register tickler, Sir Banksy, who adopted...
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Le Rat = Le Bomb - GENART Pulse
For those of you who don't follow the street art scene, Blek le Rat is the French graffiti artist who began his famed career in Paris back in the '80s and has inspired the work of everyone from Shepard Fairey to Banksy. The first images that he stenciled?...
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Fecal Face - Interview with Blek le Rat
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