If you’ve ever wandered through a train yard, work like Troy Lovegates‘ (aka Other’s) is the kind of jaw-dropping stuff you feel fortunate to have come cross. For the past few months Lovegates has been spending time in Germany, but with all his freight car pieces running, his presence will be felt across borders.
Photos by Other
As always, I’m blown away by Tant and Unga of Broken Fingaz. The two hit London yet again, as they were in town for a group show in December at Hoxton Gallery.
Photos courtesy of Broken Fingaz
Opening at 6:30pm on February 1st and running until the 9th, Dabs and Myla have a solo show entitled “All Good Things…” at Metro Gallery in Melbourne in affiliation with LRG. The Australian natives have been living in Los Angeles recently and this marks their first show in their home country in over 3 years. If you’re in the area, this really looks worth seeing.
Photos courtesy of Metro Gallery
Though he’s been a designer for over a decade, Simon Silaidis has only been involved in street art for one year. Based in Athens, he creates his “urban calligraphy” in abandoned spaces using anything from flat brushes to brooms. He draws inspiration from Western, Arabic, and Chinese calligraphy.
Photos by Simon Silaidis
Italian artist Resuno has been painting since high school. He started with standard graffiti lettering under the pseudonym “Reso”. After his time at college, he reentered the street art scene with a slightly different name and painting these fun character pieces .
Photos by R3Suno
Lelo from Rio de Janeiro claims to have been apart of the street art scene since 1998. Recently, he’s been getting up a bit around Brazil and Argentina. Here are a few flicks from those recent excursions.
Photos by Lelo
For the second artist in our Tim Hans shoots… series, where photographer Tim Hans takes photo-portraits of street artists and we pair them with interviews with those artists, Tim met up with artist and designer Tristan Eaton.
Caroline: At what point were you like ‘screw art school’?
Tristan: I dropped out of SVA after my Junior year because I couldn’t afford to enroll again. At that point I had no choice but to say fuck you, I’m gonna do it on my own. I started doing illustration work and showing in galleries when I was 17, before I started college anyway, so I had an inflated sense of confidence. The next 4 years of broke life humbled me, but I never stopped learning and making art no matter how poor I was.
C: When you told relatives or family friends that you were a “toy designer” how did you explain what that meant?
T: That never happened. I never set out to do toy design, nor have I ever fully identified as one. By freak chance, I designed some toys for Fisher Price when i was 18, then later helped start Kidrobot and designed a lot of toys. But it was never my profession or my main focus. Any commercial work, toy design work etc., I’ve ever done has been a distraction or separate from my work as an artist. I’m an artist first, everything else is second.
C: There are some incredible painted/modified Dunny’s and Munny’s out there, but I’m curious if you’ve ever seen ones that were so bizarre or bad that you were like “don’t put my name with that”.
T: Of course! But that doesn’t matter. The fact that we’ve given people inspiration to be creative is the whole point. I’ve met accountants, mail men and even cops who paint Dunnies and Munnies. All of them didn’t see themselves as artists until they started customizing toys. That’s amazing to me. On the collector side, a lot of toy collectors graduate into collecting prints and paintings by many of the Dunny / Munny artists. It’s become an amazing platform for discovering artists and even launching careers in some cases.
C: If you were stranded on a deserted island and you could only have one of the following things, which would you choose between a sketchbook with a marker, 3 buckets of house paint, or a large amount of play-dough?
T: Sketchbook & marker!
C: How was it celebrating KidRobot’s 10th anniversary?
T: Awesome. My time at Kidrobot feels like a lifetime ago, but it’s amazing to see how far it’s come. I’m very proud of it’s legacy.
C: What are you working on now?
T: Right now I’m just working on paintings and mural work. I do a few commercial projects here and there to pay bills, but I’m really trying to get better as a painter! It’s hard, but it’s the most rewarding thing in my life.
Photos by Tim Hans
I absolutely love these walls by Johannes Mundinger. Johannes is a Berlin-based artist with a cute, quirky illustrative style that often works with the environment it’s painted on. Here are some of my favorites.
To see more, check out xxcrew’s Flickr page or follow Johannes on Facebook.
More photos after the jump… Continue reading “Germany’s hidden gem: Johannes Mundinger”
At first, I thought Swedish artist Michael Johansson‘s “Real Life Tetris” pieces were digital collage, but then I watched this video which shows the creation process and proves their legitimacy. These would make an awesome portfolio if Johansson ever wanted to pursue a career in professional organization, or like artsy-fartsy recycling. A few more examples of these installations can be seen here.
Photos by Michael Johansson
Via Rebel:Art
