Zilda has outdone himself yet again. These latest wheatpastes are copies of famous paintings, but I think they come to life in an entirely new way outdoors.
Photos by Zilda
Weekend link-o-rama
With the riots and protests in Egypt, I thought the above sticker is a worthwhile thing to consider this week. I’m a bit late on this week’s link-o-rama.
- If you like Simon and Garfunkel, this one’s for you.
- I love you so much.
- A TWIST bus stop from 1995. And intense Barry McGee fans may appreciate this video, but it’s kind of lost on me.
- Seems really interesting that this piece has text in English even though it’s placed in Iran. As if they intended for a good number people to see it online in the Western world and placed as much importance on that as on people seeing it in person.
- The Nuart documentary is streaming live online on Monday.
- An artist in Toronto is posting up portraits of his dead partner.
- This seems like odd placement of an LA Freewalls mural by INSA, given that I’m pretty sure he claims his work is about not objectifying.
- Swampy was interviewed for the NYTimes Magazine.
- Juxtapoz has two posts detailing the Shepard Fairey and Mark Mothersbaugh show currently on at Subliminal Projects. Shepard’s stuff looks really good.
- Shepard has being having a very reasoned dialog on his website about the 2nd amendment.
- Hyperallergic reviewed Street|Studio, a book about the Melbourne street art and graffiti scene written by Miso, Ghostpatrol and Alison Young.
- This looks like a crazy group show in LA next week.
- Ripo’s solo show in Barcelona looks nice.
Photo by Loisinwonderland
Classic José Parlá graffiti
You may be familiar with José Parlá‘s recent artwork, like the above canvas. And you may also know that Parlá used to write graffiti under the name Ease, primarily in Miami. But you probably haven’t seen much of that graffiti. Until this week, I’d only seen maybe one or two Ease pieces. Just a few days ago though, Depoe sent me a great link: It turns out that the website Miami Graffiti has dozens of photos of Ease graffiti by Parlá. So maybe I’m on the only one out there for whom this is new informatoin, after all this website isn’t a secret, but I hadn’t seen this work before and really enjoyed checking it out.
Thanks again to Depoe for the tip (and check out his recent series of etchings. I’ve got a few of his etchings and they are the first thing I see on my wall when I get up in the morning. Great stuff.)
Photo by bashford
EVEREMAN is for everyone
If you live in the city of Atlanta you might have run into an EVEREMAN piece at some point, or maybe you found a little EVEREMAN wooden magnet on the street for you to take. I know I have. The first time I found one of his pieces was on my bike stuck to the frame.
EVEREMAN is a wood craftsman, who likes country music, hobo history, trains and gifting! Every EVEREMAN piece is for you to take, whether it is a flat square EVEREMAN magnet, big or small, an EVEREMAN cube, or an EVEREMAN tile attached to a rock. If you find it and if you like it, then it’s yours! “4 U ATL” , carved on the back of all of his pieces, if how he lets you know his art is a gift for you.
Back in the day he was throwing steel poles at billboards.
Nowadays he hangs his art up high.
or puts his art right in front of your face for you to find,
and sometimes he makes giant cubes to decorate parks.
Here’s an EVEREMAN studio tour- the first of 12 videos project I am working with STREETELA:
EVEREMAN – Streetela from Streetela on Vimeo.
Something new from Judith Supine in NYC
Looks like Judith Supine has been getting up a bit in NYC, which is always nice to see. These aren’t his most complex pieces ever, but I do like how the above piece interacts with its surroundings. It’s also kind of interesting to compare these to his recent indoor work. It seems to me like his street art is looking a bit more DIY while the gallery work is getting more refined (and I don’t just mean the super glossy coating on his canvases).
Photos by Becki Fuller
White Cocoa in Brooklyn
One of my new favorite ones lately has been White Cocoa. Her wheatpastes are beautifully detailed and all hand drawn in color pencils. The work, time and effort put on each drawing is really mind blowing.
Check out more of her work here.
“Giving the work over to the street, and letting go of ownership, has given the portraits a new life and purpose that they could never have achieved in the precious spaces of the studio and gallery”
Photos by White Cocoa, Becki Fuller and OverUnder
Flix and his robots invade Venezuela!
I will admit I am a sucker for bright neon colors, but this is not just about that. The work Flix gives us is cleverly camouflage in the urban landscape in a very fun way, making even fire hydrants more interesting and attractive to everyone.
Feel free to check out his flickr account to see more of his work.
Photos by Flix.
The latest from Hyuro
Seimiek
I noticed his work a couple of years ago and I became a fan immediately. He is not only from the same country that i am from ( Peru) but he is also doing street art and is in fact really good!
I used to only hear about street artists from the other countries in South America, except Peru, and to discover Seimiek and his crew (the multidisciplinary art collective Fumakaka) made me realize the wonderful street art scene that is growing in South America, not just in Brazil but everywhere on the continent…
These are some new pieces by Seimiek:
Photos by Seimiek
Roa in NYC
Roa just sent over some photos of work he did last year in New York. I’m loving the below piece over a Cash4 (not because it’s over Cash4, but because it’s two great writers next to each other in a cool spot).
Unurth has some more photos from this trip.
Photos by Roa