LOOK INTO MY OWL

NOWhere Limited is pleased to announce the exclusive release of “Handgun”, a limited edition print by Specter, available for purchase Friday, February 6, 2009. An accomplished artist both “on the street” and in gallery settings, Specter now debuts his first limited edition with this striking archival Giclée. Handgun is printed on bright white heavyweight paper measuring 17 x 22 inches. Each piece in the edition of 50 has been signed and numbered by the artist.

Here is the link to secure this piece for your collection.

“Don’t get caught without your handgun son.” – Specter

Handgun features imagery from the artist’s recent paste-up series of painted posters depicting hand gestures and the phrases associated with them. Here it is in situ on the street.

Specter (born Gabriel Reese) has been altering public spaces with innovative street art for more than a decade. Inspired by the surroundings where they are implemented, Specter’s art is often more like “environmental installation” than graffiti. Says the artist, in a recent interview with Hunt & Gather by Tina Ziegler: “I try to pay attention to my surroundings and look at ways to alter it. By just walking a little slower you would be surprised at what you notice.” His style varies between painterly, as evident in the Poster project (featuring Handgun) and sculptural, as seen in pieces like the Necklace, Brickwork and Concrete projects. Other recent street interventions by Specter include eat fruit and die, a campaign addressing issues of the North American diet and cultural relationships with food and the Wheelchair project, stickers pointing out doorways not accessible by wheelchair. Last November, Specter teamed up with the artist fauxreel to present A City Renewal Project, a large-scale, site-specific collaborative installation that recreated a neighborhood full of abandoned storefronts inside a huge warehouse in Toronto. In mid-March 2009, Specter will install a four-story mural at the Royal Ontario Museum in the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal building. Specter recently relocated from Toronto to NYC. More info about Specter can be found at the artist’s web site.

Specter
Handgun
Friday, February 6, 2009
3PM EST / NOON PST / 20:00:00 UTC (GMT)
NOWhere Limited
Nederland, Colorado