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Urban Forms in Lodz, Poland Ready To Go

August 26, 2013 Artists

ROA Inaugurates, INTI to Hit 11-Story Wall

Today we have a little reminder of the upcoming third edition of the Galeria Urban Forms Festival in Lodz, Poland, which will be really take off in the beginning of September. Already new work has begun from Etam Crew from Lodz with a mural on Politechniki Avenue inspired by Julian Tuwim’s poem “W aeroplanie” (“On the Airplane”). The second one in advance is by Gdansk artist M-City.

On the roster for this year is ROA from Belgium, who will inaugurate the festival shortly, and many are talking about the 11-floor skyscraper that INTI from Chile is going to paint, which will be the largest in Lodz and one of the largest in Europe. Below you can see the one INTI did last year entitled “Holy Warrior”. Also on tap is a 3D pavement painting by Ryszard Paprocki and other guests include 3TTMan – the Spaniard whose work you saw in BSA coverage of Atlanta last week along with INTI – and TONE, PROEMBRION, and CEKAS from Poland.

Urban Forms will have a variety of related events during the nearly month long festival that celebrate the existing 24 murals along with the new ones, including live music, a laser light show, bus and bicycle tours. BSA will be bringing you exclusive coverage of the new murals as they go up, so stop by to see brand new work by these artists over the next month.

INTI (photo courtesy © Urban Forms)

Os Gemeos . ARYZ (photo courtesy © Urban Forms)

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Images of The Week: 08.25.13

August 25, 2013 Artists

Summer has been pretty stellar for those passersby on Brooklyn streets and here we have a great selection of installations including a couple from Dennis McNett, who posed a nine foot guy perched over traffic on Flushing Ave. Also notable is a new installation on the Williamsburg Bridge by Hot Tea using hundreds, maybe thousands of colored yarn strands washing over the pedestrian walkway in waves of color – not to mention the axonometric tags on fences that require you to stare and turn your head to finally see them. Finally you might want to check out the first really large scale piece that took N’DA days to complete in Bushwick, all by hand and on to top of a ladder. Cool lion, although those cherries really just look like big balls, right?

So here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week including Blanco, Buff Monster, Dain, Dennis McNett, Hot Tea, Judith Supine, Lamour Supreme, Misery, ND’A, Nychos, Pyramid Oracle, ROA, Rusty Rehl, Sheryo, Stikman, Tristan Eaton, and YOK.

Top image is by Dennis McNett (photo © Jaime Rojo).

Dennis McNett (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Stikman (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Hot Tea. West view. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Hot Tea. East view. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Hot Tea (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Pyramid Oracle (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sheryo . Misery (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Judith Supine (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Judith Supine. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tristan Eaton (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dain (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Rusty Rehl in Boise, ID (photo © Rusty Rehl)

Pyramid Oracle (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ROA (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ROA. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Buff Monster. Tristan Eaton. Nychos. YOK. Sheryo. L’amour Supreme (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Buff Monster (photo © Jaime Rojo)

An unknown artist in Berlin from New York artist Blanco. (photo © Blanco)

ND’A (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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JC2 “City of Ether”

August 24, 2013 Artists

From Spain Jeice2 has just completed a ghostly painting on the side of an abandoned and damaged building and he sends us some images of it, including a cleverly photoshopped obscuring of himself in the lower corner. In the face of usually bold and saturated graphic Street Art that one often sees today, this one nearly fades into the mottled and worn facade of the weathered building it is on. The disembodied head looks down, perhaps from a mountain, at the metropolis down below in a valley; a “City of Ether” that is as ephemeral as the painting itself.

JC2 “City of Ether” Spain. (photo © JC2)

JC2 “City of Ether”. Detail. Spain. (photo © JC2)

JC2 “City of Ether” Spain. (photo © JC2)

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BSA Film Friday 08.23.13

August 23, 2013 Artists

Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.

Now screening: Bast and Pins, Nychos X Sheryo X The Yok on a Schoolhouse Rolldown, Jeff Frost. Modern Ruin: Black Hole and Roseanna Bach shares Wall\Therapy 2013.

