Author: Gaia

Gaia is a Brooklyn and Baltimore based street artist with a background in Printmaking and Sculpture. Marrying the animal and the human form, Gaia conjures mysterious figures that carry a heavy sense of mythology and recall a past when man and nature were once united. These romantic creatures stand in relief to the urban environment as they lurk and beckon in the city’s forgotten and neglected spaces. The conveyance of their story relies on the chance coincidence with a passerby, and even in that intimate moment, their narrative is precarious and delicate.
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Rebu!ld project


The Rebu!ld Project is an incredible installation located in the increasingly vacated Middle East Baltimore. This neighborhood has especially struggled in a city that has yet to recover from white flight, deindustrialization and racial ruin. Having been the site to numerous revitalization efforts through the Pilot Program and Urban Renewal, Middle East has for the past decade been slowly rebuilt literally from the grassy ground up, in the largest redevelopment projects in the history of the United States. (for more information please visit http://www.ebdi.org/)

Rebu!ld is a project by Ryan LeCluyse that has taken many different turns of documentation but whose final installation is on Madeira Street and is quite frankly incredible considering its breadth and scope. Fore more information do visit http://rebuild.comforteconomyluxury.org/

 

 

 

 

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Billboard 01

“Billboard 01” 1991 by Gerwald Rockenschaub. Rockenschaub based his work on the modular system used by the poster company gewista, whereby each large-format poster is made up of 8–72 standard format sheets. He had these sheets printed in monochrome in seven industrial norm colours from which he made forty colourful combinations which could be independently selected on the spot by whoever was putting up the poster.

Via VVORK

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What’s Good in New York

QRST. Photo by Sabeth718

New York is suddenly awash in new work and its really quite exciting. Of course Welling Courts is decorating the north side of Queens, but also a lot of legal commissions are bringing JR and the likes into the mix. And then there is QRST and ElSol25 who are holding it down for Brooklyn in an otherwise pretty sleepy season regarding street art in New York.

Elsol25. Photo by Sabeth718
Obey. Photo by Changsterdam

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Atlanta in Berlin

Evereman

The perennially positive and southern homie Ola bad, whose smiles glint like the sun, just sent me these nice works he put up in Berlin for his people back in Atlanta. Ola bad explains the rest:

“I was recently blessed to have a trip to Berlin for a group Exhibition at Retramp Gallery as a part of a 48 hour festival in the neighborhood of Neukölln. I got this exhibition from the owner seeing the dreamcatcher project on vandalog which was kinda crazy. I was toying around with the idea of being an “international artist” and how meaningless it is. There are people who put up way more awesome work more frequently than i do so i decided that i was going to take my city with me. I called pretty much every street artist in atlanta and started collecting work so everyone could be an “international artist” Here are the results. ”

The artists included are Ola bad, Paper Twins, Scatterbrained, Evereman and Sherman. Summer is here and Living Walls is approaching! I’ll see you guys in a couple months! more photos after the jump.

Ola bad

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Clownsoldier at Pawn Works

Following on the coattails of Rj just three posts down, to bring us all up to speed, Clownsoldier is this months artist showing at Pawn Works in Chicago. I have some vested interest in that space, but what they are doing for the chicago street scene is pretty spectacular as every artist that has come so far has left a little piece of themselves in the city. Now let’s see some more pieces on the street son, you ve got six days!

Photos by Mo.FoTo

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Mata Ruda in Baltimore

In a scene that seems like it is getting more depraved every day (I guess you could blame Los Angeles for that phenomenon), its nice to see someone putting up some quality work in America, let alone Baltimore. Mataruda has started getting busy in this town and its always a welcome pleasure of having more company in the streets here. To see more work visit matastreeart.blopgspot.com

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Candyfactory Get’s A Little Surface Treatment

For those not familiar with this infamous building, the Candyfactory is essentially the last vestige of a proper spot in Soho for putting up work. What has now all but migrated across the river to Williamsburg, used to revolve around this wonderful little building. Why it has transformed into such an iconic place for putting up work and the story behind it is a mystery to me, but the city is apparently not fond of its perennially changing surface. The above photo from Amolho4 is New York’s most recent endeavor to put the last nail in the coffin. Wonder how long it will take to proliferate into its former beauty.

buff team in 2010 by Amolho4