Rone was in Miami for last week for The Underbelly Show, but while he was there he painted a few walls. As always, it great to see some Australian talent getting up in the USA.
Spotlight on Rone in Miami
Young blood in Italy
Large Solomostry is a 23-year old street artist working in Italy. These are two of his most recent walls.
Photos by Large Solomostry
Weekend link-o-rama: Miami edition
In case you’d like to be in Miami right now for Art Basel Miami and the associated craziness of the season, but you’re stuck at home like me, here’s a small segment of what we’re missing (focusing on indoor events because a lot of the murals are still in progress):
- Hi-Fructose has an overview of Art Basel Miami, the main fair, and Arrested Motion has a two part overview.
- Juxtapoz has SCOPE covered.
- Roa has a few walls new in Miami, but this seems to be the most interesting so far.
- Wynwood Walls have their own pop-up show.
- Last but certainly not least is The Underbelly Show, which hosted a Secret Wars battle.
Photo by Ian Cox
The AWOL Crew
Awol Crew, from Melbourne, produce some beautiful collaborations. These two walls display how the members of the AWOL Crew have very different personal styles, yet can pull them all together. Slicer describes it all as “a collaboration of all our unique diverse styles. Adnate’s realism style portraits, Itch’s surrealist style characters, Deams’ bold graphic letter forms and Slicers chaotic tags and line work. a pure AWOL wall”.
- Adnate, Deams, Itch, and Slicer
Photos by Slicer Awol
ND’A and Labrona around Williamsburg
While Labrona was in town for his show with OverUnder and ND’A at Pandemic Gallery, he and ND’A got up around Williamsburg.
Photos by Lois Stavsky and LNY
Your daily Amuser
Amuse, reigning from Chicago, raised the bar for writers and dimmed the line separating graffiti and street art. Three prominent qualities that keeps Amuse’s work attractive are the details work, the movement, and the sporadic use of color. The following are some of Amuse’s illest work yet.
Photos by Eclectric Dyslexic
L’Atlas solo show preview
Last week Graffuturism posted a preview of L’Atlas‘s upcoming solo show at the David Bloch Gallery in France. The show’s name, Morphologie, is perhaps a hint that L’Atlas has strayed from his signature style to try something a bit different.
L’Atlas typically works with black and white in his abstract, geometric typography, which is commonly his own name. At first glance, it looks like he has abandoned these trademarks in his new work. However, his new use of color has worked to encrypt his signature in more complex patterns.
Personally, I think his style works best at its simplest, black and white. I’m a very big fan of L’Atlas, particularly his lettering, so I’m interested in others think of this new direction.
Photos courtesy of Graffuturism
Zéh Palito collaborations in Europe
Zéh Palito recently went on some travels around Europe, and while there he painted a number of walls with local artists. Here are a few of my favorites…
Photos by Zéh Palito
Wild Style Wednesday
Trying something new: Wild Style Wednesday coming at you!
Photos by Philaretordre, BRIGHTON ROCKS! ©™, Heavy Artillery, and Nychos.
UGLAR’s “Painting the Painters”
Balancing elements of local heritage with commentary on the process of large-scale, public works-style painting, UGLAR recently utilized techniques of fine art and street art to pay tribute to L.A.’s three greatest contemporary muralists, Willy Herron III, Kent Twitchell, and Chaz Bojorquez, with a massive mural just north of Chinatown called “Painting the Painters.”
Roughly 20 feet high and 100 feet long, the piece features several crewmembers depicted in the process of painting it (anchoring its left side is a larger-than-life Sergio Diaz, and spaced throughout are life-sized representations of Jose. A. Lopez and Evan Skrederstu), as well as a color-chart chameleon whose scales reflect every hue in the piece, and Tlaloc, the Aztec rain deity. It’s a piece that honors those that came before while commenting on the process of mural-painting, and could only have sprung up on the streets of L.A.
Location: 1726 N. Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012.
Photos by Ryan Gattis unless otherwise stated