How and Nosm are the latest artists with a graffiti background to work with Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program, one of the the country’s top public art programs and the main organization behind Steve Powers‘ initial A Love Letter For You murals in Philadelphia. This week, How and Nosm have been painting their Mural Arts mural at 13th and Sansom. Here are a few pictures of the work in progress. Expect some shots of the completed mural next week.
Photos by RJ Rushmore and Steve Weinik
Bushwick’s new Low Brow Boutique is a street artist’s and street art lover’s dream. Offering a first-rate selection of aerosol art supplies, it also houses a gallery and store that features a range of artwork in different media by artists whose primary canvas is the streets. The brainchild of Bishop 203 – who’s left his mark for years on everything from freight trains to stickers – Low Brow Boutique officially opens tomorrow Saturday evening at 7 pm at 143 Central Avenue in Bushwick. When we stopped by this afternoon, the Yok, Sheryo and See One were busy gracing its exterior and Rhiannon Platt, who curated the opening exhibit “Welcome to the Neighborhood.” shared some of the artwork with us. Here are a few images:
Other artists in Low Brow Artique’s opening exhibit include: Clown Soldier, Enx, Sheryo, the Yok and See One. Welcome to the neighborhood!
Photos by Tara Murray and Lois Stavsky
The good people over at Juxtapoz have once again inspired me to post about an artist who paints some interesting freight trains. Aris is based in Italy and his seems a bit unexpected for freights, but unexpected can be good, and these trains look beautiful. Sort of reminds me of Run, another Italian street artist.
Photos by Aris
How ill is Zeros’ Haring throwback? (Rhetorical, unless you’re funny)
Photos by FunkandJazz, Graphis, ‘N’, Pere Meser, Ripo, Startape Photographe, Vitostreet
Sr. X sent over his new stencil at the Kunstbunker Festival in Croatia, the piece shown above. But in addition to that, I think it’s worth checking out some of his previous work if you haven’t before. There are two of my favorite older pieces from Sr. X after the jump… Continue reading “New and old from Sr. X”
Last month, Gaia, Overunder, Doodles, Labrona, Jetsonorama, Tom Greyeyes and Breeze participated in the first iteration of The Painted Desert Project, a project developed by Yote and Jetsonorama and which took place in the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona.
Of the project, Jetsonorama says:
We hoped to connect artists with vendors working along the roadside in homemade structures where food and jewelery are sold. We attempted to familiarize artists with the culture before they started painting. Because of the location of this project where large walls are few, the emphasis was on establishing a connection with the community. Both Tom Greyeyes and Breeze are Native American and came to the project already sensitized. We’d hoped to get more local youth involved in working with the artists but will have to pursue this with future iterations of the project.
As much as I enjoy the mural projects going on around the world right now, things like The Painted Desert Project are fantastic low-key but potentially impactful counterpoints to the hype and huge walls that seem to accompany more urban festivals.
Jetsonorama is a talented photographer who took some spectacular photos of the artists at work and of the finished walls and signs, so it’s going to take more than one post to show everything. After the jump, we’ll start with work by Labrona, Breeze and Overunder… Continue reading “The Painted Desert Project – round 1, post 1”
Thanks to the efforts of Keith Schweitzer — the director of FABnyc‘s public art program — and MaNY, East 4th Street and its surrounding blocks have been transformed into an open-air gallery, featuring artworks by the likes of Cake, OverUnder, Veng, Know Hope and Phlegm. The recent project Saints of the Lower East Side NYC features seven gilded paintings by Tom Sanford honoring seven cultural icons — Martin Wong, Joey Ramone, Miguel Piñero, Ellen Stewart, Charlie Parker, Arthur Fellig and Allen Ginsberg — who called the Lower East Side home. Here are some images:
Images courtesy Keith Schweitzer
Jaz‘s latest wall continues his experimentation with using different materials for his paint. Eleccion was painted in Buenos Aires with coal and lime paint, the same kind of super-long-lasting paint that is used by politicians who hire crews of people to illegally paint ads for them all over the city. Here’s an example of one of those ads.
Jaz also has a print release this week with StreetArtNews. The print, Observadores, is a handfinished 1-color print depicting wrestlers in the ring. It will go on sale on the StreetArtNews website this Thursday. More info here.
Photos by Jaz and courtesy of StreetArtNews
Phlegm, visiting from the UK, has just completed his first three murals in the USA. They are all located in Manhattan. One of the walls is a semi-collaboration with Know Hope, where Phlegm has added a mural that Know Hope painted earlier this year. That wall is part of an ongoing project with MaNY and FABnyc.
More photos, including detail and in-progress shots, after the jump… Continue reading “Phlegm’s first walls in the USA”
While so much of the graffiti and street art in Brooklyn has moved to Bushwick, there are still a number of vibrant walls to be found in North Williamsburg. We came upon this wall in progress yesterday:
Photos by Sara Mozeson & Lois Stavsky