BSA Special Feature: Bast + Pins
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Bast and Paul Insect just put out this stop action this week of what appears to be some character painting in dilapidated buildings – and according to the accompanying text it was all shot on an iPhone 4. The soundtrack gives it a funhouse appeal and makes us want to go to Coney Island one last time before they tell us that summer has ended.

Nychos X Sheryo X The Yok on a Schoolhouse Rolldown

A couple of weeks ago The Yok launched the new edition of his King Brown magazine with a gallery show inside the schoolhouse in Bushwick. It was 8000 degrees inside but a few hundred people milled around to see the 30 or so new small works by artists like NEVS, Keeley, and N’DA. There was major spillage of people out the street and across it just to get some air and enjoy conversations and to see the rolldown in progress with Sheryo, Yok, and Nychos. Today you get to see the finished video of that piece.

Jeff Frost. Modern Ruin: Black Hole

Photographer Jeff Frost has been featured on BSA in the past – mainly because his high-def stop action videos of modern decay juxtaposed with natural wonder and beauty are so mesmerizing. Jeff is raising funds to complete his newest project “Modern Ruin: Black Hole” on Kickstarter, and you can check out the first few amazing minutes of the completed work here.

“Modern Ruin is a contemplation of the idea that creation and destruction is the same thing (this half of the film focuses on destruction),” says Frost. The white hole from which our universe sprang, and the blackness into which it may disappear testify to as much, yet these bookends of existence are inadequate to address everything in between.”

“As with all my films, every event depicted in Modern Ruin happened in naked reality, from the riots, to the optical-illusion paintings. In the same way that you, life itself and even the laws of the universe are deeply paradoxical, so too are the realities pieced together to form this non-reality.”

Jeff Frost. Modern Ruin: Black Hole

The first half of a film 150,000 photographs in the making combining time lapse footage of riots and optical illusion paintings.

Please take a look at Jeff Frost’s Kickstarter campaign for the second half of Modern Ruin:
kickstarter.com/projects/1051873420/modern-ruin-white-hole

Wall\Therapy 2013

BSA was the official media partner of Wall Therapy 2013 and as you know we covered it in multiple postings for BSA and Huffington Post (below). Here is a personal reflection from Rosanna Bach of some of the scenes she captured while there.

Check out our previous posts on WALL\THERAPY:

WALL\THERAPY 2013 Starts With FREEDOM in a Tunnel

WALL\THERAPY 2013 Daily Checkup and Scan of Founder Ian Wilson

Wall\Therapy 2013 Tuesday Update 7.22.13

Sarah C. Rutherford Flies High at Wall\Therapy

Wall \ Therapy 2013 Friday Update 07.26.13

Wall\Therapy Final Shots On Huffington Post

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Alice Pasquini in Sicily for Emergence Festival

August 22, 2013 Artists

August has been brutally hot in Giardini Naxos in Sicily where Alice Pasquini joined a number of artists like Ericailcane, Oricanoodles, Bastardilla, The London Police Pork*Erya, Diamond, and JBrock for the Emergence Festival. It took a number of days to complete this mural in the heat, but says Jessica Stewart, who provides these exclusive photos for BSA readers, “We somehow survived!” At the end of the series of photographs you can see and hear a description of the project from the artist herself.

Alice Pasquini. Giardini Naxos for Emergence Festival. Italy. (photo © Jessica Stewart)

In neighboring Taormina, Ms. Pasquni used some the found materials she collected in the port of Giardini Naxos to create new pieces for a show at NN Gallery. In “Di Rotta” she uses found wood and inspiration from Sicily. According to Stewart, some postcards she collected in London also were incorporated into the work. Here are a few in-studio shots of Alice as she prepares.

Alice Pasquini. Taormina, Italy. (photo © Jessica Stewart)

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Maki Carvalho’s Farm Bailout (or Baleout)

August 21, 2013 Artists

Street Artist Maki Carvalho recently was inspired while driving through the rural Northeast and decided to do a takeover of hay bales. Using a large format printout of a dollar bill and some clever articulation of the “roll”, he created a giant wad of cash in the hay field.

He explains the thinking behind this sort of unconventional installation this way, “I’ve always found it funny how our government can constantly throw money at big business and “bail out” companies because of their irresponsibility. Driving though the back roads of Westport, Massachusetts I came across these hay bails and the connection immediately came to mind. Where’s the “bail out” for our hardworking,responsible, yet struggling farmers?”

