Curbs and Stoops and Art Asylum Boston have teamed up with David Flores’ Something Ill Studios to bring you another amazing exclusive print called “White Rebel.” The piece is an 18″ x 24″ 5 color screen print that is signed & numbered by David and is limited to an edition of only 50 prints. At only $85.00 you can be sure they will go quick. This is the first print to be released in a series of three so keep your eye’s open for the next two prints that will drop later this month, It will be well worth the wait. For more info on David’s art please visit his website at www.davidfloresart.com.

Concurrently, we are also releasing an exclusive print with Brazilian artist Rodrigo Obranco. The price of Obranco’s piece is $120.00 it is 14″ x 18″ glicee print that is both signed and numbered in an edition of 25. Obranco was recently a featured artist on Curbs and Stoops. Read his interview with us here.

The proceeds from both of these prints will go to Curbs and Stoop’s Jorge Rodriguez Gerada Identity project in Boston. For more information on that project click here or go to our projects page. You can either purchase the prints here or by contacting the gallery directly at: sales@artasylumboston.com

Street artists are out to destroy our cities. It is a sad truth, that this is how most of the world, and certainly all authority figures, look at street artists. Ofcourse, street artists are much more than that. They are sharing a part of themselves with their community. Street art is sometimes aesthetic, personal, anti establishment, and emotional. One collective’s work is all of those things, at once. The Destroy and Rebuild Collective, has a deconstructivist attitude towards their street art. They take elements of New York’s urban fabric and make it the crux of their pieces. Parts of what most people recognize only as city infrastructure, is turned into beautiful art.

The collective is made up of three excellent street artists from Brooklyn: Avone, 2Esae, and Ski. Their work is a fusion of various styles and media including photography, graffiti, paints, collage, and silk screen.

All of the artists in the collective were once graffiti artists. The natural evolution for them was to go into a street art setting where they could begin to rebuild the city they once were out to destroy. The fact that the group formed on that premise shows an interesting transformation from a naive creative outlet to a sophisticated cultural experience that demonstrates an mount of intensity, intellect, emotion and craft that is a rare combination found in any artist.

Despite the excitement of college basketball “March Madness”, March also seems to be an exciting month for art events.

First off, if you are in New York, check out David Kassans opening at Gallery Henoch this Thursday(March 12) from 6 to 8 pm. The gallery’s address is 555 West 25th street, NY, NY 10001 btwn 10th and 11th ave. ‘Introspections’ will show a series of intricately painted portraits.

Curbs and Stoops has recently completed interviews with several amazing street artists. Please refer to our interview page here to read insightful interviews with French stencil artist, Blek le Rat, Cuban American urban artist, Jorge Rodriguez Gerada, and New York’s own Veng. More interviews will be coming soon.

Also, our friends over at Flat Black Industries are hosting a “Take it, Its yours” show. “Through bringing together artists of different mediums to a common subject and space, this event aims to return the organic qualities of the public space to the public, as well as call them to action. The common characteristic across all the pieces in the show will be their ability to alter public spaces, by whatever artistic means necessary. This will include installation, street-art, graffiti-art, and similar themed works on paper.” Each of the visitors to this show can keep one piece for free. For more information click here.

Finally, our first online show, “These Walls are Breathing” will launch at the end of the month. This show will feature street artists from around the world including: Icy, Veng, Once 5 and many more. This survey show is still open for submissions as long as your work fits into the urban social art context that Curbs and Stoops is geared towards. Please send your work to hello@curbsandstoops.com

In our interview with Jorge Rodriguez Gerada, Mark Jenkins was mentioned as an inspiring artist whose work is both impressive and creative. I chose to do some research on the Washington D.C. based artist, to find out more about his body of work. Jenkins creates sculptures, or public interventions if you will, in urban environments around the world.

These pieces are often satirical, and witty. The sculptures are not standalone objects. Instead, they respond to the context around them. “It’s good for people to remember public space is a battleground, with the government, advertisers and artists all mixing and mashing, and even now the strange cross-pollination taking place as street artists sometimes become brands, and brands camouflaging as street art creating complex hybrids or impersonators. I think it’s understanding the strangeness of the playing field where you’ll realize that painting street artists, writers, as the bad guys is a shallow view.” says Mark of his work.

While Mark works in several different mediums, his tape sculptures, are a significant portion of his work. He has some “do it yourself” workshops at www.tapesculpture.org

Mark was recently featured at the Manifest Hope show in Washington D.C. this past January. You can see more of his work at www.xmarkjenkinsx.com