Ever new work

Ever just finished a new mural in Miami. Check out the pics.

Graffiti has become fashion.

Graffiti is literally everywhere now, not just on walls. Check out this article. http://ifitshipitshere.blogspot.com/2008/07/tag-youre-it-graffiti-is-appearing.html

Amuser

The AWOL Crew

AWOL Crew, from Melbourne, produce some beautiful collaborations. These two walls display how the members of the AWOL Crew have very different personal styles, yet can pull them all together. Slicer describes it all as “a collaboration of all our unique diverse styles. Adnate’s realism style portraits, Itch’s surrealist style characters, Deams’ bold graphic letter forms and Slicers chaotic tags and line work. a pure AWOL wall”.

New Banksy Pic.

Made514

Made514 is a graffiti writer since 1990. He paints walls in cities all over the world. His work is so interesting to look at. Definitely psychedelic. I took this caption from his art review account when he's talking about his artwork: "i like study the letters,from the old style to the new one, i love the freshness of shodo, i love painting in the crossroad between dinamical expression and the stationary concept, the simbol and the rappresentation, the semiotics and the casuality of the gesture." 
Here are some photos of his work:

Brooklyn Street Art 2010

3D street art in the making

The Underbelly Project

After a full year underground, The Underbelly Project is coming to Miami during Art Basel. A pop up gallery, the show will feature original artwork from many of the 103 international artists who participated in the hidden subway project in New York. The exhibition will feature a video piece of multiple installations happening simultaneously, as well as new pieces by many of the artists. 
Included in the show are street, graffiti and fine artists alike. The full line-up includes: Faile, Dabs & Myla, TrustoCorp, Aiko, Rone, Revok, Ron English, Jeff Soto, Mark Jenkins, Anthony Lister, Logan Hicks, Lucy McLauchlan, M-City, Kid Zoom, Eric Haze, Saber, Meggs, Jim & Tina Darling, The London Police, Sheone, Skewville, Jeff Stark, Jordan Seiler, Jason Eppink and I AM, Dan Witz, Specter, Ripo, MoMo, Remi/Rough, Stormie Mills, Swoon, Know Hope, Skullphone, L’Atlas, Roa, Surge, Gaia, Michael De Feo, Joe Iurato, Love Me, Adam 5100, and Chris Stain.


Its too bad the exhibits in Miami, even though the art was done in New York. I wish I could check it out..but i guess i'll just have to get my hands on the book about it, "We Own the Night: The Art of the Underbelly Project."

2012 Street Art Calendar

Some of the artists included in the calendars are: Roadsworth, JR, Dan Witz, Laura Keeble, Faile, Alexandre Orion, Paolo Buggiani, Nele Azevedo, Slinkachu, //kneeon, Jorge Rodriquez-Gerada, Skewville, Mark Jenkins, Swoon, Vhils, Sr.X, Hyuro, Kenny Random, The London Police, Escif, Roa, Thundercut, Phlegm, XOOOOX, Faith47, K-Guy Gabriel Specter, Michael Aaron Williams, JJ Veronis, Slow, Edina Tokodi, Buff Diss, Paul Notzold, Gaia, Invader, Other, James Kalinda, TrustoCorp, Elbow-Toe, Masquerade, Mentelgasse, Ji Lee, Dan Bergeron, C215, Chor Boogie, and more.

AXIS

London-born artist AXIS is a contemparary illustrator and working class fine artist who emerged fro Los Angeles seminal graffiti scene in the 1980's. He is most noted for his convoluted and hyper-stylized freehand characters. As a child, Axis moved from London to Los Angeles with his family and developed a number of musical and artistic influences. An early convert to skateboarding and punk rock, Axis began experimenting with graffiti in 1985, and joined LA's legendary CBS crew in 1988. By the mid-90s he had cemented his reputation as one of the most prolific street artists working in LA. Though his career has largely unfolded outside of the graffiti landscape, his skate-punk origins continue to shape his aesthetic and politicized black humor. 

