Inspiration: Nuria Mora

Nuria Mora has been an inspiration of mine for quite sometime (see this post), and so when I heard about her new installation where she painted on a rooftop by the East River in New York City, I had to go take a look. See the result (just below) and the process here.

NEKO (photos)

Then I came across this video and thought you'd like to see more of her work too. I love her use of colours and the graphics. I'd love to somehow translate some of this block coloured graphics on a wall in a house.

More from Nuria Mora:

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Also you can watch her latest takeover downtown Madrid, at Preciados street by clicking here.

Margaret Kilgallen at MOCA's "Art In the Streets"

A must-see if you're in Los Angeles right now and you're a fan of street art and graffiti is the Art in the Streets exhibit at the MOCA .   Art in the Streets is the first major U.S. museum survey of the history of graffiti and street art presented in the United States.  Included is the work of the late (and Poppytalk favourite), Margaret Kilgallen.  Fun fact: Margaret's work is featured on the cover of April's Juxtapoz magazine.  Read a write-up about the show here and her show-stopping part of the exhibit. The exhibit runs almost all summer long (April 17 - August 8th, 2011)!  (All images juxtapoz.com).

April's Juxtapoz magazine

nuria mora + the secret art of graffiti removal

A way while back I posted about the beautiful street paintings by Nuria Mora.com (above images) over at diesel.com, so long ago, I can't even find the link, and I thought I had linked it here, but too, I did not. So while visiting Abbey Hendrickson's blog, Aesthetic Outburst last week, I was reminded of the work of Nuria Mora when she posted about a film she watched recently, The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal by Matt McCormick.

Although Nuria Mora isn't removing graffiti, but applying it, we love the similarities, and we are looking at graffiti removal in a total different way now. There also is a “The Secret Art of Graffiti Removal” flickr group. Click here to see. Thanks Abbey!

laurent

as seen on wooster as seen on the streets of paris. amazing colors against the dark. artist: laurent.

welcome to group art

wet paint please touch. a virtual wall to grab some tools from the curb and begin your street art masterpiece. (via lost at e minor). try it and add your piece to the gallery.

in the sweet bye & bye

more for my want list. margaret kilgallen: in the sweet bye & bye catalogue which accompanied the show at redcat gallery featuring kilgallen's.

new at the curiosity shoppe.

shadow graffiti

as seen on the streets of bloomington, indiana. (via wooster collective).

the war room obey art installation poppy exclusive!

a real treat! you may have read my post this week about obey's propaganda art installation at the war room in seattle opening friday, may 18th to celebrate their 2nd year anniversary. well, seattle reader, kay did and happens to work for the owner of the property. she subsequently told him about the post, and he then sent her some sneak preview photos (including a shot of obey's special wheat paste mixing!) to post here. (they're not available anywhere else!) so cool! thanks kay! thanks kay's boss! looks like an awesome show!

the war room, 722 east pike street, seattle, wa.

obey in seattle

on may 18th, the war room in seattle will be having an art opening featuring new obey propaganda to celebrate their two year anniversary. (also, you can buy this hope print (below) to help support the cause for the darfur genocide. 100% of the money from this print goes to the HOPE campaign.

the war room, 722 east pike street, seattle, wa

brave art + dave barnes

brave art recently had a show in whistler, b.c. showcasing artists who collectively had one common thread. skate and street culture. the show included over 150 pieces from some of the world's best street and grafitti artists.

a few local artists were included in this show, and in particular dave barnes who's work really captures a unique sense of the street/skate culture. an illustrator according to his bio, "tries to use art as a translation of experience and observation that derives inspiration from environment and memory."

as a recent honours graduate of sheridan college's illustration program, "barnes' artistic approach involves transforming scrap wood, canvases and collage elements with bold observational sketches of scattered objects and daily life, and faded rockwellian imagery to form a nostalgic narrative".

dave barnes' website.

(images from davebarnes.ca).

contributing

a while back i was asked to be a contributing writer to a new site diesel was launching, called diesel cult from their headquarters in italy.

i was honoured to be asked and today they went live. it's a site featuring music, new art, and style (culture). i like that they are opening their site to new artists and opening new doors for them to showcase their work.

my first post is about how graffiti affects the way we design featuring the work of equipoplastico.

you can read it here.

the banksy effect

an interesting article i read today over at psfk.com on something called the banksy effect.

according to wooster collective, "... banksy has created a market for an entire category of art that until now has not been recognized at the level that it is now being recognized at". they say, "... it's a good thing for artists who are talented and want to make money from their art because those people who can't afford "a banksy" are now learning more and searching out and buying work from other talented artists who are part of the movement".

a clip from cnn on the same issue here.

the true graffiti problem

i read about this new project "light criticism" by the anti-advertising agency and the graffiti research lab on psfk. they are covering the video screens that are positioned above nyc's subway stops that feed out advertising day and night.

read also wooster collective: nyc's true graffiti problem.

Banksy Shop

Everything in the shop is free. All the images can be downloaded to print or use as a desktop.

Serving suggestion:

Prints look best when done on gloss paper using the company printer ink when everyone else is at lunch.

wallspankers

Wallspankers is an International sticker swap and graffiti community who have just released their third edition of their online downloadable pdf publication.

Featuring 80 international artists and over 250 ready-to-print sticker designs.

By releasing the PDF Sticker-Zine at a printable resolution, they hope that participants and supporters will take advantage of it and produce the stickers on their own. Spreading each others work all over the globe.

influences, train marking and graffiti

i have so many things i want to start this year and one of them is to try hand lettering. i know i keep going back to margaret kilgallen, but her work says so much to what is still relevant in art today if not more so. even though this interview was back in 1999, her viewpoint of handmade is so present and worth a review. i also like her explanation of graffiti and it's validity in perspective to commercialism.

link here. (image of margaret's work from paulson press in berkely, ca.)

11 spring

oh to have been there. but thanks to the people who took photographs so we could see all this amazing urban art! see more at wooster collective, streetsy and the spring11 flickr. i also like this.

(photo taken by bluejake) of a faile piece.

graffiti stencils

these graffiti stencils can be used to stencil whatever you want using real spray paint just like a real stencil artist! i'm loving the white on the grey.

* 1 stencil per pack
* 8.5" x 11
* vinyl

this item is exclusive to urbanoutfitters.com and cannot be found in their stores.

$10

LED fridge lights

rather cool these led fridge lights from instructables.com.

"turn your fridge into a canvas for LED art. any passerby can place and relocate the magnetic LEDs any way they wish to create illuminated pictures and messages." love it!

streetsy kilgallen

speaking of kilgallen, found this lovely piece at streetsy today. actually, i should say pieces. i never saw some of these before.