Maki Carvalho (photo © Maki Carvalho)

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Of Slumlords and Satan : Specter in Baltimore and Chicago

August 20, 2013 Artists

Is there anything lower than a slumlord? Slumlords: Those building owners who basically abandon their properties to fall into disrepair, endangering individuals and threatening communities with physical and economic harm? Okay, maybe some reality TV stars are lower than slumlords, but that’s a different sort of poverty.

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Specter. Detail. WallHunters: The Slumlord Project. Baltimore. July 2013. (photo © Specter)

Historically Street Artists have been drawn like bears to honey when it comes to decayed buildings and abandoned places. Aside from it not feeling patently illegal, painting or wheatpasting the decay also feels like a contextual installation full of meaning, even when it is not. So it appeared a natural alliance when local Baltimore Street Artist Nether decided to join forces with the local organization named Slumlord Watch and create Wallhunters in his city last year. In an ironic twist, Street Artists are currently being credited for improving a community – at least until they are bashed for encouraging gentrification, but that won’t be till next year probably.

Born from the corporate free-trade economic abandonment of American workers that took off during the Reagan administration and which continues to ravage our cities right now, a huge swath of Baltimore’s housing stock stands empty, whistling in the wind as the blue collar jobs that sustained the city for decades sought shelter in lands with no worker protections, pesky regulations, and near-zero taxes. With no tenants and no income to pay Baltimore property taxes or to keep up homes, many owners simply abandoned them, in turn leaving the city with a bill it was unable to pay. Yes, we’re generalizing, but that’s the part of the cycle that we’re swirling in now.

Specter. WallHunters: The Slumlord Project. Baltimore. July 2013. (photo © Specter)

Last month Street Artist Specter joined a growing list of Wallhunters, artists who use their tools to draw attention to the landlords who effectively abandoned neighborhoods and who are creating progressively unsafe conditions and evolving eyesores for an already hurting community. When it doesn’t get the attention of landlords, it does get the attention of the city. In Baltimore, where entire blocks have been boarded up, it is not unusual to find only one or two hapless families still trying to eek out a life while the structures to the left and right are falling, or worse, providing shelter to drug dealers or other unsavory types. For the few who have managed to keep their homes here, this is the reward paid for their perseverance.

“Artists illegally paint on abandoned property owned by notorious slumlords in Baltimore,” explains Specter, who recently did this installation for WallHunters: The Slumlord Project, . What happens next is instructive. Because the art draws attention, the neighbors begin targeting the owner of that specific property. Specter, who calls the abandonment an epidemic, says that some of the former homes are beginning to generate positive action because the neighbors are feeling connected and empowered to change their neighborhood. “It encourages and helps to facilitate local residents to take action,” he says. “Once the painting is finished and residents hear about the new artwork, someone will paste a notice with the name of the owner and all the information necessary to properly report a complaint.” He says the sudden attention often has results.

Specter. WallHunters: The Slumlord Project. Baltimore. July 2013. (photo © Specter)

Specter and Seitan in Chicago

We said Satan in the headline just to grab your attention, but really we were referring to that wheat based meat substitute increasingly favored by an increasingly vegetarian population, Seitan. Specter is down with seitan and last week put up his own painting for Uptons Naturals, a company that produces it. BSA is not sponsored by anybody so don’t worry, this is not a clever “integration” into our editorial. But we do think vegetarians are generally very sexy, agreed?

“My piece comments on how eating meat alternatives like Seitan is good for the environment,” explains Specter, who debuts this work on BSA today. But what’s the cloud connection – are people starting to store Seitan via cloud computing? Specter tells us that those are cow farts. More Seitan equals less bovine flatulence. “Seitan can heavily reduce the methane gas that is released into the air by large animal farms,” he explains. Hence the bright clouds.

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Looking for that pot of seitan. Specter. Chicago. August 2013. (photo © Specter)

Specter. Chicago. August 2013. (photo © Specter)

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Paris: A Mid-Summer Mural Art Dispatch

August 19, 2013 Artists

A quick look at three new murals from Paris today as the summer of ’13 has been one full of mural art around the northern hemisphere it would appear. Today we check the very active Street Art scene in Paris, which occasionally boasts large-scale murals as well.