Retna

Retna a.k.a Marquis Lewis is an African-American, El Salvadorian and Cherokee street artist that grew up in Los Angeles, California. Growing up he was mesmerized by the gang graffiti that surrounded him. In the mid-nineties he began making murals on walls, trains and freeway overpasses throughout the city. Most of his work features his own created alphabet, a series of hypnotic symbols. It fuses together influences from ancient Incan and Egyptian hieroglyphics, Arabic, Hebrew, Asian calligraphy and graffiti. Each piece he creates carries meaning, converting an event or dialogue that the artist has experienced. 

Retna recently finished a new mural in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.

Also check out his awesome slide show on this link below.

 http://digitalretna.com/

C215

I really love the work of artist C215. I couldn’t find much personal information on him besides he’s a French master stencilist. He just did eight new amazing pieces in Barcelona which I’ll post below. I also read that he’ll be in San Francisco soon for his upcoming solo show at Shooting Gallery. 

Banksy

Banksy is one of the world’s most famous graffiti artist, as well as a political activist, film director, and painter. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irrelevant dark humor with graffiti done mostly in a stenciling technique. His works have been featured on streets, walls and bridges of cities throughout the world. He has dozens of celebrity collectors including Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Christina Aguilera.I couldn't decide which photos of his work to post because there are so many, but here are a few

Moniker Art Fair

London is about to hold one of the most exciting art fairs called the Moniker, which highlights the international scope of street art and beyond. It challenges traditional art with both gallery exhibits and other signature project spaces. Last year about 10,000 people showed up to the fair to view the artists’ work in which are often overlooked by mainstream art fairs. “Moniker has become recognized by those in tune with international art trends, along with collectors, critics and art lovers alike.”

Moniker will also feature a series of offsite projects including public artworks, educational workshops and film screenings, allowing visitors to get involved and informed. The artists participating will be from all over the world, such as Aiko from Japan, Banksy, Pure Evil D*face, Matt Small, Ben Eine, Word to Mother, and Russell Young all from the UK. Others are Beejoir from Thailand, Cash For Your Warhol, Greg Miller, and Nate Frizzell from USA, Dabs and Myla from Australia, Herakut from Germany, Jaae from the Canary Islands, Jaybro and Rero from France, Peeta and Marco ‘Pho’ Grassi from Italy, Roa from Belgium and The London Police from Holland. 

D*face's new mural for Moniker Art Fair

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commissioner's Anti-Graffiti Letter

Today the commissioner, Nancy Sikes-Kline, of St. Augustine wrote a letter describing how devastating graffiti is, and that it urgently needs to be stopped. She states that the recent acts of graffiti vandalism in their city acts as a great concern. She begins to explain how it hurts every aspect of our community including businesses, homes, schools and churches. That graffiti is a humungous contributing factor in declining property values and its presence encourages even more graffiti, and usually more vandalism and crime. It’s her belief that graffiti in any location can increase the public’s fear for community safety.

I believe graffiti is art. Despite the commissioner’s opinion, I do not think this form of art should be associated with vandalism and crime. People should not have to be afraid for their safety if graffiti is spotted. However I do not believe in harmfully defacing nice public property or historic structures or sites.

B-Boy BBQ

           Rochester, New York, held the closing of the annual B-Boy BBQ street art festival last week. I thought it was interesting to have an event so close to where were located. The festival was hosted by Ian Wison who began the street painting festival eight years ago with the taggers Sno, Zone, and Range. Now the festival includes artists from all over the world such as FAITH 47 and DAL.

            Rochester is divided by an old winding highway called the Interloop, currently the subject of an exhibition at the Rochester Center for Contemporary Art. On one side of the loop is the wealthy part of town while the other is full of deressing ghettos. Ian Wilson and his team decided to use this run down area to introduce street art.

            A quote taken from the article describes what is becoming of the condemned area. “Nevertheless, the participation on the street was joyous, with writers spraying the jagged wild style writing, while adding touches of romantic brilliance: a backwards-looking Mickey Mouse, sympathetic cartoon rats right out of the old L.A. Big Daddy sketchbook, blondes whose flowing locks tranform into tigers, all of it the only spot of color in an otherwise gray, dusty and hopeless landscape.” I think its great what they're doing to the area. Here are some photos from the event.