Mr Brainwash Goes Bats & Cats

On Tuesday February 8, at 12pm PST, Mr. Brainwash will be releasing a set of two prints "Bat Papi & Cat Nana." Brainwash will do that to you, make you catty and batty and/or both. His Kate Moss print sold out in a nana second last week. I used to see his wall posters all over Paris, but my guess is they've been torn down by collectors who are waiting for the Christie's moment.

These prints, writes the LA-based artist, were featured in the documentary "Exit Through the Gift Shop." Each one is an eleven-color screen print on hand-torn archival art paper. Each print is uniquely hand stained, signed, numbered, and thumb printed by the artist.

Edition: 150. Size: 15in x 19in. Price: $375 for the set (cannot be sold separately).

Want the pair?  Go here: Mr Brainwash.

Prints & Posters & Prints & Posters

Check out the Posters And Print Blog, a daily offering of new print and poster releases.  This image: Shepard Fairey's Roy Lichtenstein-inspired Pop piece on power, "OBEY POWER."  The print is about the empowerment of street art, the enduring power of Pop and of course, appropriation.

The Posters & Prints Blog covers it all, though.  Tons of Hello Kitty interpretations, great theater and film posters, and some curiously wonderful pieces culled from the net, like, Saelee Oh's Infinite Path, a laser cut piece that is truly astonishing.

These very nice people also recently posted about my ANGLAIS print offered by Keep Calm Gallery.

Sparkasse : New Print For Keep Calm Gallery

Sparkasse, a new print by Matthew Rose from LALANDE DIGITAL ART PRESS PARIS for Keep Calm Gallery, (UK), is now available. The print, in an edition of 50, signed and numbered by the artist, measures 38 x 27 cm, with a border of 4 cm on 300 gram acid-free archival paper. Printed on the Epson 9600 by master printer Robert Ruscoe, Sparkasse is the seventh print the artist has produced for Keep Calm, three of which have sold out.

Sparkasse, "savings bank" in German, was originally exhibited at Galerie Rossella Junck in Berlin. The piece is part of the suite from the exhibition entitled A KICK IN THE KUNST. The artist's next exhibition is THE END OF THE WORLD, the inaugural exhibition at Wm Turner Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia, opening 18 September.

Keep Calm For Christmas

This Christmas, Keep cool by visiting Keep Calm. Run by a "skeleton staff of two," Lucas and Hayley, Keep Calm is the celebrated web gallery offering inexpensive silkscreened and digital prints by artists from the UK and Europe, and has been featured in a dozen magazines for their quality and quirkiness.

Keep Calm has just offered two prints by Matthew Rose and printed by Lalande Digital Art Press Paris. "Days Like These" (pictured, right) and "Immaculate Perception," are offered in a limited edition of 21, signed, numbered and dated by the artist on 100 percent cotton (Lyson) 350 gram acid free fine art paper. These works are based upon collages by the artist. Each print measures 42 cm x 30 cm. Price is £35 plus postage, exclusively from Keep Calm.

"These prints are typical of Matthew’s works, lifting elements from one source and layering it with another," says Lucas. "Largely influenced by Joseph Cornell, Jasper Johns, Ray Johnson and others, Matthew Rose gets more out of a piece of found or discolored paper with each succeeding work."

Keep Calm features works by Douglas Wilson, Alyson Fox, Jillian Ditner, Jason Synder, Jacob Arden McClure as well as Lucas and Hayley (left). Works are inexpensive but beautifully produced.

Keep Calm was established way back in February 2007 by Lucas and Hayley. Keep Calm offers high quality prints and other bits and pieces. Many products are screen printed by hand. Royal Mail permitting, prints will arrive in perfect condition. If this isn’t the case Keep Calm will replace it! Prints are wrapped in acid-free tissue paper and sent in extremely durable mailing tubes. They ship anywhere! For UK orders, prints are sent via next-day Special Delivery. For international orders prints are sent via International signed-for air mail.

Want to know anything else? Please e-mail Lucas or Hayley at Keep Calm.