street art
Pejac’s Hong Kong, Seoul, and Tokyo interventions
After last year’s pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong that drew thousands of mostly young residents of this former British colony into the streets in a massive but peaceful movement of civil resistance to show dissatisfaction Beijing’s plans to screen candidates for the post of the city’s leader, the Spanish Street and Fine artist Pejac, decided to …
Personne by AXEL VOID.
This piece is part of the “Mediocre” series. It’s painted on Chamberclerc, a social housing residence located in the center of Montreal, Canada. Chamberclerc provides housing to people with mental illnesses that have a history with homelessness and drug abuse. The image represented is a portrait of Adrian, one of the tenants who was living …
Polish invasion in Providence!
Last week, Providence underwent huge transformation due to the invasion of the Internationally noted Polish street artists Bezt of Etam Cru and Natalia Rak, as they both graced the city with large-scale colorful murals exhibiting their unique and flamboyant styles, all that in preparations for the Providence International Arts Festival that happened June 11-14 on the …
OUR 2014 TOP 20 PHOTOGRAPHS ON FACEBOOK.
2014 has been a year filled with big news stories on race, politics, terrorism and privacy and much more, that have set the tone for 2015. We started off the year by Colorado making history, becoming the first state in the US to allow for the sale of marijuana for recreational use. Then Obamacare’s technical glitches and consumer confusion. …
Blog: WEEDS – by Mona Caron
They may be tiny but they break through concrete. They are everywhere and yet unseen. And the more they get stepped on, the stronger they grow back. “This is a series of paintings of weeds, some of them on-site animations, created as a tribute to the resilience of all those beings who no one made …
Blog: Alex Chinneck Installation in London
‘Take my lightning but don’t steal my thunder’ An installation entitled ‘Take my lightning but don’t steal my thunder’ by British artist Alex Chinneck stands in Covent Garden on October 2, 2014 in London, England. The installation is intended to cast the illusion that a 40-foot section of the Covent Garden’s 184-year old market building …
Blog: Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada at the national mall in DC
Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada at the national mall in DC Artist Jorge Rodriguez Gerada has spent weeks using soil and sand to create the portrait “Out Of Many, One” on the six acres between the World War II and Lincoln memorials. The portrait is made up of the faces of dozens of young men he photographed this …
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: Alessio B
Born in Padua, Italy in 1971, Alessio-B is a stencil artist who creates unique scenes, often with a message of peace and love. It all started during his college years, while studying architecture in Venice, as the artist was exposed to the works of Blek Le Rat and Banksy. It didn’t take him long before …
Poussières d’étoiles by Ludovic Florent
Ludovic Florent created the series ‘Poussières d’étoiles’ (Stardust), highlighting the natural beauty of the human body. He explains: ‘Behind every carnal envelope hides a soul that is both sensitive and flamboyant as I try to capture in each of my photographs.’ We certainly enjoy his work guided by a humanistic look, finding expression in a …
Herakut in Jordan
The German duo is currently in Jordan invited by AptART and the French organization ACTED, participating in the three month project which runs through April 2014, builds on previous work with Syrian youth, refugees and internally displaced persons in the region. International (Ruben Sanchez, Luc van der Walt, Jumana Hokan, David Shill-inglaw, Jonathan Darby, and …
Blog: A Cyclist Transforms Street Markings Into Works Of Art.
Peter Gibson AKA Roadsworth began painting the streets of Montreal in the fall of 2001. Initially, motivated by a desire for more bike paths in the city and a questioning of “car culture” in general, he continued to develop a language around street markings and other elements of the urban landscape, using a primarily stencil …