Honor Fraser is pleased to present GO WILD!, a solo exhibition by Kenny Scharf. Scharf’s 10th exhibition with the gallery celebrates the artist’s decades-long-engagement with the city of Los Angeles and charts the multifaceted ways that his signature style has imprinted onto the urban landscape of Southern California. The exhibition transforms Honor Fraser into an urban oasis where Scharf’s iconic characters and playful imagery dance amidst a backdrop of concrete, palm trees, asphalt, repair shops, carwashes, and other city infrastructure.    ..read more

Of course we are excited about our own I'd Love To See You, A Juxtapoz Magazine Story, Part 1 opening at Rusha & Co on Saturday, June 29th, but we are so lucky that the night before our friend Isaac Psalm Escoto a.k.a Sickid will open the highly-anticipated Gas Station Dinner at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in Los Angeles. A great weekend in LA. Read the press release, below.  ..read more

This feels quite special, as two giants of graffiti showcase together as their careers have become more and more refined and yet still with the edge of their youth. And rarely do we get to see the kids and the suits mingling together. Lehmann Maupin gave us a chance for that scene as they opened up OSGEMEOS' Cultivating Dreams and Barry McGee's Talk to Nature together in their Chelsea space. OSGEMEOS, in their way, have continually brought Subway Art and Wild Style to the contemporary art world, with the Brazilian twins anchoring street culture's rise into a more refined circle of art pa ..read more

There isn't an era of Todd James' career that I don't like, and he has had so many iterations that have been exciting and evolving. The idea of the interior, though, has seemed to stick with the famed graffiti artist turned cartoonist turned fine artist. He created bold works of Somali pirates and a few series of MASH like war crimes gone amok, returned to his graff roots, too, but has found himself looking at the world of still-life interiors with new vantage points and his own aesthetic and eye. This beautiful series, Near and Dear, on view at Ross + Kramer, features large-scale oil stick w ..read more

The legendary graffiti film, INFAMY, will be screened in a special 20th anniversary presentation in Los Angeles on June 5th at VIDIOTS. Directed by Doug Pray, supervised by Roger Gastman, it was a pioneering film at its release and a fantastic watch considering the graffiti scene today.  ..read more

Ah, its nice to have a little color talk here on the podcast. Dublin, Irelands' ⁠ACHES⁠ is a theorist of color. He combines a multitude of ideas and styles into his work, whether graffiti, murals, painting, graphic design, all into an aesthetic that is deservedly his and one of the more unique in the street genre. When you see an ACHES, you know its him ..read more

At the apex of the pandemic in 2021, when we were all both excited and hesitant to enter the "real world" of interactions, exhibitons, in-your-face meetings, BEYOND THE STREETS opened a widely acclaimed exhibtion, On Paper, at the Southampton Arts Center on Long Island. That partership between the graffiti exhibition and the Hamptons' art center has now been shared again, with BTS opening a group show, POST GRAFFITI, expanding upon the 2023 show they had in Los Angeles ..read more

In our current SPRING 2024 Quarterly, we spoke with the legendary graffiti artist Lee Quiñones on the creation of a new book and upcoming solo show to celebrate his 50 years of artmaking and his illustrious career.  Charlie James Gallery is pleased to present Quinquagenary, a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the legendary career of New York artist Lee Quiñones. Quiñones made a name for himself while still in his teens with bold, whole-car subway pieces and handball court murals that often incorporated poetry, aphorisms, or sarcasm alongside explosive, comic-inflected imag ..read more

Former Juxtapoz cover artist Phil Frost presents his first solo exhibition Interstitial Stint with Ruttkowski;68 in New York. Self-taught through libraries, museums and autonomous explorations of public spaces and their inherent sculptural essence, Frost’s artistic practice is deeply rooted in the processing of imprints and inner impressions ..read more

In spring 1974, thirteen-year-old Lee Quiñones took his schematic drawings into a tunnel and spray painted “LEE” in gold, white, and black on the small panel of a New York City BMT train. An inspired outlaw with a meticulous design process and precision painting skills, his voice responded to the social and civil unrest of the era and found expression in painting graffiti, an ancient art form that he and many of his peers had to defend in the larger art world. On a clear, crisp morning, we met to talk about his legendary 50 years of painting, which is celebrated in his new book, Lee Quinoñes ..read more