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Our 2017 Top 20 Images on Facebook
Despite the improvement in global economy, 2017 was an unsettling year filled with unpleasant events. Between President Donald Trump, and catastrophic hurricanes wrecking homes and livelihoods, as well as high-profile sexual harassment…. It’s been a heavy year. However, I believe 2017 brought more triumph than tragedy within the realm of street-art. The developer of NYC’s …
Change Through Street Art in Ouzville, Beirut’s neglected Suburb
Lebanon’s culture, nature and location has attracted people for many centuries. This country is home for countless sites, timeless history, magnificent nature, extravagant food, and unconventional adventures. And above all, it is a hub for art and culture for the Middle East and the world. Unfortunately, the war has marginalized many beautiful Lebanese villages and …
Splash and Burn: an art campaign taking aim at Indonesia’s palm oil industry
It’s not the sort of street art you’d expect to find on a swampy patch of degraded forest land on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. But the renowned Lithuanian artist Ernest Zacharevic spent the past 2 years selecting a group of international artists to work on an artistic response to the global palm oil industry. …
SAUS in Collaboration with Mariana De Marchi at HarborArts
Mariana De Marchi is an artist and a sculptor from Argentina. She graduated in 2002 from the National School of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredón as a National Professor of Drawing. In 2003, she earned the National Professor of Sculpture. Mariana also studied her post graduate work in seminaries of the Superior School of Fine Arts …
Featured Artist: DAAS
DAAS is a Japan based American contemporary artist, widely known for his bold, colorful, geometric paintings and murals. Drawing inspiration from the interplay between chaos and control, he synthesizes line, geometric shapes, rich textures and vivid colors to produce work that uses both representational and abstract elements to create recognizable forms such as humans, animals …
Featured Artist: The Lone Beader
Diana Grygo AKA The Lone Beader is a self-taught bead embroidery artist currently working in Boston, Massachusetts. She loves to create extremely dimensional beaded paintings by stitching glass seed beads to felt. Her current pieces are inspired by pop culture, dogs, classic cars, and city scenes. Join her on a journey and let her beadwork …
Featured Artist: WD (Wild Drawing)
Born in Bali, Indonesia and currently based in Athens, Greece, WD (Wild Drawing) started off as a street artist in 2000. His works range from paste ups to freehand murals and as a medium he usually combines roller technique with spray paint. WD always tries to interact with the spot where he is working, by …
Featured Artist: Conor Harrigton
Artist Conor Harrington, born in Cork, Ireland in 1980, lives and works in London. While the military figures in Conor Harrington’s powerful street paintings refer to the masculinity of urban culture, they can also be interpreted as self-portraits of the stoic, pensive persona of the contemporary painter. Harrington’s loose brushwork, seemingly unfinished imagery, dripping paint, …
Featured Artist: Finbarr Dac
“In a relatively short urban art career, I have defined and perfected an atypical paint/stencil style that ignores the accepted visual language of street art almost completely – I call it Urban Aesthetics (a modern-day take on a 19th century art movement). Hailing from Cork (Eire), I have lived the majority of my life in …
Featured Artist: Spaik
Spaik is a Mexican urban artist whose colorful works are inspired by the Latin American folklore. He works mainly in Mexico but has also done murals in other countries in both Central and South America. In his paintings Spaik uses topics related to local traditions and makes mythical references of traditional stories. Presently he is …
featured artist: Shay Culligan
Shay Culligan is an Irish-born visual artist, residing living in Boston. He currently works in the serigraphy medium, screen printing his own photos onto a variety of media including canvas and paper stock. A graduate of Massachusetts College of Art, Culligan was initially a classically trained painter in oils, practicing a representational style in both …
Featured Artist: yazan halwani
“I know I’m not changing the world, but I hope I’m changing the city a little. Making it my own. Our own, not just mine. Reclaiming it.” The city in question is Beirut, Yazan Halwani’s hometown, where he was born and raised. It all started when he was just a boy, listening to French rap. …