Art from the streets has been heralding a new eye-popping geometric disorder that can now fairly be called a movement. With roots in recent art history and the rhythms of the street, artists are giving themselves over to pungent color, pattern, grid inspired line, and a sharp edged abstraction. No one can say what has moved the conversation toward this aesthetic – it all mimics the repetitive patterns that are found in nature as well as the cool symmetries programmed by human industry. These modern alchemists from across the globe are somehow pumping the Street Art scene with an oxygen-rich supply of lifeblood and a variety of possible directions to explore.
An uncanny blending of the cans, both the graffiti tradition and the Street Art practice each find common ground to be a place where tagging and Pop irony all dissolve together into form and shape. On walls around cities where these two practices were once polarized, we’re seeing that everybody can drop their guard and just paint, bro.
In these images collected by photographer Jaime Rojo over the last couple of years, you can see elements of mid 20th century modernism, sci-fi fantasy, retro-futurism, imperfect folk patterning, and the distinct echoes of Wild Style. The common thread in this new discovery of graphic geometry is not just what it is, but as it pertains to art on the street, also what it’s not.
Augustine Kofie and Chor Boogie in Miami for Primary Flight. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Aaron De La Cruz, Poesia, Sueme, Ensoe and Augustine Kofie in Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Barry McGee in Miami for Primary Flight. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
David Ellis in Brooklyn. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Isaias Cron in Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
4B Cru, OS Cru in Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Zeh Palito and Dasic in Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Push in Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Push painting on the LA MoCA wall for the Art in the Streets show. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
An Unknown Street Artist in Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Kenton Parker in Miami for Primary Flight. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Anthony Sneed in Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Claire Rojas in Miami for Wynwood Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sonni in Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
RRobots in Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
MOMO in Baltimore for Open Walls Baltimore. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Aakash Nihalani in Brooklyn for the Crest Art Show. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ërell in Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Assume Vivid Astro Focus in Miami for Wynwood Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Cekis in Queens, NY for Welling Court. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Faile tiles in Brooklyn. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jason Woodside in Manhattan for The New Museum. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Maya Hayuk in Baltimore for Open Walls Baltimore. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hellbent in Queens, NY for Welling Court. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Josh Van Horne in Baltimore for Open Walls Baltimore. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Overunder in Albany, NY for Albany Open Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jaye Moon in Manhattan. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
<<>>><><<>BSA<<>>><<<>><><BSA<<>>><><<>BSA<<>>><<<>><><BSA
Please note: All content including images and text are © BrooklynStreetArt.com, unless otherwise noted. We like sharing BSA content for non-commercial purposes as long as you credit the photographer(s) and BSA, include a link to the original article URL and do not remove the photographer’s name from the .jpg file. Otherwise, please refrain from re-posting. Thanks!
<<>>><><<>BSA<<>>><<<>><><BSA<<>>><><<>BSA<<>>><<<>><><BSA
Other Articles You May Like from BSA:
Madrid, where street artist SpY is from, is currently covered in its most prodigious snowstorm in years – a feat of nature that takes hold of and transforms our very environment in all dimensions. ...
Art Activism (Artivism) in progress here this past weekend at the Trashplant Festival in San Cristobal de La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands. A dozen artists have formulated installations directly in...
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. Kamala and identity politics are IN, workers are OUT, and the US Postal Service is being dissembled before our eyes. Are we supposed to find a light-hearted rej...
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. Can you feel the power of July’s full Buck Moon that arrived this weekend? Not to be confused with the full buck-naked moon; those are the guys climbing the...
C'est fini! In 30 days Boijeot and Renauld slept with more of Manhattan than a Wall Street regulator. And the press was there to report it: The Huffington Post, The New York Times, Le Monde, the To...