Alexis Diaz. Detail. Belleville, Paris. (photo © Sandra Hoj)

Illustrator Alexis Diaz, or La Pandilla, has been travelling around Europe this summer (London, Turin) and we look at his most recent fantasy in Belleville to start us off. You may see similarities to Phlegm and even Gaia here in his work as he combines human limbs and animals to create heretofore non-existent hybrids and hand rendered illusion.

The scale here is also pretty impressive as Tunisia’s eL Seed carries his calligraffiti to ever larger installations since knocking out that minaret in Gabes last year and the series of underpass walls on Salwa Road in Doha. Finally we get a peek at Paris-based artist Pole Ka as she offers a new piece in her series of anatomies on the street.
Our special thanks to Sandra Hoj for sharing her images with BSA readers.

Alexis Diaz. Belleville, Paris. (photo © Sandra Hoj)

eL Seed painted this huge mural on a building set for demolition. View from the Metro near “Quai de la Gare” Station. Paris. (photo © Sandra Hoj)

eL Seed. Street View. Paris. (photo © Sandra Hoj)

Pole Ka. Detail. Paris. (photo © Sandra Hoj)

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Living Walls 2013 ALIVE in Atlanta

August 15, 2013 Artists

The artists are having breakfast at the Goat Farm, and Georgie is yelping in his cage. The year old beagle wants to get out and jump on everybody’s lap and help clean off their plates with his pink tongue and but for right now Emily is looking at the weather channel on her laptop and transfixed by the forecasted rain that could hit tonight’s block party in Edgewood and Know Hope is debating a second helping of scrambled eggs. Somebody plows through the screened door with fresh copies of the local arts newspaper that features JR on the front and the Living Walls 2013 official map inside, and assorted bearded bros are pawing through their iPhones to answer emails and catch Instagram shots of the walls that have gone up so far here in Atlanta.

Mr. Chicken feeling it at The Goat Farm. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Goat Farm is the central meeting spot for the 20 or so artists in this, the 4th Living Walls festival, and you are free to wander the grounds of this 19th-century complex of industrial buildings that made cotton machinery and munitions during two of its previous iterations. Now it has a few hundred artists studios, performance spaces, and cool little places to hang out and talk about the new walls by artists like 2501, Inti, Agostino Iacurci, and many others in neighborhoods like Summer Hill and Edgewood. Naturally, you can also hang out with the goats in their penned off area or be entertained by the personality-plus chickens that walk freely around the sprawling grounds.

Axel Void. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Inti. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Inti. Detail. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Last night was the kick off Movie Night party at Callenwolde Arts Center and BSA gave the room of 200+ guests an entertaining tour of about 15 Street Art videos from around the world called “Street Art in Motion”. After giving a bit of history about BSA and our involvement with the arts in general and Street Art in particular we introduced three categories that we think represent Street Art in video right now – “Explorers, Experimenters, and Anti-heroes”. Drawn from the archives of BSA Film Friday we looked at works from a group in Tel Aviv, Vhils in Brazil, Vexta in India, Conor Harrington in Norway, Creepy in the Australian outback, MOMO in Jamaica, Various and Gould in Instanbul, and Jay Shells in Brooklyn, among others.

It was great to invite special guest RJ Rushmore from Vandalog introduce a video from Evan Roth and we ended the hour and half presentation with the most popular video of the year so far, “Infinite” featuring Sofles slaying wall after wall in a mammoth abandoned building – a perfect combining of stop action editing and low-tech special effects that pulls together all three of our themes of exploration, experimentation, and a bit of the badass anti-hero stance. By the time the drums and bass stopped pounding on the speakers we were ready for a visit to the bar and some excited talking about music, spraycans, and the city’s longest continually operating strip club, the Clermont Lounge.

3TTMAN at work on his wall. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Living Walls 2013 typifies the rolling feast of Street Artists, neighborhood and volunteering that can put together like-minded creators and fans in a harmonious collaborative way. With so many energetic and organized volunteers, its just a good vibe, and the work on the walls reflect a quality and a developed sense of concept that sets up Living Walls Atlanta as a standard of sorts that you may want to study. Even when your car battery goes dead and you need to find a new one to continue touring, its great to see that there is a genuine sense of that thing called southern hospitality here in the city, and we have already met some great neighbors on the street who are happy with the artists and the walls, some even honking and giving the “thumbs up” from their passing cars.

Here’s our first group from Living Walls Atlanta this year. Hope you dig.

Alex’s car having an emergency boost to send us on our way. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Freddy Sam at work on his wall. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Agostino Iacurci. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Know Hope. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gyun Hur at work at her first wall ever with her assistant Yoon. Yoon, as it turns out, is a huge fan of Judith Supine. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Elian with Howdy Neighbor. 3TTMAN wall in progress on the left. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

2501. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

2501. Detail. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JAZ. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JAZ. Detail. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JAZ. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Brandon English of the media team setting up a shot. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Know Hope and 2501 working on their collaboration on a sculptural installation for Saturday’s Main Event Exhibition at The Goat Farm . Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Hand-Drawn Citycapes With Daniel Van Der Noon in Copenhagen

August 14, 2013 Artists

Remember when your dad came home and found you drawing on the hallway wall with your markers? That was a great day, right?

British artist Daniel van der Noon says he likes to travel a lot and see new cities, so maybe that explains why he can’t stop drawing them in all their meticulous complexity across walls, windows, and a variety of other surfaces. At this years Trailerpark Festival in Copenhagen, van der Noon spent hours on an orange wall while music fans poured in and milled about the grounds in search of bands like Micachu, Turboweekend, and When Saints Go Machine. “He specializes in city-scapes which he draws with poscas – and only poscas,” says photographer Henrik Haven, who offers these exclusive shots of the artist drawing his lengthy cityscapes, towers, and the manmade skylines that come largely from his imagination.

As if to underline with a fine marker the point that he can’t stop drawing, we include a post-party stop for the artist at a private home, where he convinced the owner that they needed a diagonal city climbing up the stairwell.

When Saints Go Machine (Live)

Micachu and the Shapes

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Boffo MOMO in DUMBO

August 13, 2013 Artists

We’ve been shooting and documenting Street Art in Brooklyn for over a decade now so it is a sweet sight to see more artists getting opportunities like the new program by Two Trees Management that is coming online. Of course BSA has curated legal walls around town for artists many times and we created the first Street Art projection show in DUMBO (Projekt Projektor) five years ago, but when an innovative developer with a track record for engendering an arts community gets involved, its a new scale and one with a far greater possibility for engagement of people in public space.

For the improvement district that comes under its auspicious, Street Artists (and other visual artists) are invited to regale the DUMBO walls with as great a vision as they care to present and this time the whole experience could be transformational, if the quality and the mix is handled just right. As the former neighborhood of Williamsburg is similarly evolving, can’t you just see a second wave, a renaissance of Street Art that pays tribute to the first one we’ve been documented since the turn of the century?

Today we show you new work of Street Artist/Fine Artist and 21^st Century maximalist MOMO has been bathing a swath of brick with washes of hue and precisely percolating pattern while wielding the scissor lift just below the boisterous Brooklyn Queens Expressway for the last week or so, and the results are brighter and punchier than we are accustomed to – which will be good for those week-long grey patches we must endure in the BK sometimes. We last were with MOMO as he was banging out a huge wall in Baltimore, and it is good to see this talent back in Brooklyn where he once lived, but this nomad will only alight for a short time before swimming to his next exploration.

Keep your eyes open for further developments. You know we will.

Craig Anthony Miller (aka CAM)

Overunder and “Joins” Remixing Mexico on Walls in the Capital

August 12, 2013 Artists

Street Artist Overunder has discovered the warmth of Mexican people and the character of the painting, sculpture and everyday architecture of Mexico City and he shares with us his first impressions on the street making art with his friend Joins. One of the new magicians in the current Street Art movement, it is no surprise that Overunder easily assimilates and reinterprets this culture characterized by its respect for tradition, for folk art, and for a love of magic realism.

“Mexico city is still amazing with each new day,” he enthuses while recounting his study of the cultural touchstones and icons when making selections of subject matter. “So far my trip has consisted of embedded anthropology that comes with some of the most unique and beautiful experiences had from painting here.”

He says he had the goal of exploring institutions, parks and galleries but usually found that meeting people was a great way to learn and to get walls. “The mentality is beautiful here,” he says of the new friends with whom he’s had dinners and caguama (slang for 40 oz. sized beer) and the families with whom he has gotten to hang out with. “I’ve had house after house offered up as an experimental canvas – which seems unheard of back in the states,” he says in a sort of befuddled amusement. “Mi casa es su casa y mi pintura es su pintura.”

As you look at the images of new pieces Overunder has been creating, fans of his work will notice some are distinctly in the style and family of references that he typically works in. Others, like the swinging strands of the local bougainvillas and prickly pear fully mimic his flying bird/plane line tag that hit many a city wall over the last few years; instead of being accompanied by text or passages, the poetry is in the motion of the line as blossoms and leaves wend their way along the wall. “And with the amazing backdrop of these houses it’s unnecessary to paint my usual architectural features because they already have remarkable features,” he explains, “They are Duchampian readymades.”

It’s sort of unusual to see Overunder delving into work that may be considered more decorative, but as usual with this thinking artist, the intellectual machinations are many. “The paintings of flora and fauna are a departure but the work fell into place naturally,” he says as he recounts his process for selection. “I started using the imagery as a way to connect and speak the native tongue visually. I already feel like a foreigner when I attempt to speak Spanish and the idea of painting foreign imagery feels wrong. So reintroducing a familiar and indigenous sight in an unorthodox way felt natural.”

His wall work on this trip also includes more localized influences, as the Street Artist was inspired by the Mexican mural tradition as well 20^th century sculptors like Mexican Luis Ortiz Monasterio and currently active Columbian Fernando Botero, all with the considered weight of the Mayans and Aztecs forming the figures. Naturally Overunder takes his own approach to these more formal masters, remixing and matching symbols and meanings with the ease of any modern digital denizen, weaving his own biography to provide structure.

Speaking about the largest piece featuring the cowboy flanked by two figures, Overunder tells us that it is a reinterpretation of the figures flanking the center figure in ‘Monumento a la Madre’ by Monasterio. “I came across the statues while exploring the San Rafael neighborhood and I was enamored by their bulky Botero-like look.”

Of the 1949 figures that separates San Rafael from Colonia Cuauhtémoc, he says, “Secondly and even more so, I’ve never seen a statue that was performing an action while seeming to be completely distracted by something else going on in their periphery. So when my friend Joins started painting the faceless vaquero in the center I thought it was a perfect opportunity to remix these images with their focus on his cowboy.”

But why not leave the central figure as a tribute to motherhood, as the original? The answer lies in the biographies of the two Street Artists. “The gender shift lends itself to more of a monument to Father, which seems very suiting since I lost my father several years ago and Joins has just met his father after 33 years.

In a way typical for the experimenting and adventuring Street Artist traveling abroad, much of the work is made of spur of the moment inspiration, and functions as much as sketch as finished piece; part public, part diary entry. Finally, the “Cauce Ciudano” mural is another collaboration between Overunder and Joins that expresses more of their personal styles. Joins has the feather page of the book while Overunder produces one of his portraits that features patterning across the countenance. Like the lines that trace the our faces as time progresses, these include impressions of his time visiting what he regards a country at once proud in tradition and somewhat magical in imagination.

“The smiley face flower wall was a quick painting I made in exchange for a dinner date from a wonderful grandmother” OU

A shout out to Gonzalo of Mamutt Creatividad, who helped line up the large wall and the Cauce Ciudadano wall. Check him out on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/MamuttCreatividad

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ROA Inaugurates, INTI to Hit 11-Story Wall

INTI (photo courtesy © Urban Forms)

Os Gemeos . ARYZ (photo courtesy © Urban Forms)

Top image is by Dennis McNett (photo © Jaime Rojo).

Dennis McNett (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Stikman (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Hot Tea. West view. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Hot Tea. East view. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Hot Tea (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Hot Tea (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Pyramid Oracle (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sheryo . Misery (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Judith Supine (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Judith Supine. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tristan Eaton (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dain (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Rusty Rehl in Boise, ID (photo © Rusty Rehl)

Pyramid Oracle (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ROA (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ROA. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Buff Monster. Tristan Eaton. Nychos. YOK. Sheryo. L’amour Supreme (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Buff Monster (photo © Jaime Rojo)

An unknown artist in Berlin from New York artist Blanco. (photo © Blanco)

ND’A (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JC2 “City of Ether” Spain. (photo © JC2)

JC2 “City of Ether” Spain. (photo © JC2)

JC2 “City of Ether”. Detail. Spain. (photo © JC2)

JC2 “City of Ether” Spain. (photo © JC2)

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Nychos X Sheryo X The Yok on a Schoolhouse Rolldown

Jeff Frost. Modern Ruin: Black Hole

Jeff Frost. Modern Ruin: Black Hole

The first half of a film 150,000 photographs in the making combining time lapse footage of riots and optical illusion paintings. Please take a look at Jeff Frost’s Kickstarter campaign for the second half of Modern Ruin: kickstarter.com/projects/1051873420/modern-ruin-white-hole

Wall\Therapy 2013

Alice Pasquini. Giardini Naxos for Emergence Festival. Italy. (photo © Jessica Stewart)

Alice Pasquini. Giardini Naxos for Emergence Festival. Italy. (photo © Jessica Stewart)

Alice Pasquini. Giardini Naxos for Emergence Festival. Italy. (photo © Jessica Stewart)

Alice Pasquini. Giardini Naxos for Emergence Festival. Italy. (photo © Jessica Stewart)

Alice Pasquini. Giardini Naxos for Emergence Festival. Italy. (photo © Jessica Stewart)

Alice Pasquini. Giardini Naxos for Emergence Festival. Italy. (photo © Jessica Stewart)

Alice Pasquini. Giardini Naxos for Emergence Festival. Italy. (photo © Jessica Stewart)

Alice Pasquini. Taormina, Italy. (photo © Jessica Stewart)

Alice Pasquini. Taormina, Italy. (photo © Jessica Stewart)

Alice Pasquini. Taormina, Italy. (photo © Jessica Stewart)

Maki Carvalho (photo © Maki Carvalho)

Maki Carvalho (photo © Maki Carvalho)

Maki Carvalho (photo © Maki Carvalho)

Specter. Detail. WallHunters: The Slumlord Project. Baltimore. July 2013. (photo © Specter)

Specter. WallHunters: The Slumlord Project. Baltimore. July 2013. (photo © Specter)

Specter. WallHunters: The Slumlord Project. Baltimore. July 2013. (photo © Specter)

Specter and Seitan in Chicago

Looking for that pot of seitan. Specter. Chicago. August 2013. (photo © Specter)

Specter. Chicago. August 2013. (photo © Specter)

Specter. Chicago. August 2013. (photo © Specter)

Specter. Chicago. August 2013. (photo © Specter)

Alexis Diaz. Detail. Belleville, Paris. (photo © Sandra Hoj)

Alexis Diaz. Belleville, Paris. (photo © Sandra Hoj)

eL Seed painted this huge mural on a building set for demolition. View from the Metro near “Quai de la Gare” Station. Paris. (photo © Sandra Hoj)

eL Seed. Street View. Paris. (photo © Sandra Hoj)

Pole Ka. Detail. Paris. (photo © Sandra Hoj)

Mr. Chicken feeling it at The Goat Farm. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Axel Void. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Inti. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Inti. Detail. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

3TTMAN at work on his wall. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Alex’s car having an emergency boost to send us on our way. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Freddy Sam at work on his wall. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Agostino Iacurci. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Know Hope. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gyun Hur at work at her first wall ever with her assistant Yoon. Yoon, as it turns out, is a huge fan of Judith Supine. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Elian with Howdy Neighbor. 3TTMAN wall in progress on the left. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

2501. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

2501. Detail. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JAZ. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JAZ. Detail. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JAZ. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Brandon English of the media team setting up a shot. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Matt Haffner and Laura Bell. Living Walls Atlanta 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Special Feature: Bast + Pins
OldSkool New Vid

The first half of a film 150,000 photographs in the making combining time lapse footage of riots and optical illusion paintings.

Please take a look at Jeff Frost’s Kickstarter campaign for the second half of Modern Ruin:
kickstarter.com/projects/1051873420/modern-ruin-white-hole