Tag: Street Art
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DesignerCon 2013
I am forever on the lookout for new graphic artists and animators to follow, so we headed to DesigerCon at the Pasadena Convention Center on Sunday. DCON has been around for 8 years, and is a convention that fuses urban, underground, pop art with animation, vinyl collectible toys, and clothing. The result was a mass…
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The Sphinx and the Cronut: Why We Love Being Haters
In music, fashion, food and art there’s pop cultural phenomena so ubiquitous and so pervasive that I feel duty bound to write about them. Or hate on ’em.. Like roaches and bad heartburn these things just keep on returning eliciting both our collective ire and fascination. Really, they’re train wrecks and we can’t look away.…
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Os Gemeos Finale @ Prism LA
Number 1 on my must see list of shows for 2012 2as Os Gemeos’ “Miss You” at Prism Gallery. Saturday was its last day and I finally made it in to see their work. I loved how the gallery was transformed into the mythical world found in their paintings. The walls and floor were painted…
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Art in the “Skies”: Graffiti Artist Saber Protests City Hall
In this age of Social Media, I’ve got to admit, I like the retro sky writing medium chosen by Saber to air his grievances at Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the L.A. City Attorney’s office over the mural moratorium. The moratorium, which has been in place since 2009 equates murals to signage thereby imparting a complicated and costly permit…
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Behind the Lens-Martha Cooper
My previous posts on Art in the Streets failed to mention the numerous photographers responsible for documenting street art over the years. Because street art is such a temporary medium, photographers played an integral role in cataloging artists works. The exhibit pays homage to these photographers and photojournalists, of which Martha Cooper is a standout.…
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“Street Fight!”
A fierce rivalry is a great source of entertainment. In the art world, when artists espouse the merits of one style over another, the debate can quickly descend into vitriol, jealousy and animus. In the underground world of street art, one artistic debate is between the styles of graffiti vs. stencils, and each showcases a…
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The “Awesome Bears”
Part of what makes street art so fascinating is when it appears in very unexpected ways. When I was stuck at a light looking around at some boarded up storefronts on an economically challenged street between Silver Lake and Echo Park, I was greeted by the morning pleasantries of two bears in dialog. A white…
Colony Little, Culture Shock Art 