Claw and I have a mutual friend: the ball of energy and multitalented Shaniqwa Jarvis: she is a photographer hailing  from NY who has been living and working in London for the past few months and making heads turn with her pictures of life here across the pond. This Thursday, Miss Jarvis will be curating an exhibition showcasing NY’s finest artists at the second installment of the Wish You Were Here shop swap, which sees brands from New York’s Lower East Side – Earnest Sewn, Adrienne’s and Zarin Fabric Warehouse to name a few – take up residence in London’s Newburgh Quarter for a month, starting on the 1^st of October 2009. More deets after the jump….

Alongside Jarvis, the other photographers exhibiting are Todd Jordan, Angelo Baque, Frances Tulk-Hart, Jason Oliver Goodman, Joey Gallagher, David ‘Shadi’ Perez, Rafael Rios, and Peter Sutherland. Marc Razo has created a air guitar video with downtown’s Illuminati, Julia Chiang’s installation which was created  with a donation from Topps candy will hang alongside hang alongside work by graffiti artist Claw Money.‘Downtown’s Sweetheart’ Vashtie Kola is showing a selection of Polaroids from her work and travels. Fine artist Peter Chung, Abigail Portner and Jay Guillermo will show drawings and screenprints. Director Crystal Moselle also has a video installation created for this show.

Wish you were here group art show – 1^st October to 1^st November 2009

8 Newburgh Street and 3 Lowndes Court, London WC1

Some of Shaniqwa’s pics following

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