I know I just mentioned Roa about a week ago for his work in Poland, but this piece is pretty special. Roa has been in London and painted a number of pieces and this is my favorite. It’s outside of Cordy House (where MuTate Britain used to be when they were in East London).
You can find some more from Roa’s latest trip to London on Unurth.
Photos by RomanyWG
At Primary Flight, I happened to see Daryll Peirce painting the above mural with The London Police and others. Later that evening, I had the chance to chat with him and see some more of his artwork. Very talented artist IMHO, but have a look and decide for yourself.
I love pieces like these on wood without any background except the wood itself.
Here’s some info from Daryll’s bio:
Focused on exploring the connectivity within humanity and its claims of control over social systems, habitat, nature, and
future, Peirce’s artwork pendulates between the satiric and esoteric, optimistic and pessimistic, scientific and spiritual,
bold and poetic. Grotesquely exaggerated human forms, arterial-botanic city organisms, and flowering interconnected
building clusters currently inhabit his work. On a more intimate level, his influences instinctively stem from his past and
current environments, travel, exploration, skateboarding, surfing, dreaming, philosophy, and interacting with all forms of
the human animal with a focused lens on the social outcast.
This piece was painted for Primary Flight last year, but unfortunately it isn’t there anymore:
All outdoor photos by Jeremiah Garcia
Within my post-colonial theory readings I chanced upon the street work series entitled “Dialogue” of Zhang Dali, which utilizes the classic graffiti trope as a conversation with the city but also engages the now familiar practice of deconstructing portions of ruins to establish new frames. Most of these interventions were executed a decade ago, but it is always interesting to visit the street work of artists who do not necessarily classify themselves as Street Artist. Please forgive the poor quality of the images, but the are all derived from Google Images.
One great piece from Primary Flight that I don’t think I’ve mentioned yet is the series of two large silos that Depoe painted. Instead of your typical boring grey silos, Depoe has added a bit of color to the Miami skyline.
And of course, with all that paint dripping down, it creates some some interesting things down on the ground.
Photos courtesy of Depoe. More on his flickr.
Labrona just sent me some pictures of his newest work, painted with oil stick and spray paint in the back alleys of his hometown, Montreal. I love the muted colors and the subtle expressiveness on each character’s face.
Collab with Gawd (above) and Sloe (below).
If you’re in London, you can see new work from Labrona in “Mixed Signals” at Signal Gallery, which runs through December 19th. Otherwise, check out more photos here.
– Elisa
There are a lot of pictures out there of Nunca’s wall for the Deitch/Goldman Wynwood Walls Project during Art Basel Miami as it looked at the opening party, but not so many people saw the finished piece. Nunca continued to work on the characters, coloring and background details right up until late Sunday night, and, as you can see from the photo above, developed his mural from something really good into something spectacular. Take a closer look below:
In case you missed what Aiko, Nina, Shepard, osgemeos, Barry McGee and Clare Rojas were working on around Nunca, check out more of my photos of The Wynwood Walls here, here and here.
– Elisa
My highlight of Art Basel was almost definitely Primary Flight, the huge mural project in the Wynwood district. They had over 100 artists painting murals, from big names like Shepard Fairey and Nick Walker to local graffiti writers. Here’s some of what they did.
Joe and I made a video about the project:
Many many more photos on Jeremiah Garcia’s flickr
Roa has just sent me a bunch of photos from his recent trip to Warsaw, Poland. More can be seen on his fotolog, but here are two of my favorites.
And maybe his biggest piece ever?…
PosterBoy allegedly put up this banner this week in Maimi for Art Basel week. As Brooklyn Street Art notes, the poster is one of the first major anti-Obama pieces of street art.
A mural that I finished for Scope Miami that is 10ft x 40ft. For more photos check out the http://www.flickr.com/photos/gaiastreetart/
