~Meeting Of Styles Weekend

Me and my litto contribution for MOS, thank you to all the great ppl that came by and said nice things as i painted...

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~(@v@) Owl mural In Pilsen and Sun~Times Article

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Brooks Golden, painted an owl on the 16 Street wall beneath the railroad tracks near Paulina. Chicago Alderman Danny Solis, is stepping up a campaign to use public art to combat crime and graffiti. Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Scott Stewart~Sun Times

   
  Brooks Golden, a 38-year-old studio artist from Pilsen, finished painting a mural of a giant owl head last week at 16th and Paulina at the request of the alderman’s staff.

“It felt great. It gives me the opportunity to share the work with the community, which is probably the most satisfying. I got pretty much nothing but positive feedback from all the neighbors,” Golden said Wednesday.

“There are movements all over Europe where whole sides of buildings have been given to artists. Here, I always felt the city had a problem with art on walls. It’s a stigma attached to graffiti. This is the first time I’ve seen artists approached to paint in communities like this large-scale murals of their choosing.”

If the mural movement can somehow spread citywide, Golden said it would “bring people from around the world to Chicago to take pictures ….It’s kind of hard to believe we haven’t done this already.”

And why the head of an owl?

“It’s my favorite iconic animal,” Golden said. “I love the way they look. I love the way they fly silently, their solitary nature. They make for a pretty intimidating animal.”



Read the whole article and interview here:

http://www.suntimes.com/14657568-418/ald-solis-turn-two-mile-wall-along-16th-st-into-public-art-canvas.html

Thanks to Alderman Solis' office
Lauren Pacheco, and the wonderful neighbors in pilsen on 16th street

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~In Die Welt Drawing

~Photos from the Library Display Case... Harold Washington Library 2012

Chicago street artists Brooks Golden and Nice–One have had a long and varied history producing artwork for display in the public arena.


An important figure in the Chicago street art/graffiti community, artist Brooks Golden explores our distinct American footprint by using acombination of folk, tribal–based and other visual symbolism to promote a sense of humor and allegory. In a 2011 interview with Sixty Inches From Center, Golden stated:

"I don’t think there is a big distinction between actual graffiti and streetart—it is all the same. It is all a pure expression of whatever thoughts or ideas you want to express. There are different roads to that same kind of thinking, some people come to graffiti [the spray painting route] and some people come from the art making, wheat pasting, stencil artist, creative side of that and they meet in the middle and they are both doing something that is technically for the law’s sake, that is not acceptable… It is all just an extension of being an artist without parameters."

A 2009 graduate of Columbia College, Nice–One is a street artist whose humorous and satirical characters can be spotted flying or driving in unexpected places around our urban landscape. All are identifiable by his signature scuba goggles and many, many colors. The two artists collaborated to create this original installation for the Library.

The artists, with guest curator Oscar Arriola, will discuss the making of their large-scale installation as well as the meaning and method of street art as art without parameters in their Artist Talk. Arriola has been documenting graffiti and street art since the late 1980’s and worked as a photographer on Chicago Rocks magazine. Many of the magazines and artworks in this exhibition are from his personal collection. A lifelong Chicagoan, Arriola has been with the Chicago Public Library for 20 years. He curates art exhibitions in Chicago and shows his photographic work nationally.(from :http://www.chicagotalks.org/2012/07/06/25333/)

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Brooks Golden and Nice One artist talk at Harrold Washington Library from Andrew Roddewig on Vimeo.

June 15th-August 10th ~~~Visual & Performing Arts, 8th Floor



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~ Text and Drugs and Rock n Roll

DIPSTKS and DIPETTES!!!
Come see the most EXPLICIT piece of "DIPSTK related" art rock ever created and shared by our roadie (@brooks golden).--->Partial Profile Nudity, Sexting Naughtiness and Suggested Heavy Metal Silliness. Brett Haus's little brother (Ricky ) gets his first taste of groupie love all captured for you to see. Although, in the age of Sexting and the Internet, we think he might have it all confused.

"TEXT AND DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL" (Plumbing the depths of text driven art)@ MaxwellColette Gallery on December 2nd 2011...MaxwellColette Gallery @ 908 N. Ashland. Come show your support for the Local Street Arts and Artist of Chicago!!! Show opens on December 2nd and runs through January 14th 2012.

- Brooks Golden/Be Golden© 2011(Roadie for the greatest band ever...DIPSTK)

~~N.W.A (Never Work Again)"A Zine Of Stuff" Issue #1

Each zine comes with a hand drawn owl sticker...




Be Golden© Presents ~N.W.A (Never Work Again)"A Zine Of Stuff" by Brooks Golden. 27 pages of Original Drawings & Awesome Randomness. Ask for the Crip cover (BLUE ) or the Blood cover ( RED). Each Zine comes with a free hand drawn OWL STICKER. (Only 25 issues made )--3$ dollars in person --$5 dollars post paid anywhere in the U.S. Help Support Independent Zine Makers and Arts Professionals...Be Golden© 2011

...Zines make great gifts for the creative types amongst your friends and family.

Message me any inquires @ brooksbgolden@yahoo.com... Thanks