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DirtyPilot.Com presents PART ONE.
PART ONE is a veteran of the golden years of New York City subway painting and considered a style master in the graffiti world specializing in his own brand of lettering which he started to develop in 1974. From 1974 – 1985 he was one of the most accomplished artists on the New York City subway trains, in 1985 he took a brief hiatus from painting only to return in 1990 as a leading figure in the re-emergence of wild style pieces in murals in Harlem.
His art has been featured in the classic film Style Wars as well as the critically acclaimed book, Martha Cooper’s Hip Hop Files, and most recently the books, Burning New York, and Graffiti Planet. PART is active today painting both on canvas and on walls around the world. He was most recently the featured artist at Kosmopolite, the international graffiti event, in Paris.
This dope body of work includes new work rendered from original outlines from the mid 1970’s.
Recent work by PART ONE graces the cyber walls of Dirty Pilot
Oct 15th- Nov 15th.
DirtyPilot.Com presents Map Quest.
Take some direction from Dirty Pilot and trek over to our “Map Quest” show featuring old skool greats such as REVOLT, T-KID, COPE2, EWOK 5MH, GHOST, CRIME79, CES ONE, PART ONE, KR. ONE, YES2 among others.
Each legend of graffiti has transformed a NYC transit Map into a compelling and historic work of art.
Map Quest graces the cyber walls of Dirty Pilot Oct 7th- Nov 7th.
You will never get lost in Manhattan again.
DirtyPilot.com presents KOPYESON Recent Work
Check out graffiti writer/artist KOPYESON rocking some crazy characters on canvas and works on paper. A true aerosol spray can master.
The San Fernando Valley and greater Metro Los Angeles area have provided a challenging backdrop for much of Kopyeson’s work. It has served both as a playground and a classroom. In Kopyeson’s words- I’ve been writing copy since Jr. High. Instead of paying attention in class, I would always be drawing. There was this girl who’d let me copy her homework thus calling me Copy, Kopye, Kopyeson and Fukusya. Fukusya is Japanese for “to copy,” given to me by my Japanese girlfriend. As a fan of Japanese art I enjoy creating characters and drawing females. Appreciating the woman’s body. My style is raw and sketchy, gritty and grimy. Clean lines don’t exist. Characters are often correlated to my emotions. Some days silly & devilish. Other days sad. There are days where I have this intense creative drive and just spitting out crazy ass wild characters.
Kopye is a rising star in the West Coast art scene showing though out the San Francisco and Los angeles areas. DBRLA gallery, 33gallery, Crewest, to name a few as well as being sponsored by both IronLak and Belton.
These amazing works grace the cyber walls at Dirtypilot now through Oct 15th.
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NEW Daniel Johnston Print. Titled “Is It Real To Be Dead” this archival pigment print measures 13”x16.5. Printed on Moab 300gms fine art paper with a hand deckled edge. From an edition of only 90. Hand signed in pencil by Daniel.
What is astounding about Daniel’s work is the fact that he is an absolute unending wellspring of creativity, the likes of which I have never witnessed before. No creative blocks here. What he thinks and feels gushes out on to the paper, or into a song. But, perhaps the most incredible part of the story is that all of the superlatives that have been used in describing how wonderful his music is can also be used for his artwork. PRE-SALE Price $60- Reg price after August 1st – $80.
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KR. ONE
Confessions of a Paper Toy
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Check out this dope new zine br KR. ONE- Titled “Confessions of a Paper Toy” An amazing 32 page full color zine full of new and old work by KR. Measures 5.5×8.5, edition size 100. Each zine is hand signed and numbered by KR. ONE. Published by DirtyPilot Press.
Louie aka KR.ONE, Gasparro is a self taught natural artist. inspirations/influences range from Sat. morning cartoons, 1960’s and 70’s underground comics, rock album cover/poster art and the rolling art of NYC Subway Graffiti. Specific influences include: Roger Dean, Rodney Matthews, Vaughn Bode, Bernie Wrightson, Alex Nino, Josh Kirby, Syd Mead, Frank Frazzetta, Dan Merriam, DON 1, TRACY 168, ROTO, SON1, PRO1, and KEL139. Louie absorbed the early to mid 70’s graffiti metamorphosis and in 1977 took the name KROME later changing it to KR.ONE. New York City’s MTA subway RR, M, L, J, A, B, 2 and 5 lines became the surface choice of this emerging artist’s creative expression. In 1982, Louie put his late night subway excursions on pause to begin his musical career playing drums and guitars. He has written music and drummed for such legendary NYC bands, MURPHY’s LAW, LORDZ OFBROOKLYN, BLITZSPEER, SUPERVILLAIN and RESURRECTION SORROW.
Also, don’t forget to check out KR.ONE prints in our DP Editions section.
One of our favorites!! You can also purchase work by Daze in our “Backroom Gallery” http://dirtypilot.com/backroom/chris_daze_ellis.html
Also, check out Daze’s work at our other site – http://www.hobbsgallery.com/artist/daze/index.html
Now showing EZO: http://dirtypilot.com/show1-1.html
Gracing our cyber walls this month is graffiti legend EZO. Writing graffiti since 1979, EZO has exhibited in diverse Art Space’s such as the Sidney Janis gallery, The Lyon Biennial, ART BASEL, Black in white in color gallery and the Frick Museum to name a few since 1983.
