For his series entitled “Vacancy”, Guido van Helton paints portraits of actual public sculptures, keeping the classical antiquity of these statues in public spaces through a new medium.”They attempt to highlight the contrast between the permanence of sculpture vs the ephemeral nature of street art,” says the artist.
These pieces were done in his home country, Australia, but Guido is making his way to London soon and is eager for more walls.
Photos by Guido van Helton
Merry Christmas from myself and also Veng, who made this Christmas version of his Piper character.
Photo by Veng
Exquisite placement of these pieces by Hyuro in Valencia. Though it is up to interpretation, to me these murals represent women attempting to break free from their roles as “homemaker”, “cook”, “laundry-doer”, etc. The content is great. This is probably one of the last groups I would imagine getting represented on the street.
Photos by Hyuro
Based these days for most of the year in her native town of Quito, Ecuador, Maria Castillo aka Toofly recently hit NYC and Miami. Here are some images:
Photos courtesy of Toofly
Momo‘s peice for Wywood Walls 2012 looks fantastic. Those curved lines look like they required the utmost precision.
Photos courtesy of Momo
So much news this week, but first and foremost is the untimely death of NEKST, a globally respected writer.
Photo by C-Monster.net
Earlier this year, Roa visited Eric Firestone, Carlo McCormick, and Medvin Sobio’s Boneyard Project in Arizona. The result is one of my favorite pieces from the project yet. Roa painted on a a plane that had been used by the US Navy during the Korean War.
Photos courtesy of Roa
This past Saturday, I was in New York’s Little Italy helping to facilitate some more walls there. Thanks to Little Italy, Sambuca’s Cafe, Umberto’s Clam House, The Low Brow Artique and Montana Cans, we brought Chris and Veng of Robots Will Kill and Nosego to Little Italy for two new pieces of Christmas-themed art. It was a great day, and everyone had a lot of fun painting and chatting with all the people who stopped by to see what was going on.
Chris and Veng painted a spot just next to Umberto’s Clam House on Mulberry Street between Grand and Hester. I love the detail on Chris’ character’s sweater of a Robots Will Kill logo made partially from candy canes.
Unfortunately, this photo is about all that’s left of Nosego’s piece, painted on Mulberry Street between Hester and Canal. A vigilante Grinch must have not wanted us to be spreading Christmas cheer, because the piece was painted over in a really poor buff job on Monday night. Such a shame, given how many people seemed to be loving the piece on Saturday evening. Nosego, Little Italy, and Vandalog wanted to get people smiling and excited for Christmas, but somebody wasn’t smiling. But hey, art outdoors is always temporary. Sometimes this sort of thing happens. Of course, we didn’t plan for the piece to be up forever anyway. Christmas in July is for retailers, not murals. I just feel bad that I dragged Nosego up from Philly for the day, and that so many people are going to miss out on a seeing a great mural.
Photos by RJ Rushmore, Wayne Rada and Ruddy Was Here
Joe Iurato brought his splendid skills earlier today to Bushwick Five Points. Here are a few more images:
Photos by Lenny Collado and Tara Murray
In NYC this past weekend for the opening of AgitPOP, a group exhibit curated by Anthony Haden-Guest, London-based artist Stik also made it to the Winter Mural Project at Bushwck Five Points.
Photos by Lenny Collado and courtesy of Stik
