Liliwenn and Bom.K collaborated on this wall in Brest, France for the Crime of Minds mural series. Such stunning work.
Photos by Kevin Perro
Liliwenn and Bom.K in Brest
The Painted Desert Project – round 1, post 2
This is part 2 of our series of The Painted Desert Project, in which Gaia, Overunder, Doodles, Labrona, Jetsonorama, Tom Greyeyes and Breeze painted and wheatpasted in the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona. The first post can be found here.
Here’s how Overunder describes the impetus for the project:
The Painted Desert Project began as Jetsonorama, aka Chip Thomas pasted one of his photographs on an abandoned roadside stand only to return months down the road and see the very same stand now open for business. Amazed, he pulled over and chatted with the folks only to learn that their impetus to re-open was based on seeing tourists stop to take photos of the art work. They figured it was the best captive audience they’d seen in years and the only thing to make it better was if there was another one for traffic going the opposite direction. Unabashadly Chip let them know about his altar ego Jetsonorama and the cogs started turning.
Before the paste could dry Chip and fellow street artist Yote had a plan to bring some of their favorite artist to the Painted Desert to paint run-down stands in an attempt to rejuvenate the life of those in need of business and as Chip states, “explore how this might build community.”
Overunder has more about his part in the project on his blog.
After the jump, we have photos of work by Jetsonorama, Doodles and Gaia… Continue reading “The Painted Desert Project – round 1, post 2”
Logan Hicks show this month at The Outsiders
Stencil master, urban adventurer and photographer Logan Hicks is going to be showing at Lazarides‘ Greek Street space The Outsiders London later this month for a solo show. Structural Integrity includes new body of stencil work from Logan as well as a rare opportunity to see his photographs in a gallery setting. Logan has been working his ass off making this new work, so it should be quite something. The show runs from July 20th through August 25th.
In addition to being one of my favorite stencil artists and maybe the hardest working guy I know, Logan is one of my favorite people. I’m excited that Logan will be showing at The Outsiders, but I’m equally disappointed that I won’t be able to see the show in person. If you want to see stencil art pushed to this limits, do not miss this opportunity. Go see Structural Integrity.
Photo courtesy of The Outsiders
Remed and Saner paint for Wahaca
Tristan Manco recently brought Remed and Saner together in London to work on a project for Wahaca, a chain of Mexican restaurants in London. The Wahaca Southbank Experiment, where Remed and Saner painted, is a temporary restaurant at London’s Southbank Centre. More info here, and more photos of what Saner and Remed got up to after the jump. Continue reading “Remed and Saner paint for Wahaca”
Weekend link-o-rama
Let’s do this:
- A Kidult interview on Hypebeast. Has he entered the belly of the beast in order to subvert it from within or has he always been at home there?
- New Yorkers will be getting their first auction dedicated to work by street artists and graffiti writers later this year.
- Neckface has two prints which went on sale last night online and at New Image Art. The show at New Image Art is still running.
- Nychos is in London.
- Ben Valentine asks “What Does Meaningful Engagement with Public Art Look Like?”
- NoseGo, Joe Iurato, LNY and others are in a show at Jinxed in Philadelphia opening Saturday night.
- Phibs and Anthony Lister collaborated on a wall in Sydney.
- Did you know that there’s a giant, colorful and fantastic mural at CERN?
- Sven Davis, the UK director of Arrested Motion, has curated a massive show opening in Portland this September.
- Here’s a video of Phlegm painting during his recent visit to NYC.
- Eine was recently painting in Vienna.
Photo by Lord Jim
How and Nosm at work in Philadelphia
How and Nosm are the latest artists with a graffiti background to work with Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program, one of the the country’s top public art programs and the main organization behind Steve Powers‘ initial A Love Letter For You murals in Philadelphia. This week, How and Nosm have been painting their Mural Arts mural at 13th and Sansom. Here are a few pictures of the work in progress. Expect some shots of the completed mural next week.
Photos by RJ Rushmore and Steve Weinik
Nychos at 1xRun
Nychos has two prints available right now at 1xRun. The prints are different colorways of an image called Ghetto Bird. The blue Ghetto Bird is an edition of 15 and available for $100. The tan version is an edition of 40 and is available for $50. 1xRun’s prints are only available for a limited amount of time, even when they don’t sell out, so you’ve only got about a week to pick up one of these Nychos prints before they go into 1xRun’s archives.
Photos courtesy of 1xRun
Some street art-y freights by Aris
The good people over at Juxtapoz have once again inspired me to post about an artist who paints some interesting freight trains. Aris is based in Italy and his seems a bit unexpected for freights, but unexpected can be good, and these trains look beautiful. Sort of reminds me of Run, another Italian street artist.
Photos by Aris
Skullphone show coming up at Ivory & Black
Skullphone has a solo show opening later this month at Pedro Matos’ gallery Ivory & Black. London, XX12 will, I believe, be Skullphone’s first solo show in the UK. It opens on July 20th (6-9pm) and will run through August 24th. Whether you’re in town for the Olympics, or you want to run away from the Olympic madness for a few moments, Ivory & Black should be high on your list of galleries to run to.
Here are a few of Skullphone’s Digital Media Paintings similar to what can be expected at London, XX12…
And here’s an in-progress shot of a sculpture that will be in the show…
Photos by Ian Campbell and courtesy of Ivory & Black
New and old from Sr. X
Sr. X sent over his new stencil at the Kunstbunker Festival in Croatia, the piece shown above. But in addition to that, I think it’s worth checking out some of his previous work if you haven’t before. There are two of my favorite older pieces from Sr. X after the jump… Continue reading “New and old from Sr. X”