“Plastic exercise to describe the alteration of reality”

Ever, Alexis Diaz of La Pandilla and Brian Barneclo just wrapped up their visit to The Painted Desert Project, a mural project in the Navajo Nation organized by Jetsonorama. Most of the work for the project is painted on the small stands that pepper the roadside. I’ll be posting more from the project over the next couple of days, but to start with, here’s what Ever painted.

“The people pray to the goddess of crops.” Click to view large.

Click to view large

Photos courtesy of Jetsonorama

Fans of Ever, it’s time to rejoice. I’m a sucker for affordable art, and Each / One is providing just that right now with 7 prints measuring 11 x 14 inches and available for just $20 each. The idea behind Each / One is that releases are limited not by quantity but by time. So, these prints are available now, but after May 28th, no more will be printed. So it’s still a limited release, just in a slightly different way than we’re used to with prints.

Ever’s show on Each / One, Fallas en el Sistema – Technical Flaws, is on now through May 28th. Be sure to have a look before you forever miss your chance to pick up one of these prints at a great price.

Images courtesy of Ever

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

Ever, 2501, Pixelpancho and (below) El Topo. Photo courtesy of Ever. Click to view large.

This recent collaboration in Miami includes some of 2012′s breakthrough street artists sharing a wall: Ever, 2501, and Pixelpancho, plus a base (although I don’t have a good photo of this part of the wall unfortunately) by El Topo.

Ever. Photo courtesy of Ever.

2501. Photo courtesy of Ever. Click to view large.

Pixelpancho. Photo courtesy of Ever.

El Topo with 2501 at work. Photo by Wil Hughes.

Photos courtesy of Ever and by Wil Hughes

After seeing that Brooklyn Street Art is running a contest for the best street art photos of 2012, I thought to myself that maybe I should enter. Then I remembered that I’m not actually a great photographer. I’m competent and I still post photos to Flickr and Instagram, but there are a lot of people with a lot more talent than me. So instead of submitting to BSA’s contest and surely losing, I decided that I would just highlight a few of my favorite shots here on Vandalog. So, here are my 10 favorite photos that I took in 2012… Read the rest of this article »

In collaboration with Fountain Art Fair and Samson Contompasis’ The Marketplace Gallery, the people of Living Walls have been given 175 ft. of wall space to divvy out amongst artists at Fountain. From December 6 to the 9th, 22 street artists including Rone, LNY, Trek Mathews, Jaz, Ever, Dal East, Faith47, Pixel Pancho, Never 2501, Joe Iurato and more will be painting Fountain’s outdoor courtyard.

The rise in success of Living Walls over the last 3 years has been fascinating to watch. This is their second year at Miami Basel but their first year there curating walls. Indoors they’ll have a booth, showing the works of a few international artists like La Pandilla, Interesni Kazki, and some of the artists listed above, as well as a few Atlanta favorites. Definitely looking forward to seeing their contribution.

Video courtesy of Living Walls

Completed mural, “Explanation of how freedom (in the male form) and revolution meet to create a liberated Puerto Rico”. Photo by Nicolás Romero aka Ever.

I discovered Ever’s extraordinary aesthetic when I visited Baltimore earlier this year. I was mesmerized — from blocks away — by his distinct fusion of the photorealistic and the abstract. I was delighted to see him at work on my recent visit to Puerto Rico, but I didn’t get to see the completed mural — until now, courtesy of the artist.

Ever at work in “Los Muros Hablan”. Photo by Dani Mozeson.

Photos by Dani Mozeson and Ever

Sego close-up

As the walls continue to speak in the Santurce district of San Juan, Puerto Rico, they have begun to attract increasing attention and admiration from passersby. We even noticed a group of students speaking with Mexican artist, Neuzz. Here are a few images of works in progress by: Sego, also from Mexico, Rimx & the Puerto Rican El Coro collective, Ever from Argentina, and Neuzz from the Carribean’s first international urban arts festival:

Rmix close-up from El Coro mural in progress

El Coro Collective

Ever — the beginning

Neuzz with visitors

Photos by Dani Mozeson

Veni

Here’s some stuff I missed this week while sitting under a giant stack of books and papers to read, mostly stuff I was supposed to read for school but avoided because I was at Nuart last weekend.

• The British Zeus recently had a solo show in London. Sandra Butterfly got the photos.
• These throw-ups by CES mixing letters and characters are fantastic.
• White Walls Say Nothing is hopefully about to be a film about street art in Buenos Aires, but they are doing a Kickstarter project to raise the last $32,000 needed to finish it.
• A great quick video interview with Ron English. Must see for his fans.
• Sowat, Lek and John Giorno painted two walls at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
• This mural festival in Puerto Rico includes Jaz, Ever, Roa, Aryz, Celso, La Pandilla and others.

Photo by Colin Chazaud

Earlier this week, I hosted a movie night at The Wren’s Nest in Atlanta for the Living Walls Conference. Living Walls asked me to put together a list of some short films to show, and I ended up with 27. A few people have asked me to post those films online to share with friends or just to see a film that they missed while they were getting some food, so after the jump you’ll find embedded versions of all 27 films that were screened at the movie night (many of which have appeared on Vandalog before). Enjoy! Read the rest of this article »