WINDSOR, Ont. — Unsightly graffiti is being replaced with
colourful murals by a group of young spray painters who have found a new
artistic outlet.
Marco Boskovic and his team now create
thoughtfully planned-out pieces of art.
"There are a lot of kids
out there who are in a lot of trouble because of this kind of stuff and
the only reason is because they have nowhere else to paint," said
Boskovic, 22.
The alley behind ICI Paints on Tecumseh Road East
was once covered with the motley wo...
PITTSFIELD -- Four local men are trying to bring
graffiti art out from under the bridges and into the limelight --
legally.
Solomon Stewart, 34, one of four artists in the Berkshire
Graffiti Network, said the group has been doing graffiti art for more
than 15 years. And earlier this week, they finished a mural on an
exterior wall of the A Mart convenience store on North Street.
Berkshire Graffiti Network's other members include David Healey,
Timothy Greenleaf and Gabe Bell, who is...
For some reason, the rules never meant anything to David Choe growing
up. As a matter of fact, the rebellious Korean-American graffiti artist
could care less about his grades or the law. Instead, the troubled young
truant would play hooky and shoplift to ply his craft day or night on
walls all over the City of Los Angeles. This meant that he had no
problem stealing cans of spray paint and trespassing in order to deface
public or private property.
THE first major
purpose-built skatepark in the city has been covered in graffiti ahead
of its official opening – by a group of professional artists.
• Graffiti
artist Aaron Sinclair tries out the new skatepark Picture: Ian
Georgeson
The long-awaited skatepark within Saughton Park has
been spray-painted with a variety of colourful images of skateboarders,
in-line skaters and even Arthur's Seat.
The artworks decorating
the walls of Saughton Skatepark – the larg... Continue reading ...
Atlanta painter and tattoo artist Miya Bailey reaches for a photo
album on the floor of his Castleberry Hill studio and opens it to a
random page. The album's full of photographs that Bailey shot in the
early '90s of graffiti pieces layered so dense on wall after wall, they
form a continuous texture, an endless tapestry. There's prototypically
East Coast wild style writing with its sharp angles and indecipherable
lettering, but also 3-D bubble letters and exaggerated, cartoon
characters all i...
Priscilla VazquezLee Quiñones will be responding to readers’ questions about his life and work.
This week, Lee Quiñones,
an artist who emerged from the subway art movement of the 1970s, will
be responding to readers’ questions about his life, work and the
evolution of graffiti as art in New York City.
To ask Mr. Quiñones a question, please use the comments box below. His first set of answers will appear in City Room on Wednesday.
Renowned
graffiti and tattoo artist Mister Cartoon and two East Coast graffiti
artists, Cope2 and Sen2, recently bombed three MetroPCS stores in
Harlem and the Bronx in New York, to promote the partnership between
Sanctioned by Mister Cartoon and MetroPCS.
We have footage and photos of the three artists brainstorming,
marking their territory on the stores with their signature art, briefly
speaking with the police who paid them a visit during their creative
session, and gracefully ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, February 10, 2010,
In :
Legal Graffiti Art
by Trina Mannino
After
taking Alexandra Beller’s class at the Dance New Amsterdam studios, I
plopped down on the lobby’s couch and noticed Mike Rimbaud’s bright
burlesque paintings above me. Looking closer, I noticed that the
paintings weren’t only two-dimensional depictions of burlesque dancers,
but that the images seemed to shimmy right off the canvas. I could see
the dancers swiveling their hips and feel their soft breaths from pouty
lips. I found it strange that the paint...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, February 10, 2010,
In :
Legal Graffiti Art
Pete Bainbridge
February 03, 2010
A
graffiti artist who was once jailed for spraying his street art
initials on railway bridges is now seeing his name in lights – thanks
to X Factor twins Jedward.
Thomas ‘TJ’ Dolan, 22, was given a 15-month sentence after he was caught painting graffiti around Manchester and Cheshire.
But
he carried on with his art after his release and went on to be invited
by duo John and Edward Grimes to work on the video for their debut
single.
