OverUnder and NDA took a trip to CDMX over the weekend and say they “hit the ground running”. The street artists/muralists have been running the streets of various cities over the last 10-15(?) years even though they live in different time zones now (Reno and Philadelphia) and neither are in Brooklyn, as they were when we first met them.
Both surreal in their approaches, their styles complement one another – as you can see by the wheat pastes they put up on the streets in Mexico City. The works take so much effort and planning, a self-authored approach that is unsanctioned and given freely.Their richly alien pieces change everything around them with on-point color stories and carefully rendered mysteries. Without a doubt these new pieces recontextualize their surrounding, causing passersby to perhaps reexamine and reconsider everything nearby; typical business signage, color palettes, textures, and architectural details.
In addition to the smaller street art pieces, Overunder, NDA, and local/international mural talent Eva Bracamontes had time to do a new mural together. Well, 75% of a mural anyway. “One business on the bottom right pulled out on the day of painting, so that is why it’s a weird white box.” Who hasn’t been there? Sudden re-allotment of space aside, the mural is a finely balanced combination of their styles – and completed in record time!
“The icing on the cake was meeting up with the talented and gracious Eva to imagine and paint a 3-story mural in just 10 hours,” says OverUnder, who sends us some pics from the quick trip. OU says he would like to thank the Secretaria de Obras y Servicios de la CDMX for the space, supplies, and support.
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