Street Arts
Bomb Chaser is London based artist James Jessop’s first one person show with the CHARLIE SMITH london gallery. The exhibition will feature three large paintings, a salon wall of smaller works and Bomb Chaser, a new documentary that follows Jessop touring the Bronx to visit the locations that he paints with one of his 1970’s graffiti heroes Blade, and Martha Cooper, photographer for the seminal urban art book Subway Art (Thames & Hudson Ltd, London, 1984).
The title Bomb Chaser refers to Jessop’s life long love affair with graffiti. Like many others of his generation, Jessop was first turned onto graffiti by Henry Chalfant and Cooper’s afore mentioned Subway Art. Presented with the book for his birthday in 1986 Jessop never looked back. Initially making drawings from Subway Art he slowly learned the language of the street before taking in formal training at the Royal College of Art; solo shows in Copenhagen, Sao Paulo and London including at the now legendary Rockwell Project; group shows globally including The Saatchi Gallery’s New Blood; and adding the occasional bit of colour to city streets globally.
Exhibition Dates
Private View: Thursday 2 June
Friday 3 June 2011 — Saturday 2 July 2011
Gallery Hours
Wednesday–Saturday 11am–6pm or by appointment
CHARLIE SMITH london | 336 Old Street | London | EC1V 9DR
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Street Arts
James Jessop — Bomb Chaser Exhibition
The title Bomb Chaser refers to Jessop’s life long love affair with graffiti. Like many others of his generation, Jessop was first turned onto graffiti by Henry Chalfant and Cooper’s afore mentioned Subway Art. Presented with the book for his birthday in 1986 Jessop never looked back. Initially making drawings from Subway Art he slowly learned the language of the street before taking in formal training at the Royal College of Art; solo shows in Copenhagen, Sao Paulo and London including at the now legendary Rockwell Project; group shows globally including The Saatchi Gallery’s New Blood; and adding the occasional bit of colour to city streets globally.
Exhibition Dates
Private View: Thursday 2 June
Friday 3 June 2011 — Saturday 2 July 2011
Gallery Hours
Wednesday–Saturday 11am–6pm or by appointment
CHARLIE SMITH london | 336 Old Street | London | EC1V 9DR
- Dots 02 & 03 — Burning Candy
We posted the first Burning Candy Dots short film 'Bomb Chaser' on Hookedblog last week, which featured James Jessop sharing with us his obsession with New York subway graffiti. Here are the next two installments of the the Dots...
- Stik London Exhibition
For all you lovers of the stick figures lurking on the sides of buildings and billboard across East London then mark the 2 March in your diaries as their creator STIK is having a solo show at the SUBWAY GALLERY. Stik’s show at the Subway Gallery will...
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Spine TV have just dropped this clip featuring Graffiti artist James Jessop, who shows us some of his favorite tagging pens from the last 15 years. He also demonstates how his tag style has changed in relation to the pens he uses....
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