TRAINS OF THOUGHT

Curated by Streets Are Saying Things.Com and Yves Laroche.Com

The show opens in Montreal at on August 29th 2008, 6pm-9pm @ Galerie d’Art Yves Laroche, 4 St-Paul Est. Old Montreal, H2Y 1G1 www.yveslaroche.com. Please call for info 514.393.1999.

Trains Of Thought is a new show that features the most talented and fresh artists in the graffiti art field. The artists featured in this show have the most extensive history and talent in the graffiti community. They will be applying their skills to Giclee Trains that will be exhibited in the show, and the subjects they choose are their original thoughts.

Artists from New York City, Montreal, and all over the world was featured in this exhibit. 60+ artists was featured all together in this exhibit. They schooled the audience!

Painting a train has traditionally been something special to a graffiti writer, and is a phenomenon that is something to bare witness of. The thoughts that are being laid onto these pieces of art are exceptional and some just sophisticatedly simple.

Come see the Installations, sculptures, paintings, photographs, sketches and studies, limited edition prints and products that will be available at this show.

There will be a book signing by the curators of “Piecebook, the secret drawings of graffiti writers”, written by Sacha Jenkins and David ‘Chino’ Villorente. Writers in attendance to sign from New York. Chino BYI; Dil; Rab CAC, Doc TC 5; Sye TPA; Sen 2; Saster

The show opened in Montréal at on August 29th 2008, 6pm-9pm @ Galerie d’Art Yves Laroche, 4 St-Paul E. Old Montreal, www.yveslaroche.com. Please call for info 514.393.1999.

There will also be an After party @ Cherry club, 417 St-Pierre Old Montreal, 10pm-3am, with dj’s E.P. Bergen (BV3), Buddah Morales, Casio Royale (BV3), & L’ami-e (BV3).

Trains Of Thought will be on display from August 29th - September 9th 2008.

This event is part of the Meeting Of Styles Montreal weekend… www.mosmtl.com.

In loving memory of Vittorio Fiorucci.

Review: Well I was there! The show was laid out pretty well as far as the assortment of Glicee canvases with burners. Many writers from the USA were well repped on these trains. It was interesting to see that the New York writers got canvases featuring the R62a stainless steel cars built by Bombardier; simulating 15.56 m in length and 3.62 m in height on a 1 m (L) x .3 m (H).

The PieceBook signing was not well-promoted by the Gallery or the organizers of the larger Meeting of Styles event. nevertheless; many were happy tp buy a few copies of the book and get the pages inside then tagged.

See Photo of live R62a on NYC subway line.

R62a on the 7 Line in New York City

The Canadian writers got to piece on their STM Métro simulation of the MR-73 subway cars.

Montréal Subway car MR-73

Here are the results of some pieces on trains by me and my other contemporary New York writers.

Here is a Photo Gallery of the rest of the artwork present at the showing:

All on the left sidebar in my Flickr RSS photo stream!