Category Archives: Street Art

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Flash:Light

Flash:Light NYCIf you’re in NYC and you haven’t made your Saturday night plans yet, this definitely seems like the thing to do tonight. As part of the Festival of Ideas for the New City, Audemars Piguet presents Flash:Light, a series of projection mapping events around the New Museum, including on the New Museum itself. There are an impressive amount of artists participating in the project including Daniel Arsham (of recent Dig and Pixel Clouds fame), Acconci Studio, Jon Kessler, and about fifty more! There’s more information here but it looks like the three main events are taking place at the New Museum, St. Patrick’s Basilica on Mott St. and on the street itself on Mulberry Street between Prince and Houston. It all apparently starts at 8pm and continues past midnight.

Check it out here.

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More Marlon de Azambuja

Marlon de AzambujaYes. I am officially a fan. In addition to his wonderful Operaciones series (see previous post), Marlon de Azambuja has large-scale projects as well, some of which would fall under the category of Street Art. Two of these series are: Potencial Escultórico (Sculptural Potential) in which he wraps street furniture/objects in colored duct tape; and Metaesquema (Meta Diagram) where he uses permanent marker to draw out diagrams encompassing the street manhole covers and grates. Both of these series of works appeared in the streets of Madrid.

“…For the last three years, Marlon de Azambuja has marked out urban spaces with adhesive tape, interventions that have the finality of highlighting or, even better, allowing the discovery of aspects that have always existed but that we have never imagined. Marlon de Azambuja is part of a constructive culture’s memory that finds its forebears in Brazilian Concretism….”

Very cool.

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FKDL

FKDL Street ArtTwo summers ago, on a trip to Barcelona and Paris, we noticed several of these collages around the streets of both cities. Being a lover of collage, these FKDL (aka Franck Duval, a Parisian street artist) postings immediately appealed to me. Following up now on his work, I notice that he’s been adding more color to his paper cut-outs (à la Matisse) and QR codes as well. His work also reminds me a bit of Al Hansen’s Hershey collages.

You can see more FKDL images here and his blog here.

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Nike SB: Geoff McFetridge Paper Dunks

Nike SB Geoff McFetridge Art Paper DunksAs part of the “Art in the Streets” Exhibition at MOCA in LA, Nike SB has created 24 unique pairs of Paper Dunks, each made from an original piece of Geoff McFetridge artwork. The shoes are on display at MOCA’s shop and will be auctioned on May 26, 2011 at 1pm. In addition, Nike SB has produced a series of specially packaged t-shirts by artists and skateboarders Neckface, Futura, Lance Mountain and CR Stecyk III.

via ColorbyNumbers

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Haroshi: Future Primitive

Haroshi_Jonathan Levine Gallery“Haroshi makes his [three-dimensional] art pieces recycling old used skateboards. His creations are born through styles such as wooden mosaic, dots, and pixels; where each element, either cut out in different shapes or kept in their original form, are connected in different styles, and shaven into the form of the final art piece.”

His upcoming solo exhibition at Jonathan LeVine Gallery in NYC opens April 16th and runs through May 14, 2011.

via MyModernMet

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Aakash Nihalani

Aakash NihalaniAakash Nihalani is an artist whose work consists mostly of isometric rectangles and squares made from fluorescent tape. He places these graphics around New York to “highlight the unexpected contours and elegant geometry of the city itself…For however briefly, I am trying to offer people a chance to step into a different New York than they are used to seeing…”   via happymundane

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The Blue Trees

Konstantin Dimopoulos_Blue Forests_Vancouver BiennaleAustralian artist Konstantin Dimopoulos’ Blue Trees installations are part of the Vancouver Biennale. The blue forests will be created in the City of Richmond, Port Moody, as well as West Vancouver, and the artist hopes that his work will be part of a larger international discussion with blue forests in cities worldwide. “Each year an area at least the size of Belgium of native forests is cleared from around the planet. So much a part of our daily lives, they are the lungs of the planet and attention must be paid.”

Apparently, the color used on the trees is biologically safe pigmented water. As an ephemeral artwork, the color will naturally degrade and the trees gradually revert to their natural state. More information here.  via Poppytalk

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Double Happiness

Double Happiness responds to the society of materialism where individual desires seem to be prevailing over all. This nomad piece of urban furniture allows the reactivation of different public spaces and enables inhabitants to reappropriate fragments of their city. They will both escape and dominate public space through a game of equilibrium and desequilibrium. By playing this “risky” game, and testing their own limits, two persons can experience together a new perception of space and recover an awareness of the physical world.

Designed by French-Portuguese architect Didier Faustino. Urban reanimation device. Recycled billboard space.Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennial of Urbanism and Architecture. via Broken City.

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Felice Varini

Felice VariniI’ve just discovered the mind-blowing Felice Varini. What looks like a Photoshopped translucent pattern layered over a photo are actually painted walls, floors, ceilings (and any other objects that get in his way) resulting in the optical illusion. He’s been creating these for over 30 years and there are so many that it’s hard to choose which ones to post. I suggest you look at them all here.
via art.is.analogue.