BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAYSteve ESPO Powers is a man of letters and he likes to play with them like other kids play with Legos. Informed with a rich commercial vintage signage vocabulary and a sharp eye, and armed with buckets of paint and brushes Powers has created bold messages in a number of cities that play on and satirize meanings and advertising jargon.
Under the watchful eye of Jesus, Street Artist Steve Espo and associate paint. (Still from video)
To celebrate adman David Ogilvy’s birthday and his command of the language in service of fooling people to buy things, Ogilvy & Mather New York and Joshua Liner Gallery commissioned a series of murals by ESPO interpreting quotes of their revered agency founder. ESPO nails it.
The video below by Jun Lee gives a brief introduction to ESPO’s work:
Curated by Joshua Liner and Jun Lee
238
138
45
Other Articles You May Like from BSA:
The Golden Age of Street Art in Barcelona - now on FB
Every Street Art scene has what it calls its "Golden Age" - that time when artists are just popping up new pieces every week and you can sense a real evolution in style and substance is happening befo...
Every Street Art scene has what it calls its "Golden Age" - that time when artists are just popping up new pieces every week and you can sense a real evolution in style and substance is happening befo...
BSA Film Friday 04.01.16
Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities. Now screening : 1. Herakut: Masters Of Wrong from Eric Minh Swenson 2. Shark Toof by Koncrete 3. HM Hea...
Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities. Now screening : 1. Herakut: Masters Of Wrong from Eric Minh Swenson 2. Shark Toof by Koncrete 3. HM Hea...
Finding Peace In Copenhagen with Sculpting Street Artist Tejn
Sandra Hoj has been tracking the work of iron sculpture Street Artist Tejn for a few years now and she tells us that she had spotted a number of new ones recently. Any kind of art in the streets tha...
Sandra Hoj has been tracking the work of iron sculpture Street Artist Tejn for a few years now and she tells us that she had spotted a number of new ones recently. Any kind of art in the streets tha...
BSA Images Of The Week: 03.03.19 - Madrid Special
What a blast it has been this week in Madrid - on the street and on the stage with curators, artist, urban planners, professors, researchers, disrupters, and dreamers. We're happy we managed ...
What a blast it has been this week in Madrid - on the street and on the stage with curators, artist, urban planners, professors, researchers, disrupters, and dreamers. We're happy we managed ...
BSA Images Of The Week: 07.10.16
For this Sunday's edition of BSA Images Of The Week we have decided to publish one image only. It’s a brand new piece and is a portrait of an anonymous African-American man painted by Street Art...
For this Sunday's edition of BSA Images Of The Week we have decided to publish one image only. It’s a brand new piece and is a portrait of an anonymous African-American man painted by Street Art...
