Kenny Scharf

Kenny Scharf “Hodgepodge” Exhibition @ Honor Fraser Recap

April 16, 2012Arts1 comment1237 Views
"Hodgepodge," the highly-anticipated exhibition by artist Kenny Scharf opened this past weekend at Honor Fraser in Los Angeles. The exhibition featured paintings, sculptures, and a Cosmic Cavern installation. But the centerpiece was a customized Cadillac painted in a multitude...

Kenny Scharf “Hodgepodge” Exhibition @ Honor Fraser

April 6, 2012Arts1 comment2291 Views
Having been featured on these viral pages numerous times in the past, iconic artist Kenny Scharf gives word he will open his latest exhibit later this month at Honor Fraser in Los Angeles. Aptly titled "Hodgepodge," the show will certainly feature Scharf's unique sensibilities...

Living Proof Magazine: Kenny Scharf Interview

February 1, 2012Arts1 comment806 Views
Growing up in the San Fernando Valley of LA, Kenny Scharf became immersed in the visuals of 1950s cars, television, and the architecture that surrounded him, thus shaping his interests in popular culture, the arts and the surreal. In a sit down interview with Joseph Ian...

The Boneyard Project “Return Trip” Video

January 26, 2012Arts3 comments2663 Views
Continuing their original 2010 project, Eric Firestone and Carlo McCormick invited a number of artists to the Arizona desert to paint their own decommissioned planes in a Tucson boneyard. Featuring art from Retna, How & Nosm, Saner and Nunca, The Boneyard Project "Return Trip"...

The Boneyard Project “Return Trip” @ Pima Air & Space Museum

January 20, 2012Arts15 comments3463 Views
Once the metal birds that soared the sky, decommissioned planes have now been largely relegated to the junkyard. However an initiative that began in 2010 by Eric Firestone and Carlo McCormick is taking shape with another exhibition to beautify these massive canvases. The...

Here Comes the Neighborhood Vol. 3 – Kenny Scharf

December 5, 2011HBTV3 comments2432 Views
In Volume 3 of the riveting art series Here Comes the Neighborhood, the spotlight falls on Los Angeles-based artist Kenny Scharf as he expands on a piece he started in 2009. Having seen street art evolve from the New York City graffiti scene in the 1980s, to its status today as...

ABC Journal: Daze with Kenny

September 28, 2011Arts0 comment9 Views
Kenny Scharf's career has spanned over 30 years, first gaining prominence in the early '80s New York art scene with good friend and roommate Keith Haring, who he started the Cosmic Closet parties with. At first the parties were held in their closet with black lights and trash...

Kenny Scharf Mural in Philadelphia

July 11, 2011Arts16 comments37 Views
Following up on his most recent mural on the corner of Bowery & Houston in New York City, artist Kenny Scharf has packed up his cans and headed over to the City of Brotherly Love to complete his latest work. Covering the side of a tall building in Philadelphia, Scharf was...

Liu Bolin & Kenny Scharf Mural Video

June 24, 2011Arts16 comments25 Views
We gave you a peek at Liu Bolin's project painting himself into the Kenny Scharf mural on Houston and Bowery the other day. New from the Wooster Collective, however, is a video of all the action going down. Chronicling Liu's transformation from man-into-mural, as well as the...

Liu Bolin x Kenny Scharf Houston Mural

June 22, 2011Arts7 comments142 Views
Known for painting himself in urban camouflage in order to sink into the background of a variety of situations, Chinese artist Liu Bolin recently began a New York City-based photography project by blending into Kenny Scharf's mural on Houston and Bowery. Despite...

Kenny Scharf: More, Newer, Better, Nower, Funner!

May 10, 2011Arts11 comments13 Views
The Levi's Workshop presents a new video featuring the work of Kenny Scharf, directed by Nathan Meier and Malia Scharf. The piece was filmed in New York, Los Angeles and at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) in conjunction with the exhibition "Art in the...

Kenny Scharf at MOCA “Art in the Streets”

April 18, 2011Arts12 comments1782 Views
Known best for his bright, colorful imagery which depicts cartoon-style characters, Kenny Scharf is a prominent New York City street artist who rose to popularity during the '80s. A key figure in the East Village art scene, Scharf was good friends with the late graffiti...

The Fun’s Inside – A Film Portrait of Kenny Scharf

April 3, 2011Arts54 comments5 Views
The Fun's Inside will explore the life and work of American artist Kenny Scharf whose “surrealistic pop” paintings shook up the New York art world of the early 1980s and turned him into an art star. Offered here is a glimpse of the final project which is still being...

Kenny Scharf “NATURAFUTURA” & “THREE DOZEN!” Exhibition Recap

February 2, 2011Arts7 comments32 Views
Kenny Scharf was born in Los Angeles and rose to prominence alongside his friends and contemporaries Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring in the 1980s. Born from the transitional zone where the jungle meets the sea, the paintings in "NATURAFUTURA" explore the richness of...

Kenny Scharf Mural in New York City

November 30, 2010Arts21 comments110 Views
The latest mural at NYC’s Houston & Bowery has just been completed. Designed by famed pop-artist Kenny Scharf, the colourful work features an array of tessellating characters. Interestingly, the piece wasn’t sketched or planned beforehand, but was rather created...