Yote’s animals

September 27th, 2009 | By | 3 Comments »

Yote is a relatively new street artist, with his flick stream only going back to June, but already he’s put out some work that other major street art blogs have been talking about. Figure it’s about time I gave Yote a mention.

He recently made a trip to Brooklyn and hit up some classic spots with his characteristic animals:

Yote Owl

Yote Coyote

And here’s one of Yote’s earlier pieces:

Yote Bunny

What do you think of the work? Personally, I think Yote is really promising because he does have the technical skills down, but Dennis McNett and Gaia are both using wood and lino blocks to print images of animals and those artists have components in their art that make their pieces more than portraits of animals.

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  • http://www.vandalog.com RJ

    I think the appeal of people like Yote and McNett in particular (or too Gaia when his animals aren’t half man half something else) is that we do live in such an urban society and for McNett in Brooklyn and Gaia in Baltimore, they are putting nature back into a metal and concrete environment. And that kind of nostalgia only increases as we spend more time on computers and less time in the woods.

    But yeah, it’s going to be a hard sell to put McNett’s pieces on a pair of Nike shoes.

  • Steven Shandy

    Persistent Animal Collective Meme? I think in 2006, the trend to put animal & human bodies together a la Pagan/hippy drug vision/Vikings & thus Black Metal which is nature based/and Native American spirituality T-shirts with Coyote – was in every young art show. It seemed then, like the final finish of a deer & antler trend that was in itself, enduring.

    Anyway I think of Dennis McNett with this epoch in 2006, and Gaia following along some time later. And now Yote short for Coyote seems right off the Native American T-shirt. Extending the life of this could be the buzz of Animal Collective (and related or inspired animal bands) and Grizzly Bear.

    These artists will have a different time cross promoting their creations in Film and TV, because most producers are looking for “urban” signifiers that spell danger on screen. When they set their story in a downtown; the wilderness art will be confusing.

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