Recoat Gallery presents Co-Laboratory, a group exhibition from artists who work in partnership to create their artwork

Co-Laboratory opens Friday 18th June 2010 7-10pm, it then runs till Sunday 23rd July.

Partnership and collaboration in the creation of art is fairly unusual due to the difficulty and compromises it involves. Yet “Co-Laboratory” sees Recoat curate an entire show produced by no less than eight artist partnerships from all over the world. The show comprises of originals and prints that have an added layer of quality and intrigue due to being created by two talented individuals. Participants include Aitch and Saddo, Alto Contraste, Microbo and Bo130, Motel7 and Vinnie Nylon, Peskimo, Syrkus and Rekor, Tado, and The London Police.


ARTIST OVERVIEW:

Aitch and Saddo are a young couple from Romania who are now living in Berlin. Aitch is an illustrator and Saddo a Street Artist. They created their first collaborative piece for an exhibition recently. They were invited to create more work together for this show based on the work as it showed such merit. Their work is bizarre yet gorgeous, a mash up of shapes, colours and moods, almost like a warped dream.

Alto*Contraste – or just A*C – is a couple: Lee and Lou. They met each other in 1996 at the Art School where they studied in São Paulo. Together, not only have they created a beautiful family with two kids, they also created A*C, a name that they have used while creating stencil work in the streets of São Paulo since 2005. They have gone on to exhibit all over the world.

Microbo and Bo130 are a world famous Graffiti couple. They are now based in Italy but regularly travel to paint in cities all over the world together. They both work as designers too and have created work that has been exhibited internationally. Their work is complimentary and organic in style.

South African, Motel7 and English, Vinnie Nylon started collaborating while painting graffiti pieces together. This will be the first time they create gallery pieces together. But based on their spray-painted pieces that depict 50’s advertisement inspired characters, it will be interesting to see what they produce!

Since meeting at university in Leeds, Jodie and David saw eye to eye on robots, kittens and evil monkeys. They began to work under the name of Peskimo in 2004, and together they have crafted a vast array of characters and creations that have appeared on T-shirts, magazines, newspapers, billboards and nightclub walls for the likes of Sony, MTV, and the BBC.

Syrkus and Rekor are another couple who work together on their artwork. They met at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in first year in 2000 and have worked and lived together for nearly 10 years. They have teamed up on many projects including setting up Recoat Gallery, creating artwork for the Hinterland and T in the Park Festivals and designing covers for GUM Magazine.

Tado graduated from Leeds Met in 2002 and immediately set out to carve a niche for themselves in the world of commercial illustration. They work so hard, and it shows with what they have already achieved; their first solo show was in LA with Kidrobot and they’ve worked for the likes of MTV, Nike and Selfirdges.

The London Police are an English street art duo that has worked together for over 10 years, exhibiting in over 35 countries in that time. Their LADS characters have become iconic symbols of the genre.

Hope to see you there!

Amy Whiten

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Loving TLP print #2

yeah very nice as always =]

The London Police put on a pretty amazing show at the BLDG for the fine folks in Kentucky. I finally have a chance to spread the love to the rest of the world. Below is a short video on the week leading up to the show. There are still a few original show pieces and prints left from exhibit. March on down to www.BLDGrefuge.com and have a look for yourself.

I looked at two massive canvases in Stolen space yesterday, worth a phone call

a couple here too:

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I think gritty had a couple of TLP canvases for sale recently - pretty good prices as I recall.

Try this www.gogallery.nl/page.php?lang=uk&category=kunstenaars&id=176

Some nice ones here also... (bottom left of page)

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The London Police have made their Kentucky encore with this latest print available exclusively at the BLDG. The print titled “Meeting Rod at the Olde Town Tavern” was created while TPL masterminds Chaz and Bob took up residence at the BLDG the week prior to their show. Many late nights were spent at the Olde Town Tavern which became the local bar of choice for the guys from Amsterdam.

As a special treat to all the peps at the Urban Art Association the BLDG has posted a pre sale link one day before the prints drop. www.bldgrefuge.com/tlp_rod.html

Size: 14"X28"
Edition: 33
Specs: 1 color hand-pulled screen print on Arches 88 100% cotton archival paper.

Signed/Numbered/Embossed

$222

Ha, It will have to be Knob Creek or Blanton's. We are clean out of Makers here at the studio.

I received a Sipping Maker's Mark At The Crest Of Devou Park AP yesterday as a gift. Couldn't be happier, i'll post pics later

How about this.
www.splitobsession.com/art5.html
Silkscreen if I remember right. BIG. Have one on the wall. Cheapest TLP you will ever get.