And now, a brief intermission while we enjoy some bicycle art. Getting to it a week late, here are photos of art shown at the Joyride art show in NYC last weekend in association with the Bicycle Film Festival (now on the road and coming soon to a theatre near you).
Also check out the great list of artist links at the bottom of the Joyride show page.
Here’s some more from the artist Benedict Radcliffe, who is behind the pedal-powered spray paint bike shown above and at the Joyride show; he has done some other interesting bike-related works, like this extra-long Miyata done for the 2007 Joyride show.
I also really like this bike with knuckle bars and other urban accessories by Tristan Eaton AKA Thunderdog.
Meanwhile the folks in Philly get all the fun, with the Bike Film Festival in town this week, and a set of great exhibits at The Moore College of Art and Design, in multiple galleries, under the umbrella title of Bicycles: People and Ideas in Motion (Flickr set). The exhibit includes:
(Via ESPN) Ryan Humphrey, a New York-based artist who stirred it up on the first season of Bravo’s TopDesign, will re-create his Fast Forward installation that was recently featured in the Queens International with a collection of more than thirty BMX bikes, three versions of Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel (1913) made from BMX bicycle parts, and a massive rug created with the help of designer Todd Oldham that will wrap the walls of the gallery. Bike ramps in the space will be artfully put to use by Ryan along with selected pro level BMX riders from the Philadelphia area and ’80s pro John “Dizz” Hicks.
That may get the ESPN coverage, but this wood-carved Lee Stoetzel bike blows my mind. “Twice the scale of a regular bike, Big Bike is made entirely of Pecky cypress, a naturally degraded wood from his home state of Florida.”
Photo by Flickr user carboloader
If all this bicycle art is inspiring you, there are several art shows coming up that are currently seeking submissions, including Art Velo in Seattle, the ArtCrank poster show in St. Louis, and the Bike Part Art Show in Philly.
And there is always the Bicycles and Creativity pool on Flickr. Or you could just keep working on the canvas you were born with, like these nice folks (isn’t the Flickr bicycle tattoo pool a little small?! Just 75 photos?!)
PS: RIP Farrah.
