Olive47‘s latest solo show, bonita bonita, opened a few weeks ago and runs through June 1st at Breeze Block Gallery in Portland. Olive47 describes the work as “a visual dissertation on Joseph Campbell,” but I haven’t read anything by Campbell since high school, so if anyone wants to explain the connections that they catch, please do so in the comments.

Photos courtesy of Olive47

PAL Crew wall in NYC

I’m in London this week, and next, so come and find me wandering around Shoreditch. Just a few links today.

• This new mural in London by Roa has to be one of his more intense (but still not bloody) murals yet.
• I came across this piece by Sokar Uno the other day just off of Brick Lane. Looks even better in person.
• Jaz just painted a really nice wall in Vienna, and he has a show at Vienna’s Inoperable Gallery.
• The Agents of Change show at David Bloch Gallery in Morocco with Steve More, Derm, Carlos Mare, LX One, Remi Rough and Jaybo looks great, especially the sculptures by Mare and Derm.
• Michael Johansson recently had some of his so-called “real life Tetris” sculptures on display at a museum in Norway.
• Loving these new prints from Skewville, featuring their classic boombox image.
• And there’s also two new prints from Greg Lamarche.

Photo by Luna Park

Sorry for the short notice, but Troy Lovegates aka Other has a solo show opening in Copenhagen this Friday the 24th at MOHS exhibit. Shallow Lake opens on May 24th and runs through June 29th. Definitely check it out. Lovegates is one of my favorite painters, indoors and outdoors. He has such a way of capturing people.

In addition to the show inside the gallery, Lovegates painted this mural on the outside of the space:

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Photos courtesy of Troy Lovegates

Sonni recently painted this piece in Brooklyn on a Bushwick Collective wall. As you can see in the photo above, it’s right by Gaia’s recent piece for The Bushwick Collective. I’m so glad to see that Sonni is out painting in NYC. His work is so fun and it just makes me smile.

Photos by Sonni

I came across this piece by mobstr yesterday in London near the Bethnal Green underground station. From what I found on Instagram, it looks like The Scribble Wall was installed on Wednesday morning and very quickly got covered by passersby by the time I came across it in the early afternoon. This is one of my favorite ad takeovers in a while. In addition to covering an advertisement, mobstr chained four markers to the billboard, allowing anyone to add their voice (although a few of those voices did end up being advertisements themselves). Most people who I saw walking by the billboard didn’t notice it or didn’t care to stop, but a lot of people did stop to take a look or scribble something of their own. I asked two teenage girls who were writing on the board what they thought it was. They said they had no idea, but that they thought it was really cool. I agree.

As a little bonus, I also came across this mobstr piece in Hackney Wick yesterday evening:

Photos by RJ Rushmore

Rio de Janeiro

Claudio Ethos sent over these photos of some of his latest pieces. Such a masterful painter, large and small scale. I can’t believe he isn’t in more mural festivals.

Rio de Janeiro. Click to view large.

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Brian Barneclo, Alexis Diaz of La Pandilla and Ever recently spent two weeks at The Painted Desert Project, a mural project in the Navajo Nation organized by Jetsonorama. We posted about Ever’s work in the desert last week and Diaz’s walls over the weekend. Finally, here’s what Barneclo painted.

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Brian needs a bit of help with his spelling, but… Click to view large

Jetsonorama and Brian Barneclo. Click to view large.

Photos courtesy of Jetsonorama

“london. you beast”

Faith47 just painted two pieces in London: london. you beast which you can see from Leonard Street in Shoreditch, and a sacrifice on the altar of science at The Old Truman Brewery. Props to Global Street Art for arranging the wall on Leonard Street.

“a sacrifice on the altar of science”

“a sacrifice on the altar of science”

“a sacrifice on the altar of science”

Photos courtesy of Faith47

Hyuro is currently at work in Copenhagen painting a massive (271-meter long) mural. I really want to drive along this road once the piece is done. She also has a solo show, In/Between, of 17 drawings opening in a few days at ArtRebels (Nørre Voldgade 18) in Copenhagen. In/Between opens on Friday the 24th from 5-8pm and runs through June 15th.

About the mural, Hyuro says:

“In the battle of opposites, nobody wins and nobody loses. It’s just a cycle, just another one. A deer runs and disappears in the trees, the forest devouring it in its branches. You can’t win the race against time. The night will come first and bring its darkness, but Copenhagen can sleep peacefully. The sun will rise again in the morning and the deer will continue along his way. Nature takes its course. Nature meets city meets nature; chaos meets order meets chaos; night meets day meets night.”

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Photo by Jetsonorama. Click to view large.

Alexis Diaz of La Pandilla, Ever and Brian Barneclo just wrapped up their visit to The Painted Desert Project, a mural project in the Navajo Nation organized by Jetsonorama. We posted about Ever’s work in the desert earlier this week. Here’s Alexis Diaz contributions. Look out for another post with Brian Barneclo’s work soon.

Photo by Jetsonorama. Click to view large.

Photo by Jetsonorama. Click to view large.

Photo by Alexis Diaz. Click to view large.

Photo by Alexis Diaz

Photo by Alexis Diaz

Photo by Alexis Diaz. Click to view large

Photo by Jetsonorama

Photos by Jetsonorama and Alexis Diaz