Shepard Fairey, the graffiti artist and illustrator famous for his
Barack Obama “HOPE” poster and “Obey Giant” graffiti campaign, recently
unveiled his latest piece. Titled “Eye Alert,” the print offers a
pretty damn striking yet ambiguous critique of America’s healthcare
situation: an angular faced woman stares at the viewer, the irises of
her eyes a pair of skulls, while she cries tea...
On the opening day of the Sundance Film Festival, January 21, organizers announced the surprise world premiere of Exit Through the Gift Shop, the first feature film by the infamous British graffiti artist known as Banksy, to take place on January 24.
In
the last few days, mysterious street art has surfaced on buildings in
Park City, Utah, where 17 inches (43 cm) of snow has fallen in the ski
town.
Exit Through the Gift Shop follows a Los Angeles-based French filmmaker
who documents the secr...
Graffiti artists now have another space to play. Self-professed copyright violator and vandal Evan Roth--who also happens to be an artist and co-founder of F.A.T., a Brooklyn-based R&D lab for the public domain, and artist/developer Chris Sugrue created this app that allows graffiti artists to create and database multidimensional tags.
If you ask iconic New York City graffiti artist Phade (better known
as Shirt King Phade from the legendary Shirt Kingz) about the current
state of hip-hop, he'd more than likely tell you it's alive and
breathing and resides in the Bronx, New York.
Whether you agree or disagree, Phade has been around the culture for
decades and just like any other passionate hip hop fan is entitled to
his opinion. But the difference between Phade and your average fan is
Phade has lived the...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, December 30, 2009,
In :
Legal Graffiti Art
Artist
Mike Ballard has been given free rein to transform an entire gallery
into one giant installation - because the space is to be demolished for
Crossrail.
Every surface of the Arts Gallery in Davies Street,
Mayfair, has been covered with images, including of ancient Egyptian
rulers, comic book superheroes and prehistoric cave art. The floors,
walls and ceiling merge into one work.
BREAKING BEARRIERS:
Ladd House residents arranged for graffiti artist Tim Clorious, known
as ‘Subone,’ to repaint the Ladd basement with a Bowdoin-relevant polar
bear.
In the week after the raucous,
fire-alarm-filled, basement-soaking Inappropriate Party, the Ladd House
basement underwent an artistic transformation in the hands of
Portland-based graffiti artist Tim Clorious. ...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, November 19, 2009,
In :
Legal Graffiti Art
By Matt Van Hoven on Nov 18, 2009 05:32 PM
BNE, a graffiti artist known the world over for blanketing entire
cities with his tags, is coming to New York for a showcase, with the
help of Mother New York and culture blog Animal New York.
"There are a few reasons why BNE interests Mother. BNE has
single-handedly created a globally recognized and valued brand in the
new social economy. Bearing that BNE has no product to sell, it's
amazing that his presence in Flickr photo galleries a...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, November 5, 2009,
In :
Legal Graffiti Art
By BRANDON GUARNERI and MICHAEL BLAUSTEIN
Last Updated:
5:46 AM, November 1, 2009
Graffiti vandalism is apparently so cool that an East Village hotel has decided to fake it.
In a wacky attempt at earning street cred, the swanky Cooper Square
Hotel has commissioned four graffiti "artists" to tag the Fifth Street
wall of an adjacent building it recently bought.
One of the
taggers, Joyce Pensato, was going to town yesterday on her section of
the mural, w...
The terms "urban art" and "graffiti" can carry negative connotations.
Images of kids running from the police with a spray can in hand, or
buildings and trains covered in bright paint usually come to mind. But
three Texas State Technical College students are helping change what it
means to be a graffiti artist.
Phylisity Garza, Kerry Harris and Miguel Hernandez know what it
is like to have their art stereotyped because it is considered urban.
Know why I warm to graffiti art made with symbols, signs and forms more complicated than a common set of letters?
I don't feel like I'm just getting a whiff of some self-aggrandizing
scribe's ammonia-like chemical scent. Call it my preference for
representational arts/my prejudice against
dog-discharge-to-claim-its-space tagging arts.
Of course there's a difference between tag-scrawling a signature real quick and burning a layered piece in wildstyle letters. I just want you to know where m...
