LIVESTRONG x LANCE ARMSTRONG x SHEPARD
Cancer has affected my life like it has millions of others. Both my mom’s sisters died of breast cancer and my mom underwent a double preventative mastectomy because of her genetic predisposition to breast cancer. A good friend of mine, Justin Van Hoy is about to have a bone marrow transplant because of his Leukemia. When Lance Armstrong asked me to participate in his “Stages” art project, and create a mural for the side of the Montalban Theater in Hollywood, I was honored and glad to help the cause. Check out Lance’s foundation at www.livestrong.org.
-Shepard
Check out these articles complimentary of SUPERTOUCH:
LA///FIRST LOOK///SHEPARD FAIREY x LANCE ARMSTRONG FOR LIVESTRONG AT NIKE’S MONTALBAN THEATER
LA///NEWS///LANCE ARMSTRONG ANNOUNCES THE “STAGES” ART SHOW TO BENEFIT LIVESTRONG
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POST-FUTURE by John Van Hamersveld
OPENING TONIGHT!!!
POST – FUTURE
a Retrospective of works by JOHN VAN HAMERSVELD
OPENING RECEPTION:
*FRIDAY, MARCH 6TH, 8-11PM
EXHIBITION DATES:
MARCH 6TH – APRIL 4TH, 2008
SUBLIMINAL PROJECTS
1331 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
T: 213.213.0078
www.subliminalprojects.com
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Help Evoker
I’ve known Evoker since summer ’89 when he was a little kid. He skated and hung out at the Watershed, the surf/skate shop where I worked. He eventually worked there after I had moved on. We’ve stayed in touch over the years trading stickers. He is a good guy and unfortunately lost his apartment and many belongings to fire recently. I will be donating a piece of art to raise money for him. Read about how you can help after the jump.
-Shepard
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Boston Dreaming…
I have to return to Boston for court next week and I’m facing charges that have a penalty of up to three years in jail. The allegations are baseless, but the Boston Police somehow were granted the warrants and resources to send ten undercover cops to stake out my exhibition at the ICA and arrest me before my DJ gig on the opening night. Jill Medvedow, the director of the Boston ICA was kind enough to write a thoughtful analysis of the situation. Check it out.
ON A RELATED NOTE… One of the patrons of the Boston ICA asked me to do a mural on HIS fence on HIS house. The neighbors called the police and threatened to stab me with scissors. When the police told the neighbors they could not stop an art installation on private property, the neighbors proceeded to try to peel it down themselves. To me it seems that they decided it was okay for THEM to illegally vandalize private property. They then made a coordinated effort by email to encourage people to protest my ICA show and not renew their ICA memberships. They also conspired with the detective who arrested me to find a way to “stop me”, all based on perfectly legal art I was putting up. Lastly, this neighborhood group sent a summons to the museum patron/owner of the home to force him to appear at a hearing concerning whether he needed to get permission to have art installed on his property(the neighbors did not feel they needed permission to try to peel it down). One of the hilarious justifications for the outrage over the mural the neighbors manufactured was that “when the paper deteriorates it becomes an eye sore”. Of course, they are the ones who made it an eye sore by ripping at it. Barbarians in fur coats are still barbarians.
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Nara Arrested for Graffiti Before Opening
Can you believe that Yoshitomo Nara got arrested for “graffiti” in NYC? I guess he hadn’t heard about how fascist the cops are there.
-Shepard
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