Last month, Miss Van had a solo show, Still a Little Magic, at FIFTY24SF Gallery in San Francisco, that featured her poupees under the big top tents of the circus world.  She’s taken some of her characters from the show and created a wooden pin set.   The pins feature artwork by Miss Van printed onto wood and is a collaborative work of artistic jewelry exclusively hand crafted and produced by Princesas Market and the Limbo Family. Each of the two models is produced in a limited edition of 40 pieces, is signed and comes in a handmade and engraved leather purse with a numbered certificate of authenticity.  If you weren’t able to see the show (which was amazing) you can adorn yourself with a little piece of Miss Van love.  You can buy the pins here.  Read the full story to see the rest of the pictures.
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Painting by Miss Van

Tonight is an exciting night for art lovers in San Francisco because we have two great openings at FIFTY24SF Gallery - Miss Van and Jeremy Fish.  Many of you know Miss Van and her infamous globe-trotting “poupees” with their iconic doe eyes, pouty lips and taunting gazes.  With each show, Miss Van places her poupees in different settings and this show is no different.  “Still a Little Magic,” Miss Van’s newest undertaking, takes us under the bit top tents into the world of masks and charade.  Miss Van is showing at the downstairs gallery of FIFTY24SF.

Jeremy Fish’s show, “Ghosts of the Barbary Coast,” takes us on a visual history of San Francisco.  Using the adventurers who chased their dreams to San Francisco during the California Gold Rush as an inspiration, Jeremy Fish weaves a tale of mischief and mayhem through 35 new pieces including paintings, illustrations and woodworking projects from Indonesia.  Jeremy Fish is showing at the upstairs gallery of FIFTY24SF.  Also, check out these great video interviews Jeremy did:  A studio tour/interview with Fecal Face (view after the jump) and a cooking session with celebrity Chef Chris Cosentino.

Miss Van and Jeremy Fish are two of my favorite artists and I can’t wait to see these shows tonight!  See you there!

FIFTY24SF Gallery, a division of Upper Playground
248 & 252 Fillmore Street
San Francisco, CA 94117

Miss Van & Jeremy Fish - The artists taking a break.
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“Brujerias” is “witchcraft” in Spanish, and that is the starting point for Miss Van’s most recent pieces that she showed in Berlin.  Her fine art pieces may be out of reach for some of us, but luckily, we can buy into the bewitching beauty of Miss Van’s art by purchasing prints or postcards that are now available on her fine art webstore, Princesas Market.  The postcard set includes 5 different postcards from the “Brujerias” series and is limited to a production of 500 sets.  Miss Van also produced giclee prints entitled: Brujerias 1, 2 and 3.  The prints are numbered and signed and limited to sets of 75 each.  I want everything that Miss Van makes, but as I’m not made out of money, at least I can have a little piece by collecting all the postcard sets . . . there are more online.  Pictures of the prints after the jump . . . .

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The Upper Playground blog is informing us that this December, the one and only Miss Van—who has become synonymous with fine graffiti art—will be exhibiting at ground level space at the FIFTY24SF Gallery in San Francisco, coinciding yet separate from Jeremy Fish’s upstairs show at FIFTY24SF.

Um, Jeremy Fish and Miss Van on the same bill?! Bananas…Apples and Bananas…I cannot wait.

We’ll post more details on the opening and exhibition dates when they become available but I really  just wanted to put this out there now cause I know a lot of you will want to travel up to SF for this.

Need your Miss Van fix, like now?! Visit NOTCOT’s online gallery of Miss Van’s simply breathtaking Princesas at the Merry Karnowsky Gallery from March 2007.

FlakeTV gives us an inside look at Iguapop Gallery & Shop, a gallery/clothing shop in Barcelona’s El Borne neighborhood. They host exhibitions by artists like Miss Van and Kim Gordon (of Sonic Youth).

It sounds like Iguapop also carries an nice collection of magazines about fashion, design and urban art so if you’re ever in Barcelona, drop on by!

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Miss Van is one of my favorite artists and I’m excited to announce that she has a show opening with new works opening in Berlin. I’m so sad that I won’t be able to go! If you live in Berlin, or are traveling there soon, this is a definite must see! Here is a description of the Canto Negro y Brujerias:

Merry Karnowsky Gallery Berlin is proud to present Canto Negro y Brujerias, featuring the paintings of Barcelona-based artists Miss Van (France) and Victor Castillo (Chile). The two unfold their unique but harmonious iconographies in a pictorial exercise of intersecting ideas. These artists approach from their personal perspectives subjects like seduction, desire, enchantment, and the game of infantile cruelty. The title of the exhibition attempts to unite these proposals and at the same time, alludes to Spanish culture, superstition and witchcraft as basic context, and dark invocations of common ghosts.

Details and more sneaky peak of some works after the jump . . .

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The July issue of Juxtapoz features the work of, fine and street artist, Miss Van on the cover…in all her glory…oh my! Gracing both the newsstand (left) and subscriber (right) covers, it’s been a longtime coming for Miss Van to be on the cover story.

Buy Issue 90 now in the Juxtapoz online shop!

One of my favorite artists is Miss Van. The girls she paints are so iconic that she’s been copied many, many times. The themes and settings that her ladies are painted in change with each series, but her girls always have the haunted, mysterious expressions that captivate me. Lucky for us, now we can all get a little piece of the Miss Van world. I’m excited to announce that Miss Van has recently opened her own online shop, Princesas Market, where you can purchase postcards, prints, books and jewelry. The postcards and prints feature works from previous exhibitions Princesas, Bestial and Atame. The book is her first catalogue printed for one of her latest exhibitions, Atame, and is limited to 1000 numbered copies. The most exciting items I saw on the site were jewelry pieces that made by Katrin Bauer. The ladies chose “la biche” character as the main subject for the project and all of the pieces are sterling silver. I’m so happy that there’s finally a place online to get Miss Van stuff and it’s so hard to choose, I want it all!

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Fornarina hosted it’s latest Urban Beauty Show in Paris this past Monday. The seasonal party is a celebration of fashion, music and art. The party included runway shows of and sneak peaks of Spring 2009 pieces. Fornarina has worked with Miss Van (my favorite!) in the past but at the Urban Beauty Show they unveiled projects with Miss Van and 5 other artists including Junko Mizuno (another fave!), Mijn Schatje, Angelique Houtkamp, Glenn Barr, Moebius, and Tokidoki. They selected a great line-up of artists to work with and I’m very excited to see the rest of pieces!

The day was filled with big news as the brand announced that Lindsay Lohan would be the face of Fornariana, appearing in ads for the Spring 2009 campaign. With new flagships slated to open this year in London, Paris and New York, Fornarina has big plans!

Info: WWD
Image: Nylon

Just in time for Bread & Butter Barcelona, Iguapop is hosting a group art show curated by Miss Van called “Bestial.” For this exhibition Miss Van has selected 15 international artists: Jeremy Fish, Aiko, Mike Giant, Herbert Baglione, Fawn Gehweiler, Ciou, Mademoiselle Kat, Landry & Limbo, Kev Grey, Nano 4841, Poppy
Jabianski, Angelique Houtkamp, Sunny Buick, Kid Acne and Junko Mizuno. M.I.S.S. Crew’s very own Fawn Gehweiler sent us a sneak peek of her piece (pictured above). I wish I could be there for this show it’s an amazing line-up of artists. If you’re in Barcelona this is definitely a must see. Details after the jump.

Image: Fawn Gehweiler

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