Luna Park is one of the best street art photographers in New York City, and she has put together a set of her 30 favorite images from the past year. There’s work from Specter, Blu, David Ellis, Armsrock, Chris Stain, Elbow-toe, Booker, Burning Candy and many more. Check it out:
Via The Street Spot (Luna Park’s blog) and Hookedblog
One of the four new Banksy pieces in London has caused some controversy in the graffiti community. It’s a solid, well thought out piece, but it just so happened to have involved painting over a decades old piece by London graffiti writer Robbo. Well, Robbo was apparently not very happy about this, but instead of just doing a messy throw-up over Banksy’s piece, Robbo put some thought into his retaliation. Here’s the result:
Graffoto has all the interesting details.
I love finding out about new artists. ( E )lias is from Brazil and paints things that I like to look at. That’s about all I know. Also, Elias’ series of paintings is called “ser.( E )s da cidade”, or “b( E )ings of the city”.
Check out more on ( E )lias’ flickr
David Choe painted A LOT for the most recent show at Lazarides Gallery, where many of the artists painted outdoor murals, and this Babelgum video captures some of those pieces:
Agent of Change recently went to Scotland to paint an abandoned village. Looks beautiful. That’s all I’ll say. They made this short film, it explains the rest:
The Ghostvillage Project from Agents Of Change on Vimeo.
David Walker and Vhils recently painted some work as part of Visual Street Performance in Lisbon. Very cool results. I love these sort of street art events in places outside of London and NYC.
Photos courtesy of David Walker
We currently have a group show of all Chilean artists on the walls here at Carmichael Gallery, which was curated by Pablo Aravena. I particularly like Inti’s work (that image above is part of a big mural he painted with Cekis) so I thought I’d share some photos of past projects.
Malmo, Sweden
Almagro, Spain (collab with Lag1)
Ronneby, Sweden
I really like these unusual, ghostly characters he paints – there’s something strangely captivating about the absence of regular facial features that creates an interesting expressive quality – but I think I like his more abstract style even more. Versatility is always a good thing to see in an artist. The images below are from a show in Vina del Mar, where Inti was born.
To see more of Inti’s work, visit his flickr. (Or stop by the gallery if you’re in LA)
– Elisa
The always impressive German crew Ma’Claim recently took a trip to Berlin Mitte to paint a huge wall (25 m high!) This was a particularly special occasion for the foursome (case, Akut, Tasso and Rusk) as it’s been a while since they’ve done a project this big together. Here’s the finished piece above and some progress pics that case shared with me:
Images: Ma’Claim/Ron Gerlach
– Elisa
Remi/Rough and Jaybo took part in an event the other night in Berlin to raise money for an organization that builds wells in Africa. They each started working on a painting, then swapped and worked on the other’s piece, then swapped back to finish the paintings. Great looking results. These are some of my favorite Jaybo pieces.
And here’s a little bonus, a piece that Remi/Rough painted outside of Santander, Spain:
