This art is Not Safe for Work or School, even though it’s on public streets.
It sounds strange to say it but these images of Street Art are erotic, sometimes violent, and might even be considered prurient or pornographic by some viewers – yet they are part of today’s free-wheeling ever expanding visual feast on the streets that any random passerby may see. In New York, many of these pieces ride for a long time fully on display for hundreds or thousands before someone crosses them out or otherwise damages them.
Fila in Miami (photo © Jaime Rojo)
With flesh increasingly paraded across all manner of screen and print publications, it is no wonder that large public billboards in cities throughout the western world have grown increasingly blunt in their depiction of sexual themes and innuendo; with near-coital poses, barely covered breasts, and bulbous packages thrust into the public eye while we drive, walk, and sip a pumpkin frappuccino. As long as the image is in pursuit of the sale of a product, it’s hardly mentioned today.
Street Art today falls into that nether region of art too, where certain liberties for free expression and the depiction of the human body are protected from criticism because they can be classified as artful and part of our right to freedom of speech. As we continue to scan the streets for clues about ourselves and the direction that Street Art is taking, here are more than a handful of scintillating beauties that are beckoning for the attention of, well, everyone.
Insa in Los Angeles for LA Freewalls Project. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Artist Unknown in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Faile in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Judith Supine in NYC. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
El Celso in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Anthony Lister in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Fuck Me in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Self Indulgence in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo via Iphone)
Self Indulgence in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo via Iphone)
Self Indulgence in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Artist Unknown in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
RTTP in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
RTTP in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
RTTP in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Just Breathe in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
LUSH in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Enzo & Nio in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Vinz in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Bik Ismo in Miami (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sofia Maldonado in Miami (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Smile Your Beautiful in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Love For Rent in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Just Breathe in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Astrodub in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Artist Unknown in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Aiko in Miami (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Artist Unknown in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Imminent Disaster in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Artist Unknown in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
We think this might be an ad campaign for the I’ll Be Your Mirror Festival but we like the inclusion of the famous collaboration between The Velvet Underground and Andy Warhol. Andy would have approved we think. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
David Choe in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
J in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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