The faces that surface on Miami’s walls — like so much of the art that makes its way onto the city’s public places — represent a wide range of artistic styles, sensibilities and backgrounds. The image featured above was painted by Brooklyn-based artist Isabelle Ewing. Several more images of faces that I captured on my recent visit follow:
Jacksonville, Florida-based Nico
London-based David Walker
Australian artist Seb Humphreys aka Order 55
Miami-based Abstrk
West Coast-based Sauteezy aka A Killer’skiller
Photos by Lois Stavsky
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What makes Miami so special for us street art aficionados is the incredible mix of cultures and styles that makes its way to the streets of Wynwood and its surroundings. The wonderfully diverse range of characters that continues to surface are testament to this. Featured above is a close-up from a huge mural fashioned by the Italian artist Zed1. Several more follow in this first of a two-part series featuring curious characters recently encountered on Miami streets.
Chilean artists Jekse & Cines aka Un Kolor Distinto
Brazilian artist Cranio
Ecuadorian artist Apitatán
Ukranian artist Aleksey Kislow
Photos by Lois Stavsky
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The following guest post is by Houda Lazrak
On Christmas Day 2017, while Sydneysiders were enjoying their day off with street cricket and family lunches, I explored the quiet streets of Newtown, Sydney’s hippest inner west neighborhood, in search of some street art. Rife with murals, graffiti and smaller street art pieces, the suburb has a history of embracing public art with large-scale murals erected on neighborhood walls since the late 1980s. The image pictured above is by Ears, who is also a classically trained violinist. Below are several more of many works — painted by an all-Australian cast of artists — that I captured on that cloudy day.
Fintan Magee, Matt Hogan Reserve — painted through a crowd-funded project arranged by local residents and is titled after the park in which it is located
Nico
Apeseven, Predators Folly
Phibs
Phibs and George Rose, Save our Coral Reef — addressing coral bleaching in Australia and around the world, urging all to take active responsibility for the care of our oceans
Close-up
Several murals pictured here were organized through the Perfect Match Public Art Program, an Inner West Council initiative that matches artists’ public art proposals with local residents and business owners who volunteer their walls for transformation.
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All photos by Houda Lazrak
Opening Saturday evening at WallWorks New York is “Tough Love,” Irish artist Solus‘s first solo exhibition in NYC. Featuring 15 new paintings and prints, along with resin sculptures, “Tough Love” is a testament to the artist’s universal appeal as he continues his works’ theme of “overcoming life’s obstacles, being victorious against all odds, “hope” and not going down without a fight.”
The following images were captured at Solus’s studio back in Ireland, as he was readying for the exhibit:
Untitled
A glimpse of the artist’s studio
Tough Love
And his now iconic “Dream Big”
Opening this coming Saturday evening 5-8pm at 39 Bruckner Blvd in the Bronx, the exhibition continues through May 16.
And to coincide with the opening of “Tough Love,” Solus will be creating a mural courtesy of The L.I.S.A Project in downtown New York City. Sponsorship for this exhibition is in collaboration with The L.I.S.A Project and Culture Ireland.
All photographs courtesy of the artist
On his first visit to NYC, Barcelona-based Pejac created two mesmerizing artworks reflecting environmental concerns. With his distinctly provocative aesthetic, he graced walls in both Bushwick and Chinatown celebrating the beauty and power of nature amidst the bustling metropolis. The image featured above, entitled Fossil, suggests a frightful future in a gentrifying neighborhood in which the only memory of nature is the fossilized appearance of a tree on a brick wall.
Pejac at work on Fossil
The completed piece
In Pejac‘s second piece, Inner Strength, nature triumphs over the hand of man and all that the neighboring Wall Street represents, as the artist alludes to traditional Chinese imagery.
Inner Strength
Inner Strength, close-up
Fossil is located at 27 Scott Ave. in Bushwick, Brooklyn and Inner Strength — in coordination with The L.I.S.A Project NYC — is at 2 Henry Street in Chinatown, Manhattan.
Photo credits: 1 Raphael Gonzalez aka zurbaran1 2 & 3 Ben Lau aka just a spectator 4 Pejac and 5 Rey Rosa aka the DRiF of The L.I.S.A Project NYC
Dreyk the Pirate — whose street art character captivated me on my recent visit to Athens — has just completed a huge mural commissioned by E.KE.A., the National Blood Donor Center of Greece, for World Blood Donor Day 2018. What follows are several more images of the completed work, along with progress shots, as photographed by Nikos Pekiaridis and Kostas Kallipolitis of Phifactor Photograpy.
The other side of the mural
In the beginning
In progress
With a message to convey
Located in Thrakomakedones, Athens, the mural was sponsored by Kraft Paints Greece.
Photo credits: 1, 2 & 3 Kostas Kalipolitis 3 & 4 Nikos Pekiaridis
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