The Living Walls team installed the above stencil, designed by stenciling legend John Fekner, in Atlanta last week as part of a celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I Still Have A Dream is Fekner’s first work in Atlanta. It can be found at Pal’s Lounge at 254 Auburn Ave NE on the corner of Auburn Ave and Bell Street, and was installed just in time to be seen by participants in Altanta’s 2012 MLK Day Parade. More photos are over on Streetela.

Photo by Streetela

Know Hope year ended his year with a mural in Altanta for Living Walls, shown above, and began the new year with an outdoor installation in Tel Aviv, shown below.

Photos by Know Hope

Living Walls Atlanta

Roa sent over some photos of what he’s been up to on his most recent series of travels. Well, I guess he always traveling, but here’s what he’s been up to since August or so. Read the rest of this entry »

Mecro freight in Philadelphia

It’s another slow week, but things should start to get going again soon. The holidays can’t last forever. Here are bits of news from around the web that didn’t make it into their own post here this week:

• I wrote a list (with some help from Caroline Caldwell) for Complex.com of 10 street artists to watch in 2012. Let me know what you think in comments on this post or over on Complex.com.
• Adam Void aka Avoid pi is in an upcoming group show at Mighty Tanaka (and they have a new space).
• This Cash4 interview is good for a laugh.
• Blank has designed some posters that he would like to send out to all the Occupy protests, but he needs funding.
• But this might be my favorite Occupy-related art so far (site is NSFW).
• If you’re in Atlanta, do not miss this talk with Brad Downey.
• Or if you’re in NYC, there’s this evening with Ron English at MoMA.
• Fans of Os Gemeos should check out this photo album of their work in Brazil.

Photo by Damonabnormal

Jaz. Click image to view large. Photo by Jaz

Even the Atlanta-based mural conference Living Walls managed to make it to Miami this year for Art Basel Miami. Partnering with Primary Flight, Living Walls organized spots for Jaz, Know Hope and Ever. Mike Pearce caught photos of the walls in progress and after they were finished, and here are some of his pictures:

Know Hope

Jaz working on a mural

Jaz working on a mural

Ever's mural in progress

Ever working on his mural

Ever

Jaz

Photos by Mike Pearce and Jaz

Know Hope for Primary Flight and Living Walls in Miami

In case you’d like to be in Miami right now for Art Basel Miami and the associated craziness of the season, but you’re stuck at home like me, here’s a small segment of what we’re missing (focusing on indoor events because a lot of the murals are still in progress):

• Hi-Fructose has an overview of Art Basel Miami, the main fair, and Arrested Motion has a two part overview.
• Juxtapoz has SCOPE covered.
• Roa has a few walls new in Miami, but this seems to be the most interesting so far.
• Wynwood Walls have their own pop-up show.
• Last but certainly not least is The Underbelly Show, which hosted a Secret Wars battle.

Photo by Ian Cox

Jaz at Living Walls Atlanta 2011

Living Walls, the Altanta-based street art festival and conference, has packed their bags and headed to Miami for Basel madness. Living Walls, in conjunction with Primary Flight, has organized walls by Jaz, Ever and Know Hope to be painted in the next few days.

Photo by RJ Rushmore

Labrona and Gawd

Long-time collaborators Labrona and Gawd have been busy lately, and here are few of my favorite new pieces by them:

Labrona

Gawd

Labrona for Living Walls Albany

Photos courtesy of Labrona and Gawd

Life-side wheatpasted photograph by Erik Berglin

Expect next week’s link-o-rama to be a big one. It’s mid-term week at school. Speaking of school, I’m organizing an artist residency for young artists at my college. If you are between 18 and 24 and could use $350 to do something creative, I hope you’ll consider applying for the Haverford College Undergraduate Artist Residency. Here’s what has been going on this week off Vandalog:

• The Wall Street Journal followed Jeffrey Deitch around during the final day of Art in the Streets, so now you can see what a day in the life of Jeffrey Deitch is like.
• Adam Neate has a show of new work opening next week at Elms Lesters in London.
• Also in London next week is the rescheduled Meeting of Styles, organized by End of the Line.
• Great photos of great walls in Paris.
• e1000ink has some nice minimal geometric street art.
• Maybe the coolest and best piece from Living Walls Albany is this tile mosaic mural by Overunder.
• Brad Downey and Akay are at it again in Vienna.
• Some nice murals at the Galeria Urban Forms festival in Poland.
• Remember that beautiful Barry McGee piece in Sydney that we mentioned two weeks ago? That wall of tags? Turns out he wasn’t supposed to paint that, so it’s getting removed. He was meant to, and did, paint another wall, but not the wall that he tagged. Officially, this was an honest mistake and an unfortunate case of confusion on McGee’s part, but if you had a cherry picker or a scissor lift and some extra paint, how would you spend your nights?

Photo by Erik Berglin

Roa

Brooklyn Street Art have been up in Albany for Living Walls Albany. These are some of my favorite photos so far, but check out way more images here and here.

How and Nosm

Gaia

Overunder

Photos by Jaime Rojo