This is the second post featuring some of the walls that I recently saw in Shoreditch, the East London neighborhood that is increasingly attracting artists from throughout the globe. Photos 1-4 by Dani Reyes Mozeson; 5-7 by Lois Stavsky
Colin M. Day made this video at Roa’s recent show in Brussels, Belgium. It’s not your typical show teaser or post-show wrap up video. Dolin is doing his own thing with what he is passionate about. And I guess I’m not the only one who thinks so, because Brussels TV did a piece about Colin …
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Roa is the first artist to produce a series of skate decks with TheSK8room, an online shop featuring a bunch of artist-designed skate decks and classic decks produced for other brands. The Roa decks are a series of three images of a decaying rat. 20% of the proceeds from the sale of these decks goes …
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As we previewed on Sunday, Roa has a solo show, Stop Over, open now at BODSON-EMELINCKS in Brussels. So glad to see Roa finally getting a full-fledged solo show in his home-country of Belgium. Looks great.
Roa has returned to his home country of Belgium for a solo show, cleverly titled Stop Over, at BODSON-EMELINCKS in Brussels. The show opened a couple of days ago, and we’ll likely have more coverage soon, but for now here are some preview shots by Henrik Haven of the show’s installation.
Roa was staying with Ever in Buenos Aires recently and during that time they collaborated on this mural. As Ever explains, the mural is entitled “The people feed communism to the beast”. Ever says that the mural is a metaphor to be deciphered which he jokes that Roa explains as “the Chinese eat weird animals”. Photos by Ever
Earlier this year, Roa visited Eric Firestone, Carlo McCormick, and Medvin Sobio’s Boneyard Project in Arizona. The result is one of my favorite pieces from the project yet. Roa painted on a a plane that had been used by the US Navy during the Korean War. Photos courtesy of Roa
This weekend I’ve been without solid internet access, and Caroline and I have both been knee-deep in exams and final essays for the last week, so here’s a belated link-o-rama… The New York Times has a story on Living Walls, centering on the removal of Hyuro’s mural a few months ago and now the removal …
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After meeting and developing a friendship with Roa in San Francisco earlier this year, I’ve been really looking forward to him arriving in Melbourne! I’ve always known Roa loved his animals, but have never appreciated him as much as I do until now. Roa was invited by Healsville Sanctuary to visit and meet some of their …
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Roa left Melbourne a couple of days ago. What an amazing month or so it has been. After arriving in Melbourne from Puerto Rico, one of the first things he did was visit Healesville Sanctuary. Healesville Sanctuary is a not-for-profit conservation organisation dedicated to fighting wildlife extinction through breeding and recovery programs for threatened species and by working …
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