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Roebling/N. 5th by Frank Cole Jr, with scrawl by Erupto, Faro, Ninja Girl and a paste-up by Flower Face Killah. (Image courtesy of Frank Cole Jr.)

Last week I compiled a photo essay of examples of street art and graffiti in studio art. A friend was kind enough to forward along two examples I missed. Frank Cole Jr., above, is a painter specializing in urban landscape. Michael Anderson, below, is collagist represented by the Marlborough Gallery.

Jack Da Vinci Johnson, 2006, a collage by Michael Anderson. At bottom left is an image of a flower print produced by Michael De Feo. (Image courtesy of the Marlborough Gallery.)

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A collage composed of found stickers, by Tom Fruin at the Buia Gallery in New York in February ‘08. A few of the street artists represented include: Royce Bannon, Over Consume and Ambusch. (Photos by C-M unless otherwise noted.)

For the purpose of this blog, I spend much of my spare time photographing just about everything the art industrial complex sees fit to churn out: paintings, sculpture, video, and totally weird breakfast buffets. In the past six months, I’ve noticed a small, but growing trend: studio artists (including the late Robert Rauschenberg) incorporating street and graffiti art into their work.

This takes various guises. There are painters who incorporate graffiti art into urban landscapes, assemblage artists who use elements of real-live street art in collages and sculptures, and art photographer types who go out and document all of the beautiful decay. It’s one of those interesting art world conundrums: on its own, most street art and graffiti isn’t thought to have much artistic or monetary value. But clearly there is some potency residing in this imagery if studio artists are remixing and reconfiguring it for the pristine walls of commercial galleries.

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After reading an interview in which Murakami discussed the influence that Star Wars (and other sci fi) has had on his work, I thought a visual pairing might be of interest:

Tan Tan Bo, 2001 by Takashi Murakami.

A TIE fighter gets it from the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars.

Plus: A time lapse video of Murakami sculptures going up at the Brooklyn Museum. (This link will only be available for the duration of the show…because lord knows what could happen if people could access this sort of information once the pieces come down.)

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Borrowing your enemy’s arrows (1998) by Cai Guo-Qiang at the Guggenheim, NYC. March 2008.

Kcho at the Marlborough Gallery, NYC. January 2008.

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Jeff Koons-designed invite to BCAM opening.

Breakfast at the Rubell Collection during Art Basel ‘07.

BCAM Update: The L.A. Times has the lowdown on the Broad Contemporary Art Museum’s glitzy gala opening last night. Coverage includes a photo essay that, shows that, like, omigod, important art industry figures (???) such as Tom Cruise and Christina Aguilera (looking like a painting by John Currin) were there.

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The design for the new Prague National Library, by Jan Kaplicky. Read the full story in The Guardian.

Jello mold. Photo by Flavio Pastor.

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