Graham MacIntyre says he was amused to find the hay bales covered in smiley logos. Picture: Megan Slade.
HUNDREDS of hay bales will make their way to Queensland households soon carrying some unexpected artwork.
Mystery surrounds the graffiti artist or artists who overnight
painted smiley faces, love hearts and inspirational words on up to 200
cane mulch bales at a Sunshine Coast farm, The Courier-Mail reports.
It might be graffiti but it put a smile on Bli Bli farmer and hay
contrac...
A piece of graffiti by Hong Kong's self-proclaimed "King of Kowloon"
has sold for a record 500 000 Hong Kong dollars (R480 954), auction
house Sotheby's confirmed on Wednesday.
The piece by the late Tsang Tsou-choi, featuring rows of Chinese
calligraphy on canvas, attracted fierce bidding in Sotheby's Asian art
auction Tuesday.
It finally went to an unknown telephone bidder for more than seven times its predicted sale amount of 70 000 Hong Kong dollars.
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, September 24, 2009,
In :
Legal Graffiti Art
Leilani Silva, a CSUN business major, received a one of a kind
birthday present when her raffle ticket was selected out of the glass
jar during a CSUN Public Art Club event on Sept. 16.
An original graffiti artwork by Man One was the perfect 19th birthday surprise for Silva, who is a self- admitted “art freak.”
Silva has been studying Mexican-American artists in her Chicano art
class and decided to attend the lecture and demonstration of Los
Angeles graffiti artist Man One last Wednesday....
Posted by Tag One on Saturday, September 12, 2009,
In :
Legal Graffiti Art
I'll always take time out to praise the New York Public Library,
that national treasure, that amazing resource for writers, scholars,
researchers, and everyone else. But the library can be a source of
inspiration as well as research. Take this upcoming program:
It must be nice to have friends as kind and brilliant as those of Los
Angeles graffiti artist Tony Quan. And Quan must be a great guy (and
artist), to boot. Since 2003, Quan has had Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
(ALS), a disorder that renders its sufferers largely paralyzed, while
allowing them full use of their minds and eyes. As they hated to see
their comrade incapable of any longer writing his tag, TEMPTONE, they
gathered in Southern ... Continue reading ...
Join Scape Martinez as he signs copies of his book Graff: The Art & Technique of Graffiti.
Once viewed as merely a blemish on the urban landscape, graffiti
today has evolved into a legitimate art form in its own right,
influencing entertainment, advertising, fashion an...
Graffiti artists have been given a blank canvas in the form of a legal painting zone in a downtown Calgary park.
The Landmark building at Shaw Millennium Park is seeing its blank
concrete wall come alive with colour as part of project to encourage
urban art. The site is also home to a large skateboard park.
Dawn Ford, with the City of Calgary, said the project carries a posi...
British
artist Banksy's artwork has attracted more than 230,000 people to
Bristol's City Museum and Art Gallery since opening in June.(Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
The
massive, free Banksy exhibit in the British artist's hometown of
Bristol this summer has already more than doubled its expected
attendance, with organizers extending its hours before the show draws
to a close.
Bristol's City Museum and Art Gallery has drawn more than 230,000
visitors si...
It's painfully early on a weekend morning in the 'hood, and Phoenix
graffiti artist DOSE and his homie FOES head south through streets
filled with homeless crack- and meth-heads. The scene looks like
something out of a Rob Zombie flick, with undead hookers and addicts plodding aimlessly from one side of the street to another.
The doors on DOSE's sleek, black sedan are locked and, anyway, it's
not as though the pair are looking to score rocks. They pass through
the area around Madison Street a...
Here is a look at the highly anticipated move that saw Mare139
put some hugely impressive work that has made his name so iconic in
terms of sculpting and working on paper. “The B-Boy is the physical
Graffiti artist, he is the lyrical and kinetic scratch, he is the break
beat manifest, the most modern of all dancers.” Fifty8 Gallery presents
B-Line B-Boy Drawings and Sculpture the anticipat...
 "Photo: Courtesy Badi Morris")
British
artist Banksy's artwork has attracted more than 230,000 people to
Bristol's City Museum and Art Gallery since opening in June. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
