if you were too lazy last night to check out Stanley Donwood's opening reception!!!

here's a little taste before the masses came through!!

Headed up to LA yesterday to Shoot some stuff Downtown, then decided to swing by Shep's studio to say hallo..

Was shooting some random knick knacks around his office when I noticed a large figure come in through the door and he had this huge ring on his finger...

The one and only " Hot Rod " Roddy Piper!!

If you've only been to The Crosby (Santa Ana, CA) for an occasional late night soiree you probably don't know about the ever-changing menu that Aron the chef and the hoodlums in the kitchen have been working on.  In the words of Iron Lung.. They be cookin up some marvelous shit to get your mouth watering on some "Ohh Shit!"

I could spend all day talking about what's in this stuff and how the flavors will treat you better than your high-school sweetheart.. But who really cares about my opinion.  You just have to go in for dinner and try it yourself.

For their 4 year anniversary they revamped www.thisisthecrosby.com. Check it out. Watch some videos, look at some pictures, get hungry, and drive over to 400 N. Broadway, Santana Guey.

Shepard Fairey:  Harmony & Discord
Opening: Saturday, May 5, 12-8pm
May 5 – June 16, 2012
Pace Prints, NYC

Pace Prints is pleased to present Harmony & Discord, an exhibition of new works by Shepard Fairey, created in the Pace Editions studios in New York. This is Shepard’s first exhibition with Pace Prints and premiers his first works in handmade paper as well as the largest screenprints he has done to date.

Harmony & Discord references the global dichotomy of politics; what forces it creates on the grand scale and how that reflects on the actions and awareness of the individual. Responding to the energy of New York, Fairey worked on this technically complex body of work in a series of sessions at the Pace Editions studios. During this residency he also went out on the streets and made a number of large murals.

On view will be a number of silkscreens done with collage and spraypaint, as well as handmade paper, embossment and relief prints, and large metal plates with screenprint. Though Shepard approached the work in the same way that he does in his studio, Pace Editions provided the opportunity to scale the work to a larger size. Relating to the surfaces of his street work, the hand painted multiple (HPM) works in this series have backgrounds of stenciled pulp, collage, screenprint and embossment, allowing the image to pop off of its vintage, layered surface. This exhibition also marks the first time Fairey presents metal relief plates as art pieces, layered with silkscreen, furthering spatial extent within the work.

Subjects in the exhibition include Fairey’s Imperial Glory and Power images, both of which pay homage to Lichtenstein’s style while referencing issues of the military industrial complex. Also on view will be The Reagan and Friends series, depicting politicians and corporate bosses as manipulative salesmen. A more graphic grouping of works, which all utilize the target as a device, examines symbols, stereotypes and propaganda. Topics include war and peace, political corruption, global warming, and personal empowerment and responsibility.

Pace Prints
521 W 26th Street
New York
www.paceprints.com

SUBLIMINAL PROJECTS is pleased to announce Lost Angeles, a solo exhibition of art by British artistStanley Donwood.

LOST ANGELES

Work by Stanley Donwood

April 28 – May 26, 2012

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 28^th • 8PM – 10 PM

There is no future. We have evicted ourselves from our own cities, rendered our agriculture poisonous, criminalized the poor, aggrandized the rich, honored the stupid and ridiculed the intelligent…I have no solutions, no wisdom to offer…Whilst Rome burns, I take up my little chisel and I carve a panoramic apocalypse of my own…and if you want to see it, you’re more than welcome.     – Stanley Donwood, 2012

Lost Angeles will feature a new body of work where Donwood turns his poignant perception on the impact of current societal trends and behavior towards Los Angeles. His visual meditation on society envelopes viewers in a beautifully, graphic landscape of impending doom. The fluid black and white scene resonates with honesty and forewarning. True to form, Donwood once again succeeds in giving flawless design to his version of our tragically flawed future.

On display will be an 18-foot apocalyptic panorama of the City of Angels being destroyed by fire, flood and meteor storm. Originally carved into 18 separate panels of linoleum then hand burnished onto Japanese Kozo paper, the never-before-seen, limited edition print was inspired by subject matter similar to Donwood’s 2006 work titled London Views.

Donwood began London Views in 2004 after being shaken by the Indian Ocean tsunami that claimed more than 229,000 lives. His original drawings evolved from being visual recordings of the destruction into ruminations on the environmental repercussions of contemporary lifestyle. Inspired by the aesthetics of the woodcut illustrations in the 15^th century publication Nuremberg Chronicle, Donwood carved scenes from his drawings into a 10 foot-long linoleum panorama. This visual narrative of London being consumed by natural disaster was then laboriously transferred onto rolls of Kozo Washi-a durable, fibrous paper first developed in Japan over 1,300 years ago.

Selections from the Lost Angeles series (2012) will be accompanied by the London Views (2006) print and a small linocut titled Fleet Street Apocalypse (2008), all connected by a similar theme. Individual relief prints from the original linocuts, a selection of limited edition screen prints, several books by Donwood, and jigsaw puzzles of scenes from Lost Angeles will also be on view.

Whether presented in the form of prints, paintings, or publications, the biting wit of Donwood’s observations is present and impeccably executed.

Stanley Donwood gained recognition in 1994 when he began designing album art for the Grammy-award winning English rock band, Radiohead. His work has since been used for 15 singles, 9 EPs and various studio albums including The Bends, Kid A, OK Computer, and Hail to the Thief. In addition to his work with Radiohead, Donwood has successfully exhibited paintings, etchings, linoprints and screenprints across Europe, Asia and the US. He has published 5 of his own monographs, created a record label (Six Inch Records) and designed all official artwork for the Glastonbury Festival since 2002. Donwood currently lives and works in Essex, England.

Please visit www.slowlydownward.com for more information on his projects.

More information soon.

-SEBAS

While the rest of Southern California was out in the dirty desert, doing all kinds of delicious drugs, rolling in the mud and listening to great music, I decided to stay local and role to the most exciting sport in history of man!! The Long Beach Grand Prix =) Curling might come 2nd....

Anyways, there was plenty of beautiful people, beers, cars, babes, bums, sleeping bums, bellys, mullets, muffin tops, bent bills and koozies.. enjoy

i would have to say about 93% of the people here were hammertime...

I met a Rolling Stone last Thursday! Pretty epic. Namely Ronnie Wood who was in town for his art show opening in SoHo. The exhibit presented by Symbolic London is entitled “Faces, Time and Places" and features around 50 paintings, prints and sketches.

But see for yourselves:

The man himself

New York based artist Mike Damski

Diane, director of PR for Coburn Projects

Mick Rock with his daughter Natalie

Love,

Blanda

Next week we're switching gears and are going to start stocking new summer product. So this week we thought it would be a good idea to put a lot of spring styles on sale.  There are plenty of good deals to be had, so get it while the getting is good! ..because once they go out of stock we won't be bringing them back. Click on the images below to take you to men's / women's sales respectively.

Summer is upon us and we figured it's time to preview our new lookbook. This is just a small portion of the product available this season but it show's some styles that everyone here at OBEY is digging. Stay tuned for the release very soon.

To view the lookbooks in their entirety, click here for the men's and here for the women's.

Aye.. I meant take a trip to the Art Dump tonight at the THISLOSANGELES GALLERY. It's gonna be a good time as usual over there with the classiest of art and artists on the scene. See you there!