Recently curating the exhibition: GRAFFITI; Spirit of an age 40x 10 at the Longwood arts Gallery. He began his first comic strip in the Seminal Latino Culture Magazine LATIN NEW YORK magazine in 1984 called GRAFFITI TALES. He reenergized and reorganized the Graffiti Hall of Fame in Spanish Harlem to its former glory by painting the entire location at once by enlisting the Top NYC Train Era Artists from Stan 153 to Seen to Tats Cru and 30 other artists something not done since it’s inception in 1982 and curated from 1996 – 2000 when it counted. EZO founded one of the first Internet graffiti directories in 1997 The GSpot Colab.com, which is now defunct and founded and ran the gallery of the same name in East Harlem from 1999-2004.
In 2004 EZO began his new irreverent Strip “THE PUBLIC A” which ran monthly in MASS APPEAL MAGAZINE until 2006, in 2006 he began THE 10,000 day man in ANIMAL NY Magazine. EZO has been making Graffiti and Art in general for 30 years. He has lent his street sensibilities and unique visual styling to such clients as Method Man, Busta Rhymes, Red Man, Fat Joe, Kool G Rap, Mtv2, Channel 47, llewylyn Books as well as the Motion Pictures “ PINERO”, The Orphan King and MY BROTHER and is rumored to still Bomb
These amazing works are on sale through August 30th.
DirtyPilot presents “Mixed Messages” features work from artists Ben Frost, PaperMonster, Justin Lovato, JoKA, and Michael Owen. This group show brings together some of the most unique art styles and techniques. Ben Frost known throughout the world for his manipulation, juxtaposition, of pop imagery. Stencil artists PaperMonster combines stencil and collage techniques to create striking portraits of women. Justin Lovato creates new world with his detailed line work full of characters and imagination. Michael Owen takes on rugged texture, shapes, and figures combined with wonderful use of color to create chaotic and stunning pieces of art. Finally, JoKa brings an unique new way to paint using thousands of small dots through using toothpicks as opposed to a brush resulting in vivid layered images. Mixed Messages brings together art that makes your eyes question what you are seeing, how it was made, and what each artist’s true message is.
Now showing Terrible T-KID
DirtyPilot.com is stoked to present Terrible T-KID. Check out this amazing body of work spanning 4 decades. From early works on paper dating back to 1977 to drawings and paintings dating from the 80’s, 90;s and 2000’s.
Raised in the Bronx by first generation Latino immigrants, Julius Cavero received his artistic training in the streets when he started in the 1970s, tagging the name “King 13″ every time he’d win a challenge, performing daredevil tricks on swings in local parks. His start on trains had a take-no-prisoners attitude and he quickly gained a reputation as a style master for creating exciting and innovative whole cars. He later became the president of TNB (The Nasty Boyz) and ex-president of TVS (The Vamp Squad), one of the most notorious New York graffiti crews. T-KID is still active and his work can be seen in the Bronx as well as around the world. He is also a member of MAC crew from Paris. T-Kid was originally asked to be the narrator for the Hip-Hop documentary Style Wars but he declined.
By the early 1980s his trains were the ones to watch out for and were photographed by photographer Henry Chalfant and included in the book, “Subway Art.” Today Julius, travels around the world collaborating with other style masters and influencing new generations with his paintings.
More recently T-Kid has appeared in Marc Ecko’s 2006 video game, Marc Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure. Also in the book “The Terrible Nasty T-Kid 170,” which chronicles the artist’s life from childhood to the present and features pictures of his work by graffiti photographer Henry Chalfant. He also appeared in the Graffiti Documentary ‘Bomb it’ – directed by Jon Reiss.
Show runs through July 13.
Check out the COPE 2 “True Legend” Show. A dope collection of paintings, drawings, hand painted trains and maps. COPE2 graces the cyber walls of DirtyPilot now through May 13.
Check it out now.
COPE2’s paintings have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and auctions throughout the United States and abroad, including the Guernsey and the Philip De Pury & Company auctions, the McCaig Welles Gallery, The Showroom Gallery and The Bronx Museum of Arts in New York City; the Crewest Gallery in Los Angeles; the Fifty24SF Gallery in San Francisco; the Defiance Gallery in Chicago; the Skalitzers Gallery in Berlin; The Gallizia Collection in Paris; the Artdrenaline Gallery in Den Haag, Holland and The Federation Atrium Square Gallery in Sydney, Australia.
Also on view in the Pilots lounge, are several series of of amazing Woodcuts & Linocuts by artist Dennis McNett. These works will be showing now through May 11 at DirtyPilot.
Dennis McNett was born in 1972 and grew up in Virginia Beach, VA. He moved to New York in 2001. He has been carving surly block prints for over 17 years. His encouragement as a kid came from his blind grandfather, who told him over and over again that his drawings were good. Later influences came from the raw high-energy graphics pouring out of the early 80’s skateboard and punk rock scene. Participating in both the fine art and design worlds, Dennis has been fortunate enough to create board graphics for Anti-Hero skateboards, design shoes for Vans, and participate in the Deitch Artparade. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Juxtapoz magazine, Thrasher and Complex Magazine. He wants to live until he dies. Breathing is good.