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Hanksy’s Best of the Worst Pop Up Art Show!

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Best of The Wurst Signage
All Photos By Gail

If you weren’t making the scene at 104 Delancey Street — the former site of a Chase Bank — this past weekend, then you missed out on your chance to see street artist provocateur Hanksy’s Group Show and Pop Up Happening, Best of The Worst! It was a good time.

Tom Hanks Hansky Face
Hanksy Signature Tom Hank’s Face Tag on Top of What I Believe is a Drawing by BEAU

For the uninitiated, Hanksy is an “unknown” tagger/artist who emulates the style of Bansky while often incorporating the likeness of actor Tom Hanks. Best of The Wurst not only featured perhaps 20 or so of Hanksy’s punny slogans and celebrity icon parodies, but also included a separate pop up Street Art Gallery within the large gallery space, as well as Free Beer and Asian Dumplings, a Skate Ramp, Photo Booth, Free Vintage Pinball Games, a DJ, and a Clown making Penis Balloon Hats. Just being serious.

Penis Balloon Hat
Penis Balloon Hat-Making Clown, Now You Have Seen Everything.

Back to the Future Pin Ball Machine
Back to the Future Pin Ball Machine

Hanksy Line
Behold: The Line Ride, which Stretched East to Essex Street and then Headed Uptown

The event kicked off Saturday evening at 6 PM, when the doors opened and — thanks to Geoffrey arriving early and holding a space in line for me! — we were inside the graffiti covered walls of this cavernous space within ten minutes. Adding an atmospheric backdrop to Hanksy’s works were contributions from Street Artists such as Left Handed Wave, Frank Ape, Magda Love, Clint Mario, Gilf!, CB23, Don’t Fret, Lexi Belle, Nda, Elle, Roycer, Joseph Meloy, Beau, Claw Money, Tony Depew, and Col Walnuts.

Leaf
I Love This Little Guy

Left Handed Wave and Frank Ape
Left Handed Wave, Frank Ape

Here are a few of my Favorite Hanksys of the Evening:

Doin It For The Likes
Doin’ It For The Likes, Because You Know You Are

Bill Murrito
Bill Murrito

Hamuel L Jackson
Sighs Matters, Hamuel L. Jackson

Mile E Coyote
Mile E. Coyote. Appropriate.

Beer
Former Teller Window Dispenses Free Beers to Thirsty Street Art Fans!

Street Art Gallery
Gag-Osian Street Art Gallery

In the left rear corner of the space, visitors could check out the Gag-Osian (get it?) Street Art Gallery, with its separate exhibit, Purgers & Acquisitions: Selling Out Tomorrow’s Urban Art Stars, Today. This area displayed small canvases and sculptures by a variety of Street Artists of varying degrees of popularity, priced to sell!

Purgers and Acquisitions

Purgers and Acquisitions

Purgers and Acquisitions

Hanksy Swag

Affordable Hanksy Swag, in the form of limited edition prints and T-Shirts, was also available.

The Scene

Look at everyone having a fun time and enjoying the art!

Fake It
Words to Live By

TGIF FML
TGIF / FML

Sucklord Gets Interviewed
Sucklord Gets Interviewed

I spent about an hour inside before I needed air and decided to head home. As I walked back up the street, I noticed the Sucklord lurking in a nearby doorway, being interviewed by god knows who. All in all, it was a most enjoyable evening.

Humor and Cuteness, Lifestyle

Why I Would Want Miley Cyrus to Throw My Bachelorette Party

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Miley Cyrus and Crew
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I think we can all agree that Miley Cyrus could throw the best, most phallic-inspired bachelorette party the world has ever seen.

The girl clearly knows how to party. The majority of her “makeover” since she started trying to shed her Disney image in 2008 has been based on over-the-top blowouts, crazy stage performances, scandalous outfits and tipsy nights out on the town. Combined together, all of these would make for one hell of a Henit.ie type of bachelorette party. Continue reading Why I Would Want Miley Cyrus to Throw My Bachelorette Party →

Arts and Culture

Judith Supine Presents Golden Child; Reveals True Identity, Kind Of

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Judith Supine Door Image
Judith Supine Art from the Door of Mecka Gallery. (All Photos By Gail)

The bright pink and neon green-painted wheat paste collages and sculptures of street artist Judith Supine are well known to street art aficionados, but Supine’s work has also infiltrated the galleries. Using his mother’s name as his artist persona, Judith had kept his face hidden and true identity a secret until last week, when a Video shot by Animal NY went viral on Arrested Motion and other various art blogs, in which Judith, who is an extremely handsome man, gave a candid and liberally swear word-peppered interview about his life and art.

All this was in anticipation of last Saturday’s opening of Supine’s latest exhibit, Golden Child, at Mecka Gallery, located way the hell out in an industrial area of Brooklyn, where Manhattanites fear to tread.

At this event, it was promised, the mysterious Judith Supine would openly show his face in public for the first time. Despite monsoon-esque weather conditions and travel directions that necessitated the use of a map, Geoffrey and I put on our Big Girl Panties and headed out.

Judith Supine Twins Sculpture

Judith creates his art starting with images culled from discarded magazines, which he then pieces together to create what I call “familiar mutants”: creatures that are part human and part inanimate objects. Undeniably the focal point of the evening, the imposing Twins sculpture in the photo above hangs from a ceiling beam in the center of the Mecka Gallery space with the remainder of the Golden Child exhibit hidden in a tiny back room (the doorway to which can also be seen in the above photo) that we originally mistook for a store room or “back stage” area before summoning the nads to finally check it out. Here’s what we found inside.

Judith Supine Back Room

Judith Supine Patron

Judith Supine Cigarettes

Judith Supine Back Room

Judith seems to favor integrating images of cigarettes and alcohol into his works. Discuss.

Judith Supine Print
Does this look like Miley Cyrus to you?

This Limited Edition Print of the same Image seen on the gallery door was On Sale for $150 at the opening.

Geoffrey mentioned he thought somebody told him Judith’s real name might be “Brent” or something, but who knows.

Likewise, no one seems to be able to confirm whether Golden Child was a one-night-only affair or if the art is on display at Mecka for a few weeks, and you won’t find out by looking at their Website. It’s worth checking out though, if you’re up for an adventure!

Mecka Gallery is located at 65 Meadow Street between Bogart St. and Morgan Ave. in Brooklyn, NY 11206.