Featured Artist - Banksy
We felt it necessary to blurb a bit about the illusive Banksy’s Barely Legal show here in LA this passed weekend. This highly anticipated event drew a star studded line of onlookers and passersby. Just a few of the celebrities in attendance were Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Shepard Fairey, Perry Farrell (formerly Jane’s Addiction), Zack De La Rocha (formerly of Rage Against the Machine), Meg White (of the White Stripes), Jason Lee, and Jared Leto just to name a few.
Most of the buzz from the show stemmed from the live pink and gold painted elephant displayed in the living room setting. This drew heavy criticism from PETA, who began handing out bills to attendants in protest of the event.
As hoards of people lined up outside the downtown Los Angeles warehouse, attendants filed through rooms filled with stencils of work we’ve seen and some we haven’t. Dorothy of the Wizard of Oz brandished a noose on one side of a police van while a swat team brandished weapons on the other. A stencil of two British police officers embraced on the inside.
A collection of sculptures littered the space. The statue of David wore a Kevlar vest, a bust shot in the head, and an angel with a security camera in place of her head.
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:47 am
Great images by a great artist.
March 28th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Incredible
June 12th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
So much meaning is into all of them…..Beautiful!
June 18th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Why do I think that Banksy wouldn’t give a shit that brad pitt and his wife (or any celebrity) showed up? I figure he’s probably working on some stencils with them as the subject back at his studio.
Or maybe not, Angelina has done some good things in the name of humanity. And after all its our media and the general public that makes them “celebrities”. And then Banksy is an artists with broad appeal, brought to us by the media and the internet, its funny how these things get so convoluted.
Good work anyway. I enjoy them especially the hard to look at ones. Banksy, may I ask that you refrain from painting any more elephants? I have seen the Edison footage too many times.
July 15th, 2008 at 7:04 am
Banksy is the man. Some of his work hits the head on the nail dead on.
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Those are some great pieces of art work.
July 29th, 2008 at 12:20 am
fantastic art!
want to read more abt him.