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2010 has got off to an exciting start for street art with the appointment of Jeffrey Deitch as director of MOCA and as a result, the announcement that he will close his New York spaces. We are excited about his appointment and look forward to seeing if he can achieve something as consistently exciting at a major museum as he did as a commercial gallery. Also in January Banksy released his film ‘Exit through the gift shop’ at the Sundance Film festival – it sounds intriguing and we can’t wait for its UK release.
Black Rat Projects has a number of exciting projects planned for 2010 including solo shows with Swoon, Nunca and Brian Adam Douglas (Elbow-toe) as well as a number of new print releases. Our first exhibition of the year will take place in March and is a group exhibition featuring works by some of the most exciting artists who have worked in the streets in the last 4 decades. The show has been a long time in planning and we hope it lives up to our expectations.
We have received a number of new things into the gallery this month including an extremely small edition of painstakingly hand coloured elbow-toe prints (these are more like paintings with a printed background than hand coloured prints) and a selection of small, affordable and beautiful hand worked original works by Swoon. If you are interested in receiving details of either please email sarah@blackratpress.com for more details.
We look forward to seeing you at the gallery. Happy 2010.
BRP
p.s We would also like to congratulate Sarah on getting engaged to Chris over the Christmas break.