In the Flesh: Japanese Artist Dragon76 paints live at London Miles Gallery, Covent Garden

LONDON MILES GALLERY is teaming up with DUTCH UNCLE to bring The Covent Garden some extremely fresh talent from Japan, DRAGON 76, a contemporary painter living in Yokohama, Japan. Dragon 76 will paint live on a huge canvas installation for a colorful and complex four hour session.

His work is truly something special, with a stunning combination of colors, a complex subject matter often revolving around music, politics or the African culture, Dragon creates large scale masterpieces. Layeres apon layers, and spashes of paint, this will be a true preformace to watch in person.

Join us, Thursday August 17th, 2009 from 4:00pm to 8:00pm.
At the London Miles Gallery Covent Garden Location.

42, The Market Place, Covent Garden (In the center of the Piazza)
Tube- Covent Garden.

New neighbors at the Covent Garden

We are excited to announce our new neighbors moving in next door to the London Miles Covent Garden location, on August 17th and we couldn't be happier to have them join the market neighborhood and even better, share a wall with us.

An Exhibition inspired by the Artists featured in ‘BEAUTIFUL LOSERS’- a documentary on contemporary and underground art.

DIY LONDON SEEN - An exhibition documenting the work of, and inspired by, the Artists featured in Aaron Rose's 'Beautiful Losers' will take place in the heart of London’s Covent Garden this summer, an area committed to supporting emerging new talent. The exhibition will coincide with the film's UK release at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA).

DIY LONDON SEEN runs from 17th August - 5th September 2009 at 11, The Market Building, Covent Garden, London WC2 8RF- That is right next to the London Miles Gallery, so come by and have a look at two fresh and innovative art spaces in the Covent Garden market place.

And make sure to go by and see the documentary:

BEAUTIFUL LOSERS is released by Revolver Entertainment on 7th August and runs exclusively at the ICA until 24th August, DVD is release on 24th August. For press enquiries please contact alex@revolvergroup.com
www.losermovie.co.uk

New Brow: Contemporary Underground Art

I just recently came across this trailer for a new movie coming out titled "New Brow"- speaking about the Contemporary Underground art world. Have a look, i think its a great summary and introduction to what is happening in this powerful and growing art world.

Get your sugar coated hands on these beauties.

Sometimes with international shipments you just have to cross your fingers the artwork will arrive on time, after waiting patiently for the custom charges to clear, we finally have two new pieces in the gallery that were originally part of the Candy Coated Exhibition.

Have a look below, they are both still up for grabs so just let us know if your interested.

Tiffany Liu
"I love you, Napoleon"
Gouache on broad and framed in a beautiful pink frame.
8 x 8 inches
£460.00

Ryan Myers
" The Increasingly Rare Spearmint Snail"
Oil on canvas
10. 5 x 11. 5 inches, framed in a oval wooden frame
£330.00

Along with a very nice collection of original artworks, Artist Jade Klara from South Africa produced a very limited edition print, exclusivly for the Candy Coated Exhibition. The print is titled " Lilth and Blob" and is a glicee print, printed in true color on a high quality watercolor paper. The small edition size of only 10, and they are all signed and numbered by the artist.

Jade Klara
"Lilth and Blob"
Edition of only 10
15 x 18 inches
signed and numbered glicee print


View the whole collection from the Candy Coated exhibition on our website:
www.londonmiles.com